00:00SPEAKER- I need a haircut real bad, man.
00:02SPEAKER- You need a haircut real bad.
00:04SPEAKER- Well, okay, so my barber has now,
00:07SPEAKERI've now lost three barbers in a row
00:09SPEAKERin like the span of five years.
00:11SPEAKER- Good God, man, what are you doing to your barbers?
00:13SPEAKER- So they move, they live here,
00:15SPEAKERand it's an expensive place to work,
00:16SPEAKERand it's an expensive place to be a barber,
00:18SPEAKERand they work here for a couple years,
00:23SPEAKERand then they're like, screw this,
00:24SPEAKERI'm gonna go live someplace
00:25SPEAKERthat's not as expensive as San Francisco.
00:27SPEAKER- Understandable.
00:28SPEAKER- And then all of a sudden, I don't have a barber again.
00:30SPEAKERSo I don't know, I don't know, man.
00:34SPEAKERI got a haircut in like June.
00:37SPEAKER- I did notice when you were taking your headphones off
00:39SPEAKERjust now, there was a bit of a...
00:41SPEAKER- I got a mullet.
00:42SPEAKERIt's a straight up, it's like, it's the weird hair,
00:46SPEAKERit's like long when it's conditioned,
00:48SPEAKERand it gets all nice and, like I look like an old guy
00:52SPEAKERwho's trying to look like a young guy.
00:53SPEAKERIt's not a good look.
00:54SPEAKERI gotta trim this thing up.
00:56SPEAKER- I know what you mean, a little thin in the front.
00:58SPEAKER- Yeah.
00:59SPEAKER- What is the old guy version of business in the front?
01:02SPEAKER- It's like you have, it looks pretty good
01:07SPEAKERwhen I put some product in it,
01:09SPEAKERand then I fall asleep on it,
01:11SPEAKERand I wake up the next morning
01:12SPEAKERand kind of just toss it around,
01:13SPEAKERand then...
01:14SPEAKER- You don't sleep on the product, do you?
01:16SPEAKER- I don't take a shower before I go to bed.
01:18SPEAKER- Oh, man.
01:19SPEAKERI mean, look, I'm not your pillow.
01:21SPEAKER- Are you judging?
01:22SPEAKER- No.
01:23SPEAKER- Sounded like you were judging.
01:24SPEAKER- It's flea power and whatever filth you want.
01:27SPEAKER- But it's not like I'm putting on...
01:29SPEAKER- It's fine.
01:30SPEAKER- I'm not putting on wet pomade.
01:31SPEAKERIt's not, I'm not, I don't slather it onto a comb.
01:34SPEAKERIt's just a little bit of goo.
01:36SPEAKER- It's fine.
01:37SPEAKERBack when I used product daily to go to the office,
01:39SPEAKERI would take a very quick shower when I came home
01:41SPEAKERjust to rinse it all out.
01:42SPEAKER- Oh, that's nice.
01:43SPEAKER- That was a me thing.
01:44SPEAKER- Yeah, no, most of my stuff is,
01:48SPEAKERit's relatively natural.
01:49SPEAKERIt's like horse resin or, no, I'm kidding, it's all fine.
01:54SPEAKERSo yeah, anyway, I gotta find a new barber.
01:56SPEAKERI think I'm just gonna go,
01:58SPEAKERI think I've given up to the point
01:59SPEAKERthat I'm just gonna go to the place
02:01SPEAKERthat's in the strip mall by my house
02:03SPEAKERand just eyeball the people coming off the chairs
02:06SPEAKERfor a minute or two and then pick the one
02:07SPEAKERthat looks like they're doing the consistently best job.
02:10SPEAKER- I mean, how complicated is your haircut?
02:12SPEAKERIt can't be that.
02:13SPEAKER- There's less. - You need to screw up.
02:14SPEAKER- I tell them the same thing every time.
02:16SPEAKERPlease take what's on the back and the sides
02:18SPEAKERand put it on the top.
02:19SPEAKERAnd they look at me like a crazy person.
02:21SPEAKERAnd then I get a kind of,
02:23SPEAKERsometimes it's a good haircut, sometimes it's a bad haircut.
02:25SPEAKER- Fair, fair, fair.
02:27SPEAKERI also, I have not gotten any commercial haircuts
02:29SPEAKERsince February of 2020, coming up on four years.
02:32SPEAKER- Wow, you're just going to nonprofits these days, or?
02:36SPEAKER- In-home service. - Oh, okay, okay.
02:38SPEAKER- My girlfriend, well, first of all,
02:40SPEAKERI haven't touched the top,
02:41SPEAKERas you can probably tell, since that time.
02:43SPEAKER- I rarely see the back or top of your head, it turns out.
02:46SPEAKER- It's about mid-back length now.
02:48SPEAKER- What, really? - Yes.
02:50SPEAKER- Holy cow.
02:51SPEAKER- Part of the reason I'm reluctant to cut it,
02:52SPEAKERnot that I kind of hate having it,
02:55SPEAKERbut it's also so much sunk costs now,
02:57SPEAKERor sunk time, I guess I should say.
02:59SPEAKER- Wow, you're like a samurai.
03:00SPEAKER- I know, like I'm never going to have hair this long again.
03:02SPEAKERSo if I cut it off, it's gone forever,
03:04SPEAKEReven though I don't like having it.
03:05SPEAKER- So I had a little bit, like I had, it was long,
03:08SPEAKERand it was pretty long at the start of the pandemic for me.
03:10SPEAKERNot like there was a period of time, which I was like,
03:12SPEAKERI'm going to cut this, and then you kept going.
03:15SPEAKERIt was a big relief when I cut it.
03:17SPEAKERLike the amount of shampoo I used on the day-to-day
03:19SPEAKERwent way down.
03:20SPEAKER- Oh my God, do you know how much,
03:21SPEAKERdo you know how long it takes to wash my hair now?
03:23SPEAKER- I bet it's a long time.
03:24SPEAKER- Also, do you know what comes out
03:25SPEAKERwhen you wash your hair when it's this long?
03:26SPEAKER- A lot of hair usually for me.
03:28SPEAKER- The first couple, three times,
03:29SPEAKERwhen it got really long that I did it,
03:31SPEAKERI was like, am I balding?
03:32SPEAKERLike, what is happening?
03:33SPEAKERThere's like a handful, an entire handful of hair,
03:36SPEAKERnot on your head anymore when you wash your hair
03:39SPEAKERwhen it's this long.
03:39SPEAKERI was like, how is it possible to lose this much hair?
03:41SPEAKERI have to be balding.
03:42SPEAKER- And when you are losing a little bit of hair,
03:45SPEAKERit's even worse.
03:47SPEAKERIt's like a dead cat up there
03:49SPEAKERevery time you wash your hair, yeah, anyway.
03:51SPEAKER- Anyway, I think the time is probably long past now
03:54SPEAKERthat I need to get rid of this.
03:55SPEAKERI went to a wedding recently.
03:57SPEAKERI debated cutting it for that wedding and did not,
04:00SPEAKERand deeply regretted it.
04:01SPEAKER- What, was it the number one conversation topic?
04:04SPEAKER- No, no.
04:05SPEAKER- Did you do the man bun at the wedding
04:08SPEAKERor did you have a full length pony?
04:10SPEAKER- Yes, yes I did.
04:11SPEAKERIf anything, the thing that chilled me
04:12SPEAKERwas how little it was brought up.
04:14SPEAKER- Oh no.
04:15SPEAKER- Which actually made me think like, oh no,
04:17SPEAKERpeople are too embarrassed to say something.
04:18SPEAKER- Is this a family wedding or a friend wedding?
04:20SPEAKER- A friend wedding.
04:21SPEAKER- Okay, well that's a, look.
04:24SPEAKERIn our friend circles, people are used
04:25SPEAKERto a certain amount of eccentricity.
04:29SPEAKER- Sure.
04:30SPEAKER- But yeah, family wedding, I would have,
04:31SPEAKERif I rolled in with long hair at a family wedding,
04:33SPEAKERI would have caught a rash or a shed.
04:35SPEAKER- Oh yes, I do not hear the end of it at home
04:37SPEAKERand that's part of the calculus.
04:39SPEAKERBut anyway, my girlfriend has gotten incredibly efficient
04:43SPEAKERat doing this at the back and sides with some clippers.
04:46SPEAKERI actually thought about asking her
04:49SPEAKERto just chop the.
04:50SPEAKER- Just do the whole thing?
04:51SPEAKER- She was like, no.
04:52SPEAKERShe was like, dude, don't put that on me.
04:54SPEAKER- What are you gonna, like, are you gonna get him
04:56SPEAKERto like tie it off and put it in a shadow box or something?
05:00SPEAKER- I don't know.
05:01SPEAKER- Never forget Brett's pandemic ponytail.
05:02SPEAKER- I don't know.
05:03SPEAKERWell, that's the whole other aspect of this
05:06SPEAKERis the ends of it are the last time
05:07SPEAKERthere was any color in my hair.
05:09SPEAKER- Oh no.
05:10SPEAKER- Because I've like fully completed the process
05:11SPEAKERof losing any color.
05:12SPEAKERLike I'm full, I guess, full on great.
05:14SPEAKER- You just look a lot more distinguished now, Brett.
05:16SPEAKER- I guess, sure, just keep telling me that.
05:17SPEAKER- Yeah, you've clunied up all the way now.
05:21SPEAKER- I think I have to save some of it
05:22SPEAKERjust to remember what color it used to be.
05:24SPEAKER- I don't know, man.
05:25SPEAKERI, when I had, when the beard was really long
05:28SPEAKERto the point that I could braid it,
05:29SPEAKERI thought about braiding and then just chopping off the braid
05:31SPEAKERand then saving the braid.
05:33SPEAKERI also at different times have threatened
05:36SPEAKERto put like a silicone resin up around,
05:39SPEAKERalong the roots of the beard and then use a straight razor
05:42SPEAKERto cut the resin and the beard off.
05:44SPEAKERSo I have like a beard merkin.
05:45SPEAKER- Oh, that's terrible.
05:46SPEAKER- Yeah, it's really bad.
05:47SPEAKER- That's horrifying.
05:48SPEAKER- But think about it.
05:49SPEAKERYou could hang it up in like a glass box
05:51SPEAKERand it could be like, you know, never forget.
05:53SPEAKER- Oh, I don't think we can talk about this anymore.
05:55SPEAKER(upbeat music)
06:17SPEAKER(upbeat music continues)
06:23SPEAKER- Welcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Bot, I'm Will.
06:26SPEAKER- I'm Brad.
06:27SPEAKER- Hello.
06:28SPEAKER- Hi.
06:29SPEAKER- Wow, we need like a palette cleanser after that one,
06:30SPEAKERI think.
06:31SPEAKER- I know, I know.
06:32SPEAKERHair is a weird subject.
06:34SPEAKER- Yeah, this one week only we're putting chapters in
06:36SPEAKERso people could just skip at whatever point
06:37SPEAKERthey decide to punch out from the previous conversation.
06:40SPEAKER- Sometimes I think about, should we do chapters?
