WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.060 Hello. I removed the label from the side of my 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:07.960 mattress. But stuff still happened. So what's 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:10.640 up? This is what happens when line only go up. 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:13.859 Last episode I talked a good bit about Nvidia 00:00:13.859 --> 00:00:16.579 being five trillion dollars and all the cross 00:00:16.579 --> 00:00:18.980 investments happening in the space of AI and 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:20.440 all the big tech companies that are spending 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:24.300 billions upon billions of dollars and how bubbly 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:27.170 it is. Guess what? Over the past week, Metta 00:00:27.170 --> 00:00:29.489 had their earnings report, and afterwards their 00:00:29.489 --> 00:00:32.969 stock plummeted 11%. This is because at the earnings 00:00:32.969 --> 00:00:35.049 call, essentially Zuckerberg was like, yeah, 00:00:35.049 --> 00:00:37.950 yeah, yeah, we're spending a bunch of money on 00:00:37.950 --> 00:00:39.950 building out data centers and AI and stuff, but 00:00:39.950 --> 00:00:43.070 here's the thing. We gotta do more of that. It's 00:00:43.070 --> 00:00:45.549 okay, because he went on to explain why they 00:00:45.549 --> 00:00:47.630 have to do more of that. The explanation was, 00:00:48.409 --> 00:00:50.310 because. They're like, look, we're building a 00:00:50.310 --> 00:00:51.649 lot of cool things that are gonna make us a lot 00:00:51.649 --> 00:00:54.429 of money, but we need to keep building out infrastructure 00:00:54.429 --> 00:00:57.539 in the meantime, so that we can do that in the 00:00:57.539 --> 00:01:00.280 future to get the money that we think we're going 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.560 to get. It's that classic, like, third degree 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.439 of made -up money. Anyway, investors didn't love 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.760 that, and MetaStock showed it. It lost 11 % in 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.799 a day, almost 13 % over the week. They're very 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.140 happy that the weekend hit. Now, it may continue 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:15.680 to crash, or it may have just been a correction, 00:01:15.780 --> 00:01:18.519 but let's talk about another player here, OpenAI 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.349 and Sam Altman. The alternate man is the CEO 00:01:21.349 --> 00:01:24.030 of OpenAI, which is the company that makes ChatGPT. 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:26.829 He's essentially the poster boy for AI in America. 00:01:26.969 --> 00:01:29.310 And he's perfect for the role of poster boy of 00:01:29.310 --> 00:01:32.790 AI because all he does is make shit up and lie 00:01:32.790 --> 00:01:36.010 about how good AI is. OpenAI is looking at over 00:01:36.010 --> 00:01:39.109 a trillion dollars of spending commitment in 00:01:39.109 --> 00:01:42.250 all the deals that they've made to spend on infrastructure. 00:01:42.670 --> 00:01:46.189 They're not making a trillion dollars. They're 00:01:46.189 --> 00:01:48.829 not making a trillion dollars. They lose money. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.140 on every dollar they get right now. They're like 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:54.700 three dollars out for every dollar in. To hit 00:01:54.700 --> 00:01:56.680 the revenue targets to be able to do the spending 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:58.939 that they're talking about doing, they need to 00:01:58.939 --> 00:02:02.519 increase revenue by nearly three thousand percent 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:08.539 by 2029. Otherwise, oops, all the while, AI is 00:02:08.539 --> 00:02:10.759 not actually doing all that much. A bunch of 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.740 companies have been trying to roll out AI and 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:14.599 haven't really figured out how to stick the landing. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.439 If you're not specifically a tech company who 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.639 is specifically building around AI, it doesn't 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.979 really make sense for adoption. Yes, there are 00:02:22.979 --> 00:02:25.259 companies that have like bet big on AI and they 00:02:25.259 --> 00:02:28.419 have gone gangbusters. And they are very few 00:02:28.419 --> 00:02:31.219 and far between when compared to all of the companies 00:02:31.219 --> 00:02:34.039 that have been told to use AI everywhere. Welcome 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.620 to my steel factory. We're an AI first steel 00:02:36.620 --> 00:02:40.000 factory. That's Raul over there. He's an artificial 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.860 intelligence now. Say hi, Rahul. And so here 00:02:42.860 --> 00:02:45.400 we are with hundreds of billions of dollars being 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.960 spent back and forth, building out infrastructures, 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.819 building a ton of data centers to support something 00:02:51.819 --> 00:02:56.520 so that AI will do something so that will make 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:00.900 revenue from the product, which is something. 