1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:05,920 I stole a map to the Grand Line, but stuff still happens. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,840 So what's up? It's strike time. 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,120 The United Auto Workers are on strike as of this morning. 5 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,120 If you haven't heard, the UAW in America has been threatening a strike 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,240 if they couldn't reach a contract with the big three automakers. 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:22,160 That's Ford, GM, and Stellantis, which is Jeep and Chrysler. 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,200 The UAW cites the ridiculously high raises that the CEOs of these companies have gotten, 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:32,000 the record profits that they've gotten, and virtually none of that is going to the workers. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,680 In fact, less than none of that. They're making less money now than they were before. 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,840 What they are asking for amounts to a fraction of one year of net profit from these companies 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,440 paid out over multiple years. They can absolutely afford it. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:50,640 But the automobile industry is like, oh no, but my profits, I need those to do stock buybacks. 14 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Because we can't possibly benefit our workers when we have investors to enrich. 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,360 This is healthy. This is a good way to do business. 16 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,760 Please be cautious. I am already seeing headlines and narratives from corporate media outlets 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,960 talking about how this is just so dangerous and these workers are 18 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:08,000 endangering the economy, which is going to affect normal people. 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,640 These damn workers and their greed for wanting to be able to afford rent and groceries. 20 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,120 They're the problem. Be mad at them. Solidarity always. 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,320 Y'all, this unity shit is getting out of control. 22 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,280 All right, I talked about this on my last episode, but a really quick recap. 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,280 Unity, it's a popular game engine and they recently announced a new pricing structure 24 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,720 that would charge developers per install of a game. 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,640 They have since made some clarifications. 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,200 I would make air quotes, but I'm using both my hands. 27 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,240 The clarifications did not really help their situation. 28 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,800 They basically just doubled down on their new pricing structure. 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,880 A bunch of developers. Scratch that. 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,200 The entire fucking games industry is dunking on Unity right now. 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,240 It's also kind of actually dangerous. 32 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,640 A lot of developers are pulling out and saying we have to stop development of our game 33 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,360 because there's like no way we can move forward like this. 34 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,120 It's gotten so wild that yesterday, 35 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,480 Unity had to close their offices because they received death threats. 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,040 This is your reminder to not send death threats to random employees of companies. 37 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,240 They're not the ones making these decisions, typically. 38 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,640 But I'm not trying to paint Unity in a sympathetic light here. 39 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,400 They're pulling some bullshit. Game development takes years to do. 40 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Even in a fully staffed office full of people who are professional game developers 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,160 doing it for 40 plus hours a week, usually closer to 60 or 80 hours a week, 42 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,640 it takes years to actually ship a game. 43 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,440 And so there are studios who are using Unity under a 44 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,680 assumption that they were going to have the same pay structure they started with. 45 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,440 And then Unity is like, psych, we're changing the rules on you. 46 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,200 And despite that, despite the years of effort, some developers are already saying, 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,560 I can't trust you anymore. 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,520 We're going to stop development and start over on a different engine. 49 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,360 If you've ever played the game Slay the Spire, 50 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,880 their developers literally put out a public statement that ended with, 51 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,600 we have never made a public statement before. 52 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,520 That is how badly you fucked up. 53 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,560 And here's a kicker. 54 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,800 It turns out that Unity executives sold a bunch of stock right before this announcement. 55 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:01,040 So... 56 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,440 All right, I'll talk about the aliens now. 57 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,200 A lot of people have been asking me to talk about aliens. 58 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,240 There's been a lot of alien news recently, like a lot of alien news recently, 59 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,600 and I haven't really talked about it. 60 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,960 Most recently, a researcher in Mexico claims to have alien bodies 61 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,960 that he showed to the Mexican Congress. 62 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,360 And previously, there were those like alien hearings, those UFO hearings in America. 63 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,160 Okay, hold on. 64 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,280 I'm going to be clear. 65 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,120 It's probably not aliens. 66 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,040 That doesn't mean it's not aliens. 67 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,880 I have no reason to say one way or the other. 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,120 Really, it's just not a thing I think about very often. 69 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,720 You know, the existence of aliens or not is not going to change anything major in my life. 70 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Like, whether or not aliens exist isn't going to change who I'm romancing in Baldur's Gate 3. 71 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:39,760 Love you, Karla. 72 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,800 Anyway, the alien bodies shown in Mexico were already proven to be false. 73 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,360 This guy has made a lot of false claims in the past, 74 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,520 and these things don't hold up to muster. 