119: The Sardine Warlord of the Wasteland

00:00SPEAKER- Why isn't it wordle.com?

00:02SPEAKERWhat do you think?

00:02SPEAKERWhat is that wordle.com?

00:03SPEAKERI need to know because they really should have

00:04SPEAKERjust gone with that.

00:06SPEAKER- There are so many mobile apps called Wordle.

00:09SPEAKER- Oh, of course.

00:10SPEAKER- Like if you search the app store for Wordle,

00:11SPEAKERyou get like 16 different results.

00:13SPEAKER- Of course, wow.

00:14SPEAKER- Yeah.

00:15SPEAKER- I went to wordle.com.

00:16SPEAKERFirst of all, it forwarded me to www12.wordle.com.

00:20SPEAKER- Oh yeah, www12, one of my favorite websites.

00:23SPEAKER- But also the entirety of the page that came up

00:25SPEAKERis just a big white page that just says wordle.com,

00:27SPEAKER2021 copyright, all rights reserved.

00:29SPEAKERAnd a link to a privacy policy.

00:32SPEAKER- I love Wordle, Brad.

00:34SPEAKER- Wordle's pretty good.

00:35SPEAKERI still haven't memorized the actual address.

00:37SPEAKERSo let me just Google it and should I--

00:39SPEAKER- I only play on my phone.

00:41SPEAKER'Cause like it's all saved in cookies, it seems like.

00:43SPEAKER- Oh, wait, what are they saving?

00:45SPEAKERYour history?

00:45SPEAKER- Like your history, what your distribution is.

00:47SPEAKER- I should probably be playing it on my phone too,

00:49SPEAKERbut here we are.

00:50SPEAKERShould I just do it?

00:51SPEAKERShould I?

00:53SPEAKER- Man, you're gonna do it live?

00:54SPEAKERI can't take that kind of heat.

00:55SPEAKER- Is this, with apologies to Chris Remo,

00:58SPEAKERis this the daily solve?

00:59SPEAKER- Oh wow.

01:01SPEAKERCan I just say, can I shout out Chris Remo?

01:03SPEAKERI love his crossword visiting videos.

01:04SPEAKERI watch them almost every day.

01:05SPEAKER- That stuff's awesome.

01:07SPEAKER- He's explicitly the reason I still have a subscription

01:10SPEAKERto the New York Times crossword puzzle.

01:11SPEAKER- That's a great use of the form of daily internet video.

01:15SPEAKEROkay, do you have a standard opener?

01:18SPEAKERDo you just have a go-to?

01:19SPEAKER- I like Steam.

01:20SPEAKER- Steam?

01:21SPEAKER- Steam. - Steam.

01:21SPEAKER- Okay, that's not bad.

01:22SPEAKERI like Stare, S-T-A-R-E.

01:24SPEAKER- A-R-E is not bad.

01:26SPEAKER- I like to get two vowels and like R-S-T-L or N,

01:29SPEAKERlike three of those.

01:30SPEAKER- Okay.

01:32SPEAKERYeah, R, S, and T obviously all, ooh, wow.

01:35SPEAKEROh my gosh, okay, this is the first day

01:36SPEAKERthat Stare has given me absolutely nothing.

01:39SPEAKER- This is the wordle for December 31st, 2021,

01:43SPEAKERthe last day of 2021.

01:46SPEAKER- Oh man, wow, you weren't kidding about the pressure.

01:48SPEAKERNow I have to think of another five-letter word

01:51SPEAKERthat doesn't include any of those very common letters.

01:53SPEAKER- Yep, that's where I ended up.

01:55SPEAKERI started to say norms, but that's got two of them.

02:00SPEAKERW, okay.

02:02SPEAKER- I can't believe you signed up for this kind of heat

02:04SPEAKERnow that people are just thinking.

02:05SPEAKER- I was about to do whirl, but that's got an R in it.

02:09SPEAKER- Oh, I did whirl yesterday.

02:11SPEAKEROh no, I didn't.

02:11SPEAKER- I got tapir in three guesses the other day.

02:15SPEAKERI felt pretty good about that one.

02:16SPEAKER- Tapir was a good one, yeah.

02:18SPEAKER- Is that how you say it?

02:19SPEAKER- I think so.

02:21SPEAKER- I don't know that I can do this.

02:23SPEAKER- No.

02:24SPEAKER- O, I, N, okay, coins.

02:26SPEAKERHow about that?

02:28SPEAKERThat does not contain- - You got something there.

02:30SPEAKER- Oh nope, that's got an S.

02:32SPEAKERI'm trying to come up with something.

02:34SPEAKERDo you ever just eat a guess?

02:36SPEAKERDo you ever eat like a letter or two

02:37SPEAKERthat you know you don't have,

02:38SPEAKERbut you can't think of anything else?

02:40SPEAKER- Well, so I learned that there's a hard mode

02:42SPEAKERwhere you have to, once you have a solved letter,

02:45SPEAKERyou have to include those letters in subsequent guesses.

02:48SPEAKER- I should not have.

02:49SPEAKER- You can't do speculative ones.

02:50SPEAKERFor people who don't know, Wordle is a word game.

02:52SPEAKERIt's a play once every day game.

02:56SPEAKERWe'll put a link in the show notes,

02:57SPEAKERbut it's at powerlanguage.co.uk.

03:00SPEAKERAnd you have six guesses

03:02SPEAKERto figure out a five letter word.

03:06SPEAKERIt tells you whether the letter

03:08SPEAKERdoesn't show up in the word at all,

03:09SPEAKERwhether you have the right letter in the wrong place

03:11SPEAKERor the right letter in the right place.

03:13SPEAKERAnd that's pretty much it.

03:15SPEAKERIt's a very good word game.

03:17SPEAKER- Yeah, very quick to learn, and yes.

03:19SPEAKERQuite entertaining, also kind of maddening.

03:21SPEAKER- Oh, and when you get to the end of the puzzle,

03:24SPEAKERif you solve it or not,

03:25SPEAKERI think you can hit a share button

03:28SPEAKERthat puts a emoji map of your,

03:32SPEAKERit basically shows each row of your solve

03:36SPEAKERwithout the letters in it.

03:37SPEAKERSo it tells you, oh, my first one,

03:39SPEAKERI had no correct letters.

03:40SPEAKERAnd my second one, I had one correct letter

03:42SPEAKERin the correct place.

03:43SPEAKERMy third one, I had one incorrect and one correct.

03:47SPEAKERAnd then the fourth one, I just got the answer

03:49SPEAKER'cause I'm a baller.

03:50SPEAKERI'm afraid that my opener

03:51SPEAKERhas completely fallen apart on me.

03:54SPEAKER- Oh, no.

03:54SPEAKER- It's the first time I've ever had Stare

03:56SPEAKERproduce absolutely no results.

03:58SPEAKERI don't know where to go from here.

03:59SPEAKER- Brad, sometimes the lack of information

04:01SPEAKERis information itself.

04:02SPEAKER- I know, but what else do you got for me?

04:05SPEAKERD-O, no?

04:07SPEAKERT, do, no?

04:10SPEAKER- Turns out letters like E and T and S

04:16SPEAKERshow up quite a bit in our language.

04:19SPEAKER- Well, you know, there are patterns.

04:21SPEAKERThere are patterns.

04:21SPEAKERAre you gonna give up?

04:22SPEAKERAre you punting?

04:23SPEAKERAre you gonna save this for later now?

04:24SPEAKER- I mean, are you gonna push on?

04:25SPEAKER- I can tell you from experience,

04:26SPEAKERit'll just sit there until you're ready.

04:28SPEAKERSo maybe I'll come back to this one in a couple of hours.

04:31SPEAKER- Okay, well, we'll check in maybe on the patron episode.

04:33SPEAKERWe'll do a time warp or something.

04:37SPEAKERHappy new year, Brad.

04:38SPEAKER- Happy new year to you.

04:39SPEAKERYes, we're in the waning hours of 2021 as we,

04:43SPEAKERoh, can you fill?

04:44SPEAKERI forgot to go get your holiday card.

04:47SPEAKER- I'll fill.

04:48SPEAKERI'm just trying to decide in our house right now,

04:50SPEAKERthe big decision is whether we're going,

04:53SPEAKERso we're recording this before the new year.

04:54SPEAKERYou're listening to it after the news.

04:55SPEAKEROur big decision is,

04:57SPEAKERare we going to watch the traditional rockin' New Year's Eve?

05:01SPEAKERAre we gonna watch Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen

05:03SPEAKERget loaded on CNN?

05:05SPEAKEROr is it gonna be the Miley Cyrus, Pete Davidson,

05:10SPEAKERMiami New Year's Eve party in this house tonight?

05:14SPEAKERWe don't know.

05:15SPEAKERAre you an Anderson Cooper?

05:17SPEAKERAre you a rockin' New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest?

05:19SPEAKEROr are you gonna go Pete Davidson, Miley Cyrus,

05:22SPEAKERand just ball out?

05:24SPEAKER- I mean, this is the cliched answer for our demographic.

05:27SPEAKERI am more of the kind of fall asleep at 10 o'clock.

05:31SPEAKERYeah, forget that it's New Year's Eve type.

05:34SPEAKER- There you go.

05:34SPEAKERThat works.

05:35SPEAKER- Yeah.

05:36SPEAKERLooking forward to it.

05:37SPEAKEROkay.

05:38SPEAKER- I think we're gonna be,

05:39SPEAKERwe're all, you know, we're down with the youth over here.

05:40SPEAKERSo it's Miley Cyrus and Pete Davidson all the way here.

05:43SPEAKER- That's what I like to hear.

05:44SPEAKEROkay.

05:45SPEAKER- What do you got, Brad?

05:46SPEAKERYou got something to show and tell?

05:47SPEAKER- Your holiday card.

05:48SPEAKER- Oh, well, this is unexpected.

05:49SPEAKER- Which says, apparently it's the second in a series.

05:53SPEAKERI'm sure we definitely still have last year's

05:55SPEAKERaround here somewhere,

05:56SPEAKERbut I wouldn't know where to dig it up.

05:58SPEAKERBut this will be our year take two.

06:02SPEAKERThis is what your card says.

06:05SPEAKERIt also features a photo of your child sort of flexing,

06:09SPEAKERlike triumphantly sort of a positive uplifting.

06:14SPEAKER- Yeah, she's feeling good.

06:15SPEAKER- Yeah.

06:15SPEAKERThis will be a,

06:16SPEAKERI can only assume that last year's holiday card

06:18SPEAKERfrom the Smiths also said, this will be our year.

06:21SPEAKER- I think last year's might've just said, fuck 2020,

06:24SPEAKERbut I can't remember.

06:25SPEAKER- I think you're right.

06:26SPEAKERAnd then on the back it says,

06:27SPEAKERhere's to 2022 being much better than 2021,

06:30SPEAKERwhich was slightly better than 2020.

06:33SPEAKER- Well, so-

06:34SPEAKER- I really enjoy a holiday card that keeps it real.

06:37SPEAKER- The, well, there's two things.

06:40SPEAKEROne, when you send out Christmas cards,

06:42SPEAKERyou get a lot of Christmas cards back.

06:43SPEAKERSo we have a bunch of cards and most people are like,

06:44SPEAKERhey, everything's totally fucking normal.

06:47SPEAKERAnd then here we are with the truth bomb.

06:49SPEAKERThe thing that, like,

06:50SPEAKERI had a real horrifying existential moment last night

06:53SPEAKERat like 11 o'clock as I was sitting

06:55SPEAKERat the end of the Hawkeye finale.

06:57SPEAKERI watched some TV and I was sitting there, I was like, man,

07:00SPEAKERwhat if like 10 years from now I look back and I'm like,

07:02SPEAKERman, 2021 was a pretty good year after all.

07:05SPEAKER- Oh no.

07:06SPEAKER- Like how grim a future must we have.

07:09SPEAKER- We didn't know how good we had it.

07:10SPEAKER- Yeah, how, like, look, we had,

07:13SPEAKERthere was reliable food and like schools were still

07:16SPEAKERoperating and then I had to go up and get blood work done

07:17SPEAKERthis morning and blood work place was closed

07:19SPEAKERbecause like the phlebotomist all called in sick.

07:22SPEAKERSo like, you know, hey, happy new year, Brad.

07:25SPEAKER- Happy new year.

07:26SPEAKERI just had a close family member test positive

07:27SPEAKERfor COVID this morning.

07:29SPEAKER- Oh, I'm sorry.

07:30SPEAKER- Betty White is no longer with us.

07:31SPEAKERI know we weren't gonna talk about it, but I just did.

07:33SPEAKER- It's all bummers, man.

07:35SPEAKER- Hang on, okay, I'm gonna fix this cold open.

07:37SPEAKERAll right. - Can you bring it around?

07:39SPEAKER- Yes, I'm gonna type a word into Wordle

07:41SPEAKERand it's gonna be the word, what do you got?

07:42SPEAKER- Five letters.

07:44SPEAKER- Yep, I know the answer.

07:45SPEAKER- I don't, okay, well.

07:46SPEAKER- I've done it already.

07:47SPEAKER- I still.

