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I mean that would be sick.
Like take the graphics card as it is and then do the graphics.
This is what the graphics card produces.
Let me see what the CPU can produce even if it's minorly more.
Like just add that little bit of a.
No, because the computer only lets me run off a one.
So I have to pick and choose plus the G CPU only got like.
I didn't even have to pick it.
It just automatically shows my graphics card as the primary.
Well, right, because you run your monitors through it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I have a HDMI hooked to my motherboard.
Oh, I have one too because of the CPU.
And so I could plug like one monitor into that and then one into the graphics card and
it'll it'll tell me to pick.
It'll tell me to pick the graphics card anyway.
Yeah, but you can run it to separate.
That would be dope, too, even if you could split it.
I tried.
I tried to load off your graphics card for gaming so that way you could have like
a can discord up in another one.
That would be fucking sick.
Yeah, I tried.
It doesn't it doesn't work.
It really doesn't.
But that also that cooler that cooler is also like I said, I wouldn't turn it to show you,
but also two inches.
We're recording now.
So can you see it?
Yeah.
So my coolers just imagine that depth with another two like double your fan depth, but
flip the other way and I'm blowing at the glass base.
Oh, I see.
I see.
Because in the front I have to fucking two exhausting at the top, one exhausting out
the back.
My CPU fan blowing out, GPU blowing down.
And that's getting.
Yeah, I forget that.
I mean, if you want to get technical, I have two more fans because of my GPU.
Yeah.
And I forget about that.
And they blow they blow they blow down.
You got to include those.
Yeah, they blow down and then the power supply blows it up.
So it kind of just circulates.
So you have seven.
Yeah, I just got to get to.
I forget about that.
You have a hard time.
Yes.
Yeah, I can't.
No, I don't.
I can't put it's a mesh top.
Oh, it is.
Yeah.
Put two more up there, bro.
Because this is this is fans are like 10 bucks.
This is like a magnetic mesh cover.
Yeah, you can get two for like 10 bucks.
My shit doesn't run that hot, though.
So till I upgrade it.
Are you ever going to like go get a radio, an upgraded radiator because your shit doesn't
run too hot?
You should Chelsea's car didn't run too hot.
But you got it.
No, but you but you upgraded the radiator anyway, didn't you?
Her fucking radiator cracked.
Yeah, but you could have gotten the same radiator, but you've upgraded it, didn't you?
Yeah, it's my point exactly.
That was more of so it was either pay like a fourth of what I paid for that Mishimoto.
But wait, like I think it was like a week and a half to even get it here.
Or I just pay more and go get it today so we can have her car running again.
Yeah.
So it was it was more the convenience times the price I did four times, but it was also
an upgrade if it wasn't an upgrade.
But I also wanted I also wanted the sticker if it wasn't an upgrade, you wouldn't have
done it.
That's true.
I would not have paid quadruple that for a stock one.
Exactly.
No, just to get it today.
No, that's the point.
I mean, OK, too.
That's the point.
But you can do that, like I said, you can get like two Corsair fans for 15 bucks off
of Amazon.
Like, I mean, I got you know how between the GPU, pretty hot.
Fucking hot.
But even when I'm gaming, like hardcore gaming, like Call of Duty and shit, like it doesn't
get hot.
My shit was like stayed at a solid 115 Celsius last night.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
Mine stays at like 7080.
Yeah, she's pretty cool.
And that's even when it's like 100 degrees in this room.
That was because there's no airflow in this room at all.
That was only when I was streaming.
But yeah, it was fucking.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm over here streaming, got Discord going, got music playing.
I got the game going.
Just fine.
I don't know.
Fuck it.
It's a budget build, but it's it's a starter budget, bro.
15 bucks.
Little man.
There's a reason people go liquid cool is because the colder it runs, the better.
Well, yeah.
I mean, imagine a car.
Yeah, same, same.
Oh, no, that's quite different.
It's still run.
The cold will affect a car a lot faster than will affect a computer.
Well, yeah.
I mean, just think about cold driving a car and how much damage that does as opposed to
turning on a computer and immediately booting up a game doesn't really do much to a computer,
but it fucks up a car.
Yeah.
That's a lot of moving parts, though.
I mean, there's not moving parts in there, but it's a lot of processing speed and, you
know, things are going.
I mean, you should still let it warm up.
I honestly have no idea.
You turn your computer off.
Oh, yeah.
You always like fully booted down.
Yeah.
Oh, always.
Probably got issues.
I disagree.
I never boot mine off.
I disagree.
I reboot it once a week.
Like I rebooted it literally just before you got here.
I turn it off when I'm done for the night and then I turn it back on and I want to go.
And then if I if I'm going to come back to it during the day, like on the weekends,
I'll just sleep it like.
Yeah, I literally turn it off.
I turn it off when I'm done for the night and then I turn it back on and I want to go.
And then if I if I'm going to come back to it during the day, like on the weekends,
I'll just sleep it like.
I literally just.
I'm done for the night and I'm not going to come back to it until after work the next
day.
I'm not going to leave it running in my house for 18 hours for no reason.
Why not?
There's no point.
Why?
Why run a piece of electronics and machinery inside of there if you don't need to?
Why not?
Because it's running when it doesn't need to.
It's applying power to things that don't need to be.
Well, I mean, I guess technically.
After like an hour or so, it'll shut off.
I mean, I guess technically mine shut off at all.
And things stay running.
I mean, technically it's running, but it'll mine will shut off.
Sleeps.
Yeah.
So everything will stop moving.
Everything will stop running until I come over here and smack a key on the keyboard
or something.
Sometimes mine doesn't.
I'll just wake up because it's fucking happy.
Hello, motherfucker.
It's excited.
And like when I come home and it's already up and running, I slept it and I didn't touch
anything.
Maybe it's just the vibrations in the house that move the mouse or something.
Or it's just a software needing to run in the background or some some shit.
I don't know.
I just fucking turn it off.
I don't really care.
I also, you know, my windows isn't the best.
Let's just say that.
Why?
Just remember with our conversation.
Oh, OK.
Would you think the fucking government's going to come get you?
You say, yeah, bro, you called out Joe Rogan on this podcast, bro.
I did.
Yeah.
You said you punched me punches you in the face.
And I still haven't got a response for that yet.
Yeah.
A little sad.
Joe Rogan is going to straight up ignore that.
I'm so sad.
That was the wrong.
The wrong choice of avenues to offer Joe Rogan.
Why?
So it's not going to go for that.
That's not the kind of thing he wants to portray on his part.
I want to see how hard this man can hit.
He's a fucking a gorilla.
Yeah.
But what is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or some shit like he's a black belt and karate like double
block martial arts.
Yeah.
Like fucking give me a good one.
You just go down to the local taekwondo and have them do it because I want Joe Rogan to
do it.
And I want the story.
I want to I want to be able to walk up and be like, yeah, I got punched in the face by
Joe Rogan.
I'm going to get t shirts made and everything like fuck.
Yeah.
Who would it touch?
Who would it?
Hey, you can't do that.
I do that.
No, hold on.
Dig it out my pocket.
We need plus ultra to go along with this.
Hold on.
We need to plus ultra this, bro.
I can't run it.
Oh, that's in the discord.
That's your tip touch.
Tip touch.
Yeah, I do it in the stream because I have discord open.
Well, I'd rather have it audible at all times.
I did a little stream deck.
Yeah, is what I did.
But I could go in and post and I'll go in and post and add it.
That could be fucking dope.
Those things are kind of cool.
They're a lot stronger than my computer.
I wouldn't necessarily say that.
Actually, they were on Starfield perfectly fucking fine.
That's what I said.
That's what I see in all my PC.
Someone someone at work has one and one of the owners kids and he has one and he ran
it and he said it didn't run that great.
He said, yeah, I could run it.
But like if I really wanted to like actually play it and like get down and dirty with it,
I'd probably have to run it on either like medium or low settings.
And then it just kind of diminishes the quality of the game when I'd rather just go play it
on my computer, which can handle it perfectly fine.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I've seen just think you have like bigger.
The whole bigger is better thing.
Like, yeah, you have a physically bigger process.
That's the American way.
I mean, they have a bigger processor.
Generally it's going to have more processing power.
Yeah.
Than a smaller one.
Well, I mean, yeah.
I mean, granted, we lost out a big ass fucking 12 core and shit.
Yeah.
So like this little itty bitty.
I mean, what do you know, whatever comes in the steam deck?
I have no idea.
But like, I just think of like processing speeding.
I don't know what the size of a graphics card.
How much?
See, this is the best part.
Watch this.
Well, not only that, but for me, it's the size of the same.
You pull it up for me.
No, I need my own.
I'm like, I'm not Jamie, bro.
I need my I need my own Jamie.
That's what I need.
You are your own Jamie.
I know.
Steam deck specs.
Let's see.
I'm legit.
There's three different kinds, bro.
You got to go to the six hundred dollar one.
This this just is tech specs on Steam Deck dot com.
Well, you got there's three different.
So I think that's memory based, though, for the most part.
16 gigs of RAM.
This is CPUs as Zen to four core.
Two point four to three point five gigahertz.
Yeah, three point five, dude.
That's probably not four to three point five.
So two point four constant.
That's almost like mine's an eight core, though.
But mine, that's about what mine runs.
About three point five or three point six gigahertz.
No, but it's two point.
Yeah, but three point five, probably constant.
There was this two, four to three, two, four, probably two, four point four constant, three
point five max.
Probably at peak.
Probably.
So and like mine's like two at six core.
But still, like just imagine trying to run Starfield on four core as opposed to to be
as opposed to six core or eight core.
You know, right.
And let's see, what was mine?
I can't find three point nine.
My bad is my is my three point nine.
Yeah. And this is a fucking rise in five.
Yeah, exactly.
It's my my one.
But you have eight course of ice for the minds six core.
So mine is going to be mine's like three point two, I think.
Like, look, I'm over here recording audio and my CPU ain't doing shit.
Yeah. Not even fucking touching.
Well, you only have like one avenue stream open, but you only have like one avenue stream
open. You have one lane of traffic as opposed to eight.
Right. I mean, oh, I mean, load up like like even just sitting here recording
audio programs, see what's going to happen.
Yeah, right. I mean, even then, it gets not bad.
Oh, it gets it's not.
It's it's good for what I needed it for.
I didn't get it to get into gaming.
I wasn't going to PC game, which is why I got it to stream and to do the podcast better.
I mean, I only have my rise in twelve or three twelve hundred because it was like five years ago.
And I just wanted a better PC to game with.
I'm curious. And it was free.
So I was just like, you know what? This is this is better than what I have.
I'm proud. So I'm just going to go with it.
What was it? The fucking five sixty fifty six hundred G.
No fucking job.
No, I was going to tell you. So this is what I ran everything on.
Yeah. Was this fucking bad boy.
And I was going to look up the specs on this one, but I can't remember the model number.
It's old. I can tell. It's old.
The thing is like the thing's older than my daughter.
I can she's about to turn nine. I can tell.
Asus design has changed a lot.
Yeah, there it is. OK.
I want the specs on that because I wanted to look up the difference in it
and see my upgraded the RAM and that from four gig to eight gig.
That was about it. My old PC was not that.
The data.
I look at that real quick.
Yeah, that thing's fucking all one point eight.
The processor speed in that laptop and I did well, pretty much all of ADHD guys on it.
I did all of my music. Right. So I three. Yeah.
It's an Intel Celeron. I three. Yeah. Yeah.
Dual core. Well, it's a Celeron, dude.
That's just two or budget. That's the budget fucking Intel processor.
Four gigs of RAM.
Yeah, one point eight gigahertz processor speed. Yeah.
That was it. And go to the go to the rise in rise in three twelve hundred.
The rise in three. Yeah, rise in three twelve hundred.
That's four core, but it still has more processing power than that fucking Intel.
Oh, that's Amazon. I don't want to.
Well, it's the same thing. You still find the same information.
It helps if I type it in correctly. Yeah, true. Very true.
Twelve dash dash.
But no, all I'm saying is like I really like all of my music recording on there.
I did all the podcast stuff on there.
I mean, yeah, for like most things, I played World of Warcraft on it for fucking years.
Yeah, four cores is just fine, but just, you know.
Processing power is getting more for games, especially these days.
So it goes up to three point four. Yeah.
The rise in three. So which is why I was which isn't much less than mine,
which is why it's still fairly decent. Yeah.
Even now, it's just the cores that are limiting you.
Not graphics card. Huh?
The rise in three.
That's a graphics card. You say graphics card.
But yeah, see, you know, yeah, like which is why it still was managing
for the most part just fine if I was only running a game. Right.
Is when I had Discord open and was talking with you guys or like made music
or something that if I was running a pretty demanding game that it would actually start to fail.
Which one were you running again? Rise in three twelve hundred.
No, what GPU were you running? GPU? Yeah.
Same one. It was nine seventy GTX for the win.
Nine seven GTX. Nine seventy GTX. FDW.
I'm just I was just pulling it up.
They just released actually a couple of years ago, they made a remake of it.
That was slightly better, slightly updated.
I mean, it's still pretty good. Yeah.
I mean, if it's if it's for the for the win edition, yes.
This is just a regular. Well, this just pulls up just GTX nine seventy.
Yeah. No, if you have the for the win, it's even apparently it's still three hundred forty dollars.
So I got it for one hundred and fifty.
So used, but you know, whatever.
Oh, here it is like different.
As I started, I started this with the same one.
There's the gaming edition.
For the win plus.
But where's my comparison button?
I just want to see how much different they really were.
So here's the difference.
I don't know if you can see it from there.
There you go. Yeah, that's better.
So yeah, so yours to mine.
Yeah, mine's garbage.
So, I mean, you're still is pretty fucking good.
Oh, yours is the TI, right? No, that's a 1080 TI.
Mine's mine's still technically below a 1080 TI, but I'm not or I'm sorry, a nine eighty TI.
A nine eighty TI, though, was still compared to like a ten seventy TI.
Right. Maybe it's a ten sixty TI. I don't know if there was a ten sixty.
