1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,124 Welcome back to Off the Console, the greatest podcast, the most amazing podcast out there. 2 00:00:07,125 --> 00:00:13,938 And we cover everything regarding gaming, tech, handhelds, whatever it is. 3 00:00:13,938 --> 00:00:25,707 And we have a pretty spicy lineup today, including uh Roblox and Jim Hansen, or Chris Hansen, not Jim Hansen, are teaming up. 4 00:00:25,707 --> 00:00:26,657 That would be... 5 00:00:26,657 --> 00:00:28,978 There he is, Chris Hansen are teaming up. 6 00:00:28,978 --> 00:00:38,892 uh And we also have the biggest uh and baddest handheld competing with the actual biggest and baddest handheld. 7 00:00:38,892 --> 00:00:43,624 So uh we have a pretty good stacked lineup here today. 8 00:00:43,764 --> 00:00:47,105 With me is HiTech Lowlife. 9 00:00:48,006 --> 00:00:51,187 And Gardner is not able to make it right now. 10 00:00:51,187 --> 00:00:53,748 He might pop in at one point, so don't be surprised. 11 00:00:53,748 --> 00:00:56,319 He is having internet issues. 12 00:00:56,319 --> 00:00:59,534 And so uh hopefully he can pop in at one point. 13 00:00:59,534 --> 00:01:01,777 So how you doing, high tech? 14 00:01:02,337 --> 00:01:03,699 Well, it's good to be back. 15 00:01:03,699 --> 00:01:05,901 Back from my Japan trip. 16 00:01:06,362 --> 00:01:07,442 It's been... 17 00:01:07,643 --> 00:01:09,446 It's been one heck of an experience, you know? 18 00:01:09,446 --> 00:01:12,743 Yeah, you've been gone for like what almost two weeks? 19 00:01:12,857 --> 00:01:14,982 That's right, been gone for almost two weeks. 20 00:01:14,982 --> 00:01:15,672 That's crazy. 21 00:01:15,672 --> 00:01:26,698 Like you were able to join us for the last episode and then the last week's episode we weren't able to do due to technical difficulties on both your side, AKA you were just in a 22 00:01:26,698 --> 00:01:35,423 completely different time zone and Gardner having something come up and I had work stuff that also came up. 23 00:01:35,423 --> 00:01:38,084 So it just was like a cluster F. 24 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:44,530 Yeah, so we didn't have an episode last week, but hey, the episode before that was a banger. 25 00:01:44,530 --> 00:01:49,044 It was the most viewed episode of our podcast, which is crazy. 26 00:01:49,403 --> 00:01:51,955 Which is awesome, and that's thanks to everyone. 27 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:57,229 So make sure to like, subscribe, and uh comment. 28 00:01:57,229 --> 00:01:57,839 Let us know. 29 00:01:57,839 --> 00:02:00,741 We need to start reading comments again, so please start commenting again. 30 00:02:00,741 --> 00:02:04,093 And if you have to, just add us or something. 31 00:02:04,372 --> 00:02:15,370 Yes please, eh someone in the last episode commented, it's the black shirt boys, uh, funny story, you can't see it right now, but I'm wearing a black shirt. 32 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:17,674 your avatars wearing a black shirt too. 33 00:02:17,674 --> 00:02:21,742 But yeah, damn, wow, we really are the Black Shirt Boys. 34 00:02:21,884 --> 00:02:23,667 Alternate podcast name. 35 00:02:25,454 --> 00:02:26,253 Man. 36 00:02:26,253 --> 00:02:28,216 I wear black just because it's easier. 37 00:02:28,766 --> 00:02:31,620 Yeah, but summertime's not the best time for that. 38 00:02:32,462 --> 00:02:34,389 I don't go out in summer, so I don't know. 39 00:02:34,389 --> 00:02:37,279 uh I stay with an AC. 40 00:02:39,108 --> 00:02:46,526 Well, know, typically I do that, but vacation time was not so kind in terms of weather. 41 00:02:47,629 --> 00:02:50,973 Japan can get pretty warm and humid. 42 00:02:51,110 --> 00:02:55,372 It was very humid and it was record-breaking heat last week. 43 00:02:55,372 --> 00:03:02,416 uh Not this past week that uh this past week was kind of rainy, but like the week before then. 44 00:03:02,550 --> 00:03:09,330 It was like hot and miserable and humid and I was in the urban jungles of uh Osaka. 45 00:03:09,330 --> 00:03:09,510 see. 46 00:03:09,510 --> 00:03:13,742 All right, so I guess it's time for me to talk about the Japan trip. 47 00:03:13,883 --> 00:03:15,884 So the first day I was in Tokyo. 48 00:03:15,884 --> 00:03:20,296 We stayed there for a day and then we went to our actual first destination, which was Osaka. 49 00:03:20,854 --> 00:03:22,156 There was a to do there. 50 00:03:22,156 --> 00:03:30,146 There was a place by, there was a city by Osaka called Nara, and it's home to the Nara Deer Park, and it's so cool. 51 00:03:30,146 --> 00:03:38,587 I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but they have the deer park there, and the deer, when you feed them, they bow to you first before you feed them. 52 00:03:38,587 --> 00:03:39,748 It's awesome. 53 00:03:40,027 --> 00:03:41,469 Yeah, it's a really interesting park. 54 00:03:41,469 --> 00:03:43,572 I've never been, but I've seen stuff on it. 55 00:03:43,572 --> 00:03:45,794 That's really awesome. 56 00:03:46,327 --> 00:03:47,857 I'll have to add it to my list. 57 00:03:48,679 --> 00:03:51,502 I'm sure my kids would love that. 58 00:03:51,502 --> 00:03:52,963 And I would love it too. 59 00:03:53,696 --> 00:03:57,255 And then we went to the night market, Dotonbori, a couple of times. 60 00:03:57,255 --> 00:03:58,329 It was awesome. 61 00:03:58,924 --> 00:03:59,916 Okay. 62 00:04:01,448 --> 00:04:02,932 Where else did you go? 63 00:04:03,337 --> 00:04:06,861 Well, a few days later we went to Kyoto. 64 00:04:07,022 --> 00:04:11,427 And uh in Kyoto, that's where Nintendo is headquartered. 65 00:04:11,427 --> 00:04:12,268 did not... 66 00:04:12,268 --> 00:04:18,335 Unfortunately, I was talking smack, I said I'd bring my Steam Deck out, take pictures in front, but I didn't have the time. 67 00:04:18,335 --> 00:04:19,775 And it was really hot. 68 00:04:21,339 --> 00:04:23,431 Would not have been good for my Steam Deck. 69 00:04:27,332 --> 00:04:31,444 mean, if you had it on, guess, playing it for a while maybe, but yeah. 70 00:04:31,544 --> 00:04:33,625 I can't believe you chickened out on that. 71 00:04:33,625 --> 00:04:35,546 You talked up a big game. 72 00:04:37,785 --> 00:04:41,505 liar, I'm such a poser, but Kyoto was pretty cool. 73 00:04:41,505 --> 00:04:46,765 I didn't actually visit Nintendo HQ either, because that was actually kind of far from where we were staying. 74 00:04:47,105 --> 00:04:55,925 So we visited Mount Inari, which is home to the mountain trail with all of the torii gates lined up in a row. 75 00:04:55,925 --> 00:04:58,608 It's absolutely surreal when you go through and see it. 76 00:04:58,608 --> 00:04:59,121 cool. 77 00:04:59,121 --> 00:05:01,539 I've been to Kyoto and it's really cool. 78 00:05:01,782 --> 00:05:07,445 Kyoto is also home to uh Kyoto Animation, also known as KyoAni in the anime community. 79 00:05:07,766 --> 00:05:13,390 And I think a couple of years ago, uh the headquarters got burned down because of an arson attack. 80 00:05:13,971 --> 00:05:17,174 And we didn't visit KyotoAni, but I just wanted to mention that they're there too. 81 00:05:17,174 --> 00:05:20,784 Yeah, it was really trying- yeah, couple people died because of that too. 82 00:05:20,784 --> 00:05:22,249 It was unfortunate. 83 00:05:23,651 --> 00:05:24,277 Yeah. 84 00:05:24,277 --> 00:05:26,298 it's, they have like what? 85 00:05:26,298 --> 00:05:33,774 One of the oldest wood castle, no, not castles, but like wood houses there. 86 00:05:33,774 --> 00:05:34,424 yeah. 87 00:05:34,424 --> 00:05:37,054 also, we went to Osaka Castle back in Osaka. 88 00:05:37,054 --> 00:05:38,396 I forgot to mention that. 89 00:05:38,893 --> 00:05:40,097 Well, it's funny story. 90 00:05:40,097 --> 00:05:41,978 Actually, this happened twice to me. 91 00:05:41,978 --> 00:05:49,601 But my group and I were interviewed by like a bunch of like Japanese elementary schoolers who were doing like a summer project. 92 00:05:50,022 --> 00:05:53,144 It's just like a it's like just like a little Japanese girl and her mom. 93 00:05:53,144 --> 00:05:57,366 And they asked us a bunch of questions in English because it was part of like an English. 94 00:05:57,526 --> 00:06:01,118 It's crazy that they're learning two languages in elementary school, man. 95 00:06:01,124 --> 00:06:08,504 Most of the kids I knew in fuckin' elementary school and even middle school couldn't handle two languages much less one. 96 00:06:08,884 --> 00:06:09,644 Yeah. 97 00:06:10,298 --> 00:06:16,260 Welcome to Asia, Europe, pretty much honestly, most of the world handles two or three languages. 98 00:06:16,260 --> 00:06:16,931 Yeah. 99 00:06:16,931 --> 00:06:17,977 m 100 00:06:17,977 --> 00:06:27,391 and America is still concerned with just one language, and the other language being Spanish only because most kids can't be bothered to pick a language they're interested in. 101 00:06:27,583 --> 00:06:32,192 Yeah, it's sad and most people complain about having to learn Spanish, which is... 102 00:06:32,210 --> 00:06:35,904 I I learned Latin because I thought about being a doctor at one point. 103 00:06:35,904 --> 00:06:37,045 I did pretty good. 104 00:06:37,045 --> 00:06:39,507 anyway, so Kyoto was fun. 105 00:06:39,507 --> 00:06:41,949 also got this. 106 00:06:42,450 --> 00:06:44,320 There was just so much that happened. 107 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,314 I all of the convenience are really good, too. 108 00:06:46,314 --> 00:06:52,880 The convenience stores, the Family Mart, the 7-Eleven, the Lawson's all really good. 109 00:06:52,996 --> 00:06:53,406 them. 110 00:06:53,406 --> 00:06:57,441 They're great to go to, they have tons of food, it's packaged. 111 00:06:57,441 --> 00:07:02,036 You can get balanced meals if you want, or you can go really decadent. 112 00:07:02,036 --> 00:07:04,116 but it was insane. 113 00:07:04,116 --> 00:07:07,336 can just, the food, all of the food there was just so good, man. 114 00:07:07,336 --> 00:07:10,176 And like, I look at a 7-Eleven in the US and I'm like, ugh. 115 00:07:10,176 --> 00:07:15,656 I mean, it wasn't ever really good to begin with, but like, I just look at it in disgust now. 116 00:07:15,656 --> 00:07:17,629 Like, why can't our 7-Eleven be that good? 117 00:07:17,629 --> 00:07:30,269 news though is that funny enough, 7-Eleven broke off from, so the 7-Elevens in Japan, they broke off from the ones in America and then the ones in Japan bought back, or bought the 118 00:07:30,269 --> 00:07:31,010 ones in America. 119 00:07:31,010 --> 00:07:37,139 So they're gonna be bringing some of the Japanese conveniences to here is what they're supposed to be doing. 120 00:07:37,139 --> 00:07:43,352 What- aw dude, what they should do- aw, the first thing they should bring are the fucking egg salad sandwiches they had. 121 00:07:43,352 --> 00:07:46,394 Man, those are- aw my god, they're so good! 122 00:07:47,529 --> 00:07:57,880 And not to mention the actual Japanese food that we've had too, like, I had some really good fatty tuna at one place, it was like 15 bucks for like a couple of them, it was 123 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:58,981 amazing. 124 00:07:58,981 --> 00:08:06,034 It's the best sushi I've ever had, and it was just from like, Tsukiji Food Market- Food- the fish market in Tokyo. 125 00:08:06,657 --> 00:08:08,921 That's because it's really fresh, I'm sure. 126 00:08:08,921 --> 00:08:09,821 it is really fresh. 127 00:08:09,821 --> 00:08:17,030 Yeah, I don't think I've ever gotten any sushi that fresh or that good in America, and I probably never will. 128 00:08:17,030 --> 00:08:21,892 to go, okay, here's a little bit of a harsh take. 129 00:08:22,909 --> 00:08:28,856 I did not have the best, and I had sushi a few times in multiple places in Japan when I went there. 130 00:08:29,017 --> 00:08:31,188 I don't think it was anything special. 131 00:08:31,188 --> 00:08:31,733 It was good. 132 00:08:31,733 --> 00:08:33,319 I just don't think it was anything special. 133 00:08:33,319 --> 00:08:36,503 ah It was fresh, but it was. 134 00:08:36,503 --> 00:08:39,223 least, it was probably cheaper in Japan. 135 00:08:39,223 --> 00:08:42,336 It was definitely like the price was awesome. 136 00:08:42,637 --> 00:08:51,307 If you go to coastal areas here like Seattle, San Francisco, there's a lot of Japanese immigrants that know how to do it and it's fresh caught stuff. 137 00:08:51,307 --> 00:08:52,737 ah 138 00:08:52,737 --> 00:08:55,278 wish I lived anywhere near the... 139 00:08:55,438 --> 00:09:00,961 fucking west coast has everything and like the east coast has jack squat. 140 00:09:00,961 --> 00:09:06,050 mean, I guess Maine has lobsters, but I don't fucking live in Maine. 141 00:09:06,082 --> 00:09:08,566 the East Coast also has hurricanes, right? 142 00:09:08,566 --> 00:09:10,709 So you got that going. 143 00:09:10,972 --> 00:09:11,793 yeah, that's true. 144 00:09:11,793 --> 00:09:15,019 The West Coast also has earthquakes too. 145 00:09:15,695 --> 00:09:16,115 True. 146 00:09:16,115 --> 00:09:16,786 oh 147 00:09:16,786 --> 00:09:18,673 Yeah, and Japan has earthquakes too. 148 00:09:18,673 --> 00:09:21,452 We didn't have any earthquakes in when we were there, but... 149 00:09:21,667 --> 00:09:23,291 Japan has so many earthquakes. 150 00:09:23,291 --> 00:09:26,222 Yeah, man, man, Tokyo was awesome. 151 00:09:26,222 --> 00:09:41,008 We went to Shinjuku, we went to Harajuku, we went to Takashita Street, and man, we were with a co- so my party consisted of me, my cousin, my young cousin, my uh older bro, his 152 00:09:41,008 --> 00:09:45,770 wife, his kids, and his in-laws. 153 00:09:45,770 --> 00:09:51,452 And it was pretty big party, so it made things a little more difficult than expected. 154 00:09:51,796 --> 00:09:55,976 Especially since his kids are like a baby and like a three year old. 155 00:09:55,976 --> 00:09:59,069 So degenerates, American degenerates, okay. 156 00:09:59,971 --> 00:10:05,398 No, I could just imagine taking my young ones over to Japan. 157 00:10:05,585 --> 00:10:11,965 we went to Takashita Street and that's like the fashion street. 158 00:10:12,725 --> 00:10:22,405 Man, it's full of Asian girls, not just Japanese girls, Asian girls wearing fucking elegant gothic lolita dresses and shit like that. 159 00:10:22,405 --> 00:10:24,265 was insane. 160 00:10:24,625 --> 00:10:26,156 Also, tell me if you've heard this before. 161 00:10:26,156 --> 00:10:31,814 You've heard about how Japan has an immigrant, has a problem with tourists, right? 162 00:10:31,814 --> 00:10:32,586 Yeah. 163 00:10:32,586 --> 00:10:43,389 So I thought, like when I first heard that, I thought maybe they were talking about like a bunch of white people causing trouble, like Logan Paul style or or yeah yeah Logan Paul, 164 00:10:43,389 --> 00:10:49,686 yeah it's no it's they're actually referring to the like amount of like Chinese and Korean tourists that are there. 165 00:10:50,161 --> 00:10:55,123 From my understanding talking to people there, it's Chinese first and then Americans, I think. 166 00:10:55,123 --> 00:10:59,904 Like the Chinese are, I'll be very blunt, they're assholes. 167 00:10:59,904 --> 00:11:08,016 As tourists, they're very ass-holy over in Japan because they kind of just like button line and Japanese do not like that. 168 00:11:08,016 --> 00:11:17,533 Yeah, I saw, I encountered three incidences in my week and a half in Japan of Chinese people. 169 00:11:17,533 --> 00:11:19,534 And this is not to be like racist or anything like that. 170 00:11:19,534 --> 00:11:21,318 It's a cultural issue, I think. 171 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:28,685 Just being yelled at, or not being yelled at, but like them yelling at like staff and whatever it is, it was crazy. 172 00:11:28,685 --> 00:11:29,845 I fucking... 173 00:11:29,845 --> 00:11:32,845 I agree man, tours fucking suck dude. 174 00:11:32,845 --> 00:11:34,905 Especially the ones in fucking... 175 00:11:34,905 --> 00:11:36,905 Alright, so we went to... 176 00:11:36,905 --> 00:11:37,885 Okay, I got... 177 00:11:37,885 --> 00:11:45,765 So we went to the Shubia Scramble, the famous one that was in like Tokyo Drift and all that stuff, and also a bunch of other like things about Japan. 178 00:11:45,985 --> 00:11:53,545 And the first thing people would do when the lights turned green were run like as fast as they could to like the center so they could take out like a photo op. 179 00:11:53,545 --> 00:11:56,674 And it's bullshit man, that's so fucking stupid. 180 00:11:56,674 --> 00:12:03,941 There were some other content creators trying to interview some Japanese girls and I was tempted to photobomb them because, you know, nothing... 181 00:12:03,941 --> 00:12:05,832 that'd be so awesome. 182 00:12:05,853 --> 00:12:10,202 are some Japanese content creators that will interview Japanese and expats. 183 00:12:10,202 --> 00:12:11,433 I've watched them. 184 00:12:11,547 --> 00:12:12,099 Japanese. 185 00:12:12,099 --> 00:12:13,265 They were like white. 186 00:12:13,265 --> 00:12:14,028 They were white. 187 00:12:14,028 --> 00:12:15,281 They white, okay. 188 00:12:15,281 --> 00:12:16,254 Were they American? 189 00:12:16,254 --> 00:12:17,513 They sounded American. 190 00:12:17,513 --> 00:12:27,390 So yeah, I have to like, if you're gonna be a tourist, this is way off topic of the whole podcast, but if you're a tourist man, don't be an asshole. 191 00:12:27,390 --> 00:12:29,901 Yeah, respect the culture, do as they do. 192 00:12:29,901 --> 00:12:31,421 I was very polite. 193 00:12:31,421 --> 00:12:32,941 I was very cordial. 