07:48SPEAKER- I do it the moment it pops at like midnight every night.

07:50SPEAKER- You know what, I'm gonna eat this E.

07:52SPEAKERI know there's not an E in here,

07:53SPEAKERbut I'm gonna type in dunce.

07:54SPEAKERAll right.

07:55SPEAKER- Ah, bring it home, Wordle.

07:56SPEAKERThat would be perfect.

07:57SPEAKER- I got nothing.

07:58SPEAKER- No.

07:59SPEAKER- Okay, we have to start the show.

08:01SPEAKER(upbeat music)

08:12SPEAKER(upbeat music continues)

08:29SPEAKER- Welcome to "Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod."

08:31SPEAKERI'm Will.

08:32SPEAKER- I'm Brad.

08:33SPEAKERHappy end of 2021?

08:35SPEAKER- Get fucked this year, man.

08:36SPEAKER- That's right.

08:38SPEAKERWe're almost out.

08:40SPEAKER- Everything I can, I promise you, I am positive.

08:43SPEAKEREverything will feel totally different tomorrow

08:45SPEAKERwhen we wake up.

08:45SPEAKER- I don't think that's true.

08:47SPEAKERI think that's a lie.

08:48SPEAKER- Listen, fake it.

08:49SPEAKERFake it until you make it.

08:50SPEAKER- Ah.

08:51SPEAKER- Fake it until you make it a better year than this one.

08:54SPEAKER- Well, so, okay, last week when I had my temporary malady,

08:58SPEAKERwhich ongoing, but is, thanks to all the well wishes,

09:02SPEAKERpeople were very kind and I'm feeling a lot better.

09:05SPEAKERMy gallbladder is not fixed yet,

09:07SPEAKERbut steps are being taken to remedy the situation

09:11SPEAKERwith extreme prejudice.

09:12SPEAKERWe'll keep you updated on that, I guess,

09:14SPEAKER'cause that's the way my life works.

09:18SPEAKERWe were supposed to do letters last week.

09:19SPEAKERWe were supposed to turn Qs into As, right?

09:20SPEAKER- That's right, that's right.

09:22SPEAKER- And we did not.

09:22SPEAKER- Hey.

09:23SPEAKER- Because of the failings of my meat body.

09:25SPEAKER- That's right, that's right.

09:27SPEAKERI'm telling you, brain in a jar.

09:28SPEAKER- Yeah.

09:29SPEAKERLook, man, there was a time if they'd come in and were like,

09:33SPEAKER"Okay, we have two options.

09:34SPEAKER"One, you can be in the hospital for three more days,

09:36SPEAKER"or two, brain in a jar."

09:37SPEAKERI would take a brain in the jar 10 out of 10 times.

09:40SPEAKER- Just brain in a jar, hook up a speech synthesizer,

09:43SPEAKERwe could podcast all day long.

09:45SPEAKER- Yeah, like direct neural interface.

09:47SPEAKERI don't need a steering wheel if I have a brain in a jar.

09:49SPEAKERThat sounds great.

09:50SPEAKER- Yes.

09:51SPEAKERWell, hey, much like those canned sardines

09:55SPEAKERthat we love so much around here

09:57SPEAKERand have been eating way too many of.

09:59SPEAKER- I can't eat those right now.

10:00SPEAKER- Qs have a long shelf life, it turns out.

10:02SPEAKER- Wait, do you get the canned sardines packed in oil

10:04SPEAKERor do you get them in fresh water?

10:05SPEAKER- Oh, these are oil, definitely.

10:07SPEAKER- Oh yeah, those are so good.

10:08SPEAKER- These are season, I want to say.

10:10SPEAKERI shouldn't say this out loud

10:11SPEAKER'cause then I'm gonna create a run on them

10:13SPEAKERand then I won't be able to get them in.

10:15SPEAKERHang on, let me make sure I believe that's the...

10:18SPEAKERYes, season. - Put them on a cracker

10:19SPEAKERor a piece of bread, maybe?

10:20SPEAKER- Absolutely. - Sounds great.

10:21SPEAKER- Like a triscuit or some kind of party cracker.

10:25SPEAKERSeason, yeah, season is the brand of sardines.

10:28SPEAKERAnyway, we have a slight dilemma.

10:30SPEAKER- Okay.

10:31SPEAKER- We have found that you can mail order them from Costco

10:34SPEAKERin extreme bulk.

10:35SPEAKER- Oh, that seems dangerous.

10:36SPEAKER- Actually, let me back up.

10:37SPEAKERThey're kind of expensive.

10:38SPEAKERLike at the Safeway down the street, they're $5 a can.

10:41SPEAKER- Yeah, it's a delectable.

10:43SPEAKER- So let's just say they're significantly cheaper

10:47SPEAKERon this sale to the tune of,

10:50SPEAKERwell, I won't say exactly how much,

10:52SPEAKERbut the possibility exists that we may order 60 cans

10:55SPEAKERof these sardines, is that too much?

10:57SPEAKER- No, they're small, they're small, they're dense.

11:01SPEAKERLook, that's prepper, that's prepper work there.

11:04SPEAKERThat's your, look, can you imagine how much you can trade

11:08SPEAKERa can of sardines for on the black market

11:11SPEAKERafter it all collapses?

11:12SPEAKER- Oh, I didn't think about that.

11:13SPEAKER- Yeah, that's a resource, man, you're stockpiling.

11:16SPEAKER- Just an investment in our future.

11:18SPEAKERI'm gonna become the sardine warlord of the wasteland.

11:20SPEAKER- That's your ticket out of this hellhole.

11:22SPEAKER- Yes, right.

11:23SPEAKER- I would absolutely buy them from Costco.

11:25SPEAKERI would have no, like I buy toilet paper like that.

11:26SPEAKER- Oh, we'll definitely get them, we'll definitely get some.

11:29SPEAKERThe debate between me and my partner was,

11:31SPEAKERokay, so 60 is the limit per customer.

11:33SPEAKERThat's why I quoted the number 60.

11:36SPEAKERIs that the most- - Are you on the high side

11:37SPEAKERor is she on the high side?

11:38SPEAKER- I am on the high side.

11:39SPEAKERI'm like, why, we should just get as many as we can.

11:41SPEAKERThese things are, I think, if I remember,

11:43SPEAKERI think they broke down to less than $2 a can.

11:46SPEAKER- That's a half, less than half price?

11:47SPEAKERYes, I would 100% get as many as you can.

11:49SPEAKER- My thought was, hey, these things actually do keep forever.

11:52SPEAKERLet's just get as many as we humanly possibly can.

11:54SPEAKER- Yeah, I'd chuck an Xbox Series X in on top of that

11:57SPEAKERand call it a day.

11:57SPEAKER- That was, you know, 60 cans of sardines

12:00SPEAKERwas deemed excessive.

12:01SPEAKER- Maybe get the latest Tom Clancy book

12:03SPEAKERwhile you're in there too.

12:03SPEAKER- See, I like the way you think.

12:05SPEAKER- I was, I felt like I always bought,

12:07SPEAKERwhen I went to Costco in the old days,

12:09SPEAKERI always came out with a Tom Clancy book.

12:10SPEAKERI don't know why.

12:11SPEAKER- It'll happen, you know, they just stack 'em up.

12:13SPEAKER- It's like, I want some submarine business.

12:15SPEAKER- You just feel this rising tide of jingoism

12:17SPEAKERas soon as you walk in the door

12:18SPEAKERand something just comes over you.

12:20SPEAKER- Yeah, like it's a heady mixture of insurance adjuster

12:23SPEAKERand republicanism.

12:25SPEAKER- Yeah.

12:26SPEAKER- Brad, we should turn some cues into A's.

12:28SPEAKERWe've now done two cold opens at least here, I think.

12:30SPEAKERStreets of emails here, or emails or Discord questions,

12:33SPEAKERI should say.

12:34SPEAKER- Yeah, the email address is techpod@content.town.

12:36SPEAKERThat's techpod@content.town.

12:38SPEAKEROr if you are a valued TechPod patron

12:42SPEAKERfor this 100% listener-supported show,

12:43SPEAKERyou can go into the Questions Seeking Answers channel

12:46SPEAKERand submit a question kind of into the void.

12:49SPEAKERPeople might see it for a second

12:50SPEAKERif they happen to be in there at the moment you post it,

12:51SPEAKERbut for the most part, it just goes away

12:53SPEAKERand then disappears, and then it's just Brad and I

12:55SPEAKERthat look at them, so.

12:55SPEAKER- That's right.

12:56SPEAKERAnd that is where the bulk of these are drawn from,

13:00SPEAKERstarting with this one from Fortune.

13:04SPEAKERI remember seeing some videos that Will did long ago

13:06SPEAKERwhere he showed everything he had in his bag

13:08SPEAKERto survive CES.

13:10SPEAKERHe carried an insane number of cables

13:12SPEAKERand a separate laptop and gaming console,

13:15SPEAKERKindle and tablet, as well as a phone.

13:18SPEAKERI have some questions, but I'll finish this question first.

13:21SPEAKER- Yes.

13:22SPEAKER- Do you think that the tech you would need to carry

13:23SPEAKERwhen making videos today has improved enough

13:25SPEAKERthat you could get away with carrying less stuff,

13:26SPEAKERor are the newer tech items that,

13:29SPEAKERor are there newer tech items that would just take up

13:31SPEAKERthe same empty space in your bag?

13:33SPEAKER- So these days, the stuff that I carry,

13:37SPEAKERwell, okay, first off, covering CES is weird

13:39SPEAKERbecause the press conferences,

13:42SPEAKERwhat you would do on press conference day for E3,

13:43SPEAKERthe three days beforehand,

13:45SPEAKERall happens in one 12-hour window

13:48SPEAKERon the day before the show opens,

13:51SPEAKERand there's a lot of dead time.

13:52SPEAKERSo you end up sitting in hallways

13:54SPEAKERof big, giant Las Vegas hotels waiting in lines

13:57SPEAKERto get into conference rooms or ballrooms

14:00SPEAKERwhere they have the press conferences.

14:01SPEAKERSo Kindle and 3DS were very important for those times

14:06SPEAKER'cause you'd have four hours, no internet.

14:08SPEAKERWe didn't really do written posts,

14:09SPEAKERso it wasn't like I would sit there and write anything.

14:11SPEAKERWe literally were just sitting there

14:12SPEAKERwaiting to go to the next thing.

14:14SPEAKERAnd usually somebody would run and grab sandwiches

14:17SPEAKERand bring them back or something like that,

14:18SPEAKERbut then the other two or three of us

14:19SPEAKERthat were sitting there were just killing time

14:21SPEAKERfor an hour and a half at a time.

14:24SPEAKERThe number of cables has gone way down, I would say.

14:27SPEAKERLike, I carry a lightning cable

14:30SPEAKERand then a micro USB and a USB-C, usually,

14:33SPEAKERand that's pretty much it.

14:36SPEAKERThe battery backup I carry,

14:40SPEAKERI carried a laptop then 'cause it was useful

14:42SPEAKERfor taking notes and for doing other things.

14:46SPEAKERBut for the most part, I would just carry a phone

14:48SPEAKERand a battery backup at this point, I think,

14:51SPEAKERif I was going to CES. - Really, a laptop?

14:52SPEAKERWow, that's bold.

14:53SPEAKER- I mean, I would take it with me

14:56SPEAKERand put it in the hotel room,

14:57SPEAKERbut I wouldn't, 'cause I had to carry a laptop

15:00SPEAKERto go to the show for podcast recording

15:03SPEAKERand stuff like that 'cause we didn't have,

15:05SPEAKERwe had to record using GarageBand on an audio mixer

15:07SPEAKERthat was sitting in the floor of the hotel room.

15:11SPEAKER- Do you miss CES at all?

15:12SPEAKER- No, fuck no, CES should have been killed 10 years ago.

15:16SPEAKERIt's a complete waste of time and energy

15:18SPEAKERfor everyone involved.

15:18SPEAKER- I see you developed the same relationship,

15:20SPEAKERCES, that I did to E3.

15:22SPEAKER- So, it's funny 'cause as somebody who went

15:25SPEAKERto a lot of E3s but didn't really,

15:27SPEAKERonly lightly covered most of them,

15:30SPEAKERI would go and do a couple of videos

15:31SPEAKERor go and interview a couple of people

15:33SPEAKERand kind of hang out and see friends.

15:35SPEAKERE3s have always been a pretty pleasant experience for me.

15:39SPEAKER- Sure, so I feel exactly the same way about CES

15:42SPEAKER'cause that was about the, with one or two exceptions.

15:45SPEAKERI think one year I went and really covered CES.

15:48SPEAKERBut other than that, other than that,

15:49SPEAKERit was the same thing for me of like,

15:51SPEAKERoh, this is cool and different

15:52SPEAKERand I'm just casually here doing stuff.

15:54SPEAKER- Sure, why not?

15:55SPEAKER- When we worked together at Whiskey,

15:57SPEAKERthe two CESs we did at Whiskey,

16:01SPEAKERwe would take like five or six people.

16:03SPEAKERWe all piled into a rental van.

