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"Like every time you suggest something, that's what it's called. Yeah. That reminds me of the, uh, the guy who played saber tooth in the Wolverines movie. His name, right? Christoph Waltz. Yeah. There's the movie that about the agent who fixes everything for the origins, I believe. Yeah. What, what's the show though? He went for like six seasons on HBO. Yeah. Yeah. Where he's like a Hollywood, he's a fixer, right? Yeah. The episodes I saw looked really, really good, but, uh, or I liked the two episodes I saw, but I just haven't, uh, returned to it. Peacemaker was fantastic. I don't know that one. Leave Schreiber. Somebody says he's Austrian. Who are they talking about? The little guy from dude, did you guys ever watch driving in cars, getting coffee or getting coffee and cars with comedians or whatever? Some episodes are hilarious and some are not. And the one with him is one of the worst episodes cause he's just not, he is very meticulous in real life. And it was a uncomfortable episode with him Christopher watch. You guys should watch it just for the fun of it. Uh, T one zero L one $5 super chat. The wire is a masterpiece for how accurate realistic portrays everything. Pretty sure a lot of actors really live that life. Let me tell you guys something that blows me away in the expanse. Who's the most bad-ass person in real life in the expanse. Anybody know? Definitely that, um, the, the, the woman, the politician with the deep voice, Holden, the captain, the doughy eyed, big lipped forearm talking captain is a, was a legit bad-ass. And I did not know this. I was watching a behind the scenes with Amos and the director of the show. They were saying that there's a couple episodes where Holden actually wax somebody cause an extra is pushing him. And they didn't know that Holden, I guess is sort of quick in real life to anger. And he's had a really hard young life, which I was not aware of. So I went and watched the episode, this Mars extra. They probably didn't warn him pushes Holden. And he looked in the episode it's filmed. You see him go like mad, but they kept filming and he's supposed to push him again and he gets ready to push Holden. And that dude fucking real life UFC elbows in the guy's heart as he can and drops the dude, or at least pushes him way back. And I would, I never picked up on it in the episodes. And then the guy who plays, um, who plays Amos was saying that in real life, he like lived a gangster life when he was younger, like on the streets and stuff. And it's so weird. Cause when you see him as a captain, I would never have thought that he looks like shepherds from mass effect. He just. One of my favorite character actors, uh, Charles Stearning, was a sort of big sort of overweight guy. Overweight guy. He was in a bunch of, um, Coen brothers movies. He often played little bit parts as was very affable guy, but he was, he was a survivor of the, I think first or second wave on Omaha beach. Oh, gotcha. And yes. Yeah. And he, he's, he was just like perfect image, image of like sweetness and whatnot. And yeah. Yeah. I love that when you find out one of the actors on a show, maybe they're the demure or whatever, you find out you're like a version of expectation. I still remember watching sons of anarchy and a happy, like you don't even pick up on it that happy is, or was a for sure, real biker and really mess some people up in real life. And in, in the show you pick up that he's a bad-ass he's a psychopath. But then I found out in real life, he was there. Um, what do you call it? Research guy. He was the guy who would tell him if sons of anarchy was correct or not. Cause he was in the gangs. Um, you think Amos would have had a gangster background. No, Amos was a model. He's a wuss, which is so weird to see this behind this. I love watching behind the scenes as long as they're not dicks. I hate it when like you find out somebody you love, you get them on it like an, and you know, I, I, the biggest one for me, I love him, but William Shatner is pretty crusty. He can be really nice, but if you follow William Shatner on like Twitter or you find him in an interview and ask him a question, William Shatner will just be like, there's nothing like, there's no, he's old. He probably doesn't care, but you get that feeling where you're like, Oh, you know, he's, he's definitely not exactly what you would think. Um, is that it for us? We got anything? What are you going to stream tomorrow? I love you guys, but I got to go eat. What are you going to, what are you going to stream tomorrow? Uh, tomorrow I'm streaming Baldur's gate. It's my dark urge play through Baldur's gate with iron man. I'm just joking. You're not pronouncing it wrong. Baldur's gate. Anybody else going to do anything cool this weekend before we wrap it up? Nothing special. Yeah, but I'm going to keep them mysterious for now. Yeah, exactly. Man of mystery. Be like, Oh yeah, I'm doing something. You'll hear about it. Just like that could be dangerous. Anyway, that'll be it. Yeah. Some presidents just disappear. Anyway, that'll be it for us. Thank you very much for watching. If you get a chance to spread the word that we did this, I appreciate it. Uh, we will see you next Friday, next week.
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"Oh, he's answering somebody. I was like, what? 24 with Keith or Sutherland. Did you guys see rabbit down the rabbit hole? Do you guys see rabbit hole yet with Keith or Sutherland? The new spy one. Very, very good show. I don't like him much in almost anything. That show is amazing. Better call Saul. So do you guys think better call Saul is better than Breaking Bad then? Cause almost everybody I've talked to actually likes better call Saul more. I like them at the same level. I don't know which I like more. Yeah. I don't. Character study type thing where it's really deep in the just exchanges between characters and character building and Breaking Bad while also has a lot of that. It's more action. Yeah. It's yeah. It's much. Yeah. It feels like there's more going on. Somebody else here says person of interest. I don't know if you guys have seen that. That is such a good show with Whisperman. I can't remember his name, but the guy who played Jesus, I think in Temptation of Christ, right? And that who it was and cap Kevin Caviel or something, but man, person of interest is good, man. Yeah. It was a solid. You guys, you had to have subtitles on all the time because that dude would whisper his way through every conversation. Oh, just mumbling. Yeah. And you'd be like, what's he talking? And then he'd hit toss somebody and be like, all right, he was threatening them. Have you guys seen Hannibal? Yeah. Yeah. But I'm not a huge fan of Mass Mikkelsen. So it was really, but you're a Dane. I thought you were supposed to know. I've talked to great types about that previously on this podcast, I think for all mankind. I can't. I can't. I keep getting distracted by his accent. HBO did have a second season, but then canceled it. Oh, too bad. Well, what time are we got? We're at three hours. And Jesus, I just looked at his two thirties. Yeah. We can wrap it up. Severns was good too. I'll fight you on that. I man, that show, also a gender, gender, Travikovsky is primal. Uh, amazing show. I actually think Bro, I need to watch that. I've been wanting to watch it for so long. What I was going to say is we wrap it up. This is an interesting thing. I just realized in discord when I was talking to people yesterday, every single Apple production, everyone I've disliked, they all look highfalutin really high technical level foundation. Just graphically. You're like, wow, dude, even the Jennifer Aniston early morning TV show one looks amazing. They are the most glacial fucking shows. I was watching severance just going like, Oh my God. I had to drop foundation. I had to drop foundation too. I, and I even told people like, at first I was like, I think foundation might be good. It, and it, by the way, it's got the same guy that we were talking about earlier who was in expense and it was. Yeah. Yeah. The show is dude, all Apple shows is glacial. What are we going to say? Yeah. Just a severance reminds me of succession. Also well worth it. I've got a full arc, full season arc, a full four season art. We tried billions. Did you watch that one silver billions? Uh, I watched a bit of it. Yeah. But I didn't, I didn't go fully into it. Yeah. It didn't really, it didn't really smash me. I think Damian Lewis. I just, I don't know. I just didn't quite. Do you know, I've liked him in one movie and it wasn't a great movie. It's the Stephen King one where he plays, uh, he plays one of the guys that goes to the cabin and the aliens attack. It's a terrible movie, but I like him. He's also decently band of brothers, I think, but I just, I was seeing him outside of that. He's pretty wooden. It's weird, right? Isn't something about him. Like there's something that's just like, he can't emote. Yeah. Cause I was watching the one where he Homeland, we watched a couple episodes of Homeland where he comes back. Oh yeah. He's yeah. That's right. He's he's in the initial seasons of Homeland. Claire Danes is in it and both of them just, I mean, I know it was popular, but man, I just didn't like it. Luther favorite show ever made is the wire. I just didn't like the wire, but I watched it. The wire. I, uh, I need to watch that's on me. It's really, really good. It just didn't age incredibly well. It's it's it's for me. I'm not saying for some adjusting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need to watch him. I need to watch him. Timothy Olyphant is also in the work. This guy says Stephen King's movie is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but Timothy Olyphant is in it. He is, he is the, uh, womanizing man. I love that guy. You're justified. I can watch justify just back and forth, back and forth. Timothy Olyphant. I need to watch, uh, what's it called? I need to take that and take down, told me about a show, but, um, who's the guy from, uh, Django and, and, uh, and, uh, the Nazi from, uh, from, uh, the German actor or whatever, the little diminutive guy. Yeah. What I didn't know they were in a show. I know he's in the vampire or the zombie one where drew Barrymore's a zombie show with them in it and take down, told me about it. I actually pinned it in the DMS and I really want to, I'm interested cause I really liked that actor. Take downs at serious solid level zero for me for suggestions.
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"Big shout show. Galavant. Why do I feel like I've watched that? Basically a fantasy spoof, fairy tale spoof. It got two seasons on ABC. It was a musical show. Much of the music was written by Alan Menken, who wrote much of the music for Disney's Golden Era. Very, very funny show. Stars like Richard, Minnie Jones, lots of other amazing character actors. Just absolutely brilliant show that sadly few people have watched and will watch because it's often not widely available and it sadly only got the two seasons. Arrow, Love, Death and Robots, Silicon Valley, Psyche, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Yeah, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Supernatural is awesome too. I've now finished Supernatural three times. Like just binge Supernatural. Dude, the witty back and forth. The bad guy in the first season of Fringe was in Chernobyl. Yes. Sliders is another one. The Sherlock series. Yeah, I did have some problems. I would agree. I thought that Sherlock series let me down actually. Travelers. Yeah, I, as a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, I was never all that fan, all that fond of Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock Holmes. I liked it, but I didn't. I actually, strangely enough, like I love the movies. I actually, I just watched the movie last night, actually, when I was in bed. It's on YouTube. I preferred the Guy Ritchie movies as well. I also actually preferred the elementary procedural show. Yeah, I watched elementary as well. Oh, I just felt like, I'm sorry. I just remembered that. BBC's like Sherlock was kind of a betrayal of the character because he just went completely into the antisocial misanthrope part. What about you, Abzi? Much like House did in the House MD show. My favorite show. Yeah. Oh, some of your favorite shows were just, did you see Travelers yet? Yeah. No, you didn't see Travelers yet. Cause I've talked to you about that. My favorite shows are Stargate SG-1, Breaking Bad, and Better Girls Hall. Battlestar Galactica. Did you watch that? And Lost. I watched a bit, one of the, one of them, one of the, not the old, sorry Galactica. I watched a bit of them. There was one that came to Xbox 360. That's what I remember. Like you can buy them on Xbox 360. Mandalorian, Sliders. Sliders was pretty good. I watched Sliders a couple years ago, randomly, a couple episodes. I didn't mind it. True Blood, Legion. Legion I was just not a fan of man. Elementary, Travelers again. Oh, Banshee. Banshee was pretty good. Banshee's Homelander, right? That's the actor who plays Homelander. Yes. Yes. That, that, that show, amazing fight choreography, amazing fight scenes, like martial arts and stuff. I thought it was really, really good story. Hang on. Let me read some more of these. I just want to make sure. Cause I did ask them Travelers. I'm watching the show Merlin, Merlin, the UK show. I watched a couple episodes of that danger five is danger. Which one is the one with Hugh Laurie as a spaceship captain that came out about two years ago. And I believe there's two seasons. I wa I had a difficult time with it. The guy who did house is a spaceship captain. Somebody can, somebody will know. I think that one only got one season captain of a cruise ship that strands. Yeah. Like a colony. I think it was Armando Iannucci. Yeah. Who made that? Stargate. Does anybody know the one we're talking about guys? Cause I don't want to waste time looking up stranger things. Oh, of course. Oh, Avenue five. That's what Avenue five. Yeah. My middle name is Remy.
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"Like has almost too much fame now in a weird way, it's like I was a fan of Firefly. Yeah, right. And there's something about it where I'm like, I get credit a little bit. It was definitely sort of a hipster thing, I think. I think so. And I loved it, by the way. But I just later on, nobody else liked Firefly, but I did. Yeah, I still remember my mom calling me up, man, this Western space guy, so good, blah, blah, blah. Three years after it was canceled. And I'm like, and she's like, where's season two? I'm all in the cloud. Like, oh, she was devastated because my mom doesn't like sci fi that much. She liked the enterprise, the original Star Trek and a couple others. I remember I told her and she was like. Because she was she had watched every episode in proper sequence to not like they were shown on TV, which was out of sequence and was when the way of Deadwood season four. Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, you get that season and so many people are like, where's the next one? You're like, yeah, there's there's no next one. What else do we think? Daisy's was another one I really like. Master says Carrick has a few favorite shows of all time. I do. And I consider, for example, Almost Human and Star Trek as different lists of the best shows of all time, probably because I've watched so many shows. I actually have a cyberpunk list and a Western, maybe Western space. I do. I separate a lot of them because I think after a while, it's weird to compare them. Like, how would you compare Almost Human with Star Trek? It doesn't make. Yeah, it's it's such a shame that it didn't include. It got canceled and other shows do a pretty good job. I think Fringe technically got canceled once, but it came back. Yeah, it had that weird. OK, so it did because that did wrap, you know, really well. Yeah, but it's just sort of almost human did not wrap well. Almost Human introduced. Who's the lawyer from Night Court? The big guy, John Larroquette. Is that his name? The big dude from Night Court. I think it's John Larroquette. He was. You find out at the very end, like he's involved in this huge, you know, Android conspiracy and all this stuff. And there's a whole set up. Yeah. Doesn't get to play out. Yeah. That's why a lot of shows I don't know if you guys track that, but a lot of shows write an ending for every season where they're just like, let's make sure it's somewhat wrapped up because you never know. And with like Netflix, who knows? Netflix cancels their major shows. The show will be like 8 billion people showed up. Netflix is like we're done. Got canceled. And that was insanely, you know, just an example. We'll look at Eureka, number one show and was doing incredible, literally cost them too much to make. It was the most successful show. And they were like, yeah, they had too many stars. Same thing with five years going. Same thing with Rome as well. Yeah. Rome was like that as well. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I think that's another problem. If you get actors who have been around a long time and then they do well. And by the way, they should be paid commensurate with success. But what happens is you you quite you can't have one bad season because then the ad and I've seen a couple of shows where I'll track their seasons. It'll be like 10 million viewers, 10 million, 6 million, 10, 10. And you're lucky if the show isn't growing with every season. You can't keep up. And that's like games. You know, you get a second game and you'll think there might be a third and then they'll be like, second didn't do so well. Also, too, with actors, sometimes you just can't have them for more seasons because they're moving on to do movies or whatever. And their schedules. Do you know who that was? A big problem was Fringe, the English guy who plays the bad guy in Sherlock Holmes, too. In the belt, the belter from from Expanse, who ran the underground, the British guy, he was in Fringe as a bad guy. The guys from Mad Men. Yeah, they couldn't get they couldn't get him. They were just like it's. Oh, by the way, that's another show I'm watching right now. Oh, no, they were talking about it in Expanse. I was watching behind the scenes and they were saying we want him, but he's like in 10 movies and he's in 10 TV. He's quite the problem is, if they're good, they want to work all the time or they can work all the time. Don't want it. Not everybody wants to work all the time. I think that's one of the biggest things with television shows is a lot of people just don't realize the logistics that actually go into. What's your favorite shows? People post them. Yeah. Yeah. You mean they just sort of introduce they sort of thrust you in? I think the big. Yeah. And I think the biggest example for that to me is like Game of Thrones and like a lot of the criticisms that got levied on it because I think people really realize just the amount of logistical effort it was to keep that show going for eight years with the same people. I mean, you saw it literally saw like the Stark children grow up and basically grow outgrow their characters. Unfortunately, the substantial amount. Yeah. And I mean, just the sheer logistics of that production are it's really sort of difficult to imagine how that really came about and all the different pieces that had to fit in every single season just to get it off. And so you were obviously going to get discrepancies and whatnot and compromises are constantly going to be made between between what's on the page and what's going to be actually what we're actually going to be able to shoot out in the field and whatnot. And that's just a reality of production that I don't think a lot of people really reckon with where they just look at the page and they look at the product and they go, why isn't this like this? Yeah. Why isn't it identical? I ask people what they thought were some of their favorite shows. I want to say Farscape. I'm seeing that a lot, which is awesome. Dollhouse, Buffy, Berry. Berry I heard is really good. I haven't watched it, but I've heard a bunch of people talk about it. Deadwood, Deadwood, Deadwood, Justified, Justified, Six Feet Under, Babylon Five, Sopranos, Justified, Ergo Proxy.