Oh, excuse me. It says mine's like two hundred dollars cheaper to like the ten.
They just wear the ten seventy and the ten eighty is where they start to separate,
especially the TIs from the nine seventy GTX. Right.
And I mean, I said the for the win plus edition comes like factory overclocked
a bunch of a couple of other things that make it better than just the regular nine seventy GTX.
So just looking at like spec wise, it's really not much different, but it's great.
Like when I get a new one, you can have this one.
Well, like I said, if you go for no, if you go for the for the one plus,
it's going to make most of that pretty equal.
Probably. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm good with it. Fuck it.
And this is why I had the rise. It works.
This is why I had the rise in processor for so long was because it did what I needed it to do.
For the most part, I just had to deal with the occasional crash.
Dude, I was playing on I was playing on the fifty six hundred G with the built in.
And it ran, I mean, 30 frames.
Some some would run 60 frames like Fortnight and shit.
I mean, I was still running 50 frames on on the rise in three twelve hundred.
But I was just at medium graphics settings on pretty much every game.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I would just choose a higher frame rate.
Low. I ran lower medium with that built in one.
But it only has a cache of like five hundred megabytes or five hundred and twelve.
I'm like five hundred and twelve to six gigabytes. I'm like, oh, easy.
Huge fucking difference. Yeah.
But the main reason I needed the GPU, like because otherwise I wouldn't give a fuck.
I wanted it because of the dual screen. I couldn't dual screen without it. Yeah.
So with only one HDMI port, I tried like the little splitters and this and that.
And you can't extend it. You can only mimic. Yeah.
I'm like, fuck this. Yep. Give me my fucking graphics card.
I got this. I almost went and got a 3060, though, for like 200 bucks. Yeah.
Well, I'm like. 200 bucks, 40 bucks.
It's also just not needed. Yeah, I don't really.
And also the processor wouldn't be able to use. I'm not fucking.
I mean, I could run Call of Duty at medium graphics.
Use all of it anyway. Yeah.
It bottlenecked the shit out of it. Yeah. Hardcore. Yeah.
That's what my processor processor really want. My graphics card.
I really want to rise on seven, though.
I really do. Those things are fucking nice.
Even at this point, it's like. But I also got to I got to upgrade a lot.
It's still like from what I'd like.
A lot of the research I was doing when I was buying this one was like even the seventh are still fairly extensive for what? Yeah.
The more DIY guys like you and myself, even more so you than me, but even need.
Why me more than you?
Because you do more like the podcasting recording like more programs like that than I do because of streams kind of game streaming stuff.
I don't do that. I just kind of do it with you guys.
So I have at least like six windows open.
Yeah, I have my Internet Explorer, OBS, Discord, iTunes or Pandora, the game.
Pretty sure I have another one. I just can't think of it. Oh, whichever launcher it is, I guess. I mean, I mean, the launcher doesn't really take up much of the game.
No, but it's still open. But it's not a program. It's operating.
It was not a program. So it's not taking it. It's not taking up one of those lines. No. Yeah.
Launchers are still a program. It's still running.
The fucking game is running, though. It's not like a primary source. It's still like. No, but it's still there.
I would consider that more. I would consider that more lane sharing than taking up a lane of.
I mean, I guess it'd be like carpooling. Yeah.
Just carpool with the game. Yeah, but I get what you're saying.
It definitely makes sense. And I mean, fucking even Ferg runs like the same shit I got. Yeah.
And I think I got I think my graphics card is a little bit better. Yeah.
But he's running the Ryzen five fifty five hundred. G, I think.
Something like that. Yeah. I mean, he runs the same shit. And the other reason like I had got that forty five hundred at first was just because it was like seventy eight.
And you were over here like, oh, I want to go get the thirty six hundred.
Well, the thirty six was like sixty bucks. Yeah.
But it was also only four quarters or three.
The one that I was looking at and I was like, it's better.
You might as well just go for that. I know I need six core.
You got a six core and six core. Yeah.
I thought the four thousand series was eight core.
We're sure it's six core.
I think mine's an eight core, though, but I'm pretty sure it's six core. Six core, six core, top fed.
Yeah. Excuse my voice, by the way, you guys.
I'm looking pooper. Yeah.
What do you like computer better? My allergies are kicking my fucking ass today.
What am I looking at again? Oh, Ryzen five forty six hundred G.
Oh, you got the G. Oh, so you do have the built in graphics card.
Yeah. Well, that's because the before 50 arrows doesn't support the forty five six core twelve thread.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's when you get to the next clock is four point two gigahertz.
Yeah. Which means mine's got to go higher than that.
Yeah, because you have eight cores. Yeah.
But it's there. But it said three point nine.
I'm like, that doesn't sound right.
Nice. It's not bad.
I mean, it was still. Oh, mine is a six core.
I thought it was like for what was it?
Eighty nine ninety bucks. I think it's still in ninety bucks for forty six.
So and I just this is Amazon.
The forty six hundred G was ninety five seventy five.
Yeah. And I bought you could have went and got the same one I got for one hundred thirty nine at Best Buy.
Or I could spend ninety and get this is the one I have.
Or I could spend ninety and get exactly what I needed.
So apparently mine is a six core. I thought it was an eight core.
I mean, I thought ours are pretty much identical.
Mine's just a little bit faster.
I was fairly certain that the fives were all six because I'm pretty sure it's how it goes.
Three is four core six lives is six core.
Eight is four core or seven is eight cores.
And then you get to the nines and those are twelve core.
Yeah, you're probably right. And then even some of the nine.
Even some of the nines are going up to 16 core now.
Yeah, none of my shit is going to be retarded.
I think there's one with nine, like 16 core, like 64 thread or something like that.
I don't remember if I read that wrong.
I mean, mine's a 12 thread. I mean, ours are people of the podcasting world.
We're our CPS are pretty much identical now.
Mine's just a little bit. Yeah.
The fucking hair faster. Yeah, it's faster for sure.
Three point nine based to four point four. Oh, boost clock. Yeah.
So you can overclock yours more than I can.
That's all it really means. Not by much, but still for forty dollars more.
Which is why I just. Yeah, you're good.
For what you got or what you do, you're good. Yeah.
All I really do is game and watch videos.
Which is funny. So now you should be able to do everything me and Ferg do.
We're all almost why I was like on and off testing it last night. Yeah.
So like I was able to like it wasn't only until that one point.
And I mean, you were on the stream with me for four.
We played we game for what, six, seven hours last night straight. Yeah.
So we know you didn't install it wrong.
Very rudely by a tweaker at five thirty this morning.
I was like, I thought it was my neighbor screaming because they're kind of tweakers, too.
Yeah. What happened there, bro? It was nuts, man.
Yeah, I saw some of your videos. I just wake up to fucking screaming.
And I'm just thinking as my neighbors, I was about to go bash on the window.
But then it sounded like really violent. I was like, oh, fuck.
So I'm like, I forgot where I put my weapons.
I go fucking find my weapon. I'm like walking around the house.
I'm like listening for where this is coming from.
And I see the lights outside and like, what the fuck is going on?
So I like throw open the back door and I get a light shine in my face.
And they're like, police go back inside. I was like, Jesus Christ.
And yeah, at like five. This was the five thirty in the morning.
It's pitch black. So it's still dark. Yeah.
I got a gun in my hands. And then the police shine.
I mean, I'm in my sweatshirt.
So it's like my hands right here and I got a flashlight in one hand.
It's like I'm glad they didn't see it because I would have got shot probably.
Yeah. OK, dude. They've they've shot people for less.
Fuck, bro. I was I was like terrifying.
But then I hung out for a while.
I just put the gun on the counter and I just hung out and took videos.
But, bro, this guy was just hanging up on somebody's roof.
Chillin just tweaking, tweaking out, yelling about Bob, like Bill Burns and shit.
And like need to like somebody hates fucking comedy and fucking Dana White money and shit
and getting cops fired. Yeah, bro.
I took so many videos and pictures just like all that top shit.
That's all the top. All this video. This fucking tweet.
Oh, yeah. So don't don't scroll to the dick pics.
Oh, there's no dick pics there. Jesus.
Ten minutes, twelve minutes, bro.
This last. How long were you recording this?
Two hours, dude. I was out there watching for like two hours.
Oh, my God. Yeah. Which one's the funniest one?
All of it's fucking hilarious for the most part.
I mean, you got to really listen to it, though. It's not that loud.
No, it's not. No, dude, because I had to have like the window cracked
because I don't want to like the cops to know I was sitting there watching the whole thing.
It was like 15 cops outside.
It is so hard to hear. Yeah, it's incredibly hard.
I'm trying to see if the Michael pick it up.
I can hook it up to Bluetooth or some shit.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. This is great.
This is great. That's like and he was like, I just picked a random one.
You're a bitch. And watch the end one, the last one was like daylight out.
Yeah, it did get bright. Really fucking. Yeah, I got bright, dude.
Like I was I was up for hours in my kitchen watching this shit.
Watch it. I can still see it.
I want to watch it.
They're just in your backyard.
Dude, I think the guy broke his ankle straight.
Oh, my God. Jumped into fucking Blackberry bushes.
I think the motherfucker broke his ankle.
And I don't know why the cop starts kicking my fucking fence.
Like that's going to do anything. Yeah.
He just straight up starts like kicks my fence like three times.
Like, what is that going to do?
I think maybe he thought he would crack a board to get to the side post,
a step over because he's fat.
Well, I feel like I like it.
Then he tried to jump over and he's the only one left.
Like the other two already jumped over. He's just standing there like, uh,
there is one video in there where I'm like, I'm mightily captured a really hot cop.
And I mentioned it quite a few times because she was fucking smoking, dude.
He went fucking flying off. Oh, my God.
Yeah. And he was jumping to other houses, too.
Like I got those on video as well.
It's just fucking spider manning that shit.
Yeah. At one point, I think he played a little too much blood hunt.
Dude, the guy a little too much.
Just hopping.
That is OK. So you already had a great morning, dude.
Yeah, that was the start to my morning and then like made some breakfast
and promptly took a nap. But fuck. Yeah.
You and them naps. That is awesome.
Because, dude, I freaking had cops pounding on my door.
Hey, can we comment your backyard? And then I was like, yeah, sure.
Whatever. And then one came flying through and then all of a sudden just.
I have like four more fucking cop cars show up in front of my house.
And yeah, I saw your five more run out. Yeah, dude.
On your picture in my discord, my freaking cops around in your camera.
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, what the fuck, dude?
I'd be like, yeah, sure. Go ahead. My backyard.
But my dogs are going to be out there, too. So I mean, I don't have dogs.
Yeah. And it's a shared backyard.
So, you know, it wouldn't be good to have out there anyway.
It's so lonely. Whatever.
No kids, no dog ladies. He's single. Go for it.
I would prefer to have a dog right now.
But if I'm going to be contracting like dog and girlfriend are almost pretty much
out of the equation at that point, I've kind of learned this this far.
You can stay a parent. You'll be good. Huh?
You'll be you'll be fine a parent. Just stay there.
No, that'll make nearly enough money, dude. No.
Parent is awesome. I love parent.
The whole point is to build and race and then get sponsored by parent. Yeah.
I mean, as you already work for that, would you get sponsored by it?
So I can't deny that would be dope.
But I like the contracting and become the next Bucky Lassie.
It's more like tickles my fancy more than.
But you got to go go be the next Bucky Lassie.
Who gets to say they get to go to work and live in Antarctica and Greenland?
I mean, fair enough. Nobody gets to say that.
So I would not. That's a really good story.
I would rather have the story. I know. And you know what?
The last time you were on here was before you went to Antarctica.
Yeah. And you never got to come back.
You've been back for a couple of months now, like four months.
No, five months. That was that's been that since Greenland.
What I'm talking about when I came back from Greenland.
Oh, I'm talking about when you came out from Antarctica.
I was back in town for like four days.
Was it only like four days? Yeah. Oh, well, yeah.
So like the way you left and we're gone for like I left.
We did. When did you left?
Right after Big Northwest. I left August.
It was like the second week.
I think I left August 10th. Yeah.
And then I got onto the ice at August 15th.
I think you five days to get there.
Yeah, because it's like a day to do like a day to get to New Zealand,
especially because you're jumping ahead in time.
So I skipped a day. Right.
Because I went I went from being because Australia is like 19 hours ahead of us.
So I jumped a day.
So that's one day gone.
And then I had two days or three days in New Zealand for COVID quarantine shit.
And you were in the future.
Yeah. How did it feel? It was interesting.
It was weird to try to talk to people back here
because, you know, like if it was, say, six o'clock my time,
it's fucking three o'clock or fucking no one o'clock in the morning.
What is the time zone for Antarctica anyway?
It's New Zealand Standard Time.
It's New Zealand time.
Yeah. So they were at least at least where I was.
They run off of Christchurch time.
Yeah. And you said New Zealand's 19 hours ahead of us over here.
19 to 20 because they they don't do daylight savings.
Right. But we but we do.
So it's 19 to 20. So 19 hours.
So it was six a.m. in Antarctica.
Six a.m. So, I mean, it would be six p.m. one p.m. here.
But the previous day, the previous day.
So it's Tuesday for people here, one p.m. Tuesday.
And it's six a.m. Wednesdays and sent them out to the world early.
I mean, unfortunately, we get the news at the same rate as everybody else.
It's all the same shit.
But yeah, it was it was really trippy to try to figure that out,
especially with like parents and shit and whatever.
That's crazy. Yeah, it was odd.
Eventually, I just I just read your Instagram the whole time.
Eventually, I just kind of gave up like within like probably the first month.
I gave up on really trying to like make the effort.
At one point, I just started talking.
It was like, look, I'll get back to you when I get back to you.
Right. I was on the adventure of a lifetime.
I want to focus on that. I was trying to hit you up while you were there.
Well, it's you like in discord or on a Zoom call or something and record that.
It wasn't like the first.
I mean, I was there for seven months, but the last like two and a half months
is when we actually had Internet that was decent enough
that I could have done something like that.
But there's too many people on station to do that. Right.
I don't make the shit out of it.