16:05SPEAKER- Oh, I remember that.

16:06SPEAKER- And we drove from San Francisco to Las Vegas,

16:07SPEAKERwhich was like 11 hours.

16:08SPEAKER- Oh my God.

16:11SPEAKER- I usually drove the whole thing.

16:13SPEAKERGary would usually DJ it for us.

16:16SPEAKER- All one shot, 11 hours?

16:17SPEAKER- Well, I mean, we'd stop and pee, but yeah.

16:19SPEAKER- Okay, boy.

16:20SPEAKER- That Kettleman City in and out,

16:22SPEAKERalways a wonderful place to get lunch.

16:25SPEAKER- An oasis.

16:26SPEAKER- Yeah, and then we'd all set up in a couple of suites

16:28SPEAKERin a big hotel room someplace

16:30SPEAKERand set up like a nighttime set and all that stuff.

16:32SPEAKERBut those days were like solid 20, 22 hour days

16:35SPEAKERfor the most part, 'cause it was like work all day,

16:39SPEAKERmaybe take a nap before you would,

16:41SPEAKERsomebody would bring dinner up to the room

16:43SPEAKERand then you'd start the night show

16:45SPEAKERas soon as the evening events shut down

16:47SPEAKERand go from like 9.30 or 10 until two o'clock in the morning

16:50SPEAKERand then sleep for three hours and then do the same thing

16:52SPEAKERagain the next day.

16:53SPEAKER- Brutal.

16:54SPEAKER- Yeah, and that was like seven days.

16:55SPEAKERCS is long too, it's not like a three day E3 or whatever.

16:59SPEAKER- So speaking of working together at Whiskey Media,

17:02SPEAKERcan I just stay for the record?

17:04SPEAKERHow sad I was that you guys never asked me to do the,

17:07SPEAKERwhat's in your bag?

17:08SPEAKER- Nobody watched those videos, dude.

17:10SPEAKER- Really?

17:11SPEAKER- No, I was so sad.

17:12SPEAKER- Okay, I guess that makes me feel a little bit better.

17:14SPEAKER- Yeah, we just stopped doing them 'cause nobody,

17:16SPEAKERlike nobody, like eight people watched them all.

17:19SPEAKER- Yeah, I love those videos

17:23SPEAKER'cause I love to see what people carry

17:24SPEAKERand it's less interesting now that like everything's like,

17:27SPEAKERit's like a phone and a battery and one cable.

17:30SPEAKER- Sure.

17:30SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't know.

17:31SPEAKER- I have always prided myself on being

17:33SPEAKERthe king of preparedness as far as like, you know,

17:36SPEAKERoh, I might need that, I might need that.

17:38SPEAKERLet's sort of, let's Tetris it all in here

17:40SPEAKERin the most efficient way possible.

17:41SPEAKER- What's your med, like the one of the ways

17:44SPEAKERI can always tell people who are serious about that

17:46SPEAKERversus people who are dilettantes was like,

17:48SPEAKERwhat's your med kit?

17:50SPEAKERLike what's your, you got Advil, you got some antihistamine.

17:53SPEAKER- Maybe I'm not quite hardcore enough.

17:55SPEAKER- You got like a wedding eye drop in there,

17:57SPEAKERyou got an acids.

17:58SPEAKER- For your standards.

17:59SPEAKERI mean, I did have some of that stuff.

18:00SPEAKER- Yeah, you always carry like a Benadryl

18:03SPEAKERjust in case somebody gets, you know,

18:05SPEAKERdiscovers they're allergic to shellfish or something.

18:07SPEAKER- I was more on the tech end of like, you know,

18:09SPEAKERI need to be able to update the firmware

18:10SPEAKERon every device I own at all times.

18:12SPEAKER- Well, that's just insanity.

18:14SPEAKER- Just in case, speaking of which,

18:15SPEAKERbefore we move on real fast,

18:18SPEAKERI'm back in the market for some retractable cables.

18:21SPEAKER- Ooh.

18:22SPEAKER- 'Cause enough of mine have broken at this point

18:25SPEAKERthat I got to restock, but now I see.

18:28SPEAKERSo I went and looked for a lightning retractable cable,

18:31SPEAKERbut what I landed on was a three-in-one.

18:33SPEAKERLet's see, lightning, micro USB and USB-C, all two USB-A.

18:39SPEAKER- Do they flip or is it like a?

18:42SPEAKER- This one is a three-way connector.

18:44SPEAKERIt's at right angles, it perpendicular.

18:46SPEAKER- Oh, it's like a cross.

18:47SPEAKER- Yes, it's a cross shape.

18:49SPEAKER- Huh. - What do you think?

18:50SPEAKERSafe?

18:52SPEAKER- Man, I don't think I'd plug my phone into that.

18:54SPEAKER- Mm, okay.

18:56SPEAKER- I don't know.

18:57SPEAKERLike, I hardly ever play, like I have,

19:00SPEAKERlike now that we're on our second generation

19:03SPEAKERof key chargers and like also key chargers seem

19:06SPEAKERlike they've replaced water bottles

19:08SPEAKERas the thing that people send you for like shot now.

19:12SPEAKER- What did you mean by key charger exactly?

19:14SPEAKER- Like the QI, the wireless pad charger for your phone.

19:17SPEAKER- I'm sorry, yes, I got you, I got it.

19:20SPEAKER- Like I have, we have those everywhere.

19:22SPEAKERLike there's one, there's there in the living room,

19:23SPEAKERthere's one in the kitchen, there's nightstands,

19:26SPEAKERthere's one on my desk.

19:27SPEAKERLike I feel like I'm probably, I don't ever have to,

19:30SPEAKERthe only place I plug in is in the car

19:32SPEAKER'cause the car has CarPlay and it's wired CarPlay.

19:34SPEAKER- That's fair, that's fair.

19:36SPEAKERI just traveled, I'll put it that way.

19:38SPEAKERI was reminded on the road.

19:40SPEAKER- I'm trying not to.

19:41SPEAKER- Yeah, no, it's not a great time to be traveling.

19:43SPEAKER- No. - It's really not.

19:44SPEAKER- You got in just about under the wire, I think actually.

19:46SPEAKER- I really did, I really, I mean,

19:48SPEAKERlike literally the word Omicron hit the headlines

19:50SPEAKERabout three, four days before my trip out there.

19:53SPEAKER- Uh-huh.

19:54SPEAKER- And then on the way back,

19:55SPEAKERI feel like I probably dodged about 800 bullets.

20:00SPEAKEROkay. - Yep.

20:01SPEAKER- Okay, next email.

20:04SPEAKERHere's a question from Agensis.

20:07SPEAKER- Okay.

20:08SPEAKER- You can only have one breakfast meat

20:09SPEAKERfor the rest of your life.

20:10SPEAKERDo you choose sausage, bacon, ham or other?

20:13SPEAKER- Bacon, oh man, sausage is really good though.

20:16SPEAKER- So yeah, my feeling here is that if the three,

20:21SPEAKERI think ham is my least favorite,

20:23SPEAKERbut also the one I would choose,

20:24SPEAKERbecause the other two, especially bacon,

20:26SPEAKERare just going to put an end to you sooner than later

20:30SPEAKERif that's all you eat.

20:31SPEAKER- I think it's all the same.

20:32SPEAKER- Think?

20:33SPEAKER- I mean, how often do you have breakfast meat though?

20:34SPEAKERI have breakfast meat maybe once a week if I'm lucky.

20:36SPEAKER- Yeah, not super duper often,

20:38SPEAKERbut like ham is pretty versatile.

20:41SPEAKERYou can do a lot with ham and I feel like it's, you know,

20:43SPEAKERit's not belly fat.

20:45SPEAKER- Are we talking country ham here?

20:46SPEAKERAre we talking like you're just like a piece of,

20:50SPEAKERlike a sad piece of salty ham.

20:53SPEAKER- Ham steak.

20:55SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't like a ham steak very much.

20:56SPEAKER- I was thinking, I actually was thinking like deli ham.

21:00SPEAKER- Well, that's not a breakfast meat though.

21:01SPEAKERThat's a cold cut.

21:02SPEAKERNo, that's a different category.

21:04SPEAKER- Well, boy, I guess I'm breaking

21:05SPEAKERsome breakfast rules over here then.

21:07SPEAKER- You have a slice of deli ham with breakfast?

21:09SPEAKER- Well, like I don't know,

21:10SPEAKERI don't have a breakfast sandwich or something.

21:12SPEAKER- Like to me ham is like a,

21:13SPEAKERyou take like a quarter inch thick piece of ham

21:15SPEAKERand you cube it up and chuck it in an omelet.

21:17SPEAKER- Oh sure.

21:18SPEAKER- That's, you know, that's the ham I'm thinking of here.

21:19SPEAKER- That was a viable use of ham, don't get me wrong.

21:21SPEAKER- Country ham's pretty good too.

21:25SPEAKER- You know what, I eat a lot of breakfast is brown rice.

21:28SPEAKER- Really?

21:29SPEAKER- My brown rice became one of my main breakfast carbs

21:31SPEAKERsome years ago.

21:32SPEAKERSo a lot of times it'll be like a couple of eggs

21:35SPEAKERand some ham on some brown rice

21:36SPEAKERand maybe some kimchi on the side.

21:38SPEAKER- I do a lot of oatmeal.

21:40SPEAKER- Oatmeal's good.

21:40SPEAKER- I never have kimchi in the house

21:41SPEAKER'cause Gina doesn't like it, which really bums me out

21:44SPEAKER'cause I absolutely love it.

21:45SPEAKER- That's, you know, speaking of things that keep.

21:47SPEAKER- Yeah.

21:48SPEAKER- Sardines, questions and kimchi.

21:51SPEAKER- Turns out.

21:51SPEAKER- It lasts for a while.

21:53SPEAKER- So here's the thing, I have like making gravy with bacon

21:56SPEAKERis less good than bacon, than sausage gravy.

22:00SPEAKERAnd I really like biscuits and gravy a lot.

22:01SPEAKER- Yeah, you're not wrong about that.

22:03SPEAKER- Well.

22:05SPEAKER- Unless you're doing red eye gravy.

22:06SPEAKER- I don't like red eye gravy.

22:07SPEAKER- You don't like red eye gravy?

22:08SPEAKER- I like white gravy with the sausage chunks in it.

22:10SPEAKER- Fake, fake southerner.

22:13SPEAKER- Well, I'm from the real South, North Carolina South.

22:16SPEAKER- Damn.

22:17SPEAKER- That answers another question later on

22:18SPEAKERabout if we have regional competitions amongst ourselves.

22:21SPEAKER- That's how salt of the earth my family was.

22:24SPEAKERPeople don't know what red eye gravy is.

22:25SPEAKERIt's literally throw a cup of coffee

22:28SPEAKERinto the bacon drippings and that's your gravy.

22:30SPEAKER- You put flour in there too, don't you?

22:32SPEAKER- I don't think so.

22:34SPEAKERIt's very thin.

22:35SPEAKER- I've never actually made it.

22:36SPEAKER- It's basically the consistency of coffee, of water.

22:38SPEAKER- Wow.

22:39SPEAKER- It's very runny.

22:41SPEAKER- I really, yeah, so I do sausage gravy

22:44SPEAKERlike once a month probably.

22:47SPEAKERThe thing about country ham is like,

22:48SPEAKERI want a piece of country ham like once a year.

22:50SPEAKER- Yes.

22:51SPEAKER- And when I want it, I really, really want it.

22:53SPEAKERAnd it turns out you can't buy country ham

22:55SPEAKERin like two slice increments.

22:57SPEAKERYou have to buy a pretty substantial piece of ham.

22:59SPEAKER- Yes, they expect you're feeding some people.

23:02SPEAKER- Yeah.

23:03SPEAKER- Yeah, our country ham was literally

23:05SPEAKERour Christmas morning breakfast every year and that was it.

23:07SPEAKERThat was the only time we ate country ham

23:08SPEAKER'cause it was, I think it's enough sodium to last you

23:10SPEAKERfor the rest of the year.

23:11SPEAKER- Well, did you all, did your dad hang it up in the basement?

23:14SPEAKERLike we always had one hanging up in the basement aging.

23:16SPEAKER- No, no, no, this was store bought for us.

23:19SPEAKER- Well, this was store bought too, this was just a choice.

23:23SPEAKER- That's pretty hardcore.

23:25SPEAKERThat's pretty hardcore.

23:28SPEAKEROh, let's get this other food question

23:30SPEAKERout of the way real quick.

23:32SPEAKERLet's do a twofer here for more DB.

23:36SPEAKERGod, how long has this even been going on?

23:37SPEAKERThis question is technically from the end of November.

23:40SPEAKERAfter hearing that Will said Brad's mom's broccoli casserole

23:43SPEAKERwas his final bite for Thanksgiving,

23:44SPEAKERI feel the desire to try and make it for myself.

23:48SPEAKERI originally asked Brad if he would share the recipe

23:49SPEAKERand he confessed that he doesn't even have it.

23:51SPEAKERHow is this possible?

23:52SPEAKERAnd more importantly, can it be shared?