194 00:12:32,982 --> 00:12:37,323 I learned a few, you should learn a few Japanese phrases before you go over too. 195 00:12:37,763 --> 00:12:38,763 And learn some manners too. 196 00:12:38,763 --> 00:12:46,965 There, you know, there are a lot of different manners that you have to learn, like, uh like slurping noodles is a sign of respect for the food and the chef. 197 00:12:46,965 --> 00:12:49,826 You have to slurp your noodles for eating ramen, of course. 198 00:12:50,126 --> 00:12:51,206 I did that. 199 00:12:52,167 --> 00:12:57,428 I mean, like, I think Germany has a thing where if you ask for salt and pepper, it's like a, it's like, 200 00:12:57,428 --> 00:12:59,347 You don't like the food or some shit like that, right? 201 00:12:59,347 --> 00:13:13,267 Yeah, it yeah, there's for sure like it will indicate that they didn't season it properly Japan is also You you know the way you even handle your chopsticks you don't just shove 202 00:13:13,267 --> 00:13:22,947 them into the food Stuff like that where people might think it's weird But it's like dude if you're gonna be there for a week and a half two weeks Whatever it is like you can learn 203 00:13:22,947 --> 00:13:26,027 to have some manners for two weeks or just don't go 204 00:13:26,369 --> 00:13:38,283 Yes, and so my yeah, and then so we also went to Odaiba We saw the big Gundam in front the big Gundam unicorn in front and this was not planned at all But there was a fucking idol 205 00:13:38,283 --> 00:13:51,769 concert happening like right in front of it, too It was it was pretty wild and then uh my cousin and I went took a trip to Akihabara the last day and it was it was as It was 206 00:13:51,769 --> 00:13:54,149 surprisingly more tame and more degenerate. 207 00:13:54,149 --> 00:13:56,030 I thought it was at the same time 208 00:13:56,194 --> 00:14:03,794 So it didn't smell, so I was expecting to smell like shit because like, you know, a bunch of sweaty nerds like act in place. 209 00:14:03,794 --> 00:14:04,714 No, they're not. 210 00:14:04,714 --> 00:14:09,334 At the very least, the Japanese nerds know how to clean up their odors. 211 00:14:09,971 --> 00:14:13,182 I think anyone that would have smelled that bad probably doesn't get out of the house much. 212 00:14:13,182 --> 00:14:25,017 The funnest part about Akihabara is going up the multi-story stores and just seeing how weird it gets the higher you get. 213 00:14:25,017 --> 00:14:27,218 Yeah, so I only went to the third floor. 214 00:14:27,339 --> 00:14:32,883 I did get some souvenirs from Akihabara and some other general Japanese souvenirs. 215 00:14:33,124 --> 00:14:42,331 I got a Hatsune Miku figure because, you know, it'd be a waste if I didn't get a figurine from Japan, right? 216 00:14:43,012 --> 00:14:47,736 In fact, let me send the picture to you on Discord. 217 00:14:47,736 --> 00:14:49,048 I haven't unwrapped it yet. 218 00:14:49,048 --> 00:14:49,959 do it. 219 00:14:50,281 --> 00:14:52,164 Yeah, I got a Gundam. 220 00:14:52,164 --> 00:14:53,196 I still need to put it together. 221 00:14:53,196 --> 00:14:55,097 I still have to put together over these years. 222 00:14:55,097 --> 00:14:58,058 also have some model kits too for my cousin. 223 00:14:58,098 --> 00:15:04,711 My cousin's super into Gundam model kits after we got him some Gunplum models uh like when he was a kid. 224 00:15:04,711 --> 00:15:08,292 There, I just sent the picture of the Hatsune Miku figure. 225 00:15:08,788 --> 00:15:09,803 You gotta show it on there. 226 00:15:09,803 --> 00:15:14,994 You have to show it in the episode when, hopefully when Gardner gets to editing it. 227 00:15:16,175 --> 00:15:17,946 It's gonna be on display soon. 228 00:15:17,946 --> 00:15:19,148 But uh... 229 00:15:19,148 --> 00:15:21,188 gonna get it on here sharing. 230 00:15:22,188 --> 00:15:25,868 Show your degenerate side. 231 00:15:26,047 --> 00:15:27,399 Let's see here. 232 00:15:27,399 --> 00:15:35,007 So not gonna let me share oh, okay, okay, I was a little worried there for a second 233 00:15:36,175 --> 00:15:38,467 Yes, that's my computer desk. 234 00:15:38,467 --> 00:15:40,919 I got a new desk while I was in Japan. 235 00:15:40,919 --> 00:15:45,745 Well, actually, it was shipped to my house while I was in Japan. 236 00:15:45,745 --> 00:15:50,688 I haven't assembled it yet because it's huge and I don't feel like doing it right now, to be honest. 237 00:15:50,688 --> 00:15:51,890 I'm going to do it at some point. 238 00:15:51,890 --> 00:15:53,030 I had to get a... 239 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:56,034 Did you go to any of the uh animal cafes? 240 00:15:56,034 --> 00:15:57,218 I really wouldn't mind going. 241 00:15:57,218 --> 00:15:58,796 I would like to go to the Otter one. 242 00:15:58,796 --> 00:16:04,650 We saw a ton of animal cafes on Takeshita Street in Harajuku. 243 00:16:05,451 --> 00:16:13,316 There were kappibara cafes, were dog cafes, cat cafes, and maid cafes, of course. 244 00:16:13,316 --> 00:16:14,846 I didn't go into any of them because... 245 00:16:14,846 --> 00:16:25,324 Okay, so in Akihabara, there were literally maids on the street passing out pamphlets advertising champagne sessions. 246 00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:26,095 the fu... 247 00:16:26,095 --> 00:16:27,486 Like, sure, you like... 248 00:16:27,486 --> 00:16:28,436 And like... 249 00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:32,540 That kinda skeeved me out a little bit because I wasn't- I thought it was gonna be a little more wholesome. 250 00:16:32,861 --> 00:16:33,731 Wholesome? 251 00:16:33,731 --> 00:16:34,870 I guess so. 252 00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:41,356 Yeah, like, just ma- like, you know, they serve you food, they- they, like, are in maid costumes. 253 00:16:42,257 --> 00:16:42,799 I didn't- 254 00:16:42,799 --> 00:16:44,750 the thing. 255 00:16:44,750 --> 00:16:50,221 In Tokyo, there's an interest that probably exists as a cafe or something. 256 00:16:50,221 --> 00:16:50,793 Right. 257 00:16:50,793 --> 00:16:54,749 Right, right, but champagne session sounds like prostitution. 258 00:16:54,749 --> 00:16:56,107 I'm not gonna lie. 259 00:16:56,107 --> 00:16:58,568 It does sound like it, but you know. 260 00:17:00,047 --> 00:17:01,129 I think. 261 00:17:01,949 --> 00:17:04,410 Actually, I don't remember how they I we don't need to get into that. 262 00:17:04,410 --> 00:17:09,932 We should probably start getting into a little bit of the episode, but first, are you done? 263 00:17:10,573 --> 00:17:12,913 Going over Japan, we can go over some more. 264 00:17:12,913 --> 00:17:13,744 I love talking about it. 265 00:17:13,744 --> 00:17:14,781 I just don't want to. 266 00:17:14,781 --> 00:17:18,203 For now, for now, we can go back to it when it's relevant. 267 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:21,684 just got back, so I gotta recollect my thoughts. 268 00:17:22,368 --> 00:17:23,348 Okay, no problem. 269 00:17:23,348 --> 00:17:27,201 Okay, so that's what you did the last two weeks. 270 00:17:27,201 --> 00:17:33,045 ah I just want to shout out one more time this game because this what I've been playing. 271 00:17:33,045 --> 00:17:35,517 It's the aviatic uh factor. 272 00:17:35,517 --> 00:17:36,212 Does that even pronounce it? 273 00:17:36,212 --> 00:17:37,529 Not abiotic? 274 00:17:37,814 --> 00:17:39,595 It's no, but it's probably a BI. 275 00:17:39,595 --> 00:17:44,396 I don't know English isn't my first language No, I'm just I'm just kidding. 276 00:17:44,396 --> 00:17:57,759 It is it's my first I I'm one of those Americans that don't know how pronounce things my Russians better than my English not really but But yeah, no this game is definitely This 277 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:07,142 is an unreal by the way unreal five So further proves that like you can have games in unreal and not make him look like unreal it 278 00:18:07,372 --> 00:18:11,824 It is like Half-Life very much, and I've already talked about this last time. 279 00:18:11,984 --> 00:18:17,016 It is six player co-op and it is a blast. 280 00:18:17,016 --> 00:18:18,954 It's got the survival aspect. 281 00:18:18,954 --> 00:18:25,510 It's like if Half-Life met um some type of survival game like Left 4 Dead, or not Left 4 Dead. 282 00:18:25,510 --> 00:18:26,037 uh 283 00:18:26,037 --> 00:18:26,513 Company? 284 00:18:26,513 --> 00:18:27,679 Yeah, you could say lethal company. 285 00:18:27,679 --> 00:18:28,442 Yeah. 286 00:18:28,442 --> 00:18:31,635 And so it's. 287 00:18:32,684 --> 00:18:36,720 It looks like lot of fun though, yeah I am watching the trailer right now, it does look like lot of fun. 288 00:18:37,229 --> 00:18:47,178 It is super both unique and also, I don't know, the graphics are, bother me at all and just gives me nostalgia for Half-Life. 289 00:18:47,178 --> 00:18:53,164 I think it's very well done to what the way it looks. 290 00:18:53,645 --> 00:18:54,465 Yeah. 291 00:18:56,087 --> 00:19:01,192 graphics are like, I don't wanna say they're the least important thing to me, but they're not super important. 292 00:19:01,193 --> 00:19:06,278 And I wish devs would understand that kid, like, Gen Z doesn't play graphically demanding games. 293 00:19:06,278 --> 00:19:10,001 Like, Fortnite is not a super graphically demanding game. 294 00:19:10,002 --> 00:19:16,399 And Roblox especially, which we'll talk about later, is not super graphically demanding, and zoomers eat that shit up, 295 00:19:16,399 --> 00:19:30,159 Yeah, they are also aging into and we'll see how they go as they age up but yeah, it is more important to have fun game than it is a graphically demanding game But I will defend 296 00:19:30,159 --> 00:19:38,919 graphics and style do still matter and that's like this is one of those examples where I don't like D makes too much. 297 00:19:38,919 --> 00:19:44,590 I don't like I've played so many games back in the 90s and stuff like that where 298 00:19:44,590 --> 00:19:46,983 I like a little bit more fidelity. 299 00:19:46,983 --> 00:19:52,879 And this is about where I like to start is something like this where you can see what everything is. 300 00:19:52,879 --> 00:20:06,732 You have a pretty good idea of what things are, but it is just, ah shouldn't say low enough quality, it's it's detailed enough that it shows off a lot of weirdness that I 301 00:20:06,732 --> 00:20:07,337 like. 302 00:20:07,337 --> 00:20:16,737 Yeah, and plus, honestly, the lighting looks a lot better than you would probably get in a game from the 90s, which, you the models look like it would be from the 90s, like Unreal 303 00:20:16,737 --> 00:20:20,397 1999 or whatever, right? 304 00:20:20,998 --> 00:20:23,379 Yeah, 100%. 305 00:20:23,379 --> 00:20:27,220 But yeah, the lighting is definitely uh unreal. 306 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,151 But it's not so uncanny. 307 00:20:33,151 --> 00:20:34,182 They did a good job. 308 00:20:34,182 --> 00:20:38,943 It still feels somewhat natural for the game. 309 00:20:41,004 --> 00:20:44,425 I think they'll have more content and everything throughout the years too. 310 00:20:44,425 --> 00:20:45,845 It's got really good reviews. 311 00:20:45,845 --> 00:20:49,986 um probably gonna be, I wish it was a little cheaper for what it is. 312 00:20:50,604 --> 00:20:56,675 It is 35 bucks, but so far I've put 10 hours, not 10 hours, but seven hours into it. 313 00:20:56,675 --> 00:21:03,066 And I have, you know, I probably only scratched the surface so far, so. 314 00:21:03,358 --> 00:21:07,463 Well, I mean, hey man, could play it. 315 00:21:07,463 --> 00:21:10,095 That looks a lot of fun, I might have to pick it up at some point. 316 00:21:10,198 --> 00:21:11,558 It's definitely worth it. 317 00:21:11,558 --> 00:21:17,208 I hope Gardner's picked it up soon because it's definitely because it has a Half-Life-esque feel and it's also like it's an indie game. 318 00:21:17,208 --> 00:21:18,772 think he'd like it a lot. 319 00:21:19,195 --> 00:21:20,955 I felt like you would like a lot too. 320 00:21:21,162 --> 00:21:25,067 It might be more of a double A, but it feels like an indie game. 321 00:21:25,328 --> 00:21:33,499 then, um yeah, with that being said, let's, let's get into the, to the indie handheld that I want. 322 00:21:33,499 --> 00:21:36,212 And I say indie handheld because it's a modern handheld. 323 00:21:37,021 --> 00:21:38,264 Mmmmm. 324 00:21:38,264 --> 00:21:41,271 I kind of want this, but I kind of don't because it's so massive. 325 00:21:41,271 --> 00:21:42,151 So. 326 00:21:42,531 --> 00:21:43,473 me. 327 00:21:44,016 --> 00:21:53,216 Yeah, modern builds gaming handheld powered by an RTX 4090 laptop GPU and an Intel i9 1400. 328 00:21:53,536 --> 00:21:58,440 The system supports a 12.5 inch 4K display and it's... 329 00:21:58,761 --> 00:22:00,411 Jesus Christ. 330 00:22:00,528 --> 00:22:03,088 175 watt mobile GPU. 331 00:22:05,071 --> 00:22:07,216 Jesus Christ, what the fuck, 332 00:22:07,216 --> 00:22:14,987 So this has almost 10,000 CUDA cores just as a reference with 16 gigabytes of VRAM. 333 00:22:14,987 --> 00:22:15,899 So. 334 00:22:15,899 --> 00:22:17,527 Ugh, god damn it. 335 00:22:17,527 --> 00:22:22,154 I don't, the battery lasts about 15 to 20 minutes runtime. 336 00:22:22,154 --> 00:22:28,721 Well yeah, I mean, no one would realistically use a 4090 laptop on a 337 00:22:28,721 --> 00:22:34,899 True, no, you're not wrong per se, but yeah, like you couldn't game on it. 338 00:22:34,899 --> 00:22:42,629 You can maybe do some other stuff and let it run a little bit longer, but yeah, it is kind of crazy that this has a 50 watt battery in it. 339 00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:44,456 It's not even that big. 340 00:22:44,456 --> 00:22:45,702 watt battery? 341 00:22:45,702 --> 00:22:46,696 Oh my god. 342 00:22:46,696 --> 00:22:48,629 That's part of the problem. 343 00:22:49,121 --> 00:22:51,613 I mean, they made the handheld. 344 00:22:51,613 --> 00:22:54,796 They could just make it little bigger. 345 00:22:54,796 --> 00:22:59,720 Okay, alright, I can see a use case for something like this if it was just like a tablet. 346 00:22:59,801 --> 00:23:00,611 And then you... 347 00:23:00,611 --> 00:23:05,366 Alright, so like if you had detachable controllers and did it that way, I could see that being very useful. 348 00:23:05,366 --> 00:23:06,307 Kind of. 349 00:23:06,307 --> 00:23:08,868 Like a Legion Go, but like way more powerful. 350 00:23:09,149 --> 00:23:10,230 Or they could do... 351 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:12,752 Or they could just make it like a... 352 00:23:12,752 --> 00:23:15,969 Like a switch where, you know, you could play it... 353 00:23:15,969 --> 00:23:23,922 handheld and you use Nvidia Optimus or whatever to like switch between integrated graphics and you know, 4090 graphics. 354 00:23:23,922 --> 00:23:30,125 Here's the thing I Would probably play something like this because where I usually play my games. 355 00:23:30,125 --> 00:23:46,431 It's either on my love slack or like a couch or my bed Where I'm always next to an outlet these days Or on an airplane where I can slap it on the tray and just plug it in there 356 00:23:46,471 --> 00:23:52,862 that being said I don't know if an airplane well They have a see outlet so I'd assume to be a little the charge 175 watt 357 00:23:52,862 --> 00:23:57,594 or like be able to handle a 175 watt power adapter. 358 00:23:57,594 --> 00:23:58,816 would be interesting to see. 359 00:23:58,816 --> 00:24:03,262 I I don't know how we would get in contact with this guy to try it out, but I kinda wanna try it out. 360 00:24:03,262 --> 00:24:07,549 Same, or build my own, but that takes so much work and money. 361 00:24:07,651 --> 00:24:09,499 there any pictures of the back though? 362 00:24:09,499 --> 00:24:11,132 That's a good question. 363 00:24:11,144 --> 00:24:15,537 Also, it looks like, well, if you go up, there was like a slideshow. 364 00:24:15,993 --> 00:24:17,077 Oh, is it a slok? 365 00:24:17,077 --> 00:24:18,081 Okay, it is a slideshow. 366 00:24:18,081 --> 00:24:18,871 Okay, there we go. 367 00:24:18,871 --> 00:24:20,131 Ah! 368 00:24:20,131 --> 00:24:21,471 Let's look at the I.O. 369 00:24:22,051 --> 00:24:24,591 Now that looks like a DIY job right there. 370 00:24:24,591 --> 00:24:26,311 You got all the ports. 371 00:24:26,871 --> 00:24:28,791 You've got two USB-A's. 372 00:24:28,791 --> 00:24:30,811 You've got what looks like a barrel jack. 373 00:24:30,811 --> 00:24:31,731 No, that's a headphone jack. 374 00:24:31,731 --> 00:24:32,751 Never mind. 375 00:24:32,831 --> 00:24:34,331 headphone jack. 376 00:24:34,691 --> 00:24:38,391 You've got one Type-C port, I think. 377 00:24:38,751 --> 00:24:42,011 You've got your micro SD card reader. 378 00:24:42,471 --> 00:24:43,311 HDMI. 379 00:24:43,311 --> 00:24:45,642 Is that a RJ-45 jack? 380 00:24:45,642 --> 00:24:46,397 Yeah. 381 00:24:46,882 --> 00:24:48,789 And what are those two below it? 382 00:24:48,789 --> 00:24:49,712 Are those even? 383 00:24:49,712 --> 00:24:50,013 Are those? 384 00:24:50,013 --> 00:24:51,869 No, those must be the on and off button, right? 385 00:24:51,869 --> 00:24:53,775 That must be the off button, the on button, right? 386 00:24:53,775 --> 00:24:54,126 those are. 387 00:24:54,126 --> 00:24:59,174 They're almost like the size of like, what is it? 388 00:24:59,396 --> 00:25:03,923 It's one of the display ports, like a display port, like a micro display port or something like that. 389 00:25:04,898 --> 00:25:09,283 Yeah, I feel like the mini display ports are bigger than that though, right? 