Yeah, because at first, like the only things we were really able to do was
like I could watch some YouTube videos when I first got there.
As soon as we got went over the 300 people population, it went straight downhill
to basically just being able to like go on a mobile version of Facebook
or whatever on your on your laptop or Instagram or something.
And then like Wi-Fi calling and texting.
And then Starlink came around probably January is when we got it.
That is terrible. And it was fine.
I can't do it. It was really good. I can't do it.
It was way better than what we had, even just for calling and texting.
And like you could eventually get on.
No, I mean, I just I couldn't do that at all. Oh, no Internet. No, no.
You'd be surprised, man.
I mean, I could go a week.
No, you'd be you'd be really surprised.
You are meeting like I met people from France, Germany, fucking Sweden,
Australia, all over the United States, Canadians fucking everywhere, dude,
everywhere. And not only that, but you're in Antarctica, where less than
one percent of the world's population, not just the U.S.
world's population ever gets to go through.
So like you are part of that zero point seven percent.
You're I mean, like for the first little bit, it's extreme culture shock.
It like extreme because you can't breathe.
You can't see because pitch black.
And at least when I got there, fucking colder than anything you've ever seen
in your life, is it does it have more daylight or less daylight?
It depends on the time of year.
So when I first got there, it was just you went there in the middle of summer.
No, I went there. I left at the end of summer.
I got there at the end of winter.
Yes, I got you left it like there's really only two seasons down there.
Summer and it's winter. That's it.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
And how does it get in the summer?
I think the hottest I saw was 14 degrees Fahrenheit.
Did that feel like actual warmth?
I was outside running around in a sweatshirt and shorts.
Like I have pictures of that, just of me standing outside.
And I don't even think it was 14 degrees that day, to be honest.
Well, I feel like because it's negative, like 60. Right.
When I first got there, I first got there like it was negative 60.
But like, see the time I complained when it's 40 degrees here, the time of year
doesn't really like strictly dictate how cold or what weather you're going to get.
You look like you're freezing your ass off.
Well, I just went for a run. Yeah.
But that tan must have been real nice.
Like, how do you get sunburned in Antarctica?
I got so fucking white, dude.
But no, so like I arrived in August and that was the tail end of winter.
Winter is actually because it's reversed over there.
Yeah. So it's yeah.
So it's completely 180 from here.
Or at least the side of Antarctica you were on.
No, the whole continent. Oh, is it the whole continent?
I thought it was because we were at an axis and the whole continent is switched from here.
But that being said. Interesting.
So yeah, I was like it was 24 hours of darkness when I first got there.
And for about six months of the year, it's 24 hours or four months out of the year.
It's 24 hours of darkness until then you get like a month and a half, two months ish of waning to 24 hours of light.
And then 24 hours of waning into dark or 24, two to four months of waning.
24 hours of sunshine. Yeah, 24 hours like all the time.
How do you sleep? The sun literally just you watch the sun just circle above you all day.
I mean, that would be a.
It's called blackout curtains, buddy. Well, I got some of those.
Yeah, but ours Velcro to the windows themselves.
That's the light even less well less.
But it's that would be so cool to put like a time lapse video of the sun just doing a circle.
I mean, it's less cool than you'd actually like think about like.
Well, I mean, for somebody that's never been there.
Yeah, I never see something like that.
It's night and it's day. Yeah, I don't.
I've never seen 24 hours of either.
Oh, that's fair enough. Solid sunlight.
It's not six months like we get down there almost.
Alaska gets three months. It's like two to three months or something like that.
More the more northern parts of Alaska. I know they get I know they get like I think multiple days of darkness.
Even like Anchorage, you'll see like a couple of weeks of just nothing but sunlight.
Just because they're that high up in the hemisphere. That'd be kind of cool, though.
Don't quote me on the Anchorage part, but I know definite parts of Alaska will see quite a few months of straight sunlight.
That's and that's straight darkness, which is also why the most depressed state in the U.S.
Because it's dark all the time. Yeah.
Yeah. So when are down in Antarctica is fucking brutal.
Not only because you get a lot of storms, it's stormy or off more often.
There are not as intense storms, but it's negative 60.
Fast forward about a month. So like, bro, why, bro?
So it's negative 60 there. And like I said, I'm complaining when it's 45 here.
Yeah, I'm not built for that. You're built different, homie.
Well, I mean, I could not stand that CDC gives you all the cold weather gear that you need.
Oh, they do. Yeah. So like whenever.
So like it's a it's a government job, so it's through the National Science Foundation.
So I'm just a contractor through the National Science Foundation as a mechanic.
But you you personally not like a company.
No, so I am personally I am technically a yeah, I'm a subcontractor.
I am a personal subcontractor through the now company called a momentum.
It was PAE or Pacific Architects and Engineers.
I meant to bought them out right as I got hired.
But go figure. But so I was a subcontractor through the company, a momentum,
which subcontracts through the National Science Foundation. OK, that's tight.
But Pacific Architects and Engineers is just a small company because or if they're large,
but they only do like manual labor type stuff, you know, engineering jobs or mechanic jobs or,
you know, stuff more like kind of blue collary stuff, work with your hands type stuff.
There are there are other ones that do like food service or there are other ones that are doing like more sciencey like NASA stuff.
NASA has a huge presence down there as well. So they do.
I mean, it would make sense to say in Antarctica. Yeah.
Did you find the stairway? I got to know. Did you find it?
I know I've asked you, but I got to ask you on the podcast. No.
So did you find the stairway is probably on the actual continent.
Technically, I was on what they call Ross Island.
I was named after one of the explorers that made it down there.
But it's one of the like it's right off. It's technically connected.
So part of the continent, but I'm not physically on the biggest part of the continent.
Oh, so like a little little island of pull up maps and you go to New Zealand and you straight,
literally straight arrow straight down from New Zealand from Christchurch as the crow flies straight down.
You'll see a big island there.
And on the very southern tip of that island is where McMurdo is.
And it's probably 100 miles as the crow flies to the main island or the main continent.
That's still fucking cool. So I can.
That's like I can see the Royal Society range and shit.
You didn't go out. The Antarctic pyramid.
I've seen the Antarctic pyramid through a set of binoculars.
It's not anything fucking crazy. It's it's pretty symmetrical, but it's not perfect.
So it's not man fucking made.
But you didn't pull no Jon Snow and fucking go out beyond the wall.
I mean, I did a few times, but I mean, you only really want to go so far.
I mean, true. There ain't jack shit around, bro.
I mean, it's a pretty big like I mean, McMurdo is a rather large mining town
in comparison to something in the States.
You just think of that. So, I mean, there are like there was a thousand people on station at one point, almost 1200 people.
That's a lot. It was cramped. Yeah, that was fucking cramped.
Like I immediately wanted to go back to 300 people more than anything. Right.
But I mean, 1200 still not really a lot. It's not. But it was busy.
But from 300, you know, you quadruple that number. Yeah.
It became a lot faster. I became very grumpy person around people.
I just wanted people to leave me the fuck alone.
I have never seen you once grumpy in my entire life. And I've known you for years.
Pack me in with a bunch of sardines. Don't get grumpy.
Like years watching to get your ass kicked in multiple video games and watching cars break and.
I know I like to like to keep my I think there was at one point some dude was trying to fight you in the parking garage.
When we were part of the club together.
I mean, that sounds before you even got the Baja and you still were just sitting there like, huh?
I mean, there's a lot of people that want to fight you, buddy, because I do that.
People want to fight me, but I just don't care.
It's awesome. So I can't imagine you.
It takes a lot for people to phase me. I just I can't imagine you grumpy.
Well, you cram me in, like I said, with a bunch of sardines. I already had.
I'm going to do it now. I'm going to go lock you in my closet for six hours.
That's not the thing about I can be I can sit in a closet for six hours and be OK.
Slightly frustrating. I mean, I guess by yourself to people. Yeah.
Yeah. OK. But I mean, like I'm surrounded by people all day.
I have three roommates everywhere I go. They're surrounded by people.
Yeah. Sleep in the same room. I sleep in the same room.
Yeah. There's one bed like on one corner, one bed, another corner, another bed in a corner,
then a door and it's just a large rectangle room. No, there's hardly any space.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, I have I have this whole big house and it's still too cramped.
But I mean, it's all it was all paid for.
Technically, the all the food and room board and everything is paid for.
And I make a fat check on top of the food down there.
Like, what did you eat the most days? It's really good.
Some days it's not. I mean, it's cafeteria style food, obviously.
So I would equate it to like dining faculty food that you'd get in the military.
If you're a military folk out there, you know, the defects style food.
That's about the quality that you're getting. Same shit.
For the most part. You know, I mean, you can't really.
Was it good? Antarctica's very far away. I don't know if you know this, but like I understand.
But like you like there's like more than a year's worth of driving.
You would have to do in order to get to Antarctica from here one way.
Really? I think so. Yes.
And that's as the crow flies. It's like 13000 miles.
You in this as the crow flies. What game have you been playing?
Straight shot. Just as the crow flies. Straight shot.
Not like bunny hopping from here to San Francisco, from San Francisco to New Zealand, from New Zealand,
from Auckland to Christchurch, then from Christchurch down to McMurdo.
Like that's that would be way more driving a straight line like a giant bridge.
Yeah, that would be like nobody would ever make it. If you're hopscotching.
Of course, nobody would ever make it. You can't even know.
Like most people, I can't even drive straight that long.
For a half hour, I'm done. It's like I need to hit a turn.
Most of the time you can't fly that distance. Yeah.
Like it was a 14 hour, 14, 15 hour flight from San Francisco to New Zealand.
I mean, I mean, I would be they could just fill you up mid mid flight.
I mean, they do that all the time.
It was a military flight from New Zealand. I did fly on a C-17.
Yeah. So I mean, they could. That was fucking sweet, dude.
Those things are fucking massive. So is that it's watching those birds fucking land and take off as otherworldly.
So it's not like because there's there's probably like what, like 50 of you in there on that plane?
No, I my flight down, my flight down was 110, I believe.
110. OK. And then my flight was 200. You said it was what a C-17.
Yes. But just but also not only just people, but it's cargo.
Right. So are you sitting against the wall with the harness straps on?
You can. Or is it one of the ones that has the rows?
I mean, they put in the rows depending on the flight manifest.
OK. Like on the way out, that had less cargo, more people, so they had more airplane seating, style seats.
But then, like, I don't know, when I was going to Greenland, like I was flying on a Hercules, which is basically a C-130 or they were LC-130s up there
because they all see how they want to have more more props and scripts for landing on ice.
You got to have skids for ice.
That makes sense. You still get stuck. But now the LC-130s.
You got all that power and you're still stuck. Yeah. That's how fast you freeze, bro.
Yeah. And negative 40, negative 60. That's how fast you freeze.
Take an hour. You think take an hour to unload the plane, go to take off frozen.
Do you think someone needs to take a Subaru down there?
Dude, honestly, I talked about that. And fucking and just I talked about that all the time.
We are just letting it rip like doing a Ken Block video.
Most of the fucking shit we have down there, at least in terms of light vehicles for like passenger transport and regular shit, whatnot.
It's Ford F-350s. I was just about to say Ford, too.
Ford F-350s, but not even like... Ford Toyota? No. No Toyotas?
No, that's the Kiwis. Kiwis do that. New Zealanders.
They got the nice like Land Cruisers and fucking shit like that.
And they're in the Hilux trucks. And they're all manuals. And they're all fucking manual.
They're all fucking bitches. That's why.
Well, they also care more about the Antarctic program than the US does.
I meant the whole manual part.
That being said, yeah, it's like all 2000 to 2002 F-350s with like six and a half inch lifts.
Well, I mean, it makes sense. Like 32 inch all terrains.
Fucking. Fords are built tough.
I mean, they are some fucking tough trucks for sure.
I can't tell you how many fucking front diffs I rebuilt during that time I was there.
Well, that's why they brought you there. They're like, yeah, you got to fix a bunch of these Fords for us.
Well, eventually they realized how fast I was doing it because I could flop them around in a day.
Like once I finally got used to it, I could turn the front diff around in a day.
And that's like pinion depth measured, fucking thrust measured, everything like that from like new fucking crush washers.
Everything done in a day.
Whole front end torn apart, front end out, rebuilt, put back together in a day.
And that's like 10 hours.
There's nothing else to do. I'm just going to work.
I mean, yeah, that's true.
You can't really wait for quitting time either.
What are you going to do? Go back to your three person bedroom?
Get fucking busy, bro.
So, yeah, every time a friend would come in, they'd wait for day shift to be done with their shit and be like, oh, yeah, here's a front end for you.
Fuck.
But then it went to fucking transfer cases and rear diffs too, though.
So I was doing rear diffs all the time.
But yeah, either.
That's still fun, though.
And then they eventually got like 2010, 2012 E 350 V 10s better.
But those have eight inch lifts with 32 inch tires and custom four wheel drive systems that we don't have parts to replace.
But luckily, they're like four times beefier than anything the trucks have.
So they don't break.
The only time one.
That's awesome, though.
The only time one broke is when somebody threw one of the vans transfer cases from two and four while they were driving too fast and it just granaded the fucking front end.
Yeah.
That was annoying.
And then they spent two hours.
It sounds like so much fun.
Then they spent two hours trying to like figure out how to get the van back before telling the mechanics, hey, we got a van down in the middle of the road.
So then we go out there and I'm just like, you were the last resort.
Yeah.
Then I were the backup plan.
Yeah. Then I go out there and I was like, yeah, we can't get it.
Like I put the track like they said they did basically everything they could to try to get the van to move to drive.
So they can't they got a loader coming out and with tow straps and they're just going to fork it off to the side of the road until we can get day shift out to pick it up.
Okay.
So I'm just chilling.
I'm just observing, making sure they don't damage anything.
I took off the grill so they could pick it up.
And it's like, I'm not I didn't check shit because they said they did.
Like, hey, so they get it off to the side of the road, took another hour.
It's like three hours into this endeavor for them.
Only an hour for me.
They take off and get the shop truck and I jump it up.