23:55SPEAKERI don't know, somehow you had the recipe and I did not.

23:58SPEAKER- Look, you brought your parents to Thanksgiving

24:01SPEAKERat my house one year.

24:02SPEAKERYour mom brought the broccoli casserole,

24:04SPEAKERwhich was a pretty substantial add to the overall vibe.

24:09SPEAKERAnd my wife immediately was like,

24:11SPEAKERhey, can we get this recipe?

24:13SPEAKERThis is really good.

24:14SPEAKERAnd apparently your mom and my wife

24:16SPEAKERhave sent correspondence back and forth occasionally.

24:19SPEAKER- Great, perfect.

24:20SPEAKER- Yeah, they're pen pals, I think this is a technical term.

24:24SPEAKER- We got most of the way toward getting the recipe

24:27SPEAKERpublicly ready to post and then didn't actually do it.

24:30SPEAKER- Oh yeah, I was leaving it for you to post.

24:32SPEAKER- Do I have it?

24:33SPEAKER- You have it.

24:34SPEAKER- I sent you a cleaned up version, I believe.

24:36SPEAKERI can dig it up again, it's in my peppery cards.

24:38SPEAKER- I'll have to try that.

24:39SPEAKER- Okay, hey, just in time for the holidays.

24:41SPEAKER- Yeah.

24:42SPEAKER- If you're on the Discord, stay tuned

24:43SPEAKERfor that broccoli casserole recipe.

24:45SPEAKER- It's everybody's favorite MLK Day

24:47SPEAKERbroccoli casserole recipe.

24:48SPEAKER- Yes, there you go.

24:51SPEAKERLet's see here, there's a question from Veronica.

24:56SPEAKERIs WinZip still relevant?

24:58SPEAKERI still see it being sold and I keep wondering

25:00SPEAKERwhat is the use case for buying it

25:02SPEAKERwhen open source alternatives like 7-Zip exist?

25:05SPEAKERI went and looked, sure enough on winzip.com,

25:07SPEAKERyou can pay starting at 29.95 for a copy of Win.

25:12SPEAKERThat's for the basic, that's for the entry level

25:14SPEAKERWinZip packages is 30 bucks.

25:17SPEAKERYou can also then upgrade to, let's see,

25:20SPEAKERWinZip Courier is an extra 24.95, WinZip Pro is 50.

25:26SPEAKERThere's even WinZip Enterprise.

25:28SPEAKER- So I would assume that WinZip is like

25:30SPEAKERan enterprise software at this point, right?

25:31SPEAKER- I guess, so it's owned by Corel.

25:33SPEAKERI didn't know that, Corel bought it.

25:35SPEAKERI went and looked about 15 years ago.

25:37SPEAKER- Who owns Corel?

25:38SPEAKER- I think Corel is still Corel as far as I know.

25:41SPEAKERAlso, I have not thought about the word

25:43SPEAKERor the company of Corel in, you tell me.

25:47SPEAKER- You know what Corel is short for?

25:48SPEAKER- What's that?

25:49SPEAKER- The Calpland Research Laboratory.

25:51SPEAKER- Wait, really?

25:52SPEAKEROh God, you're right, that's ridiculous.

25:55SPEAKERHey, here's another term you might not have heard in a while.

25:58SPEAKERWordPerfect.

26:00SPEAKER- They own WordPerfect?

26:01SPEAKER- Remember WordPerfect?

26:02SPEAKER- Yeah.

26:03SPEAKER- Yes, apparently they bought WordPerfect.

26:04SPEAKERWordPerfect is the thing I learned to type on.

26:07SPEAKER- Me too.

26:07SPEAKER- It might really.

26:08SPEAKER- Yeah.

26:09SPEAKER- I guess it was kind of like the DOS word processor,

26:12SPEAKERwasn't it?

26:13SPEAKER- Microsoft, like Microsoft was the upstart for a long time.

26:16SPEAKERWordPerfect was the market leader for years and years.

26:19SPEAKER- Yeah, my high school had a room full of IBM 286s

26:22SPEAKERrunning DOS and WordPerfect and that's how I learned

26:24SPEAKERto type on the big old Model M.

26:26SPEAKER- My first computer job was laying stuff out

26:29SPEAKERin CorelDRAW to do print order t-shirts.

26:34SPEAKER- Oh my God, Corel also makes PaintShop Pro or owns it now.

26:37SPEAKER- Wow.

26:39SPEAKER- Apparently it's still current.

26:39SPEAKER- Yeah, and they bought Parallels most recently.

26:41SPEAKER- Man, wow.

26:42SPEAKER- Apparently they also own the CD burning powerhouse Roxio.

26:47SPEAKER- Of course, Corel really holding it down

26:50SPEAKERwith 15 to 20 year old software that somehow still exists.

26:53SPEAKER- I mean, so yeah, I think the answer to this question is

26:55SPEAKERprobably WinZip is relevant for IT departments,

26:58SPEAKERsome IT departments somewhere.

27:00SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, looking at this page,

27:01SPEAKERlike WinZip Courier is an email solution.

27:04SPEAKERThey're doing cloud backup and encryption

27:07SPEAKERand all kinds of stuff, PDF authoring.

27:10SPEAKERSo it's maybe WinZip in name primarily,

27:13SPEAKERbut actually does a lot of other stuff.

27:15SPEAKER- I mean, it's probably easier to use than 7-Zip.

27:18SPEAKER7-Zip is kind of a perfect example of open source UI jank.

27:23SPEAKER- It absolutely is.

27:24SPEAKERI have taken, you might be shocked to find out,

27:28SPEAKERI have taken to using the command line version

27:30SPEAKERof 7-Zip known as 7-Z.

27:32SPEAKER- This is my surprise face.

27:34SPEAKER- I use it all the time.

27:34SPEAKERWhen I was on the East coast,

27:36SPEAKERI found a binary compiled for Mac OS

27:43SPEAKERand was 7-Zipping things that way

27:45SPEAKER'cause there is no GUI client on Mac OS.

27:48SPEAKER- Oh, really?

27:49SPEAKER- Yes.

27:50SPEAKER- Is it compiled for new Mac or old Mac?

27:52SPEAKER- It was x86, I believe.

27:53SPEAKER- Okay.

27:56SPEAKERAnyway, WinZip, yeah, what a blast from the past.

28:00SPEAKERAlso, I was reminded that until pretty late in the game,

28:03SPEAKERI think it was version five,

28:04SPEAKERthat WinZip was actually just a front end for pkzip.exe.

28:08SPEAKER- Oh, yeah.

28:09SPEAKER- Remember that?

28:09SPEAKER- Oh, yeah.

28:10SPEAKER- Or Pecunzip, so me and my friends called it.

28:13SPEAKER- What, you called it Pecunzip?

28:15SPEAKER- Well, it was somewhat in jest, I guess.

28:16SPEAKER- Okay.

28:18SPEAKER- Somewhat flippantly, we referred to it as Pecunzip.

28:20SPEAKER- That was terrifying.

28:21SPEAKERI was really scared for a minute there.

28:23SPEAKER- Yeah.

28:25SPEAKERAnyway, there you go.

28:26SPEAKER- Yeah.

28:27SPEAKER- Old software is fun.

28:28SPEAKERWe have a Patreon episode to do in the coming hours.

28:31SPEAKER- Yes.

28:32SPEAKER- And I've got some other old computer stuff

28:34SPEAKERthat I'm gonna save for that.

28:35SPEAKER- Ooh.

28:37SPEAKER- That I've been very excited about.

28:41SPEAKERQuestion from Super OK.

28:43SPEAKERWould you guys be interested

28:44SPEAKERin doing a PC as a console episode,

28:46SPEAKERas in strictly connected to the TV

28:48SPEAKERand engaged with from the couch?

28:50SPEAKERThat would be a fun one.

28:52SPEAKER- Oh, I've done that before.

28:53SPEAKER- Yeah?

28:54SPEAKER- Kind of the traditional sort of home theater PC setup?

28:59SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, it was one of the first things,

29:00SPEAKERlike I've done multiples 'cause we did,

29:03SPEAKERone of the worst photographs ever taken of me

29:05SPEAKERwas for a home theater PC article in like 2000 at max PC.

29:12SPEAKER- Now I'm instantly googling for this.

29:14SPEAKER- It's hard to find.

29:16SPEAKERWhere we got a big pioneer plasma screen

29:21SPEAKERand played Quake 3 on it, basically,

29:23SPEAKERwas what we set it up in the lab.

29:24SPEAKERI just played Quake 3 on this 50 inch plasma all day long.

29:27SPEAKER- That sounds pretty good.

29:28SPEAKER- It was fucking awesome.

29:30SPEAKERThen the most recent one I did

29:33SPEAKERwas probably before Steam Big Picture came out even.

29:36SPEAKERNow you can boot straight into Steam Big Picture,

29:38SPEAKERwhich I feel like there was a glorious,

29:40SPEAKERwonderful moment for this, I don't know,

29:43SPEAKERprobably eight years ago before Epic and Origin

29:46SPEAKERkind of really took hold.

29:49SPEAKERAnd when you could just,

29:51SPEAKEReverything worked through Steam's front end.

29:54SPEAKERNow that's not as much the case.

29:55SPEAKERAnd I wonder, like I haven't looked at like what the GOG,

30:00SPEAKER'cause I know GOG will aggregate all of your stuff

30:02SPEAKERfrom the different stores into one UI.

30:03SPEAKERI don't know what their 10 foot interface looks like,

30:06SPEAKERbut this seems pretty doable now.

30:09SPEAKERLike I don't even know that it would be,

30:11SPEAKERlike I don't know that it would be that difficult

30:13SPEAKERother than you'd wanna set up Steam

30:16SPEAKERand you'd probably have to do a little bit of leg work

30:18SPEAKERto get like your Epic games and your Battle.net games

30:21SPEAKERand your Origin games and all of that stuff

30:24SPEAKERall jammed into the Steam interface using Glow SC

30:26SPEAKERor one of those tools.

30:27SPEAKER- Sure.

30:28SPEAKERSo you would stick with Windows,

30:30SPEAKERlike I'm sitting here thinking,

30:31SPEAKERlike when this new version of Steam OS comes out

30:33SPEAKERalongside the Steam Deck,

30:34SPEAKERlike that might be worth taking a look at, but.

30:36SPEAKER- I mean, I think Proton is really, really interesting.

30:40SPEAKERI think for me, if I'm putting a living room PC together

30:43SPEAKERto play games on, I wanna play games on it

30:45SPEAKERand not dink around with Linux.

30:47SPEAKER- Sure.

30:48SPEAKER- I feel like the probably getting

30:50SPEAKERthe different launchers working is as much

30:51SPEAKERas I would wanna deal with probably.

30:54SPEAKER- Yeah.

30:55SPEAKER- I wish that there was something a little more,

30:57SPEAKERlike as somebody who uses a Steam Link fairly regularly,

31:00SPEAKERI wish that there was something that would just

31:02SPEAKERtake all of the games that are installed in Epic

31:04SPEAKERand put them in the Steam library

31:06SPEAKERwithout me having to noodle around

31:07SPEAKERwith like some esoteric utility all the time.

31:10SPEAKER- Feels like every few years somebody comes along

31:12SPEAKERand attempts something like that

31:14SPEAKERand it never actually works out.

31:15SPEAKERLike, remember God Galaxy, I guess that still exists.

31:18SPEAKER- Yeah, that still exists.

31:19SPEAKER- I mean, it's supposed to be an aggregator

31:20SPEAKERfor all of the other PC storefronts, but.

31:23SPEAKER- But it doesn't work with like the Steam Link stuff

31:24SPEAKERand the streaming stuff and all that, so.

31:26SPEAKER- Right, yeah.

31:28SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't know.

31:29SPEAKERIt's, I think there's no, it's easy to launch that Steam

31:34SPEAKERdirectly into the 10-foot interface though,

31:36SPEAKERthe big picture mode, and the big picture mode's

31:38SPEAKERpretty good these days.

31:39SPEAKER- Did I see that they had kind of ceased development

31:42SPEAKERon big picture or did I dream that?

31:43SPEAKER- You dreamed that.

31:44SPEAKER- Okay.

31:45SPEAKER- 'Cause big picture's the front end, I'm sure,

31:46SPEAKERfor the Steam Deck and all that stuff.

31:50SPEAKER- Okay.

31:52SPEAKERAll right.

31:54SPEAKERHow about, question from Cakebatter.

31:57SPEAKERCan Will attempt a log4j exploit on his car's nav console?

32:01SPEAKER- No, it's a leased car.

32:03SPEAKER- You're not gonna try to hack a car

32:04SPEAKERthat doesn't fully belong to you yet?

32:06SPEAKER- No.

32:07SPEAKER- Or may never.

32:09SPEAKER- Oh, you know what?

32:11SPEAKERI was wrong.

32:12SPEAKERThe Steam Deck, Tom's Hardware says

32:16SPEAKERthat the Steam Deck UI is going to replace big picture mode.