00:03:01.050 --> 00:03:03.909 Sam Altman keeps promising artificial general 00:03:03.909 --> 00:03:06.710 intelligence as the end goal here, and all these 00:03:06.710 --> 00:03:09.430 companies are scrambling to try to reach that, 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:13.370 presumably? But that's not a thing. It is somewhere 00:03:13.370 --> 00:03:16.710 between eating up their own hype about what AI 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:20.449 actually is, and knowing that they're lying about 00:03:20.449 --> 00:03:23.069 what AI actually is. But what we effectively 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.250 have are a bunch of tech CEOs trying to sell 00:03:26.250 --> 00:03:29.210 the world's biggest case of snake oil. They have 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:30.770 a whole bunch of investors on the line saying, 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:33.229 just put your faith in us. We're gonna make this 00:03:33.229 --> 00:03:35.650 happen. This is real, we promise. While year 00:03:35.650 --> 00:03:37.550 after year, these companies are increasing their 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:40.229 operational expenditures, and it doesn't look 00:03:40.229 --> 00:03:42.389 sustainable. And here's the problem with trying 00:03:42.389 --> 00:03:45.930 to con an entire planet. You can't quite skip 00:03:45.930 --> 00:03:48.229 town. Anyway, what else is up? Dear listener, 00:03:48.469 --> 00:03:50.949 it's the next morning. I record usually the night 00:03:50.949 --> 00:03:53.710 before so that I can edit and post the next day, 00:03:53.750 --> 00:03:57.229 and that's my fault. It's on me that things happen 00:03:57.229 --> 00:04:00.909 because I record saying one thing and that ensures 00:04:00.909 --> 00:04:03.370 that that's not gonna happen. So as I was recording 00:04:03.370 --> 00:04:05.210 yesterday I said that the government shutdown 00:04:05.210 --> 00:04:08.370 does not appear to be ending anytime soon and 00:04:08.370 --> 00:04:10.930 then eight Senate Democrats decided to side with 00:04:10.930 --> 00:04:13.270 Republicans to move forward with ending the shutdown 00:04:13.270 --> 00:04:17.329 with no concession. This right after a massive 00:04:17.329 --> 00:04:20.290 victory for the Democrats and basically a mandate. 00:04:20.459 --> 00:04:23.300 for being progressive. The Democrat senators 00:04:23.300 --> 00:04:26.420 who are voting to cave are all in safe seats. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.500 Nothing that's up for reelection soon. Which 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:30.019 means that's almost definitely what the plan 00:04:30.019 --> 00:04:32.319 was. This is what happens in politics. They pick 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:34.740 who's going to fall on the sword based on the 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:36.500 current political landscape. So I just want to 00:04:36.500 --> 00:04:38.779 be clear that the government's not going to reopen 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:40.899 immediately. There's still procedure that has 00:04:40.899 --> 00:04:44.079 to happen. So like, hang on. I also want to say 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.779 this about voting because I tried to endorse 00:04:46.779 --> 00:04:49.639 the idea of voting before all this happened and 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:51.779 I'm now seeing a whole lot of people saying like 00:04:51.779 --> 00:04:53.439 I'm done with voting forever. So I want to talk 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.560 about that real quick. My stance on voting remains 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.939 that it is the minimum viable participation. 00:04:58.220 --> 00:05:01.040 Voting is not a big deal, and it is not the end 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.620 of your ability to impact the world we live in. 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:05.560 It's a thing that happens every once in a while, 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.459 and you check a box, and then you go back to 00:05:07.459 --> 00:05:10.000 doing meaningful work. Because we don't vote 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.860 our way out of the situation we find ourselves 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:14.040 in. We have to work to create the conditions 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.600 that undermine the systems in place that are 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.279 keeping us down. A lot of people are saying that 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:19.920 they'll never vote for the Democrats ever again, 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.339 and like, I'm not a Democrat, I don't give a 00:05:21.339 --> 00:05:23.060 shit who you vote for, but consider the following. 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:27.259 It might be a lot easier to take over the Dem 00:05:27.259 --> 00:05:30.600 Party from within than to go third party. Now 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:32.240 there's a lot of ways to go about doing things, 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:34.680 but if you look at what happened with the GOP, 00:05:34.939 --> 00:05:37.500 MAGA essentially took over the existing party. 