I jump it real quick and I turn it on.
I'm like, okay, it sounds fine.
I go outside and I'm like, I make sure the transfer case is in neutral.
I go outside and look at the fucking hubs.
The hubs are still locked.
So I unlocked the hubs and I drove the van back into town.
Oh my God.
And as I'm as I'm driving back into town, because it's like halfway out to the ice shelf.
Oh my God.
I drive back into town and I watch these guys flip around in their van, all five of them.
And I just watch the driver point at me.
I can see in mouth what the fuck because I'm close enough to it.
And then I watch the way because he just blew it up.
The van door just fucking slide open and like fling out.
And this guy just pokes his head out and just watches me.
Oh my God.
They just they just blew it up and here you are driving it back.
I went to day bar later that day and I was like talking to the guys.
I was like, yes, I had you guys bought the front end.
They're like, oh my God, that was you that drove it back, wasn't it?
I was like, yeah.
They're like, man, we did everything to get it to move.
I was like, no, you didn't.
You didn't unlock the front hubs, which is like the first thing you would look at.
I'm not even a.
I'm not even one of those guys laughing about it, which is great.
But I was like, yeah, next time you have a problem, actually call a mechanic, bro.
But me and the other mechanics died about that for weeks.
That is great.
We we know it's going to live forever on a podcast.
That is awesome.
100 percent. And if you ever listen to this, you know exactly who you are.
And that was hilarious.
But I doubt you ever will listen to this, to be honest.
Oh, thanks.
Well, he was a pretty fucking preppy boy.
So preppy boys can't be geeks.
He wasn't a geek.
I'll just know he was more of a jock.
Well, yeah, but he's in Antarctica.
He was a cargo guy.
He was he was.
Oh, he's just oh, he's just the backyard.
Glorified, glorified UPS driver.
Oh, my God. There you go.
He was. The other ones are super cool.
I love them. They're great.
But this one particular long brown haired individual who tucks in every single one of his shirts, even though it looks funny.
Yes, he was rather annoying.
Oh, my God. That is great.
This that goes out to another similar long haired, long brown haired individual, but glorified UPS driver just up in Greenland.
Call him out if you want, buddy.
No, I don't say names like that.
OK, you want you call them out.
I don't give a fuck.
I'll give descriptions, but that's if the shoe fit.
Yeah, exactly. The fucker.
Yeah, it's a shoe fits for you.
You know, I'm sorry.
You might be a shitty person.
If it fits, you might as well wear it.
Right. Yeah.
Don't forget your socks.
Or do if you nasty.
I mean, hey, so.
Off the Antarctica stuff, though, you had some stuff you wanted to correct.
Oh, yeah. Bethesda shit.
We from an episode we had last week.
Granted, Ferg's not here.
Yeah, if anybody hasn't caught on for the last hour, Ferg's not here.
We didn't even do an intro.
No, sometimes I do.
Sometimes I don't.
OK, sometimes it just naturally flows.
They don't unless they know your voice.
They don't even know the fuck you are right now.
Maybe not the geek listeners.
No, no.
The ADHD guys will know.
ADHD people might. Yeah.
I'm not sure.
Especially the Antarctica talk.
Yeah.
There's a part one to that, people.
You go on the ADHD one.
But either way, with Dalton.
Yeah, I know I was the imposing dolphin in our streams every night.
In our discord, we love this guy.
But yeah, I mean, I'm a big Bethesda guy.
I've loved Bethesda for a while.
I was what what was said, though, because it was something me
and Ferg said last week.
Well, you're talking for one about New Vegas.
Oh, right.
It was like one of the least popular games when it's actually one of the most loved.
Those least popular for me for you.
Glitchy as fuck.
But you were talking on a broad spectrum and then not only that, but
compared to like fallout four and all of the rest of them, everybody loves those a lot.
Yeah. So I mean, there's also I mean, they love to fall out three years in the future from New Vegas to four.
True. Or maybe six.
But either way, there's generally a significant time gap between their games.
But also, New Vegas wasn't also made by Bethesda.
Vegas is made by obsidian who made right, which the first to tell me that afterwards.
Yeah. So the first two fallouts were made by obsidian studios in the early 90s.
So I take that back.
Yeah. Those are the isometric style turn based game.
Yeah, I remember.
And then they thought I fucked it up to words.
Bethesda did make the two non canon fallout tactics games, which you probably never even heard of.
But there's fallout tactics and then there's fallout tactics, Brotherhood of Steel, which are two more isometric style.
To be honest, I'm not much of a fallout fan at all.
Oh, really? Yeah. So good, dude.
I love the post apocalyptic. I think it was because like I played fallout three, which was OK.
Fallout three. It wasn't bad. I don't remember much of it. It was so long ago.
And then I played half of New Vegas.
I'll see. New Vegas is probably the and it was just I couldn't I literally took the game back like I was like this.
I can't play it like Xbox 360, bro.
And it was just so glitchy and so buggy. I was like, fuck this.
I'm going back to Halo. That might have just been an Xbox thing.
I don't know, because I played it. I beat it like four times on Xbox.
I didn't experience that many glitches. I mean, maybe it was just that being said.
But I also wasn't the only one I knew of at least, you know, the game engine is not the most refined.
Well, no. And you've seen Skyrim, then Skyrim remastered, they've remastered.
Skyrim looks exactly like Skyrim used the same game engine, even for from, I think, fallout three all the way to Starfield.
Same game. I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And that's the thing. That's what I was about to say.
It's like especially it became Bethesda's thing with the fallout series, because within the fallout series, there's a lot.
There's actually a massive amount of lore.
Massive. Same thing with the elders. I mean, like it's being debated right now.
If which I don't think it's true, I don't think it's going to be canon, but it's debated right now.
If Starfield is fallout in the future, it's not other people.
That's what people are debating it. But it's a lot of people have been saying. If not, it's like the game.
It just can't be because if it was, then it would be so far more nuclear powered.
You know, it. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Maybe not. Maybe they don't say it's fallout in the future.
It's more fallout in space. So think of it.
So the theory fallout in space, but not fallout continued. Yes.
But some people argue fallout continued. Not not necessarily fallout continued, but almost like this is what's going on.
It's the Flintstone theory. We never heard that before.
So the Flintstone theory, you know, the Jetsons. Yeah. And you know, the Flintstones.
It was a separation of the same society, but one like state on Earth.
So hence the Flintstones during like a nuclear fallout.
Or some shit redoing civilization. And then another one went up into the skies.
You know, rich people, the fucking politicians, blah, blah, blah.
Working working man stayed down here because we couldn't afford to go up to the space station.
But that wasn't you know, that's not part of the full out lore. No, no, no, no.
But this is the Flintstone theory, essentially. Yeah. Is that right there?
So like essentially they do live together. Hence why there is crossover.
But you wouldn't have that crossover.
But essentially what they're saying with Starfield is that the whole Starfield thing, it might it might be in the future a little bit.
But I think it's going on while fallout's happening at the same time.
It's impossible. Like I think maybe like between fallout four or something physically impossible.
How so? Well, because fallout is Earth for one.
So I mean, all that was based within the early 40s and 60s.
OK, 40s through 60s. Sorry.
70 was 76 based in 76. No. OK, I never played.
No, 76. That's just because you came out of vault 76.
But that's right. That being said, so are they all are they all based?
The basic premise is, are they all based in, you know, 60s, 70s?
No, no, no, no. So the first the first fallout, I think it was two hundred and eighty years or something like that after what they call the Great War.
But within the 40s and 60s, like the Great War was like the Great War was like like World War Two basically.
Yeah. Within the fallout war, World War One or World War Two.
Within the fallout war. Yeah. So two hundred years past World War fucking that.
Yeah. But it's so it's weird.
It doesn't it goes in chronological order. So basically you're going down.
So fallout one is like, I think that I haven't played one out one and two and so on.
One, two, three in New Vegas go up in time.
So they go higher away from the Great War.
And then fallout continues for literally you start at the Great War. And the thing is, the Great War lasted 12 minutes.
So that's why it's not possible for fallout to have like a splitting like that, because there's not enough time for people to have that split.
I mean, the nukes destroyed the entire planet within 12 minutes.
Yeah. But they're saying it happened way before.
They didn't they didn't have spaceships.
That's the thing. Not as not as far as we know.
We do know the elite know can have whatever the fuck they want.
Yeah. But that's the thing within the fallout lore.
The elite didn't didn't go down that avenue.
The elite didn't go within the space avenue necessarily.
I mean, there there are hints because there are there is an alien race called the Zayden's within all out.
Yeah. There are theories that are fairly canon that we did have interactions with them or the leaders of Vault Tech had interactions with them beforehand.
But nothing really set in stone.
No. And I mean, everything's speculation.
Yeah. And it's it's a game.
Yeah. Who the fuck cares really?
But I mean, I rather enjoy it.
So I mean, it's kind of cool.
You enjoy fallout or starfield?
I haven't played starfield yet.
I played a few hours of honestly like I'm it's not I am reworking my way through fallout four just because I wanted to redo that before I played fallout 76.
I've postponed playing 76.
I think I have four or maybe literally since it's come out just because I was skeptical and I'm still pretty skeptical.
I've played it for a couple hours and I'm still not sure how I really feel about it at this point.
76. Yeah, I think I I think I have like on one point I've always wanted to play fallout with friends.
But on another point, like it feels very strange now and I don't like it.
All out with friends.
Now that I've played just or just fall out now that I've played Russ, I just don't appreciate it as much.
You've played Russ. Yeah, I have Russ.
I have been looking at that game for so long.
It looks like so much if you get into a server that's a no kill server, it's great because then you can get a buddy in there and you guys can fucking go out and do missions and sit still.
And, you know, people aren't allowed to steal or kill you or raid your shit.
And you can actually like build a base.
And if it's like got a month turnaround, you can build some pretty bad ass shit.
I mean, that'd be tight.
That's pretty much all I did is hang out. I've seen a lot of shit.
I've seen a lot of play on it.
But I was looking at it like I mean, it's kind of like Arc.
Yeah. Or no man's guy.
It's really and I'm not really paying 40 bucks like, oh, just go to Kingman, bro.
But but why pay that when I can just go play no man's guy?
Yeah, I love no man's guy, though.
I think that's what ruined Starfield for me.
I never played no man's guy doesn't have the RPG.
The storytelling with it, but it is so massively open.
Yeah, you literally can do whatever the fuck you want.
I can hop in a spaceship and travel a million light years away.
That's the thing. If I have the feel for it.
Everything is AI generated.
It's like every planet that you go to is AI generated.
Yeah, and it's completely.
Starfield, they're not all AI generated.
A great majority of them are actually like planned out detailed planets.
Yeah, that's what I meant without the storytelling and all that.
But there is still that mass.
They're also implementing more AI in the no man's sky to make it more realistic.
Yeah, but that's that's what kills it for a lot of people, though, is the fact that it's not something like planned out to where you go to this planet because it's like a mission that you have.
So you have a directive to get there as a new unlock space.
Then you can go there and unlock more other things for you to go to.
Like, you know, it it it forwards the journey. It's not just you flying to wherever the fuck you want.
It says I own the first destiny and I don't remember owning the first.
I have dirt three, too, but I have like I have more than that.
I have two, three and four.
Yeah, but I have four.
I have four and seventy six.
This is just a basis here that I'm trying to look for.
But I don't think it logged into all of them.
But yeah, either way, Bethesda did not make New Vegas.
That was obsidian. OK. Yeah, I will.
At the time, Bethesda did.
Yeah. See, look, my fucking origin isn't connected.
I'm not doing all that. Fuck you.
Yeah. Yeah. Steam's not connected.
I fucking saw us not connect. I uninstalled Apex.
That's 100 gigs of my life. I want back. I got Horizon three, four and five over here.
Yeah. See, so I own New Vegas three.
I have four and seventy six. I don't play them.
Well, we might have to try. We might have to try seventy six then.
I might. Because I may not know the game, but I know the game.
I know fallout.
That's weird, too. I don't know.
It's actually saying I own games that I don't actually own.
It's weird. Yeah.
Sometimes they just appear in your libraries.
Maybe your wish list is mixed in with their. No, this is a GOG.
Oh, I don't know if you use GOG, but it takes.
Huh? Justine.
All right. Well, so what GOG does is it takes all of your launchers.
Epic Rockstar, Battle.
That steam, everything Xbox. That's what I'm saying. Justine.
Well, it takes everything and puts it all into one library so you can see what you already have.
Because, like, I have GTA five on Xbox, Rockstar and Steam.
And it just connects it into one. Is that like Rockstar mobile or something?
No, it's a Rockstar launcher. I bought it through CD keys.
And then Rockstar has its own launcher for like Red Dead Redemption and shit.
Dude, I never really got into that as much as everybody else. Red Dead Redemption is awesome.
I mean, two at least. I played two. I remember playing the first one, but it didn't make as much of an impact on me as for some reason.
I mean, can you tell I like Assassin's Creed games? Yeah.
And I never got into that one. I played the first one, but Assassin's Creed never really got it that into it. Yeah.
It's the same thing with Skyrim. I played Skyrim and I own Skyrim still.
I just never really got that into it. What is your problem, boy? I don't know.
Just like the fallout. OK, Assassin's Creed was good.
There's something about the fallout that just tickles all of me.
And that's another thing I was going to say to each other.
Oh, no, because I'm not a fallout player. That was about the game engines that I was going to go into, though, is that within those game engines,
like the reason they continue to use it is because people love it.
Yeah, it's glitchy. Yeah. Fucking is annoying sometimes.
But goddamn, it brings up some weird ass funky shit. Super glitchy.
But but it's not like it's not always just movement based or picture based or anything.
Sometimes it happens where a game glitches out to where you get an interaction that you don't normally get or something like that.
I'm fair enough. So it kind of adds to like the wild wasteland aspect of fallout.
Have you and their other subsequent games?
Did you play cyberpunk yet? No, I want to get that one as well.
See, look, I got I got dirt five.
My co-worker saying it's a lot better than like within this last year.