32:18SPEAKER- I thought that was the case,

32:20SPEAKERthat I decided to just move on instead,

32:22SPEAKERbut I thought that's, I guess that's what I was thinking of

32:25SPEAKERis that they are kind of deprecating big picture

32:29SPEAKERin favor of Steam Deck.

32:30SPEAKER- That's good.

32:31SPEAKER'Cause Steam Deck, big picture kind of sucks.

32:33SPEAKER- Yeah.

32:36SPEAKEROkay.

32:39SPEAKER- I don't, I wouldn't.

32:42SPEAKER- Is there something about your car's nav console

32:43SPEAKERthat I need to know?

32:46SPEAKER- No, it's not annoying.

32:47SPEAKERIt's like, I plug it in, it's all it is

32:48SPEAKERis a screen for carplay.

32:50SPEAKER- Okay.

32:52SPEAKER- There's stuff you can add to the ODB port on bolts

32:55SPEAKERthat will let you like get direct readings of battery life

33:01SPEAKERinto like the tools that let you plug your routes

33:04SPEAKERand stuff like that.

33:05SPEAKERSo you can get dynamic,

33:06SPEAKERlike where you should charge updates constantly.

33:08SPEAKERIt doesn't seem necessary the way we drive the car.

33:12SPEAKER- Okay, don't hack your car.

33:14SPEAKER- I mean, look, if I owned the car outright,

33:16SPEAKERI would probably be more like,

33:19SPEAKERI dig it a little bit more,

33:20SPEAKERbut since I have to turn it in two years,

33:22SPEAKERI'm probably not gonna mess with it.

33:23SPEAKERI don't wanna have to pay anything

33:25SPEAKERwhen I give the car back 'cause the TLDR, that's fair.

33:29SPEAKER- Yeah.

33:30SPEAKERAll right.

33:30SPEAKERCaptain Swayzak, that's a good name.

33:33SPEAKER- Yeah, it is pretty good.

33:34SPEAKERI'm thinking about getting my 81 year old mother

33:36SPEAKERan Apple watch.

33:38SPEAKERShe has a titanium plate and screws in both wrists.

33:41SPEAKERWill these plates and screws mess with the watch's sensors?

33:44SPEAKERI've looked around and cannot find a definitive answer.

33:47SPEAKER- I don't think so.

33:47SPEAKERTitanium's non-ferrous,

33:49SPEAKERso the compass and stuff will still work.

33:52SPEAKERAnd like the other things, the blood pressure,

33:56SPEAKERI mean, the heart rate thing uses cameras

33:58SPEAKERto see the red blood cells

34:01SPEAKERgoing through capillaries in your skin.

34:05SPEAKERSo that shouldn't be affected by the metal.

34:07SPEAKERI don't know about the EKG.

34:08SPEAKERI don't know how the EKG works or ECG, I guess.

34:11SPEAKER- Does it do blood oxygenation?

34:13SPEAKER- No.

34:15SPEAKER- Boy, that's a good question.

34:16SPEAKER- You said, I think you just got a new one, right?

34:18SPEAKER- It's not here yet.

34:19SPEAKER- Oh, bummer, I wanted to hear about it.

34:22SPEAKER- Yeah, next week.

34:23SPEAKER- I would get one of those new ones

34:24SPEAKERif I left the house more.

34:26SPEAKER- Oh yeah, it does do blood ox.

34:27SPEAKER- That's cool.

34:28SPEAKER- Apple watch series six or later.

34:29SPEAKER- That's very cool.

34:31SPEAKER- Yeah, like honestly, I got it because of the ECG stuff.

34:36SPEAKERI have a family history of heart problems

34:38SPEAKERand like having something that monitors my heart rate

34:41SPEAKERmore directly after talking to my primary care doctor

34:44SPEAKERwas like, this seems like it would be useful.

34:46SPEAKER- Yeah, the preventative health aspects of that thing

34:49SPEAKERseem like they're becoming pretty substantial.

34:51SPEAKER- I mean, I feel like a lot of it's kind of like,

34:53SPEAKERit's not snake oil exactly

34:55SPEAKER'cause it seems like it actually works

34:56SPEAKERand they do the work to make it a medical device

34:58SPEAKERwhere they can.

34:59SPEAKERBut yeah, I don't know.

35:04SPEAKERIt's easy to find.

35:05SPEAKER- Yeah, it's easy to be skeptical about stuff like that,

35:07SPEAKERbut it seems like they have actually done the work.

35:10SPEAKER- Yeah, I think that's right.

35:11SPEAKER- And when you say titanium is non-ferrous,

35:14SPEAKERI assume that means like not magnetically reactive.

35:16SPEAKER- Yeah.

35:17SPEAKER- Does not interact with magnetic fields.

35:19SPEAKER- Yeah, so she should be fine.

35:21SPEAKERI think.

35:22SPEAKER- Get the Apple watch.

35:24SPEAKER- I mean, maybe not.

35:25SPEAKERI don't know.

35:25SPEAKERI bought the, I got the first Apple watch

35:26SPEAKERand it was perturbed by it long enough

35:28SPEAKERthat I haven't gotten another one, so.

35:30SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, that's probably the luck.

35:32SPEAKERBleeding edge Apple adoption, you know how it goes.

35:35SPEAKER- Yeah.

35:36SPEAKER- Let's see.

35:38SPEAKERHow about, I had a question.

35:43SPEAKEROh boy, all right.

35:44SPEAKERI want to talk about this.

35:46SPEAKERI don't think either of us

35:46SPEAKERis actually qualified to talk about it,

35:48SPEAKERbut it's been a topic of such interest for me lately.

35:51SPEAKER- Okay.

35:52SPEAKER- But I still want to talk about it from a long ago.

35:55SPEAKER- Good name too.

35:56SPEAKER- Okay, again, disclaimer, we are not experts.

36:00SPEAKERThe decommissioned nuclear power plant

36:02SPEAKERfive miles up the shore from my house,

36:04SPEAKERwhich is newly purchased as a first time homeowner,

36:08SPEAKERis planning on disposing of irradiated water

36:10SPEAKERby dumping it in the ocean,

36:12SPEAKERspecifically the Massachusetts Bay.

36:15SPEAKERShould I be worried?

36:17SPEAKERThe ocean seems pretty big.

36:19SPEAKERWe live one block off the beach

36:20SPEAKERand the beach is about five miles down the shore

36:23SPEAKERfrom the old plant.

36:28SPEAKER- One million gallons of radioactive water

36:31SPEAKERfrom Plymouth nuclear plant

36:32SPEAKERcould be discharged into Cape Cod Bay.

36:34SPEAKER- Is that, pretty sure that's the same one?

36:38SPEAKERHow many gallons?

36:38SPEAKER- Close enough.

36:39SPEAKER- One million, did you say?

36:40SPEAKER- One million, that's a lot.

36:42SPEAKEROh, it'd be done in batches of 20,000 gallons each.

36:45SPEAKER- Yeah, that doesn't sound like that much

36:46SPEAKERin the context of the ocean.

36:48SPEAKER- They have a permit.

36:50SPEAKER- Sure, it's fine if it's permitted.

36:51SPEAKERWhat could go wrong?

36:54SPEAKER- Turns out radioactive substances are excluded

36:56SPEAKERfrom the definition of pollutant under the Clean Water Act.

36:59SPEAKER- Oh, great.

37:00SPEAKERSo I would be curious to know

37:02SPEAKERin what way it is irradiated, right?

37:05SPEAKERDoes that mean that it contains irradiated material?

37:09SPEAKERI assume that has to be the case, right?

37:12SPEAKER- Probably, yeah.

37:12SPEAKERI mean, it means, well, probably it's the water

37:15SPEAKERthat was inside the closed loop of the nuclear reactor.

37:17SPEAKER- Right, right, of course.

37:18SPEAKERWhat I mean is there has to be like actual particulate matter

37:20SPEAKERin there that is itself radioactive, right?

37:23SPEAKER- Or it could be like heavy water.

37:25SPEAKERIt could be a mixture of normal water

37:27SPEAKERand deuterium and tritium water.

37:29SPEAKER- Okay.

37:30SPEAKER- I don't know.

37:32SPEAKERLike, you know, how many bananas are we talking here?

37:36SPEAKERThat's the question.

37:37SPEAKER- It's a pretty effective kind of barometer for irradiation.

37:43SPEAKER- What is it they say in Chernobyl?

37:45SPEAKERSomething, something, something, not so bad?

37:47SPEAKERI don't know.

37:47SPEAKER- No, it's not great, not terrible.

37:49SPEAKER- Yeah, not great, not terrible, yeah.

37:52SPEAKER- Yes, as I've said over and over,

37:54SPEAKERI've been way down on radiation,

37:56SPEAKERjust the nuclear reactor, Chernobyl rabbit hole.

37:58SPEAKER- Oh, yeah.

38:00SPEAKER- Is the thing that I found,

38:01SPEAKERone of the things that I found the most interesting

38:03SPEAKERis how incredibly efficient water is as a radiation buffer.

38:07SPEAKER- Yeah.

38:08SPEAKER- Did you know that?

38:09SPEAKERI'm sure you probably knew that.

38:10SPEAKER- Yeah, I stood with 26 feet of water

38:12SPEAKERbetween me and an operating nuclear reactor.

38:14SPEAKERI was fine.

38:14SPEAKER- Yeah, it's crazy.

38:15SPEAKERLike I forget, I'm sure it varies by type of radiation,

38:18SPEAKERbut you know, there's a formula, you know,

38:20SPEAKERand the fall off of intensity of radiation

38:22SPEAKERis like incredibly huge.

38:24SPEAKERYou know, it's like, I'm fudging the numbers,

38:27SPEAKERlike every, you know, every 10 inches

38:29SPEAKERor 10 centimeters of water, whatever it is,

38:31SPEAKERlike the intensity of the radiation falls off by half

38:34SPEAKERor something like that.

38:34SPEAKER- It falls off exponentially based on the distance

38:36SPEAKERbecause of the water's ability to absorb neutrons and protons

38:42SPEAKER- That's why you can swim at the surface of a pool,

38:46SPEAKERlike a cooling pool with a bunch of spent fuel rods

38:48SPEAKERat the bottom, as long as you stay on the surface,

38:49SPEAKERyou're just fine.

38:51SPEAKERJust make sure you don't swim right down next to the rods.

38:54SPEAKER- Well, so here's the thing is if the pools

38:56SPEAKERare actually deionized,

38:58SPEAKERyou cause yourself entirely other problems

39:01SPEAKERbecause it'll, can't remember whether you absorb

39:04SPEAKERall the water, all the water leeches out of your body

39:06SPEAKERto try to make the, anyway, your salt balance

39:09SPEAKERgets out of whack and bad things happen.

39:11SPEAKER- Please don't take any of our advice.

39:13SPEAKER- Don't jump into a deionized pool.

39:15SPEAKER- Please do not swim in a cooling pool.

39:18SPEAKER- I don't know.

39:19SPEAKERLike I feel like I am not enough of an expert

39:24SPEAKERin how this, what radiation, irradiated water means

39:28SPEAKERin this context to say, I also don't really know

39:31SPEAKERhow big the Massachusetts Bay is.

39:35SPEAKERI mean, I maybe don't drink the ocean water

39:38SPEAKERfor a little bit, probably not gonna do that anyway.

39:40SPEAKER- Yeah.

39:43SPEAKERWhat could go wrong?

39:43SPEAKER- I mean, look here, actually,

39:46SPEAKERhere's what I would do in this situation.

39:47SPEAKERI would go to the hearings about this

39:49SPEAKER'cause I'm sure there will be local hearings about this

39:51SPEAKERwhere every crank within a hundred mile radius

39:54SPEAKERwill come and have opinions.

39:55SPEAKERAnd then listen to what the scientists say.

40:00SPEAKERScientists hardly ever make mistakes, right?

40:02SPEAKER- Right.

40:03SPEAKER- Everything's fine.

40:03SPEAKER- Everything's fine.

40:07SPEAKERAll right, here's another question from, okay, here we go.

40:13SPEAKERYour mom, loljk, do your homework.

40:16SPEAKERTook me a second.

40:17SPEAKERThat's all jammed together, one word,

40:19SPEAKERno spaces, no capitals.

40:21SPEAKER- Okay.

40:23SPEAKER- That's the username.

40:24SPEAKER- That's a pretty good username.

40:25SPEAKER- Here's again, that is your mom, loljk, do your homework.

40:28SPEAKEROkay.

40:29SPEAKER- Thanks, your mom, loljk, do your homework.

40:30SPEAKER- All right, the question is,

40:32SPEAKERwhat's your process for wiping data

40:34SPEAKERbefore reselling a device?

40:36SPEAKERI would love for old phones and laptops

40:37SPEAKERto go on living life rather than wasting away,

40:40SPEAKERbut what, if anything, do you do to ensure

40:42SPEAKERthat no sensitive info is available on the device?

40:45SPEAKERAre there any devices or accessories

40:47SPEAKERthat you will never consider resellable?

40:50SPEAKER- So, old phones, I just do the wipe,

40:54SPEAKERthe Apple delete all your stuff on.

40:56SPEAKER- Built in factory reset type stuff.