390 00:25:09,498 --> 00:25:09,991 I don't know. 391 00:25:09,991 --> 00:25:11,706 Let's see what the other picture looks like. 392 00:25:11,753 --> 00:25:13,785 I don't know, either, all I know is it's... 393 00:25:13,785 --> 00:25:14,717 there we go. 394 00:25:15,372 --> 00:25:21,060 I think those are those those might be volume buttons. 395 00:25:22,163 --> 00:25:28,523 And man, that doesn't look that that makes it look way less appealing, to be honest. 396 00:25:28,698 --> 00:25:29,700 What? 397 00:25:30,138 --> 00:25:30,987 Oh, you know what? 398 00:25:30,987 --> 00:25:32,622 That is a power out... 399 00:25:32,622 --> 00:25:33,533 power... 400 00:25:34,017 --> 00:25:37,234 Yeah, like I said, that was a barrel- yeah, so that is a barrel jack. 401 00:25:37,234 --> 00:25:39,569 Wait, so there's no headphone jack in this thing? 402 00:25:40,111 --> 00:25:41,055 You're kidding. 403 00:25:41,055 --> 00:25:42,447 Maybe it's on the bottom. 404 00:25:43,505 --> 00:25:45,102 Yeah, maybe it is on the bottom. 405 00:25:45,102 --> 00:25:46,457 It is a mod job, okay? 406 00:25:46,457 --> 00:25:48,753 It's not like it's the manufacturer that made this. 407 00:25:49,205 --> 00:25:51,451 Okay, alright, but I'm on the internet. 408 00:25:51,451 --> 00:25:52,283 I have free speech. 409 00:25:52,283 --> 00:25:55,411 I'm allowed to criticize whatever I want, regardless of any reason. 410 00:25:55,411 --> 00:25:56,343 No, you are. 411 00:25:56,343 --> 00:25:57,985 You're allowed to criticize. 412 00:25:58,207 --> 00:26:01,123 Even if it's even if it's cruel and unusual. 413 00:26:01,123 --> 00:26:03,123 It's not unusual. 414 00:26:04,323 --> 00:26:05,543 It's just cool. 415 00:26:05,963 --> 00:26:08,014 But, I mean, it's a pretty cool project. 416 00:26:08,014 --> 00:26:11,254 It looks like he's using 3-DS parts. 417 00:26:11,254 --> 00:26:13,165 The D-pad and buttons, I mean. 418 00:26:13,165 --> 00:26:13,946 Oh. 419 00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:18,140 The D-pad definitely looks like it came from a 3DS. 420 00:26:18,140 --> 00:26:20,180 Or at least, a 3- yeah. 421 00:26:20,435 --> 00:26:21,679 interesting 422 00:26:22,170 --> 00:26:24,517 I don't know about the rest of the buttons, let me be honest. 423 00:26:25,123 --> 00:26:26,278 And I'm hoping... 424 00:26:26,278 --> 00:26:31,867 I'm interested in seeing what would happen if you were to open it up. 425 00:26:32,069 --> 00:26:34,232 There's no pictures of it open, there? 426 00:26:35,186 --> 00:26:44,861 No, it probably I'm curious how they have the they probably pieced apart the laptop in such a way that they were able to lay this in. 427 00:26:45,483 --> 00:26:46,604 But that's. 428 00:26:48,167 --> 00:26:50,162 That's crazy. 429 00:26:50,162 --> 00:26:55,206 China has better access to the raw chips. 430 00:26:55,206 --> 00:27:01,170 People desolder these GPUs and stuff and they add them to substrates. 431 00:27:01,791 --> 00:27:09,036 I've seen that you can buy a motherboard with an integrated mobile CPU. 432 00:27:09,256 --> 00:27:15,951 Or you can even buy mobile CPUs that are just soldered to a substrate and just... 433 00:27:15,965 --> 00:27:18,745 insert into a CPU socket that's compatible. 434 00:27:19,445 --> 00:27:20,585 I've seen that happen. 435 00:27:20,585 --> 00:27:21,065 I've seen... 436 00:27:21,065 --> 00:27:23,065 CraftComputing does that a lot, actually. 437 00:27:23,645 --> 00:27:25,219 Oh, we should get him on the show, too. 438 00:27:25,219 --> 00:27:26,312 I'm curious. 439 00:27:26,312 --> 00:27:27,517 I know but... 440 00:27:28,249 --> 00:27:28,852 I just... 441 00:27:28,852 --> 00:27:31,914 Curious if you could fit something like that in an easier way. 442 00:27:32,195 --> 00:27:32,605 I agree. 443 00:27:32,605 --> 00:27:33,687 Now I'm more intrigued. 444 00:27:33,687 --> 00:27:34,757 I want to see the inside of it. 445 00:27:34,757 --> 00:27:44,667 um Also, this runs about 72 Celsius degree, like degrees Celsius when maxed out on a AAA 4K game. 446 00:27:44,667 --> 00:27:46,393 um 447 00:27:46,393 --> 00:27:48,539 how much, how many degrees Celsius? 448 00:27:49,107 --> 00:27:50,167 72? 449 00:27:50,412 --> 00:27:55,912 which is going to be around what 140. 450 00:27:56,271 --> 00:27:57,951 That's not bad at all. 451 00:27:57,991 --> 00:28:02,503 Honestly, keeping the 4090 cool even if it is just a mobile version. 452 00:28:03,297 --> 00:28:10,497 Yeah, no, it's a yeah God of War Horizon Forbidden West all played at native 4k really well. 453 00:28:10,497 --> 00:28:26,501 That's what the article says Yeah, it's See it has 64 gigabytes of RAM in it by the way two terabyte SSDs dual like two of them so They max this thing out 454 00:28:26,501 --> 00:28:38,535 like the ODM for the uh device was Tong Feng who makes a bunch of laptops and then a bunch of companies like Manegear and stuff rebranded for the US. 455 00:28:38,996 --> 00:28:41,839 Well don't know about Manegear but I know some of the others do. 456 00:28:42,024 --> 00:28:44,367 Yes, companies like Mingir, yeah. 457 00:28:44,367 --> 00:28:51,007 Yeah, but I mean it's a pretty cool project that you can recycle an old laptop. 458 00:28:51,227 --> 00:28:56,247 I have a I have that Lenovo laptop that they sent over. 459 00:28:56,247 --> 00:28:58,098 I need to do a review on that one day. 460 00:28:58,098 --> 00:28:59,918 But I have that Lenovo laptop. 461 00:28:59,918 --> 00:29:06,318 I'd be interested in turning that into a handheld one day, but it'd be a little bit big for my hands to be honest. 462 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:17,328 I would, yeah, it'd be a fun project, I just, anytime anyone mods something, does stuff like this, where they just go like, I feel like this is the extra mile, like this is fun 463 00:29:17,328 --> 00:29:17,668 stuff. 464 00:29:17,668 --> 00:29:19,849 Would I buy something this big? 465 00:29:21,131 --> 00:29:22,952 I'd just buy a laptop, honestly. 466 00:29:22,952 --> 00:29:30,529 Once you get like 10 inches and above, like I just, I'd rather have the laptop. 467 00:29:30,529 --> 00:29:34,782 I'm a PC gamer anyways, and I play a lot of my games with keyboard and mouse. 468 00:29:34,782 --> 00:29:36,259 ah 469 00:29:36,259 --> 00:29:40,718 And anything else I don't play with the keyboard and mouse, usually will try to play on my Steam Deck. 470 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:42,696 I mean that's totally valid dude. 471 00:29:42,696 --> 00:29:43,677 Yeah. 472 00:29:45,061 --> 00:29:55,757 And so, but, they're like, this is unreasonable, especially since there's been companies that have built devices kind of like this, but not this powerful, but with like a bigger 473 00:29:55,757 --> 00:29:56,997 screen, right? 474 00:29:57,238 --> 00:30:01,400 But you're not gonna see this come to market. 475 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:14,034 What you will see, and because technically if this came to market, this would be the king of handhelds in the sense of both how fucking large it is, but also how powerful it is. 476 00:30:14,034 --> 00:30:21,567 But the true king is the GBD Win Max 5 that um officially launched. 477 00:30:21,567 --> 00:30:34,332 so, yeah, with this, GBD Win 5 launches as world's most powerful gaming handheld with the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395. 478 00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,012 Damn their titles. 479 00:30:37,273 --> 00:30:41,534 Their naming convention is so, uh so bad. 480 00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:48,345 So, was there already a GPD Win 5 that used a weaker one at some point, or was it the Win 4? 481 00:30:48,345 --> 00:30:49,646 I'm thinking of- 482 00:30:49,874 --> 00:30:54,515 That's one of the things I thought the Win 5 was already out, but maybe it wasn't. 483 00:30:54,615 --> 00:31:00,418 My biggest problem with the Win 5 is that it looks like a PSP. 484 00:31:00,418 --> 00:31:06,776 And albeit I like the PSP or the PS Vita like a lot for what it was, they were not very comfortable. 485 00:31:07,763 --> 00:31:08,615 Right. 486 00:31:08,615 --> 00:31:11,781 I mean, but also the Vita was a lot smaller. 487 00:31:11,781 --> 00:31:13,585 Like, it was very small. 488 00:31:13,585 --> 00:31:15,327 So you could accept it. 489 00:31:15,353 --> 00:31:18,489 It was actually pocketable, we'll just say. 490 00:31:18,489 --> 00:31:21,202 yeah, know, 100%, easily pocketable. 491 00:31:21,202 --> 00:31:24,815 This, I don't know, like I'd have to try one out. 492 00:31:24,815 --> 00:31:25,726 I'm sure they're fine. 493 00:31:25,726 --> 00:31:30,690 It's just even them showing the picture with the hand, it doesn't make it look very comfortable. 494 00:31:33,394 --> 00:31:33,841 I think. 495 00:31:33,841 --> 00:31:34,434 if it's... 496 00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:36,340 We could ask him if it's pocketable. 497 00:31:36,346 --> 00:31:42,274 I think the GPD win four, maybe even the five, like this is his favorite lineup, I believe. 498 00:31:42,274 --> 00:31:44,997 I've seen him uh tweet about this a bunch. 499 00:31:44,997 --> 00:31:50,254 And so like, he quite likes this lineup, which go for it. 500 00:31:50,254 --> 00:31:51,545 Like we all have our favorites. 501 00:31:51,545 --> 00:31:52,455 um 502 00:31:52,455 --> 00:31:53,745 Yeah, GPD. 503 00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:56,388 I think he- I mean, that was what he started out with, I think. 504 00:31:56,388 --> 00:31:57,499 The GPD handhelds. 505 00:31:57,499 --> 00:32:00,040 He was- He was there since the beginning. 506 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,793 And so he's a true OG. 507 00:32:04,933 --> 00:32:11,365 Yeah, he's the one that I watched one of his videos like two years, oh my gosh, it's been three years. 508 00:32:11,745 --> 00:32:22,928 Three years ago and bought the GBD Win Max 2 um back then, which is like a mini laptop that has controllers built into the, in a very weird way. 509 00:32:23,229 --> 00:32:27,000 I really liked that laptop, I really did. 510 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,070 It's just. 511 00:32:28,662 --> 00:32:37,065 I sold it because I just, I had no use for it after I reviewed it and used it for a little while because yeah, just didn't have a use for it. 512 00:32:37,065 --> 00:32:41,925 But 55 to 75 watt TDP is pretty crazy for this. 513 00:32:41,925 --> 00:32:42,765 Damn. 514 00:32:43,148 --> 00:32:48,308 it's supposed to have a 4060 level performance, 4060 mobile level performance, which is crazy. 515 00:32:48,973 --> 00:33:05,473 well it's got 40 compute units based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture and in comparison with the Steam Deck it has about Let's see The Steam Deck OLED contains eight compute units 516 00:33:05,473 --> 00:33:07,633 based on the RDNA 2 architecture. 517 00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:17,108 So this is One and a half generations newer architecture doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be like amazingly better per se there's other optimizations that go on with that 518 00:33:17,108 --> 00:33:18,028 Right. 519 00:33:18,929 --> 00:33:32,654 Well, the Fox, well, last I recall the Fox says that this is absolutely killer for like low wattages too, because he doesn't just play the highest end games and says, it's great, 520 00:33:32,654 --> 00:33:33,484 calls it a day. 521 00:33:33,484 --> 00:33:35,485 No, he like goes deep into it. 522 00:33:35,485 --> 00:33:39,606 He goes balls deep into these tests, especially the little water tests as well. 523 00:33:39,606 --> 00:33:48,164 Yeah, no, and that's another thing with a lot of these things where they're like, yes, it has a max wattage, but a lot of these devices you can limit it down. 524 00:33:48,164 --> 00:33:49,765 So it's not like it's the end of the world. 525 00:33:49,765 --> 00:33:57,722 It's just, it's nice to know if I want to dock it or if I'm going to be playing it with, know, um plugged in. 526 00:33:57,742 --> 00:33:59,984 Yeah, of course I want to max it out as much as I can. 527 00:33:59,984 --> 00:34:04,969 And then when I, you know, on the go, I'll play certain games where they're not as maxed out. 528 00:34:04,969 --> 00:34:05,420 So. 529 00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:07,561 It's just nice to have the opportunity. 530 00:34:08,482 --> 00:34:11,655 Whoa, it supports 128 gigs of RAM. 531 00:34:11,655 --> 00:34:13,426 That's crazy. 532 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,101 128, it will support up to 128 gigs and then it supports up to four terabyte SSD. 533 00:34:19,101 --> 00:34:26,166 It has an 80 watt external battery design, a unique detachable 80 watt external battery design. 534 00:34:26,166 --> 00:34:28,348 That is crazy. 535 00:34:28,348 --> 00:34:29,850 Is there a picture of that? 536 00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:33,049 Hold on, so does it not have an internal battery? 537 00:34:33,269 --> 00:34:36,004 I don't think so, think you can swap the battery out. 538 00:34:36,608 --> 00:34:38,310 That's a big deal. 539 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:45,227 That is a big deal, Especially if, like, even the Steam Deck doesn't have a replaceable battery per se. 540 00:34:45,227 --> 00:34:52,905 I you can replace it, but it's replaceable, but it's not user-accessible, I should say. 541 00:34:53,087 --> 00:34:58,229 It's not easily accessible and then you also need to use a heat gun to get some of the stuff off. 542 00:34:58,286 --> 00:35:00,506 Yeah, and I would just rather not, to be honest. 543 00:35:00,506 --> 00:35:01,497 I would. 544 00:35:04,121 --> 00:35:05,836 Yeah, I mean, I would. 545 00:35:05,836 --> 00:35:06,438 Yeah. 546 00:35:06,438 --> 00:35:08,740 But this, you could like bring two batteries. 547 00:35:08,841 --> 00:35:13,046 You get one battery, play your game, yada yada yada. 548 00:35:13,046 --> 00:35:15,409 your battery's getting low, save it, and then turn it off. 549 00:35:15,690 --> 00:35:17,071 Swap with the new battery. 550 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:25,617 Yeah, well, if it has a man, it'd be amazing if it had like a USB C port so you could charge other devices with the extra one so you could use it as a, you know, portable 551 00:35:25,617 --> 00:35:27,208 battery bank. 552 00:35:27,335 --> 00:35:29,309 Hold on, go back down to the dock picture. 553 00:35:29,309 --> 00:35:31,156 Where's the, is that the dock? 554 00:35:31,156 --> 00:35:31,794 Is that the bat? 555 00:35:31,794 --> 00:35:32,804 Is that the battery? 556 00:35:32,804 --> 00:35:35,313 uh 557 00:35:35,313 --> 00:35:36,478 A PC Power Rater. 558 00:35:36,478 --> 00:35:38,340 AI PC Power Adapter? 559 00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:39,592 AI PC Power Adapter? 560 00:35:39,592 --> 00:35:40,513 What the fuck? 561 00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:41,064 Okay... 562 00:35:41,064 --> 00:35:42,595 Yadda yadda yadda... 563 00:35:42,832 --> 00:35:46,560 okay, this is something honestly much more enticing. 564 00:35:46,641 --> 00:35:50,289 I'm going to give you the biggest downside to this right now. 565 00:35:50,411 --> 00:35:51,833 Can you guess what it is? 566 00:35:52,164 --> 00:35:53,348 It's the weight. 567 00:35:53,867 --> 00:35:57,266 No, it's the cost is $2,300. 568 00:35:58,328 --> 00:36:05,989 I'm not, I'm not, well, is that just for the most expensive baller skew, or is that? 569 00:36:05,989 --> 00:36:10,814 ah Mind notes do not say that. 570 00:36:10,814 --> 00:36:11,474 Let's see. 571 00:36:11,474 --> 00:36:16,254 While pricing hasn't been officially announced, GPD indicates it will cost less than the 20... 572 00:36:16,254 --> 00:36:24,988 Okay, it's gonna cost less than $2,300 of the ASUS ROG Z13 Flow, suggesting a sub-2,000 price point for this premium. 573 00:36:24,988 --> 00:36:26,909 It's gonna cost probably about 2,000. 574 00:36:27,506 --> 00:36:33,327 Okay, so what you're saying is it could cost anywhere between zero and two thousand dollars. 575 00:36:33,327 --> 00:36:36,042 Well, yeah, it's not going to cost. 576 00:36:36,042 --> 00:36:39,247 If they get this thing around $1,200, I'm buying it. 577 00:36:39,348 --> 00:36:40,439 Probably. 578 00:36:40,504 --> 00:36:43,506 You passionately rapping right now, I kind of want to try it out too. 579 00:36:43,909 --> 00:36:50,374 ah Cause not only would I like to be able to detach and charge a battery and then replay, you know, I like that. 580 00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:51,615 I like the setup. 581 00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:53,036 I like that. 582 00:36:53,036 --> 00:36:54,868 I just, I'd have to, I don't know. 583 00:36:54,868 --> 00:36:58,851 I'd have to maybe I'll watch the Fox's video on it and see how comfortable this one is. 584 00:36:58,851 --> 00:37:03,905 I'm a little skeptical on that, but, it's a seven inch screen. 585 00:37:03,905 --> 00:37:09,809 I want a bigger one, but I had been wanting, like I've mentioned, I want, I've been looking for a device. 586 00:37:10,178 --> 00:37:16,474 preferably with a bigger screen that I can use as my main daily driver for gaming that I can plug into an eGPU. 587 00:37:16,852 --> 00:37:21,452 All right, and I think this is almost it, isn't it? 588 00:37:21,452 --> 00:37:22,233 Almost. 589 00:37:22,233 --> 00:37:30,827 This is almost it, but I'll be honest, you're never gonna get a perfect handheld at this point, but that detachable battery is a huge win for me. 590 00:37:30,827 --> 00:37:41,111 I really like that idea that I can charge um multiple batteries at the same, like, so I could, if it had a little dock for the battery and I can charge it, awesome. 