06:42SPEAKERAnd I'm like, you know,
06:43SPEAKERusually each episode is only about one thing.
06:45SPEAKERSo what would we even do chapters about?
06:47SPEAKER- That's what we,
06:48SPEAKERwe literally had this conversation when we started
06:49SPEAKER'cause you were still at Giant Bomb and you were like,
06:51SPEAKERI want to do chapters.
06:51SPEAKERAnd I was like, what are you going to do the chapters on?
06:53SPEAKERWe have one topic each week.
06:54SPEAKER- Right, there are no topics to chapter select between.
06:57SPEAKER- But this week we do, 'cause we have questions.
07:00SPEAKERSo you could do a chapter on each question.
07:02SPEAKER- True, true.
07:02SPEAKER- There you go, it's just, yeah.
07:04SPEAKERI don't think that's, I don't think we should do that,
07:05SPEAKERbut I think it's a...
07:07SPEAKER- I'm going to defer to you on that one.
07:08SPEAKER- It's a thing we could do theoretically.
07:10SPEAKERMaybe we make that a stretch goal for the next,
07:13SPEAKERfor the next sub, patron sub thingy or something.
07:17SPEAKERIf we get above a certain amount, we get chapters.
07:19SPEAKER- Yes, podcast chapters, fairly labor intensive,
07:21SPEAKERit turns out.
07:22SPEAKER- I don't think I can actually do them
07:23SPEAKER'cause I don't have a Mac anymore.
07:25SPEAKERAnd the only tool I know of is a Mac tool.
07:27SPEAKERIs that one that Marco Arment makes?
07:29SPEAKER- Oh yeah, so that's,
07:30SPEAKERthat was actually the bulk of what I spent my time
07:33SPEAKERfiguring out when I wrote that little Python utility
07:35SPEAKERto do podcasts was I grabbed an off the shelf ID3 library,
07:40SPEAKERPython library for ID3.
07:42SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
07:43SPEAKER- And I had to spend way too long.
07:44SPEAKERI mean, a lot of it was just not really understanding
07:46SPEAKERhow Python worked also,
07:48SPEAKERbut like I had to spend way too long
07:49SPEAKERfiguring out how to dig into that library
07:50SPEAKERand get it to write chapters
07:52SPEAKERin a way that would work across every service out there.
07:55SPEAKERAnd I finally did it.
07:56SPEAKERAnd so now I don't have to use forecast anymore.
07:59SPEAKERI basically spent like two weeks writing that thing.
08:00SPEAKERSo I would never have to open my MacBook to do a podcast,
08:03SPEAKERto encode a podcast.
08:04SPEAKER- The MacBook that you bought to do the podcast,
08:06SPEAKERjust to be clear?
08:07SPEAKER- Yeah, well, I bought it to work on the road.
08:10SPEAKER- Okay, okay.
08:11SPEAKER- I bought it to save my ass when my PC was not working,
08:15SPEAKERwhich has turned out to be like half a dozen times
08:17SPEAKERsince I bought it.
08:18SPEAKER- That's true, money well spent.
08:19SPEAKER- Having a good laptop around
08:21SPEAKERwhen your PC is suddenly not working, invaluable.
08:24SPEAKER- I just keep more and more PCs around,
08:26SPEAKERjust keep stacking them up.
08:27SPEAKER- That's also an option.
08:29SPEAKER- Brad, it's the time of month
08:32SPEAKERwhen we turn questions into answers.
08:34SPEAKER- Yes, it's true.
08:34SPEAKER- We're doing it a week late again this month
08:36SPEAKERbecause we did the Steam Deck episode last week.
08:38SPEAKERAnd also we did the questions episode late in October.
08:42SPEAKER- Oh, that's right.
08:43SPEAKER- I can't remember why we did that.
08:44SPEAKERIt might've been because we were bad at math
08:46SPEAKERor maybe Adam came by, I can't remember.
08:48SPEAKERBut here we are.
08:50SPEAKERIt is questions and answers time.
08:53SPEAKERIf you have questions,
08:55SPEAKERyou can send them to techpod@content.town.
08:57SPEAKEROr if you're a patron, you can go in the Discord
08:59SPEAKERand go to the Q's Seeking A's channel
09:01SPEAKERand turn, post your Q's there,
09:03SPEAKERit'll disappear into the void.
09:04SPEAKERAnd then we will see it at the end of the month
09:06SPEAKERand we will pull it out and look upon it
09:08SPEAKERand gaze and decide whether it is worthy
09:11SPEAKERof being turned into an A
09:12SPEAKERor whether it's one of the more interesting Q's
09:14SPEAKERthat we had that month.
09:15SPEAKER- Yes, we will use our God-like powers
09:18SPEAKERto peer into the question pool.
09:21SPEAKERScry some questions?
09:23SPEAKERCan I use the word scry?
09:24SPEAKER- Yeah, that's what a scry is.
09:25SPEAKERYou pull something out of a pool, it's always a scry.
09:28SPEAKER- I read some D&D novels when I was a teenager.
09:30SPEAKERI know the word scry.
09:32SPEAKER- Do you think that lifeguards describe saving people
09:34SPEAKERfrom a pool as scrying them?
09:36SPEAKER- I don't know about that.
09:37SPEAKER- Okay, well, what's our first question, Brad?
09:39SPEAKERYou got one on the top of the pile?
09:41SPEAKER- Here's one from Royce.
09:44SPEAKER- That's a good name, Royce.
09:45SPEAKER- Yes, so there's an excellent name.
09:48SPEAKERKind of regal in a way.
09:50SPEAKER- I feel like I'm talking to,
09:51SPEAKERI feel like I do feel like you're talking about a king.
09:53SPEAKER- It's a bit aristocratic, I might say.
09:56SPEAKERI'm starting to get back into PC gaming
09:58SPEAKERfor the first time in 15 years.
10:00SPEAKERI was all set to order all my components
10:03SPEAKERand then this pre-built system,
10:04SPEAKERwhich he links to, it's on Newegg.
10:07SPEAKERI went on sale for $1,000
10:09SPEAKERand was nearly exactly what I had in my cart,
10:11SPEAKERbut at a much cheaper price.
10:13SPEAKERThe only thing that I'd want to upgrade right away
10:15SPEAKERis the RAM.
10:16SPEAKERIt comes with 16 gigabytes in a set of two eight gigabyte DIMMs
10:20SPEAKERand I'd prefer at least 32.
10:22SPEAKERI see three upgrade options.
10:26SPEAKERGet the exact same two by eight gigabyte Kingston units
10:29SPEAKERas what it already has, giving me four by eight gigabytes.
10:33SPEAKERGet the exact same brand, model, speed,
10:35SPEAKEReverything as the OEM units, but in two by 16 flavor,
10:38SPEAKERgiving me two by eight plus two by 16.
10:41SPEAKERNumber three, remove the OEM memory
10:43SPEAKERand install a new set of two 16 gigabyte DIMMs.
10:48SPEAKERAll options are close enough in cost to not be a factor.
10:51SPEAKERI tried Googling and there seems to be
10:53SPEAKERvery varying opinions about, I'm sorry.
10:56SPEAKERIt seems to be very varying opinions
10:58SPEAKERwhen it comes to mixing and matching sticks of RAM.
11:01SPEAKERToo many options, too many opinions, what should I do?
11:03SPEAKERDon't mix and match RAM.
11:04SPEAKER- Don't ever mix and match RAM in the modern era.
11:06SPEAKER- Here are the things, let me pull up the system.
11:10SPEAKER- Hold on, that's not, okay.
11:12SPEAKERSo there's an asterisk.
11:13SPEAKERIf you're going to run into the Jetix speeds,
11:15SPEAKERnot the XMS speeds, you can probably mix and match RAM.
11:17SPEAKERIt'll probably be fine.
11:18SPEAKER- That, yes, but you probably don't want to do that
11:20SPEAKERbecause then you're sacrificing a bunch of speed
11:22SPEAKERon the fancy RAM you just bought.
11:24SPEAKER- Yeah, if you're going to do that,
11:25SPEAKERyou might as well not buy fancy RAM.
11:26SPEAKER- Jetix, people may know, but for people who don't know,
11:29SPEAKERJetix is the RAM standards body.
11:32SPEAKERAnd so basically when you refer to like Jetix speed RAM,
11:34SPEAKERit's the baseline speed that they define as like acceptable.
11:39SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, and technically-
11:40SPEAKER- Put it another way, well, go ahead.
11:42SPEAKER- I was going to say,
11:43SPEAKERtechnically that's the non-overclocked RAM speeds.
11:45SPEAKER- That's the thing that I think a lot of people
11:46SPEAKERhave forgotten in this modern era of everything.
11:48SPEAKER- Yeah, absolutely.
11:49SPEAKER- All the RAM is labeled by the speed that XMP
11:52SPEAKERor Expo profiles will clock it at.
11:56SPEAKER- Yeah.
11:57SPEAKER- But technically anything above the Jetix speed
11:58SPEAKERis overclocking.
11:59SPEAKER- And I think the fastest DDR5 Jetix speed right now
12:03SPEAKERis like 4,300 megatransforms or something.
12:05SPEAKER- 48, I want to say,
12:06SPEAKERI believe 4,800 is the current DDR5 Jetix.
12:09SPEAKERAnd Jetix on DDR4 was like 2,133, I think.
12:14SPEAKER- Yeah, for a long time.
12:15SPEAKER- And right at the close to the end,
12:16SPEAKERthey revised it up to like 3,200, I think.
12:19SPEAKERBut like, the point is running at Jetix speed
12:22SPEAKERmeans you were running way below what the RAM is rated
12:25SPEAKERby the vendor to run at.
12:28SPEAKER- And you were probably gonna have to do that
12:29SPEAKERif you mix and match very different RAM to get it stable.
12:32SPEAKER- Yeah.
12:34SPEAKER- Let me check the system he linked
12:35SPEAKERto see if we're talking DDR4 or five.
12:39SPEAKERI would hope it's five at this point.
12:41SPEAKERYes, it is the year five.
12:42SPEAKERSo you absolutely do not mess with DDR5 in any way.
12:47SPEAKERWhether it's mixing and matching different sizes of DIMMs,
12:50SPEAKERlet alone different vendors
12:51SPEAKERor even using four DIMMs is a bad idea at this point.
12:54SPEAKERI think you can attest to that even better than I can.
12:56SPEAKER- My board only has two slots.
12:58SPEAKERI got the two-slot board specifically
13:00SPEAKERbecause having more, like,
13:04SPEAKERyou're always better running two sticks.
13:07SPEAKERYou should never mix and match sticks.
13:08SPEAKEREven buying the exact same size and speed kits
13:13SPEAKERfrom the same manufacturer,
13:15SPEAKERyou have a pretty good chance
13:16SPEAKERof not getting the exact same RAM.
13:18SPEAKERSo like, it's really hard to not mismatch that stuff
13:21SPEAKERif you're running the overclocked XMS or expo speeds.
13:25SPEAKERIf you're not, go nuts.
13:27SPEAKERIf you're running the JetX speed, go nuts.