40:58SPEAKERI mean, that's kind of all you can do, right?

41:00SPEAKERYou don't have a lot of low level access to those devices.

41:03SPEAKER- I mean, I could drill the memory chips,

41:05SPEAKERbut I think that would affect the resale value of the phone.

41:07SPEAKER- I think for the purpose of the question,

41:09SPEAKERwe're trying to make sure they're still usable.

41:11SPEAKER- And then I just don't ever get rid of hard drives.

41:13SPEAKERI have a box of hard drives with 20 years

41:15SPEAKERworth of hard drives in the garage.

41:16SPEAKER- No kidding.

41:17SPEAKER- 30 years probably.

41:18SPEAKER- I think we've talked about that before

41:19SPEAKERnow that I think about it.

41:21SPEAKER- The bottom of the box got a little wet the other day.

41:23SPEAKERIt's not great.

41:24SPEAKER- Well, I mean, are you gonna ever use them again?

41:26SPEAKER- I mean, I don't know that I can move the box now

41:28SPEAKER'cause the bottom of the box got a little wet.

41:30SPEAKER- That kind of not great.

41:31SPEAKER- Also, it weighs like 80 pounds.

41:32SPEAKERIt is really a fucking heavy box, dude.

41:35SPEAKER- I think I've mentioned it before,

41:36SPEAKERbut I started taking old hard drives apart last year

41:38SPEAKERand like scoring the hell out of the platters

41:41SPEAKERwith a screwdriver,

41:42SPEAKERwhich I assume is enough to render them unreadable.

41:44SPEAKER- Did you get the parking magnets out?

41:46SPEAKER- Yes.

41:47SPEAKER- Yeah, those things are serious.

41:49SPEAKER- Yeah, they'll mess your fingers up.

41:51SPEAKER- Do not want your fingertips in between two of those.

41:53SPEAKER- No.

41:55SPEAKER- Of course, again, that's destroying those hard drives,

41:58SPEAKERnot reselling them.

41:59SPEAKER- So if I was theoretically reselling a hard drive,

42:02SPEAKERI would just do the secure array stuff.

42:06SPEAKER- The old D-band.

42:07SPEAKER- Yeah, D-band, I don't even do the seven.

42:09SPEAKERI just do like three, it's fine.

42:11SPEAKERI don't have anything that people

42:12SPEAKERare gonna care enough about.

42:14SPEAKERThe FBI doesn't care about what's on my hard drives,

42:16SPEAKERit turns out.

42:16SPEAKER- I mean, that's what they tell you.

42:18SPEAKER- Well, it's true.

42:21SPEAKER- Yeah, I think I'm with you.

42:22SPEAKERI think probably factory reset is fine

42:24SPEAKERfor your average cell phone, that kind of thing.

42:29SPEAKERLet's see here.

42:32SPEAKERHow about...

42:36SPEAKERStealing milk crates is a crime.

42:40SPEAKERThat's another good username.

42:41SPEAKER(laughing)

42:43SPEAKERYou might have some insight into this

42:44SPEAKER'cause of your weird multi-computer streaming setup,

42:47SPEAKERwe'll see.

42:48SPEAKERDo you have any recommendations for ways to manage

42:51SPEAKERwhich monitor a full screen game will launch on?

42:54SPEAKERI have a second monitor on a separate desk

42:56SPEAKERwith a steering wheel set up

42:58SPEAKERand it's incredibly frustrating

42:59SPEAKERto have to change my primary monitor

43:01SPEAKERevery time I want to use it.

43:04SPEAKERI am heathen and have the taskbar

43:06SPEAKERon the left side of my primary monitor.

43:07SPEAKERThis is reset whenever I change primary monitors.

43:10SPEAKERThank you kindly.

43:12SPEAKERI don't think there is a kind of global way

43:14SPEAKERto control that, is there?

43:15SPEAKERI think that's, isn't that a per game thing

43:17SPEAKERthat most of them just want to launch

43:18SPEAKERon whatever Windows considers your primary?

43:21SPEAKERSo yeah, generally Windows,

43:23SPEAKERunless that Windows game specifically lets you choose

43:26SPEAKERwhich monitor it shows up on, which is unusual.

43:29SPEAKERLike it's not super unusual, it happens,

43:30SPEAKERbut usually it's an unusual setting in the settings.

43:34SPEAKERIt's the primary monitor.

43:36SPEAKERI do not believe that there is a way,

43:38SPEAKERlike Windows, the Windows key plus P doesn't let you change,

43:41SPEAKERwhich is the primary monitor,

43:42SPEAKERjust lets you choose whether you're on one monitor,

43:45SPEAKERextended, duplicated, or projecting to second monitor only.

43:50SPEAKERThe taskbar placement and all that stuff

43:53SPEAKERis based on a configuration of monitors.

43:57SPEAKERSo like if you, so for example,

44:00SPEAKERwhen I'm using my computer right now,

44:02SPEAKERwhen I don't have my streaming computer on,

44:03SPEAKERI have two monitors, one below and one above.

44:06SPEAKERThe bottom one is the primary.

44:08SPEAKERWhen I turn on the streaming computer,

44:10SPEAKERthat computer is, let's see,

44:15SPEAKERmy third output on the video card

44:16SPEAKERgoes to a capture card on that computer.

44:19SPEAKERAnd that shows up as a third monitor,

44:21SPEAKERwhich then resets the entire configuration.

44:23SPEAKERAnd it will change, like it will change

44:27SPEAKERwhich is the primary and even the layout of the monitors,

44:30SPEAKERif I so desire.

44:31SPEAKERSo you might be able to set,

44:33SPEAKERto turn on that third monitor,

44:35SPEAKERthe one that you use for your steering wheel

44:37SPEAKERand only have it turned on when you wanna use it

44:39SPEAKERand have it set as the primary when it's turned on

44:41SPEAKERand then physically power it off,

44:43SPEAKERnot just with the soft power button,

44:44SPEAKERbut the actual hard power button

44:47SPEAKERthat's probably on the back of it.

44:48SPEAKERAnd that might do what you want.

44:49SPEAKER- So take it out of the rotation.

44:51SPEAKER- Yeah.

44:52SPEAKERThere might also be a Nearsoft tool that does this.

44:53SPEAKERI feel like there's some Nearsoft monitor,

44:56SPEAKERlike Nearsoft has access to,

44:58SPEAKERlike they've written command line utilities

45:00SPEAKERthat will do this kind of stuff as well.

45:01SPEAKER- Yeah, like I've said,

45:02SPEAKERthat's the thing I use to change inputs

45:04SPEAKERon my monitor with software.

45:05SPEAKERThere might, I would not be shocked at all

45:07SPEAKERif there is a PowerShell,

45:08SPEAKERlike just a key in the registry

45:10SPEAKERthat you could tweak with a command line

45:12SPEAKERto change which one is the primary.

45:14SPEAKERIf, so I'm not quite clear here

45:16SPEAKERif they are looking for just a shortcut

45:17SPEAKERto change primary more easily,

45:19SPEAKERor if they're sick of changing period

45:21SPEAKERand want to just tell games where to launch,

45:23SPEAKERbut I don't think you can do that generally.

45:24SPEAKER- You can't tell games just where to launch

45:26SPEAKERunless the game specifically supports it.

45:29SPEAKER- Yeah.

45:30SPEAKER- A lot of the racing games I've played,

45:32SPEAKERnot like Forza and stuff like that,

45:33SPEAKERbut like your iRacing and your Assetto Corsa and all that,

45:36SPEAKERI feel like you can set them to specific monitors.

45:38SPEAKERSo you may be able to do it that way.

45:40SPEAKER- One other trick that I've got

45:42SPEAKERthat will work for pretty much any game

45:44SPEAKERthat is running borderless window,

45:46SPEAKERthere's a Windows key shortcut,

45:48SPEAKERwhich is shift window left and right.

45:50SPEAKER- Oh, it'll move it from one display to the other?

45:52SPEAKER- So it'd hold the shift and window

45:53SPEAKERand then hit left or right

45:54SPEAKERand that'll move a window from display to display.

45:57SPEAKER- Yeah.

45:58SPEAKER- So I think if it's running in exclusive full screen,

46:00SPEAKERthat won't work, but if it's borderless windowed,

46:02SPEAKERthen you should be able to move it manually like that

46:03SPEAKERand after you launch it.

46:05SPEAKER- So, hey, I have a question for you.

46:06SPEAKER- Yes.

46:07SPEAKER- When you do, when you play games,

46:08SPEAKERdo you play borderless windowed or do you play full screen?

46:10SPEAKER- No, I always go exclusive full screen

46:12SPEAKERbecause, and I've actually wondered about this,

46:15SPEAKERmaybe you can correct me if I'm wrong,

46:16SPEAKERI've always been under the impression

46:17SPEAKERthat adaptive sync either only works

46:20SPEAKERin exclusive full screen or is like more likely to work right.

46:24SPEAKER- So you can set in, depends on your video card,

46:27SPEAKERon the video cards, you can turn G-Sync on.

46:30SPEAKER- Oh, for windowed applications?

46:31SPEAKER- In borderless windowed as well.

46:32SPEAKER- Okay, I think that's what it is.

46:33SPEAKERI think I read some conventional wisdom somewhere,

46:35SPEAKERpeople saying that is not reliable

46:37SPEAKERand that if you really wanna make sure it's working,

46:39SPEAKERyou're better off in full screen.

46:40SPEAKER- I was gonna say,

46:41SPEAKERI feel like that's a relatively new setting also.

46:43SPEAKER- Okay.

46:44SPEAKER- So.

46:45SPEAKER- Yeah, what about you?

46:46SPEAKERI mean, yeah, I try to go exclusive whenever I can.

46:49SPEAKER- I usually go for full screen,

46:50SPEAKERbut increasingly like newer games are not,

46:53SPEAKERlike even some like Unreal Engine games

46:55SPEAKERare weird about exclusive full screen now,

46:57SPEAKERso it seems like sometimes.

46:58SPEAKER- Halo Infinite doesn't even have it.

47:00SPEAKER- Yeah, I was like, I was kind of surprised by that, so.

47:03SPEAKER- I'm not sure that I'm a fan, in fact, I know I'm not.

47:06SPEAKER- I don't know, it seems to run pretty well.

47:08SPEAKER- Yeah, I guess so.

47:09SPEAKER- Yeah.

47:10SPEAKER- Let's see here.

47:14SPEAKERTyler W has a question.

47:15SPEAKERWhen you unbox a new electronics item

47:17SPEAKERthat has a piece of protective film on it,

47:20SPEAKERdo you peel the film immediately,

47:22SPEAKERleave it on until it starts getting ugly,

47:23SPEAKERor keep it indefinitely despite it becoming a nightmare

47:26SPEAKERof trapped hair and lint?

47:27SPEAKER- Oh, peel it immediately.

47:28SPEAKER- Yeah, that's coming off the second it comes out of the box.

47:31SPEAKERThis is like, I feel like this is just like

47:33SPEAKERthe 21st century version of leaving the cover on your couch.

47:37SPEAKER- Yeah.

47:38SPEAKER- After this, also I'm getting a head shake from the door.

47:41SPEAKER- Wait, she peels it?

47:43SPEAKER- No, she does not.

47:46SPEAKER- Like most of the stuff now you have to peel it

47:47SPEAKERto kind of use it anymore.

47:49SPEAKER- This is not like watch and phone territory

47:52SPEAKERas much as more like kitchen appliance

47:53SPEAKERand things like that that have like screens on them.

47:56SPEAKER- I mean, I do have to say when I got my new computer case

47:58SPEAKERwith all the glass and I knew

48:00SPEAKERI was gonna be traveling with it,

48:01SPEAKERI left the protective film on it until I got back.

48:03SPEAKER- That's just sensible.

48:04SPEAKER- Yeah.

48:06SPEAKER- But yes, if it's anything I'm gonna be like touching

48:07SPEAKERand handling and using all the time,

48:09SPEAKERlike that protective anything is coming off immediately.

48:13SPEAKER- Yeah, it seems like a good choice.

48:14SPEAKER- Yeah.

48:18SPEAKERSee, a couple more here.

48:20SPEAKER- Yeah.

48:21SPEAKER- This could be unprecedented.

48:24SPEAKERShould I ask another Tyler W question?

48:27SPEAKER- Well, I mean, we like Tyler, he's okay.

48:28SPEAKER- Yeah, he's a good guy.

48:30SPEAKERBut also he sent in two worthwhile questions.

48:33SPEAKER- Like I, look, if one person sent in 10 questions

48:37SPEAKERthat are all bangers, the best questions,

48:39SPEAKERthey send in the best 10 questions of the month.

48:41SPEAKER- Oh no.

48:42SPEAKER- I would dedicate that episode to them

48:43SPEAKERand just answer all their questions

48:44SPEAKERand leave everybody else behind.

48:47SPEAKER- I think we're about to see a dramatic uptick.

48:49SPEAKERIn fact, let's say by a factor of about 10.

48:51SPEAKER- That's the high bar.

48:52SPEAKER- And the number of questions we're gonna start getting.