591 00:37:41,111 --> 00:37:46,139 And I can charge my battery plugged into the AC outlet and... 592 00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:47,371 get ready like when I'm traveling. 593 00:37:47,371 --> 00:37:48,593 That's mainly what I'm thinking about. 594 00:37:48,593 --> 00:37:56,326 Like when I travel, when I've traveled in the past, it's nice for this type of stuff because then I get on airplanes and I don't like to plug it in because the ports are so 595 00:37:56,326 --> 00:37:57,387 annoying. 596 00:37:58,315 --> 00:37:59,415 I could see it. 597 00:37:59,415 --> 00:38:01,455 could see it. 598 00:38:01,455 --> 00:38:03,875 Ah man, I want one of these. 599 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:06,335 It looks so cool, to be honest. 600 00:38:06,615 --> 00:38:08,575 I'm hoping the controllers are comfortable. 601 00:38:08,575 --> 00:38:09,375 Let's go back up to the... 602 00:38:09,375 --> 00:38:13,155 I want look at the ergonomics, because that's like the most important thing for me here. 603 00:38:13,555 --> 00:38:20,555 So, I mean, if it's comfortable enough, I mean, I can handle a PS Vita. 604 00:38:20,555 --> 00:38:22,275 It's not uncomfortable. 605 00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:23,755 I just want to know how... 606 00:38:23,755 --> 00:38:24,495 I just want to know how... 607 00:38:24,495 --> 00:38:26,586 because it's supposed to be like almost a kilo. 608 00:38:26,586 --> 00:38:28,073 Yeah, it's almost a kilo with the battery. 609 00:38:28,073 --> 00:38:31,385 It's like 900 kil- It's like 900 gr- 900 plus grams. 610 00:38:31,575 --> 00:38:32,818 I'm just seeing an extra workout. 611 00:38:32,818 --> 00:38:34,533 I've been working out a lot more lately. 612 00:38:34,533 --> 00:38:37,800 You got to up your, your, your gains high tech. 613 00:38:38,143 --> 00:38:39,525 Got to get on the weights. 614 00:38:39,632 --> 00:38:42,021 Don't worry man, I've been climbing mountains in Japan. 615 00:38:42,021 --> 00:38:46,938 Oh yeah, I also saw monkey mountain too, that was pretty cool. 616 00:38:47,502 --> 00:38:50,383 Honestly, you're complaining about the weight of this, it's skill issue. 617 00:38:50,383 --> 00:39:01,536 I wanna know how it feels in my hands, because there's more to these ergonomics than just the weight, because the Steam Deck sounds heavy, but it doesn't feel like bad at all. 618 00:39:01,536 --> 00:39:03,216 Well, because it fits your hand so well. 619 00:39:03,216 --> 00:39:04,296 I don't care about the weight. 620 00:39:04,296 --> 00:39:06,216 I know some people don't like the weight of this Steam Deck. 621 00:39:06,216 --> 00:39:07,896 I don't care. 622 00:39:08,496 --> 00:39:11,116 It fits so well on my hand. 623 00:39:11,427 --> 00:39:13,428 I also want to know if this is pocketable. 624 00:39:13,789 --> 00:39:20,525 Even if you have to detach the battery and put the battery in one pocket and then put the device in the other pocket. 625 00:39:20,702 --> 00:39:23,189 I really don't think this screenshot with the hands is real. 626 00:39:23,189 --> 00:39:26,699 Because if it is, that's very pocketable. 627 00:39:26,699 --> 00:39:28,201 Damn it, you know what? 628 00:39:28,201 --> 00:39:28,880 I know what to do. 629 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,213 Let's ask the fox right now. 630 00:39:30,213 --> 00:39:31,824 I can DM him right now. 631 00:39:32,726 --> 00:39:33,666 Is... 632 00:39:33,867 --> 00:39:36,549 is the win five pot... 633 00:39:36,610 --> 00:39:37,871 kit-able? 634 00:39:38,148 --> 00:39:38,399 He's... 635 00:39:38,399 --> 00:39:42,189 Yeah, does he wear cargo pants? 636 00:39:42,189 --> 00:39:43,321 Because maybe. 637 00:39:44,245 --> 00:39:48,938 Don't worry, the Fox will give us a detailed answer, hopefully before this episode ends. 638 00:39:49,385 --> 00:39:55,219 Uh, yeah, so I, yeah, it's looking pretty strong. 639 00:39:55,219 --> 00:39:57,225 It's looking pretty strong, but 640 00:39:57,225 --> 00:40:07,982 I don't know man, it's I want it But I also don't want to spend over to I also want to spend that much money on I don't want to spend it like $1,900 on it 641 00:40:08,913 --> 00:40:12,483 Yeah, yeah, 100%. 642 00:40:12,483 --> 00:40:14,485 uh It's very promising. 643 00:40:15,786 --> 00:40:28,751 Come to think of it, have you tried your, like, I don't know if you had a PSP, but have you tried any of the PlayStation portables lately, the old ones, like the Vita? 644 00:40:29,451 --> 00:40:31,318 Um, I still have my Vita. 645 00:40:31,318 --> 00:40:32,135 ah 646 00:40:32,135 --> 00:40:33,207 But have you tried it lately? 647 00:40:33,207 --> 00:40:40,549 Because um I have both and I tried them after having the Steenbeck for a while and I'm like, okay, this is kind of hard to go back to. 648 00:40:42,924 --> 00:40:55,475 shit well I have I've held in my hand for a little bit if it still feels pretty decent my hands I have small hands so like it's not a big deal for me but like yeah 649 00:40:56,002 --> 00:41:01,809 I got sausages and so they don't work very well with the big devices. 650 00:41:01,809 --> 00:41:02,783 um 651 00:41:02,783 --> 00:41:06,768 Yeah, so with that, anything else you wanna cover on this? 652 00:41:06,768 --> 00:41:16,148 Because I think we've pretty much covered everything without getting like a really good detailed video and watching that of it being like, let's say taken apart or seeing how 653 00:41:16,148 --> 00:41:17,289 people use it. 654 00:41:18,263 --> 00:41:20,514 I'd have to see more to be honest. 655 00:41:20,514 --> 00:41:22,791 We can probably cover it like another day. 656 00:41:22,791 --> 00:41:27,695 yep, we'll wait and we'll let you know more about it, but right now it's very promising. 657 00:41:27,695 --> 00:41:38,844 ah It's making me think more about what my next handheld's gonna be and what I'm gonna pick and choose because like I said, I really would like to have an eight inch screen and 658 00:41:38,844 --> 00:41:44,309 make sure that it can be, um it's compatible with the GPU. 659 00:41:44,309 --> 00:41:49,843 Those are my two favored specs for my next, like. 660 00:41:49,906 --> 00:41:53,621 favorite features from the next one, but detachable. 661 00:41:53,621 --> 00:42:01,161 I didn't realize I really wanted the detachable power bank or whatever. 662 00:42:01,465 --> 00:42:03,615 I don't know if it's a bank, but you know. 663 00:42:04,216 --> 00:42:07,496 want though is a Steam Deck 2. 664 00:42:07,636 --> 00:42:10,516 And I wish Valve would give us something on it. 665 00:42:10,516 --> 00:42:16,036 I know they're probably waiting for U- They're probably waiting for, like, what was it again? 666 00:42:16,036 --> 00:42:18,196 UDNA, I think it was, that was rumored. 667 00:42:18,945 --> 00:42:21,005 Maybe UDNA is not rumored. 668 00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:24,445 It's UDNA is, you mean for Steam Deck or just coming out? 669 00:42:25,085 --> 00:42:30,985 Oh, yeah, that is the rumor that there, UDNA I believe is ready for the most part. 670 00:42:31,545 --> 00:42:35,765 So they could announce it if they really wanted to. 671 00:42:35,765 --> 00:42:39,290 Cause I think UDNA comes out next year or is it the end of this year? 672 00:42:39,290 --> 00:42:41,104 Come on, Valve, you know what you need. 673 00:42:41,104 --> 00:42:42,847 Come on, Valve, do it. 674 00:42:43,069 --> 00:42:44,632 Just do it, Valve. 675 00:42:44,914 --> 00:42:46,306 I know you wanna. 676 00:42:46,387 --> 00:42:47,948 There's rumors, so we'll see. 677 00:42:47,948 --> 00:42:51,201 I think this fall we'll find something out, but we'll see. 678 00:42:51,201 --> 00:42:51,531 We'll see. 679 00:42:51,531 --> 00:42:57,606 Either it's going to be Half-Life X project or I think they have something. 680 00:42:57,606 --> 00:43:02,470 That's all the rumors and all the people are saying is that there's something coming, but we'll see. 681 00:43:02,470 --> 00:43:05,433 It's not like I don't get disappointed by Valve all the time. 682 00:43:05,433 --> 00:43:10,557 So. 683 00:43:10,557 --> 00:43:12,338 Speaking of Valve disappointing. 684 00:43:12,338 --> 00:43:16,141 ah PayPal. 685 00:43:17,058 --> 00:43:18,589 Didn't they get, no, not PayPal. 686 00:43:18,589 --> 00:43:20,539 That's another one that we're gonna be talking about. 687 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:21,900 I already F'd it up. 688 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:31,385 No, uh but no, let's get into the Chris Hansen, not the Jim Hansen, which would be, that would be next level. 689 00:43:31,385 --> 00:43:41,131 But uh yeah, everything is coming up Roblox as, let's, let me get to it, sorry. 690 00:43:41,131 --> 00:43:41,585 Um 691 00:43:41,585 --> 00:43:47,970 This is such a weird team up situation that is. 692 00:43:50,392 --> 00:43:54,956 Chris Hansen and Schlepp dig into its predator problem. 693 00:43:54,956 --> 00:44:07,367 So Chris Hansen, former NBC's To Catch a Predator host and YouTuber Schlepp are independently investigating online predators targeting children on roadblocks, which has 694 00:44:07,367 --> 00:44:10,729 over 70 million daily active users. 695 00:44:11,005 --> 00:44:15,524 um What a weird team up. 696 00:44:15,524 --> 00:44:19,932 So, I mean, I don't know what more to s- Oh, I can't hear it. 697 00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:23,620 Yeah, I don't have the audio up, but I'm kind of curious. 698 00:44:23,921 --> 00:44:35,892 yeah, so I mean, all we really need, it's what it says, Roblox has a serious problem with predators or kids being in like private spaces where the shit can happen. 699 00:44:37,566 --> 00:44:50,185 I'll be honest, this is so bizarre because didn't he, if I thought, I could be wrong, but I thought Chris Hansen was like, ended up being a predator himself or something like that. 700 00:44:50,185 --> 00:44:51,889 Or is that like a fake story? 701 00:44:51,889 --> 00:44:53,665 No, that's a fake story. 702 00:44:53,665 --> 00:44:58,003 Cause I thought I heard that like he was actually, he was caught something. 703 00:44:58,003 --> 00:45:01,188 I don't know if it was actually like being a full on predator, but. 704 00:45:02,096 --> 00:45:02,826 Come 705 00:45:12,555 --> 00:45:13,923 That's what it was. 706 00:45:17,545 --> 00:45:20,159 Yeah, he was caught in some drama. 707 00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:21,201 I just didn't know what it was. 708 00:45:21,201 --> 00:45:22,726 uh 709 00:45:22,726 --> 00:45:29,042 dude, if the guy behind to catch a predator was a predator himself, that would be some bullshit. 710 00:45:29,345 --> 00:45:29,712 That- 711 00:45:29,712 --> 00:45:30,382 you what, right now. 712 00:45:30,382 --> 00:45:32,833 I'll tell you what, right now. 713 00:45:33,093 --> 00:45:40,735 I think the Silk Road is like a anti-child sex trafficking group. 714 00:45:40,735 --> 00:45:43,065 The leader of that got caught for sex trafficking. 715 00:45:43,065 --> 00:45:46,646 So uh irony is not dead in today's world. 716 00:45:46,646 --> 00:45:53,378 Like it is crazy how many people get caught for what they kind of are trying to prevent and stuff like that. 717 00:45:53,378 --> 00:45:57,503 So I wouldn't put it past, but I'm not saying, this is an acquisition at. 718 00:45:57,503 --> 00:46:00,877 I just heard some drama, so I heard wrong. 719 00:46:00,877 --> 00:46:02,973 And Hi Tech, thank you for correcting me. 720 00:46:03,322 --> 00:46:06,204 You're welcome, you're welcome, always glad to help out with that. 721 00:46:06,204 --> 00:46:12,468 anyway, so Chris Hansen is teaming up with Schlepp and we gotta explain who Schlepp is. 722 00:46:12,468 --> 00:46:18,923 Basically, he was a content creator who engages in pedo hunt, uh, pedo hunting. 723 00:46:18,923 --> 00:46:22,908 P- so I can't say pedo, you get demonetized on YouTube. 724 00:46:22,908 --> 00:46:29,654 gotta call it PDF hunting, so to speak, cause fucking YouTube language is bullshit, They call it un- 725 00:46:29,654 --> 00:46:34,358 Okay, before I get started, I just want to say YouTube language is bullshit. 726 00:46:34,358 --> 00:46:36,059 You gotta self-censor yourself. 727 00:46:36,059 --> 00:46:39,401 You gotta say you unalive- they unalived. 728 00:46:39,401 --> 00:46:40,962 No, they're fucking dead. 729 00:46:41,349 --> 00:46:43,080 Yeah, you don't need to censor that as much now. 730 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:48,384 There's certain words that go in and out of what you can like censor on, that you'll have to censor on YouTube. 731 00:46:48,384 --> 00:46:51,026 ah It doesn't make sense. 732 00:46:51,026 --> 00:46:59,201 I understand certain ones, but if you're trying to make something educational or talk about something in a serious manner, that's just crazy to edit out. 733 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,075 then the other word is PDF file, which is stupid. 734 00:47:03,075 --> 00:47:05,898 Like, hey, I hate Adobe as well, man, but come on, 735 00:47:05,898 --> 00:47:06,828 You can... 736 00:47:07,028 --> 00:47:09,409 Dude, it's bullshit, man. 737 00:47:09,409 --> 00:47:16,070 Like, I see a video and they're talking about some serious shit, but then they say PDF finally just takes me out of the entire experience. 738 00:47:17,291 --> 00:47:18,711 And I don't know who to... 739 00:47:18,711 --> 00:47:19,561 I know who to blame. 740 00:47:19,561 --> 00:47:23,092 It's YouTube that's to blame, which I guess we'll talk about that later. 741 00:47:23,092 --> 00:47:28,013 uh Anyways, he hunts down these, uh, predaters. 742 00:47:29,134 --> 00:47:31,274 And, uh, essentially... 743 00:47:31,494 --> 00:47:34,025 He's gotten a few arrested, too, actually. 744 00:47:34,399 --> 00:47:40,522 But the thing is that Roblox apparently doesn't ban these accounts until like much social pressure. 745 00:47:40,522 --> 00:47:43,064 But they ended up banning him. 746 00:47:43,064 --> 00:47:46,445 And not just banning him, they are also suing him as well. 747 00:47:46,546 --> 00:47:49,178 And they're asking to cease and desist his actions. 748 00:47:49,178 --> 00:47:52,091 I don't think that's going to end well for Roblox, personally. 749 00:47:52,091 --> 00:47:53,162 It's not. 750 00:47:53,263 --> 00:47:58,930 I also find it super interesting that this is happening around the same time that America is trying to set up legislation. 751 00:47:58,930 --> 00:48:10,235 Okay, I know we didn't want to get political, but America is also doing legislation that's trying to censor the internet because of kids or some bullshit like that. 752 00:48:11,711 --> 00:48:19,036 No, Utah is a part of that and then they just lax because fun thing for Utah, that's where I live right now. 753 00:48:19,477 --> 00:48:39,113 They just laxed a whole thing on um kind of the child interactions, I should say, with people 18 and up, because of someone that's involved in the uh legislation. 754 00:48:39,438 --> 00:48:42,140 having a kid that got involved in such a thing. 755 00:48:42,561 --> 00:48:43,842 They're not, they don't care. 756 00:48:43,842 --> 00:48:50,548 I know this is, I'm trying to get very vague because I don't want to, I'd have to use more harsh language, but they don't care. 757 00:48:51,870 --> 00:49:02,098 They do these weird blocks on like what you talked about with censored internet and certain websites and stuff like that and then they loosen up laws in the real world. 758 00:49:03,561 --> 00:49:10,671 Speaking of which, Louisiana also recently decided they're gonna sue Roblox, like directly. 759 00:49:10,671 --> 00:49:14,375 The Louisiana Attorney General is. 760 00:49:15,378 --> 00:49:19,202 They call it the perfect place for PDF files. 761 00:49:19,363 --> 00:49:20,985 Damn it, now I'm saying it. 762 00:49:22,859 --> 00:49:24,501 I'm gonna switch it over. 763 00:49:25,463 --> 00:49:26,404 Okay. 764 00:49:29,198 --> 00:49:36,145 Alright, but yeah, it's crazy how much of this is happening all at once. 765 00:49:36,245 --> 00:49:46,696 Also, Roblox is nuking the public trust, but the kids don't know Jack Squad about lawsuits. 766 00:49:46,696 --> 00:49:48,898 Is this going to stop them from playing Roblox? 767 00:49:49,835 --> 00:49:59,679 No, I can just say because when I was a kid I wouldn't have potentially But I would have just know I would have wised up of like I'm not gonna talk to certain people I'm not gonna 768 00:49:59,679 --> 00:50:08,023 like I'm hoping more and more kids also like kids and parents wise up to if they're playing this like Just know that you're gonna be extra cautious. 769 00:50:08,023 --> 00:50:16,847 Like you can't trust everyone On the internet and this is like goes beyond roblox, but roblox they it's another problem with like 770 00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:22,770 companies making so much money and not actually protecting the people that make them that money. 771 00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:25,231 They don't do very well. 772 00:50:26,152 --> 00:50:37,158 You have someone that's reporting and now, from my understanding, Shlepp has uh actually gotten in little bit of trouble because of some of the predators he's gone after where he 773 00:50:37,158 --> 00:50:43,341 kind of like hurt the case and made it so it was easier for the predator to get away per se. 774 00:50:43,341 --> 00:50:46,823 ah But in this case, 775 00:50:47,492 --> 00:50:57,322 If roblox is gonna monitor their shit like I'd prefer at least someone and then report them and then actually look into it and they didn't do anything about it and they just you 776 00:50:57,322 --> 00:51:01,387 know banned him which is Bizarre 777 00:51:01,387 --> 00:51:04,612 to ban the whistleblower and pretend like the problem doesn't exist. 