It's been like drastically better now that they've updated a bunch of stuff.
I heard that then he said a new big update is so good.
He said it's worth checking out again.
And then I was also looking at it right here.
Outer Worlds, but Outer Worlds is there's fallout tactics.
Fallout New Vegas. Yeah, I have all of them.
Yeah, but I have like four copies of 76 because.
I got it for free from Amazon.
So I have all of them. No, you don't have tactics for the steal.
No, I have tactics for here.
You need fallout tactics, brotherhood of steel.
There's fallout tactics and fallout tactics.
But I have to steal. Oh, well.
You're going to. Unless it is it is it a second game or is it built into tactics now?
No, kind of like two separate games.
Look it up. Fallout tactics, brotherhood of steel.
It's a game based on the steel.
I believe. Yeah, but they're both. Maybe I'll go back and replay the first one.
Uh. Remember everything I hear from everything I've hear I hear because there's a couple of fallout podcasts that I listen to.
Everything I hear like they're nice to reminisce on, but like going back and playing them now, I think they're remastered.
It feels super dated. It's they're kind of glitchy on modern PCs just because the process compares too much for the game, I guess.
I don't fucking know, which makes no fucking sense at all, because I can sit here and run any fucking Halo game and be perfectly fine.
OK, but they are the first one. The first fallout came out like 92, bro.
No, it wasn't. Yeah, no, it wasn't. Yeah, no, it wasn't.
The first fallout. Well, no, that's true because we didn't get a console fallout till three.
It was extremely pixelated. The first two were on 32 bit fucking isometric fucking turn based shit, bro.
What is it? Ninety seven. OK, 97. Yeah, I was like there's no way it was 92 this year.
I was born. Still not going to happen. What?
We barely had dial up. How many windows were you operating in 97 fucking probably windows 97.
My point are windows 98. What windows?
Coming out with those versions have been have come out since 97 since 97.
We had 98. Excuse me. XP. We had 98. We had XP.
We had Vista Chrome or not. No, we had Vista.
Vista was right after and then Vista went to Windows seven and then eight and now 10 or 10 and 11.
It's a lot of variations with a lot of updates and shit and trials in between all of those.
So it's like five and 20 years. My shoe was untied.
That's 26 years. Yeah, but look at how far computer tech has come in 26.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Some years, 25 years.
I'm saying so like like they're not going to go back and change a program for a game that's 27 years old.
Fallout two was 1998. Fallout three was 2008.
Yeah. Then follow up. New Vegas is like 2012 or 2015 15.
Oh, wait. No, that was fallout four was for. Yeah.
New Vegas is like 12 or 13 because I was right around when I graduated.
And then 76 was like 19. Oh, my God. New Vegas was 2010.
So two was 98. Fallout three was 2008, which fallout three was the first console.
Yeah. All three is also in development for like eight or 10 years.
Yeah. And then and then New Vegas was 2010. That was Bethesda.
All three was Bethesda. Right. So it was obsidian obsidian Bethesda.
And then Bethesda when Bethesda took over, obsidian guys came back and did a remake for New Vegas.
So it was obsidian obsidian technically. OK, that makes sense.
And then it went back to Bethesda for fallout four and fallout four and six.
Twenty fifteen fallout 76 2018 tactics brotherhood right here.
Brotherhood of Steel 2001 2001. Yeah.
But then there's another one over here that says Brotherhood of Steel 2004.
Oh, it just says fallout Brotherhood of Steel and then fallout tactics Brotherhood of Steel.
We're. Yeah, you see that. Yeah.
I mean, it looks like the same game. I played that one.
I guess I played both of them. This one actually doesn't look like the same game.
I played that one too. Yeah. I had that.
Yeah, this is just just fallout. My dad has that one for the OG Xbox.
That's probably what it was. And then tactics was probably my computer.
My dad is. Yeah. Look, two completely different games.
So there's two Brotherhood of Steel. So the second one is definitely for all of them are non-canon.
All the tactics games are not canon. Well, for the same thing with the halo.
The halo wars aren't. Yeah.
But dude, this is how much of a fucking computer nerd my dad was. First Xbox comes out, right?
He gets the Xbox before he even takes it out of the box.
He takes it to this guy and he's like, hey, I want you to modify this.
He's like, basically tells him what he can do.
And he's like, gave him like another four hundred dollars.
This guy takes out fucking the fucking brand new Xbox, brand new Xbox apart.
Fucking puts like an upgraded processor in it, upgrades the hard drive, like 120 gig hard drive.
Fucking the hard drive was nice. Yeah.
And then he had like a CD burner installed into it.
So basically we just go fucking Hollywood video or game crazy and rent brand new games for seven dollars.
I was supposed to buying them for 60 and burn them onto the Xbox and return them.
I had a. So there's like a. I had a. I had a modded PS2 that did that.
Yeah. That would burn them and I could put them on an external hard drive or like a flash drive.
No, this is all like in. No, I know.
This is PS2. PS2 didn't have any smaller hard drive.
Yeah, it was one of the little mini ones, but we used to plug a flash drive in into the backside of it
and we can copy the games to it and just plug it in and play it.
It was so cool. Yeah. So cool. Yeah.
But like so there's like a hundred, a hundred games burnt on there.
That's what I miss about the computer shit. Just actually modding show. I had a modded PSP.
I had a modded PS3.
And there's like I never had anything after PlayStation 2. No.
Yeah. When I was growing up, it was Atari.
And then I had one of those. I played a lot of Nintendo.
Then we got a regular NES. Then we got the SNES. Yep.
Then we got N64. No. Then we got a dream cast first.
Oh, and then I see my parents when get me a dream cast, I had to go to my buddy's house.
We got a Saturn. And we had those for quite a while. And then we got a 64.
Yeah, we had all of the Nintendos growing up.
The 64. I still have mine somewhere. My original. My dad has mine still.
He plays. I think my uncle has it still. He was keeping it safe for me.
Safe. Retro retrospect.
It's been some years since I handed it to I was like in between moving and shit was like, I don't want this to get fucked up.
I can't take it with me. I'm done watching it. Take it. Just just hang on to it.
I know we still got it. I got like 100 games with it still. Dude, I still have a fucking and like four controllers, the rumble pack.
I have the Gameboy adapter for Pokemon. Yeah.
I would play that game so bad, dude. You don't play it. We can play right now.
I miss that game. Literally play right now. Yeah. On the switch.
Yeah. Fucking hey, dude. That's dope. They have the N64 emulator.
Like like built into the switch like you just pay their it's like two ninety nine their monthly subscription thing.
And you get all of the N64 games. All of them. Fucking Super Smash.
Fuck. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Oh, G Super Smash. That's the best.
Oh, you want to get down that one and go. We'll go live. The two of us.
I'll smash you. You were the only ones that should be played.
So the game Super Smash Bros.
Maylay. Hold on. I don't know. The game is the only one they don't have yet.
And I'm waiting for it because I have I've found my original copy of Wind Waker.
You know, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker. GameCube disc, my actual physical copies, the only one I still have sitting out there.
I don't have anything to play it on. And it's my wife's favorite. She's been bugging for it.
So I got it. I'm going to go get my brother. I'm going to go get an old weed.
I'm going to go get an old weed and I'm going to mod it.
And just so well, for one, it'll play GameCube games anyway. Yeah.
The older ones will. But if I mod it, I don't have to worry about it.
So here's your GameCube just with a Wii controller.
But I got you beat. So here, check it out. I'm going to do this.
Well, I was going to tell you, but you know, no, you weren't shut up.
I wasn't. Boom. There you go. Oh, what is this?
Bam. Oh, that one is so much better than the Wii. I played it. It's better than the GameCube.
It's better than the original. Disagree. I love the Nintendo Switch version.
Nothing beats the original Super Smash Bros. But I have it.
Nothing beats the original. And literally, you know, have you played a Switch before?
Yeah, I played it up in Greenland. They are fucking.
This is probably the best investment. Did you remember when I was dating Sarah?
She fucking had one. Yeah. We played Mario Kart a lot.
That's the only one I don't have. Yeah.
I'm just not a huge fan of the Switch. I just got it to play.
I was never a big Nintendo guy. Like, really? My dad got me a PC is really fast.
Like I was playing Doom 94. And I mean, OK, yeah, it's all 96.
Growing up. So I went from I had that 64 forever. Yeah.
Then we got a PS1. And then that was like, oh, shit. OK, cool.
I remember opening it up for Christmas, like the year it came out.
Like, oh, my God, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk.
Yeah. Fucking the original like Gran Turismo, like fucking Final Fantasy.
I'm good to go. Yeah. And then a PS2 came out.
We had one of those two. The big fat brick looking motherfucker.
Not the slim. The first one that started to the first one that would play DVDs.
It was a DVD player at the same time. It was fucking awesome. I loved it.
I did have a slim one, though. Those things are awesome, too.
They didn't they they got the same computing power.
They didn't need no, they didn't.
They overheated more than I left mine on for like weeks at a time
because I didn't have a memory card, buddy.
I'm on my slim and it was always Guitar Hero.
The slim just ran it better. They fixed they fixed everything.
And then I remember I had a I had my cousin plays in a band and he was just like,
why don't you just learn to play guitar?
And after that, it ran Guitar Hero for me.
You're like straight up called me out.
I was like, fuck you. Fine. I want to play real guitar.
Oh, because you're good at Guitar Hero. Yeah. Yeah.
I can play the shit out of guitar.
Why don't you just learn to play real guitar?
And I picked up a real guitar and I can't play it. We're shit right now.
I was like, are you fucking dick? Yeah.
We got a nice little clip.
I'm going to put it in the very beginning of the episode.
A shitty clip that I haven't played for five years.
Yeah. Yeah. And now I just picked up a guitar.
So we're going to jam right now. It's actually tuned.
Yeah. If you go to play it, you will actually get the right sound out of it.
Cool. I just got to learn the beneficial.
I just got to learn.
I'm just glad after all these years of not even tuning a guitar, I can still tune it.
I'm just I mean, you pulled up a cheat sheet. So yeah, but I was I was just I would put it in a G sharp or flat.
But I don't know. I think you were going flat. Yeah.
Because it was lower. I was like lower than what it actually was.
Yeah. But I was like, dude, I was close.
And then you had to tune it back down anyway. No. Yeah.
Didn't it tune to an E? No, I had it like you tuned it.
You tuned it to a G, but it was tuned to an E.
I don't fucking know.
At first, and then it went back and you had to tune it back to E.
I think I think I just thought he I didn't follow what the note said.
I just followed the squiggly line to make sure.
Yeah, the squiggly line took you back to E.
OK. You look squiggly.
Yeah. Just follow the line. Make a stay straight and go in.
Yeah, I'm going to learn guitar.
Yeah, I mean, but I'm serious.
You would get down on the thing I did. I would just go to YouTube videos.
I would literally type in. Yeah, I'm going to.
So I would just watch people play, though I wouldn't watch a tutorial.
I would just watch people play.
Oh, I'm going to keep this on.
That was a unique thing for me to do.
So what was YouTube tutorials? Not tutorials.
No, I would just go type in a song of like a fingerpicking version of a song
that I wanted to play and I would watch somebody just and I would just
analyze our hand movements.
Right. Instead of like doing the fucking.
No, I want like legit.
Like, for one, I got I'm going to have you teach me what you know.
I got my buddy Rich, who's been on the show.
He's been on the podcast.
Oh, that's right.
I don't have it plugged in.
Fucking Doug, what are you doing?
No, I don't have the HDMI plugged in right now.
I was trying to show you the emulators they got on here.
Oh, I mean, I've seen some of them.
Oh, they added a whole bunch.
So I had a guy up in Greenland who had a switch and we played a couple of times
and he had some of the things.
Yeah, I was just trying to pull it up because they got a Super Nintendo one.
But he has a blue controller, not green.
You can buy the.
I want black.
I want the white ones.
I honestly, I like I before I went to Greenland, I had four days to spend in Albany, New York.
And there was like nothing really to do.
And I was with there.
I was there with a guy that I'd met my roommate in Greenland.
Oh, for Antarctica. Yeah.
We went to Greenland together, too.
But we were like, let's go like game shopping, see what we can find to take up there.
And like he bought a PS Vita and trash and a couple of games for it.
He's PS Vita is garbage.
It's like 22.
It's still garbage.
I bought one when it first came out and I was like, fuck this.
He was young and full of money because the PSP was probably my favorite console I'd ever had.
Couldn't find a PSP. He wanted one and we only had four days and he wanted to take up there.
And he's young and he had a lot of money.
He had already bought outright a brand new iPhone.
So buy a fucking Nintendo.
I'm not here to tell a man to do what he wants with his money.
OK, like legit, buy a fucking.
He wanted his Vita. So he got his Vita.
I on the other hand, I'm sorry for this body blue OG Nintendo DS.
See?
Because I wanted the ability to play because I still have some fire emblem.
I still know if I remember Game Boy Advance game and Game Boy games.
Yeah. And just the only thing I have is I can only play regular DS games.
I can't. And yes, light, I believe.
But I can't play DS 2D or 3D games.
So yeah, well, the 2D is the 3D.
It's all the same. It's it's for 3D.
Yes. They just made a 2D model because you can because I had a 3D.
I had a 3D in the Excel. The Excel is fucking amazing.
My brother's the Nintendo nerd.
Right on the top of the screen, there was a little dial.
So you can you can enhance the 3D in it.
I just I never used it because I played Ocarina of Time on it.
Yeah. So good.
In 3D, bro, it's a trip.
I was surprised. I'm like, dude, I picked up for a hundred bucks.
That's not bad. I spent like 50 more.
I remember when the DS came out, the very first one.
Yeah, I had one. I had an OG in the DS.
I had the DSI.
I had the DSI to give it more of like a brickier thing
and had a camera on the front of it.
And I was like, I just had the DS light, which is like the second gen.
Oh, gotcha. Yeah.
My brother and then for like the three DS and shit, they start doing like the big fucking
handheld ones that didn't fold. Yeah, I hate it.
I mean, that's why I don't want to buy a switch to because I like how small the regular DS is.