48:55SPEAKERAll right, another question from Tyler W.

48:58SPEAKERWhat do you use your mouse's thumb buttons for?

49:00SPEAKERNot specifically for gaming, but for daily driver use.

49:04SPEAKERI spend most of my time editing videos,

49:05SPEAKERso I have mine bound to the hotkeys

49:07SPEAKERfor splitting my current clip

49:09SPEAKERand another for the ripple delete function.

49:11SPEAKERI started doing that years ago

49:12SPEAKERand it's saved me endless hours

49:14SPEAKERreaching for those hotkeys on the keyboard.

49:16SPEAKERI also have one bound to the middle mouse button

49:18SPEAKERbecause I hate clicking in the scroll wheel for that button.

49:21SPEAKERWhat kind of bindings do you use for thumb buttons

49:23SPEAKERthat have made a good impact on your life?

49:25SPEAKER- I think Tyler and I have talked to,

49:27SPEAKERTyler, I'm now Tyler, Tyler, we know,

49:30SPEAKERwe both know Tyler from past lives.

49:33SPEAKER- I think Tyler and I have talked about this,

49:35SPEAKERI hate the middle mouse click.

49:36SPEAKER- Yeah, I can get behind that, I'm not a fan either.

49:38SPEAKERI don't know why, it just feels awkward.

49:40SPEAKER- Yeah, I unbind it almost always.

49:42SPEAKER- Oh wow.

49:43SPEAKER- And I bind it to the first thumb button.

49:45SPEAKER- Okay.

49:45SPEAKER- Which also is my push to talk or push to mute

49:47SPEAKERdepending on whether I'm in Discord or a game.

49:50SPEAKER- Okay.

49:50SPEAKER- And then the forward button in games is usually like vault

49:53SPEAKERor something that I like, something that like you do a lot

49:56SPEAKERbut not, you know, isn't a left hand thing.

50:01SPEAKER- I don't use the thumb buttons really for apps.

50:04SPEAKERI'm totally doing, take stealing the split key,

50:06SPEAKERthe split timeline one though, that's brilliant.

50:08SPEAKER- That's a hot tip actually, I might do that for audacity.

50:11SPEAKER- Yeah.

50:12SPEAKER- When I was a daily Mac OS user,

50:15SPEAKERlike the entirety of Giant Bomb,

50:16SPEAKERI was using a MacBook for work every day.

50:18SPEAKER- Yeah.

50:19SPEAKER- I bound to the side mouse button to command H,

50:22SPEAKERwhich is hide.

50:24SPEAKER- Boss key?

50:25SPEAKER- What's that?

50:26SPEAKER- Your boss key?

50:27SPEAKER- Well, I mean, I'm not sure if you're trying to,

50:29SPEAKERyou know, it wasn't really necessary to hide like a video

50:32SPEAKERgame website around that office, let's say.

50:34SPEAKERI didn't have to like divert back to Excel.

50:37SPEAKER- You were looking at your 401k and you don't want anybody

50:38SPEAKERto go?

50:39SPEAKER- Looking at the video game websites was the work,

50:43SPEAKERbut yeah, that's hide in Mac OS.

50:45SPEAKERLike if people don't use Mac OS a lot,

50:46SPEAKERit uses a different window paradigm than windows,

50:49SPEAKERwhere like the entire quote unquote application is all bound

50:51SPEAKERtogether no matter how many different windows it has open.

50:54SPEAKER- Yeah.

50:55SPEAKER- So if you hide, say, I don't know, name an application.

50:57SPEAKER- Finder.

50:58SPEAKER- Well, you can't hide Finder.

50:59SPEAKERIt's the one you can't hide Photoshop or, you know,

51:02SPEAKERsomething that has a lot of windows.

51:03SPEAKEROne command H will hide the entire,

51:05SPEAKERthe entirety of Photoshop, all the windows, everything.

51:07SPEAKER- Oh, that's nice.

51:09SPEAKER- So you could just fast as hell,

51:11SPEAKERjust get stuff out of your face,

51:13SPEAKERjust like fly around that operating system.

51:15SPEAKER- I loved the keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS.

51:17SPEAKERI miss being able to use a Mac for day-to-day work.

51:19SPEAKER- I also had, I had middle mouse.

51:21SPEAKERI don't love middle mouse, but I used it.

51:22SPEAKERI have that balance of mission control or expose back then.

51:25SPEAKER- Oh yeah.

51:26SPEAKER- So it was basically just like windows were just flying

51:28SPEAKERand disappearing left and right all over the place.

51:30SPEAKERIt felt so good.

51:31SPEAKER- That was a wonderful time for OS X.

51:33SPEAKER- Yeah, it really was.

51:33SPEAKER- When you could have hit all those hotkeys

51:35SPEAKERand you could completely change the way your desktop looked

51:38SPEAKERin like three tenths of a second by hitting three buttons.

51:40SPEAKER- So good, just to be able to see everything.

51:42SPEAKERWindows is caught up, to be fair, to be fair.

51:45SPEAKER- Win shift, win tab, pretty good.

51:48SPEAKER- Yes, yes, win tab, I'm doing it right now.

51:50SPEAKERI'm looking at every window that's open.

51:51SPEAKER- Oh yeah, look at all those windows.

51:52SPEAKER- It's pretty good.

51:53SPEAKER- Do you use multiple desktops, Brad?

51:54SPEAKER- I do.

51:56SPEAKER- A work desktop and a fun desktop?

51:59SPEAKER- My fun desktop is called general, but yes.

52:01SPEAKER- Okay.

52:02SPEAKER- A little bit less fun.

52:03SPEAKER- That's not the party in the general.

52:05SPEAKER- That's right, yes.

52:07SPEAKERBut the pandemic, this computer becoming my work computer

52:10SPEAKERkind of necessitated like I need to quarantine stuff.

52:13SPEAKER- I can see that.

52:14SPEAKER- I need a work environment that doesn't have

52:16SPEAKERa bunch of other stuff open.

52:17SPEAKER- There's still a handful of things that I have to use

52:19SPEAKERon the day to day that don't respect the desktops,

52:21SPEAKERwhich annoys me.

52:22SPEAKER- Really?

52:23SPEAKER- Yeah, well like, I don't know, Teams is one of them,

52:26SPEAKERI think.

52:27SPEAKERThe other thing is, like I use Discord

52:30SPEAKERboth on my work desktop and on my party desktop,

52:33SPEAKERand like, then it's just a weird, I don't know,

52:36SPEAKERit's just weird.

52:37SPEAKERI just use one desktop, is the TLDR, I guess.

52:40SPEAKER- It's just a big old melting pot.

52:41SPEAKER- Yeah, everything's together.

52:42SPEAKERThere's no such thing as work, there's no such thing as fun.

52:45SPEAKER- That's right, yes, that's our creed for 2022,

52:48SPEAKERwhich still does not sound like a real number to me.

52:51SPEAKER- Keep your head down and stop complaining.

52:53SPEAKERThat's the 2022 motto.

52:55SPEAKER- All right, let's do two more here.

52:58SPEAKER- Okay, what you got?

53:00SPEAKER- A joli, a joli, what do you think?

53:02SPEAKER- Aoli?

53:03SPEAKER- Aoli, A-J-O-L-I, and I believe they are from Sweden, so.

53:07SPEAKER- So I assume the J is a joli.

53:09SPEAKER- Yeah, a joli, perhaps.

53:10SPEAKER- I don't know, a joli, yeah.

53:12SPEAKER- Not so much a question, but a backup failure horror story,

53:15SPEAKERwhich could be interesting as a talking point.

53:18SPEAKERAnd then they linked to the story that was going around,

53:21SPEAKERor I guess is pretty current,

53:22SPEAKERabout Kyoto University in Japan.

53:25SPEAKERLosing 77 terabytes of research data

53:29SPEAKERdue to a supercomputer cluster,

53:31SPEAKERout of like a cluster of craze,

53:33SPEAKERlike this type of supercomputer setup

53:35SPEAKERthat is like very expensive to use by the hour.

53:38SPEAKER- Yeah, it was a big HP system, I think.

53:40SPEAKER- And specifically due to an error

53:42SPEAKERin their backup methodology.

53:45SPEAKER- Well, backup and update was my,

53:47SPEAKERso the actual articles were all posted in Japanese.

53:49SPEAKERI found a couple of translations,

53:51SPEAKER'cause like A, 77 terabytes is a buttload of data.

53:56SPEAKERLike apparently what happened was

53:59SPEAKERthey updated the bash script that cleans out logs,

54:02SPEAKERold log files, without stopping the bash script

54:07SPEAKERfrom running in the first place.

54:08SPEAKER- Oh no.

54:09SPEAKER- So like the updated bash script

54:12SPEAKERgot picked up midway through a run

54:13SPEAKERand it had a bunch of undefined variables,

54:16SPEAKERand that resulted in, instead of removing log files,

54:19SPEAKERit just started deleting everything.

54:23SPEAKERIt seems like a bad day.

54:24SPEAKERMy stomach is doing somersaults right now.

54:27SPEAKER- That's why you shouldn't use bash, this is the lesson.

54:29SPEAKER- What?

54:29SPEAKER- Look, if this was written in Rust,

54:31SPEAKERthis would have been impossible, Brad.

54:33SPEAKER- Great power, great responsibility.

54:35SPEAKER- Yeah, something like that.

54:37SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, this actually does freak me out

54:38SPEAKERbecause all the times that I have thought about it

54:40SPEAKERand then not followed through with moving my NAS

54:42SPEAKERto just a vanilla Linux install.

54:45SPEAKER- Yeah.

54:46SPEAKER- It has occurred to me like,

54:47SPEAKERoh, I guess I would have to script a lot of the backup stuff

54:49SPEAKERthat FreeNAS just does for me right now.

54:52SPEAKERAnd then the potential- - I think I would just hook it up

54:54SPEAKERto Backblaze, my Backblaze account at that point probably.

54:58SPEAKER- Well, you still have, you still have to wait,

54:59SPEAKERhave to have a way to push all that data.

55:02SPEAKER- Yeah, that's true.

55:02SPEAKER- Maybe Backblaze does some of that stuff for you.

55:04SPEAKERI think there are solutions even for just plain old Linux

55:07SPEAKERif you just want to like,

55:08SPEAKERhey, I want to sync these snapshots overnight.

55:11SPEAKERI think there are some turnkey solutions out there.

55:14SPEAKER- It's a lot though.

55:15SPEAKER- Maybe don't write your own backup scripts

55:17SPEAKERif you've got anything remotely important.

55:19SPEAKERI mean, let alone tens of terabytes of research data.

55:23SPEAKER- Well, at this point, like HP is the contractor

55:26SPEAKERwho built this machine for them at this point.

55:28SPEAKERSo you'd expect like they're doing normal,

55:30SPEAKERlike this isn't like somebody at HP

55:32SPEAKERwriting a script off the cuff.

55:33SPEAKERThis is probably process and a failure.

55:35SPEAKERAs is often the case, it's a failure in process.

55:38SPEAKER- That's right.

55:39SPEAKER- 'Cause if they had stopped the script from running

55:41SPEAKERor waited until the script was done,

55:42SPEAKERno problem with the update.

55:44SPEAKER- Is this, I mean, I'm sure you could put a dollar figure

55:46SPEAKERon this, but is this equivalent to the Million Dollar Club?

55:49SPEAKERLike somebody has joined the 100 terabyte club here.

55:52SPEAKER- I think the thing I said saw that it was a one and a half

55:54SPEAKERday's worth of data.

55:55SPEAKERSo I would be surprised if it was a million bucks.

55:58SPEAKER- Yeah, you're probably right.

56:00SPEAKERWow, God, that is a lot of data generation.

56:03SPEAKER- Well, so this is the thing,

56:04SPEAKEReven when I worked in the university in the '90s,

56:07SPEAKERlike the, you could, data sets get real big, real fast.

56:12SPEAKER- That's about what, 50 terabytes a day

56:13SPEAKERor something like that?

56:15SPEAKER- Something like that, yeah.

56:16SPEAKER- That's a lot of data.

56:17SPEAKER- Like astronomy, what is it?

56:18SPEAKER- The JWST, which successfully launched last week

56:20SPEAKERis good for 34 terabytes a day, is that right?

56:26SPEAKEROr maybe it's 34 gigabytes a day, I can't remember.

56:27SPEAKERI remember looking and thinking,

56:28SPEAKERthis is a lot of data from space.

56:30SPEAKER- Yeah, if you're running like complex simulations,

56:32SPEAKERit's not hard at all to see how you might generate

56:35SPEAKERdata that fast.

56:36SPEAKER- Like what is it?

56:37SPEAKERWind simulations of cities are really complicated

56:41SPEAKERbecause every single area that you sample

56:45SPEAKERreferences every other area that's sampled.

56:47SPEAKERSo they get, like the branching predictions

56:50SPEAKERget infinite really quickly.

56:52SPEAKER- That sounds chaotic.

56:54SPEAKER- Yes, yes, like imperfections in the skin, right?

56:57SPEAKER- That's right, that's right.

56:58SPEAKEROh, imperfections, huh?

