Hello. I crossed a few things off of my list,
but stuff still happened. So what's up? I want
you to know up front, this episode is structured
such that all the rough stuff is up front, and
then it just kind of gets a little lighter there
out. So stick with me. Hey, here we go. Hey,
it's Next Day Dev. It's the same guy next day.
There's a lot that happened over the past...
few days that's pretty horrific as i just said
lots of bad stuff up front it gets better as
it goes i'm actually re -recording this introduction
because i wanted to just add in some more stuff
real quick so let's just quick overview of some
of the really rough things that happened recently
in australia at bondi beach there was a mass
shooting at a hanukkah celebration very obviously
a targeted attack against jews uh it's horrific
And this is not a thing that happens outside
of like the US particularly frequently. So it's
pretty shocking to say the least. However, among
the mess of this situation, there is a hero that
people are celebrating. Ahmed Al Ahmed, who ran
in and disarmed one of the shooters. He took
two bullets while doing so and saved who knows
how many people. Now, I've seen some weird takes
online about people criticizing the guy for not
taking the gun that he just took from the shooter
and using it to kill the shooter who he just
disarmed. He disarmed him. Not everything needs
to be solved by shooting somebody with a gun.
Or if it was me, I would have shot the guy. Cool.
Enjoy the trauma. Like here's a man who just
disarmed someone to save lives and you're criticizing
him for not having taken a life. Thankfully,
that's a very small minority of people. Let's
talk about Rob Reiner. This literally just kind
of happened overnight. Rob Reiner, the famed
movie director who directed Princess Bride, was
found dead, him and his wife, in his home in
an apparent homicide. We really don't know a
whole lot more just yet. That's a thing. There
was also a shooting at Brown University here
in the States. The shooter is still at large,
despite the president of our country. stating
publicly that the shooter was captured. That
was not true. That was not true. There's been
an ongoing war in Sudan for years that's been
causing a massive humanitarian crisis, possibly
the biggest ever. But recently, the RSF, one
of the major militias in the area that's basically
backed by the UAE, slaughtered 60 ,000 people
in one town over the course of just a few weeks.
It's so significant that aid groups can't even
get aid there because it's too dangerous. Over
100 ,000 people are still unaccounted for from
all of that. It's a massive crisis, and there's
not a whole lot we can do, which makes me feel
very powerless, and I'm sure it makes you feel
very powerless as well. It's important to know
that these are things that are happening, but
it's also important to remember that we can't
just fix it. That is the problem with being a
human. So the first step is being aware that
these things are happening. And the next step
is making sure folks in your life know as well.
It's never a comfortable conversation to have,
but we won't ever have change until people are
actually aware of how the world works. Thanks
for getting through that with me. Let's move
on. I promise it gets better. It's going to be
rough first, but then it gets better. So the
US government under President Trump and his just...
gaggle of ghouls have been chasing down people
in the streets who are not white and demanding
immigration papers and then taking them to makeshift
prisons. Often there's just no due process whatsoever.
Sometimes they're showing up at a courthouse
where someone's trying to do their immigration
meeting and they get arrested and thrown into
a prison. Prisons that have basically no oversight.
And in the case of the infamous alligator Alcatraz
in Florida, Worse oversight than a standard ICE
facility. Because Alligator Alcatraz, which is
actually the Everglades detention facility, is
not a federal facility. It's a state facility.
The state of Florida is using funds from FEMA
to build a concentration camp. And the reports
coming out of there are horrific. Now, before
I get into that, you might be confused because
there was a big story about how a judge had ordered
for Alligator Alcatraz to be shut down. That
didn't happen. because that order was shut down.
So it's been a thing, and it's still a thing.
Inside the facility are cages packed with 32
people to a cage. Mosquitoes are running rampant.
There's basically no working plumbing, so feces
are just spilling out of the toilets and seeping
everywhere. One of the most eye -popping things
to come out of this is literal torture. There's
apparently a thing called the box that's like
a tiny metal cage that inmates at this facility
get strapped into, shackled to, and left out
in the elements for hours up to a day at a time.