00:05:37.699 --> 00:05:39.540 And we've seen from Mamdani that a progressive 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:42.819 can trounce an election as a Democrat. So like, 00:05:43.019 --> 00:05:45.819 might as well just pick up the infrastructure 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:48.720 and name recognition that they've got. and run 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.600 with it. So look, I'm not a registered Democrat 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.300 and I would actually recommend that if you are 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:55.740 in a relatively safe blue state and especially 00:05:55.740 --> 00:05:58.779 a state that has open primaries, if you're a 00:05:58.779 --> 00:06:00.360 registered Democrat and you're fucking pissed, 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.100 just switch to independent. Those numbers will 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:05.620 terrify them. Seeing people change their party 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:08.459 registration will terrify them and show them 00:06:08.459 --> 00:06:11.300 that they need to fucking change. Because establishment 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:13.220 Democrats want to do everything they can to change 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:16.180 exactly nothing because they don't want to disrupt 00:06:16.509 --> 00:06:18.930 what they've set up for themselves, which is 00:06:18.930 --> 00:06:21.889 a non -stop flow of donor funds. But if you make 00:06:21.889 --> 00:06:24.709 it overtly clear that they'll lose even the ability 00:06:24.709 --> 00:06:28.009 to get donor funds at all, they might actually 00:06:28.009 --> 00:06:30.110 do something. Or better yet, primary the fuck 00:06:30.110 --> 00:06:32.329 out of them. And better yet than that, primary 00:06:32.329 --> 00:06:34.709 the fuck out of them and then vote to completely 00:06:34.709 --> 00:06:37.329 change the entirety of how our government is 00:06:37.329 --> 00:06:39.930 structured because this is fucked and not working 00:06:39.930 --> 00:06:43.430 for anyone. Now let's move on. This past Tuesday 00:06:43.430 --> 00:06:46.189 in the United States of America, we had our elections 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:50.209 and it was a Democrat blowout. Democrats outperformed 00:06:50.209 --> 00:06:52.870 across the board. In basically every state, there's 00:06:52.870 --> 00:06:55.310 a narrative on the right saying that it's just 00:06:55.310 --> 00:06:58.899 a night where Dems won in Dem states. That's 00:06:58.899 --> 00:07:00.920 not true. When you dig down into the data, when 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.519 you dig down into the margins of victory, it 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.199 is a bleak picture for the Republican Party. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.920 And then, of course, in addition to Dems just 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.240 overperforming everywhere, Zoran Mamdani is now 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.600 the mayor of New York City, or will be on January 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.379 1st. He's the mayor -elect. Mamdani, you might 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:21.870 know him as a horrifying... terrorist who's going 00:07:21.870 --> 00:07:25.329 to destroy the entire country now that he got 00:07:25.329 --> 00:07:28.370 the popular support from people in his city to 00:07:28.370 --> 00:07:33.069 make him the mayor. That guy. And he's also a 00:07:33.069 --> 00:07:36.029 goober. Mamdani got over a million votes for 00:07:36.029 --> 00:07:38.050 mayor of New York City. The city has a little 00:07:38.050 --> 00:07:40.689 over 8 million people living there. Not all of 00:07:40.689 --> 00:07:43.209 them can vote or will vote. The million vote 00:07:43.209 --> 00:07:45.310 threshold in the New York City mayoral election 00:07:45.310 --> 00:07:47.850 is like, it's a goalpost. If you can hit that, 00:07:47.990 --> 00:07:51.060 that's a mandate. It's rare to see and it's honestly 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:53.800 incredible given that Zoran Mamdani was running 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.439 against his own fucking party. He beat Andrew 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:58.959 Cuomo in the primary. Cuomo then turned around 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.879 and ran as an independent and enjoyed endorsements 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.459 from Democrats and Republicans alike. Billionaires 00:08:04.459 --> 00:08:06.439 and establishment politicians worked overtime 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:09.660 to try to undermine Mamdani's campaign and it 00:08:09.660 --> 00:08:12.420 didn't work. Billionaires dumped millions of 00:08:12.420 --> 00:08:15.439 dollars into trying to go against this guy who 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.399 just kind of smiles and is relatable. Oh, and 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.720 his policy is about addressing the cost of living 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.920 crisis, that thing that affects us all. And so 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.019 we've got Andrew Cuomo, who basically was trying 00:08:27.019 --> 00:08:30.120 to run on a platform of I'm Andrew Cuomo, and 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.919 