13:28SPEAKERBut if you're running the JetX speed,
13:30SPEAKERyou're probably gonna be running a lot slower
13:31SPEAKERthan you could be.
13:32SPEAKERYou lose a lot of performance.
13:33SPEAKER- Yeah, for sure.
13:34SPEAKERDDR5 in general is just much pickier about stability
13:37SPEAKERand all the factors around.
13:39SPEAKER- Newer memory is always pickier than older memory.
13:42SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah.
13:43SPEAKERHopefully that'll improve as, you know,
13:46SPEAKERhow many years we have left of DDR5,
13:48SPEAKERlike five, seven, six, seven, eight years probably still.
13:51SPEAKERIt just happens. - Yeah, something like that.
13:53SPEAKER- Hopefully that'll improve.
13:55SPEAKERBut for now, get one matched kit,
13:59SPEAKERone matched pair of DDR5 DIMMs
14:01SPEAKERand use that and nothing else.
14:04SPEAKER- And for what it's worth,
14:05SPEAKERby the time you want more than 32 gigs of RAM,
14:06SPEAKERif you're not doing something like run in real
14:08SPEAKERor run big data, like the two 64 gig,
14:13SPEAKERtwo 32 gig sticks to make a 64 gig pair
14:15SPEAKERwill be a lot cheaper.
14:17SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah.
14:18SPEAKERYou should be fine with 32 gig for the moment, for sure.
14:22SPEAKERAlso RAM continues to get cheaper constantly, so.
14:25SPEAKER- Yeah, that is the thing.
14:26SPEAKER- You can always upgrade later,
14:28SPEAKERbut yeah, you're just asking for trouble by,
14:31SPEAKERI have been in this position before,
14:33SPEAKERlike you're, if you have old RAM and you're like,
14:35SPEAKERI can just get more RAM and combine it with this,
14:37SPEAKERlike, you're just asking for heartache.
14:40SPEAKERIt's just not worth it generally.
14:44SPEAKERLet's see, I'm going to read this one from Adam.
14:50SPEAKERPlease stop, please stop saying kilowatt hours per hour.
14:53SPEAKERI'm begging you.
14:54SPEAKERIt's just kilowatts, one divided by one is one.
14:58SPEAKERIt's not technically wrong,
14:59SPEAKERbut it's ridiculously redundant.
15:01SPEAKERKilowatt hour is already a weird illogical awkward unit
15:04SPEAKERthat means one joule per second per one,
15:06SPEAKERor I'm sorry, one joule per second for one hour.
15:10SPEAKERIt's redundant if you think about it
15:11SPEAKERin terms of dimensional analysis,
15:13SPEAKERkilowatt hours per hour is even more absurd.
15:16SPEAKER- The only reason that makes sense
15:18SPEAKERis because kilowatt hours is how you buy power.
15:24SPEAKERSo I've always said, we've always said
15:27SPEAKERthat it was the style at maximum PC as well.
15:29SPEAKERWhen you buy electricity from the electric company,
15:31SPEAKERyou get kilowatt hours and you know,
15:33SPEAKERit is one kilowatt of energy over an hour of time.
15:38SPEAKERSo when you're talking about buying electricity
15:42SPEAKERfor your car or whatever,
15:43SPEAKERthen you're buying kilowatt hours
15:44SPEAKERand the amount of time it takes to charge it.
15:46SPEAKERAnyway, it doesn't matter.
15:47SPEAKERWhen the power company starts using
15:49SPEAKERa less redundant naming scheme for their power distribution,
15:53SPEAKERwe will do the same.
15:54SPEAKER- Yes, blame the power company.
15:55SPEAKERIt's a safe bet.
15:56SPEAKER- It's always safe to blame the power company.
15:58SPEAKER- Yeah.
16:01SPEAKER- What else we got?
16:01SPEAKER- About, here's one from Joe.
16:04SPEAKERThese all came into the email address by the way.
16:06SPEAKER- Is there electronic mails?
16:07SPEAKER- These are inbox messages.
16:12SPEAKERJoe says, at the end of October,
16:14SPEAKERPersona 5 Royal left PC Game Pass.
16:16SPEAKERI spent about 40 hours playing the game
16:18SPEAKERbefore getting distracted by other things,
16:19SPEAKERso I never got to finish it.
16:21SPEAKERFortunately, Steam's Autumn sale was just a few weeks away
16:23SPEAKERand it just so happened that Persona 5
16:25SPEAKERis one of those games where transferring saves
16:27SPEAKERbetween Steam and Game Pass just works.
16:30SPEAKERSo I figured I would buy it on Steam
16:31SPEAKERwhen the sale came around and so I did just that.
16:34SPEAKERI learned some interesting things that day.
16:37SPEAKERFirst, many Game Pass games, including Persona 5,
16:39SPEAKERkeep their saves in the local app data folder.
16:43SPEAKERSecond, when you uninstall a Game Pass game,
16:44SPEAKERit deletes the saves.
16:47SPEAKERBecause why would you need saves for a game you uninstall?
16:49SPEAKERIt's in the cloud anyway,
16:50SPEAKERso you can get it the next time you play it.
16:53SPEAKERThird, there is no easy way, if any way at all,
16:55SPEAKERto retrieve those saves
16:56SPEAKERwithout installing the game in question and launching it,
16:59SPEAKERwhich of course you can't do if you don't own it.
17:03SPEAKERLuckily, as a certified member
17:05SPEAKERof the I backup my downloads folder,
17:07SPEAKERI also backup my app data folder.
17:09SPEAKERI got the saves and everything worked out fine.
17:12SPEAKERDo you guys back up your app data folder?
17:15SPEAKER- I don't back up my downloads folder,
17:16SPEAKERbut I do back up app data.
17:19SPEAKER- I'm positive I have asked you this before,
17:22SPEAKERbut what method do you use to back it up,
17:25SPEAKERand also how periodically or on what interval
17:27SPEAKERare we talking?
17:28SPEAKER- So for a long time, I used Backblaze,
17:30SPEAKERand it just got everything uploaded
17:32SPEAKERwhen Backblaze ran once a day.
17:35SPEAKERThese days, I just copy everything over
17:37SPEAKERto a backup thing on the NAS, and it happens.
17:40SPEAKERIf the computer's on overnight, it happens every night.
17:42SPEAKERIf it doesn't, it runs it once a week on Friday,
17:44SPEAKERand I use a sync copy or some command line tool
17:47SPEAKERjust on a scheduled task.
17:49SPEAKER- Interesting, huh?
17:50SPEAKER- Yeah.
17:51SPEAKER- How do you just do that?
17:53SPEAKER- Well, so the problem with doing that
17:55SPEAKERis that if you have a file that's locked
17:56SPEAKERbecause some Windows thing is touching it
17:58SPEAKERor the app is open all the time or something like that,
18:00SPEAKERthen it won't back that file up necessarily.
18:03SPEAKER- I know I've said it before.
18:04SPEAKERI am terrible about I don't back up anything
18:06SPEAKERon my Windows machine.
18:07SPEAKERI mean, like anything that truly matters
18:09SPEAKERlives on the NAS anyway, like podcast recordings and stuff.
18:12SPEAKERSo if the SSD that my PC boots off of dies tomorrow,
18:17SPEAKERI'm out some days of reinstalling Windows
18:19SPEAKERand reconfiguring everything,
18:20SPEAKERbut I'm not gonna lose anything tragically permanent.
18:24SPEAKERBut I really should find a way to back up my Windows stuff.
18:29SPEAKER- So the bummer is that there used to be
18:31SPEAKERa pretty good Windows backup tool
18:33SPEAKERthat was just built in from Windows 7 on or Vista on,
18:36SPEAKERand they just replaced it in Windows 11
18:39SPEAKERwith the Windows backup thing
18:40SPEAKERthat only copies your crap up to OneDrive, which is--
18:43SPEAKER- Yes, so since I went to Windows 11,
18:45SPEAKERI was looking into that new backup utility
18:47SPEAKER'cause I was like, "Oh, I should start doing this."
18:48SPEAKERAnd like I landed on this PC World article,
18:51SPEAKER"Windows 11's new backup and restore process
18:53SPEAKERjust makes everything worse."
18:54SPEAKERIs that right? - Yeah, it's bad.
18:56SPEAKEREverybody that I know that has touched it,
18:58SPEAKERused it, whatever, has not been a fan.
19:03SPEAKER- Yeah, the backing up important Windows stuff
19:06SPEAKERwhile Windows is running problem
19:07SPEAKERdoes not have an easy solution if you wanna automate it
19:10SPEAKERother than to boot into another operating system and do it.
19:13SPEAKER- Well, I mean, so the thing is,
19:16SPEAKERI'm not gonna restore a busted Windows install, right?
19:20SPEAKERI'm gonna grab the files out of it
19:21SPEAKERand put them back where they go.
19:23SPEAKERAnd for that, I'm fine.
19:26SPEAKERAs long as the important stuff
19:29SPEAKERgets backed up occasionally, I'm probably okay.
19:31SPEAKERAnd it's easier, I could be up and running again
19:35SPEAKERin a few hours with what I have backed up.
19:38SPEAKER- Yeah, maybe I'll just set up
19:39SPEAKERa scheduled like Robocopy task
19:42SPEAKERto copy my home folder to my NAS
19:45SPEAKERand like every couple of days or something.
19:47SPEAKERThat's probably fine.
19:48SPEAKER- The problem, the other place that mine gets hinky
19:51SPEAKERis if I don't remember to run it.
19:54SPEAKERIf I don't remember to leave my computer on overnight
19:55SPEAKERa couple of nights a week,
19:57SPEAKERand then I can get into a little bit of trouble,
19:58SPEAKERbut you know, so be it.
20:00SPEAKER- Yes, and the longer I spend in the Unix world,
20:04SPEAKERlike POSIX, whatever you wanna call it,
20:07SPEAKERFreeBSD, Linux, et cetera, et cetera,
20:08SPEAKERlike the more I lament that Windows is not
20:11SPEAKERmore home folder centric,
20:12SPEAKERmore like just let me put a bunch of dot files
20:15SPEAKERin my home folder that are plain text
20:17SPEAKERand easy to move, you know what I mean?
20:20SPEAKER- Well, more apps are doing that now, right?
20:21SPEAKERLike I'm seeing a lot of dot something folders
20:24SPEAKERin my home directory these days.
20:25SPEAKER- More of them are, and that's great.
20:26SPEAKERBut like Windows Terminal is a great example
20:28SPEAKERof like it's open source, it's made by Microsoft.
20:30SPEAKERLike a lot of people really like Windows Terminal,
20:32SPEAKERincluding me.
20:34SPEAKERIt is a JSON file, which is the config for that thing,
20:37SPEAKERwhich is nice, but it's buried like eight layers deep
20:39SPEAKERin your app data somewhere.
20:40SPEAKERLike I couldn't even tell you,
20:42SPEAKERI have to look up every single time
20:43SPEAKERI need to go find that file.
20:44SPEAKER- Well, I mean, look, it's a tough balance for Windows,
20:47SPEAKERright? - Yeah.