778 00:51:04,612 --> 00:51:07,813 That's really what this is saying is that roblox does not care. 779 00:51:07,813 --> 00:51:18,255 They don't want to put resources into caring They haven't cared for a while and they're showing like it's so blatant that they're also showing their They want to turn into a 780 00:51:18,255 --> 00:51:21,534 dating platform and which it's already a dating platform. 781 00:51:21,534 --> 00:51:30,918 It's just a dating platform for PDF files apparently I Don't want to it 782 00:51:31,082 --> 00:51:35,250 Yeah, well, Gardner would be the one editing it, be honest. 783 00:51:35,250 --> 00:51:37,484 if he can get this internet working. 784 00:51:37,694 --> 00:51:41,126 Well, yeah, that's true as shit. 785 00:51:41,126 --> 00:51:44,948 like, anyways, it's bullshit, man. 786 00:51:44,948 --> 00:51:46,297 It's fucking... 787 00:51:46,478 --> 00:51:48,309 Roblox. 788 00:51:48,309 --> 00:51:52,031 I don't understand the logic behind wanting more adults. 789 00:51:52,031 --> 00:52:02,497 mean, are the ones that are the demograph, and they beg their parents for money, and their parents just give them money because parents are an ATM machine, apparently. 790 00:52:02,497 --> 00:52:11,686 But once you have kids, you just realize, like, you want them to be happy, you also don't want to be inundated with a bunch of crap all day long with, please, please, please, and 791 00:52:11,686 --> 00:52:18,052 then, like, if you deny them too much, then it just causes other complexes, so it's a balancing act, It sucks. 792 00:52:18,193 --> 00:52:22,256 I don't get the people that give them a ton of money, though, for stuff like this, but... 793 00:52:22,256 --> 00:52:23,796 True dat, true dat. 794 00:52:23,796 --> 00:52:25,496 Honestly man, I don't know what to make of it dude. 795 00:52:25,496 --> 00:52:27,816 All I know is that... 796 00:52:27,816 --> 00:52:29,316 Roblox bad. 797 00:52:29,796 --> 00:52:30,496 Video game's good. 798 00:52:30,496 --> 00:52:32,936 Give him a Super Nintendo. 799 00:52:33,796 --> 00:52:36,469 Give him a Super Nintendo and like some of the best games. 800 00:52:36,469 --> 00:52:44,028 when your kids' friends are playing everything else that's popular, like Fortnite and everything, they wanna play that too. 801 00:52:44,329 --> 00:52:49,269 It's not, some people forget that they need to go back to when they were a kid and what they like. 802 00:52:49,269 --> 00:52:51,649 Like, Nintendo 64 for me, PlayStation. 803 00:52:51,649 --> 00:52:54,149 was stuff like that where I was like, always wanted a Nintendo 64. 804 00:52:54,149 --> 00:52:59,260 I ended up getting a PlayStation and I was a little jealous, but I had friends that had N64s and I played with them. 805 00:52:59,260 --> 00:53:02,440 their popularity in the, like, especially in the teenage, 806 00:53:04,104 --> 00:53:08,774 Pre-teens, teens is very big, like to want to do what your peers are doing. 807 00:53:08,939 --> 00:53:11,228 I guess that's fair enough man, I mean... 808 00:53:11,228 --> 00:53:13,251 least it's not drugs, guess, right? 809 00:53:13,612 --> 00:53:15,715 Hardcore drugs. 810 00:53:16,808 --> 00:53:19,028 drugs, that's crazy. 811 00:53:19,448 --> 00:53:21,104 Yeah, don't know man. 812 00:53:21,104 --> 00:53:22,064 Kids are just... 813 00:53:22,064 --> 00:53:23,084 I don't know man. 814 00:53:23,084 --> 00:53:24,164 I don't know what to make of it. 815 00:53:24,164 --> 00:53:26,575 I wish kids had better taste in video games. 816 00:53:26,575 --> 00:53:27,955 But that's just me. 817 00:53:28,069 --> 00:53:29,791 I agree. 818 00:53:30,727 --> 00:53:33,450 And I would say I didn't have good taste, but I had good taste. 819 00:53:33,450 --> 00:53:36,826 had StarCraft, Half-Life, growing up, man, I had good stuff. 820 00:53:37,148 --> 00:53:41,877 Dude, kids don't have kids don't have an RTS to cling on to. 821 00:53:41,877 --> 00:53:58,501 No, the biggest problem is that big companies have found addictive um algorithms and addictive, ah they know how to utilize addictive patterns or dark patterns, black 822 00:53:58,501 --> 00:54:01,843 patterns, they are, that Gardner says, he's not here to correct me. 823 00:54:01,843 --> 00:54:10,040 ah To entice kids to play more, and that's whole thing with Fortnite with Roblox. 824 00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:11,292 And at the end of the day, 825 00:54:11,292 --> 00:54:13,773 I don't know how to make of it. 826 00:54:13,773 --> 00:54:24,919 If my kid wants to play, uh let's say, um one of these games, it'd be heavily monitored and limited. 827 00:54:25,060 --> 00:54:28,662 So, Fortnite, not that big a deal. 828 00:54:28,662 --> 00:54:33,075 It's just don't spend your whole day playing it, because it's addicting. 829 00:54:33,075 --> 00:54:40,719 I don't know man, I don't know what to make of this topic anymore man, ROBLOX is just too much for me man, I thought it- 830 00:54:40,998 --> 00:54:42,062 man, whatever. 831 00:54:42,412 --> 00:54:45,993 I honestly if I was okay like the um 832 00:54:45,993 --> 00:54:47,662 I'll watch the- yeah. 833 00:54:47,662 --> 00:54:57,179 was law enforcement, if you really want to catch predators, your best bet is probably somewhere in the Roblox sphere. 834 00:54:57,179 --> 00:54:58,991 It's like they gave it to you. 835 00:54:58,991 --> 00:55:05,055 All you need to do is play Roblox all day and pretend like you're an eight-year-old and you'll figure it out, I guess. 836 00:55:05,055 --> 00:55:06,696 You'll find all of them. 837 00:55:06,927 --> 00:55:08,028 Dude... 838 00:55:08,588 --> 00:55:15,631 I'd watch- I'll watch the- I'll certainly watch Yo, I'll certainly watch the video Chris Hansen puts out though. 839 00:55:15,631 --> 00:55:18,413 It's gonna- I'm sure it started to be very interesting. 840 00:55:18,413 --> 00:55:19,613 Hey, maybe we should do that. 841 00:55:19,613 --> 00:55:21,404 Just like react to it one day. 842 00:55:21,819 --> 00:55:22,409 That'd be fun. 843 00:55:22,409 --> 00:55:24,120 We could get it on here. 844 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,239 We can watch and react to it a little bit. 845 00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,453 um But I'm thinking he's getting ahead of the news item. 846 00:55:30,453 --> 00:55:33,254 I think he's one of the predators on Roblox. 847 00:55:33,254 --> 00:55:35,979 So I'm just, I'm sorry. 848 00:55:35,979 --> 00:55:37,847 We're gonna get sued for defamation. 849 00:55:37,847 --> 00:55:38,866 uh 850 00:55:38,866 --> 00:55:40,318 Dude, don't say that, man. 851 00:55:40,318 --> 00:55:42,650 Chris Hansen is not a predator. 852 00:55:42,651 --> 00:55:45,874 It would destroy everything he's ever done. 853 00:55:45,874 --> 00:55:47,756 And destroy the rest of the internet too, to be honest. 854 00:55:47,756 --> 00:55:52,754 It would probably destroy the entire pedo-hunting scene that happens. 855 00:55:52,754 --> 00:55:58,318 no, people are hypocrites all the time, but yeah, no, he's not that I know of. 856 00:55:58,318 --> 00:56:00,780 So I'm gonna stop spreading misinformation. 857 00:56:00,780 --> 00:56:11,826 We can continue on with Valve and uh it's fun times of banning games because payment processors wanna ban. 858 00:56:14,568 --> 00:56:17,439 The story get like more and more. 859 00:56:17,447 --> 00:56:18,288 It gets worse. 860 00:56:18,288 --> 00:56:22,871 More and more my take a couple of weeks ago gets worse of like, I mean, it's not that big a deal. 861 00:56:22,871 --> 00:56:23,411 I don't know. 862 00:56:23,411 --> 00:56:25,673 It's not going to be necessarily slippery slope. 863 00:56:25,673 --> 00:56:27,890 This is like a stupid group that's tried doing this stuff before. 864 00:56:27,890 --> 00:56:34,467 Now it's like, okay, we're, we're in the slippery slope kind of territory because it gets worse every week. 865 00:56:34,467 --> 00:56:42,308 know last week, itch.io, there was a story about itch.io banning more games and it started affecting like LGBTQ games. 866 00:56:42,830 --> 00:56:45,774 Safe for Work LGBTQ games and we called it. 867 00:56:45,774 --> 00:56:46,285 We called it. 868 00:56:46,285 --> 00:56:48,338 I just want to say we were right. 869 00:56:48,338 --> 00:56:50,031 I wish we weren't right, but we are. 870 00:56:50,031 --> 00:57:01,579 that it's, yeah, it's so disgusting that we can't have regular games, or even if, let's say, same-sex couple kisses. 871 00:57:02,420 --> 00:57:03,801 So the fuck what? 872 00:57:03,801 --> 00:57:06,523 Like, you two guys don't have to play it. 873 00:57:06,643 --> 00:57:13,048 Your kids are going to experience it at one point in their lives of someone caring about someone else. 874 00:57:13,048 --> 00:57:16,030 It's probably their parents every other day or something. 875 00:57:16,489 --> 00:57:22,162 I remember when most straight guys thought that girls kissing was hot. 876 00:57:22,825 --> 00:57:24,910 That was like the early- that was like the 2000s. 877 00:57:24,910 --> 00:57:26,523 What happened to that? 878 00:57:27,034 --> 00:57:28,217 That still... 879 00:57:28,442 --> 00:57:29,745 is a thing. 880 00:57:29,890 --> 00:57:30,723 It's just... 881 00:57:30,723 --> 00:57:32,134 doesn't sound like it's a thing anymore. 882 00:57:32,134 --> 00:57:34,033 It sounds like people hate that shit. 883 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,371 Now, it's only small groups, that's the thing. 884 00:57:37,371 --> 00:57:40,134 A lot of small groups are the ones that really care about this. 885 00:57:40,134 --> 00:57:51,361 ah I grew up in circles, and this is why I have a hard time with the political stuff a little bit, because of how I grew up. 886 00:57:51,361 --> 00:57:57,825 But it's like this, small groups really tried to affect, they almost banned the Grand Theft Auto in the 90s and 2000s. 887 00:57:58,982 --> 00:58:08,802 multiple companies and this is the first time because I think it's because the administration is because the the way our political sphere is right now that this and this 888 00:58:08,802 --> 00:58:17,342 is why politics matters guys if you're even if you're a gamer it matters who you vote for and I think they're gonna get more bold and the companies will just fold to whatever they 889 00:58:17,342 --> 00:58:24,613 feel like is the top voice of the day and apparently it's just a minority group in Australia 890 00:58:24,613 --> 00:58:25,679 fucking Australians. 891 00:58:25,679 --> 00:58:27,979 sorry that- 892 00:58:28,862 --> 00:58:29,752 How dare you? 893 00:58:29,752 --> 00:58:33,085 are not, no, it's, that's the thing. 894 00:58:33,085 --> 00:58:34,346 Most Australians aren't like this. 895 00:58:34,346 --> 00:58:39,861 They actually have some pretty decent laws over there, but then they also crack down on the stuff too, I guess. 896 00:58:39,861 --> 00:58:42,433 But ah it's bizarre. 897 00:58:42,433 --> 00:58:43,594 It's bizarre. 898 00:58:43,594 --> 00:58:48,738 And I'm sure there's groups here, but I don't even hear about the groups in America as much on this type of stuff. 899 00:58:49,319 --> 00:58:55,444 So I'm just shocked that PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa are just, 900 00:58:55,853 --> 00:58:58,393 really cowtowing to this so much. 901 00:58:58,393 --> 00:59:02,973 They're just like, okay, yeah, we don't like this more and more. 902 00:59:03,713 --> 00:59:09,613 it's, it is, it's going to come for the LGBTQ stuff, which is crazy. 903 00:59:10,293 --> 00:59:11,193 Yeah. 904 00:59:11,423 --> 00:59:13,557 a topic in Discord. 905 00:59:13,557 --> 00:59:14,999 We can talk about that later. 906 00:59:15,692 --> 00:59:16,540 Okay. 907 00:59:16,783 --> 00:59:18,537 But yeah, I mean, it's crazy. 908 00:59:18,537 --> 00:59:20,182 It's crazy to me that, uh 909 00:59:20,182 --> 00:59:23,227 that we allowed this to happen, essentially. 910 00:59:23,649 --> 00:59:24,141 Like... 911 00:59:24,141 --> 00:59:25,961 We've kind of allowed it to happen. 912 00:59:25,961 --> 00:59:29,281 also like it comes down to what do you mean allowed? 913 00:59:29,281 --> 00:59:31,272 Like gamers didn't want this. 914 00:59:31,272 --> 00:59:35,192 I understand banning some games from certain stores. 915 00:59:35,192 --> 00:59:35,852 I will say that. 916 00:59:35,852 --> 00:59:41,552 And I'm still kind of like, if Steam wants to do adult only games, I don't care. 917 00:59:42,532 --> 00:59:50,552 Some of the adult only games are kind of weird and bizarre, but as long as they age gate them properly, that's what I care about. 918 00:59:50,552 --> 00:59:51,577 That's it. 919 00:59:51,577 --> 00:59:53,369 Yeah, that is fair. 920 00:59:53,369 --> 00:59:54,309 That's all I care about. 921 00:59:54,309 --> 01:00:00,492 ah I don't want my kids to get into like scat stuff and all that. 922 01:00:01,252 --> 01:00:06,875 I'm just saying, I'm trying to be like a little, not trying to get too deep into it. 923 01:00:07,436 --> 01:00:08,259 Yeah. 924 01:00:08,259 --> 01:00:10,659 Yeah, I mean, that's fair, that's totally valid. 925 01:00:10,939 --> 01:00:11,789 I mean... 926 01:00:11,964 --> 01:00:17,866 some things I don't care as much and some things I'm like, just don't like, especially with their developing brains, it's just not good. 927 01:00:17,866 --> 01:00:26,369 So I think it's fair to have age gating and some stuff when it comes to adult content. 928 01:00:27,009 --> 01:00:34,992 To an extent, it's fair, especially if it's a store-based system like valves, Steam. 929 01:00:35,132 --> 01:00:35,693 But... 930 01:00:35,693 --> 01:00:40,652 Banning payment processors making this decision is not good. 931 01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:45,234 And if they keep on showing this power, it's going to get worse. 932 01:00:45,234 --> 01:00:47,605 I I don't know what more we can... 933 01:00:47,605 --> 01:00:49,445 I mean, what can we do to be honest? 934 01:00:49,445 --> 01:00:51,206 What can we do? 935 01:00:51,206 --> 01:00:56,759 Because, you know, MasterCard just says, we didn't do that shit. 936 01:00:56,759 --> 01:01:00,670 And they also say, these games are actually illegal, even though, you know, we've... 937 01:01:00,670 --> 01:01:02,891 I mean, what can the user do, though? 938 01:01:02,891 --> 01:01:07,503 Because it's kind of hard to boycott MasterCard and Visa in the US. 939 01:01:07,503 --> 01:01:10,424 Like, if you went to Japan, Japan's a cash-based society. 940 01:01:10,424 --> 01:01:12,865 You still have to use cash in a lot of places. 941 01:01:13,718 --> 01:01:17,285 I thought they were going a lot more to cards, some places. 942 01:01:17,393 --> 01:01:28,773 some are doing more and more cards because of tourists, but a lot of places still take, like, cash only, especially a lot of the, like, good dives in Japan, like, food and stuff. 943 01:01:28,903 --> 01:01:31,188 Tokyo tends to be more... 944 01:01:32,398 --> 01:01:33,696 I think... 945 01:01:33,859 --> 01:01:35,121 yeah. 946 01:01:35,529 --> 01:01:38,229 like Kyoto and Osaka that needs more cash. 947 01:01:38,272 --> 01:01:40,345 Yeah, it's it's uh, aliskirts. 948 01:01:40,345 --> 01:01:41,166 Yeah. 949 01:01:41,166 --> 01:01:47,152 No, I crypto Get get on some trump coin 950 01:01:47,545 --> 01:01:53,571 Dude, my god, I was at an airport in Houston and they were advertising fucking Texcoin. 951 01:01:53,591 --> 01:01:55,613 Texitcoin or something like that. 952 01:01:55,613 --> 01:01:59,677 Yeah, was my layover before and after Japan. 953 01:02:00,266 --> 01:02:15,800 Texas They're so fucking bizarre so I'm Once again, like I'm been in the crypto industry on and off like I'm not against certain crypto currencies a lot of them are just pump and 954 01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:27,113 dumps though and There's only like a couple of cryptocurrencies you could use to circumvent this like I've mentioned before Stable coins and stuff like that. 955 01:02:27,253 --> 01:02:29,930 The other stuff I think is too volatile for valve 956 01:02:29,930 --> 01:02:30,521 which makes sense. 957 01:02:30,521 --> 01:02:33,809 You don't want a very volatile currency when you're buying stuff like this. 958 01:02:33,809 --> 01:02:35,139 I don't think people understand that. 959 01:02:35,139 --> 01:02:36,477 ah 960 01:02:36,477 --> 01:02:41,975 remember a couple years ago, Valve actually allowed Bitcoin purchases back when it was still... 961 01:02:41,997 --> 01:02:43,418 Back before crypto... 962 01:02:43,418 --> 01:02:47,759 Back before Bitcoin boomed, so to speak, in value. 963 01:02:47,759 --> 01:02:55,214 To be fair, if they would have kept on doing that, they would have made a lot more money than, and if they would have taken the Bitcoin and then held onto it, they would have made 964 01:02:55,214 --> 01:02:57,383 a lot of money, because it kept on going up. 965 01:02:57,948 --> 01:03:05,688 Yeah, but at the same time though, it was like super unstable when they implemented it because, you know, the values kept changing substantially. 966 01:03:05,688 --> 01:03:07,959 They kept having to draw more money. 967 01:03:07,959 --> 01:03:09,159 I don't know, man. 968 01:03:09,159 --> 01:03:11,215 It was a rough time to do it. 969 01:03:11,215 --> 01:03:12,996 stabilized a little bit. 970 01:03:12,996 --> 01:03:19,436 ETH is a little bit more volatile, but then you can just do like a fiat, like a, what is it? 971 01:03:19,436 --> 01:03:23,256 A stable coin that is tied to a fiat like the US dollar. 