57:01SPEAKERAll right, last email, last email of the year.

57:05SPEAKER- Until the patron episode, which will actually be out.

57:07SPEAKERActually, this is the last episode email

57:09SPEAKERof the first emails of the year.

57:12SPEAKER- Let's just call it the last, look, it's symbolic.

57:14SPEAKER- Okay, okay, this is the last 2021 email.

57:17SPEAKERIt's symbolic because it's from Majima's eyepatch

57:20SPEAKERbecause I think it's been at least three email episodes

57:23SPEAKERago now where I said I was going to read this email

57:26SPEAKERand then didn't to the point that they send it back in

57:30SPEAKERat the top and says, I submitted this question

57:32SPEAKERa few months ago and it was suggested that I submit it again

57:35SPEAKERso here we go.

57:36SPEAKER- Is Majima a character from a video game that I don't know?

57:38SPEAKER- I want to say Yakuza.

57:40SPEAKER- Seems like a Yakuza.

57:42SPEAKER- I believe that's right.

57:44SPEAKERAnyway, yes, I literally had this ready to go back

57:47SPEAKERin like October.

57:48SPEAKER- Okay.

57:49SPEAKER- And we just didn't, I said I was going to do it.

57:50SPEAKERIt's about the robot Marty.

57:53SPEAKERThere's a robot in my grocery store named Marty

57:56SPEAKERand I hate him.

57:57SPEAKERHe's a huge black obelisk on wheels with googly eyes.

58:01SPEAKERHe doesn't actually do anything useful.

58:02SPEAKERHe just slowly putters around the store and yells

58:05SPEAKERwhen he thinks he finds a spill.

58:07SPEAKERChildren are afraid of him and shoppers generally hate him

58:09SPEAKERbecause he's always in the way.

58:12SPEAKERWhy is he here?

58:13SPEAKERThe spill detection feature doesn't seem that useful

58:15SPEAKERso my assumption is that his real purpose is A,

58:18SPEAKERto collect training data on how to navigate

58:20SPEAKERin a retail environment and B, to train human customers

58:23SPEAKERto get used to robots so they can inevitably replace

58:25SPEAKERsome of the human employees.

58:28SPEAKERShould I just embrace our robot overlords?

58:31SPEAKER- I think that you should not embrace the robot overlords.

58:33SPEAKERI think if we don't stand up against all the Martys.

58:37SPEAKER- Well, have you seen Marty?

58:38SPEAKER'Cause Marty is really, you should click the link.

58:41SPEAKERMarty is, speaking of standing up,

58:43SPEAKERI think Marty towers over the average person

58:45SPEAKERfrom the looks of things.

58:47SPEAKERLike when he said it's a giant black obelisk,

58:49SPEAKERhe was not kidding.

58:50SPEAKERI mean, it's like almost, it's almost like something

58:51SPEAKERout of 2001 except with the face at the top.

58:54SPEAKER- Does he look like the robots from Interstellar?

58:56SPEAKER- God, so they could condense into this form,

58:59SPEAKERI would say, yes.

58:59SPEAKERIt is literally just a gigantic column with a face

59:04SPEAKERand apparently one store put a mustache on it.

59:07SPEAKER- They're right to, this is from Stop and Shop,

59:11SPEAKERI think.

59:12SPEAKER- Stop and Shop, yes.

59:13SPEAKERWhich is, is that an American chain or is that in Canada?

59:17SPEAKER- I don't know, it looks like they have

59:18SPEAKERAmerican cereal behind him.

59:22SPEAKER- I don't see any no name products,

59:23SPEAKERso maybe it's not Canada.

59:24SPEAKER- I like the mustache.

59:26SPEAKER- Mustache has a nice flourish,

59:27SPEAKERbut it looks like that was the,

59:30SPEAKERthat was the choice of that particular store

59:32SPEAKERrather than a company-wide initiative.

59:35SPEAKER- I don't feel, I don't feel a lot of strong,

59:39SPEAKERlike, so I was driving around San Francisco today

59:42SPEAKERand I've noticed that the self-driving cars

59:45SPEAKERare really starting to take over.

59:47SPEAKERLike there are a lot of them out there.

59:48SPEAKERYou don't drive that much,

59:50SPEAKERbut like there are a ton of self-driving cars

59:52SPEAKERon the streets of San Francisco right now,

59:53SPEAKERlike the Waymo ones especially.

59:55SPEAKER- Oh, are those Waymo ones self-driving?

59:57SPEAKER- Yeah, the ones with all the--

59:58SPEAKER- The little spinny sensors thing on the top.

59:59SPEAKER- The spinny things and the ones on all four corners, yeah.

1:00:01SPEAKER- I assumed those were being driven around

1:00:02SPEAKERby people to gather positional data.

1:00:06SPEAKER- There are people in the driver's seat

1:00:07SPEAKERthat are actually-- - They can be driven by a person,

1:00:09SPEAKERbut my understanding is most of the time

1:00:11SPEAKERthey're driving themselves.

1:00:12SPEAKER- I did not realize-- - And the person's just there.

1:00:13SPEAKER- Okay, yes, you're right, I see those everywhere.

1:00:15SPEAKER- Yeah, they're, the city's lousy with them

1:00:17SPEAKERand like some people's streets, they just,

1:00:18SPEAKERlike when I went over to a friend's house the other day

1:00:21SPEAKERand I saw four of them drive down his street

1:00:23SPEAKERbecause apparently it's on the route.

1:00:26SPEAKERI don't know, man, I feel like Marty's an asshole

1:00:28SPEAKERand if you can kick him over,

1:00:30SPEAKERyou're probably well within your rights

1:00:31SPEAKERif he shows you the slightest affront.

1:00:33SPEAKERLike violence is never the answer,

1:00:35SPEAKERbut maybe it is this time.

1:00:38SPEAKERI don't know.

1:00:39SPEAKER- Is it wrong to feel like Marty has a blank slate

1:00:42SPEAKERand that he actually only reflects the intentions

1:00:45SPEAKERof his creators?

1:00:46SPEAKER- I mean, no, I don't think that's wrong.

1:00:50SPEAKER- I feel a weird sort of pity for Marty now that I see him.

1:00:57SPEAKER- I mean, he looks like he's supposed

1:00:58SPEAKERto be happier than he is.

1:01:00SPEAKER- Well, wait till you get that mustache going.

1:01:03SPEAKER- I mean, if I had a mustache like that,

1:01:04SPEAKERI'd probably be pretty stoked.

1:01:05SPEAKER- If Marty actually cleaned up the spills, I could see it.

1:01:07SPEAKERBut if Marty is only there from looks of all these tweets,

1:01:10SPEAKERMarty is only there to call out the spills,

1:01:12SPEAKERwhich then get cleaned up by a person.

1:01:15SPEAKER- Yeah, that's a shit job for Marty.

1:01:17SPEAKER- I can see, yeah, the objection.

1:01:19SPEAKER- Like on the robot hall of fame, like number one,

1:01:23SPEAKERprobably that robot from the start of Star Tours,

1:01:26SPEAKERyou know, the driver.

1:01:28SPEAKERAnd then like Marty's way down at like number 345

1:01:32SPEAKERunderneath like the robot, a car assembly robots

1:01:35SPEAKERand that robot that got kicked in the fountain

1:01:39SPEAKERa few years ago.

1:01:41SPEAKER- Right.

1:01:42SPEAKER- I don't know.

1:01:43SPEAKER- Are we? - Yeah.

1:01:45SPEAKER- Are we declaring the interstellar robots

1:01:47SPEAKERlike the best of all fictional robots as of now?

1:01:51SPEAKER- They're probably my favorite.

1:01:52SPEAKER- What is it? - What is it?

1:01:53SPEAKER- TARS and what's the other one?

1:01:54SPEAKER- TARS and S.T.A.R.S.

1:01:55SPEAKER- Case?

1:01:56SPEAKERIsn't it Case?

1:01:57SPEAKER- No, they're both R's.

1:01:59SPEAKER- SARS and CARS are TARS.

1:02:02SPEAKER- TARS, oh, it is Case.

1:02:04SPEAKER- Oh, it is Case?

1:02:04SPEAKER- TARS and Case are the U.S. Marine Corps surplus robots.

1:02:09SPEAKERLike apparently there's another one not pictured

1:02:11SPEAKERin the movie named Plex.

1:02:13SPEAKER- Perfect.

1:02:15SPEAKERI just love the design of those

1:02:16SPEAKER'cause like it's very much like something from Media Lab

1:02:19SPEAKERor whatever.

1:02:19SPEAKER- It's such a total engineering porn, right?

1:02:22SPEAKERIt's just like, oh, this makes so much sense

1:02:24SPEAKERand it's so inhuman, right?

1:02:25SPEAKERIt's like, oh, if you abandoned the design goal

1:02:31SPEAKERof making a robot appear like a human

1:02:33SPEAKERand just said what would be the most useful robot

1:02:35SPEAKERwe could make, it might look a lot like this.

1:02:37SPEAKER- Well, and having gone to some of those DARPA things

1:02:39SPEAKERlike the one where they did the Fukushima challenge

1:02:42SPEAKERwhere they had to like, they had people,

1:02:44SPEAKERa bunch of different teams had to build robots

1:02:46SPEAKERthat had to traverse what was essentially a replica

1:02:50SPEAKERor not a replica, an obstacle course designed to mimic

1:02:53SPEAKERthe Fukushima place where they had to go

1:02:55SPEAKERand get to the valves to turn off the water

1:02:56SPEAKERor whatever, right?

1:02:58SPEAKERAnd like the number, the bipedal robots

1:03:03SPEAKERwere able to navigate things like stairs

1:03:04SPEAKERand stuff like that, okay,

1:03:06SPEAKERbut they had problems with everything else.

1:03:07SPEAKERAnd the quadrupeds could manage the stairs and all that,

1:03:10SPEAKERbut then they weren't able to get up high enough

1:03:12SPEAKERto get or get the leverage on the valves

1:03:14SPEAKERto turn the valves.

1:03:15SPEAKERIt was really interesting.

1:03:16SPEAKERThe best one was the one that just punched

1:03:17SPEAKERthrough the wooden door to knock the doorknob off.

1:03:21SPEAKER- I mean, hey, if I was a robot,

1:03:23SPEAKERprobably just make my own entrance as well.

1:03:26SPEAKER- Yeah, make your own door.

1:03:27SPEAKER- That's right.

1:03:28SPEAKER- Brad, that was a lot of Qs.

1:03:29SPEAKERWe have turned into As.

1:03:31SPEAKER- I was.

1:03:32SPEAKERWe've made it.

1:03:33SPEAKER- It's the end of the year.

1:03:35SPEAKER- That's right.

1:03:36SPEAKER- It's the start of a new year.

1:03:36SPEAKERIt's a brand new day.

1:03:37SPEAKER- Sure, yeah.

1:03:38SPEAKEREverything is gonna be totally different from here on out.

1:03:40SPEAKER- Well, there's one thing that's not gonna be different.

1:03:42SPEAKERAs is always the case at the end of the episode,

1:03:44SPEAKERwe need to thank our patrons.

1:03:45SPEAKER- That's right.

1:03:46SPEAKERThank 'em.

1:03:48SPEAKER- Thank you, patrons.

1:03:49SPEAKER- I'm gonna thank them too.

1:03:50SPEAKERThank you, patrons.

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1:04:23SPEAKERSo it's the thank you times.

1:04:26SPEAKER- That's right.

1:04:28SPEAKER- Thank you first to our executive producer tier patrons,

1:04:31SPEAKERincluding #bunnycrimes, Andrew Slosky, Chris DiBona,

1:04:36SPEAKERsorry, Paddle Creek Games, makers of Fractured Veil,

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1:04:44SPEAKERand Twinkle Twinkie.

1:04:46SPEAKERThank you all so much.

1:04:47SPEAKER- Yes, thank you.

1:04:47SPEAKERThank you.

1:04:49SPEAKER- Happy holidays.

1:04:50SPEAKER- At the end of the month, this was due last week,

1:04:51SPEAKERbut we didn't do a full episode last week.

1:04:53SPEAKERSo apologies to our associate producer tier patrons

1:04:56SPEAKERwho will get double thanked in January,

1:04:58SPEAKERbut thank you to Andre Burke, Arthur Gies, Dan Brockman,

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1:05:21SPEAKERThank you all so, so much.

1:05:22SPEAKER- Yes, thank you.

1:05:22SPEAKERThank you.

1:05:24SPEAKER- And I guess that's gonna be a wrap for 2021 for us.

1:05:27SPEAKER- Yeah.

1:05:28SPEAKER- Except for the patron episode,

1:05:29SPEAKERwhich we're gonna do right after this.

1:05:30SPEAKER- That's right.

1:05:30SPEAKERThat's right.

1:05:31SPEAKERI've got old computer stuff.

1:05:33SPEAKER- Ooh.

1:05:34SPEAKER- I installed DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.

1:05:38SPEAKERI installed them from floppy disks.

1:05:40SPEAKER- Oh man, I wanna talk about this.

1:05:41SPEAKER- Okay, very excited.

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