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- 0:24Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bosters Podcast, a great
- 0:27place to play games and be better.
- 0:28I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan, alongside me, as
- 0:29always, is the PC Muscle race himself.
- 0:32We're on doc. Hey, what's poppin?
- 0:34Hey Leron, did you apply DLSS 5 to yourself today because you're
- 0:38looking extra realistic? Hey, no, it's all I'm all smooth
- 0:43and and like highly sharpened and all this stuff.
- 0:47What is? Yeah.
- 0:48I'm like looking super washed out.
- 0:50Yeah, that's fine there. Helps turn light off.
- 0:54That's better. You turned it all the way off.
- 0:56Man, that was like a stark contrast.
- 0:57No, I, I I have three. I have 3 lights on and I turned
- 1:011 off. I mean, you're not blowing out
- 1:02my retinas anymore with the with the brightness, but you know.
- 1:05Also, I have two bright white tabs open and right in front of
- 1:08me so that's probably something to do with it.
- 1:10Like if I minimize them would that does that help at all?
- 1:17A little something. Now you got OK, now you got.
- 1:20Now you got some shadow. Now you're looking like.
- 1:21Now you're looking like you got the Resident Evil filter on.
- 1:24Yeah, oh man. Speaking of Resident Evil
- 1:26people, people really loving that Resident Evil 9, huh?
- 1:29Oh yeah? Well, yeah, I actually got to
- 1:31play a little bit of it earlier this week.
- 1:33Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I like it.
- 1:35I'm digging it. Cool, cool.
- 1:39I'm here's the thing. I think I'm going to play
- 1:42Resident Evil this year. I'm going to play them in order.
- 1:50How many Resident evils have you played?
- 1:52Because I've I feel like, I feel like you don't like scary games.
- 1:54So I feel like it. You haven't played many.
- 1:56I don't, but I have finished more Resident Evil games than I
- 1:59thought I have. OK, I've finished.
- 2:02I've finished one. The remake or the original?
- 2:05The the game, the remake, the first round of remakes.
- 2:10So one 4 Remake 4. 4 remake OK? 55 The Leon campaign in six.
- 2:25See, I'll give you that because honestly, that is the longest
- 2:30Resident Evil game out of all of them.
- 2:32Yeah, there were three campaigns and it wasn't.
- 2:34It was good, but not great, and I didn't really feel like
- 2:37playing it anymore. Yeah, I'll.
- 2:38Give you that. I'll give you that if you beat
- 2:39one of the three campaigns, because for the most part, you
- 2:42got enough of the story to know what was going on in Resident
- 2:44Evil 6. Yeah, and then Revelations,
- 2:52which was the 3DS game, but I played it on the Lu, so.
- 2:57Yeah, you have beaten more Resident Evil games than I than
- 3:00I thought you would have gotten credit.
- 3:02For, yeah, but they're all the actiony ones.
- 3:05Yeah, I mean, I mean, that wasn't, that wasn't hard.
- 3:09Like once we got the four, like they've all been action until we
- 3:11got the seven. Yeah, 7's the seven's the one
- 3:14that I'm like, I don't know. That's I'm like, I don't know. 7
- 3:19psychologically scars me and I haven't even played it.
- 3:22Yeah, but I don't know, I I've heard good things about 9.
- 3:27I here's the thing, I'm like really into the lore of Resident
- 3:30Evil. I just don't want to.
- 3:32I think, I think everybody's into the lore of Resident Evil.
- 3:35Yeah, but, you know, I don't know.
- 3:39I just. It's because it's crazy man.
- 3:42I did watch the first movie. I think, I think, I think, I
- 3:48think as gamers, we all, everyone was required to watch
- 3:51the first movie after that, you know, like, you know, like you
- 3:54didn't have to like there was no requirement to watch the rest of
- 3:57them. I watched the rest of them as
- 4:00well as I I love the Resident Evil like movie.
- 4:04Like what? There's five of them.
- 4:07Six of them. There's six.
- 4:09So what is that? Hex?
- 4:13Hex hexology or something? You know what, you can make up
- 4:17words as long as you want to Lauren.
- 4:19I don't I The thing though is they were so they were on
- 4:27Netflix for a while when the show came out.
- 4:32And so I watched the first 3 and then four wasn't on Netflix.
- 4:38It skipped right to five and then 6 wasn't on there.
- 4:41So I'm like, well, I don't want to.
- 4:41I've I've invested this much time.
- 4:43I don't want to skip one. Wait afterlife?