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"You're frozen like Walt Disney. I don't know, by the way, if that's true or not. The head story. Did he? Did he actually? That was a rumor. No, I don't know if I don't think it was. So, OK, so you go in. You're frozen as you are. And you will be unfrozen, you know, like 200 years from now. And the hope is when you're unfrozen, technology has advanced to a point where you can just lengthen your lifespan and well-being, you know, way above what you can do now. But you have to be frozen. Right. I think we're really close to being now or when I'm. Yeah, as you are now, you'd be frozen now. Yeah. Right now. Just right now. Well, that makes it a hard question because. I guess you're taking a skip on like the rest of your, you know, natural life in order to let me change this because we let me let me slightly change it because I think we can all agree. We're in a lot of faith and we're in some pretty deep shit right now, society wise and like global warming. So I want to ask you a slightly different question. If you could ignore today and it was gone and you could transfer to any fantasy world sci fi fantasy, would you go? And the reason why I ask that is because I feel that at least for me, the question that you said is like I'm looking at the world right now, going, man, you know, we don't need government saying we need to stop. We just need to stop doing like this and stop dumping plastic. You know, there's all this other stuff. But what about a fantasy world? So you could say, boom, I'm in the boys as and you can choose, you know, a level of person that you would want to be. Is there any fantasy world? And I got to tell you, prior to being married, you know, I love my family. I would have left in a millisecond. We would have these discussions that would have inside. But now I have connections that are that tie me a little bit more. But if you guys don't, would you you know, is there a world you'd want to go to? Is there like a place that you would be like, I'd love to go explore Starfield and just be in the Starfield world? I mean, the biggest one I think would probably be Star Trek, because here's the world that has solved as finally a lot of the major society. Yeah, resource scarcity, no longer an issue. Money is no longer a concept, right? nationality, no longer a concept. That's deeply appealing to me, fundamentally. So and you wouldn't want to be a red shirt. Right. In Star Trek, like if you went to Star Trek, you wouldn't want to be one of the red shirts, you'd want to be like a captain or because I mean, let's be honest, you're going to die the first time they're just a citizen. Or just hanging out, just replicate just people. I mean, I've become camaraderie with the other would be pretty good. And the constant funerals. Just funeral every week. It depends on whether we're talking like Joss Wheaton, Star Trek, or like the like, the standard J.J. Abrams versus Star Trek Next Generation Abrams. Yeah. Yeah, I knew what you meant. Yeah. Yeah. So Star Trek is good. I think Star Trek is a good one. Any anime with big titty girlfriends, man, and I'll be I'll be fine. Yeah, but everybody punch, like, through your body and stuff. True, true. And you get like, they give me a speech about their family and then kill me. You'd have to listen to him laugh. Your best friend would betray you at some point. Yeah, right. Right. And or your master would turn out to be the major bad guy. But yeah, some animes would be it depends because you don't want to go to attack on Titan. Yeah, or attack on Titan, right? Yeah. Like, no, sorry. But yeah, I get it. I get what about you, Johnny? I would go to something like the world of almost human, the TV show, where God, that's a good show. Anyone has seen one of my favorite shows of all time. Dude, it's legit. It's awesome. And they cyberpunk world, right? Yes, they have the right balance of cyber implants and androids and all this. I would have androids. I would also have like cyber prosthetics, you know, a better set of legs so I can fucking run and all this. And it's all it's like, it's a way more positive version than what we see in cyberpunk. It's just but it's much less dire. But cyberpunk, the cybernetics are nasty. Yeah. Or, you know, addicts is horrible, right? It doesn't look natural or anything. But you know, the androids and the cybernetics and implants and prosthetics in almost human, they look, you know, they're pretty close to like iRobot or something, you know, they're pretty highfalutin, oblivion, human, you know, like, yeah, that type of stuff. That's where I would go. Yeah, that's a good I mean, all those actually pretty good answers. The anime one, I still think you'd be killed right away. Yeah, yeah, I was kidding about that. I don't I don't actually know. I don't actually know. Because also, like only the blade runner dudes. Good luck. I don't know. Blade Runner's terrible. If you read like what it's like to be in no way. If you want to if you're living on earth. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, there's nine other places in the radiated wasteland. Yeah, right. Right. Yeah, the entire Yeah, half of the adventure and the new Blade Runner. I mean, every animal like species is basically extinct. That's why Yeah, most valuable like commodity in the Blade Runner world is basically real life animals. Yeah, because remember, in Blade Runner, he's like, I can get you a real horse, not one of the same ones. But yeah, what were you gonna say? Even even if you're Ryan Gosling or Harrison Ford, you're still kind of, you know, screwed in that world. Well, if you watch the movie, you're definitely screwed. But yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think Star Wars would be fun if you were like a ship owner, but they have so many overarching rules like the Empire taking your ships and be Star Trek and be fun. But yeah, lots of cock blocking in. Yeah. And when I think of a few any world I want to go to, I would want to have some risk. I like the idea. Like, I'm not saying we would go there and you would be impervious. You could still die and stuff. So Star Trek is a good one, because, you know, unless you unless you're on a bad outpost, you know, you got taken over by the zorgornians or whatever. You could probably use the teleporter and don't use a teleporter ever. Why? I mean, as abbreviated Indio touched on, like, you could just stay on Earth in Star Trek. You could, but that removes the estate that removes the Picard's Vineyard. Yeah, but that removes the excitement. I can live on Vineyard here. I would get kicked off at some point. But you know what I mean? Like, if I was going to Star Trek, I'd want to be a commander, in a holodeck, dude. Oh, I live in the holiday, dude. That's the problem with no matter how good you are, a holodeck is easily the worst drug that humans could ever, ever access to that. Once you have access to that man who like an Orville taught us, man. Yeah. Orville. I was going to bring it up, but I didn't know if everybody but Orville's version of the holodeck, especially that they show, you saw it in Star Trek Next Generation, when he had everybody in, he was the Three Musketeers and they like they had Worf as one of the guys, you know, all that. You saw some negativity, but Orville really showed. They went hard on it. They were like, what would people do with the holodeck? Remember when he goes back in time and falls in love with like Rachel Meester, the actress? Oh my God, that was weird. And then she basically breaks up, the entire thing happens and she gets back with the boyfriend and he's like, what? Like, oh, dude, it was hard to watch. It was like all the horror stories of real life were in that hall in whatever their version. I don't remember what their version or you have something like in Stanislav Lems, the Futuro Logical Congress, where you have that in pill form, but you take a pill. Yeah, you take a pill, get the and you get that mind trip of being whatever it is, which is strangely enough, what they think might be closer to our version of a holodeck will be you taking a pill that then attunes you to something that beams in versus this full 3D, you know, touch touch things because in your brain, that's another thing you guys have heard about some people who don't hear an inner voice. There's that they have the I guess you call it an impairment. I don't know what you call it, but they don't have an inner voice. They don't have they don't be seriously terrible. If I couldn't see my memories, like if you just had no because I can see my memories, you know, see like child, you know, they're blocked out because no memory is I can almost taste things as well. Like you can almost. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Like I can make my saliva glands like go off if I think of a lemon Jolly Rancher. Yeah. You know, you just and I think of a limit and go, oh, my God. And then suddenly, you know, you're and you sound like you were you were drinking. I don't know. The idea of it would suck, I think. But yeah, holodeck, man. Dude, if I was in a holodeck, I would have to make sure no family members ever opened that door without like a two hour warning to shave and shower because this the debauchery that would occur. And that's what the ultimate power. That's why I do know that ultimate power probably does destroy because if you had you hear about these millionaires doing stuff and you're like, well, not I'm not saying I would. You would try not to. And I bet you most people don't want to. But when everything is available to you. A lot of it actually goes on in those luxury yachts of can. Oh, dude. Right. Seven miles offshore or whatever. You know, when you're yeah. Like what's happening over there? Money. Let's go in a submarine. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. Well, no. I mean, you do get that, though, where like a person will be more interested in the sub going down to the Titanic than the safety. And that that's what happens when you detune from what's and with no danger, like a holodeck.
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"I think so. Overall, I'm not a I mean, Mortal Kombat is fine. No, I mean, Homelander is kind of already an injustice of Superman. So right. Yeah. Injustice definitely turned God. That was a good game, man. That was a good game. Oh, people are teasing me for saying Among Us. Yeah, sorry. That's what I call Among Us. Like when I called Remnant or no, I called Remnant Remnant and people are so mad at me, man. It's so funny because, oh, all the time. Yeah, all the time, especially when I was growing up, like nobody ever told me that was I don't even know if they listened. But boy, in a YouTube, people find that spot. They'll they'll let you know. And Johnny, me and Johnny have the worst ones, though. Like when I was like saying coax instead of co-op. Oh, my God. Co-op. He called co-op a couple of times. When you're doing co-op and it's like, I never said that. That's somebody did. Somebody did for sure. And I think it was you. No, maybe it was. No, it was it was coax. But there was something else. And there's something else. There was one last week. I got a couple. Oh, Oppenheimer. I said Oppenheimer. What were you saying? What were you saying, Johnny? No, no, I'm just saying I definitely have a couple where I pronounce it. We all do. You know why? Iron Man. Oh, my God. Iron Man. I run. I run, man. I run. The thing is, too, is because, like in America, you have West and East Coast and, you know, Oregon, Oregon. You'll have people pronounce it wrong. And so I guess I shouldn't complain that people can. Yeah. Minnesota. Malay and Mealy. And that's actually just like, even D and D guys like the guys who, yeah, or lame pronounce lever lever. Like there's a bunch of Ubisoft and Ubisoft. I was at a review get together for the review code, and it was one of the few I went to. They told me, by the way, not the native English speakers, the people from fucking Quebec told me it was Ubisoft. What the fuck? You don't say Uber, you say Uber. Here's what I think they were doing. They were just trying to say, oh, you're like from America, they're going to have a different. So go ahead and pronounce it Ubisoft. So everybody was pronouncing that for like two years because they said it. The people who run the company were like, it's Ubisoft. I think they were just translating and to them it was like, yeah, and I honestly think they don't care because no games called Ubisoft. So it wasn't killing them in any way. You don't say Uber either. You say you bail. No, you say Uber. I say Uber. I'm just joking. I know. I say croissant. What do I croissant? Croissant. Croissant. I say I say croissant. You're just removing entire letters from that. It's just like, whatever. Abacus is just a bus. Let's see what's interesting. I actually got a message from a viewer because I kept calling like Montreal, Montréal. But it's actually supposed to be Montréal. So you don't pronounce the T. Man, people have a lot of time. It's named after Montréal. You gotta be real anal to message someone about that. Like, no, I actually appreciated it because I wanted to to do it right. So I really, I greatly appreciated that. Ubisoft stands for ubiquitous software? No, sure. Really? I think so. That's something new I learned today. Thank you. I don't know. It sounds like someone pulled that out of their ass. Yeah, but it does make sense. They started out games from what I remember. They got service games. Yeah. From from what I started out, they mainly started out what I remember. They mainly started out as a as a publisher. Who did? Rather than a developer. Ubisoft. Yeah. Yeah. Back in the didn't they do a Peter Pan game? Early 90s. Or maybe that was somebody else. Yeah, I definitely remember a lot of the big developers we see now were publishers on the old consoles. Like a lot of them started out as that a claim. Did a claim do publishing only? Maybe it was. Maybe it's somebody I know. Say Sony had a couple published games on the Sega Genesis. There's many Sony games. What else we got? Ubisoft. It comes from a French acronym union that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So you'd pronounce it. You should be and not you be my head. Yeah, like I said, Union Dubrop Suba independent. Yeah, right on. We knew that. Dude, I was I mean, I nailed it. Like I could go there and say that and people be like, you got it, baby. Ubisoft. But what else do we got? What else we got before we wrap this up? So I was wondering if any of you would like to be frozen. And then unfrozen in the distant future. So imagine this, right? So this is the deal. You go in.
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"And that's, what's funny. You mentioned something a lot of times I'll beat a Neo, a Sekiro, whatever, and not be super build specific because you can usually get through them. You know, you can mess around a little bit, but I did notice that the DLCs are like, you ain't coming in here with a full set. Yeah, you better. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. And you better have every, you better know exact draw times and stuff where maybe, you know, you can just sort of meet your way through dude. In the end, it was so ridiculous before going into a fight, I would buff myself with six different things. And I would, you know, I'll just have like five consumables I needed to use in the fight. And it was so much to track my faith. Next one up is wannabe. Dev says, what aspects of games do you enjoy? Like the most story explore that's going to be different for every, every game, I think depends on the game. Exactly. Yeah. And then have your asked a question, but I don't think we can answer this is too soon. He says, who did you romance in Baldur's Gate three? I don't think. Let's not talk about that. We probably don't want to reveal much. Yeah. Yeah. I think just for safety sake, because Baldur's Gate's big people maybe didn't take a weekend off. It's only been out for, and it's like, you know, 150 hours. It's just probably not. I have a really solid answer. I'll know one. And then you can decide whether it's no one or whether that's a Cyclops called no one like in the Odyssey or Aria Stark. Aria Stark. Why is that a no one? She, well, she always referred to herself as no. Oh, in the show. She did in the yeah. In the showbooks. And that's just one of those games where or one of those shows that I just, you know, could not. I couldn't track man. Joe was it? No, not at all. Oh, somebody posted a picture of me talk. Hang on. But I mean, the Aria Stark connotations in terms of romance are considerably creepier than the challenge. Somebody caught me sticking my Jolly Rancher out of my tongue with TV shows. I do want to bring this up. Expanse season or episode two of the Expanse came out for Telltale's. I do want to point out once again, I think it's awesome that a company dissolves completely, comes back together and is still able to deliver a game feels like they did not go away. And I get that some people are going to be like, well, it's a telltale game. It's we've seen a lot of those style games hit and be like, oh, that that ain't that good. Some of the dark mysteries one. No, what's the series? The Dark Anthology, that that series. There's there's one or two where I was like, yeah, I don't know why that name bothers me so much. But that game, you know, there were a couple in there that didn't do incredibly well. I think the Expanse feels like a prequel. I mean, and I just finished the show and I really do think that worked really well. Master Sword says that was me. Was that you who clipped me? Yeah, you know what? Go ahead about the Expanse. One thing that's interesting and that's different from every other, I think, telltale game, you actually need a bit of context to kind of fully get everything they're saying. Because they throw around a lot of terms that are specific to the show that you're not going to understand. There is like lingo that's specific. There is some events that they mention as well. Yeah. And I think if you've seen nothing of the show, you might be a little lost in it. Yeah. Whereas most other games, right? They were totally self-contained. They go back and even though it's a prequel, they still use words from the show and don't reference. That's right. Don't. Yeah. I wouldn't say it's a ton, but I could definitely see. So it's like a lot of, you know, where you're like, wait, what? You know? Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. I just think they I just think it's awesome because we always hear Embracer Group and they just deleted, you know, a couple of companies and you see all this stuff. So a company that comes back and is able to nail it like they all just stayed working there is really cool. And by the way, thank God they updated the graphics engine. Jesus. Thank you. Yes, dude. That was a stuttery mess. Sometimes good schedule. Really good schedule release. Yeah. Two every two weeks they do a C and I get it. People probably want to binge it, but I love the idea of having like even here on the podcast where you talk a little bit about it and you're like, oh, let's see. You know what? If it's short like this, I like it, man. It gives you an excitement to keep talking about. Wasn't it a couple of Walking Deads were like six months or something? That was mainly it was it was a number of the telltale games. It's particularly the worst one was Wolf Among Us, Wolf Among Us episode one and two, which was like seven or eight months. Yeah. And they delayed it even once or twice, maybe. Yeah, that sucks. You don't want any of that. It's just awesome to be able to see that. I'm really happy when something comes together for people. So is the Wolf Among Us still coming out season two? Yeah, I think it is. Yeah. And this game did really well. Either of I it's so weird to with Wolf Among Us because so many people didn't even know the IP, including myself. And then you play the game and you're like, oh, wow. So it caused me to actually go look at comics, which is pretty rare for me because I'm not a huge comic book fan. They work pretty well. I would also love to see the boys. I would see Fringe can't be done, but I would love to see the boys. Let's see what other series would be good. The boys would be really good because you could do all kinds of crazy stuff in that. But any of these shows. Yeah, like Lost had a 360 game that I liked. I remember that over and I had a big sleeve and I had a big argument about that. I thought what was it called? I ran them or something. It had a weird name. I remember you just played. You know how lost via Domus via Domus. Yeah. And it was like you played as a nobody. I think nobody because they always have random. Yeah, they always got that guy in the back who turns out to be a bad guy or they're like, John got killed. And even they in the show are like, which one was John? And you're like, oh, like, you know, it's bad when you die. And everybody's like, why is what is being delivered? He's one of the cool guy is known. Yeah, he's not. He's not Sawyer. Homelander and Omniman are in an upcoming fighting game. Yeah, they're in they're in Mortal Kombat, aren't they? Isn't Homelander in Mortal Kombat? I think so.