And I can like fold the screen so I can just play on the top half.
Yeah. Or the bottom half.
Yeah, either way. That's how the three DS was like.
They had the fold up or they had it to where it was one big one like Dungeons and Dragons,
Kingdom Hearts, Sonic. Oh, man.
Kingdom Hearts. OK.
And I bought a Golden Suns game. Golden Suns. Good.
Yeah. I remember. I didn't grab Fire Emblem, though.
I believe me for four days I scrounged for one.
And if you had a DS, you should have picked up Pokemon.
I'm not a huge Pokemon guy. You might not be, but it is hours of entertainment.
You got nothing else to do. I actually love.
But I don't want I've only ever played two.
I believe the one I played was leaf green. I don't believe I even played Ruby Red.
And I don't think I ever finished leaf green.
And I stopped. It's just Ruby. It's not Ruby Red.
It's just Ruby.
Whatever. There's a there's a red.
That came out like 1995. Red, blue, yellow.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then gold, silver.
Yeah. You know, Ruby and Sapphire.
And then that's when Fire and Leaf Green were the remakes of the very first ones.
OK. Fire. Whatever.
Fire, Red, Leaf, Green, because it was red and green originally in Japan.
And then Diamond Pearl.
Fucking black and white. Too much. Yeah.
Too much. Once they breached 150 Pokemon, this is when I stopped.
There was 151 in the very first one. Whatever 151.
You too. Cool. You choose 150.
You fucking. There you go.
Whatever. Gen two was 100 new Pokemon.
And then Gen three was like 100 and.
I don't know. Eight. Eighty something.
I did the same thing with you, though, once the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe got expanded, I stopped.
Yeah. Don't get me started on Yu-Gi-Oh!
I stopped. I can't. I can't handle it.
When the XYZs came out.
Do you know what the XYZs are? Nope. Exactly.
I stopped once the first Gen was not a thing anymore.
Oh, no, it was good. The synchros.
When you started learning how to synchro summon and doing shit like that, tuners and synchros,
that fucking format for like the next couple of years, I played fucking hardcore.
I know I'm regional champion.
I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh! regional champion.
Got invited to nationals and didn't have the money to go down to California for it.
That sucks. It does.
That does suck, bud.
But it is what it is. I still got my Konami card, my regional player card.
I never did anything like that. That I've had since high school.
I know I've won a couple of car shows.
I've won one.
Well, it's second place, I guess, technically.
But I still got a trophy for Wade.
There you go. Yeah.
Yeah, the best in show never got that into Yu-Gi-Oh! or Pokemon.
Like I was fairly and so I still have all my Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, though.
I don't. I got rid of them all.
Kicked my drawer open, buddy.
I didn't do shit. That was weird. My drawer was open.
It's because you were getting your shit out of there earlier.
No, or the drawer above it. Maybe it opened when you opened the other drawer.
I know. Whatever.
But I got hard into Pokemon.
Oh, you still you still are.
Pokemon. Well, so I took a break for a long time.
Yeah. But it was like I played Pokemon.
Like that was my very first video game ever was the original Game Boy,
which I still have somewhere. Mine was Doom 94.
I have an original Game Boy and a Game Boy Color somewhere in my stuff.
I think it might be with my 64. I have a Game Boy Color somewhere.
But like every new console was like, that's what I wanted for my birthday or Christmas.
It was really easy for my parents. Yeah.
Like, oh, new Pokemon, new Game Boy.
I have a Game Boy Advance. I know where that one is here.
I don't have my the original Game Boy Advance.
You used to go widescreen or not with the old games. Yeah.
No, my brother has it.
I gave him mine and it had the little fucking light that you could plug into it.
You have a light shine on it.
You remember that little the little flipper.
So I had backlit.
I had it was essentially a controller for it.
And so it was like I had the big old battery pack that made it into a bigger handheld.
I had the screen with the magnifying glass and the light.
I had so much that you could plug into that thing.
You just had this fucking fanny pack size carrying case.
For real. Those things were so inefficient. Yeah.
It took four or what did it take? Two double A's.
It went down from four to two and they still would only last like I'm gaming like fucking 10 hours over here.
Oh, no, they're dead in two. Yeah.
So I carried fucking an eight. I'd go to the dollar store.
I'm fucking like 10 years old, dude. Yeah.
Like go to the dollar store. I'm buying eight packs of these things to carry with me.
You didn't buy the rechargeable packs? No.
Why not? I'm like 10. Yeah.
Like my all these I didn't buy them. My parents got them. But yeah.
Yeah. My parents. There was batteries. Those things.
They didn't give a fuck. Those things. Plus I already knew those things like clamped on there in such a way that was like basically like having like one of them 18 volt drill batteries in there.
Fucking hand. But no. And then eventually I did get one. Yeah.
But originally it was just the batteries. But I did get one.
And right when I got that and the magnifying glass because I got them from a buddy of mine. I didn't like the magnifying.
I traded him Pokemon cards for him. Specifically, remember? Yeah.
No. First edition from the jungle set or fossil set and fucking then they announced the S.P.
I had an S.P. and the S.P. was a game changer.
Dude, the S.P. was awesome. I love that thing. That was literally just like this.
I'm a first. I'm stuck in your pocket.
I played so much Pokemon and had the first one with a black backlight. Yeah.
I almost said black and justable. Yeah.
Damn it, dude. Yeah. That was like playing it at night.
Not only does it backlit, but you can dim it, bro.
Like I couldn't play any games at night. At all.
Oh, before. Yeah, before, because there's no light.
You need an actual like physical light to try to see.
You have I had a light even for the color.
I had a light that you could plug in the side that would use the battery and you could shine it on there.
But I always didn't have that. Oh, that's what I mean. Gotcha.
Yeah. Like I know that light was fucking or like the original Gameboy where there was no light, but it did have a camera.
Did you know that infrared that kind of thing? No.
It had a legit game.
It was a big ass cartridge that had a little fucking camera on top of it.
And I remember because my neighbor had one and I never got one, but my neighbor had one.
I played with it, but it was this fucking huge cartridge that plugged into where the game goes.
This little camera and you could take pictures on it.
Imagine eight bit pictures, not even 16 bit, just eight bit pictures.
Damn. Yeah. And then it had the little link cable that would go from your Gameboy to this.
It was about this big, this little itty bitty printer.
Oh, you know, I do remember that it printed.
Yeah, like all the pictures I do remember that because then because then you had the little the trader thing you could hook up with that cable to.
Yeah, that's how we traded Pokemon. Yeah.
But yeah, this was the fucking the camera. Yeah, I remember that now.
Yeah, this is with a color, but like here's so here's the printer.
It was like a little receipt paper.
This big camera. Cool of shit.
Why don't we have this crap anymore? There's the fucking like link cable.
There's Pokemon. This is so much cooler. That was Pokemon pinball right there. Yeah.
You had to put a battery in the game. It was fucking weird because it vibrated.
Yeah, it was fucking weird. Cool.
Yeah, they can get this whole pack right now. What was the black Pokemon one? Was that that was the trader?
The black Pokemon one? Yeah, what was black Pokemon?
What do you mean? It was a black Pokemon, a black original game like that.
No, yeah. Here's no, because here's red and green, blue and yellow, gold, silver, crystal.
That's Pokemon trading card. OK, that's what I was. Yeah, that's what you're thinking of that one.
I knew it was a black cartridge. Yeah. I was like, because otherwise they're all colored.
No, I'm just like a black cartridge. But that that is the picture I was imagining.
Yeah. Pokemon black and white didn't come out to like Nintendo DS.
So that's why I was like, what black one are you talking about? Yeah.
No, that was I remember that game. Yeah.
They just put that on the emulator for on the switch so you can play the original trading card game.
It's so much fun. I remember it is one hundred eighty nine bucks.
I had that I would buy had that exact gameboy color. I would totally buy it.
That's what it all comes with. Yeah. All of this right here.
These are all in Japanese. I would definitely.
Hopefully they're original. They're not colored, though, which is weird.
Yeah, I would buy it just for the Gameboy, dude.
Crystals, crystals. I don't know.
But yeah, that's the OG Pokemon. I got it. I had that. I got a clear purple one.
Oh, Gameboy Advance. Yeah.
I'm happy with that. There you go. See, look.
I'm happy I can pinnacle the gaming right there.
I'm happy I got the I have that same blue, but just everybody had the blue.
Yes, everybody had that blue. I had that. Oh, GDS.
Look, yeah, but they gave me a carrying case of the DS, too.
I was like, fucking sweet. Yeah.
Here's like another version of that.
Yep. That's the more than I remember. This was the.
Yeah, that's what I remember. Yeah.
See the little picture it took right there.
Yeah. The pocket printer.
And that thing was so clunky to try to carry around. Everything was.
It was the 90s. It was so terrible.
Yeah. Look at the picture.
And I missed the 90s. Yeah.
I only got to I only remember a tiny fraction of the end of it, but my brother was, you know,
OG Gameboy right there. My brother is six years older than me, so he had a lot of shit from the 90s.
And then there's the Gameboy color. I got the clear purple.
Yeah, this one. I know which one I had that one, too.
And then that's when the yellow Pokemon one came out. I hate it.
I wish I had one of those solid colored. Yeah, I had this one.
I had the purple one at first. And then I got no, not that one.
I had the Pokemon with the green one.
That one. That one. No, the other one. That one.
I want that one. Yeah, I had the Pikachu one.
Wherever it went, whatever.
The green one just looks so dope to me. I don't know why.
Because it's green and green is awesome.
What a big green guy. No, I love it.
I love it. I wear like pretty much only black and white, but I was so hard in a fucking Pokemon.
Yeah. Yeah, so I had all of that.
I miss all that shit. And then after I had the Gameboy Advance, I had the Nintendo DS.
About in between there is when I finally picked up PC.
Oh, yeah, because World of Warcraft.
I had started like I think it was like a year after the game came out.
I finally started playing. 2006. Yeah, about 2006, 2007.
Yeah, that's like when my brother gave me his first built PC.
I didn't even have that. I played it on whatever fucking I could.
No, my brother gifted it to me.
And then it was about I think it was about 2009.
Yeah, it was about the time Burning Crusade came out.
Twenty nine, 2009, 2010.
I had built somewhat of a computer, not a gaming computer,
but I had kind of built like an old Windows XP style desktop.
Yeah, because I started doing music on that and it was just World of Warcraft.
Yeah, until I went to laptop gaming because I could just go buy a laptop way better than my desktop.
Oh, dude, I had a fat fucking Republican gaming laptop.
Yeah, I know. I just never understood it like.
And then I blew the fucking graphics card in it and then come to find out the graphics card is built into the motherboard.
So I would have had to replace literally the whole fucking thing and was like, fuck this.
I had friends that went through the same exact shit.
I don't do it. All I did was close it.
I was like, why are you going to spend fucking I literally dollars on a laptop.
Just go buy build a PC for six.
So I had I traded a three sixty for it.
I because this was about the time I was big into black ops.
You know, Call of Duty is the last game on release.
So I had to to three sixties.
I had my old one and then my newer one with the Wi-Fi.
And so I had traded the or no, I had two of the Wi-Fi ones after a minute because I remember I traded one.
I still had one, but I traded one for this gaming laptop to Will's mom.
OK, which she still had that Xbox until she passed away.
And then I broke the laptop. Of course, it did.
But I mean, I gamed on it for like a year and a half, two years.
And then all of us just randomly like I'm playing World of Warcraft.
Nothing special. And I fucking just like I closed it maybe a little too hard one day
and the next it just would not turn on at all.
I'm like. Tearing it apart, tearing it apart, like what the fuck is going on?
I take it to my buddy. I'm like, here, just investigate this.
Yeah, he goes, yeah, you need a motherboard, buddy.
Over fucking heated.
Some just it like shorted when I closed it.
Yeah, probably because it had overheated so many times.
Well, I had it on a stand with fans and all that shit.
Yeah, those things don't do all like the best.
No, but better than sitting it on this. Yeah.
And fucking yeah. So the fucking graphics card is built into the motherboard.
Dr. Fried it all.
And it was like I think they said it was like five or six hundred bucks.
I think it's for a new one. I'm like, fuck that. I'll just go get a new laptop.
I still have some of my OG built PC parts.
And then that's where this one came in.
I think I got the mother.
I might not have the motherboard, but I got the graphics card
and I think I have the power source.
Like we literally just went through the specs of this thing, right? Yeah.
This laptop I'm holding in my hand because I know the people can't see it.
This is what I played World of Warcraft on and recorded music on for a decade
up until I got this like ADHD guys was recorded on the same fucking shitty laptop.
So much better. The very beginning of Tenacious Geeks. Yeah.
Of this actual show, like the first I think like 10 or 12 episodes were recorded on the same laptop.
And it survived our same same mics. I have now.
My episode was our hottest hell episode.
And it survived one hundred and twenty something degrees in a garage.
With no air circulation. No. And three sweaty dudes.
Yep. And it survived in like a two and a half hour episode. Yeah. Yeah.
That's yeah. The only thing it couldn't do.
The only the one that broke it, though, which is the name of that episode.
Was the worst. My computer cannot keep up with four microphones.
Yeah. At all. Not even this one.
Anyone going to think about it? Of course.
And then once I upgraded the RAM a little bit, so I went from four gigs to eight gigs.
It ran three a lot better. I understand my life because I've had like, you know, my brother gave me that PC probably when I was.
Thirteen. Yeah. So like I had the experience of having a I mean, it wasn't top of the line even when he built it.
Yeah. So I mean, six, seven years later, even both of ours now are not even close to the line.
But but it's still seven years later, you know, whatever it didn't advance as much in that time back then as it does now.
No, but it does what we need it to do. Yeah. I used that thing for 10 years as it was like I've been using it for a month.
I mean, I played CSGO or not CSGO Counter Strike one point six and Counter Strike Source.
And I wasn't a big World of Warcraft guy. I tried it multiple times.
I couldn't get into it, played a lot of RuneScape as a kid. OK, so do I.