- 4:46Wait, Afterlife wasn't on? Whatever the 4th 1 is.
- 4:50That's Afterlife. Yeah.
- 4:51So I don't know. I just didn't feel like
- 4:56investing in it after that. I was like, I don't want to rent
- 4:59it. I don't want to buy it anywhere.
- 5:02Understandable. I'll just wait.
- 5:03And then it never, never, never came to be So I They were fun,
- 5:13though. I mean, they're more action
- 5:14movies than. Yeah.
- 5:17You know whatever the other the survive like horror movie ask.
- 5:23Also the CG in the 1st movies like really bad especially the
- 5:26laser scene. That scene so bad dude.
- 5:31It's funny, it's comical, but it's bad.
- 5:35Also like side tangent, why does Michelle Rodriguez play the same
- 5:40character in every single movie she's in?
- 5:43He's. She's the same character in
- 5:45every movie. It's egregious how typecast she
- 5:48is. Which is like, I kind of get it,
- 5:53but also I kind of feel bad for her but.
- 5:56Yeah, yeah. So if she doesn't care, then I
- 5:58guess who might care? No, she's, she's trying her best
- 6:03to, she's trying her best to like escape that and it's just,
- 6:05it's just not going in her favor.
- 6:09Yeah, that's true. That's true.
- 6:14Because because she almost escaped in Avatar and then she
- 6:17wound up dying in Avatar. So OK, yeah, she's she was the
- 6:24bad ass. She was the bad ass marine pilot
- 6:26the the helicopter pilot. I don't remember that movie
- 6:28dude, it's been like 20 years. I know, I know.
- 6:30It's good. I know for me, that's for me.
- 6:34That's almost half my lifetime ago.
- 6:38Oh, it's crazy, man. 20 years, that movie, I don't know.
- 6:44I don't understand why it's so big, but that's seems like a
- 6:48personal problem. I think it's, I think it's big
- 6:51because of what? I think it's big because #1
- 6:54like, you know, like we actually, there's a, I'm a James
- 6:59Cameron fan. So like I will, I will admit
- 7:01that, you know, like I definitely put a lot of hype and
- 7:03you know, like whatever on to James Cameron and stuff like
- 7:05that. You know, I feel like, I feel
- 7:07like he's one, he's one of our great, one of our, one of our,
- 7:09one of our great directors, you know, for like this, this era
- 7:13and stuff like that. I'm not saying like he's the
- 7:14best because you know that Christopher Nolan, even though
- 7:16Christopher Nolan is kind of like having an ebb and flow
- 7:18right now. And then, and then we, you know,
- 7:21like, of course, like, you know, like people are going to say
- 7:24Tarantino, but I feel like Tarantino's time is kind of kind
- 7:27of gone, you know? He's apparently only got got one
- 7:30more movie left in him. Yeah, and he keeps and he keeps
- 7:33edging us along like and, you know, hold on.
- 7:35Let me not let me not use that type of terminology on the on
- 7:37the pod tonight. Sure.
- 7:42Yeah. I mean, there are people out
- 7:44there gooning for, for, for Tarantino.
- 7:46Sure. Yeah, I get it.
- 7:49You know, people like his movies, but also I don't really
- 7:54care for most of them to be honest.
- 7:59That's I guess that's my problem.
- 8:03I've heard so. I like Tarantino up to a point
- 8:08and I, and I think that point, I think that point ended right
- 8:11after Inglorious Basterds and, and I don't even like Inglorious
- 8:14Basterds. Yeah, I I see.
- 8:20That's like the one movie I do like is that it's the, it's I
- 8:25also like, I also like Django Unchained.
- 8:28That was pretty good too. But anything else is like, I
- 8:36don't know, man. Like Once Upon a time in
- 8:38Hollywood was super boring. Did not care for that.
- 8:41It was it wasn't it and and and it acted and it acted like he
- 8:45was trying to go somewhere and it and it and it honestly
- 8:47didn't. Yeah, so I don't know, man, it
- 8:52was it was fine, but I'm just not a I'm just not a Tarantino
- 8:56guy. So Speaking of movies though,
- 9:03Spider Man, that's Spider Man trailer came out.
- 9:06Yeah, that was that was hot. Chunks today I guess.
- 9:13What does it look good? I didn't watch it, I just heard
- 9:17it came out in like chunks and it was a really bad roll out.
- 9:21I saw the, I saw the full thing. Like I, I it was on TikTok so I
- 9:26saw the full thing. How was it?
- 9:28Was it good? Like was it good or like?