20:48SPEAKER- Because they don't, like if they put the app data folder
20:51SPEAKERwhere normal people can see it,
20:52SPEAKERlike Bertron had a thing on one of the Discords I'm in
20:57SPEAKERthis morning where somebody had deleted so much stuff
21:00SPEAKERthat text didn't display anymore.
21:02SPEAKERLike they needed to download a Windows update
21:04SPEAKERand they deleted something that just killed
21:05SPEAKERall font text display in Windows.
21:08SPEAKERHow do you fix that?
21:09SPEAKER- You don't.
21:10SPEAKER- No, that's a do-over.
21:11SPEAKERThat's a repair.
21:13SPEAKERSo like, if you give people access to that stuff
21:15SPEAKERthat's in app data, that's mostly hidden for good reason,
21:18SPEAKERit's a problem.
21:19SPEAKERThe other thing is app data,
21:21SPEAKERthe other thing that Windows has started doing,
21:22SPEAKERand it's depending on what your settings were,
21:24SPEAKERit's been either going for a really long time
21:25SPEAKERor it's brand new to you,
21:27SPEAKERbut applications that try to install the program files
21:30SPEAKERwill often end up in a special folder in app data
21:33SPEAKERthat just has limited permissions.
21:35SPEAKERSo you don't have to see a UAC prompt to start them running.
21:37SPEAKER- Interesting.
21:39SPEAKER- So, you know, some of that stuff is hidden
21:43SPEAKERfor good reason, I guess, is the TLDR.
21:45SPEAKER- That's fair, that's fair.
21:47SPEAKERI have really enjoyed using Scoop,
21:48SPEAKERthe package manager for Windows.
21:50SPEAKER- Ooh.
21:52SPEAKER- Largely because it installs everything
21:54SPEAKERto like your home directory slash Scoop.
21:57SPEAKER- Oh, that's nice.
21:58SPEAKER- Like all apps install unprivileged.
22:00SPEAKERLike you don't have to run as an admin for anything.
22:03SPEAKERLike if you get tired of Scoop,
22:05SPEAKERyou basically just delete that folder and it's gone.
22:07SPEAKER- So then, like if you copy that folder to another machine,
22:11SPEAKERwill you run Scoop and it'll look at everything
22:13SPEAKERin the folder and reconnect up all the shortcuts and stuff?
22:15SPEAKER- It would not set up your path
22:16SPEAKERlike whatever other environment variables and stuff
22:18SPEAKERneed to be there in place for it to really work properly.
22:20SPEAKERSo I would still install it properly, I think.
22:24SPEAKER- Yeah.
22:25SPEAKER- It does actually, now that I think about it,
22:27SPEAKERit does have an uninstall routine,
22:29SPEAKERwhich is like one command line,
22:31SPEAKERbut it's a very quick reinstall.
22:34SPEAKER- I would love to just be able to back up
22:35SPEAKERmy entire home folder, user slash will,
22:39SPEAKERand copy that to a new machine
22:40SPEAKERand then have the machine pull everything else
22:42SPEAKERthat it needs to make the machine right from the internet.
22:44SPEAKERThat would be a delight,
22:45SPEAKERbut I think it's gonna be another three versions of Windows
22:48SPEAKERbefore we see anything even approaching that.
22:50SPEAKER- Yeah, I remember this is really digressing.
22:52SPEAKERWe should get back to some more questions,
22:53SPEAKERbut I watched a super interesting short history of Xenix
22:57SPEAKERon YouTube recently, which was Microsoft's Unix.
23:01SPEAKERYou familiar with that, XENIX?
23:02SPEAKER- Yeah, I remember Xenix.
23:03SPEAKER- I had no idea it even existed.
23:05SPEAKERLike it predates NS-DOS.
23:07SPEAKER- Yeah, it was, yeah.
23:09SPEAKER- But that was back in the days
23:10SPEAKERwhen you had to make your own Unix,
23:12SPEAKERyou had to pay a licensing fees to AT&T.
23:14SPEAKER- Yeah.
23:15SPEAKER- And so of course Microsoft, they put out a Unix,
23:17SPEAKERit was good, and it ran on the 286s of the day or whatever.
23:22SPEAKER- Probably 8086s and stuff like that, yeah.
23:24SPEAKER- But Microsoft being Microsoft,
23:26SPEAKERthey didn't want to have to pay licensing fees
23:28SPEAKERon their operating system forever.
23:30SPEAKER- Wow.
23:30SPEAKER- So they bought CPM and turned it into DOS instead,
23:33SPEAKERand DOS was complete shit compared to Xenix.
23:36SPEAKERLike, and then Windows took off and blah, blah, blah.
23:38SPEAKERLike, you know, there's a whole history there
23:41SPEAKERof why they ended up making their own OS
23:42SPEAKERinstead of standardizing.
23:44SPEAKER- They didn't want to pay for licensing,
23:45SPEAKERso instead they charged everybody else for licensing.
23:48SPEAKER- But it just makes me think about Mac OS as a Unix now,
23:52SPEAKERlike a literal one, not even a Unix-like,
23:53SPEAKERit's like a certified Unix.
23:55SPEAKERLike every other operating system is POSIX compliant
23:57SPEAKERexcept Windows these days.
23:59SPEAKERAnd it fucking kills me that like we could be in a world
24:02SPEAKERwhere every single operating system in computing
24:05SPEAKERkind of inter-operated on a basic level
24:07SPEAKERin a way that made sense, and we're just not.
24:09SPEAKERFucking, it drives me crazy.
24:11SPEAKER- But back then it wasn't as, anyway.
24:13SPEAKER- Not now, never not then, yes.
24:15SPEAKERYeah, now there's 40 years of legacy
24:19SPEAKERthat makes that more complicated.
24:20SPEAKERAnyway, what could have been?
24:26SPEAKERHere's a question from Charles Entertainment Cheese.
24:28SPEAKERIs there still a demo scene?
24:30SPEAKER- Yeah.
24:31SPEAKER- Demo scene is one word here.
24:32SPEAKER- Do you know what the demo scene is?
24:33SPEAKER- Oh, hell yeah.
24:36SPEAKERI was never deep into it,
24:37SPEAKERbut I was aware of it since probably the late '90s
24:39SPEAKERand would occasionally come across some cool demo
24:41SPEAKERand download and run it.
24:44SPEAKERI checked, I looked up the Wikipedia page for demo scene
24:47SPEAKERbecause they have a good list of groups
24:48SPEAKERthat are still active,
24:49SPEAKER'cause I wanted to actually answer this question
24:52SPEAKERwith authority, and sure enough,
24:53SPEAKERthere's like, there's at least a dozen groups on here
24:56SPEAKERthat are still active today.
24:58SPEAKER- Yeah.
24:59SPEAKER- So there is still a demo scene.
25:00SPEAKERI'm just gonna read,
25:01SPEAKERI think the top line description here of the demo scene
25:04SPEAKERis better than I could phrase it,
25:05SPEAKERso I'm just gonna read it here.
25:07SPEAKERThe demo scene is an international computer art subculture
25:10SPEAKERfocused on producing demos,
25:12SPEAKERself-contained, sometimes extremely small,
25:15SPEAKERwhich are computer programs
25:16SPEAKERthat produce audio visual presentation.
25:18SPEAKERLike, it's just a bunch of like extremely,
25:22SPEAKERlike, I hesitate to use the word elite,
25:25SPEAKERbut it seems very appropriate,
25:26SPEAKERlike a bunch of very elite coders and artists
25:29SPEAKERwho would compete with each other to like make demos,
25:32SPEAKERand a lot of times it would be like 64K demos,
25:34SPEAKERso it was like, like how much rad,
25:37SPEAKERhow much rad code and art can you fit into 64 kilobytes
25:40SPEAKERinto an executable, into like a binary package that's 64K,
25:44SPEAKERthat's gonna do some like wild shit
25:45SPEAKERthat you've never seen your computer do before.
25:47SPEAKER- You're gonna see a cityscape grow out of nothing,
25:49SPEAKERor like it's, it is the best kind of computer showing off,
25:53SPEAKERwhich is doing something cool
25:56SPEAKERthat nobody else thought was possible
25:58SPEAKERwith a, in some efficient or really cool way.
26:03SPEAKERA friend of the show, Jeremy Williams, was really,
26:05SPEAKERhe was the one who introduced me to demo scene stuff
26:07SPEAKERyears and years and years ago, I think,
26:09SPEAKERunless there was, there may have been,
26:10SPEAKERI feel like maybe there was a,
26:12SPEAKERhey, here's a 18K file you can download from Redwood
26:17SPEAKERthat has crazy 3D graphics in it
26:20SPEAKERback when like the 3D effects stuff was new, but anyway.
26:24SPEAKER- Yeah, I think demo stuff probably was more meaningful
26:27SPEAKERback in the day when computers were much more limited,
26:29SPEAKERparticularly like before they were shipping
26:30SPEAKERwith like dedicated graphics hardware.
26:32SPEAKER- Well, before the internet was fast too.
26:34SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:35SPEAKER- Like back then, like you could get a thing
26:36SPEAKERthat would open in play for 10 minutes on a 64K
26:39SPEAKERor 128K download and like you couldn't download a video.
26:44SPEAKERI mean, it took two days to download a three minute video.
26:46SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:47SPEAKERBut God, there's a specific IBM XT demo scene demo
26:51SPEAKERthat I was just watching a video of.
26:54SPEAKERNot area 5150, there it is, I just found it.
26:57SPEAKERGo look up a video of area 5150 running on the IBM XT.
27:04SPEAKERI wish I had links here.
27:05SPEAKERI'll try to find links and put these in the show notes.
27:07SPEAKERThis actually all just kind of came about recently.
27:09SPEAKERThere's a poster.
27:10SPEAKER- Is this the Pue.net one?
27:12SPEAKER- Maybe.
27:13SPEAKERSo this is weird and random,
27:15SPEAKERbut a poster on Shaq News actually just wrote
27:17SPEAKERan IBM XT emulator recently that can run this demo.
27:19SPEAKERIt's apparently the first emulator that can run this demo
27:22SPEAKERjust like real hardware.
27:24SPEAKER- Oh, that's cool.
27:25SPEAKER- Kind of a big deal.
27:26SPEAKERBut if you go watch the video for this thing,
27:27SPEAKERlike the XT, like the original IBM PCs had like,
27:31SPEAKERand I'd hope I'm getting all the names right.
27:33SPEAKERI'm pretty sure it's an XT,
27:34SPEAKERbut like they didn't have graphics hardware, right?
27:37SPEAKERLike they could only do like,
27:39SPEAKERor they had incredibly CGA output or something, yeah.
27:42SPEAKERSo like this demo, if you go watch it,
27:45SPEAKERdoes like 640 by 480, 256 colors,
27:48SPEAKERlike text and graphics on the same line,
27:51SPEAKERlike all kinds of crazy shit that should not be possible
27:53SPEAKERon that hardware.
27:56SPEAKERSo like that was the point of the demo scene
27:58SPEAKERback in the day was to like literally make the computer
28:00SPEAKERdo things that it was not specced and built to do.