I was I got into I was a Guild Wars guy. Guild Wars is my shit for I can.
I played it for a while. I'm going to work in.
I've tried to go back to it multiple times. I tried to I tried to go to it for a while, but then it was kind of like I had already invested so much time in a while.
I might as well just continue. Yeah. I mean, I had fucking decade worth.
Yeah. Well, and up until I quit, it was like I think their 10th or 11th anniversary.
Like I'm still on a discord for the discord for Guild Wars, and they still do all the updates.
They still get every holiday event. They just like the players that you're playing in there with are the die hard Guild Wars people.
And they're in the same shit that they've been doing for the last 15 years. Right.
Yes. See, I just so after World of Warcraft, I kind of just went straight back to console. Yeah.
So because it was like I still I would play Call of Duty and then World of Warcraft at the same time.
Not literally, but yeah, no, I know you're a Pokemon.
I still had my Pokemon up until just a couple of years ago.
I think it was like right before I got married is when I got rid of my three DS.
So it was like even like right before the switch came out. Yeah.
So I didn't play the last couple Pokemon games until this one, which is awesome.
But and then the PC thing, I just went back to Xbox.
It is nice that you can pass on a PC. Yeah, like I just went back to Xbox one.
Like I really like Xbox one earlier, Sony would give you that option.
Yeah, Sony sucks. I have a PS4.
Yeah. Do you want to know what the PS4 is being used for right now? DVDs, Netflix.
Sitting on a corner as a book wait, sitting in the corner of the desk, just sitting here because I so
I got this shut out to Skylar because he actually gave it to the wife
and me because he knew I wanted to play Spider-Man.
She wanted to play Jack and Daxter.
So when we got it, cool. I got three Xboxes in this house.
Yeah, I bought the series X like the week it came out.
I got so lucky. I remember that. That I didn't have to preorder it.
I remember that I got so lucky to actually buy it physically in the store.
Like, yes. So I still have an episode about that.
Did I? I've mentioned it a few times.
I just because the story for that is so awesome because everybody's so jealous and I was having a conversation or like at least listening to a conversation with you and Will about it.
You might have. So I think it was on ADHD guys at one point.
You might have gone over this story.
Yeah, maybe because I remember this.
Yeah, because I got that few months before we started ADHD.
Yeah, it was like right before.
No. Yeah, we're going to regardless either way.
But it was awesome.
So I got this week play Spider-Man and shit. I already beat Spider-Man.
Didn't take long. She beat. I feel like none of them are.
She beat all three Jack and Daxter's.
It was nothing. And then it just went into our kids room as a Netflix machine because we'll just go play Xbox.
I got three of them. Don't you wish you invested that money into that?
No, kind of, sort of. But at the same time, I love that series X. Yeah, I just.
But the part that's been making me so the whole reason I even wanted to switch over to PC now is well, for one, my sister hooked me up.
Yeah, but the podcast was starting to get annoying with the laptop and I was already looking into buying a new laptop.
Yeah, I remember that. Right.
Like something bigger, stronger. But I wanted the portability so I can load up the mics, you know, go over to Will's house, go over to somebody's house, a guest house, take it with me if I go somewhere.
Yeah. And then was like she had this and I just was making deals.
Let me let me snag it. Yeah.
Then I am, you know, it did what I got. It didn't have a graphics card.
So I put I put that in there, fucking fixed it all up, went and got multiple screens. I got all this shit.
Yeah, I know the process. Yeah.
And now I'm just into it. But the part that kind of got me the most gaming wise, because I just wanted it to podcast and stream so I could stream the switch.
Because you can't do it without a computer.
It doesn't have the. Accessibility like Xbox and PlayStation has. Right. Where it's built in.
Oh, good at size. Well, I mean, it's pretty strong for what it is. Yeah, I'm just saying.
But I love it. I love being able. I just grab it, throw it in the case and fucking we took it.
I took a ride to the beach. I was like, all right, cool. Honey, you're going to drive. You drive up there.
You drive up there. I'll drive back. You know, we'll be good. Yeah, I'm fucking it's like eight, nine o'clock in the morning.
I just take a big, full fat fucking dab right before we go. And just.
She's over there jamming. I don't even need headphones because it's Pokemon. Yeah.
There's no dialogue or nothing. And I don't have to hear for enemies or nothing.
So I'm just sitting there just happy and stone in the past. You see, just fucking Pokemon away.
Yeah. It's like no Internet. So I'm not doing like online battles or nothing.
I'm just running around just fucking off. This is awesome.
That's why I bought the DS. Yeah.
Because I mean, which is my opinion on mobile gaming is already I don't like them. Right.
And it's like, I mean, I have mobile games I can play. Yeah.
But going from like here to Long Beach, a lot of times I'm offline. Yeah.
Like I have Verizon, but I dropped. I mean, I have I have adapted the online games.
So that way, at least I have something. Right. But it's like taking this thing with me.
Like I could play Super Smash Brothers. Yeah, I can play.
You can run it off your phone's hotspot if you wanted to. I mean, well, that's what I mean. My hotspot loses. Yeah.
Well, like on the way up there, there's like a good hour stretch where there's no service at all.
I know that. And so it's like I can't like I could play games on my phone,
but then I'm going to lose service and be like, what the fuck? Yeah.
And I could just enjoy the ride and all that, too. But it was kind of nice. Yeah.
You know, I took it with me to get my old change yesterday.
You're that nerd. I don't give a fuck.
I did. I did actually walk to the mall, though.
Like I literally was like so bored.
I just put my headphones on and walked over to the mall and back. Yeah.
And then by the time I got there, I sat down and got it out and just had just started.
And then that's when they called me and I'm like.
That's what you get. That's what you get. Cool. I'm out of here.
What? Don't fucking judge me, bro. Don't fucking judge me.
Regardless, we're talking about your PC. Oh, OK.
Well, anyway, anyway, I didn't even say the main point either.
Yeah, what you love about it. I wanted the podcasting and the streaming for the switch.
OK, I didn't actually if I was just going to bring my Xbox in here.
Because I have an external capture card.
That's right. So for like all of that shit, mostly was destiny.
I was like, oh, OK, well, maybe I could swap all my destiny shit over here. No. Fuck it.
The price of games is what is making me fully switch because the series X is a $10 difference from the other one.
So now instead of games being 60 bucks, they're 70. Yeah.
Because you got to buy it like Call of Duty or Hogwarts.
When that Hogwarts legacy game came out, I had to pay the $70.
They didn't even have an old version yet.
It was it was just straight to $70.
And I'm like, I could buy it on here for 50 on Steam.
Also, how many times Steam goes on sale? A lot between Steam, CD keys and so many other places.
And tons of people in groups just giving out fucking giving out codes like Amazon Prime gives out fucking AAA title games all the time for their prime.
Like I got Force Unleashed one and two for Amazon.
I already owned them on Xbox, but I own all the Star Wars games on X. I need to look into that.
But the prime gaming. Yeah. Yeah.
Amazon has its own game launcher now.
But I mean, a lot of them are kind of here. I'll pull it up.
A lot of them are kind of blah.
But let's see, like a lot of it's like this kind of stuff.
You get a lot of in-game Pokemon Go, Apex, Hearthstone.
You get like in-game stuff.
But then you come down here and you get these, which like these games are all free free.
And you own them forever.
That's just something for Valorant.
That's dope. Like this game Grun whatever this is.
Like it's it's free.
Does it came out January 20, 23. I don't even know what it is.
Are we going to play killing for tonight? You're too scared.
I don't even know what's going on tonight.
Yes, you get a bunch of like every week or a couple of weeks, it will give you like new shit.
But I had I had gained a lot.
You don't have Amazon, bro. I have Amazon Prime.
I've just never gone to Amazon Prime gaming.
The gaming is part of prime.
Same thing with music. I don't typically go on Amazon Prime.
I try not to use Amazon. I don't have to.
Here's the launcher. Right.
I think here's the free games of prime.
But like I can go to like all games.
These are like all the games they've given me in so long.
That's about what I expected.
Like here's force unleashed.
I think this is what gave me fallout actually.
Do do do do.
Looking for them all. See, like I can just claim these ones.
Nice.
Like do send me an email.
Even should like King Gwyn like like metal slug eggs and metal slug and two for three bucks.
Yeah, which killing for two was kind of tight.
My first time playing it, but.
I mean, you only got to experience one map.
It was like 50 more and that was a pretty small bigger map.
No. No, no, why not?
That was fucking insane. I need a controller for that.
Well, bring a controller, plug it in.
You don't have an Xbox controller.
I got like four of them. You don't have they're all in the other room.
You don't have a wire you can connect to your computer.
Yes, I do.
I have to use the Xbox controller to play GTA.
Yes, because the mod servers won't work with the PS4.
Next time I play it, just bring a controller.
But also the PS4 is the only one not being used.
So that's why the controllers in here.
And it's for Spider-Man
because I beat the first Spider-Man on there and then bought Miles Morales
because it was on sale for like 20 bucks.
Oh, yeah. And my computer runs it fucking fantabulous.
Nice. So but I can't play it mouse and keyboard playing Spider-Man.
No, I'm good.
GTA. No, I'll grab controllers for those.
It's so much nicer.
I mean, the steering one.
Yes. Any car racing game is better with controller.
Oh, absolutely.
Even just the running and all of that.
I was using that.
But I don't know.
Now, for me, movement like any FPS RPG.
I've noticed if I'm playing a shooter, I grab mouse and keyboard now.
Yeah, you'll gravitate that way more and more.
Just not. It's just easier, man.
Well, not just that, but I don't have to grab the controller.
Yeah. Like once you're used to it, like.
Yeah, you don't really have the mobility, so you can't like sit there, like rock back and forth and do all this shit.
You kind of locked into a position at your desk.
But like for one, it feels more like it's ergonomic to me.
And you have like you like the mobility you have with your aiming is really dependent.
I mean, you see all this fucking mouse room I got here.
Yeah. Like for me, though, I have like a pretty medium setting.
So I'm like you moving my arm quite a lot.
Yeah, I don't. I move my wrist.
No, I'm like I'm not going like this.
You guys are all better shots than me.
Yeah, but I literally so like if you don't look like I'm literally like this is right here and I'm right here.
And this is about where I'm at. Is this right here?
I'm so much. But my mouse. Yeah, but I have to try to make the settings like this.
This is on. I know I do, too. Yeah.
This is my Max. Yeah, I literally just if you have it, if you have your DPI at a slower rate.
Yeah, look, but you're able to move your arm faster and farther.
That's what I'm saying. But if you do that while you're gaming, I can.
It will improve your shot.
I'd say I'm pretty good still.
You definitely are. I'm just saying like unless you watch pros doing FPS on mouse and keyboard, though, they're going like this.
They're not sitting there. Well, there's with the sniper.
Like when I bring the sniper out, I'll fucking click it.
I'll click it down when I'm aiming down and I'll click it back.
I'm off. So that's why when I'm quick scoping, it's way too much work.
Now, well, it's right here.
So like way too much work. I just literally.
Too much work. It's right under the mouse wheel.
Sometimes I click it and don't even know it.
Exactly. And then my little turbo button that I have no idea what the fuck to do.
But yeah, pretty good episode, sir.
Thank you. Yeah, I think we're pretty good.
You got some else? No, just video games.
Just pretty much video games. It was just all we do.
Yeah, video games and an article in Greenland a little bit.
Well, it's pretty much what me and Ferg do to. Yeah. Video games and anime.
Yeah, sometimes movies, but sorry, Ferg's not here.
Everybody. But, you know, he's got you today.
He's being daddy today. It's awesome.
They went on a little vacation. Yeah, no, it's good.
It's a good thing. He's not here for sure.
But yeah, I know, because I called him last night.
I fucking called him last night. Yeah, you were there.
Yeah, like live. I'm just like, hey, what are you doing, buddy?
Are you going to come play video games?
Well, you didn't say who you were calling at first.
I'm like, who are you calling? And then Ferg answered.
I was like, why are you calling Ferg? Because I forgot.
And I was like, hey, are you going to get on? Yeah.
No. Oh, shit. Nope. Forgot you were out of town.
You're like four hours up north. Yeah. My bad.
OK, talk to you later.
He might have popped into one of our streams on Discord for a quick second.
But yeah, I didn't see it.
I think he was watching our stream for a little bit. Yeah.
I mean, I did stream for like five hours. Yeah.
And then we came for like seven. Yeah.
It was a long time. It was fun.
But we played like three different games.
Yeah, dude, that my hero games not.
It looked it looks a lot more fun than it actually is. Yeah.
Well, which is weird, because I played the beta on Xbox.
Yeah. And it was maybe it's one of them controller games for you.
I mean, maybe. But I mean, it was fun.
Now it's just kind of like it reminds me of Apex.
No, it reminds me of like.
Fortnite and Fortnite, like combined, but shittier.
Yeah, I'll still I'll still play a little bit of Fortnite.
Yeah, like when my daughter's here and she's like, Hey, Dad, you come play for me.
Yeah, I mean, that's fair.
Fucking cool. Let me pop the stream on. Let's play Fortnite. Fuck it.
Yeah, she's better than I am.
Yeah, like if I could get I had a kid, I would play for me.
But I thought I could. I'm happy.
Oh, dude, I got videos of her at like four years old.
Yeah. Five years old.
She's about to turn. She's about to turn nine.
No, she's like four or five on Xbox controller on my Xbox,
because it's the only reason I'd have Fortnite on there is so like other kids can play when they're over.
Yeah, I'm nice enough to share sometimes.
And I'm watching her get like solo victory, like full on like whooping everybody.
They're not bots. I know they're not bots because it's Fortnite.
Yeah. But like 10 victories in a row.
I'm like, OK, we need to figure something out with this right here, because even I'm not that good.
Yeah. Even if I made a new account, I'm still not that good.
Like, no way. Nice.
Now, now she's a bit more. I think she's smelling out now. Yeah.
I don't know. Maybe it was bot lobbies. Yeah.
But she's pretty good.
So if I could get blood on an Xbox, though, I would totally let her play that with us.