972 01:03:23,256 --> 01:03:26,056 And there's a couple, there's like, think a coin that's tied to every single one. 973 01:03:26,056 --> 01:03:27,276 I've talked about this already. 974 01:03:27,276 --> 01:03:30,376 That being said, they also have potential questionable stuff. 975 01:03:30,376 --> 01:03:33,136 don't know, people always question all that. 976 01:03:33,396 --> 01:03:34,816 That's one option. 977 01:03:34,816 --> 01:03:39,036 Or going with, I think we've talked about, 978 01:03:39,176 --> 01:03:45,049 potentially just the Steam wallet, but I have a feeling that that ties to directly into MasterCard. 979 01:03:45,505 --> 01:03:50,257 Yeah, I have a feeling that if MasterCard could, would, they would just... 980 01:03:50,798 --> 01:03:52,539 cut off payments entirely. 981 01:03:52,539 --> 01:03:58,331 That said, you can still buy games through PayPal on like Humble Bundle and whatnot. 982 01:03:58,331 --> 01:03:59,562 I'm sure they would more... 983 01:03:59,562 --> 01:04:01,383 I mean, that's more curated though. 984 01:04:01,383 --> 01:04:09,827 It's not like an un- I don't think there's a single one of those stores that sells adult games, like Steam keys for adult games. 985 01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:11,541 . 986 01:04:11,541 --> 01:04:13,560 Not that I know, not that we know of at least. 987 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:18,210 So did we mention exactly what's going on with PayPal and Steam? 988 01:04:18,483 --> 01:04:29,479 um I don't know, but essentially what's going on is that PayPal has cut off support for all currencies except for six different currencies on Steam. 989 01:04:30,180 --> 01:04:30,976 Yeah. 990 01:04:31,534 --> 01:04:38,890 which some people are saying it's tied to the MasterCard, right? 991 01:04:38,890 --> 01:04:47,356 Valve has confirmed to RPS that this withdrawal of support for Steam transactions by one of PayPal's acquiring banks is regarding content on Steam related to what we've previously 992 01:04:47,356 --> 01:04:48,817 commented on surrounding MasterCard. 993 01:04:48,817 --> 01:04:53,901 yeah, it's regarding PayPal and certain currencies. 994 01:04:53,901 --> 01:04:58,765 So is it regarding some companies that are banning some of this content? 995 01:04:58,765 --> 01:05:01,593 Cause there are companies that are not companies, countries. 996 01:05:01,593 --> 01:05:04,138 that do ban some of the content that's on there. 997 01:05:04,138 --> 01:05:17,605 Um, well, I feel like, well, if that were the case though, they can already ban those games from being sold in countries without having to do it through PayPal, banning entire 998 01:05:17,605 --> 01:05:18,846 currencies. 999 01:05:18,976 --> 01:05:23,341 But PayPal is being pressured into, yeah, I don't know. 1000 01:05:23,602 --> 01:05:28,027 It's so bizarre how this all going. 1001 01:05:28,111 --> 01:05:30,292 Well, PayPal's acquiring banks. 1002 01:05:30,292 --> 01:05:32,873 The question is what acquiring banks? 1003 01:05:33,374 --> 01:05:42,970 Because if it could be that MasterCard is doing it, acquiring PayPal. 1004 01:05:42,970 --> 01:05:43,510 I don't know. 1005 01:05:43,510 --> 01:05:43,950 Let me see. 1006 01:05:43,950 --> 01:05:47,043 Let me see who's acquiring PayPal. 1007 01:05:47,043 --> 01:05:47,522 Wait. 1008 01:05:47,522 --> 01:05:50,570 Is PayPal being acquired or are they acquiring banks? 1009 01:05:51,154 --> 01:05:52,370 No, I wanna... 1010 01:05:52,370 --> 01:05:52,955 paid? 1011 01:05:52,955 --> 01:05:54,438 acquiring beings. 1012 01:05:54,438 --> 01:05:57,743 eBay owns PayPal, if you guys recall. 1013 01:05:58,121 --> 01:05:59,766 Do they still own PayPal? 1014 01:05:59,766 --> 01:06:02,543 Well, they broke off into separate companies, but... 1015 01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:04,381 wait, no they don't anymore. 1016 01:06:04,381 --> 01:06:05,983 They spun off from PayPal. 1017 01:06:05,983 --> 01:06:14,823 uh Wait, so I don't understand what Valve means by this. 1018 01:06:14,823 --> 01:06:19,746 See, so is regarding content on Steam related to what we've previously... 1019 01:06:19,746 --> 01:06:20,807 So we don't know if... 1020 01:06:20,807 --> 01:06:23,058 So I don't think it has to do with MasterCard. 1021 01:06:23,058 --> 01:06:26,430 I think PayPal is just doing this independently on their own as well. 1022 01:06:27,170 --> 01:06:28,561 Which is bullshit. 1023 01:06:29,175 --> 01:06:30,284 Interesting. 1024 01:06:30,284 --> 01:06:31,813 That is interesting. 1025 01:06:32,023 --> 01:06:32,945 So. 1026 01:06:33,095 --> 01:06:41,875 So anything that's not a euro, a Canadian dollar, a Great Britain pound, a yen, Australian dollars, or USD. 1027 01:06:42,795 --> 01:06:45,781 Those are the only currencies allowed on Steam. 1028 01:06:45,781 --> 01:06:48,205 the only currencies that matter in this world so... 1029 01:06:48,447 --> 01:06:53,428 Okay. 1030 01:06:53,428 --> 01:06:54,560 No ruble. 1031 01:06:55,469 --> 01:06:56,824 No rubles. 1032 01:06:57,592 --> 01:06:58,473 No... 1033 01:06:58,769 --> 01:07:01,122 have a couple of thousand rubles and I can't use them now. 1034 01:07:01,122 --> 01:07:01,581 uh 1035 01:07:01,581 --> 01:07:03,490 Chinese you want as well. 1036 01:07:04,182 --> 01:07:08,644 Yeah, I'm kind of curious what's going on with all this. 1037 01:07:08,644 --> 01:07:10,677 I think it's gonna unfold more more. 1038 01:07:10,677 --> 01:07:18,524 We'll see if they get more bold with bans and stuff, but it is weird that it's, is MasterCard going after much else right now? 1039 01:07:18,524 --> 01:07:25,070 Usually, like in the past when these card processors have gone after companies, it was after like internet companies. 1040 01:07:25,070 --> 01:07:31,374 It was after like so many different companies to like ban even porn being bought with this stuff. 1041 01:07:31,495 --> 01:07:33,556 And so. 1042 01:07:34,135 --> 01:07:40,115 I'm seeing that PayPal's blocking purchases for Wuthering Waves as well, which is a gacha game. 1043 01:07:40,115 --> 01:07:41,695 Let's see, PayPal. 1044 01:07:41,695 --> 01:07:43,074 No, let's see what's going on. 1045 01:07:43,074 --> 01:07:46,638 Yeah, this is going to be a topic we're going to learn about a lot, I think, over the year. 1046 01:07:47,247 --> 01:07:49,822 the hell is going on with these payment processors? 1047 01:07:50,565 --> 01:07:53,510 Are they all just banning against video games? 1048 01:07:53,913 --> 01:07:55,836 That'd be too much money for them to lose. 1049 01:07:55,836 --> 01:08:06,301 Yeah, they're if there's one thing they love money So they're gonna go after the stuff that probably doesn't hurt them the most and makes them look good To certain companies 1050 01:08:06,301 --> 01:08:07,759 which is weird because most gamers. 1051 01:08:07,759 --> 01:08:17,917 I don't think care about Whether or not like they can buy some of the more NSFW stuff They're like I just don't think people care meaning if they're not into that there's like 1052 01:08:17,917 --> 01:08:21,518 whatever we don't care if we could buy it or not We're not gonna buy 1053 01:08:21,851 --> 01:08:30,571 wonder if Gabe Newell might have pissed off uh one of the big banking CEOs and they're just trying to go after him. 1054 01:08:30,646 --> 01:08:32,307 You know what, that's a good theory. 1055 01:08:32,307 --> 01:08:38,471 He probably has won too many super yachts more than the CEO of MasterCard, so. 1056 01:08:41,593 --> 01:08:46,176 Welcome, welcome to, I know it's probably not the case, but welcome to the new world. 1057 01:08:46,176 --> 01:08:49,398 Like billionaires can be very petty. 1058 01:08:49,977 --> 01:08:51,512 Dude, I wanna be rich. 1059 01:08:51,512 --> 01:08:54,923 I wanna be filthy rich enough to be a petty billionaire. 1060 01:08:55,048 --> 01:08:56,783 I don't, that sounds miserable. 1061 01:08:56,783 --> 01:08:59,510 I don't care about what other people do with their money. 1062 01:08:59,510 --> 01:08:59,841 would be... 1063 01:08:59,841 --> 01:09:04,555 Alright, I'm not saying I'm gonna be a petty billionaire, I'm just saying I'm gonna be as rich as one. 1064 01:09:04,882 --> 01:09:10,550 Now, if you're gonna do like a TV show and you become a petty billionaire, I'd watch that every day. 1065 01:09:11,934 --> 01:09:14,445 But this sounds miserable otherwise. 1066 01:09:14,445 --> 01:09:15,415 It does sound miserable. 1067 01:09:15,415 --> 01:09:18,208 Dude, I don't know, man. 1068 01:09:18,549 --> 01:09:20,971 I don't know what these guys are up to. 1069 01:09:20,971 --> 01:09:22,943 I don't know what's happening anymore at this point. 1070 01:09:22,943 --> 01:09:27,597 I've been too unhooked from the internet in Japan, ironically enough. 1071 01:09:28,490 --> 01:09:30,133 Which was probably nice, wasn't it? 1072 01:09:30,133 --> 01:09:31,734 It was pretty nice, yes. 1073 01:09:31,734 --> 01:09:35,136 I've been posting a lot of Japan pics in various places though. 1074 01:09:36,277 --> 01:09:38,318 And they've been eating it up. 1075 01:09:38,318 --> 01:09:43,181 Oh, I have a bunch of meal pics too, if you want to see those on my Twitter. 1076 01:09:43,906 --> 01:09:45,547 Well, let's do it later. 1077 01:09:46,308 --> 01:09:53,725 But speaking of Japan, Japan's PC gaming population has decreased by 3 million in the past decade, studies suggest. 1078 01:09:53,725 --> 01:10:02,240 Huh, and this is interesting to me because the past couple of years they've been talking about how the Japanese PC gaming industry has been going up and up. 1079 01:10:03,163 --> 01:10:06,659 I wonder if it's because people can go back outside. 1080 01:10:07,607 --> 01:10:17,009 Well, I'm curious why, okay, so yeah, if it's been going up and up, but then they say in this that the PC gaming population has decreased by 3 million in the past decade. 1081 01:10:17,570 --> 01:10:18,600 What did they mean by that? 1082 01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,911 Like, is it popularity gone up, but the population is decreasing? 1083 01:10:21,911 --> 01:10:24,432 Cause the population of Japan is decreasing. 1084 01:10:25,772 --> 01:10:32,665 there's, so according to, yeah, so according to this website, Japan, or 1085 01:10:32,665 --> 01:10:47,005 because show 2025, Japan's PC gaming population has declined by three million users over the past decade, dropping from 17.49 million in 2015 to 14.52 million in 2024. 1086 01:10:47,005 --> 01:10:51,465 This contrasts with increases in both console and mobile gaming population. 1087 01:10:51,465 --> 01:10:57,685 Ah, this could be a problem going forward anyways with Gen Z during the same period. 1088 01:10:58,265 --> 01:11:02,457 like key points, PC hardware prices in Japan have risen 40 % in the past six years. 1089 01:11:02,457 --> 01:11:16,364 Damn, with some components tripling in price, PC shipments hit their lowest point since 2007 through 2024, saw a temporary spike due to Windows 10 end of support replacements. 1090 01:11:16,364 --> 01:11:25,235 Meanwhile, mobile gaming has exploded from 14.11 million to 42.77 million users, becoming the dominant platform in Japan. 1091 01:11:25,235 --> 01:11:28,291 Well that's not that surprising, that's always been the case. 1092 01:11:28,454 --> 01:11:31,331 But the thing here though is that... 1093 01:11:31,331 --> 01:11:34,644 The yen has also been decreasing in value. 1094 01:11:34,745 --> 01:11:37,341 And it was actually good because it used to be a while ago. 1095 01:11:37,341 --> 01:11:42,493 I don't know how long ago it was, but like it used to be nearly like one USD to like 100 yen. 1096 01:11:43,083 --> 01:11:43,876 Yeah. 1097 01:11:43,973 --> 01:11:51,893 Now it's like $1 to like 165 yen, which is a crazy decrease in value. 1098 01:11:52,535 --> 01:11:58,615 So yeah, the problem is, did you say $1 to 65 yen? 1099 01:11:59,775 --> 01:12:04,775 Oh, I was gonna say, I'm like, that's actually a good, yeah, that is crazy. 1100 01:12:04,775 --> 01:12:07,075 I know that they didn't have inflation. 1101 01:12:07,075 --> 01:12:11,735 I think they set their inflation rate to an artificial zero or something like that. 1102 01:12:11,795 --> 01:12:14,575 that could be part of the problem that caused some issues. 1103 01:12:14,575 --> 01:12:18,455 And then now they've gone away from that, but. 1104 01:12:19,446 --> 01:12:23,326 40 % hardware prices, 40 % is crazy. 1105 01:12:24,226 --> 01:12:29,757 Is that like, cause I know when I was in Japan, like prices were not cheaper for hardware. 1106 01:12:29,757 --> 01:12:37,257 I don't know about for you, HiTech, but like when I saw consoles and stuff like that, if it was a Japanese console, yes, but anything else was not cheaper. 1107 01:12:37,257 --> 01:12:38,488 It was more expensive. 1108 01:12:38,488 --> 01:12:45,068 Yeah, so I actually went to Dosbara, one of the few PC places, to try to smuggle a GPU. 1109 01:12:45,168 --> 01:12:48,228 It was about the same price there as it was here. 1110 01:12:48,568 --> 01:12:52,488 It was a little... 1111 01:12:52,488 --> 01:12:55,288 Well, was pretty close to MSRP, would say. 1112 01:12:55,288 --> 01:13:01,267 Probably like $50 more than MSRP for a 9070 XT. 1113 01:13:01,267 --> 01:13:07,158 Are we going to leave this report with you because 40 % more doesn't sound like that. 1114 01:13:07,487 --> 01:13:10,492 I'm just kidding. 1115 01:13:10,492 --> 01:13:18,327 the prices, the price of components have been going up, though, like price, GPUs are way more expensive than they used to be. 1116 01:13:18,327 --> 01:13:19,598 Yeah, like. 1117 01:13:19,665 --> 01:13:21,739 So it's not just like a Japan only issue. 1118 01:13:21,739 --> 01:13:24,734 It's a, it's just a worldwide issue. 1119 01:13:24,938 --> 01:13:32,525 Yeah, but given how Japan's birth rate has been declining, I think it's in the negatives right now. 1120 01:13:33,467 --> 01:13:39,392 Yes, and also the fact that mobile gaming is super duper dominant in Japan and has always been. 1121 01:13:39,472 --> 01:13:48,742 It's a recipe for disaster in the Japanese gaming industry, especially PC gaming industry, especially given how companies like Capcom have been reporting that PC is their main 1122 01:13:48,742 --> 01:13:49,702 platform. 1123 01:13:50,544 --> 01:13:59,785 Also, I wonder if it's because, well, maybe this has always been a thing, but they have a strong worker culture of like working too much, right? 1124 01:13:59,785 --> 01:14:01,297 Of overworking. 1125 01:14:01,297 --> 01:14:06,856 And I'm wondering if they're being worked even more to where they can't even do anything relaxing. 1126 01:14:06,856 --> 01:14:13,023 it's always it's already been an issue to the point where like you can't even like they can't even have kids It's not that they don't want kids. 1127 01:14:13,023 --> 01:14:19,270 It's that they don't like all the career men and women in Japan don't have time for kids 1128 01:14:19,495 --> 01:14:29,784 Yeah, same things happening in the West, like here in Europe and a lot of places where you see a birth rate decline. 1129 01:14:29,784 --> 01:14:32,197 Like if you don't have popular. 1130 01:14:32,197 --> 01:14:35,892 If you don't have stuff to help with that, let's just say. 1131 01:14:36,253 --> 01:14:44,319 And you're overworking, you're just going to have a decline, which sucks for PC gaming, I guess, because we're all going to die off or a dying breed. 1132 01:14:44,319 --> 01:14:46,161 oh 1133 01:14:46,161 --> 01:14:58,899 gamers will die with our generation I don't know but like the real gamers but like it's an issue yeah it is an issue here too because like they just did a report about how more 1134 01:14:58,899 --> 01:15:03,936 there are more homeowners like above their 70s and there are homeowners under 35 1135 01:15:04,303 --> 01:15:12,817 Yeah, I mean, in your 20s, I can get like not really owning a house or stuff like that, but once you get into your 30s, you should. 1136 01:15:13,078 --> 01:15:19,931 And on the West Coast, like we talked about, it is nice on the West Coast, but it is so expensive. 1137 01:15:19,944 --> 01:15:22,508 It is unreasonably expensive, yes. 1138 01:15:22,508 --> 01:15:27,996 I mean, thankfully that's the one good thing about living in the East Coast, not in New York. 1139 01:15:28,618 --> 01:15:31,062 Because housing is relatively affordable. 1140 01:15:31,062 --> 01:15:35,088 Unless you live by DC, that's super expensive as well. 1141 01:15:36,062 --> 01:15:43,302 Yeah, but that's, mean, when you get into the big cities, it does, but it's still not that much more expensive. 1142 01:15:43,302 --> 01:15:50,982 Like in some of those big cities where you have a lot more to do, it's the same price probably as in Utah, where I'm at, which is crazy. 1143 01:15:50,982 --> 01:15:52,982 It's really expensive here. 1144 01:15:53,062 --> 01:16:02,622 Well, it's dropping, but yeah, we don't need to, I could talk all day about housing prices because I'm looking to move, but yeah. 1145 01:16:03,422 --> 01:16:05,502 This, ugh. 1146 01:16:06,391 --> 01:16:14,465 I'd love Japan to embrace PC gaming more because I want to see more games come out of there that's PC oriented, but we'll see. 1147 01:16:14,465 --> 01:16:16,888 I would like to see Vanillaware on PC. 1148 01:16:16,888 --> 01:16:23,675 Also, one more thing too, we didn't talk about this last week, because we didn't have a show last week, but the price of the Nintendo Switch went up. 1149 01:16:24,077 --> 01:16:27,460 Like, original Nintendo Switch went up in price. 1150 01:16:27,501 --> 01:16:32,626 This is the- I think this is the first console generation where prices didn't go down. 1151 01:16:33,288 --> 01:16:33,659 Right? 