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"Somebody was asking if is the leg distracting with GFN? So here's what I can say about that. If you were doing call of duty, if you were in the same state and pretty close to a server in GFN, I have got first place in Call of Duty games on GFN. But I would say that you probably wouldn't want to play, you know, that you could play a single player, like, you know, doom, because you can adjust to it and everything sort of adjusted. But yeah, if you're playing call of duty, it's going to be a little rough. Well, it may be rough. I don't know. My, my latency is nine, which is insane because I happen to be somewhat close, but it depends Baldur's gate. You're not going to notice a fucking full second. Well, you'd notice the second, but you could have, you could deal with a lot more latency in that than you couldn't call a duty or something along those lines. Cloud cutter says, ever got close to the end of a game, but you just couldn't finish could be because the game's broken or because you can't get past the final boss. For me, it was Kingdom Hearts and Sam boss fight and Sam. Does anybody know what that is? Is it Kingdom Hearts too? He just says Kingdom Hearts, so doesn't get the number, but I remember like a thing into in the battle end. Oh yeah. Beyond good and evil one. We got past it finally, but I believe it was like the fifth main boss is this boss with like a cage on his face. This is a long ago memory. I remember kiddies. Now we're playing it. I don't know if it was a skill gap or whatever. Yeah, I do believe. And there was like beams or something on the ground as well. And I was like, this is it was. It was like a skill jump that I wasn't accustomed to. And that stopped us for a couple months. What were you going to say, Johnny? Did you have one too? The only one I remember was Neo one DLC. Some of the DLC was stupidly brutal, just like knocking you in the balls for the sake of it. And I just dropped it at some point, dude. Yeah. Neo though, a special beast. It's got some skill gaps in there that you're like, what? The DLC was notoriously harder though, was it not? Yeah. Yeah. Because the DLC is sort of like huge challenge mode in a way. Like, okay, like DLCs are usually way harder than the game. Oh, you want to jump into the DLC? Do you pay us to get your ass kicked? Yeah.
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"Rick leg says three, 3m with Carrick is the, as the new patron, uh, pledge level. Oh no, it's all the time, but 3m is a good time to go in there and see some weird shit. Yeah. Necro, man, dude, the one time I congratulated him on doing good news. And from that point on, it's like that friend you have, you don't want to say good job. Cause they'll slap. Yeah. Yeah. And necro was just, everything was perfect. And he did it for like six months. And I was like, this guy's and then he gave him a role and I gave him a role in the discord. And I am telling you, it was that day. It was that day. Every bit of news was late and repeated from somebody else's news. And we had to make like six rules for him. Like, dude, okay, here's the new rule or scroll up, blah, blah, blah. Nor and him just don't know what scrolling up is. They just have, they have no clue better. Nor nor has gotten better. I must say, nor is, nor is actually learned from his mistakes. Oh, has he took him years? I don't know if that's true. I'm going to call, I'm going to call bullshit on that. Yeah. Cause I, I remember a couple of days ago, I got a DM where somebody was like, dude, what's going on? I love him though. He's just a goofball. Have a great weekend guys. Thanks for getting me through the rest of my work day. Oh yeah, it is. It is Friday. What are we going to do? Anybody going to do anything this weekend? That's cool. Ballers gate for some, I assume Ballers gate and work, you know, I'm working constantly. Oh, speaking of that, I was going to ignore. We have actual questions in the discord. I forgot. Oh, here's a reward for being a patron. I don't help you out at all. Hang on one second. Let me look in the podcast thread. Sleepy avocado. What's your favorite trend in gaming currently? And what trends would you like to see? An easy one is accessibility, but I'm going to think of something else. Yeah, that was going to be my go-to. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I completely devalued your answer. Sorry. No, no, uh, it's fine. I'm not, I'm not insulted or anything, but yeah, I mean that, that is the big one, just the continued expansion of, especially as a disabled person and somebody who works with disability rights, uh, on an activist level. Um, yeah, that, that it's really, really gratifying just to see to, and to see like those questions get asked of developers, like, is this going to be in your game? Because it is important, just like it is in like a restaurant review. It's important for the disabled person to know, Oh, is there going to be, am I going to be able to get into this restaurant with my wheelchair? Yeah. Uh, it's important for like a blind person to know, Oh, is it, is it going to offer options for the visually impaired or, or hearing impaired or whatever your disability might be? Is it going to be, is that going to be accounted for in, in the game that you're interested in? Um, and the fact that we're getting, like we're seeing outlets that are starting to review games with that in mind, we're starting to see developers pay attention to that as, as options to incorporate into the games, uh, I think is all wonderful. Anybody else got any others? Uh, I really like do see, and, uh, I think Ubisoft does it a lot. I think it's mostly a trend in Ubisoft games as well. Um, uh, and it's, uh, just complete a lot of HUD customizations and what to show and not to show. And, um, a lot of, a lot of different settings there that you could cater to. Yeah. Yeah. Being able to adjust the stuff is always a positive. Do you have any, Johnny? Um, I like some of the innovative ways games are showing you where to go, you know, since ghost of Tsushima, the wind, um, a few other games do kind of similar things now to guide you more visually instead of just a marker. And I think that's a positive trend. I want to see continue for the goal trail dust from fable to, um, abbreviated review says my favorite trend is DLSS DLSS and FSR and such letting people maintain hardware longer and still have good performance. Yeah. Especially FSR where it's, you know, it's not tied to the hardware. I DLSS obviously works better. I mean, it, it, it, it, it's a little different than G force, uh, G sync where G sync always had issues for me. And then over time, everybody added their own versions and those are sort of replaced, gotten it to fully right. And there's issues sometimes. Uh, I would agree with that for sure that like the idea of being able to hold your hardware longer DLSS is great, but you need a certain card for it, which sucks. And then generation of frames, you needed another card, but once you get it, then those, those are supported, which is, yeah, it's awesome for me. Um, what is that? I really haven't yeah. Cloud screen is pretty good of demos, which I saw return to demos. And I was thinking that I think it's a little premature to say we're getting a lot, but yeah. Yeah. Demos. I think companies are really worried about data mining. At least the two companies I talked to were like, we can cut somebody off quite easily. It's that the packages they may have, they'll data mine and they'll like leak our secret characters that we are excited. And by the way, the devs are excited if I know some ignore the microtransaction for just a second. We've had games that were free that were giving away free characters that got leaked. And so those guys don't have a reason for that. And they're still like devastated because those guys are like, Oh man, that was going to be our, you know, we're really excited for like long. And that does suck. I do like the idea of demos, uh, but streaming. Yeah. It's probably the big one because I know now last podcast it was two and I think now I know five, five to 10 people who are going to play Starfield without an Xbox. That's cool. Cause they're going to stream it and they have nothing against Xbox. They just don't, they don't have any console. They have a PC in there, but it's not super powerful. They're just going to stream it. You know, I think that has to be one of the most frustrating, frustrating aspects of being a video game developer that I don't think a lot of people think about is like you spend like, I don't know how many, how many, how much time like developing like a really amazing model in, in the game, uh, for, for, for the content pack or the game release or whatever that you get. And then like management outside of your control will like set a price point or whatever developer doesn't have usually a say that you don't have any. And then there's like this really serious back. Then you see the backlash in the like community against it. And all of a sudden, all this excitement and passion that you had put into this project and stuff sort of gets met with something entirely different. That's really unrelated to what you were sort of doing and pouring your heart into. And that's gotta be really, really frustrating. This is twice. Now you mentioned something that I didn't want to talk about, but you broached the subject. So I'll go negative for a second on something you said, which is accessibility is great, but I do not want people being attacked if they didn't make a game because you're visually impaired and it's a fighting game and they just don't have the resources to do that. And we do see that. And that has bothered me as somebody who has friends who are disabled and legitimately like need a accessibility controller, they need special all that stuff. And what's so strange is all the, all the people I talked to they're like, Oh, I just need to know now I'll get FOMO because we all get FOMO for different reasons, the ability to play the money, to play the hardware. So we're all going to get it. And I get that those are obviously more surmountable than somebody who has a physical, but everybody I know is like, okay, thanks for telling me. I just know that I can't play this right now until maybe I figure out a way to play it. What I see is a lot of, you don't have, you know, sounds going off, blah, blah, blah, you know, and you get these weird convoluted things. I had somebody who I remember in one of the Twitter threads had the longest diatribe about a game and it was a impairment that is so negligible but would require immense developer time immense. I remember reading it going, Holy crap, that would be hard to implement in a game. And they were getting a bunch of razzing from people who were just jumping on the, you know, isn't it usually the case that the people with the outrage don't suffer from that a lot of times, not all the time, but a lot of times there's a baseline people want, but over that baseline. Sure. Of course. Yeah. Also, one of the reasons for that is that people with disabilities in, in general are used to being gated out of stuff. So that's, that tends to be the norm for them. Yeah. So if they're silver again, I sympathize with what you were saying. If they get angry about it, like they would, they would get angry every single day. Every single day, like there's stairs stairs, they can't walk up. Right. Right. So the set of stairs is probably a little bit more important than the game. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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"And it was pretty quick. It wasn't the worst respite. It was actually a pretty because I don't know if you've ever done chat GPT, but if you're doing four, it can take a second for it to think. And it was, you know, you saw that in this mod, but I don't know why they would strike them again. You never know. And by the way, Rockstar destroyed my first channel. So like they do, they struck me too. Yeah, I did a review. I got a street code. I did the review. I put the review. I believe it's for the Bureau on my old channel and they struck it, which then at that time reduced or removed all monetization for one year. And I was like, okay. And by the way, the reason why the channel started is because we had this huge talk and I had 200 subscribers and I was like, Oh my God, 200. It took me so long. What am I going to do? And then I just remade the channel and, you know, and it took off, but yeah, it was, it was rough. AI is definitely the future of game immersion. That's a good way of putting it. That's a good way of putting it. Not necessarily development, but immersion. I do. I actually agree with that. Even if it's a local AI, they train on their world, just Skyrim stuff, right? You don't need it to know what a condom is. Well, maybe they know what it is, but like streamline a lot of the scripting and stuff so that you don't need that much capital. And supposedly, and I'm sure people can look this up right now. I'm not going to look it up, but I know Nvidia has a very small language model that does really well. And so the smaller it is, the less of that heavy calculation you have to do. Did you guys know it's 500? I believe this is actually incorrect. I think it might be 5 million, but it's at minimum 500,000 a day for chat GPT to run its queries. And I believe it's more than that. I think it's 5 million, but because they're almost at bankruptcy and if they go to bankruptcy and then they're being sued by actors and actresses, I think it was Sarah Silverman sued them. Oh, was it? Oh yeah. Which is weird. Cause she's the most generic. How would you even know it took her stuff? Sorry, but like, I'm sorry, but that's the most like I liked her in movies and stuff, but her comedy, I've never been a fan of that's rude. I mean, you know, she can sue if she, if, if, if she feels it scraped them, the Skyrim GPT mod is insane. I tried it, but you got to pay to play. Oh, cause it's four. Yeah. But it's cheap. It's kind of like chat GPT is only, I don't know. Yeah. And there's that one other one, uh, llama bard. No, which is the one that we did Carrick. It was, oh, it was a game engine, but there was also a mod for Skyrim based on that. Yeah. Um, I can't remember it kind of had a bit of a generic name, so I'm blanking. And I found out later, I thought that was a full game. What that actually was, was a tech demo to show it was a demo for the engine. Yeah. That they could use that as long as they kept it was a good, you know, show or proof of concept. Yeah. Oh yeah. It was awesome. When we get to see that kind of stuff, it's going to be great, man. I got to have to join the discord soon. Yeah. Discord, I do charge for it. It's five bucks. There's multiple reasons, including that when people pay, they're just a little bit better.