then later turned his platform into Zorad Mamdani 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:35.460 is going to do 9 -11 again. I guess it didn't 00:08:35.460 --> 00:08:38.269 resonate with voters as much as like, hey, you 00:08:38.269 --> 00:08:40.309 shouldn't have to pay like half of your income 00:08:40.309 --> 00:08:42.330 for rent. But regardless, conservatives are having 00:08:42.330 --> 00:08:44.690 a very normal one about it as they are advocating 00:08:44.690 --> 00:08:47.730 for denaturalizing and deporting him, just stripping 00:08:47.730 --> 00:08:50.389 him of his citizenship. They've come up with 00:08:50.389 --> 00:08:53.009 some story about how he like lied on his paperwork 00:08:53.009 --> 00:08:55.250 or something and therefore they should be able 00:08:55.250 --> 00:08:58.110 to remove the citizenship of a duly elected official 00:08:58.110 --> 00:09:00.210 and deport him from the country, despite these 00:09:00.210 --> 00:09:02.470 people also hating cities. Mondani's platform 00:09:02.470 --> 00:09:04.570 is essentially just like bring New York City 00:09:04.570 --> 00:09:08.039 to on par with most other major cities in the 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.419 world that have like accessible public transport 00:09:10.419 --> 00:09:13.419 and services. Maybe like invest in the working 00:09:13.419 --> 00:09:16.759 class a little bit. Maybe. Let's talk about UPS 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.820 and Fireball. In the early evening of this past 00:09:19.820 --> 00:09:22.399 Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky, a UPS -run 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.759 aircraft crashed and exploded. All three crew 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.940 members on board and at least 11 people on the 00:09:26.940 --> 00:09:30.200 ground were killed in a dramatic explosion. What 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.340 we know about the crash is that right after they 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:35.840 started doing their takeoff procedure, one of 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.940 the engines straight up fell off and started 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:41.559 dragging along and sparked a fire and then a 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.940 few seconds later, boom. The plane crashed right 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:46.460 through two nearby businesses absolutely annihilating 00:09:46.460 --> 00:09:49.320 them. It's really tragic. It's really fucked 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.259 up. We don't know all the specifics, like we 00:09:51.259 --> 00:09:53.759 know what exactly happened in terms of causing 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:55.700 the crash, but we don't know what conditions 00:09:55.700 --> 00:09:58.159 led to this happening. There's an investigation 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.320 ongoing and it's gonna take a while, likely months 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.480 if not longer. In the meantime, UPS and FedEx 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.919 have grounded all of the aircraft of that same 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.690 variety. It was an MD -11. But speaking of grounding 00:10:08.690 --> 00:10:12.110 aircrafts, the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, 00:10:12.429 --> 00:10:14.669 has announced that they're going to start restricting 00:10:14.669 --> 00:10:18.009 commercial airline usage in America as long as 00:10:18.009 --> 00:10:20.210 the government shut down. If you had travel plans, 00:10:20.990 --> 00:10:23.389 I'm very sorry. The FAA straight up came out 00:10:23.389 --> 00:10:27.460 and said, hey. Airlines. You need to cut 4 % 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:29.220 of your flights. And we're going to ramp that 00:10:29.220 --> 00:10:32.019 up over time until you need to cut 10 % of your 00:10:32.019 --> 00:10:34.559 flights starting on November 14th. So we're already 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.299 seeing hundreds of flights cancelled. It's going 00:10:36.299 --> 00:10:38.320 to get up into the thousands of flights cancelled. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.840 The only thing that comes close to this level 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.639 of impact to air travel in the States was the 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.700 beginning of COVID. Now this is happening because 00:10:45.700 --> 00:10:47.860 of the government shutdown, air traffic controllers 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:49.299 aren't getting paid because they're government 00:10:49.299 --> 00:10:52.059 employees, and not having air traffic controllers 00:10:52.059 --> 00:10:54.639 being paid makes for dangerous airspace, and 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:57.059 the FAA is using that as a bargaining chip to 00:10:57.059 --> 00:10:58.860 try to tip the scales and make the government 00:10:58.860 --> 00:11:01.700 shutdown more risky to continue politically. 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:05.480 Because doing that with our food stamps wasn't 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.299 enough. The government is actively arguing to 00:11:08.299 --> 00:11:11.929 claw back Food stamp money? And say, hey, states, 00:11:12.129 --> 00:11:14.429 states who tried to help people get food, undo 00:11:14.429 --> 00:11:17.169 that. While the FAA is like, nope, can't travel. 