28:02SPEAKER- Push the boundaries of what was possible.
28:04SPEAKER- Yeah, and like, obviously there are still frontiers
28:06SPEAKERto push, but like computers are so much more capable
28:08SPEAKERin the graphics department these days that, you know,
28:12SPEAKERit's not quite the same thing,
28:15SPEAKERbut it's awesome that people are still out there doing it.
28:18SPEAKER- Yeah, it's the thing that I like about these,
28:21SPEAKERlike I'm watching the video of this right now
28:23SPEAKERand it starts with, wouldn't this be cooler
28:25SPEAKERif your crappy IBM would do this cool thing
28:27SPEAKERthat your crappy IBM normally can't do?
28:30SPEAKERAnd then it just keeps ramping it up from there.
28:32SPEAKERIt's pretty cool.
28:32SPEAKER- Yeah, it's pretty rad to see that stuff.
28:35SPEAKERMarty PC, okay, here it is, yes.
28:37SPEAKERMarty PC is the cycle and accurate PC XT emulator
28:41SPEAKERthat I was trying to think of.
28:42SPEAKERAnd yes, here's a hero fact.
28:44SPEAKEROkay, I will put this stuff in the show notes.
28:46SPEAKERI'll give you a good direct capture, direct feed capture.
28:49SPEAKER- Yeah, I found the video of Marty PC running area for 2150.
28:53SPEAKERLike it's awesome to see when you keep in mind
28:54SPEAKERthat the computer absolutely was not remotely built
28:57SPEAKERto do this stuff.
28:58SPEAKER- Yeah, the IBM PCs that I used did two colors
29:01SPEAKER'cause they worked up to Hercules monochrome monitors.
29:03SPEAKER- Right, yeah, yeah, it's cool stuff.
29:07SPEAKERHere's a question from Shifty Lightfoot.
29:10SPEAKERHow do I get started interacting with people on the Discord?
29:13SPEAKERAlmost all of my interactions on the internet
29:15SPEAKERhave been met with a hostile, why would you want to do that?
29:17SPEAKEROr your question is in the wrong place.
29:20SPEAKERI've certainly encountered that myself on various forums
29:24SPEAKERand Reddits and so forth.
29:26SPEAKER- Yeah, I hope that we, I mean,
29:28SPEAKERwhy would you want to do that
29:30SPEAKERis sometimes a perfectly valid question to ask
29:32SPEAKERif you want to understand why somebody's doing,
29:34SPEAKERlike if you're asking a question,
29:36SPEAKERif you're asking for help with something
29:38SPEAKERand I don't understand what the eventual goal is,
29:42SPEAKERI'll often ask why do you want to do that?
29:44SPEAKEROr like what is it you're trying to do?
29:46SPEAKER'Cause often that is, I wouldn't, I guess,
29:50SPEAKERI wouldn't take that as a hostile question necessarily.
29:54SPEAKERIt may come across that way, but I don't.
29:55SPEAKER- Yeah, I can see how it would come off as off-putting.
29:58SPEAKERI mean, like if people are trying to tell you
30:00SPEAKERyou're wrong for doing it that way,
30:01SPEAKERor you should do it this other way
30:05SPEAKERthat you haven't thought of,
30:06SPEAKERwhy aren't you doing it this other way?
30:07SPEAKERMaybe it comes off as a little bit condescending.
30:09SPEAKER- Yeah.
30:11SPEAKER- But yeah, that's a tricky one.
30:14SPEAKERIt's a tricky one for people to ask questions
30:16SPEAKERabout things they don't fully understand, right?
30:17SPEAKER'Cause like if you need help with a technical thing
30:20SPEAKERthat you're not experienced with,
30:21SPEAKERhow do you have the vocabulary to ask the question, right?
30:25SPEAKERLike it's tough.
30:26SPEAKER- Usually I find I get the best results with that
30:29SPEAKERwhen I lead with, hey, I don't know
30:31SPEAKERif I'm even asking the right thing here,
30:33SPEAKERbut I want to be able to do this
30:35SPEAKERand here's what I think I should do.
30:37SPEAKERCan somebody help point me in the right direction
30:39SPEAKERor tell me if this is the right way to go?
30:41SPEAKERThat happened a lot when I was learning to build stuff
30:44SPEAKERand like when I was working at Adam's shop,
30:46SPEAKERlike I know how to work a lathe
30:48SPEAKERand I know how to work a mill reasonably well,
30:50SPEAKERbut I don't know what anything's called
30:52SPEAKER'cause I have no formal training whatsoever.
30:53SPEAKERSo I had to ask for the pointy one
30:56SPEAKERwith the twisty end on it
30:57SPEAKERand then go look at the box and point out
31:00SPEAKERand be like, what is this one called, right?
31:02SPEAKERWhich is really frustrating.
31:05SPEAKERBut also I would hope that people in the Discord
31:06SPEAKERwouldn't yell at you for posting your question
31:08SPEAKERin the wrong place.
31:09SPEAKER- Yeah, no, no, I will.
31:10SPEAKER- I hope that they would just say,
31:12SPEAKERhey, here's what I think,
31:14SPEAKERbut maybe a better place to ask this is over here.
31:17SPEAKER- Yeah, there's definitely some of that
31:19SPEAKERand that's just practical
31:20SPEAKERbecause the people that have, for example,
31:22SPEAKERa ton of hardcore networking knowledge
31:24SPEAKERhappen to hang out on the networking channel a lot,
31:26SPEAKERso it's just an easier place to get questions answered.
31:29SPEAKERBut yeah, I totally agree that being upfront
31:32SPEAKERabout sort of the scope or limits
31:34SPEAKERof your knowledge and experience is helpful
31:36SPEAKER'cause then it helps people understand
31:38SPEAKERwhere you're coming from and what you already know
31:40SPEAKERand might not know.
31:42SPEAKERI think the other thing for me
31:43SPEAKERis just kind of observe a channel
31:45SPEAKERyou wanna ask questions in
31:47SPEAKERor just kind of like hang out and read a little bit,
31:49SPEAKERlike scroll back and just kind of watch conversations
31:51SPEAKERa little bit, kind of get a feel for the vibe of the place.
31:54SPEAKER- I'd also say just generally speaking,
31:57SPEAKERlike text is a reduced information capacity medium, right?
32:02SPEAKERYou don't get the full context of facial and body language
32:05SPEAKERand stuff like that.
32:06SPEAKERSo I tend to assume best intent, assume good intent
32:10SPEAKERwhen I'm talking to people on Discord.
32:11SPEAKERIf somebody says something that like,
32:16SPEAKERjust it's always worth considering
32:18SPEAKERwhether somebody is actually trying to be malicious
32:20SPEAKERor even harsh and is maybe just like,
32:24SPEAKERmaybe they just had two seconds and wrote a quick post
32:26SPEAKERwhile they were on the toilet or something,
32:27SPEAKERlike a quick response while they're on the toilet.
32:30SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, I've got decades of like going on IRC
32:33SPEAKERand hanging out on IRC channels and stuff like that.
32:35SPEAKERAnd like, I really think just sort of like hanging out
32:37SPEAKERand like taking the temperature of the place
32:39SPEAKERand watching people interact with each other
32:41SPEAKERand kind of see what the tone and the culture are
32:43SPEAKERand that kind of thing.
32:44SPEAKER- Always good.
32:45SPEAKER- Yeah.
32:48SPEAKERYeah, so hopefully that's helpful.
32:50SPEAKER- This next one's pretty good.
32:51SPEAKERIf you want to just roll straight into it.
32:52SPEAKER- Yeah, so I was going to read that one.
32:53SPEAKERIn fact, from a base guide,
32:56SPEAKERpeople tweak their usernames in a way
32:59SPEAKERthat sometimes it's hard to figure out
33:00SPEAKERhow to pronounce base guide G-tree.
33:03SPEAKER- Is that what we got here?
33:04SPEAKER- Yeah, I think this is base guide,
33:05SPEAKERbut with the tree emote, because it's holiday season.
33:09SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
33:10SPEAKERWell, anyway. - Yeah, anyway.
33:12SPEAKER- Anyway, sometimes windows do not render emojis.
33:15SPEAKER- But it could be Basqui G2.
33:17SPEAKERWe've had this conversation before.
33:18SPEAKERI can't, we got corrected.
33:19SPEAKERI can't remember which way it worked out.
33:21SPEAKERI think he's a guitar, not a musician, not a fish guy.
33:25SPEAKERBut it could be the other way around.
33:26SPEAKER- Speaking of windows, rendering of emojis,
33:28SPEAKERswitching to Windows 11 was really weird.
33:31SPEAKER- Oh, 'cause the emojis work now.
33:32SPEAKER- Because now on Discord,
33:33SPEAKEReverybody that's got like country flag emojis
33:35SPEAKERin their names, I can actually see the flags
33:36SPEAKERinstead of just the JP or the AU.
33:39SPEAKER- That just recently changed,
33:40SPEAKER'cause I used to see CAs on the end of everybody
33:43SPEAKERuntil fairly recently.
33:44SPEAKERI think it might be a Discord change.
33:45SPEAKER- Oh, was that not a Windows 11 thing?
33:47SPEAKER- I don't think so.
33:48SPEAKER- I thought it maybe just happened
33:49SPEAKERaround the time I upgraded, but anyway.
33:51SPEAKER- It could be.
33:53SPEAKER- All right.
33:54SPEAKERWhat's the earliest permissible date
33:55SPEAKERto put up Christmas decor?
33:58SPEAKERI say the day after Thanksgiving,
33:59SPEAKERgrowing up in the New York City suburbs,
34:01SPEAKERChristmas time doesn't officially start
34:02SPEAKERuntil Santa comes down Harold Square
34:04SPEAKERat the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
34:07SPEAKERAl Roker said so.
34:09SPEAKER- So an alarming trend in my neighborhood
34:12SPEAKERis that people are taking the Halloween decorations down
34:15SPEAKERand putting the Christmas decorations up on the same day.
34:18SPEAKER- Interesting, okay.
34:21SPEAKER- I am-
34:22SPEAKER- That's too much.
34:23SPEAKER- It's too much.
34:24SPEAKERYou need to do that break.
34:25SPEAKERLike I switched the lights on the house
34:27SPEAKERto like a tasteful champagne thing for Halloween,
34:30SPEAKERfor Thanksgiving, from the purple and orange
34:33SPEAKERthat is traditional for my people at Halloween.
34:35SPEAKER- It's kind of like a harvest gold,
34:36SPEAKERlike a nice burnt orange, something like that.
34:38SPEAKER- It's a real warm, but there's little sparkles,
34:41SPEAKERlike white sparkles occasionally.
34:42SPEAKER- The colors will fall up through Thanksgiving, I think.
34:45SPEAKER- Yeah, and then for us,
34:48SPEAKERthis year Thanksgiving was kind of early.
34:49SPEAKERSo we kind of didn't, if we were real tree people,
34:52SPEAKERI don't think I'd be comfortable putting a real tree
34:54SPEAKERin my house this early.