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"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Baldur's gate just should be called balls, balls gate. Cause that there's a lot of stuff going on in that game where you're like, damn son Baldur's gape. No, no. What the hell did we put in the drinking water in camp? Yeah. Right. Johnny man. Never again from there. Yeah. I'm afraid, I'm afraid starfield will be a mix of Andromeda with red fall with sprinkles of fallout 76 microtransactions. Just name three bad games. I'm worried that cyberpunk is going to be a fucking, I got to admit when we saw red fall, people had questions about it and we are, you know, there were some issues and we knew about microtran and nothing of that has showed up in starfield. So that I would say is not a current worry from what we've seen. I'll just say that from what we've seen, it does not, I mean, there's nothing in it that's, I think should make anybody wonder about that red fall in terms of, at least in terms of visuals where it's more of a kind of a, you know, NASA punk approach. Oh no, they did good on the visuals man. Crazy shit. Yeah. They, I, and they nailed a, a look where red fall was going for a vibe. And I think that vibe at times missed for the woke vibe. Yeah. I don't think it was going for that, but I don't know what they were going for on that. It was just, it was an odd, it was an odd title. It didn't feel like they knew what, like it, you know, there wasn't a clear identity in there. Yeah. You know how that happens sometimes where when you get done, you realize that when their discussions happened, we've had this at businesses where you come in with an idea and other people are there and they're like, what about this? And you're like, why are you talking not to be rude, but why is the HR person in here? If we're talking about network password, you know, like encryption. And sometimes I think in games, somehow that happens where, you know, every, and I get inclusivity of grouping in your team. We've already changed it. I don't know if you guys have been seeing this, but in the last five or six years, it's like anybody who works on a game in any fashion is now called a developer, whether you agree with that or not. We're seeing that all the time. I'm a voice actor. No, you're a developer. It's like, all right, whatever. Make the game. But it does feel like some games just get lost. Yeah. They just get like my focus right there. The receptionist came in to brainstorm ideas for their AI. Well, the receptionist for control was the best part of control or not control, but Hellblade or what is it? Hellblade, Senua's Sacrifice. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Hellblade, is Hellblade another game? No, the, the, the main name is Hell's Hellblade and the Senua's Sacrifice. But is there another game called Hellblade? Because my brain is telling me there's another game called Hellsinger. I know. Yeah. Hellgate. Pakunda B says ACG is playing Starfield question mark. No, they call Mr. Pipe says still having or still haven't finished Cyberpunk. The killing of a certain character early ruined my vibe. Oh yeah. They killed the game with it too. Don't say anything. You're your best buddy. I would imagine. Oh, okay. Yeah. Wannabe Dev says realistically, how important is DLSS missing from Starfield? Do they have FSR? I would say that they need one of the two. And from what I heard in that Reddit post, somebody had gone and said there's for sure not Xe SS and there's for sure not DLSS, but it needs an upscale. All games need one upscaling. I mean, why not? Like you only have those three card brand manufacturers. Why not have them? You know, I think AMD has that rule, right? Doesn't AMD have that thing where we're starting to see where they won't allow DLSS in games. If if it's an AMD title, they only let FSR come in somebody. Yeah, I think that's I think it's in some some games. I've seen it in both, but I'm pretty sure AMD has a rule. The opposite is not true, right? I don't think Nvidia is stopping. Yeah, correct. Oh, somebody mentioned Hellgate London, one of the best games ever made. Come at me. I mentioned Hellgate before when you were saying Hellblade. I was like, I was not a fan of Hellblade. I know you weren't. I know. And I said best. You know, it's not even an amazing. I just loved the idea of magic and I'm a big magic and more and modern fan. Great concept. Was it made by amazing cutscenes? Yeah, yeah. The best part of the game, right, was the cutscenes. Everything else was I think like former Diablo one Diablo two. Yeah, that was the idea was to do. And there were some great weapons. There was a locust weapon, which was like this gun with a huge sack and you would fire like locust. There were some really cool ideas, but it just didn't hit. But somebody asked a good question that I want to talk about. Old boy, any comment on savvy game group apparently being the failed embrace or partner? So we did talk about this podcast before last or last podcast where somebody guessed it was most likely the Saudi group that had tried to work with Embracer. And I had mentioned that FTC's documents had not pointed to Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony. So I think our guess was the Saudi group as well. So, yeah, they were the ones I don't know if you guys saw that data, but Lars talked about it finally and said that they wanted a they wanted to team with Embracer in a longer time period, not not soon and Embracer needed soon. But here's my thought pattern on that. The difference between having that deal and getting even half the money seems like it would have made a better choice because they lost two point two billion dollars. So I'm just like, I don't know if there was a they even the Embracer guy even stated that they were still trying to do a deal. So I don't know what that exactly means. Like maybe no money. They just want them to promise something. But it sucks because Embracer Group has now closed off one company. Remnant two did great for Embracer and Dead Island two is a legitimate blockbuster. So both of those have done well, but they've already shut one studio down. And that sucks because, yeah, some of my I think one of the games I heard was coming out is one of the titles that is not. And if that's true, I'm going to be pretty heartbroken. I'm hoping that's not true. I just wanted a sex. Don't look anyway. All right. Yeah, we'll see, right? Like I do too. Hope Springs Eternal. Hope. Yeah, right. Hope gets us through a lot of stuff. My eye dose or even Embracer. Here's the thing to Embracer must have been getting some money because they captured all these companies and they were moving forward. And then the deal fails. It's like not to be rude, but this is one problem with an investor running this versus a CEO. Right. And that's what Reg, when Reg was on the podcast all the time, he and I and even sleep, we're talking about this. We're like, dude, he's an investor. Track the difference in how they're going to run the company. And that's the problem is it seems like it was more of an idea of push, push, push, push versus whoa, let's build sustainability, sustainability. Yeah. Yeah, man, I hope I'm wrong on some of this stuff because Embracer has every IP known to man. Those guys bought everything. They bought Square stuff, by the way. You guys remember Square sold all their Western developer stuff to them, too. So and a lotter. But what Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings. Oh, yeah, right. But that's Amazon. Lord of the Rings and Amazon are pretty in good. I think that one's in good shape, which is unfortunate because it's the least IP I'm looking forward to. It's Lord of the Rings, like of all the same treatment for the IP itself. You're getting everything. Yeah. What were you going to say, Abzi? What were you saying? I was just saying it's getting the same treatment as Warhammer, where we just want the one type of game from Lord of the Rings that they're never getting. Or vampire bloodlines, too. Oh, God, what happened to that? Yeah, what happened for that? I don't know. Feel free, guys, to ask us any questions you may have before we were where we still got a little bit of time. But before we wrap this up, if you guys have any questions, you can ask about codes. I'm going to tell you the same thing. There's only some stuff I can talk about. And then from me, you should see Immortals review coming up, which I can talk about. Uh. Did they say not to talk about this? There's another game I got to check the NDA to talk about, but you'll see a couple reviews, by the way, to two surprise previews, one's next week, and I think one's the week after where I didn't even know they were going to be available that you'll see from me. I'm pretty much done with those. So, yeah, yeah, there's so many NDA's. I don't the only one I know I can talk about is Immortals that I have code for that. What are we going to say? They showed, uh, they showed new, um, gameplay, uh, they like a gameplay overview for Yakuza for the new one coming out. And it looks, it looks like, uh, because judgment, I think lost judgment is like the pinnacle of what they achieved with the combat because it was how tight it was. And to me, it looked like it's the same kind of tightness of that, but they just with different abilities and stuff, which I'm fucking also live action, dating girls, live action, like super seducer. So there's that as live action. Yeah. Like live FMV dating what Japanese woman, what in the, in the new, like a dragon game in the new, uh, the gate and game that you're going to, because before they did have some FMV shit, like talking with cam girls and stuff. And this one it's full on dates. Wait. So is this like a mini game? One of the mini games is a FMV dating. So red major just says silence. Yeah, exactly. Like that, that is, you know, you can say the way you want. I'm glad that I think it was a final fantasy. The other creator came forward and said, saying JRPG is fine. It makes total sense certain places, but I just don't know if that would work in a Western audience made by Western developer because like super seducer got pulled from steam, I think even though admittedly that had a different connotation to it, but yeah, I don't know, dude. FMV is old. I remember as a kid playing FMV on my Sega Genesis CD and being like, this is the future sewer shark and shit. And now I look back on mad dog, dude, under a killing moon was rocking though. That might've been the oh man, that game was, did you play the sequel silver? The other one they kickstarted. I didn't either. I think it's got pretty good reviews, but under killing moon was, yeah, that was a forward-looking game, man. That, that game is phenomenal. Even now, will next year's release get affected by how good this year was? Yeah. Yeah. Does that mean like, I mean, yeah, comparatively it's like going from cold water to hot water or whatever you're going to, because I don't think, yeah, I don't think we're going to get like as good of a year and that by default is going to, Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of people delaying because game, if games come out that are really good through this entire last two quarters, they may say moving is okay because we've seen companies move because a lot of the successes we've actually seen, and we'll see if starfield's one of them, but Baldur's gate in particular delayed. So all these games that have a delayed, not all of them, but many of them have done spectacularly well. And you could say that's just because of the isolation, what have you, but I think a lot of it is the delay. So I could see somebody saying, Hey, February is not going to work. Cause next February has already got a couple of titles in it. And I don't know. I heard it was still December men like that. Like, Oof. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. It was just because it's already changed sort of the discourse in terms of like frames of reference with, I mean, we, we talked about this already with Baldur's gate now becoming the comparison point point of comparison for people, whether it's a one-to-one comparison or not like whatever genre the other game is in. Yeah. So unquestionably, I think it's going to the one thing I'm worried about guys is, so you got banished coming out from the devs for at focus and you have vampir to, we know is being made, right. But we don't know where it is. I'm just hoping those guys don't feel the stress to over-deliver in some aspect that in some way replicates Baldur's gate or star fee or any of these games. I just hope these guys in the middle grounds can still stick there and that people aren't like scope creep, right? No, not at all. In fact, most of the time that's the disaster is when they're like, let's put a little of this in there, a little of that. And you're Yakuza does it well, but it took Yakuza. Some of Yakuza's games aren't great either. I mean, there are a couple I'm not a huge fan of. So yeah. Yeah. I don't want, I don't want a creep. They call me. Mr. Pip says, does writer's actor strike affect video games? Yeah, for sure. There are some writers that definitely are on the what do you call it? Picket line for that. Yeah. I mean, it depends on where, where you get the actors from, but if they're us best actors, then absolutely. Yeah.
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"I was like rubbing against each other. Almost Human is one of my favorite TV shows ever. And when that alien first shows up and he's got the Ken bottoms where it's like he's got the big flat front with the legs that slightly don't attach and you're like, oh, personal computer to five 2500 RSD. I think Senua from Hellblade Senua sacrifice is one of the best characters in games. What are your thoughts on Senua sacrifice to? I can't wait for it. Yeah, I've never played the first one. So yeah, she was really good. I think that was really hard. I think you should. Yeah, absolutely. Definitely. He hasn't played number one. I really like it. No. Oh, number one's only. I'm planning on it. Seven hours. Eight. I can't remember. It's pretty short. Like, except between seven, nine hours. I'm definitely playing it before the second one comes out. That's for sure. Yeah, I think it's great to do that. It's like a prologue or whenever I'm talking about audio, I always feel like, you know, there's 10 people listening. Everybody will skip in which, by the way, the videos sort of represent. You can see where people skip, but then you'll get a and they'll end up posting and being like, Now I understand why audio matters because her voice and the the by audio schizophrenic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So well done, man. It was so and it's crazy to think that she was their assistant, right? And they didn't have a voice actor. Yeah, they didn't have a professional voice. Yeah, it was an in studio. Yeah. And you hear that, by the way, in some of the bigger movie stars will get in and they won't know how to react to video game stuff. Now, Chris Judge obviously doesn't have that issue, but you see it with some and yeah, I think it might have helped her where she was just like, you know, this is your one chance and she she went over the top when she needed to. Yeah, that it's also a very different experience to be on a movie set and then being that little booth where you have to like cough for different times or mocap where people have different effects. Big wires connected your face with lights, that would be. Frustrating, like to try to act in that manner, being able, if you were doing like separate voice lines like how they did it, I think just being able to make it natural, like bouncing out without actually hearing them. I think in the case of like the lights, I don't think that necessarily.
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"The leads from from Las Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Morgan's Claudia Black. She's such a good actress, man. Oh, it's such a good game. We're going to say I just I remember when I was a kid, like the absolute devastation I felt I was a huge possible fan. And when I saw that the actress looked nothing like impossible, I was devastated. I told you guys, I thought for 10 years that Homer Simpson was a little boy. I didn't know that Homer Simpson. Bart, I'm sorry, Bart. Yeah. Homer Simpson would be amazing. I'm sorry. That's that's awesome. Not Homer. I apologize. Everybody's like, what? Yeah. Dude. Yeah. Nancy. By the way, I watched her in like the Helen Slater. What was that? Billie Jean movie in the 80s. Like, I love her. She's a little goofy looking. She's a great she's just a great character actor, actress. And to see find that out years later, I was all, what? That changed my life. I never picked up on that. The discussion reminds me of the vanilla Shep rework from Mass Effect three, the default in game character had a chin far bigger than the actress model. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know you couldn't adjust it, I guess. Yeah, I think he's I think he's just saying that because the generic Shepherd does look like his model, the European guy who played like that guy does. I mean, he's even got the like the cut in his head, I believe. Let's see this. Oh, no, that's what I was talking about. Do I remember Tomb Raider one naked code? No, I don't remember the code specifically, but I remember the code being a thing. Was it? There was a code on the PS one one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy shit. Do you know? Or no, actually, actually, maybe I don't I don't think it was actually a code. It might just have been like mods. Yeah. Those things were just like that. That was always one of the first things that came out and in the release of like a Tomb Raider game on PC was nearly always like, do you know what? Yeah. And what they would do is they would take the clothing texture and paint over it with flesh so you could still see like wrinkles. It was it was actually haunting. It was haunting. Like it's not something you want to see unless you're, you know, that it was like the Sims, dude. I need I need something to disable the fucking the I was like, I need to see them having sex. I need to see the Barbie dolls. I need to see the Oh, dude. Yeah. Yeah. When you see, you know, no genitalia. Yeah, it's haunting, man. No, no, thank you.
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"Mm hmm. For Ben West. Yeah. The Immortals, the thing they have also this way. Oh, Immortals, Phoenix, Phoenix, the Immortals had that problem. People thought it was a little. Yeah. People were a little questioning like, well, it looks a little like Assassin's Creed, but it's not. It looks a little like this game, but it's not. And there was a bit of a middle ground that people couldn't. You know, you can't point at it and say, I like this. And I think in today's current time, it's pretty hard to sell a game that way. You know, I mean, Saints Row also was bad. At least it was at the time. I think I think now it's been patched up, but I'm never returning to it. Never dead or alive. Extreme Beach Volleyball three. I don't know when it's happening, vapor, but I'm your best friend now. I own that on the Xbox. I've got all of the outlaw games as well. Outlaw Golf. They are really not politically correct now, but I play the hell out of them. My wife loves them. She plays the extreme volleyball, and that is really just all about hot chicks playing ball. There's not much going on in that game, but I know a lot of people like him dead or alive was like that, too. Remember when dead or alive first came out and you had the booby? Like, you could turn it up or down for jiggle, just like Christ. And then you had the Beach Volley dead or alive. Yeah. Let's see. Miss seeing the entire crew together. Yeah, we've actually bounced back and forth, but we're together at least right now. Alex says, I rolled my eyes when people were complaining about ugly female characters until I saw the Fable trailer. Have I seen the Fable trailer? Yeah, that was like the CGI thing they showed with. Yeah, she wasn't she wasn't like a good looking character. What can I talk about? Give me one second to think about games. Funky looking. There is, OK, ignoring what's going on now, but there is a past game that I definitely wanted to know what had happened, and that's control. I do not know what happened with control by a remedy, but I know who that actress is. And that actress is not that character in the game. Even though they mocap them, they dramatically changed them to a very brusque, very. I don't know, a totally different look than not totally different, but a good deal different look than the character. I'm wondering sometimes if it's mocap where you get that, where you get, you know, where because you can't capture everything. Well, it could be creative, but people, if you get a chance and you can disagree with me, if you go online and look at control and this is not a I don't care about the pretty part. I'm talking literally about the characters, because a lot of games you'll get a character Alan Wake or not Alan Wake. I'm sorry, but the Max Payne guy, you know, you'll look at these guys and go, that is the guy in the game. Yeah. And then you'll get some of these characters. But that was Sam Lake. And he was right. And that's why I changed it. Right. That's why I changed it. It was the writer, not the actor. But but that is sort of what I'm talking about is where you get the actor or you get a character that's in a game that looks identical. And then these don't, although I think they did actually model for her for for the third one. Oh, did they? I think so. Yeah, they might have. Because that wasn't Sam Lake anymore. They had moved on by then. Right. They did. I think they did not mocap. He saw him in an Alan Wake trailer. Was that Max Payne or just Sam Lake? That was Sam Lake digitalized, wasn't it? Or was he? I thought it was Max Payne. I think McCaffrey is in the new Alan Wake as well. He was also in control as well, where he was. Yeah, the director, their side characters kind of thing. Gotcha. Yes. They were very tight. Both actors are very tied into Alex entire sort of universe. Steven Savage says it appears maybe they purposely de beautified her. It's possible. And we can talk about any character in a game when you get them and they look different. But in the same game, you get a character and you'll go look at them and you'll be like, they look identical. Screwball, twenty dollars. I eat a cracker and I have to buy bigger pants. I don't know what that means, but it's probably sexual. Want to be dead. Twenty five in return. Hang on. In Returnal, we had a middle aged woman as a main character. No one complained, complained, at least from what I remember. Returnal. Oh, dude. Yes. People complained about that. What are you talking about? Returnal. Yeah. Returnal with the astronaut. I saw a lot of people complain. I do. She was awesome. That's the thing, man. It's the thing, right? If it's oh, if they're a good character, they're a good character. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. That was somebody. I think they disproportionately do complain more about females not being as pretty than. Well, of course. Yeah, of course. Yeah, for sure. But if a guy is ugly, no one gives a fuck. Well, yeah, exactly. Admittedly, I do. Yes. So, for example, I was going to bring up Quantum Break had Sean Ashmore, the brother of the other one. There's two that look identical. One did Iceman. One did like Fringe and all that stuff. He looked pretty much like his guy, Lance Riddick, was in there. He looked like Lance Riddick. So when I play a Remedy game and I see somebody. I usually look up the actors because I love the actors, and so when I got to control and I looked him up. Yes, that was a female. But it's definitely been times where they've taken a male and put him in a game. And I've been like, that's like, that just doesn't seem. It doesn't seem like why would you change just the one character when other actors look the same? Yeah. And I think it's also more, I guess, acceptable for people to play like a gruff kind of like probably guy than than it is to it. I don't care though. It's Returnal's character. She was awesome. I think Control is actually a really interesting example because you have both McCaffrey and I forget what the actors call to place out on the wake. They're both in that game, but they also have segments where that are like FMV that are not like game animated. But like when Alan Wake's actor, he plays the professor or scientist guy or whatever. I forget what his name is, but those are actual like video. So I think the need to sort of carry his character over accurately in that way is maybe maybe greater than it was for. Well, it might have been, but what I was talking about is like, look at the janitor. That actor, I thought, looked pretty much like the actor. I don't know. It doesn't really matter. It's a fair point. Yeah, it's because I like these actors and I'm so excited, man. When we get like Gina Torres from Firefly and a ton of other stuff, I love her. She's in Immortals of Aviam. I love to follow actors and actresses. I like I love that. And when you get somebody and then make them not look like that person, I always question I just in my brain, I'm like, oh, why was there just a strange decision? It's just, yeah, and it carries to a conversation to where it is one that repeatedly does happen to female characters because you look at Lara Croft, right? True. And her voice actresses as well. Yeah. Yeah, that's true, too, because I follow Camilla Hudding, Ludington, who was the voice actress for. And I remember her on one of the late night shows said she just literally thought she was recording porn or like because she was dying all the time. And the sounds if you're not if you don't see what's happening, your brain can be like, yeah. And she made some jokes about it. I love her as an actress. I think I first saw her in the David Duchovny Californication. And I've always liked her. But I would agree that, yeah, she was an amazing Lara Croft. I thought so, too. I really I actually really like her. Lara Croft. Do you know who else I like? Yeah.