That is torture. That's torture. It does not
matter anything about anyone's legal immigration
status. This is not acceptable. Even the most
self -serving take on this should be that, hey,
Maybe the government shouldn't have the ability
to do this to people who have not been found
guilty of a crime. Being brown and here at the
same time and found by an ICE officer while doing
so is not a crime. Meanwhile, over in Texas at
Fort Bliss, there's been reports of abuse, sexual
abuse, and even forcing detainees to climb over
the border wall to secretly deport them. One
teenager from that facility was taken to the
hospital after guards beat and abused him so
badly that he had broken teeth and severe testicular
trauma. I don't think that's helping our country.
Anyway, the Department of Homeland Security's
response is, nuh -uh. Here's a quote from the
DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin. Quote,
any claim that there are inhumane conditions
at ICE detention centers are categorically false.
No detainees are being beaten or abused. Remember
the hospitalized inmate? Anyway, moving on, continuing
the quote. Quote, no lawbreakers in the history
of civilization have been treated better than
illegal aliens in the United States. get a grip.
I don't want to just sit here and say that these
people are overtly evil. I also don't know what
takeaway we're supposed to have besides that.
I have watched every day as human lives have
been destroyed and I've been told by our officials
to not care about that. And then I see people
who are supporting this saying, ha ha, that's
what I voted for. They need to do worse things
to these people. Like, hey, that's awful. You're
a bad person. But I also want to be very clear
that I've seen a lot of tides turning about this,
and I've seen a lot more resistance from people
who thought that this was going to be different.
I don't know why they thought it was going to
be different, but they're finally now waking
up to the fact that, hey, maybe running on a
platform of mass deportation now doesn't result
in the best administration. But here is a little
bit of good news. We're starting to trend upwards,
I promise. Because among all this immigration
madness, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was,
quote, mistakenly deported to the one country
he wasn't supposed to be deported to, is back
home. As a very quick recap, Kilmar Abrego Garcia
was hanging out in front of a Home Depot looking
for work when ICE agents arrested him. They used
his bull's hat to say that he was a gang member.
And then they deported him to Seacott, the torture
prison in El Salvador. And then it came out that
that was the one country that he was not supposed
to be deported to if he was deported, which he
wasn't supposed to be. To which the U .S. government
was like, no, he's a gang member. And also now
that he's there already, we can't do anything
to bring him back. And then he was brought back.
Then when he was brought back, the Department
of Justice was like, he will never go free on
U .S. soil. That's a quote that is wild. This
is a dude who is hanging out at a Home Depot
looking for work as a day laborer. He's never
going to go free on U .S. soil. Come on, you
guys. It is embarrassing how much energy has
been put into things that don't fucking matter
and just make everything worse. So yeah, he gets
back here. They're like, he's never going to
go free. And the U .S. government continuously
tries to deport the man to three different countries,
this time in Africa. All the while, Abrego Garcia
and his lawyers were saying, hey, he'll move
to Costa Rica if you want him to. And officials
from Costa Rica were like, sure, yeah, we'll
take him. To which ICE was like, no, that's not
on the table. It has to be an African country.
for reasons. Essentially, the government fucked
up real bad. And because we know that nobody
in this administration can ever admit fault on
anything, they just double, triple, quadruple
down on this random dude claiming that he is
this hardened criminal. And at this point, they
can't back off because they've already made it
so clear. They've staked their claim on deporting
this one guy who wasn't supposed to be deported.
Because if there is a guy who is that color and
was deported and brought back because, hey, he
wasn't supposed to be deported, that breaks their
narrative. Their narrative being that everyone
who's that color deserves to be deported. Anyway,
this is all kind of still ongoing. Kilmar is
still not totally free. He's basically on house
arrest. He has to check in with ICE, although
a judge has signed a thing saying ICE can't arrest
him. But it's ICE. We'll see. Let's move on.
Let's keep that upward trend. McDonald's! in
the netherlands i don't know why i hopped i'm
not that excited about mcdonald's generally so
mcdonald's netherlands like specifically the
dutch arm of mcdonald's published an ai generated
ad that caught so much flack they have already
taken it down the ad was essentially a bunch
of clips of like fails like fail video kind of
stuff just like unfortunate situations set to
a remix of It's the most wonderful time of the
year where they were saying it's the most awful,
terrible time of the year. Who cares? Point being,
it was a bad idea and the commercial was creepy
and people didn't like it at all. Beyond being
AI slop, it also was just an uncomfortable commercial.