34:56SPEAKER'Cause it's like-
34:57SPEAKER- Is that for safety reasons?
34:58SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't want to burn the place down.
35:00SPEAKER- Fair, I guess they get more flammable over time, right?
35:03SPEAKER- I mean, the drier the burnier, right?
35:07SPEAKERBut I dug the faker out of the tree on Black Friday
35:11SPEAKERand jammed it up in the living room.
35:12SPEAKERWe moved everything around,
35:13SPEAKERtook advantage of the quiet day
35:15SPEAKERto pull all the furniture off the walls
35:17SPEAKERand vacuum back behind it all.
35:18SPEAKER'Cause that's always important.
35:20SPEAKER- Yes, of course, of course.
35:23SPEAKER- What do you guys do?
35:24SPEAKER- I don't have the benefit of New York City proximity
35:27SPEAKERto Al Roker or whatever night, but I fully agree
35:30SPEAKERwith the day after Thanksgiving is the sensible day to go.
35:34SPEAKERBut there are people around here, like people decorate.
35:36SPEAKERI don't know if it was something that started
35:38SPEAKERin the pandemic or I just started noticing it more
35:40SPEAKER'cause we were inside.
35:41SPEAKERAnd so we started going a lot more walks and stuff,
35:43SPEAKERbut it feels like people decorate like crazy around here now.
35:46SPEAKER- I think that's a pandemic response, right?
35:49SPEAKERLike I think we did a lot more house decorating
35:51SPEAKERduring the pandemic.
35:52SPEAKER'Cause it was like the place we could control.
35:54SPEAKER- But the thing that always weirds me out the most
35:56SPEAKERare the people who wait until like a week before
36:00SPEAKERit's Christmas to put up any decorations
36:01SPEAKERand then take them all down like the day after.
36:03SPEAKER- So we've done that before.
36:06SPEAKERThe thing to know is that if you have kids
36:08SPEAKERand your kids are in school especially,
36:10SPEAKERthe time between Thanksgiving and Christmas
36:13SPEAKERwith all the Christmas stuff that has to happen
36:14SPEAKERand also all of the end of semester school bullshit
36:17SPEAKERis like the second busiest time of the year
36:20SPEAKERaside from like the three weeks,
36:23SPEAKERfour weeks before school lets out in the spring.
36:25SPEAKERAnd there's always like recitals
36:28SPEAKERand sporting seasons are wrapping up
36:31SPEAKERand like there's a million things to do.
36:33SPEAKERSo sometimes you don't have a free Saturday
36:35SPEAKERto put lights on the house
36:36SPEAKERuntil like you're off for Christmas break basically.
36:40SPEAKER- That's fair.
36:41SPEAKERI'll concede that one.
36:42SPEAKERBut the other end of that though,
36:42SPEAKERlike the people who would take their everything down
36:44SPEAKERlike on the 26th, I'm like why, why would you do that?
36:48SPEAKERJust like imagine some guy just like steam shooting
36:51SPEAKERout of his ears.
36:52SPEAKERI'm like I gotta get this fucking tree out of here right now.
36:54SPEAKER- I think we redecorated the tree
36:56SPEAKERfor my daughter's birthday and Valentine's day.
37:00SPEAKERBut I think we took it down before St. Patrick's day.
37:02SPEAKER- Interesting.
37:03SPEAKER- In 2020.
37:04SPEAKER- No, you're not actually the first person
37:05SPEAKERthat I have heard of doing something like that.
37:07SPEAKERJust leaving a tree up
37:08SPEAKERand turning it into like subsequent holiday trees
37:11SPEAKERfor a little bit.
37:11SPEAKER- That might've been 2021.
37:13SPEAKERWe were in kind of a weird place in 2021.
37:15SPEAKER- Yeah, fair.
37:15SPEAKER- But yeah, I wouldn't do that all.
37:18SPEAKERLike that was a special occasion event from where I sit.
37:21SPEAKER- That's fair.
37:22SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't know, man.
37:26SPEAKERLook, I'm not gonna yuck anybody's yums on this.
37:28SPEAKERIf you wanna take your Halloween decorations down,
37:31SPEAKERif you wanna put a Santa hat on your 12 foot skeleton
37:34SPEAKERand call it a Christmas decoration, I say let it ride, man.
37:37SPEAKERThat sounds cool to me.
37:38SPEAKER- And now I will say I'm a thousand percent in favor
37:41SPEAKERof the uptick in Halloween decorating
37:43SPEAKERthat's going on around here
37:43SPEAKERand Halloween holiday lights for that matter.
37:45SPEAKERLike I'm sure that's-
37:46SPEAKER- You guys should come down to our neighborhood.
37:47SPEAKERIt is intense.
37:49SPEAKER- Like the, I mean, I just love walking
37:51SPEAKERaround the neighborhood, looking at holiday lights
37:53SPEAKERin general.
37:53SPEAKER- Oh yeah.
37:54SPEAKER- And yeah, like you said, all the purple and yellow
37:56SPEAKERand orange ones out there, they're spooky.
37:59SPEAKER- I'm really curious to see if the people
38:01SPEAKERwho do the crazy over the top Christmas decorations,
38:04SPEAKERlike with the Mannheim Steamroller radio station
38:06SPEAKERand the whole thing are gonna continue competing this year.
38:10SPEAKER'Cause like last year there was one that turned
38:12SPEAKERthe entire end of a cul-de-sac into like a full 360
38:17SPEAKERlighted theater thing where you turn the radio station
38:20SPEAKERon your car and like the whole house
38:22SPEAKERand all of the neighbors yards and everything was synced up
38:24SPEAKERwith the house.
38:25SPEAKER- That's pretty good.
38:26SPEAKER- It was pretty, it was kind of a trip.
38:28SPEAKER- That's pretty good.
38:29SPEAKERI know we've talked about it before,
38:30SPEAKERbut like holiday lighting, holiday decorations seems
38:32SPEAKERlike an area where like, you know, there's just been
38:35SPEAKERthis rapid advancement in tech in the last 20, 30 years,
38:37SPEAKERjust like cheaper microcontrollers and new wireless standards
38:40SPEAKERand way more compute and everything like-
38:42SPEAKER- Yep.
38:43SPEAKER- And LEDs, like lower costs, color changing LEDs and stuff.
38:47SPEAKERLike it just feels like that's one area
38:48SPEAKERthat has benefited tremendously from all those changes.
38:52SPEAKER- Yeah, it's the stuff you can do with lights now
38:54SPEAKERthat you couldn't do even 20 years ago is just nuts.
38:57SPEAKER- It's like the stuff that would have been fancy studio
39:01SPEAKERlights or fancy stage lights is like super accessible
39:04SPEAKERat a fairly reasonable prices.
39:05SPEAKERI mean, hell, I think Twinkly had a,
39:08SPEAKERthey have a light wall that's a pop-up light wall
39:11SPEAKERthat collapses that was like, I mean, it's expensive,
39:14SPEAKERbut it's like not expensive for a light wall.
39:16SPEAKERIt's like 1200 bucks or something.
39:18SPEAKERIt's kind of nuts.
39:19SPEAKER- That's cool.
39:20SPEAKER- Yeah.
39:23SPEAKER- There's a question from Mountaineer Blue.
39:25SPEAKER"What is your playlist style?
39:27SPEAKERDo you have different playlists in your Spotify or Apple
39:30SPEAKERor music or Plex or whatever for different moods?
39:33SPEAKERDo you not use playlists at all
39:34SPEAKERand just listen to albums in their entirety?
39:36SPEAKERI have a single stream of consciousness playlist
39:38SPEAKERthat's been added to for the past decade
39:40SPEAKERwith every song I listened to on a regular basis."
39:42SPEAKER- Wow, that is fascinating.
39:44SPEAKER- That's intense.
39:45SPEAKERThat's pretty, I would,
39:48SPEAKERI would almost like to see that playlist.
39:50SPEAKER- I'm kind of, so I've done it,
39:52SPEAKERlike one time I made a Spotify playlist
39:53SPEAKERthat I just made public and let anybody add songs to
39:56SPEAKERand then I posted a link to it on Twitter
39:57SPEAKERand was like, "Hey, I got to drive to LA.
39:59SPEAKERWill you guys give me eight hours of music?"
40:01SPEAKERAnd they did.
40:02SPEAKER- I don't know why I never thought about this.
40:03SPEAKERI didn't realize you couldn't make
40:04SPEAKERlike publicly editable playlists.
40:08SPEAKER- I'm going to tell you, it was not a great idea.
40:10SPEAKERThere was some, nobody put a screamer in there
40:13SPEAKER'cause I don't think they wanted me to die,
40:14SPEAKERbut there was some real shit songs in there.
40:17SPEAKERCan I ask how much Will Smith was in there?
40:19SPEAKER- A surprising amount.
40:22SPEAKERLess than I expected, more than I wanted.
40:24SPEAKERHow's that?
40:24SPEAKER- Fair.
40:26SPEAKER- But I usually listen to whole albums.
40:28SPEAKEROr I pick a song that I want to hear
40:30SPEAKERand I hit the make a radio station on this button.
40:32SPEAKER- Sure.
40:33SPEAKERYeah, I'm a pretty big,
40:35SPEAKERif I'm hanging out in the living room
40:36SPEAKERlike Friday evening or whatever,
40:38SPEAKERand definitely just throw a whole album on.
40:42SPEAKERI do like ambient music.
40:43SPEAKERI do like sort of like chill, just, you know.
40:46SPEAKER- Oh, yeah.
40:47SPEAKER- Instrumental, I have a lot of game soundtracks,
40:49SPEAKERfor example, that I just want to listen to,
40:50SPEAKERlike some chill instrumental stuff.
40:52SPEAKERAnd like the weird thing about game soundtracks
40:53SPEAKERis a lot of them,
40:54SPEAKERlike most any game that has combat in it
40:56SPEAKERis going to have a lot of,
40:57SPEAKERlike it's going to be peppered
40:58SPEAKERwith a lot of like really uptempo, uproarious,
41:00SPEAKERlike heavy percussion, like Dark Souls boss type stuff.
41:04SPEAKERYou know what I mean?
41:05SPEAKER- Oh yeah.
41:06SPEAKER- That's not exactly what I'm looking for.
41:07SPEAKER- Like I'm talking about FTL.
41:08SPEAKER- Yeah, I guess FTL.
41:11SPEAKER- Ben Prunty, great work in there.
41:14SPEAKERGreat work in this space.
41:16SPEAKER- FTL is a great example
41:17SPEAKERwhere they actually bisect the album, I believe,
41:19SPEAKERwhere the first half is the like chill exploration tracks.
41:22SPEAKERThe second half is the like kind of-
41:26SPEAKER- That boss is killing me over and over again.
41:29SPEAKER- Yeah, like the oppressive combat versions of those songs.
41:31SPEAKERSo I actually have a bunch of playlists
41:33SPEAKERof like the chill out or ambient versions of albums,
41:36SPEAKERlike with all the kind of less pleasant stuff removed.