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"And there's no recourse, but we can all admit the major reason why people do that is because there's a disbelief in the official reviews. That's got its own, you know, its own psychology around it, which I get, you know, as as I got over a million subscribers, I actually saw people say I'm unsubscribing because you're at a million now you can't be trusted. So I'm like, all right, like I get it. You know, it's just one of those things that you never quite know. Let's see. There are very good steam reviews, but you have to read it, just glance. Yeah, exactly. You got to you got to take the time and then you got to decide if it's a good one or if it's just somebody pretending, you know, here's the thing. People will game the game. So they hear me bitching. So what did they do? They still review bomb the game, but they go in and they write, you know, what looks like a good review. But then you find out when you really read it, you're like, some of this isn't true. You never know. And that happens with reviewers, too. There's a very good there are very good steam. Oh, I read that. I go into the game discussions. I would say that, too, in the steam forums there. They're awful. Like there's some of the worst message boards you're going to find. And when you go in there, Silver, it's like you better wear a decon suit because you're going to get human splooge all over it. It's a nasty situation. But but if you can go in there and you can separate yourself a little bit, there is some good data in some of those steam forums. But, man, they can get that's a hard sell. There's also some decent entertainment sometimes. I remember back in the day, I think around 2013 or something, there was a YouTube I would watch occasionally who would like do readings of steam message board posts from the Payday two forums in like funny voices that would that was pretty it could be pretty entertaining. And that's the thing. You've got to be entertaining when you cover a game in some way, whether it be what have you. And so when there's a steam review that is entertaining and also has good data, I have no issue with that. I just mean is the way it's set up. There is no real a lot of times into just me being memes, just memory. Yeah, a lot of it. Five dollars. Super chat from Dean. I saw that a content creator who has talked negatively about Starfield. Every podcast he hosted was Maddy didn't get a code. What do you think? Well, not everybody gets codes. Not everybody gets codes. And if you're if you're just constantly positive, I've seen people not get codes, too. And when I've talked to PR about that after the case where I've say I've asked them if that can make an effect. And we've had PR on our channel. We've had Dave from Rafi. We've had Clara multiple times. And sometimes there's also where they're a little nervous. Somebody is going to come in with higher expectations than the game can deliver. PR has to look at all that. But if you're just constantly smashing a game. There has to be some opinion on somebody's side that it's like, OK, well, this is not for them. They've already chosen that it's not for them. I don't know about that personal content creator, but I mean, it also depends on what they do. I would just caution against like necessarily assuming a correlation. They're just off the cuff.
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"Love the games. Ninety seven. Ten dollars. Super chat. He didn't do ninety seven dollars, which would be awesome. Hey, you nerds. My biggest complaint this generation is the lack of new destruction engines. I want a triple A game where you can level a city with superpower. Remember a bad company? I do. They were battlefield was kind of was taking the home and then like Battlefield three and four, where you got, you know, based on your destruction of certain buildings and stuff, the whole map would be MP shooters coming out that has destruction, that MP shooter that people previewed about half a year ago. It's got total building destruction. But, dude, it's so hard for somebody to track all that. And then you get somebody stuck in the geometry. I mean, I love the idea of it, but at some point it's not going to action. I think the closest superhero remarche heard that is probably a game I know you're not very fond of carried, but prototype is the one comes to mind. Was there destruction in that game or was it just like an open world kind of powers? There was destruction, but the destruction was wasn't so much like large buildings as it was like bases, cars, stuff like that. Gotcha. You know, I do say that, but then mercenaries had full destruction. Mercenaries won on the Xbox original. I remember leveling buildings on that. I was just like, damn son, just call down artillery. Yeah. So great characters. Great. Just great everything. Thanks for the super chat on that. I love the games or love the games. But yeah, I would agree that they're not doing it for the most part. I think that there's a lot of bugs and like even as a developer, I don't know if that would be super important to me, but I will say interacting with the environment. So I don't need to level a building. And I'm not talking about certain games, but I am talking about certain games, some games coming up that I've previewed. And I'm I'm a little disappointed in nothing occurring. For example, Far Cry two. You could light the grass on fire minimum. I would like to see that in most games now. I would like to see some effect on the locations now. And we still don't see that. And so even that step, I would agree with him for sure on that. I remember I think it blew my mind in crisis. I think it was when you're like between grass and the grass actually moves away. Oh, dude. Yeah. The first time you ever saw grass move. And that's why Horizon worked so well for me. Horizon Zero Dawn, because like you'd be sneaking in the grass would part and she'd like move her hand or origins when you walk through the grass and you like rub your hand along the grass. And I was like, that's the shit. That's Gladiator, obviously. That's what it is, right? They see a movie that way. I don't think people understand how much expanse will hit on Starfield, because the TV shows and movies that are big have been in everything. And the moment Gladiator when when Russell Crowe is, you know, walking to say it told a story in one second in a movie, like in one second, you're like, this tells like five parts of the story. Even if you don't like the movie, you're like, that tells a story for that character. Makes sense on some stuff. And it was in I remember when I first did it in Assassin's Creed, I was like, dude, that was awesome because you touch the environment and there's a difference between grabbing stuff. It's tactile. It's tactile in a different way. It's where I'm just adjusting it. And there's something awesome about that feeling. I did Death Stranding have was Death Stranding all like the Irish Moore's kind of grass or was there taller? Yeah, I thought it was pretty much all like Scottish Highlands. Yeah. Where it's nicely mowed by cows or something. And you're like, seriously, man, where's the scrub brush? And that's where I come from, the Pacific Northwest, where, like, if you go out in the woods, you are not going four feet without a machete or you're screwed. We don't have those type of, unless cows. But, yeah, no, it's I think destruction would be great. It just depends, right? Because, like, if you get too much, then something about it becomes not overpowered. I sort of I think that's so if you can do it right and the NPCs throwing grenades, but there's don't do anything. I think that's one place where remastered. OK, but where that one worked was because the enemies could do it out of bullets. I know you need to run out of fucking ammo, OK? And if I if I scoot over to that dead enemy and I search a dog and he's got a machine gun one more time, I'm going to kill somebody or a legendary helmet or a legendary helmet on a dog. And you're like, what is he doing? Yeah. Did he eat the other guy? What? Yeah, that kind of or like we always joke about, like when somebody says go get seven livers and only five of the elk have livers and you're like, what are the other two doing? Are they drunks, dude? Because, OK, so I was playing well for a long time before I played Bethesda games. And obviously you get like very random loot and stuff. And a lot of other games did it to one of the biggest things that drew me into Bethesda games actually where that you can everything that you see on someone. Yeah. Scorps like and you loot their armor and then now they're naked and you loot the the weapon they were using. And that was like one of the big, big things. And in Daggerfall, you could put shit on them. And that was the best in the world. You could you could encumber them. So you'd go in sneak, put all that shit on or take their helmet. And I had that I've talked about it, but I had that house just filled with helmets where I would steal, run out of town. I had a bounty that was so huge. But all I was doing was stealing helmets, taking screenshots and sending them kiddies, going like, look at my helmets, man. Daggerfall has like object object permanence. Yeah, you could you could. Yeah, Daggerfall, just like all the others, you can take an item and move it and it would be in in your storage or in your, you know, in your location. Yeah. Which I by the way, when you guys were talking about Baldur's Gate possibly having an issue later, they did state they had to patch the save game to allow for unlimited size. So if you're moving a lot of stuff in Baldur's Gate and and we're talking about later on, maybe seeing some, you know, some frame rate dips and stuff, wondering how much of that is related also to a consistently checking things and, you know, which I like. I mean, I'm OK. Dude, one of the biggest problems with games these days is they don't take RAM into concern nearly as much as I think they should. They always seem to be talking about CPU and GPU. And it's like, dude, I know a friend right now who tries to play every new game on eight gigs of RAM. And I'm like, what are you doing? No wonder. Oh, it doesn't run well. No, your system doesn't run it well. There is a huge difference between the game not running it well and your system not running it well. But I mean, some people just don't want to replace RAM. It's hard to I mean, look, it's like AMD used to have issues with RAM pairing where you had to get the perfect RAM, you know, or the AMD CPU would spit out errors. Yeah. The motherboard. And then luckily, I think that's fixed. Yeah, the magic. Yeah. And then or, oh, magic fabric. Oh, my God. Yeah. You're talking about the connection between Jesus, man. It's worked now. But it's like when that first there were so many positives, it sounded so like heroes of the future. And it's like, yeah, the future is bumpy, though. It takes a while to get to the future, right? You don't just jump to the future. It takes a little while. Does anybody remember who's in chat? Or does anybody know if AMD has fixed the RAM situation with their CPUs? I would actually like to know that I got 64 gigs left control game and says, Yeah, so do I. 64 gigs is to me the magic sauce. It's like it's such a good place to be when it comes to RAM. What else do we got? Oh, Starfield, I did want to point out there was some discussion about how long people had to play the game if they could review it. Obviously, it's out early enough for reviewers to play and beat. But I also want to say I think about 80% of that discussion was because some people were worried they weren't getting the code and they were sort of trying to draw a little bit of shade on the people who were because most of these games, even if they're 60 hours for me, that's just to sit down for 30 hours for a normal person. You know, might be five. What would that be? Five 12 hour days or something like that? You could do it. It would be a little bit more difficult. But we saw people saying they 100% at Baldur's Gate. And then you find out, no, they just got to the ending. So there's there's some different people use different definitions. Yeah, different definitions. Yeah, 100%. And you're like a platinum, you know, which I don't even look at. But it's like 100% in Baldur's Gate is probably an insane amount. You know, if you're well, I would assume so. I don't know. Trophy list, but I would just at the very least, you would have to like go through the major choices. Yeah, you would have to, right? Because how would you get the fighter whatever if you just never brought the fighter along? You know, so there's probably some things there. There is a game. Let me think if I can talk about it. I can't. I just there's so many games that I'm reviewing. But Shadow Gambit when I reviewed that one of the great things about that game is it has and one of the problems with achievements that I've always had is they're mimicked in some games. This game does that. It's got its own achievements. So you have this stupid overarching steam achievement shit that pops up or on your console like good job. You killed 100 enemies. But in the game, you have good ones. And so each character unlocks, you know, specific little story points and stuff, which I thought was really awesome. I again, I hate everything about achievements, platinum. So I think it's terrible. But in game, I like it because it's connected to the game in a more those inspiration points you got. Yeah, there's something about it just feels so much more tangible when it's in the game. But I want to point out that regardless of what I feel, Shadow Gambit, if you guys pick it up, it's it's pretty sweet. It's it's got some pretty sweet stuff that like you can you can do in there. Um, YouTube usually morning, myself and plays at a frightening speed. Yeah, yeah. But you can't 100% nothing. Some of those games. Yeah. Just saying some games, you absolutely cannot 100%. What it would be is you got to the ending, which is a huge difference. Um, speaking of that, what games have we been playing lately that have surprised us? Has there been a game that you and don't we can't go with big games. So if you haven't played a big game, you won't have an answer. It can't be Baldur's Gate. It can't be any of those. But is there been? Yeah, go for it. You already know this one, right? Yeah, I heard you talking about that. I played it this year, and it's easily my favorite. I think it's best survival horror. There's no I don't remember playing a survival horror where I was like every section I liked and then signal is every single. I liked it from start to end. I love the story and how it handled everything. I thought it was a fantastic game. I think it was made by two German people. Was it Cyberpunk survival survival? Like sci fi hellish. It has tropes from a lot of Silent Hill as things from isn't evil as things from near as things from, you know, a lot of different things, right? It's it's very weird. It's a weird game, but it's one of those games that like the stories will stay with you that the story will kind of just stay with you for a while when you were talking about it in the discord in the patron discord. One of the things I noticed was that so many people responded to that game. So like you said you liked it or whatever. And 15 people, which it depending on the time frame, that's a little less usual. And this was at a time frame, which I believe was later at night. And that's usually a quieter time. And I think what really, really helps it is game pass because trust me, that's a game pass game. Yes, you know, you need 20 minutes. This is this is how it was for me. The there's the first 20 minutes. And if you're not hooked by then, just don't like it's it's it's going to hook you after that first 20 minutes and with a very, very strong intro and and yeah, so it's like free to try if you have game pass and I totally recommend it. It was that's very good game. One of my favorite cold opens in a game. Yeah. Oh, you played it to silver. Yeah, maybe you even responded. I don't remember. But I saw a lot of people responding on that game. Yeah, I mean, it I put it I put like at the end of last year, I put like a top 10 of like the indie games I played that year and was on there. Very cool, man. Definitely recommend. What about you, Johnny? Any like anything that has sort of surprised you recently? No, I haven't done anything small. The only small title I did was Oxen free. And it didn't surprise me because, you know, I kind of one or two, two. Okay, great. Yeah. So I kind of knew, you know, what I was in for. I had a good time. But yeah, I wouldn't say, you know, like a surprise. Yeah. And it was a good time. I think it was tremendous, but two was a good time. Yeah, I don't think they managed to recreate. It's hard, isn't it? Yeah. Well, yeah, it's like Stranger Things. If they're all 25 and not working, it's not going to feel the same if they're kids. And that's exactly what Oxenfree did. It was like you're these young kids and it's high school tropes and you're like Stranger Things kind of not Stranger Things, but life is strange. And then you get this 30 year old person who's been in the military, who's left and come back. And now they're like watching bird signals or something. It's hard to connect because once you become an adult, if I don't, I can connect with kids because I was there. But as you get older, everybody branches into their own sort of separate worlds. And her world was just different enough that I didn't, you know, I didn't buy into it. Or what do you think about the artist, Johnny, the statue, the guy who does like, he was also a little goofy, like just sitting on a small island. You mean the like the guy that nervous? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. It kind of bothers me. No, I get it. That type of person actually like sort of bothers me, you know, like they need to feel a silence. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's let it let it rest. It's good. We're good. Right. I thought they both had something going on medically in the first hour of that game. I was clinically it was a clinical problem. It's like, what is going on? Well, well, maybe, maybe, maybe. And I was like, I don't understand what they're trying to get across. And then you find out, no, they're just they think that was more realistic, I guess, in some way. Silver, even though signal was high on your list, was there a game that you were surprised by? There recently? Surprised, I guess maybe that it finally released, but Venba, which is an indie game that's sort of been there's been scuttlebutt around it for two or three years, maybe. But it's it's it's just a very, very charming game where you basically play an immigrant mother of Indian heritage. And you have to cook meals for your family. And as you're cooking the meals, like it evokes memories and and stuff. And it's a game basically about like national cultural identity, family, stuff like that, and the way of food ties into that as well. And it's a really, really interesting game. It's very, very charming. I haven't played gotten the chance to really play it very much. But I've heard other people who have played through it say it lives up to the expectations that that we had built up for it through the years because it was it's been hyped up on the like indie. Yeah, the indie scene for a while. So it's really, really nice to see it actually out. It is on Game Pass if you want to try it out. And yeah, it's just charming, perfectly lovely, charming little game. Um, I would say also for me, I was not expecting I knew that I had enjoyed shadow gambit. And I had some issues with shadow gambit in the review. But I would say I was actually pleasantly surprised by how that turned out. Because pirates is ninjas just doesn't. It sounds awesome, as a Halloween, like, you know, costume, but it doesn't necessarily sound like it would translate very well to the game. But it really did. It was highly enjoyable. And by the way, if people don't know that composer, man, that guy is so good at somehow not sounding like Jerry Horner, like a composer for a movie where no matter what movie they do, you know who it is. He is able to do these, these different compositions he did. He did. Let's see shadow tactics. He did desperados. And he's done this. And he is just able to nail his name. Philipo Beck is his name. And he is a fantastic composer. That's one of the best I would say one of the best soundtracks I got this year where I was just like, Oh, wow, it fits. It works. Doesn't go. So where you're like, the song is trying to compete. I know that Austin wintering, I've argued about that because he doesn't want it to compete where sometimes I actually think if I notice the music, it can be good. But Beck just seems to nail it where it's like, I'll forget. And then I'll realize somebody's playing the concertina in the background or some fucking like, you know, some, some arcane instrument. And I'll be like, Oh, whoa, I like this. And it's that typical repetitive pirate, like done. But it works. I mean, it works so well. So if anybody gets a chance, you should check out shadow gambit. Did anybody monkey island a bit? Yes, graphically. But then other than that, it's desperados as a pirate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that I know. But I meant like, in terms of the score, very much Oh, very much the score and very much the graphics. Like when you look at the characters, they've got that slightly odd, not the newer, you know, what I'm saying? Not the newer monkey island, obviously, but the older ones. Yeah. Yeah. So, so good in that way. Go ahead. Yeah, there's a surprise release that I'm surprised by. I think it released