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,480 Like, no. 76 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:49,680 It's like fucked up mummies. 77 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:50,880 Fake. 78 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,120 But as for like the stuff in America, 79 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,320 NASA has been doing research into sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, 80 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,520 and they've been trying to come up with answers for like what the hell these things are. 81 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,080 And they have since put out a report that just came out yesterday, recently, 82 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,360 that basically says, but more specifically, it says, look, okay, 83 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,640 here are some examples of sightings and what we think they are. 84 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,080 We think that a lot of the cases are just bad readings. 85 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,640 Specifically, some of them are just like commercial airliners that were miscalculated, 86 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,800 and some of them were just actual balloons floating in a wind, like made total sense. 87 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,120 However, there are still some things that they're like, we don't know what the hell this is. 88 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,120 We have no reason to believe it is aliens, but we also don't know what it is. 89 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,400 Their official stance is essentially, we're not saying it's not aliens, 90 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,400 but we're also not saying that aliens don't exist. 91 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,520 Like, we're looking into it. 92 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,520 We want to find aliens, but we're going to need more resources and like, 93 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,560 we want to find conclusive evidence that says this is totally, 94 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,040 definitely aliens before we say it's aliens. 95 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:49,920 So like, get hype. 96 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:51,040 Like, this is cool. 97 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,960 NASA is potentially going to get more funding and starting off a whole research program 98 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,400 to try to find aliens and whatnot. 99 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:57,520 And like, yo, that rules. 100 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,360 But in this case, so far, we just like don't, we don't have it. 101 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,600 The hope is still alive, dear viewer. 102 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,280 One day, you might find yourself clapping alien cheeks. 103 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:08,560 Bill Maher sucks. 104 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,960 We already knew he sucked and now he's a scab. 105 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,960 Your boy Bill is joining Drew Barrymore in bringing his show back to air, 106 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,000 despite the striking writers saying, what the fuck, don't do that. 107 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,800 And again, he's also saying like, nah, it's okay that I'm doing this. 108 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,960 I'll just not do my scripted monologue. 109 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:23,920 It's fine. 110 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,560 In reality, he's just a greedy piece of shit and he is a fucking scab. 111 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,480 But like, I'm also super not shocked. 112 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,240 We've known that he's a piece of shit for a while. 113 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,520 On this day in 1916, during the Battle of Sum in the First World War, 114 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,560 tanks were deployed to the battlefield for the first time. 115 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,240 I should be clear, they were deployed. 116 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,880 They didn't go great, but they were deployed. 117 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,600 God, this new technology is always so unreliable. 118 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,800 Lightning Ram, the author of the popular comic book series Fables, 119 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,560 has entered his work into the public domain to undermine DC 120 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,640 trying to pull some dumb bullshit against him. 121 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,600 DC the comic company, not the, but the politicians. 122 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,400 Hunter Biden has been formally indicted with three charges, 123 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,680 including lying about drug use while obtaining a firearm. 124 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,760 This one just says that a dude found 20 rattlesnakes in his garage. 125 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:10,480 The fuck? 126 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,480 Elon Musk has finally budged and has acknowledged the workers that he laid off 127 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,800 and promised severance and then never paid. 128 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,720 They've been trying to sue him for a while and his legal team has just been stonewalling them 129 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,360 and now he's finally going to kind of talk to them. 130 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,920 Mitt Romney announced that he will not be seeking re-election. 131 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,680 Take a hint, everyone else. 132 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,760 A gay couple in Kentucky that was famously denied a marriage license from a county clerk 133 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,960 has been awarded $100,000 in damages. 134 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,240 Unfortunately, another gay couple who was also denied was awarded nothing, 135 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,320 but update on that story. 136 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,280 Yay, I think. 137 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,800 MGM and other Vegas resorts have been hit by a massive cybersecurity attack 138 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,960 that has basically ground them to a halt. 139 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,760 It apparently took only like 10 minutes and a bit of social engineering 140 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,320 from a hacker group to just completely take them down. 141 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,240 And finally for today, TikTok is embracing the fact that more and more people are using it 142 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,920 for search and they're including stuff like Wikipedia in their search results. 143 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,920 That is how bad Google is now. 144 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,560 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 145 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,560 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, 146 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,040 and quite literally, I just posted some bonus content. 147 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,400 My name is Endeavorance. 148 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,000 I'll be back on Monday. 149 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:35,360 Take care and be well.