41:40SPEAKER- Yeah, that's how, like that's,
41:41SPEAKERso I actually have a playlist,
41:43SPEAKERthere's an Apple curated playlist called Sleepy
41:47SPEAKERthat's all like ambient beats
41:50SPEAKERthat are a specific rhythm that like I put on
41:52SPEAKERand I just immediately fall asleep is really good.
41:55SPEAKERIt's worth Apple music alone.
41:57SPEAKERI think it's the thing I would miss most
41:59SPEAKERif I stopped Apple music.
42:01SPEAKER- Sounds pretty good.
42:02SPEAKER- I also, do you make playlists?
42:03SPEAKERI still make playlists sometimes.
42:04SPEAKERLike I'll make my wife a playlist sometimes,
42:05SPEAKERor I'll make the kiddo a playlist.
42:08SPEAKERShe's doing war crime playlists now
42:09SPEAKERwhere she plays like 200 copies of Running Up That Hill
42:16SPEAKERover and over and over again.
42:17SPEAKERAnd then just like wants to put them on the car.
42:19SPEAKERAnd then here's my favorite thing to do.
42:21SPEAKERThis is my favorite stupid thing to do.
42:23SPEAKERYou can set up an automation.
42:24SPEAKERIf you have like Google speakers or Sonos speakers
42:26SPEAKERor whatever, you can set up an automation
42:28SPEAKERthat will play a song at a specific time.
42:31SPEAKERSo there's a lot of songs that mentioned the time.
42:33SPEAKERLike for example, Piano Man opens
42:35SPEAKERwith it's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
42:37SPEAKERSo at 859, you start the automation
42:40SPEAKERto play every Saturday night.
42:41SPEAKERAnd then at nine o'clock, the whole house lights up
42:43SPEAKERwith it's nine o'clock on a Saturday
42:46SPEAKERand everybody gets excited
42:47SPEAKERand sings the piano man for a minute.
42:48SPEAKERIt's like a little party.
42:49SPEAKER- That sounds like a fun silly thing to do
42:51SPEAKERif you have children.
42:52SPEAKER- It's good, but the adults really like it much more
42:54SPEAKERthan the child, I'll tell you.
42:55SPEAKER- Fair.
42:56SPEAKER- Yeah.
42:57SPEAKER- You're all children at heart.
42:59SPEAKER- Yeah.
43:01SPEAKER- Yeah, music.
43:03SPEAKERThere's been a big discourse on Twitter this week
43:05SPEAKERabout like the Spotify like year end wrap ups
43:08SPEAKERare everywhere right now.
43:10SPEAKER- Yeah.
43:11SPEAKER- And there's been a discourse about like,
43:12SPEAKER"Hey, what if you use something
43:13SPEAKERthat actually paid the artists a decent amount
43:15SPEAKERthat's not Spotify, such as Apple Music or Tidal?"
43:19SPEAKER- I mean, I don't, so there's the people at Twitter
43:21SPEAKERcan't throw any sticks at anybody as far as I'm concerned.
43:24SPEAKER- Yeah, fair.
43:26SPEAKERI don't, I do not, I don't use any commercial streaming
43:29SPEAKERservice at the moment.
43:30SPEAKERSo I'm not really in any kind of ecosystem
43:32SPEAKERto share playlists or anything.
43:34SPEAKER- It is remarkable that we went from a system
43:36SPEAKERthat didn't really pay artists very much for buying CDs
43:39SPEAKERto something that pays them less than nothing
43:41SPEAKERfor playing songs.
43:42SPEAKER- Yeah.
43:43SPEAKER- I, I, yeah, I don't know.
43:46SPEAKERMy, my, my year end things are always jacked up for music
43:50SPEAKERbecause I have a kid.
43:52SPEAKERSo it's often like this year is going to be,
43:54SPEAKERthere's going to be a lot of Taylor Swift
43:55SPEAKERand Olivia Rodrigo on mine, fair.
43:57SPEAKERIt is not representative of my likes or desires.
44:00SPEAKER- Hey man, you can own it, it's all right.
44:01SPEAKER- That Dua Lipa song fucking rocks though.
44:04SPEAKER- Fair, fair.
44:06SPEAKERThis is a good question from Mike B.
44:10SPEAKERWhat do you find cooler and more compelling?
44:12SPEAKERGetting a game to run on older hardware
44:14SPEAKERthat it was never meant for
44:15SPEAKERor enhancing it for modern hardware?
44:17SPEAKERSimply put, which is better, Portal 64 or Portal RTX?
44:22SPEAKER- Oh crap.
44:23SPEAKER- Like that's a, that is a fantastic question actually.
44:25SPEAKERI've, I've been staring at Portal 64 recently
44:28SPEAKERthinking that I should give it a try.
44:30SPEAKERI'll probably wait until the Mr. N64 core is more mature,
44:34SPEAKERassuming that core will ever even be able to run this.
44:36SPEAKER- I didn't know there was a Mr. N64 core.
44:38SPEAKERI'm out of the loop on the Mr. Stash.
44:39SPEAKER- You were way out of the loop.
44:40SPEAKERThat's probably, I know I've probably said this
44:43SPEAKERas much as anybody, like the word was for years
44:45SPEAKERthat the Mr. would never be able to do it to, to do,
44:48SPEAKERto do the N64, like at all.
44:50SPEAKERAnd then the very same guy who was the main guy saying,
44:54SPEAKERyes, this will never be possible
44:55SPEAKERis now the guy developing it, so.
44:57SPEAKER- Wow, that's a trip.
44:58SPEAKER- I didn't know that Portal 64 existed,
45:00SPEAKERso I'm fascinated by this concept.
45:02SPEAKER- If you, if you Google it, you'll get the GitHub repo.
45:04SPEAKERYou have to make it yourself.
45:05SPEAKERYou need to like, I think you have to build it yourself.
45:09SPEAKER- Is it 3D?
45:10SPEAKER- Yeah, it's like, I, I.
45:11SPEAKER- It's not like a 2D version of the.
45:13SPEAKER- It is, I don't, I don't know how complete it is,
45:15SPEAKERbut it is, it is absolutely a first person playable
45:18SPEAKER3D version of Portal on the N64.
45:20SPEAKER- Oh, it looks like the portals work in everything.
45:22SPEAKERThat's nuts.
45:23SPEAKER- Yes.
45:25SPEAKERTo be clear that Mr. Core is not going to be
45:27SPEAKERa full functional N64.
45:29SPEAKER- That makes sense.
45:30SPEAKER- He's having to cut some significant corners
45:32SPEAKERto get it to work, and so some games may never work
45:34SPEAKERor et cetera, et cetera.
45:35SPEAKER- Yeah.
45:36SPEAKER- So there's, there's no guarantee that Portal 64
45:37SPEAKERwill run on that thing, but there are emulators.
45:40SPEAKERYou could use it there.
45:41SPEAKER- Wow.
45:43SPEAKER- I don't know.
45:44SPEAKERThat's a tough question.
45:45SPEAKERI think they're both super impressive.
45:46SPEAKERI, I feel like getting new games to run on old hardware
45:50SPEAKERis cool from a conceptual standpoint,
45:53SPEAKERbut, but it's not something I'm going to like play through
45:55SPEAKERand enjoy start to finish necessarily.
45:58SPEAKERLike that's, like Portal 64 is more like something
46:00SPEAKERI'm just going to be like, oh, that's cool.
46:01SPEAKERLike that's, that's an amazing feat of engineering.
46:04SPEAKERI'm going to check this out for 20 minutes.
46:06SPEAKERIt's awesome they did this,
46:07SPEAKERbut I'm probably a lot more likely to play something
46:10SPEAKERlike Portal RTX start to finish
46:12SPEAKERand like really appreciate it.
46:13SPEAKER- So I've, I've played kind of a lot of Portal RTX
46:16SPEAKERuntil I got to a puzzle that I got stuck on.
46:18SPEAKERWait, hold on.
46:19SPEAKERI've been playing Portal Prelude RTX, which is a
46:24SPEAKERcommunity build, it's like a mod.
46:27SPEAKERAnd the, the maps for it are, some of them are like, it's,
46:30SPEAKERit goes straight from zero to 60 is what I have to say.
46:33SPEAKER- I just Googled some shots of this.
46:35SPEAKERThat looks like way more complex than actual,
46:37SPEAKERoriginal Portal.
46:38SPEAKER- It is way harder.
46:39SPEAKERLike original Portal is a game designed to be finished
46:41SPEAKERby everybody who plays it, and this is not that.
46:43SPEAKERLike, I think I got eight puzzles in and was like, oh,
46:45SPEAKERI don't know how to do this, this one.
46:47SPEAKER- Interesting.
46:48SPEAKERI will definitely have checked that out.
46:50SPEAKERBut also like, like even like from a ray tracing standpoint,
46:52SPEAKERlike the level design in this is way more intricate looking
46:55SPEAKERfrom what I've seen of these screenshots.
46:57SPEAKER- Yeah, it's like a, it's like a,
46:59SPEAKERit's like they took the basic idea and the basic engine
47:01SPEAKERand then souped it way up.
47:02SPEAKER- Yeah, like it would be, there's a bunch of like
47:04SPEAKERoverlapping glass panels and a lot of other cool lighting
47:06SPEAKERstuff that would make the ray tracing look neat.
47:09SPEAKER- I'm kind of more into the, like, I like the novelty
47:12SPEAKERof having ray tracing in an old game, but I'm more into the,
47:15SPEAKERhey, let's take the old thing and make new stuff
47:17SPEAKERon top of it.
47:18SPEAKERLike the, I like the, for me, the Portal Prelude
47:20SPEAKERwith flaws in them all is more interesting, I think,
47:23SPEAKERthan Portal RTX, but I kind of want to play Portal 64
47:27SPEAKERjust to kind of want to touch the fire there.
47:29SPEAKER- Yeah, I'm going to have to check that out on a stream
47:31SPEAKERat some point once it is finished.
47:33SPEAKERI don't think it's finished yet.
47:35SPEAKER- Yeah, it's, it's, there's,
47:36SPEAKERand then there's a whole other category that's kind of
47:38SPEAKERadjacent to this, that's the, hey, here's a way for you
47:40SPEAKERto play old games that are basically unplayable today.
47:42SPEAKER- Yes.
47:43SPEAKER- Like, like the, like the force engine thing
47:46SPEAKERthat used to play Dark Forces and Jedi Knight
47:48SPEAKERand stuff like that.
47:51SPEAKERAll the ZDoom and Doom 64, like all the Doom,
47:54SPEAKERthe Doom mod file players basically as source ports.
47:58SPEAKERI would, I just went through this with KOTOR.
48:01SPEAKERLike I wanted to play original KOTOR
48:03SPEAKERand it's surprisingly difficult to play that on PC now.
48:07SPEAKERThe mod situation is complex to the point that I did,
48:10SPEAKERworked on it for like an hour and was like,
48:11SPEAKERI have better things to do with my time
48:12SPEAKERand just went and bought it on the iPad.
48:14SPEAKER- Sure.
48:16SPEAKER- But, but yeah, it's, it's a weird,
48:21SPEAKERit's a weird scene.