today. Yeah, it did. It's called bomber. I want to get to as well. It's called Bomb Rush Cyber Funk. And yeah, I saw a preview for that for Jet Set Radio. Yeah. So yeah, I'm watching. I looked at gameplay and I looked right down my alley. I really want to get into it. Did we even know that was coming out? Because I had no idea. Yeah. And I don't know if it was a shadow drop or what like Quake was, but you know, it was sort of interesting. And I saw pretty before it this morning. Another surprise is that I didn't actually I think I just maybe I just forgot, but Creative Assembly, you know, the guy was making Total War. That's also part of the whole controversy is that they're actually making first person shooter multiplayer shooter heroes game slated for this year. Wow. Called Hyenas. Interesting. Set in combat. The gimmick being that much of the combat is in zero gravity. Oh, wow. I don't know anything about what you're talking about. That's crazy. That game that was about gravity or something. Where a lot of people have been going like that. That's also part of the backlash where a lot of people go, oh, this is where all the Total War profits are going. For this like boondoggle chasing the fat project. And it'll obviously corporate is doing right. It'll obviously have heroes you have to buy as well. Yeah. But let me point out something real quick. We can't have it both ways because those are also the games people say developers don't spend any money on. So you either have to side on one side and say this is not where the money is going. It's just going into their pockets or it does cost more to make games, which we do know that prices do go up or. I mean, you can't have both. It doesn't really make sense to have both on that side of the discussion. I'll check it out. I didn't know they were doing that, but it doesn't surprise me. I didn't. I didn't either. Yeah. Dean, five dollars. Super chat thought on people on Twitter making numerous Metacritic accounts to review bomb Starfield also stoked yours. You're live on YouTube now. Thank you very much for the super chat. Like I said, also, if you guys get a chance when this is done and you didn't get to see it all, jump back in, watch it, tweet that it's out, tell other people, you know, smoke signals, whatever you have to do. I don't give a shit about Metacritic and I also don't give a shit about user reviews because I know people talk up steam, but I'm telling you, there is no more of just a hive of scum and villainy as steam reviews. They are trash. I don't learn anything from steam reviews as they currently are set because we just as as silver just said, people go and review bomb, you know, war hammer. And it's like, are you review bombing a choice? The game there needs to be a filter that's better on steam reviews. Metacritic needs a filter right now. I just don't ever look at the user. The worst thing as well is that Metacritic has points that you can assign, and most people will either go 10 or zero. Yeah, there's no nuance there, right? And also, remember, with Metacritic, they still weigh some outlets more than others. So IGN, if IGN rates a game poorly, it will beat out if three other people rate the game higher. And to me, that is not an aggregate. That is the opposite of an average. Like if you're saying, oh, some numbers just mean more in this average. Everybody's equal, but some are more equal than others, right? Yeah, well, that's typically that's that's right. Yeah, yeah. Animal Farm. Yeah, that is some that is. Yeah, you're going down the anarchy lane at that point. I do think it's cool that Open Critic does do them all. But I do get where some people are like, well, what if, you know, there's somebody who's shady, who didn't beat the game or, you know, or is just doing A.I. reviews? It's that it's that's a legitimate concern. But I don't think Metacritic's idea of weighing others higher is it's not a solution for that. Yeah, but I did want to mention that in the case of Steam reviews, people actually do take those quite sick because people will go to a game on Steam and they will check. Is it overwhelmingly positive? Is it very positive? Is it like underwhelming? I'm maybe not going to play it. A lot of people actually use that as their filter. What I'm saying is I like the filter that says current and then recent you. Yeah, I love that. Mostly negative, but it's really positive now that can paint a picture of a patch being good or bad. I have no issue with that. What I'm talking about is right when when I jump into steam reviews and I start, you know, somebody is like I could fish ten out of ten and you're like, dude, that's adjusting the skin like like it just.
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"linus" Discussed on ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"It's it is, but it's not. It's not in the same way a lot of people think, which is cash money might be time might be making sure you got the best writer and tracking what people say and do is a big deal. Yeah, that's one of the big things about Baldur's Gate. The combat is awesome. We all talk about the combat, but after a while we go into a combat, you know what the combat is going to have. It's going to have these guys and you can do these things. The cool thing about the RPG part is every decision you make might affect that next discussion. Not everyone, but more than we see in a lot of other RPGs, which is awesome. But I also think we should leave it open for smaller companies or companies that just don't have. There's a couple games I'm looking at right now that I'm sure are going to be not compared in that way, but people are going to bitch about cost or bitch about whatever and it's like I get that. But you also have to look at the fact that you don't run the world. I don't either. It's like every person that I know could these could these like some shit games, man, like I'm like, dude, how could you play those? And I'm sure he thinks the same of me, but that means if I'm covering ten he may only want two or three on there. And I think a lot of people want to shut your discussion down, which is really weird. Go ahead. I think that that's absolutely true, but I think people we just gravitate towards really simplistic sort of arguments. So that's why I mean, one of the most frustrating arguments I see, and this is also centered around like the Total War pricing debate we'll get to later, but is the sense that, oh, like the full game is 50 bucks. And so this like expansion or DLC or whatever is 25 bucks. So it had better offer me. That's half the game. So it had better offer me like the like the content of half the game at that price point, which I think is an absurd argument to make to me, especially someone who's like, I mean, that that's also coming from the point of view of someone who has played games for a long time. And I remember like back when we used to have expansion packs before the DLC and they used to run twenty five to thirty dollars and not all of them had half the value of the full game, I want to say. But, you know, I think we just gravitate towards those kind of like simplistic arguments because they're they're easy to make and understand.
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A highlight from TBGP #405 The Starfield Review and Coverage Situation, Linus Tech Tips, BG, And Mirage Truths
"If you liked the video, leave a thumbs up! to or or 50 whatever, yeah, you can compare it to other games, but I just did a review recently where I'm like, listen, comparatively to other stuff, you could look at this laundry list of other titles, but a lot of people aren't all the titles I may list 25 titles, there might be a person out there who only wants to and so they go to a review to see those two like that's that's that's why they're going there and when we discuss them, we can discuss them in broad terms and hoping that things all get better, but there's some smaller devs that just don't have the money to do Larry and stuff and I get I do also want to point out that I think it's also blown out of proportion because Baldur's Gate is awesome, but but like 3D discussions aside, there isn't a ton of stuff there that I'm like that's costing a bunch of resources.
AP News Radio
Bruins reclaim home-ice edge, top Panthers 4-2 in Game 3
"The bruins built a four zero lead and took a two one series lead by downing the Panthers four two. Taylor hall put Boston ahead for good just two 26 into the game. It was good to get off to a nice start as an individual and as a team I thought we were we were dialed in right from the start of the game. He also set up Nick foligno's goal to put the bees up by four with 8 15 left in between Charlie Coyle and David pastrnak let the lamp it's the bruins bounced back from their game too lost. Linus omark stopped 28 shots and blanked the cats until Gustav forsling and Sam Reinhart scored 78 seconds apart. With forsling ending the shutout with 5 19 left, game four is Sunday in Florida. I'm Dave ferry.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Interviews Former Senate Aide Tara Reade
"I'm delighted to welcome our guest today Tara Reid. She's an author, actress, former Senate aide, and the host of the Tara Reade podcast. Tara, thanks for joining us. Hi. Yeah, I'm actually in my podcast is called the politics of survival. And it's on every Friday night. So on rumble and on YouTube, well, sometimes YouTube, sometimes they pull it down. You know. Oh my gosh. Oh no. So you get like some YouTube strikes and violations lately, but yeah, it seemed like it was more frequent earlier this year and it seems to have calmed down a little bit, but yeah, look everyone. I think rumble is really great because it's just sort of there's no, there's no censorship. Yes, that is so nice. It's crazy too how I'm sure you were just talking about things that shouldn't have been censored, but how it is. But yeah, I thought we could get started by maybe you could tell us a little bit about your earlier years in life. Where did you grow up? Where are you from? Kind of tell us a little bit about you becoming a Senate aide. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's interesting. wrote about it in my book left out when the truth doesn't fit in, and you can find that on Amazon or wherever. I wrote a bit about my childhood, but I lived on a farm in Wisconsin when I was a little girl. I was born in the Monterey county, California, since Linus. And you know, I went back there as an adult actually to the Monterey area, which is a beautiful area, but very, very expensive. And I loved my years growing up in Wisconsin farm. I always had an interest in my family is very political. My mother was an activist and anti war activist Vietnam and very committed to that. My father, I was pretty much a strange with him after their divorce from 13 9. I didn't see much of him for years at a time. But he was a defense contractor and worked for the panna cotta at one time and was a writer. So he was very different politically than my mother. So very different views. And I think that's kind of in a way good because I've had a lot of different input of different points of view throughout my life.
AP News Radio
Ullmark's 40 saves carries Bruins past Senators, 2-1
"Down one zero midway through the first, the Boston burns scored two straight goals in the period to come from behind and beat the Ottawa senators two to one for their league leading 54th win. David karate started the scoring for Boston on the power play, and then four minutes later, Jake dubrov added the game winner on an assist from Brian marchand. Linus Olmert made 40 saves for the victory, including 22 in the second period.
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Cyclone Freddy wanes after battering Malawi, Mozambique
"Cyclo Freddy is finally set to move away from land after killing hundreds and displacing thousands, as it barreled through Mozambique and Malawi since late last week, The Rain continued to fall in the storm ravaged region of plants higher in Malawi over 200 people have died in the country since hurricane Freddie made landfall days earlier, local government minister Richard shin Wendell Banda said floodwaters were slowing down the rescue efforts. Our efforts to reach out. In California, Mozambique, many who had to abandon their homes like Linus Jackson, took shelter in schools. She said, we are still wearing the same clothes since we arrived here when it comes to food. It's not enough. We
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Bruins fastest to 50 wins in NHL history, beat Red Wings 3-2
"The bruins are the fastest team to 50 wins after knocking off the red wings three two. Boston newcomer garnet Hathaway scored in the third period to break a two all deadlock in the bruins 64th game. Detroit actually led to nothing until hampus lindholm and Patrice bergeron scored 88 seconds apart in the second period. Linus Omar stopped 30 shots and the bees 11th victory in 12 games. Magnus helberg made 35 saves for the wings who continued to fade out of the playoff picture with their 7th loss in 8 games. I'm Dave fairy.
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NHL-best Bruins edge Penguins in Winter Classic
"At the winter classic at Fenway Park, the Boston Bruins scored two third period goals, both by Jake de brusque to defeat the Pittsburgh penguins two to one. De brass first goal came 7 46 into the third and tied it at one. The second of the period in the game winner came with just two 24 left in regulation. I think it was actually just one of those things where it was just happened probably at a ten second time frame. I can't really remember. I mean, I remember being on the ground and seeing it in, but definitely was lucky on that one and happy to contribute. In net for the bruins, Linus Olmert made 25 C's and kept the bruins undefeated in regulation at home. Great cadets, Boston.
VOICE Global 2021
Aaron Mullaniff and Katy Beehler Discuss Bookshare, an Accessible Online Library
"My name is aaron. And i'm working as since you started this officer with the ncbi for viewers and our listeners. Today that is actually kinds of blind all the way over in ireland and one of the services at insight which i have been heavily involved in over the last number of years is the library access service and about three years ago. We sold to go international to find best practice solutions to major problem. We were having When it came to blind division students accessing their curriculum in a timely former that question indeed has brought us to attack. Who are who. We ultimately partnered with to create the largest digital library in ireland which is now called berkshire are. I'm delighted to say that we've been joined here today by katie bieler. Who is product manager in global literacy at benedict who has played a huge role in bringing book shirt. Ireland so katie. Maybe we'll just start off by telling us a little bit about yourself on indeed butcher. Thanks our end banking introduction as you said. I am product manager global education and literacy I came to software product management by way of the publishing industry actually and have worked and software service products for almost ten years. Now i joined about two years ago. And i'm one of the leaf product managers on cher bookstore. Initiative is the world's largest digital library of accessible e books for people who read differently with people or book share people with dyslexia linus low vision. Zero quasi and other print disabilities can access over nine hundred. Fifty thousand evokes informat audio audio plus islands tax radio enlarge on the gook share team. I have the great privilege of helping to create another way. Book share members to read their books by adding smart speaker option.
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Into The Nothing With Gabriel Cousens
"It's so interesting to to talk to you. Because and i'm just going to share a bit about you with mindful tribe. You're a world renowned holistic physician a rabbi yogi spiritual mystic. You're a psychiatrist. A family therapist a humanitarian. A peace ambassador. And there's just so much to share about you and It it says here that you live in the world between nothing which is the world beyond time and something which is the temporal world. So let's start there. How did you get to the point where you see yourself. As as living in this world between nothing and something it had been gradually it was back philosophical. I lived in india for seven years and begin editing about six hours a day and also focusing intense contemplation on the divine name with chanting During the time. I begin to move into the nothing. No what is the nothing you disappear as a separate ego as a separate linus and there's only that or in that said is nothing to say the just but the point is that is that just quiet but you are there. There's not a you with a quiet mind you disappear. There's only durant
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Loneliness in science fiction with Aliya Whiteley
"Welcome to breaking the glass slipper. I'm mcginley i'm short bond and i'm lacey handsome space. The final frontier an empty endless expensive nothing teeming with life. But you really need to look beyond the confines of our will to find loneliness. We are currently fighting pandemic and in its wake a loneliness epidemic despite a constant striving for companionship. It could be said that to be lonely is to be human. And what's more human than exploring our hopes and fizz in literature so here to help us discuss loneliness and the human condition a seen through the science fiction lens is the incomparable leah. Whiteley thank you for joining us today. Would you please like to introduce yourself to our listeners. Even though you have been on once before but we love you so much that you all here to join us again. I have been on before. I'm delighted to be here again. I thank you for that I'm elliot wisely right strange novels and short stories up and doing that for a while. That's that's it. that's what i do. Oh i should probably say the sky is the is the new one. That's coming in march. Yes and it's very good. I just finished it and enjoy it. That's good yes. I think i was explaining to my partner like your books. I heart this. You find this compliments for me. You'll books up fabulously weird. That's definitely a compliment. Yeah okay. I like it. When books really surprised me. So i try and write books already surprise other people. Get what you think. I just don't know where this is going to go. I think that's that's kind of what i'm aiming for time so definitely achieved beauty. I'd really did. Yeah i think i really. I really pushed that. Want as far as i possibly could so successfully. No i say. I was a recommend not people was think about all well my recommending this to in it could be okay with that. Yeah they're going to be okay with it. Yeah i know what you mean you need to check with is going to be the right audience for it but i do. I do love it when people come to that one and and read it through for the first time. so let's carry on and turn our minds to loneliness. Wow yeah i want to apologize to everybody for the whole just about to sit here and talk for an hour by loneliness which might not be what anybody wants to talk about it right now. So there we go there. Is that but meziane on the coal. Let's turn it is topical but also we talk about learning. There's an understanding linus. Maybe we'll come to find some sort of feeling of togetherness and now. I feel a bit like some sort of hippie but yes that is the thing about loneliness isn't it. Is the paradox at the heart of it. Is you got to be able to describe it to somebody else to achieve togetherness loneliness togetherness and as you say. It's a little bit strange okay. Well let's let's start. So why do you think that stories of of isolation and loneliness so common particularly in saifi so. I think that i hadn't really thought about it in those terms in till you kinda said that. That's where the conversation Might go in preparation for this and Then it really reminded me of a bike. Do dote sorry for that. It reminds me of when i used to be a chambermaid. For years in my in my teenage years. I used to work hotel over the summer months and one day i was doing the rhymes and went into room twenty-seven and walked in there and just had the strongest sation that something wasn't right but i couldn't have put my finger on what it was and then i saw like a very big black fly on the wall. I just had that feeling that something wasn't right. And i saw another fly and another one i turned around in the hole behind me was just covered in flies. Just black with them. They'd kind of blocked there all over the windows while they blocked at the sunlight. And i went downstairs and said we're gonna fly problem in room twenty seven and i was presented with account of fly spray and towed to to go and deal with it tonight and i felt extreme loneliness as i walked. Walked back to that room to to deal with the fly. Problem and sort of sprayed halfheartedly with the counter fly spray at a few of them and just thought this is. This is never going to. This is never going to work and Yes i think once you start looking at the doesn't think back in truck in a strange way. Once you start looking at the loneliness in saifi then you you see. It won't twice. She said three times. And then you turn ryan. It's just absolutely everywhere. I'm beginning to think it might be the pervasive factor in in science fiction and even in literature in general it fights like the loneliness of the human condition. Yeah so that's where. I am with that right now but i wasn't really thinking about that until you asked me about loneliness now. It's kind of all. I can think about right now. So thank you.