So understandably so, it got a whole bunch of
pushback and people were like, this is just,
this is awful. This is terrible. Please take
this down. And the studio behind the ad gave
the worst defense imaginable. The production
company, The Sweet Shop, had this to say in their
defense. Quote, for seven weeks, we hardly slept
with up to 10 of our in -house AI and post specialists
at the gardening club, our in -house AI engine,
working in lockstep with the directors. We generated
what felt like dailies, thousands of takes, then
shaped them in the edit just as we would on any
high craft production. That response from the
company has mysteriously disappeared from their
website. I wonder why we were up all night asking
this computer to plagiarize things. So that was
the McDonald's ad and that got pulled. But Coca
-Cola did their second annual Christmas ad this
year generated with AI. Last year they did one
and it got some criticism. People being like
this is soulless and plasticky. And then they
did it again because soullessness and plastic
the American way. Now, for whatever reason, the
Coke commercial this time around, it didn't get
as much backlash as the McDonald's one. But something
I learned when I was digging into this was that
Coke essentially humble brags about having made
Santa popular. Now, it's a humble brag because
on Coca -Cola's website, there's a page that's
like, are we responsible for Santa being a thing?
And they're like, no, we just popularized it.
They argue that. that the reason that santa is
how we know him today is because they commissioned
an artist to do a bunch of ads for coke that
depicted santa as the way he is today and that
was distributed all over the place because coke
ads they did not invent the original santa and
also it's debatable as to whether or not their
ads are the reason that people know santa today
but what a claim anyway i don't think that we
need this i don't think i don't think we need
this i don't think that we need ai to generate
commercials i don't think do we do do we i say
we like the human race do we need this i don't
i don't think so i'm not certain but let's go
over to the gamer place here we go now we're
in the gamer place cool welcome to the gamer
space we're going to talk about the game awards
the game awards are kind of shitty there's just
like an industry event that's that's pretty pretty
shitty uh but it's kind of all we got right now
ever since e3 was ejected from this world so
who won expedition 33 won everything basically
not literally everything uh but let's see here
clear obscure expedition 33 won game of the year
best art direction best game direction best narrative
best score best performance that's for Jennifer
English best indie game best debut indie game
and best rpg I may have missed something Can't
count much past that. Let's talk about what was
announced, because first things first, we're
getting a new Divinity game from Larian. Larian
made their big announcement, which involved a
statue in the desert. I don't really fully understand,
but they put a statue in a desert, and they were
like, look at this statue. What could this be?
And then people were like, I don't know. What
could that be? And then it turned out that it
had something to do with the reveal of this new
game. Cool. Point being, Larian Studios, the
company that made Baldur's Gate 3, is making
a new mainline entry in their series Divinity.
It's another RPG series very similar to Baldur's
Gate. Only they said that this was going to be
even bigger than Baldur's Gate 3. So that's cool.
There's a bunch of other announcements. Here's
a handful of things that I had a non -zero reaction
to. There's going to be a sequel to Control called
Control Resident. You'll be able to play as Leon
Kennedy in the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem
game. Leon! There's gonna be two new Tomb Raider
games because one wasn't enough. There's too
many tombs. One of them is a remaster of like
the original game. Not really a remaster, like
a re -imagination, I guess. They're making a
new mainline Mega Man game. Yo, got a new trailer
for the Street Fighter movie, which I forgot
was happening. And it looks wild and I'm expecting
it to be terrible. I'm here for it. Also a new
D &D themed RPG that seems to be about being
a warlock. so it's sort of like me i'm a warlock
that was magic lightning round a hiker did the
meme uh fell into some quicksand and was rescued
from said quicksand after using like a gps sos
thing quicksand's real y 'all It happened. After
losing power to both engines, a small plane made
an emergency landing on I -95 in Florida, landing
directly on a driving car. Everyone's okay, but
the guy driving that car, I can't even imagine.
Like, I would never get in a car again. It turns
out just a few weeks prior to the U .S. raiding
an oil tanker off of Venezuela, we also raided
a cargo ship that was headed to China. Just did
that too. Going from Iran to China, and we were
just like, that's ours now. Yo -ho? I guess?
I'm not a huge fan of that in particular. And
finally for today, someone's house in California
done dang exploded. And it was captured on video
from a doorbell camera, but it's gone. House
was there, and then it was not. It was because
of a gas leak from construction. Hey, maybe gas
is a bad idea. Thank you so much for listening
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