I would be sick. She would eventually know she's pretty good at Fortnite.
She's teaching me stuff as I'm playing.
She's hollering at me from across the hall like, Dad, you need to do this.
I'm like, what the fuck is that?
I love blood. It is so addicting.
I haven't played Pokemon in God knows how long. Yeah.
It's been a couple of weeks.
I have and I've tried to play a couple of other games.
And yeah, it's just like I want to go back to blood.
Yeah. Like the whole reason like I was streaming the me and Mike were doing the GTA,
which Ferg was supposed to come join us.
Fucking I do Pokemon streams. Yeah.
Like that's what my followers know me for.
Like a bunch of my buddies that were hopping in chat last night.
Because normally when I'm on, I'm streaming Pokemon.
So for the last like two weeks, it's been nothing but blood hunt,
because every time I sit down and I'm ready to play Pokemon, we're online.
It's like I'm getting invited from, you know, this guy and Fergie.
Yeah. But it's been so fucking nice to have like homies to play with.
Yeah. Like I picked it up because I was watching him streaming.
He was telling me about it. I was like, all right, it looks tight.
I'm just saying I'm not streaming.
It's like you're streaming, but I'll hop in Discord and I was like, I'll download it.
I played a couple matches of it and like. That's it.
Dude, I'm like that's it.
I was like, bro, I can scale an entire building.
Yeah, I'm like, this is the way the movement is and the way just like combat works.
I'm like, this game's fucking awesome. Yeah.
I mean, and then even like now this game has the potential.
Even now, I think I have almost 50 hours into the game.
Yeah, I think I'm at like 30 or 40 something.
Yeah, I think I have 50 hours in the game,
which is funny because you started way after me.
Yeah. I like it. It's so great.
I have three day weekends, though.
Yeah. You lucky little bastard.
But I also I also don't game every day.
I'm still learning new shit about the game.
Like play wise, I didn't even even feel like 50 hours into it.
Like. Yeah.
Let's see, what does mine say? I'm curious.
It says 33.3 hours, but I know that's more than that.
If I feel like that's what my plate is, what my playtime on Steam says.
So I've got 22 out of 35 achievements.
I know I can.
It says my last I got an achievement yesterday.
He'll 2500 health with the muse rejuvenating voice ability.
Oh, there you go. It's like cool.
I was last night on that one.
Yeah, cool. I have forty nine point four hours.
Forty nine. So you got like a couple of days worth more than me.
My achievements have 25 out of 35.
I got 22. What the fuck?
You started after me, bastard. Yeah.
It's an addiction, you guys.
We talked about it the last stream or the last podcast, me and Ferg.
But yeah, save blood hunt. Definitely save it.
And this is coming from saving like this guy literally just started playing
like a couple of weeks ago. Yeah.
Like never even heard of it.
Watched us, watched me and Ferg streaming it.
And then he's like, OK, I'm on it. And now he's fucking addicted. Yeah.
It is very fun for such for one map.
Couple classes, couple sets of guns like it's simple.
Yeah. And it's got its fucking problems.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Aim assist needs is a problem. Yeah.
And these be very refined and the bots need to be deleted.
But whatever. But I see.
I see why the bots are there because there's not it's not a big player base anymore.
Yeah. So they need the bots to fill slots, but the bots are harder than the players.
Literally, you realize that most of the time when you die, you're getting shot by a bot.
Sometimes you are. I know you are.
I can I can handle the other players jumping around and fucking sliding shit.
I beat the shit out of them.
That's where I get most of my melee kills is other players.
But the bots are the ones that shoot you from clear across the map and hit you every time. Yeah.
But I also think the bots go skill based.
I do think that that is a thing. I think if we were to make new accounts, I think the bots would be.
That could be. I don't know. I do. I do think it does have.
I feel based on their forms that they were talking about that that they just they were more skill based
and they just don't mention anything about it.
No, because I think it's.
I think it's to make it indistinguishable between players and bot. Yeah.
Sometimes it is.
But when they're shooting you from fucking clear across the map, bro, there are different times where I know I'm shooting a bot.
So because I will shoot something and they just stand there like they will move a couple of inches and then just stand.
And then I'll just four shots like you had plenty of time to run away.
But I just took four pot shots at you. It took right. I'm doing it.
And then took you out like why? Right. It's a bot.
It's like a bot. The really easy bots are usually gone in the first like five minutes.
Yeah. Once you get to like the top 25 people.
Well, then I find it really funny to the people that actually go and try to like take on the military on the ground.
Like it's not really that hard. I mean, I do.
I mean, I do it. Sit there from a rooftop. If you have what like blades and armor. Sure. Yeah.
I mean, I do it. Take them out. But like run up there with a shotgun.
It takes less time to actually just sit there and take two pot shots at each one of them. That's true.
Two head shots down them all from a roof and then jump down there and then you're less exposed.
That's very true. But me and Ferg make fun of people do that all the time.
Like, I mean, I will be playing. Ferg's one of those people, too.
Yeah, but usually he'll clear the fucking guards out.
I mean, yes and no, but whatever.
Those guys are fucking juggernauts, dude. I know they're supposed to be.
Yeah. But.
Fucking burst rifles pack more of a punch than they use than the one you do.
Fuck you. I'm just saying any person.
It's like it's like it gets nerfed the moment we pick it up.
Dude, everything gets nerfed as soon as we pick it up. Yeah.
But all right, bro, I think we're about good here. We're at the two hour mark.
Really? Yeah. Damn.
I didn't realize that it's what time it is. Fucking A.
Three o'clock already. Three thirty.
Three forty three. Whoa.
Like four o'clock. All right. Yeah.
I'm going to go shopping on the way home.
It was like, God damn, at least traffic should be nice.
On the way down. On the way up. The southbound was fine.
You have an out later.
So all those people you were trying to cruise up with has got to go back down there. Yeah.
They were going evergreen, though, so hopefully they go two or five side.
Go back to it. I'll come back. It's always.
They're both problems. Yeah.
It's terrible. I five bridge sucks the most Oregon.
At least two or five bridge has like 10 lanes with I five bridge has like six.
Trying to get from Hillsborough or Milwaukee.
But pretty much sucks.
That is what it is. Yeah.
Now imagine trying to get from like Hillsborough to Vancouver.
Yeah. Yeah. We need what we need is a bridge at St. Helens.
We need a bridge at St. Helens and like Woodland.
Yeah. Just just right there because you either have Portland or you have Longview.
Which, you know, is still too far.
I mean, you could always go like Bridge of the Gods.
Dude out in the gorge. Are you high? No, I'm not paying the toll either.
That's no different than driving up from take the hour, two hour long detour.
That's the same as going up to Longview and coming down or going from Portland, going up 30 to fucking Rainier to hit Longview to drive back down to Vancouver.
Like possibility. I didn't say it was a good one. No, it's a terrible one.
It's still possible. I mean, I'm going to sit in traffic for two hours anyway.
So you might as well stay driving while you're doing it.
You get the scenic route. Yeah.
And more gas. You still got to get through the traffic to begin with to get there.
But anyway, you'll be good, buddy. Yeah, I'll be fine.
And then you want to say to some people, thanks for listening, folks.
Like I said, sorry, I'm not Ferg, but you know what?
I did my darn tootin best.
Give me your best Ferg outro impression impersonation.
They're going to call me the home injured. That's how you're going to do it.
Yeah, there's no shadow dig YouTube. No, that's his thing.
Tune into the streams, you guys. This dude is in like all of our streams all the time.
See, he's fucking funny. He just should just stream himself.
Why would I do that? I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not a good camera person. So then we can go hop in there and just fuck with you.
I'm not a camera persona, though. I piss Ferg off so much in his stream.
Yes, I just like fucking with his nightbot.
I love fucking with the sound boards because he gets so mad.
He's like, I can't hear him. Shut up. I can't hear him.
I'm like, I get mad at that, too. Yeah, it's just so loud,
which is weird because they're not loud. They are for us.
They are not loud for us. Any of us for Ferg, they turn your volume down.
No, it's just when you do that.
It's just when you do the soundboard. Turn your soundboard volume down.
You have your own individual soundboard volume. Oh, I've never fucked with that.
I don't use it. So use it. Use it and see if it's loud for me.
Yeah, I could. Yeah.
So next time you're in there, use it and then see if it's loud for me,
because when I do it, it's quieter than your guys' vocals.
I know mine's super fucking loud. I'll definitely check it out, though.
I didn't know I had my own soundboard. Yeah, you should at least.
I don't pay for Discord, though, so.
It should be like right here in your settings. Yeah, I'll look for it.
Or when you go to it, like there's an actual like you click the soundboard button
and it's right there. But she isn't.
Like, I don't know where the fucking way. But whatever.
You don't pay for Discord? Nope. Neither do I.
I just got three months for free, so.
I'm good till November and then I might. Yeah, I don't know. I'm good.
I'm an old school like Ventrilo guy, bro. I know.
I like the the boost stuff, boosting the server. I missed Ventrilo.
Dude, Ventrilo and TeamSpeak. Yeah.
That's a callback.
Ventrilo was my shit.
You still had the microphone standing up on your desk and.
Raid call. Yeah, we used we used raid call vent and then TeamSpeak.
We used all those for raids for our guilds and shit.
But Vint, you had to pay.
Vint, I remember you had to pay. TeamSpeak, you didn't.
I mean, I think they had a free version of Vent though, still.
You couldn't you couldn't make your own server.
You could join somebody else's like so like for our guilds, we'd have a guild server.
Yeah, like you could pay to make the server and then not pay to be a part of it.
But you had to pay monthly to keep the server up.
And I remembered it and I was like, yeah, fuck this.
And then now look at Discord. What is I remember when Discord came out?
I do, too. My I like literally made my account when it came out.
I don't think I did. I think I waited like when. OK, I'm going to do this.
I'm way, I'm curious.
I would expect, huh? Way like way more than you'd expect.
Like it's way older. It might be. Yeah.
OK, May 13th, 2015. Yeah.
Like you think claims that that is its launch day.
You would think that it came out like on the twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen sometimes.
But like, you know, twenty fifteen.
But I'm pretty sure it was made earlier than that.
And then my account, I think, was twenty sixteen.
I mean, I was still using Vent. Oh, excuse me. July twenty seventeen.
So I was a couple of years late. I was probably still using Vent.
I like twenty. What does your account say?
It'll tell you right here. August 5th, 2017.
You're like literally a couple of weeks after me for what?
Oh, for this court joining this court.
Yeah. Look at steam, though.
My steam accounts fairly new. My steam accounts like 12 years old
because apparently I couldn't get access to the old one I made, but I never used it.
Gotcha. And I think I just had like a 12 year birthday.
I want to go. If I were to log into my World of Warcraft again, though,
I do have it downloaded. Nice. I haven't paid for it in.
Six years. Seven years.
I just don't have the library you have, though, but I get like.
Well, I buy a lot of. I get so I stuck on games.
I find games for sale that I know I'll never play.
Like the Division two. Oh, yeah.
There was a time for like I think it was like for a day or two.
It was on sale on Xbox for two ninety nine.
The division to like it just had come out like a month before that.
It was on sale for three bucks. I bought it.
Just recently, the division one gold edition.
I've already I bought the first one launch day. Yeah.
And hated every second of it and wish I could refund it.
And so the first one we had the gold edition on the Xbox store for a dollar.
I mean, if you're going to use that cheap, then yes.
Yeah, OK. But Assassin's Creed for like three bucks.
I wish I would have bought the Master Chief collection on Xbox one
for I think it was like nine bucks I paid.
When I find deals, I'll buy them like that's why I have fallout three fallout
four like I own them.
I own fallout 76, but it's like that's why I own them because the deal is so good
that in the off chance I run out of stuff and I really do, I might check it out.
You know what I mean?
Like actually, like dedicate to like fucking the like just the weird lore of fallout.
There's so many different fucking stories and like every person like is individualized.
It's what got me into Gears of War originally.
No, the cheapness because like I didn't start playing Gears of War to like to.
I think I played the first one and I think I played some to the only.
The only reason I played the second one was because I got it for like
I think it was like five bucks at a garage sale.
Oh, yeah. Like the disk of it.
And so I played it was like, oh, OK.
Well, where's the first one?
Found the first one, you know, hella cheap at GameStop.
All right, cool.
And then Gears of War three came out and I was like, all right, I'll buy you launch day.
Gears of War four came out.
I bought that one launch day.
Gears of War four was tight. Gears five.
I stopped playing.
I never played that one either.
Yeah, they did Gears five launch day on Game Pass.
Yeah. You're talking to the wrong side of the mic there, by the way.
I was just trying to get it.
Talk to the dial. I was just trying to pull it closer.
Oh, the little green thing.
He was looking fine. Yeah.
You're the bottom one.
I know I can see it. You're the one that says Zach.
Because I didn't change.
No, so I'm not.
Because I didn't change.
No, see how quiet you are now on the actual recording.
See? Oh, I see.
Yeah, that is how loud I am compared to you.
I see it now. Yeah. Yeah.
Because you're not you're talking to the back, which is a silencer.
I just fucking tried to, you know, I was just moving around.
Whatever. All right. We need to get out of here.
We've been staying here for way too long.
This is like the longest Tenacious Geeks episode.
Fuck it.
It's just me and the dolphin. Yep.
I knew you were going to do it.
Tune in whenever the fuck I stream.
Fergie will be back next week.
Yep. Yep. Maybe Dolphin will be back next week, too.
He might just come be our third. Who knows?
Possibly. Why not?
Just get three. I'm not nearly as geeky.
We need three hosts. We need three hosts.
I can be a hoe, but I'm not as nerdy as you guys.
You got the hoe ninja and the hoe hero.
OK, I can do that. So the hoe dolphin.
Sure.
The hoe mammal. No. Yeah.
So we got the ninja, the hero and the mammal. No.
No. No. What do you want?
I don't know. I'll think about it.
I'll come up with something to be to be continued.
Tune in to part three and a half in about two weeks.
Sure. Why not?
Fuck it. All right. Have a good night, y'all.
Adios.