Talking Tech
Hands on with Samsung's Galaxy S21
"Apple. Recent iphone successes. We talked about yesterday. I guess samsung is pretty worried. Mike and not so much. I'm an iphone user. You know the company bought me an iphone. It was the first three g iphone. Maybe the original iphone for work. So i've become an iphone user. But i've been playing with a pair of new samsung galaxy. S twenty one models. The last few days and i think there's a lot of cool features that'll drive sales and upgrades a new galaxy. Count so know. One thing that a lot of folks were happy to hear about. Is that the entry prices for these. New phones are two hundred dollars. Cheaper compared to the previous models the other interesting part that i'm still boggled by his the s twenty one ultra which is the higher end version of samsung's new smartphones has five cameras. It's incredible when you look at it. It's sleep beautiful device. But it's like you've almost got it's like a giant domino because you've got these dots on the back the deuce some crazy things. So there's there's one camera for the front and this four on the back and there's a telephoto that's made up of to zoom lenses you go up to one hundred zoom now. What i got to do with that which was pretty cool. Is i use it outside and took pictures of the moon. You could actually get the surfaces of the moon so it's like you could see the tranquility or whatever those places are on a moon so it's the best moon photo i've ever taken in my life so if you like to take moon pictures you know. That's exactly the model. You're gonna want now. All the models have beautiful displays and they're smart so what that means is refresh rate varies depending on what you're doing on the screen. So when you scroll through apps refresh rate increases so it looks extra smooth. So that's really cool. It feels like things are moving fast. The twenty one in the twenty one plus or hd displays while the s twenty one ultra is equivalent to four k quality. All the phones have an improved portrait mode that lets you add blur studio light in another effects Another cool feature is something called directors view which shows multiple angles. While you shoot video and then let you as you shooting you choose the one you prefer so can change. Whatever you're shooting and then it'll start recording that mode and within that you can also opt for what sam calls a flogger mode which records a selfie point of view at the same time as you record what's happening in front of you which could be cool for when people like online influencers then if you have you know if you have kids or patching love to take pictures of them of course if you have them you do There's an eight k video mode let you shoot a video clip and then when you're done grabbing individual image for hi rez photo. Sometimes you can't get your kid to pose right so you just shoot like five or six seconds of video and then you could pull the image out of that Dogs and cats. you know. Same thing they don't always pose really well so another returning feature from the previous linus. Something called single. Take that captures ten seconds of imagery. You like same picture something and asked me to move around slightly to get slightly different angles. Then when it's done you can go back and choose the best best pictures or short video clips and when you're done so the improvements and all these features and more. I think samsung won't likely lose ground in the smartphone. Wars this
Anything But Idle
Apple Releases Revised Version of iOS 14.2 for iPhone 12
"Let's begin with apple. News apple release fourteen point two but he was a interesting released of this on the past but he was specifically for the iphone. Twelve meany and fixing text messages on a couple of other box so they have done these days and i think part of the reason they have done. This is to avoid leaking This is not the first time they needed it. But pay if you got a an iphone twelve meaning make sure that you update to the the last of the reid version of this Our next one is About talking about features of Big mac os or and you know now that they've been using it more Even dad is still is not my main machine. I'm continue impress of how well certain things work. In comparison to catalina again. I'm mike book is not mike main driver. My main drivers pat but there is still things that i do in in the macbook. An ibm impressed. How my old. I have an old mike. Macaire two thousand thirteen because there is no reason to upgraded but dad now having the same messages between the ipad and macbook. Dad has been nice because it was something that you know a lot of times you get down and get a message from just go. Pick another device because he was so annoying how that works so there are things like that that has worked incredibly well Interestingly enough i was really looking forward for the ipods switching between the devices and dot has turned to be a nightmare it may be. Because i have too many of them. I don't know but a lot of times. I am on a coal on the and then i moved my head or change device on suddenly i lose the call that has been annoying their ways to fix it you can tell them basically disable they switching but it was something that i really was looking forward. The romantic idea of yes and grabbed the other device and change out the medically am. I really didn't thought about yet. But what what when you're using multiple devices in the same call That do not work as well as i planning my mind our next Item is creek for the regency talking about running native window on the aim. One and on the new max chipset then us. On the reports we have seen has meaning credible On this chipset and it makes sense. I mean they integrate everything they made it in a really nice way and even the reports we have seen on his speech on on the mac sunday comparisons between the old macbooks macbook pro with the new ones are really incredible on so many ways so there is a lot of people wondering can i put windows in this thing and so far you cannot. I was reading over the weekend. Somebody ready port i version of it nut deficiency microsoft version but as for the for the rugged said it's up to microsoft and base it on what we have seen on the news lately about other companies looking to get into this arm. I may see us a possibility that they really jump into this one. I'm i'm skeptical. I think that you know eventually you know someone will make microsoft windows at least version. Ten work on the m one chips The reality though is that apple is I even heard linus torvalds the progenitor of the olympics colonel which we all know is running a people say lennox. But it's really the open source operates on top of that and the you know the whole notion of the m one chips is that apple is moving into this more island unto itself architecture creating a a privacy wall around their entire ecosystem and they're only letting in those who they want to let in and So i'm really curious whether or not this is really there Shot across the bow to all suffer developers. You'll all you know folks. Generally that they're going to be controlling this. And if you wanna play with them you've got to play by their rules and they do it now. 'cause they're making the chip they're making you know they're making everything So yeah. I'm i'm not particularly interested in running windows on a mac anyway but i think that you know seeing folks kind of bend the rules and making it work will be interesting to watch.
The CheapWineFinder Podcast
Amancaya Reserve Red Blend 2017 Review
"And did it from cheap wine platter. Tom again with another line review that we just rode up. I need cheap wine fighter website, Unless one is kind of interesting. It's called the mayor Reserve read a 72% Malbec 28% off on from Mendoza in Argentina. And this one's party trick is that the name of the winery is a Bluegrass took it off and it is a joint effort between the main veterans de Rothschild left feet from where don't and Nicholas cantina song Argentina and both of these folks have been in the wine business since the eighteen hundreds. So it's two prestigious families run France won our genome. Let me together to make it a a wine here and this is their upscale affordable. You're going to find this between maybe we're about $18 a couple of bucks either way. And it's a really solidly made wine and there's an interesting story. I'm going to kind of slip in here about the combination of bald back there something wrong. Then the 18000s Bombeck was a one of the main grapes Bordeaux along with nowadays. It's Jose Murillo and Cabernet Franc and proceed Ford. Oh and I forgot what the other ones are. They're just little blending grapes, but flokstra, which a little pests and diseases vintage after vintage off just to make crafts this Whenever Wherever they'd lose whole vintagers, but they actually went to yaohan Spain just too which didn't have the problems just to secure wines down there and not improve their cuz back then a little more rustic but all the real has now one of the leading wine regions in the world, but back then France went down there to get wind down. Dump for all the stuff they were losing and it got to the point where the moderate group had so many bad Visions year after year that they quit growing up. So it's kind of like a lost group of Bordeaux and turns out if the DNA tests that you know, cuz they thought well, it's gone for good. There is still Malbec and France cahors areas in the south of France still a huge buyback region. It turns out that sometimes somewhere someone sent all that great Direction chain has been rioting in there. So Cabernet Sauvignon and mulberry and this is basically the grandkids of the Bordeaux Malbec were always meant to go together. So this is actually a really, really really kind of cool line. It's it's a you know, it's something that should have been a long time ago and as a couple a hundred years where it didn't happen except in my class right now, I'm taking a sip It's a really well-made Linus think it's ninety plus points and all the wine magazines every year and it's just got this really nice balanced a seamless. It's got a lot of flavor flavors don't go too overboard. You can tell French but it's a little bit, you know, a lot of french fries are kind of sweet, but there's some good food here the Scat Pack, you know, it doesn't just not all Just Bounce just labor too. That's pretty nice. Yeah. That's your taste. Great. What else is there? Oh, it's a 50% in Oak barrels when they age it and the other fifty percent is cement vast and you're asking yourself for a concrete. That's I think is the right word. Why would they put it in concrete? That's that sounds kind of brutal, but it turns out that the thickness of the side walls of the concrete on the bottom and then they put on top this picking up that The Lion King. Side is fairly stable line when it changes loves to have constant temperature and humidity a stainless steel vent has been well as it's supposed line is clean, but you're not going to get the the the the the protection from the temperature changes. Everything else Oak barrels are great, but using them for thousands of years, but then again those Big Flats of the oak only do so much concrete gotta put some wine where it needs to be. So you're going to see more than that. Can I am actually works in this to this wine? Taste r a i mean it's it's you know, usually what 90.1 is I don't understand why someone likes us so much. You know, this one is like yeah, it's one of those ones that are so good that it doesn't take an expert to tell you that you know go. I think anyone that takes good to you is I wanted to taste good you don't need an expert but yeah this great-tasting wage. The Malbec and the Cabernet Sauvignon just dance together and they'd go ask this flavors as long as lean as flavorful tannins the other way and it's it's not good. So keep Ur cheap the next one and I'll talk to everybody a little bit adios.
Z Morning Zoo
Megan Thee Stallion Says Tory Lanez Shot Her
"After she was shot in the feet out of party in Hollywood Hills making the stallion said for the first time on Instagram live last night that Tory lanes in fact, was the person who shot her. Nope. Here we go. Yes, story shot me. And you got your publicist and your people going to these blog's Linus, Stop lying. I try T o. Keep the situation off the Internet, but you're dragging it. I never hit you. You shot me is only me, you my homegirl. Your security. Everybody in the car, arguing. I'm in a first seat in the back seat. I'll get out the car. I'm done arguing. I won't argue no more. I'm walking away from out. The backseat of a car star showed me You're shocked me when the police came. I'm scared all these along with the police. The police was literally killing black people for no reason. So does the police. Tell us, I'll get up in car. The police is really aggressive. You think I'm about to tell the police there? We black people got a gun in the car. Shoot all of us. Why not tell the law's somebody gotta good in his car and shot me so I could get you so okay. Physically, she's saying that This whole time, she knew has just kept your mouth shut about this whole situation Just because just because and now she's just sick and tired. Tory's people go into all these blog's impressed this and that, and she's like, you know. Yes, he shot me and you know what? Yes, I didn't tell the police anything because in the moment I was afraid this is her testimony. What she said. And there you have it now leave everything she said. She did handle it really well. When it first happened, she did keep everything off the Internet. She could've day one She could Dae Won said. This crazy idiot shot me. His name's storyline. Means and this is what happened and let me tell you exactly how it went down. She didn't say word one, and now she's made it worse for him because, she said, we were all arguing. I was out of the car and he shot me as my back was to him from the back seat. It doesn't look good and a
CRISPR Cuts
CRISPR Office Hours with Hamid Ghanadaan
"However presently the new thing in everyone's lives is over nineteen pandemic most of us are working from home and a distinct to this new non but we know it is difficult especially for scientists whose daily routine is to work in the lab and now they after transition to award from environment so in this episode. We're going to do something. Different can have a crisper officer session a platform to come together and discuss the impact of Covid nineteen on science and scientist Kevin Harlan head of signs at Santiago and additive empathy. Vp of marketing. It's Anthonio will host the session and our special guest is how Meka Don. Ceo of the Liners Group. I hope you enjoy this episode and feed supported by the scientific community despite being confined to homes right now so let's get started. Good morning everybody. We're all actually working from if you will but more likely in reality were trying to work in poem through a crisis pandemic so my name's Kevin Holding I'm the head of scientists go so hopefully this'll be the first of many of these weekly chats we can do. We'd like to engage you. The scientific community and people working specifically either genome engineering or maybe a working in a different area science just interested to talk to us and let us keep you company through this time so awesome. Thank you hi everyone. My name is Hamid Gone. I'm the founder and CEO of the strategy and insights firm. Linus and we are focused on the life science and health and wellness industry and we provide insights and strategy and innovation for this industry. And I'm delighted to be here with our friends at San Diego and to participate in this crisper office hours. I'm very passionate about science and looking forward to seeing what I can provide to help. Everybody get through this time. Great thank you to meet in elementary myself. My name is empty and I'm the VP of marketing Ago One of the biggest reasons why unbelievable scientific community is just the power to invoke change the power to really push humanity forward and while we are in a pandemic. I feel this is one of those moments where we can get together as a community as humans and make a difference so as we're going through this there's actually some interesting things that meet in. His team have done in this pandemic to really understand the community. What we're going through in. How can support one another? Do you WanNa take a moment to start off with. That means. Sure I'll just very quickly tee it up so as all of these stay at home. Guidances and shelter in place guidances. Were coming out in the early half toward the end of March. My team decided to deploy a global survey about what's happening in how the life science community is feeling. And so I'm here with the initial results of that to share with your ten season and going forward and Kevin is going to ask me some questions about it and we're just gonNA share some of the key findings with all of you and will go from there great. Yeah Actually Hamida difficult question. Actually I about Linus the company Wide You. Call it minus. Thanks for asking. So I'm the founder of blindness in the company is almost twenty twenty four years old and I was looking to pay homage to one of the great scientists that had influenced me and my life who is Linus Pauling. And there's a couple reasons why he really stood out to me as somebody who is really unique is that he is the only scientists to win two unshared. Nobel prizes one for his work in Chemistry and then the other one. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti nuclear proliferation. Work and also what's unique about him is that he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a body of work that he had done not for a specific experiment and so he really struck me as somebody who is a renaissance person. And so I WANNA pay my loose on mosh to Linus Pauling and so and the name. Linus is easy to say. It's simple and I really liked it and so linus it is. I was hoping be Charlie Brown referencing there but I guess you know it's funny. You say that when I was doing research on the name it did invoke a lot of Linus Van Pelt. I think is the name of the Charlie Brown character and what I found is. I didn't know who this character was. I had to watch a whole bunch of Charlie Brown to figure out if this is a good person or not and I. I found him to be graded. He's he's a wonderful person. When people make that connection with Charlie Brown they actually remember the name of the company more and even if they've never heard of us they think they've heard about so. I thought it was all positive that that connection exists in even though that wasn't the original intention or the inspiration. I'm all very happy about it. Thanks for thanks for sharing that so I would say probably a lot of our audience. They're here most of them. I would assume are working from home. And they're not in the lab right now and so many of them actually will be genome engineers who are utilizing crisper for a bunch of different reasons in their research. Can you maybe tell us what inspired you to do this? Poll specifically now that we're entering this pandemic. Yes so my colleague and President Kristen Apple and I were actually on March twelfth on our way to a meeting here in Boulder and we received a call from the person with whom we were going to meet and that person decided to cancel the meeting and within a matter of minutes many of our meetings got cancelled and so we decided that we needed to find out what's happening within the life science community and to provide this information for the community for all sides of the community so the so that we can all understand and anticipate what's happening and more importantly for people not to make decisions based on panic or anecdote and so we want to provide at least some grounding on what's going on and what to expect so that decisions get made and better decisions get made and maybe even opportunities arise out of this. Pandemic that was the original impetus behind. We moved really quickly so I mentioned we had this experience on March twelfth. We launched a survey on March thirteen and we had an initial baseline so march thirteenth was a Friday and we had an initial baseline by the end of the day that Monday. And then we've taken to time points since then and we're going to publish the Knicks major time point at the end of next week so we're starting to look at how this thing is progressing within the life science community in what the community is doing. Great maybe when it started in and start talking about the work that you've done so we were able to gather just over a thousand respondents for what we're calling. The baseline study almost two thirds of the respondents were academics or working in university and then the remainder work in a variety of different institutions. Many of them private business like Pharma Biotech. Cro's and manufacturers of other