48:24SPEAKER- Yeah, the whole thing is kind of weird and cool.
48:26SPEAKERI'm into both of them.
48:27SPEAKER- Yeah, yes, they're, they're both awesome
48:28SPEAKERfor different reasons.
48:29SPEAKERThere is so much cool stuff happening out there these days
48:32SPEAKERwith people with technical skills,
48:35SPEAKERjust doing stuff like this.
48:37SPEAKERLike it feels endless at this point and that's awesome.
48:40SPEAKER- Yeah, it feels like, it feels like everything's possible
48:43SPEAKERin a way that it hasn't for kind of a long time.
48:45SPEAKER- Yes, whether it's preservation or like developing new stuff
48:48SPEAKERon top of old stuff or like whichever direction
48:51SPEAKERon the chronologies you're going forward or backward.
48:54SPEAKER- Yeah, like, did you see somebody launched
48:55SPEAKERand announced, released a GBA game yesterday?
48:58SPEAKER- Oh, that's impressive though, that's always fun.
49:02SPEAKER- It's called "Goodbye Galaxy" and it's a platformer,
49:07SPEAKERit's a Game Boy Advance game and like they launched,
49:10SPEAKERit's gonna come out on PC and other stuff later,
49:12SPEAKERbut they launched it on the Game Boy Advance first,
49:14SPEAKERwhich is like, I mean, that's just cool.
49:17SPEAKER- Wait, this has no affiliation with Commander Keen?
49:21SPEAKER- It has no affiliation with Commander Keen.
49:23SPEAKER- Commander Keen in "Goodbye Galaxy."
49:25SPEAKERFair enough.
49:26SPEAKER- There's no affiliation with Commander Keen
49:28SPEAKERthat I am aware of.
49:28SPEAKER- That's fair.
49:30SPEAKERWow, that's a pretty good looking GBA game actually.
49:35SPEAKERWell, that's, I mean, that is yet another angle
49:37SPEAKERon this conversation is people making old games
49:39SPEAKERfor old hardware, like.
49:41SPEAKER- Yeah, or like, even like Shovel Knight,
49:43SPEAKERlike making the games within the constraints
49:45SPEAKERof the old hardware is conceptually really interesting.
49:48SPEAKERBut like having modern designs that work on,
49:50SPEAKERthat were built for hardware that existed 30 years ago
49:53SPEAKERor 40 years ago is fricking cool.
49:55SPEAKER- Like that happened, was it last year?
49:57SPEAKERI think a new Genesis game came out on Steam
49:59SPEAKERand like, you know, right there in the install folder
50:01SPEAKERis just like, hey, the ROM is just there.
50:02SPEAKERIf you just wanna take the ROM and play it
50:04SPEAKERon your flash card or a MiSTer,
50:07SPEAKERif you don't wanna play the Steam version.
50:10SPEAKER- Yeah, I think so.
50:11SPEAKERSo the answer to your question, I think is,
50:13SPEAKERthis is my favorite thing.
50:15SPEAKERWhen people make new games for old hardware
50:17SPEAKERthat use like new gaming design aesthetics
50:20SPEAKERfor old hardware, I think that's rad.
50:22SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah.
50:23SPEAKERI think I'm probably, I don't know.
50:25SPEAKERThis is a hard thing to like rank or pick a favorite.
50:28SPEAKERI think the preservation aspect
50:30SPEAKERis the most actually valuable part to me.
50:31SPEAKER- Oh, of course.
50:32SPEAKER- The MiSTer style stuff, just like keeping old games alive.
50:37SPEAKERAll right, last question here from Millhouse Phoenix,
50:39SPEAKERwho hails from Australia,
50:40SPEAKERwhich is relevant to this question.
50:42SPEAKER- Is that a fairly, I can't, my,
50:44SPEAKERit looks like it could be a New Zealand alternately.
50:46SPEAKER- Wait, really?
50:47SPEAKER- I don't know.
50:48SPEAKERThe AU people have AU's next to them
50:50SPEAKERand this is a different one.
50:51SPEAKERI can't.
50:52SPEAKER- Mine just says AU.
50:53SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
50:54SPEAKERSo then that is, okay.
50:55SPEAKERSorry, I got a flag, but it's very, very small
50:57SPEAKERand all I can see is that like there's red and blue and white.
51:01SPEAKER- Are you in Chrome?
51:02SPEAKER- I'm in Firefox.
51:03SPEAKER- Maybe that's why.
51:04SPEAKERI was gonna say, we're both on Windows 11.
51:05SPEAKERWe're both in a Google doc and you're getting a flag emoji
51:08SPEAKERand I'm getting an AU.
51:09SPEAKERMaybe it's Firefox. - There was somebody else
51:10SPEAKERdown here that had an AU at the end of their name.
51:11SPEAKERSo I don't know what the heck's going on, it's weird.
51:14SPEAKER- Flag emojis, surprisingly fraught, it seems.
51:17SPEAKER- Yeah, they don't clear things up, it turns out.
51:19SPEAKER- All right, with all the coffee talk on the podcast
51:21SPEAKERover the last few months,
51:22SPEAKERa very serious question must be asked.
51:24SPEAKERHave you tried a Tim Tam Slam?
51:26SPEAKER- Brad, are you familiar with the Slam?
51:27SPEAKERHave you slammed it?
51:28SPEAKER- I don't know what a Tim Tam Slam is,
51:30SPEAKERbut I fucking love Tim Tams so much.
51:32SPEAKERLike that might be my favorite like packaged cookie
51:34SPEAKERor very close to it.
51:35SPEAKER- Okay, so yeah, for people who don't know,
51:37SPEAKERthe Tim Tam is like, it's a chocolate covered pair of cookies
51:41SPEAKERwith some goo between them.
51:43SPEAKERAnd the Tim Tam Slam is a thing that they came up with
51:49SPEAKERwhere you bite a corner off of opposing corners
51:52SPEAKERof the cookie and then you dunk one end in coffee or tea
51:55SPEAKERand suck the coffee or tea up through the goo.
51:59SPEAKERIt makes the whole thing a real ooky, gooey mess.
52:02SPEAKERWe did a Tim Tam Slam on a tested mailbag video
52:06SPEAKERfor 100 years ago in the Whiskey Media basement,
52:09SPEAKERas I recall.
52:10SPEAKER- I might have to pull that up if that's still accessible.
52:11SPEAKER- I thought you might've had one at that point,
52:13SPEAKERbut maybe it was one or somebody else
52:15SPEAKERwas one of the other victims.
52:16SPEAKER- No, I came to Tim Tams relatively late.
52:19SPEAKERI have to, I've been a big, big props to Ed Tran,
52:21SPEAKERformerly of GameSpot Australia,
52:24SPEAKERwhen they would come to the office every year.
52:27SPEAKER- They'd bring you the Tim Tams?
52:28SPEAKER- He would bring a bunch of Australian snacks,
52:30SPEAKERincluding some Tim Tams and I'd,
52:34SPEAKERthey're so fucking good.
52:35SPEAKER- They're pretty good.
52:36SPEAKERThere's a fancy grocery store.
52:37SPEAKERSo if I'm ranking, I put the Stroopwafel
52:39SPEAKERabove the Tim Tam, I think.
52:40SPEAKER- That's also among foreign confectionaries.
52:42SPEAKERIt's like Tim Tams and Stroopwafels.
52:45SPEAKER- Yeah, putting the Stroopwafel on top of your hot coffee
52:47SPEAKERor tea and letting it kind of get soggy and soft
52:49SPEAKERis real good.
52:50SPEAKERBut the Tim Tams, I'm a fan,
52:56SPEAKERthey come in all sorts of different flavors.
52:57SPEAKERThey sell them at the fancy grocery store here in town by me.
52:59SPEAKERSo if you, and I think Andronico's used to have them too.
53:01SPEAKERI don't know if they still do.
53:03SPEAKER- I shouldn't know that.
53:04SPEAKER- It's good.
53:05SPEAKER- I'm better off not knowing that.
53:06SPEAKER- The occasional Tim Tam within the appropriate hours
53:09SPEAKERis a totally fine thing to snack on, Brad.
53:11SPEAKER- Occasional is the operative word there.
53:14SPEAKEREasier said than done.
53:15SPEAKER- I think that will wrap it up for us this week.
53:18SPEAKERIf you have a question,
53:19SPEAKERyou can send them to techbodycontent.town
53:21SPEAKERor post them in the Patreon only Discord
53:24SPEAKERto the Q's Seeking A's channel.
53:27SPEAKERWe appreciate everybody who supports the show.
53:29SPEAKERSo thank you all patrons.
53:31SPEAKER- Thank you.
53:32SPEAKER- But an extra special thank you.
53:34SPEAKEROh wait, no, this isn't the end of the month.
53:36SPEAKERI did that last.
53:37SPEAKERI'm so confused.
53:38SPEAKERUsually the end of the month is the thank everybody tier,
53:41SPEAKERbut usually the Q&A is the thank everyone tier,
53:43SPEAKERbut this month it's not.
53:45SPEAKERThis month we're gonna give a very special thank you
53:47SPEAKERto our executive producer tier patrons,
53:49SPEAKERincluding Nick Johnston,
53:50SPEAKERPaddle Creek Games' makers of Fractured Veil,
53:52SPEAKERAndrew Slosky, Jordan Lippett,
53:54SPEAKERLlama Magic, Just Wedge, Joel Krauska,
53:58SPEAKERTwinkle Twinkie, David Allen, James Kamik,
54:00SPEAKERand Pantheon, makers of the HS3 high-speed 3D printer.
54:04SPEAKERThank you all so, so much.
54:05SPEAKER- Yes, thank you.
54:06SPEAKER- And if you would like to find out how to support the show,
54:08SPEAKERyou can go to patreon.com/techbot.
54:12SPEAKERThis is the important thing that I almost forgot to do.
54:14SPEAKERAgain, it's patreon.com/techbot,
54:15SPEAKERand for five bucks a month you get access to the Discord.
54:18SPEAKERYou get the Patreon exclusive episode
54:19SPEAKERwhere Brad and I both,
54:21SPEAKERI'm gonna be honest,
54:22SPEAKERwe were both kind of delirious
54:23SPEAKERwhen we recorded that episode the other day.
54:24SPEAKER- The Patreon episode?
54:26SPEAKER- Yeah, I was--
54:26SPEAKER- Yeah, sure.
54:28SPEAKER- We had a conversation.
54:32SPEAKERLook, and you get access to the tech pod Discord,
54:34SPEAKERwhich is full of lovely people
54:36SPEAKERwho talk about an incredible range of things,
54:38SPEAKERlike people were sharing their Thanksgiving meals last week,
54:41SPEAKERpeople were always talking about building new computers
54:45SPEAKERand putting network gear in their house
54:47SPEAKERand doing home automation stuff,
54:49SPEAKERand it's a lovely place full of good, good nerds.
54:53SPEAKER- Yes, it absolutely is.
54:55SPEAKER- So, yeah, that'll do it for us.
54:56SPEAKERThanks, everybody, for listening.
54:57SPEAKERWe will see you all next week.