1152 01:16:33,659 --> 01:16:36,516 Yeah, well, I have a feeling it's two things. 1153 01:16:36,516 --> 01:16:37,508 One, inflation. 1154 01:16:37,508 --> 01:16:40,043 Two, they know they can get away with it. 1155 01:16:40,707 --> 01:16:41,632 So they're... 1156 01:16:41,632 --> 01:16:49,640 are an undisciplined, like, they're an undisciplined, uh, demograph where they just, they just pay for whatever the fuck. 1157 01:16:50,267 --> 01:16:54,472 you think that's what it is, then why weren't they doing that a decade ago? 1158 01:16:55,168 --> 01:16:57,142 Cause they didn't have this- what do mean a decade ago? 1159 01:16:57,142 --> 01:16:58,291 They weren't doing it back then either. 1160 01:16:58,291 --> 01:16:58,883 Remember? 1161 01:16:58,883 --> 01:16:59,293 Remember? 1162 01:16:59,293 --> 01:17:04,753 They didn't drop the price of like the 360 at one point. 1163 01:17:04,753 --> 01:17:05,797 I thought they did. 1164 01:17:05,797 --> 01:17:10,881 yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought you were talking about they were more disciplined back then. 1165 01:17:10,881 --> 01:17:13,233 Gamers definitely were not more disciplined back then. 1166 01:17:13,233 --> 01:17:14,884 They were just as bad. 1167 01:17:15,425 --> 01:17:22,731 Every time we talk about gamers organizing boycotts or some bullshit like that, it never works out. 1168 01:17:22,731 --> 01:17:26,695 um Nothing. 1169 01:17:27,176 --> 01:17:31,939 But specifically for gamers, the picture that always comes to mind is that one... 1170 01:17:32,822 --> 01:17:35,454 group, Boycott Modern Warfare 2. 1171 01:17:35,454 --> 01:17:40,757 It's a list of users in that group and they're all playing Modern Warfare 2 on Steam. 1172 01:17:43,023 --> 01:17:53,590 Here's my thing if you don't like a game don't play it I don't I don't know I have a hard time like Boycotting like I kind of want to boycott EA cuz I'm like I want dead space to 1173 01:17:53,590 --> 01:18:06,127 to be remade but at the same time I Want to support devs and so if a good game comes out and if it's EA I'm probably would still buy it if it for the devs sake if I like the devs 1174 01:18:06,337 --> 01:18:08,520 Yeah, that makes sense. 1175 01:18:08,702 --> 01:18:13,651 But if you really want to kill a game, don't just not buy it. 1176 01:18:13,651 --> 01:18:15,774 Also just stop talking about it too. 1177 01:18:16,156 --> 01:18:18,770 Cause, you you're giving it attention. 1178 01:18:19,151 --> 01:18:21,710 Attention does drive a lot. 1179 01:18:21,710 --> 01:18:24,778 We're in an attention economy essentially, so 1180 01:18:24,778 --> 01:18:31,121 Yeah, like if you wanted to boycott, let's say, what was the last big game that needed to be boycotted? 1181 01:18:31,182 --> 01:18:32,946 Hogwarts Legacy. 1182 01:18:32,946 --> 01:18:35,571 There was a boycott surrounding that because of JK. 1183 01:18:35,571 --> 01:18:43,858 was, but it was so sad because like the developers, like a bunch of them were actually in the LGBTQ community. 1184 01:18:43,858 --> 01:18:46,370 Cause they're here in Utah actually. 1185 01:18:46,370 --> 01:19:01,922 The developers that made that game are in Utah and they actually don't have the same views as the creator of of whatever, yeah, of Harry Potter universe. 1186 01:19:01,922 --> 01:19:05,265 She is a hack and it's sad because 1187 01:19:05,551 --> 01:19:08,162 you boycott that those developers suffer. 1188 01:19:08,422 --> 01:19:13,885 I think the game was really good for the I never finished it, but my wife finished a few times. 1189 01:19:13,885 --> 01:19:19,548 But then you so you hurt them, but you don't give her money, but she's gonna have money. 1190 01:19:19,548 --> 01:19:21,059 don't you know, boycotts are a weird thing. 1191 01:19:21,059 --> 01:19:26,021 Yeah, I don't know what to say. 1192 01:19:26,021 --> 01:19:30,541 I think the only way to really stop some things is through laws and and 1193 01:19:30,688 --> 01:19:36,917 Well, what I'm also saying is if you really want to boycott something just stop talking about it Yeah 1194 01:19:36,917 --> 01:19:38,808 gonna be, it's really hard to though. 1195 01:19:39,389 --> 01:19:41,850 Why you have to some regulations to help with it. 1196 01:19:42,551 --> 01:19:51,247 Cause you couldn't stop talking about, let's say gambling in like, let's say a Fortnite type of the game or something, know, or gotchas or stuff like that where they get, it 1197 01:19:51,247 --> 01:19:52,938 could be predatory for kids. 1198 01:19:53,639 --> 01:19:56,831 Even if you stop that kind of, the kids are gonna keep on doing it. 1199 01:19:56,831 --> 01:20:02,905 Like especially kids are not disciplined because they're just, their brains are function, are developing. 1200 01:20:02,905 --> 01:20:04,357 So you gotta regulate it. 1201 01:20:04,357 --> 01:20:05,869 That's fair, man. 1202 01:20:06,067 --> 01:20:11,106 I know we don't like regulations at times, but I think that's the only way to get through some of this stuff. 1203 01:20:11,106 --> 01:20:17,748 And I think to help with like games dying off, you know, stop killing games kind of movement, you got to regulate it. 1204 01:20:17,748 --> 01:20:18,948 It's the only way to really fix it. 1205 01:20:18,948 --> 01:20:26,891 ah Companies do not have your best interests, they have their best interests. 1206 01:20:27,871 --> 01:20:39,635 well, with that being said, I'm really curious what YouTube's best interests are for this uh AI age verification system that they're putting in. 1207 01:20:39,675 --> 01:20:40,155 sorry. 1208 01:20:40,155 --> 01:20:43,238 um 1209 01:20:43,238 --> 01:20:52,531 So YouTube launches AI age verification in the US, which will automatically restrict users estimated to be 18 or under 18 years old. 1210 01:20:52,531 --> 01:20:56,130 YouTube is launching an AI age verification. 1211 01:20:56,130 --> 01:21:05,874 Sorry, I'm continuing with the explanation, but regardless of the birthday they've entered, the system uses machine learning to analyze account activity and longevity to 1212 01:21:05,874 --> 01:21:06,815 estimate age. 1213 01:21:06,815 --> 01:21:11,516 Users identified as under 18 will have teen accounts protections. 1214 01:21:11,516 --> 01:21:20,501 automatically enabled, including non-personalized ads, digital wellbeing tools, limited content recommendations, and blocks on age-restricted videos. 1215 01:21:20,501 --> 01:21:28,025 If users believe the AI estimation is incorrect, they can verify their age using government ID, a selfie, or, I love the selfie thing, a credit card. 1216 01:21:28,025 --> 01:21:40,213 YouTube says this change may impact creators through shifts in audience, demographics, and potentially uh decreased ad revenue as teen viewers only receive non-personalized ads. 1217 01:21:40,213 --> 01:21:47,745 I will say, and this is a hot take and please correct me if you think I'm wrong in the comments, this is gonna be a very spicy take a little bit. 1218 01:21:48,368 --> 01:21:50,282 I kind of like this. 1219 01:21:50,282 --> 01:21:54,402 As my kid likes to get on, but like I said, my kid likes to get onto my YouTube. 1220 01:21:54,402 --> 01:22:00,102 Maybe I didn't mention it, maybe I mentioned it off the podcast episode, but my kid will get onto my phone or something like that. 1221 01:22:00,102 --> 01:22:03,622 I'll let him get on YouTube Kids every once in while. 1222 01:22:03,722 --> 01:22:10,582 They like to switch over to my YouTube and get onto shorts, which I don't like them getting on the shorts, because you know. 1223 01:22:10,582 --> 01:22:15,553 But because of that, it royally fucks up my algorithm sometimes. 1224 01:22:15,553 --> 01:22:19,836 That being said, I'm not against putting in my government ID if I have to for this. 1225 01:22:19,937 --> 01:22:24,179 I'm for it, but I don't think it should be required of everyone. 1226 01:22:24,962 --> 01:22:27,344 So I don't know. 1227 01:22:27,344 --> 01:22:29,215 What do you think I take on this whole thing? 1228 01:22:29,950 --> 01:22:35,584 So it really depends on how uh this is implemented, because this was actually implemented three days ago. 1229 01:22:35,584 --> 01:22:40,778 uh So we haven't seen the effects of it just yet. 1230 01:22:40,778 --> 01:22:50,294 I'm sure we'll be seeing more of it next month, when it's had some time to marinate and get people's current viewing, yada yada yada, data, whatnot. 1231 01:22:50,294 --> 01:22:54,177 uh What I'm concerned about, though, is... 1232 01:22:55,378 --> 01:22:58,460 This is the government ID, because, I mean... 1233 01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:09,392 company like you can't really trust a lot of third-party companies with when I when I say third-party companies I mean anyone that's not the government with your ID like I 1234 01:23:09,392 --> 01:23:14,526 understand it for certain things like you know buying alcohol and stuff but like 1235 01:23:14,705 --> 01:23:17,285 there's verification services to handle this. 1236 01:23:17,285 --> 01:23:22,285 So if they use the right third party verification system, that's what matters. 1237 01:23:22,285 --> 01:23:24,865 And I don't know what YouTube does. 1238 01:23:24,985 --> 01:23:28,285 And not everyone knows the trust or not trust. 1239 01:23:28,385 --> 01:23:32,785 I do think that like having a selfie or a credit card does help, but the selfie is stupid. 1240 01:23:32,785 --> 01:23:34,385 That one's not gonna work. 1241 01:23:34,605 --> 01:23:35,817 People are gonna buy. 1242 01:23:36,103 --> 01:23:37,675 people have bypassed it too. 1243 01:23:37,675 --> 01:23:43,176 In the UK, people have been using uh Death Stranding uh to get basic bypass. 1244 01:23:43,176 --> 01:23:45,798 They've been using Norman Reedus's face. 1245 01:23:45,798 --> 01:23:46,472 a different one. 1246 01:23:46,472 --> 01:23:47,948 That's not in YouTube, right? 1247 01:23:48,366 --> 01:23:49,902 I don't think so. 1248 01:23:49,902 --> 01:23:51,813 which is gonna be a different algorithm. 1249 01:23:51,813 --> 01:23:56,129 they could have, like YouTube could have it already trained to recognize that. 1250 01:23:56,129 --> 01:24:06,482 And if uh it's any technique that they use multiple times that they can verify, like this is the same person for a hundred different accounts, they can block that person. 1251 01:24:06,482 --> 01:24:10,911 Like it's really easy with machine learning to fix that if they really care to, we'll see. 1252 01:24:10,911 --> 01:24:17,568 so Norman Reedus can't use YouTube anymore because his face has been on too many accounts. 1253 01:24:17,568 --> 01:24:18,989 That'd be hilarious. 1254 01:24:19,351 --> 01:24:22,804 Here's the thing, if he uses a government ID or credit card, he could. 1255 01:24:22,804 --> 01:24:23,704 Yeah. 1256 01:24:24,947 --> 01:24:29,307 I'm just saying I'm not too big on the whole government ID thing for YouTube. 1257 01:24:29,307 --> 01:24:33,525 But they gave us two other options, which I think is actually very fair. 1258 01:24:34,087 --> 01:24:37,084 It's much better than other options I've seen from some other places. 1259 01:24:37,084 --> 01:24:42,894 It really depends on how this is implemented, because none of us have actually seen this uh need to verify on YouTube. 1260 01:24:42,894 --> 01:24:44,277 Not yet, at least. 1261 01:24:44,277 --> 01:24:49,797 I've seen a lot of people wanting to boycott YouTube, which I'm just, there's reasons to boycott YouTube. 1262 01:24:49,797 --> 01:24:53,837 I don't know if this is one that I heal, I would die on. 1263 01:24:54,437 --> 01:25:05,997 have a kid, or I have two kids and I don't want them to get into, there's a lot of threads you get into YouTube and get into a lot of like really sketchy content that teaches you 1264 01:25:05,997 --> 01:25:07,477 weird, bizarre stuff. 1265 01:25:08,117 --> 01:25:09,417 I prefer them not to get into that. 1266 01:25:09,417 --> 01:25:12,953 And I know that, and I can't watch them when they're, let's say when they get, 1267 01:25:12,953 --> 01:25:14,079 in their teens. 1268 01:25:14,079 --> 01:25:17,032 I can't watch them when they get away from the house if they're going to go to other people's houses. 1269 01:25:17,032 --> 01:25:18,318 So I don't know. 1270 01:25:18,318 --> 01:25:29,362 No, it's all good, I mean, at this point though, might have to be- it might get to the point where you may have to make your kids, like, separate, like, kids YouTube account. 1271 01:25:30,103 --> 01:25:31,064 Yeah. 1272 01:25:32,564 --> 01:25:35,625 but they're not 13 yet and they have laws in it for 13. 1273 01:25:35,625 --> 01:25:38,187 Or not rules and stuff. 1274 01:25:38,187 --> 01:25:42,609 I can, I'm honestly because of this and how well it does, I might just do that. 1275 01:25:42,609 --> 01:25:46,821 But at the same time, because there's so much educational stuff that my kids will watch. 1276 01:25:46,821 --> 01:25:49,053 They love the educational stuff on YouTube. 1277 01:25:49,053 --> 01:25:57,617 But then they'll get recommended something that then, and a lot of YouTubers have done this, where they will. 1278 01:25:58,369 --> 01:26:05,060 they'll start watching stuff from a fresh new algorithm and then see just them clicking like the next thing that launches, right? 1279 01:26:05,060 --> 01:26:08,892 Like have it on auto play so it plays the next video that's recommended. 1280 01:26:08,892 --> 01:26:14,793 And within let's say 20 videos, they're into some weird shit, you know? 1281 01:26:15,394 --> 01:26:22,876 And so it's been verified time and time again that at least for me, YouTube is listening somewhat. 1282 01:26:22,876 --> 01:26:28,417 Cause I think this is important for teens to be able to have like digital wellbeing tools. 1283 01:26:28,501 --> 01:26:29,982 limited content recommendations. 1284 01:26:29,982 --> 01:26:32,863 I actually think this is important for kids, for feeds. 1285 01:26:33,003 --> 01:26:42,887 But when it comes to limiting the internet itself, I don't know if I, you I don't think I agree with that, but these companies like Facebook and YouTube, the feeds are designed 1286 01:26:42,887 --> 01:26:44,088 with dark patterns. 1287 01:26:44,088 --> 01:26:46,700 I don't want them to be using dark patterns on my kids. 1288 01:26:46,700 --> 01:26:48,823 I don't know what to make of this situation, man. 1289 01:26:48,823 --> 01:26:51,908 I have to see this happen more in action. 1290 01:26:51,908 --> 01:26:58,057 You do have some good points about, you know, your kids and whatnot, and I mean, it is fair this is entirely for the kids themselves. 1291 01:26:58,057 --> 01:27:02,635 I just don't like the idea of having- of this being foisted on all of us. 1292 01:27:02,635 --> 01:27:04,526 I just don't know how else you're gonna be able to do it. 1293 01:27:04,526 --> 01:27:07,247 especially depends on what kind of stuff you're watching. 1294 01:27:07,247 --> 01:27:19,993 It's understandable if you're watching stuff that's explicitly marked as YouTube kids, but what if you're watching stuff that kids are interested in, but you kind of are too, like 1295 01:27:19,993 --> 01:27:21,593 video game videos? 1296 01:27:22,207 --> 01:27:24,638 The two game videos are not gonna be like that. 1297 01:27:24,638 --> 01:27:29,479 I think it's gonna come down to, uh they already have been flagging all our accounts. 1298 01:27:29,479 --> 01:27:32,493 So if we swear, probably won't get recommended to kids. 1299 01:27:32,493 --> 01:27:35,375 This podcast will probably not get recommended to kids. 1300 01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:36,332 And I'm sure. 1301 01:27:36,332 --> 01:27:36,732 What? 1302 01:27:36,732 --> 01:27:38,443 No, kids gotta learn about this stuff someday. 1303 01:27:38,443 --> 01:27:42,095 I'm just kidding. 1304 01:27:43,756 --> 01:27:53,251 It will be interesting to see how this all goes because there's a lot of videos that get past the age gating that should be age gated. 1305 01:27:53,251 --> 01:27:54,471 Because they already have a system. 1306 01:27:54,471 --> 01:28:01,325 Here's the thing, they already have a system to where if you upload the video, you can mark it as for kids or not. 1307 01:28:01,325 --> 01:28:05,471 And some people will mark it for kids when it's not supposed to be and some of them get away with it. 1308 01:28:05,471 --> 01:28:10,174 ah I'm curious to see if this will help it a little bit more. 1309 01:28:10,275 --> 01:28:20,096 And I think just to have the inconvenience of putting in your credit card or something like that is not that big of an inconvenience to help with, I think, protect kids, but I 1310 01:28:20,096 --> 01:28:20,643 could be wrong. 1311 01:28:20,643 --> 01:28:27,037 am curious what people are gonna, sure, tell me in the comments ah why I'm wrong, but I'm curious. 1312 01:28:27,438 --> 01:28:30,399 Yeah, I think this is a wait and see sort of situation. 1313 01:28:30,399 --> 01:28:32,560 Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it goes. 1314 01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:38,321 um I know that, yeah, just to kind of end on it. 1315 01:28:40,362 --> 01:28:48,001 We want something to fix with the dark pattern, so we're not so addicted to stuff, but we also don't want to have the companies implement it. 1316 01:28:48,001 --> 01:28:52,565 And it's just, I think it comes down to, I just don't know if people know what they really want. 1317 01:28:52,565 --> 01:28:59,297 Because you have people that are gonna scream about it, and you have people that aren't gonna, know, and it's always the, there's an exception to stuff, and I know. 1318 01:28:59,425 --> 01:29:03,758 I mentioned this with the payment processors, but that's an entity. 