00:11:17.509 --> 00:11:19.289 Fuck your Thanksgiving. So we're having a real 00:11:19.289 --> 00:11:22.789 normal one over here stateside. Unrelated, does 00:11:22.789 --> 00:11:25.769 anyone have a flat and need a roommate anywhere 00:11:25.769 --> 00:11:28.230 else? I've got a dog. Let's talk about the state 00:11:28.230 --> 00:11:30.649 of things in Gaza. It's been a handful of episodes 00:11:30.649 --> 00:11:32.029 since I've talked about Gaza. I just want to 00:11:32.029 --> 00:11:33.830 give an update. There was the ceasefire that 00:11:33.830 --> 00:11:36.429 we saw. I'm going to put that in huge air quotes. 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.820 That was me doing air quotes. Since the ceasefire 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:42.340 between Israel and Gaza was announced, surprise 00:11:42.340 --> 00:11:45.100 Israel has been bombing Gaza. They've been shooting 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:49.080 and shelling all over Gaza. On the 28th of October, 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.460 they killed hundreds of people with airstrikes. 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:54.480 Israel's justification for this is that they 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:57.740 were responding to activity from Hamas. They 00:11:57.740 --> 00:11:59.679 provided no evidence. I feel like I don't even 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.360 need to say that at this point. The ceasefire 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.600 agreement was supposed to allow 600 trucks of 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.399 aid a day into Gaza, and that's not happening. 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:08.320 It's more like a hundred a day. That's because 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.700 the Israeli military is preventing the aid from 00:12:10.700 --> 00:12:12.519 actually making its way in, and they haven't 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.399 opened all the ports of crossing that they said 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.179 they would open. And so food, medicine, and fuel 00:12:17.179 --> 00:12:20.220 is just languishing in warehouses, not making 00:12:20.220 --> 00:12:22.149 its way into the people who need it. Meanwhile, 00:12:22.309 --> 00:12:24.809 in Israel there is political turmoil. It's not 00:12:24.809 --> 00:12:27.090 because of what I just said, it is instead because 00:12:27.090 --> 00:12:30.389 of leaked footage of a brutal sexual assault 00:12:30.389 --> 00:12:33.070 of a Palestinian prisoner at the hands of the 00:12:33.070 --> 00:12:36.029 IDF. A top Israeli official leaked this video 00:12:36.029 --> 00:12:39.860 showing soldiers brutalizing a man. I'm not going 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:41.539 to even describe it. The response to the leaked 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:44.419 footage was not to say this is unacceptable and 00:12:44.419 --> 00:12:47.000 we're going to clean ranks in our army, it was 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.639 to criticize the leaker. Netanyahu's assessment 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.759 of the situation is that this is a huge public 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.879 relations attack on Israel by way of showing 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.179 the world what Israel does to its prisoners. 00:12:57.539 --> 00:13:01.600 I don't have the capacity to reconcile this level 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.419 of repugnance. So let's talk about video games. 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.379 I need a change of subject. True fans of my work 00:13:07.379 --> 00:13:09.740 would know that back at the end of 2024, I put 00:13:09.740 --> 00:13:12.200 up a video giving a handful of predictions of 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.779 what would happen this year. One of those has 00:13:14.779 --> 00:13:17.279 come true. Roll the clip. We've been told that 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:21.039 GTA 6 is for sure coming out in 2025. This is 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:22.639 an easy one. I don't think that's happening. 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.679 Now, that was the easiest prediction, like, of 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.149 all time, but I'm right. GTA 6 has been delayed 00:13:29.149 --> 00:13:31.909 effectively a year. It'll now come out on November 00:13:31.909 --> 00:13:36.509 19th, 2026. Sorry, let me rephrase that. It'll 00:13:36.509 --> 00:13:39.450 now be delayed again, some time before November 00:13:39.450 --> 00:13:44.450 19th, 2026. All the while, Squeenix is squeening 00:13:44.450 --> 00:13:46.889 up. What? Square Enix is doing a bunch of layoffs. 00:13:46.990 --> 00:13:48.549 They are laying off a bunch of people in the 00:13:48.549 --> 00:13:50.929 US and the UK as they're consolidating their 00:13:50.929 --> 00:13:53.950 development efforts in Japan. Notably, in the 00:13:53.950 --> 00:13:55.370 same presentation where they announced these 00:13:55.370 --> 00:13:57.500 layoffs, They also said that they're trying to 00:13:57.500 --> 00:14:01.580 move towards having AI cover 70 % of their quality 00:14:01.580 --> 00:14:03.779 assurance work in the next handful of years. 