The Von Haessler Doctrine
Physical distancing 'impossible' for the deafblind amid COVID
"Imagine being unable to see or hear throughout all of this the one sense you truly rely on that sense of touch it's also been taken away from you a lot of ways there are thousands of Americans brought home the last month and a half has seriously challenged their ability to thrive A. B. C.'s Devin Dwyer reports on deaf blind Americans grappling with isolation and social distancing during the pandemic most of the sights and sounds of the inescapable the number of cases of coronavirus spiking here in the U. S. this is a terrible experience but for some Americans the scope of this outbreak has been uniquely difficult to face my name is Philip was murder I am deaf blind Philip Wismer student a gala that university Washington DC is one of an estimated forty thousand Americans facing cope with nineteen while unable to clearly see or hear I have not gone off campus since March eighteenth I only come out of my dorm to get food get the mail and that's about it it sounds lonely yeah it is sometimes I I do feel wrongly my other friends that are completely blind feeling very very isolated deaf blind Americans survive by touch hand over hand to communicate fingers on braille signs for mobility hugs and handshakes to feel connected experts say deaf blindness is a spectrum not everyone experiences complete darkness and total silence but touch is critical now comes with significant health risks in many guides are fearful of being touched and touching back twenty eight year old Tyler Samuel of Nashville Tennessee says she's fighting that loneliness relying on our partner for help with daily tasks the genetic condition since birth is degraded her hearing and sight line you're just really worried that I wouldn't wouldn't find an independent and when you do find it you don't want to lose it and so for it to be kind of chipped away is it kind of lowers your self esteem Samuel still walks to work every day by herself this is mine now can empty walk home pediatric surgery coordinator at Vanderbilt University hospital she's a freelance opera singer with dreams of going big the pandemic has prompted some soul searching I lost a friend I go to pick her up and she was very young and thirty early thirties and it prompted me to go head to get my mastectomy will together that's something that I want it like my wishes to me now a trip to the hospital is what many deaf blind Americans told ABC news they fear most there's an assumption in a lot of medical community is that it's better to speak Jack then disable Hoppin girl is a leading advocate for the community I would be terrified I would not get communication a sense that I would not get the care I need to get the virus and go to the hospital she says it's a fight for equality the daughter of an Eritrean refugee Irma is the first deaf blind woman to graduate from Harvard law school in twenty fifteen president Obama recognized her as a champion of change when I'm asking questions today hop and you're actually feeling my questions with your fingers please ask me questions I with her special braille keyboard guide dog Milo by your side Girma an informal network of deaf blind advocates are determined not to be forgotten it's certainly not and Saxena hobby disability and should deal with death Linus I think makes people very you know uncomfortable generally Rebecca Alexander of New York City wants the world to know that deaf blind professionals can pitch in to she's volunteering her services as a counselor to hospital workers on the front lines just knowing that even someone like me who the community I think at large if they knew how limited my vision and my hearing was they might not consider via someone they would reach out to for help and it does feel good to be able to provide that Ashley Benton who coordinates services for the deaf blind in North Carolina says police in rural areas are checking on residents who don't have technology to communicate they contacted us which was beautiful so we were able to work with the officers who have the appropriate PP to go in and check on the step one consumer to make sure they were safe it's so important because we're always together near Seattle deaf blind sisters Nancy and Debbie summer sticking together through it all but we can't all thank goodness we have computers we can talk with each other yeah I think the persistence to stay connected and to contribute to the recovery the deaf blind community raising its voice in its own way what do you like a missing these days I love queen I like the end all of what you mean rap city and like so many dreaming of that big escape after cove it what I would like to do after this is all over with it's taking
The Next Right Thing
Welcome Your Loneliness
"In our last episode episode. One thirteen eighteen decide to decide. I shared. How sometimes decision stresses out? Because we haven't named what the decision is in the first place so it just lingers UNMADE beneath the surface. Because we haven't pulled it out to decide to decide those kinds of UNMADE decisions. Hold sneaky power over us because we are uncomfortable or unsettled. But we don't exactly know why while in that episode I share. I think three things to do when that's the case for me and maybe that will help you too but today's episode is kind of the opposite. It's when we feel uncomfortable or unsettled but it isn't because of an unmade decision or unidentified decision. It's just because of the state of things. We wish. There was a decision to be made an action step to take or formula to follow instead instead. There's just US unsure about what to do who to ask or WHO's in our corner in my letter to my readers last week. I mentioned some loneliness I've been experiencing experiencing lately and a reader wrote back and asked me to share more about that when my first response in my head was a sharp away but then my second thought was maybe and the ellipses that follows. That may be. Well that's Today's episode. Welcome when we're feeling lonely was our next right thing. I can't say I really have answers to that question but I do have words and I do have stories and sometimes when you're feeling lonely words in stories land better than answers I do anyway. Listen my husband. John and I are in our eighteenth year of marriage in our relationship. Ship is one of the greatest gifts of my life. That is true. What is also true? Is that several times over the past few months. I've heard these words come out of my mouth in in conversation with other people I've experienced more loneliness after I got married that I ever did before I got married. Now that's not really a commentary on the the state of our marriage more it reveals that when I was twenty four when we got married I probably expected not to be lonely ever again after our wedding day. That's rookie mistake. Steak number one over the past two decades. I've been learning how wrong that assumption was now as a white middle class college educated woman who lived with supportive parents or lovely roommates of until I was married my life. Experience does not necessarily scream lonely. In the way I know so many people might experience reince loneliness. The kind that accompanies divorce neglect abuse homelessness single parenting death of a spouse or parent or child. These have have not been part of my personal story yet but they might be part of yours. Of course we know. Some degree of loneliness can visit us no matter our circumstance no matter better where we live or who lives with us and feelings of loneliness or not reserved for those who are alone. Let's just say that we also I hope no that just because you're married. Mary doesn't mean you don't experience loneliness and just because you're single doesn't mean that you do. The experience of loneliness really is not contingent upon where we live. How much many we have our employment or relationship status? But upon the fact that we are human lately my most profound sense of loneliness has revolved around on my work. So that's the angle from which I'll talk about loneliness today but no matter where you are in your feelings of loneliness. Perhaps you can still relate. I attended my first professional conference seventeen years ago when I worked for a local university as the sign language interpreter coordinator. I flew to Chicago to learn. Learn more about the craft of sign language interpreting and to meet with other interpreters from all over the country. I was also twelve weeks. Pregnant with the twins at that time mm-hmm so one memory that stands out. The most of that conference for me was feeling constantly sick and getting up early to walk to the starbucks around the corner so I could get some orange juice with ice but there are other things I remember about that conference. Two and one of them was the pressure anxiety. I felt to make connections to rub shoulders to network as they say. PS anytime. I hear the word network. I picture a convoluted ball of tangled up wires with frayed edges all searching searching for a spark or a connection brain so weird. I don't remember any of the people I networked with and pretty sure. I didn't do it right but I do. Remember from my roommate's stacy who was the interpreter coordinator at a neighbouring college and who I only knew from a distance but we decided to room together and she brought me T- when she knew I wasn't feeling well while she was kind and I was grateful. So I remember stacey and cold orange juice and anxiety and Chicago and johns voice on the other end of the phone offering comfort and encouragement me because I was desperately lonely that week. I was lonely for a lot of reasons. I'm sure but mainly looking back. I know a big part of it was because because I was sent there by my boss on the university's time and he wanted to make sure they got their money's worth but the problem for me was. I wasn't sure how to make that happen. I wasn't sure what was was expected of me wasn't sure how to measure my own success. I didn't feel adequate to be in the room with all these famous interpreters. Yes you heard that right if you don't don't already know this. Every profession has their own celebrities in sign language. Interpreting is not immune from it in some circles even motherhood seem to have celebrities. PTA President anyone room anyone parents with the best house for the kids to hang out and yet every profession has celebrities. Maybe he's not celebrities like in the Hollywood would Oscar and Grammy Sense of the word but in every business in every work. There are those who seem to belong. Who arrived who have made it and are doing it right? And then there's the rest of US wondering if we have what it takes to do this work well or even at all and even though that was seventeen years ago and even though I'm an an entirely different profession now writing books hosting this podcast co running a membership cypher writers. Even though some might say I'm a writer writer who has arrived or WHO's made it. I will say to you that while there are a lot of insecurities. I have overcome after ten years of doing this work. There are a lot of hurdles that crossed over and fears that I've pushed through yes. There are many first-timer experiences that I've grown out of but loneliness linus is not one of them. And that's where I was when I wrote my end of the month letter to my readers. I was naming some loneliness I've been experiencing in my work lately even though I have a lot of friends. Who Do this work? Even though I've been doing it for a while now even though I for the most part no where to go to get my questions answered served still when you have a job to do especially when you're the one calling the shots making the decisions or the manager of people in some way there's a natural loneliness that accompanies that space at the end of the literal day. I am the only one who can do my next thing. I am the only one who can write my next book. DOC or make decisions about vision and Next Steps in my work and you're the only one who can do that in your work to as it turns out you can't can't network your way out of loneliness and maybe that's what I was trying to do at that first professional conference maybe I was making it too hard. Maybe I needed to look no further than my roommate and let that be enough for that particular trip. Now it's true. Networking is a corporate word. And I'm not really a corporate girl. But just because I don't like the word networking doesn't excuse me from doing my job. Let me say that plainly networking is part of my job. It's part of a lot of are jobs actually just because we don't feel skilled at something doesn't mean we don't have to do it. We can't change the game but we can change how we approach it how we talk about it and and our posture toward it for several summers my editor and I co at a session at a conference for writers where we offered twelve truths to know before you write your next book book will writers would come up to me after that session and ask questions questions. Like how do I grow my readership. Or How do I build my platform and people still ask me those questions now. Inside of Hope Raiders. My membership safer raiders. And they're good honest fantastic questions and when I hear those questions I find myself wanting to offer both a hug and also wanting to fling heavy objects across the room is not because I'm mad that the questions are being asked it's just because I have a complicated relationship ship with networking if you haven't figured out yet here's the thing you are a person and I am too and we desperately need each other. We eat our kids leftover macaroni and cheese and we need to plug are eyebrows on the regular and we hold our hearts together with smiles shape band aids and handful of oreo cookies past the milk. Please he's I can't do this without you. So how does this conversation about networking connect with these feelings of loneliness. Good question thank you for asking well simply imperfectly. I think part of it is this when we feel lonely in our work it can seem like the answer is to network fine people who get what you do. Who can support what you do and who you can support to an honestly? I'm being so for real here. I think that is part of the answer. I think that's vital actually early. If you don't know people who get what you do find them find them yester- now as my sister. My coin would say that is your next right
Dishing Up Nutrition
Eat Your Way to Health
"You've been listening to dishing up nutrition for a few years. You're well aware that you can you you can use food to help manage any chronic health condition really. My clients offered report that after being on real food eating plan their cholesterol numbers go back into normal range. Their joint pain eases their blood pressure drops. They're diabetic numbers improve and their muscle. Muscle aches and pains. Go Away. The bottom line is this real food eating plan. Can it can work miracles on nutritional at Nutritional Herschel weight and wellness we always say what are we say. Food matters food matters but sadly I think many people pay attention to what they eat in the Howard is they don't pay attention to what they're eating and how it affects not only their body but their brain right and I found that when I work with clients if they're knee pain goes away after they stop up eating sugar and process carbs. They will usually give up. Those sweet treats or those things that caused that pain. They quickly learned that. Only a few bites of a muffin or or their favorite cookies. BEF- will cause that knee pain to return this gives them a really strong reminder. That eating sugar hurts them. I mean it's a physical hurt. They can they can feel if they eat it and feel it and although sugar is sweet and Yummy it is not their friend and what I find rather interesting though is that somehow many people with diabetes or prediabetes don't connect how processed carbs and sugar so foods that come from bags or boxes or those the center aisles of the grocery store how those processes carbs and sugar affect their blood blood sugar numbers or their a one C levels. Sugar is still hurting their body. But it's a different kind of hurt. It's a slow breakdown of their body and their brain rain if a client eats a muffin and they get knee pain. They get that immediate feedback. But if that muffin POPs up their blood sugar to one forty one six st or even two hundred people are not aware of the damage being done to the Kennedys and the their heart. Because they don't feel it. You don't feel high blood edge sugar like you feel knee pain he no. It's really like the the frog in the pot on the stove. Heat it very slowly. The FROG has no realization that their he's being he's being killed slowly rain. That's sort of our situation as we eat. And we incorporate these foods at present over a one hundred million people have prediabetes. They've been told over and over the leading cause of type. Two diabetes is eating excess sugar and flour but they continue to choose muffins and bread over meat vegetables. And good fat. You Know Teresa as I. I was reading the book the Case Ace against sugar by Gary Tabs. I found a little excerpt that I thought was appropriate for this Topic and he says as we become e- ever more insulin. Resistance and glucose intolerant as our blood sugar gets higher along with our insulin levels. As our blood pressure elevates and we get fatter we are more likely to be diagnosed as diabetic and manifest the diseases and conditions that associated with diabetes. These include not not just heart disease by Gout Cancer Alzheimer's and a cluster of Western diseases. But all the conditions typically perceived Lebed as complications of diabetes such as vascular disease lead to strokes dementia and kidney disease retinopathy linus cataracts plaque deposits and the arteries of the heart Leading to heart attacks or the legs and feet leading to amputations neuropathy all of these are are connected to how much sugary eating. Yeah and you think sure. It's just so innocent. It's so sweet and simple and delicious. Yes yeah it's so true that we continue to choose these processed foods over meat vegetables and good fats. And it's very unfortunate that these kinds of foods those processed foods foods are so addicting to most of us. Maybe not everybody but I would say the good majority of us as humans. We see him. hardwired hired to pick sugar laden foods over vegetables and of course the food manufacturers are keenly aware that a product will sell better when sugar was added to it so for example think of pickles even dough pickles. That don't taste sweet. If you go to the grocery store and you just kind of pick up a jar of any major braniff pickles. You'll usually find sugar or high fructose Corn Syrup in the label. Isn't that crazy. Yeah it's crazy because this isn't a sweet food so it makes makes you wonder. Is this how we build brand loyalty. is it that there is just enough sugar. Maybe we don't taste it. There's just enough sugar there to tickle our brain because we know it so addictive And there's other foods like that too. I mean just go through the aisles. We have spaghetti sauce or peanut butter. You know those those those hidden sugars that overtime it all build up and people will say well. It doesn't taste delicious and I to switch to these brands at don't Chagrin. I'm I'm like if you give your your palate two to three weeks. He'll switch over and you don't have those addicted. Pay a taste buds. So there's so many books and excerpts telling people oh how to eat their way back to better health but there are also a lot of mixed messages with unrealistic expectations so often people will say if the excerpts if the experts spurts can't agree. I'll just eat whatever I want right most likely. It's something high in sugar. It's a cop out really really and it's just a really nice excuse for us not really whatever we want right. Well the experts category. So why don't we just have the sugar. Yeah it's a justification honestly that we we can just eat whatever we want to eat because if they can agree. I'll just whistle. Pass the graveyard. Yes well well. You are listening to dishing up nutrition if you have type two diabetes cholesterol issues heart disease or cancer and you currently eat the standard American Diet. The sad diet we recommend recommend upgrading. Your food choices. It begins with the belief that you are worth it. You are worth eating better to better your