1319 01:29:04,159 --> 01:29:07,181 maybe this could be, YouTube is the place to go for videos. 1320 01:29:07,181 --> 01:29:12,465 uh There's times and decisions they've made that I have not liked. 1321 01:29:12,466 --> 01:29:17,150 And this is definitely on the more mild side of, we'll see where it goes. 1322 01:29:17,150 --> 01:29:21,874 At least they give us three options, ah which is nice. 1323 01:29:21,874 --> 01:29:27,478 ah If Gardner was here, I know exactly what he would say. 1324 01:29:27,478 --> 01:29:28,609 I'd help him out. 1325 01:29:28,727 --> 01:29:34,526 He would, you would need to go down to a government office, get a license to use the internet to be able to do this. 1326 01:29:34,526 --> 01:29:34,992 So. 1327 01:29:34,992 --> 01:29:37,536 that would be so funny if that were the case. 1328 01:29:37,536 --> 01:29:50,436 That would be to be fair some parts of the internet I I think but then again, I think people that own a gun should be required to take extensive lessons and also be screened 1329 01:29:50,436 --> 01:29:52,928 mentally so Yeah 1330 01:29:52,928 --> 01:29:53,243 Garner 1331 01:29:53,243 --> 01:29:54,003 now we can go on to that. 1332 01:29:54,003 --> 01:29:54,863 We're almost done. 1333 01:29:54,863 --> 01:29:58,434 We have a very short day today, partially because Gartner's not here. 1334 01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:04,665 Just to mention real quick before we get into the last topic, because this last topic is still kind of interesting. 1335 01:30:04,665 --> 01:30:07,645 Legion Go S drops to $499. 1336 01:30:07,745 --> 01:30:10,605 like, I think, yeah, it's down from $729. 1337 01:30:10,605 --> 01:30:12,340 I don't know if it's on sale or not. 1338 01:30:12,444 --> 01:30:15,175 but it's, believe, about $499. 1339 01:30:15,175 --> 01:30:18,874 And is that like the new, like, is that the go-to Steam Deck? 1340 01:30:18,875 --> 01:30:33,835 So for a one terabyte, 32 gigabytes shared memory, Z2 Go APU device that can run both SteamOS and Windows 11, is that like the new go-to for the Steam Deck instead of, you 1341 01:30:33,835 --> 01:30:35,775 know, instead of just buying a Steam Deck? 1342 01:30:36,138 --> 01:30:44,658 That's a difficult one because it's a good price and the screen, it's an upgrade from the base Steam Deck, we'll just say that. 1343 01:30:44,898 --> 01:30:49,258 As for this, it really depends on how much you value the need for a no-led. 1344 01:30:50,183 --> 01:30:53,358 OLED's nice, but I'd much rather have performance. 1345 01:30:53,358 --> 01:30:56,418 Yeah, the performance, is it just for the Z2 Go? 1346 01:30:56,418 --> 01:30:58,310 You said it was for the Z2 Go, right? 1347 01:30:58,353 --> 01:30:59,269 Yes, for the Z2 Go. 1348 01:30:59,269 --> 01:31:00,030 Yeah. 1349 01:31:02,414 --> 01:31:03,614 Yeah. 1350 01:31:03,934 --> 01:31:05,094 I don't know. 1351 01:31:05,503 --> 01:31:08,583 Don't you have, you have the Legion Go S, don't you? 1352 01:31:08,903 --> 01:31:09,562 Yeah. 1353 01:31:09,562 --> 01:31:11,603 So you'd like, I don't have one. 1354 01:31:11,603 --> 01:31:15,794 Cause I am a lazy mother effer that never contacted them. 1355 01:31:15,794 --> 01:31:21,394 But would you, if you were to buy a device right now, which would you choose? 1356 01:31:21,814 --> 01:31:23,394 The Steam Deck OLED or this? 1357 01:31:23,394 --> 01:31:26,511 If they were both priced at like $500, let's say. 1358 01:31:26,511 --> 01:31:28,685 Damn it, that's a hard question. 1359 01:31:29,488 --> 01:31:37,034 I think I would go with this over the Steam Deck, to be honest, but honestly the trackpads have been so good it's kind of hard to give 1360 01:31:37,034 --> 01:31:38,195 Hmm. 1361 01:31:38,195 --> 01:31:41,289 I could easily go to the track pads, even though I do like them. 1362 01:31:41,289 --> 01:31:43,300 I do prefer my device to have them. 1363 01:31:43,421 --> 01:31:48,566 But right now I'm thirsting for that uh little bit extra power. 1364 01:31:49,316 --> 01:31:57,393 Yeah, I mean, that's totally valid, It's a hard question to answer. 1365 01:31:57,494 --> 01:32:01,237 One with no perfect answers, but I mean... 1366 01:32:02,199 --> 01:32:04,751 But they both do run Steam OS. 1367 01:32:04,751 --> 01:32:09,285 A lot of the stuff that makes a Steam Deck great is there, except for the trackpads. 1368 01:32:10,967 --> 01:32:14,439 True, And it really depends. 1369 01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:20,203 Do you want something that's first party, that's always going to be uh updated? 1370 01:32:20,203 --> 01:32:25,797 Because Valve's doing a really good job of continually updating the Steam Deck. 1371 01:32:26,397 --> 01:32:32,441 And then it's very consistent with its performance, what you can expect it to perform with games. 1372 01:32:32,742 --> 01:32:35,153 And it's got the trackpads and everything. 1373 01:32:35,153 --> 01:32:38,445 And it's got good support and everything. 1374 01:32:38,976 --> 01:32:47,076 do you go with something like the Lenovo Legion Go S, which I've heard that they're like, firmware updates are a little scant. 1375 01:32:47,717 --> 01:32:51,882 And so it really comes down to that. 1376 01:32:51,936 --> 01:32:53,268 I don't know for certain. 1377 01:32:53,268 --> 01:32:59,526 you know what Valve could do to try to allay all these concerns? 1378 01:33:00,088 --> 01:33:01,301 Steam Deck 2. 1379 01:33:02,170 --> 01:33:04,291 I don't think Valve cares. 1380 01:33:04,392 --> 01:33:09,675 They specifically worked with Lenovo to make sure SteamOS worked with it. 1381 01:33:09,675 --> 01:33:13,217 um this is a win-win for them. 1382 01:33:13,438 --> 01:33:25,656 I just think, especially in today's economy where people can't even buy games, Gen Z, like our next topic, Gen Z is cutting back on video game purchases, like really cutting back, 1383 01:33:25,656 --> 01:33:28,788 according to this uh Reddit post. 1384 01:33:28,788 --> 01:33:31,790 So they're only gonna be able to buy 1385 01:33:31,932 --> 01:33:33,157 one of these devices. 1386 01:33:33,157 --> 01:33:35,805 It's actually an article on Vice, if you open it up. 1387 01:33:36,286 --> 01:33:38,196 Well, you should have shared that. 1388 01:33:38,196 --> 01:33:39,936 There you go. 1389 01:33:40,416 --> 01:33:41,107 So. 1390 01:33:41,107 --> 01:33:47,847 I guess probably Legion goes s it's like if you could only buy one device every few years It'd probably be the one that you can get that's a little more powerful. 1391 01:33:47,847 --> 01:33:50,656 They'll just last a little longer, right? 1392 01:33:50,656 --> 01:33:53,070 That's what I'm assuming but 1393 01:33:53,070 --> 01:33:55,754 if you can even afford a console at this point. 1394 01:33:55,754 --> 01:33:57,944 True, true. 1395 01:33:57,944 --> 01:33:59,250 what's this all about? 1396 01:33:59,250 --> 01:34:01,417 you read, have looked into this? 1397 01:34:01,657 --> 01:34:07,217 Um, well, let me pull up the article and then I'll point out some of the more important aspects of it. 1398 01:34:07,217 --> 01:34:10,321 Uh, so I mean... 1399 01:34:10,321 --> 01:34:12,032 Sorry, let me pull it up real quick. 1400 01:34:12,032 --> 01:34:14,732 So it's dropped by nearly a quarter. 1401 01:34:15,392 --> 01:34:16,372 Spending. 1402 01:34:17,232 --> 01:34:22,552 From ages 18 to 24, it's dropped by 13 % from January to April. 1403 01:34:23,232 --> 01:34:29,232 And in particular, young Zoomers were spending nearly 25 % less per week on video games than in 2024. 1404 01:34:29,972 --> 01:34:36,338 Purchase of accessories, small appliances, technology, and quote unquote, total general merchandise has... 1405 01:34:36,338 --> 01:34:37,288 all dropped with adults. 1406 01:34:37,288 --> 01:34:42,190 Video games took the lead in things that dropped in purchases. 1407 01:34:43,150 --> 01:34:48,371 So yeah, it's not just video games, but it's mostly video games. 1408 01:34:49,272 --> 01:34:55,453 It's like the least important thing you could buy at this point. 1409 01:34:55,453 --> 01:35:04,327 Rachel Wolf mentions difficult job market, student loans, high credit card delinquency rate among those between 18 and 29. 1410 01:35:04,327 --> 01:35:13,334 Yeah, I mean, here's like comparison chart from Matt Piscata Piscatello. 1411 01:35:14,395 --> 01:35:18,887 Video game span among games span among 18 to 24 is down sharply. 1412 01:35:18,887 --> 01:35:23,222 But then it just like you can see like it's the graph really does help. 1413 01:35:23,222 --> 01:35:24,914 It is other age groups. 1414 01:35:24,914 --> 01:35:26,505 It's only declined a little bit. 1415 01:35:26,505 --> 01:35:34,451 It's only like I'm wondering if this is partially to do with like affordability, but also a lot more gamers are doing 1416 01:35:34,672 --> 01:35:39,375 mobile games and I'm wondering if they're getting away with not having to spend quite as much on some of the mobile games. 1417 01:35:39,816 --> 01:35:43,499 Or if that's even calculated into this, like some gacha games are. 1418 01:35:43,759 --> 01:35:46,043 That's a good question, honestly. 1419 01:35:46,239 --> 01:35:51,948 No, think video games would take into account, like, video game spending, like microtransactions. 1420 01:35:51,953 --> 01:35:54,471 It would, but it depends on how they do the study. 1421 01:35:54,615 --> 01:35:56,703 Without knowing the details. 1422 01:35:56,703 --> 01:35:57,678 uh 1423 01:35:57,678 --> 01:35:59,685 there's a Wall Street Journal article right there. 1424 01:35:59,685 --> 01:36:02,433 Let me click on that and see what they're talking about. 1425 01:36:02,472 --> 01:36:16,182 Yeah, but I mean if we look at the graph though it shows everything's down so Yeah, I'm Really feel bad for Gen Z and Gen alpha like they're kind of right now if we don't fix 1426 01:36:16,182 --> 01:36:18,573 some of the economic stuff they're fucked 1427 01:36:19,296 --> 01:36:21,579 Dude, they're fucked. 1428 01:36:23,043 --> 01:36:28,050 I mean, we're just spending less- I mean, Gen Z is just spending less in general. 1429 01:36:28,713 --> 01:36:30,786 And, I don't know. 1430 01:36:30,786 --> 01:36:32,530 I don't know what to make of this bullshit, 1431 01:36:32,530 --> 01:36:33,653 Do see how much stuff costs? 1432 01:36:33,653 --> 01:36:35,681 Like they're probably just buying groceries with it. 1433 01:36:35,681 --> 01:36:46,941 Yeah, I mean, if you had to choose between food and video games, most gamers claim that they would just not pay their rent and stuff, but like, would they really not pay their 1434 01:36:46,941 --> 01:36:47,301 rent? 1435 01:36:47,301 --> 01:36:48,258 No, of course not. 1436 01:36:48,258 --> 01:36:51,785 Well, if you don't pay a rent and you're evicted, then you can't play your video games anywhere. 1437 01:36:51,785 --> 01:36:57,024 Yeah, or some would say they'd rather play buy more video games and food, but obviously that's not the case. 1438 01:36:57,510 --> 01:37:00,392 You know, yeah, it's true. 1439 01:37:00,392 --> 01:37:01,572 You know what? 1440 01:37:01,973 --> 01:37:08,776 I'm gonna start a company where we're gonna sell uh pods where you can live out of the pod. 1441 01:37:09,056 --> 01:37:18,037 No, that's, did you, man, next time I go to Japan, I wanna go and sleep in one of the pod hotels ah once. 1442 01:37:18,037 --> 01:37:19,625 I mean I didn't do that. 1443 01:37:19,737 --> 01:37:21,370 It does sound pretty cool though. 1444 01:37:21,370 --> 01:37:27,876 It sounds like it'd be interesting because some of them are, I'd do a more high tech one because they're kind of interesting. 1445 01:37:27,957 --> 01:37:29,719 But what an existence that would be. 1446 01:37:29,719 --> 01:37:30,760 That'd be so dystopian. 1447 01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:32,181 Like not, it's not a good thing. 1448 01:37:32,181 --> 01:37:37,551 You could live in one of those manga cafes that they have in Japan. 1449 01:37:38,076 --> 01:37:39,036 Can you? 1450 01:37:39,199 --> 01:37:43,006 No, I mean, technically no. 1451 01:37:43,006 --> 01:37:43,757 see what you're 1452 01:37:43,757 --> 01:37:45,447 Yeah, so. 1453 01:37:46,833 --> 01:37:54,696 Let's see, does this, so prestigious apparel, sports equipment for furniture, total general, merchandise. 1454 01:37:54,957 --> 01:37:57,998 So this doesn't take into account like necessities though. 1455 01:37:58,658 --> 01:38:00,592 So I'm kind of curious about that. 1456 01:38:00,592 --> 01:38:02,640 If it's all going to necessities. 1457 01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,722 No, that's my, well, you can spend less on necessities. 1458 01:38:06,722 --> 01:38:12,375 That means you're going without, but I'm curious how it compares to necessities if it's all going to necessities. 1459 01:38:12,375 --> 01:38:14,936 Well, let's see what the bottom paragraph says. 1460 01:38:15,516 --> 01:38:18,157 It's not a promising sign for the industry's future. 1461 01:38:18,157 --> 01:38:19,958 Oh, right. 1462 01:38:19,958 --> 01:38:23,099 This is definitely going to harm the industry. 1463 01:38:23,099 --> 01:38:27,961 I wonder what's going to happen to the games industry when people spend less on video games. 1464 01:38:28,001 --> 01:38:32,194 It's not a huge crash like what happened with the Qatari back in the 80s or whatever. 1465 01:38:32,194 --> 01:38:37,124 I can see this having a very negative impact on the big video games. 1466 01:38:37,124 --> 01:38:47,857 It's gonna have, yeah, once millennials age out a little bit more of some of the, because like for me, I can't play online games as much, I just don't have the time for it. 1467 01:38:47,857 --> 01:38:50,318 Plus I also have a lot of other stuff I like to do too. 1468 01:38:50,318 --> 01:39:00,751 Like I cannot play games that are consistently online that where I have to buy into it and be like, Destiny 2 is one where I couldn't play it as much as a lot of my friends at the 1469 01:39:00,751 --> 01:39:06,546 time because I was going through college and trying to wrap all that up. 1470 01:39:06,546 --> 01:39:09,526 And I just didn't have time to keep up with it every day. 1471 01:39:09,526 --> 01:39:13,066 And so I missed out on it and I just had to drop it. 1472 01:39:13,066 --> 01:39:16,237 And since then, I just don't really play those types of games too often. 1473 01:39:16,237 --> 01:39:17,377 How it is. 1474 01:39:17,377 --> 01:39:24,217 so as more and more millennials get older, have more families, it's going to end if they do, if they can. 1475 01:39:24,710 --> 01:39:29,277 This is a, let's just say this is a dire warning for the economy period. 1476 01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:36,279 And we'll see how much, I think indie companies will do better, much better than AAA. 1477 01:39:36,883 --> 01:39:40,693 Yeah, because you don't have to spend nearly as much on good hardware. 1478 01:39:40,693 --> 01:39:43,559 And the games themselves tend to be a lot cheaper, too. 1479 01:39:44,347 --> 01:39:46,680 Yep, they tend to be interesting. 1480 01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:50,835 They tend to be created by a younger generation so 1481 01:39:50,981 --> 01:39:53,945 I mean, there isn't much more to say besides the economy's fucked. 1482 01:39:53,945 --> 01:39:56,059 We'll see, hopefully it recovers. 1483 01:39:56,059 --> 01:39:58,503 I'm not very hopeful at this point, but you know, we'll see. 1484 01:39:58,503 --> 01:40:05,245 ah Yeah, any last things you want to mention, Hi Tech? 1485 01:40:05,587 --> 01:40:12,903 I'll be talking more about the Japan trip at a future date once I really organize everything and all the footage and things I've done. 1486 01:40:13,645 --> 01:40:22,915 I don't know if we should do that as like an extra episode, a Patreon kind of thing, where you go do a slideshow and talk about it more with Gardner here. 1487 01:40:22,915 --> 01:40:25,199 I definitely think you should wait until Gardner is here though. 1488 01:40:25,199 --> 01:40:25,971 I think that'd be fun. 1489 01:40:25,971 --> 01:40:27,115 Yeah, I think I will. 1490 01:40:27,115 --> 01:40:34,032 have a lot of pictures that were taken of interesting places and things I saw. 1491 01:40:34,032 --> 01:40:35,827 enjoy it, so. 1492 01:40:36,402 --> 01:40:36,942 Yes. 1493 01:40:36,942 --> 01:40:37,402 uh 1494 01:40:37,402 --> 01:40:39,914 Okay, with that being said, that's it. 1495 01:40:39,914 --> 01:40:40,735 That's all the news. 1496 01:40:40,735 --> 01:40:42,016 I'm sure there's a couple things we missed. 1497 01:40:42,016 --> 01:40:44,718 If there are, just throw them in the comments, guys. 1498 01:40:44,718 --> 01:40:47,400 Make sure to comment, know, like, subscribe, do all that stuff. 1499 01:40:47,400 --> 01:40:53,986 If you're on uh one of the many podcasting platforms that we host off, that we host to, host from, I don't know. 1500 01:40:53,986 --> 01:40:57,498 But ah Apple Podcasts is one of them. 1501 01:40:57,498 --> 01:40:58,469 Spotify's another. 1502 01:40:58,469 --> 01:41:07,048 Make sure to subscribe there or follow or whatever is the button that you need to do to help grow this thing and help us out. 1503 01:41:07,048 --> 01:41:08,872 But with that being said, that's it. 1504 01:41:08,872 --> 01:41:09,703 This is the episode. 1505 01:41:09,703 --> 01:41:12,839 Hopefully Gardner can make it next week, his internet is recovered. 1506 01:41:12,839 --> 01:41:18,176 Sounds like a really bad outage where he's at, it's not good. 1507 01:41:18,176 --> 01:41:21,530 Yeah, hopefully he'll join us soon. 1508 01:41:21,530 --> 01:41:23,202 Anyways, have a good day. 1509 01:41:23,528 --> 01:41:24,929 Thanks guys, peace out, later. 1510 01:41:24,929 --> 01:41:26,289 Alright, peace out.