00:14:04.059 --> 00:14:06.340 That's a bad idea. That's a bad idea. That's 00:14:06.340 --> 00:14:09.059 a bad idea. It's not a good one. But lastly, 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:14.259 they truly did the switch again. I want to preface 00:14:14.259 --> 00:14:16.120 this by just saying this is not me glazing, this 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.820 is just... Reading statistics. The Nintendo Switch 00:14:18.820 --> 00:14:21.820 2 is like the strongest console launch in history. 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:23.779 Nintendo put out sales numbers recently showing 00:14:23.779 --> 00:14:27.139 that the Switch 2 has sold over 10 million units 00:14:27.139 --> 00:14:29.139 in its first four months. By comparison, the 00:14:29.139 --> 00:14:32.679 PS5 took twice as long to sell less than that. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.320 Granted, the PS5 had a lot of supply chain issues 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.159 at the start of its launch. But Nintendo has 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:40.080 had to continuously increase their sales projections 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.259 as they've been outperforming sales this whole 00:14:42.259 --> 00:14:44.919 time. Now... I know there's a lot of people who 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:46.899 are really upset about the Switch 2. They are 00:14:46.899 --> 00:14:48.679 upset about its pricing, they're upset about 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.519 the game pricing, they're upset about the technical 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.200 capabilities, they're upset about many different 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.159 things. And I'm not telling you that you're wrong 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:57.919 for wanting more from Nintendo, or wanting Nintendo 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:59.919 to not be such a shitty company. Because they 00:14:59.919 --> 00:15:02.840 are very litigious, and very greedy. And there 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:04.659 was a lot of argument before the Switch 2's launch 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:06.679 that people should push back against buying a 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:08.639 Switch 2 or something like that, but like... 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.480 This was always going to happen. A lot of people 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.779 have a Switch, and therefore have a games library. 00:15:14.100 --> 00:15:16.720 The Switch is also aging out. Its hardware wasn't 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.960 particularly good when it came out, and it's 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.340 now like a decade old. So there's a lot of people 00:15:21.340 --> 00:15:23.639 with a games library, and here comes Nintendo 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.600 saying, hey, it's a Switch, but again, and now 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.100 can do 4K output, and it plays all your games. 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.840 Here you go. Yeah, that was gonna, that was gonna 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.759 fly off the fucking shelves. Lightning round. 00:15:35.220 --> 00:15:37.379 Reminder, lithium ion batteries sometimes just 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:40.679 like... explode, and a dude in an airport in 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.940 Australia had that happen to him, and he caught 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:45.980 fire. Sorry, my guy. If you live in Paris, you 00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:48.139 can apparently now make a donation to try to 00:15:48.139 --> 00:15:51.860 restore an old gravestone in city limits, and 00:15:51.860 --> 00:15:53.980 you'd get a chance at getting your own grave 00:15:53.980 --> 00:15:56.340 plot in city limits. There's like a very limited 00:15:56.340 --> 00:15:58.299 number of plots available, and they want to restore 00:15:58.299 --> 00:16:00.700 gravestones, so they're like, hey, we'll auction 00:16:00.700 --> 00:16:03.320 off some grave plots if you want to give some 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:05.779 money. I want to be buried in Paris. Denmark 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:08.419 has become the latest country to pass a law banning 00:16:08.419 --> 00:16:11.480 social media for users under the age of 15. And 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:13.320 finally for today, scientists are doing research 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.360 into how to create textual descriptions of what 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.120 someone is looking at based on brain scans. Neat! 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.500 Neat! Neat! Thank you so much for listening to 00:16:22.500 --> 00:16:24.379 today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head 00:16:24.379 --> 00:16:28.019 to skh .news for sources, bonus content, and 00:16:28.019 --> 00:16:30.460 a textual description of what I'm looking at 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:32.980 based on my brain scan. My name is Endeavorance, 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.580 we'll talk again soon, take care, and be well.