- 9:31It, it was good. It was good now.
- 9:33And like it has like it gave just enough a way to make to, to
- 9:38compel people to actually want to see it as far as I'm
- 9:40concerned. OK well I heard they removed
- 9:48Sadie sync from some of it though.
- 9:52Exactly 1 of the some actress that's in there that people are
- 9:55obsessed with. I don't know she was in stranger
- 9:59things. I think the red haired girl in
- 10:01stranger things I think is who it is.
- 10:05That's the problem I haven't caught up on.
- 10:06I haven't caught up on what you call it.
- 10:08Dude I watched the first season and I was so bored.
- 10:11I don't understand why people I like it's that shows just not
- 10:14for me. I I don't understand it but
- 10:19again just a me problem I guess. So I feel like I feel like I'm a
- 10:26bad nerd when I say I don't like certain things but.
- 10:30You probably are. I know I am.
- 10:33I suck, it's a motto for my life.
- 10:36Laron, I don't know if you know this or not I suck.
- 10:40Signed off. Anyways, Laron, cool story.
- 10:49Oh cool story bro. I updated the store for the
- 10:51first time in three years. Two years?
- 10:54Oh. Cool story bro.
- 10:55Yeah, the Nintendo Padlock 10th Anniversary shirts are up.
- 11:00Oh, I gotta check it out. Yeah, you know that.
- 11:03You know that cool, cool Nintendo pile block logo we
- 11:06have? Yeah, well, if you add a 10 to
- 11:09that, that's what the 10th anniversary logo looks like.
- 11:13Watch out now. You're dangerous.
- 11:15Now I know. Speaking like a true graphic
- 11:18designer in 2026, You know it would be awesome.
- 11:22No graphics, just font. Plain font.
- 11:26No graphics, just font. Yeah, it's every graphic
- 11:29designer these days feels like. Yeah, yeah.
- 11:32You're you're, you're not, you're not lying there.
- 11:39So man, dude, it's just it makes me laugh when people are like,
- 11:42we have a graphic and it's just like font that they're like, oh,
- 11:48this letter, we cut the edges off.
- 11:50That's it. You know, we put a slash through
- 11:53the this letter so it looks different.
- 11:57It's like does it just kind of looks like your printer ran out
- 12:00of me? But no, not my problem.
- 12:06Anyways, Lauren, we're here to talk about video games.
- 12:10Actually, we're not. We're really not going to talk a
- 12:11lot about video games tonight. We're going to talk about the
- 12:14We're going to talk. About video game and Jason stuff
- 12:16though. Yeah, we're going to.
- 12:17We're going to talk about the the 2 letters everybody hates to
- 12:19see together AI. Oh, that OK.
- 12:26Oh no. I was really, I was really
- 12:28scratching my head on that one. I was.
- 12:30Like, huh, man. But before we get into that,
- 12:34what are you? What are you playing?
- 12:35What are you playing? Anything playing?
- 12:37Anything new? No, no, and and, and honestly, I
- 12:42slowed down just a little bit, which is which is wild for me.
- 12:45I slowed down like I did play, I did play.
- 12:47I did play enough Tekken 8 before, like the reset the the
- 12:51season pass, the season pass season 3 dropped yesterday.
- 12:55I haven't played. I haven't played any of it yet.
- 12:58And also I know when I log in, I'm going to have been demoted
- 13:01back four steps because they they do this, they do a rank
- 13:03reset. But no, I didn't really have a
- 13:07lot. I didn't really spend a lot of
- 13:09time playing games this past week.
- 13:10I did play. I did play tech and I was about
- 13:12it. I, I didn't even monster run
- 13:14stories came out and I think I, I think I mentioned last week on
- 13:17the pod that I wasn't actually going to pick that up until,
- 13:20until I actually until, until I actually beat Monster Run
- 13:24stories 2. So yeah, I haven't gotten
- 13:25monsters three stories 3 yet. And yeah, Front Mission is kind
- 13:30of on premise, is kind of on pause because I just, I, I felt
- 13:33I was burning myself out on it just playing it as heavily as I
- 13:36did. You were playing it a lot.
- 13:41I was. You were playing like you.
- 13:45I mean, you were playing a. Lot of front yeah, yeah, I was
- 13:47like I, I, I, I I logged a lot of hours onto a night and and
- 13:53actually I need to get back on and just finish and finish and
- 13:55and beat it. Yeah, you should probably just,
- 13:59you should probably just finish it, man.
- 14:01Yeah, yeah. Finish that, finish that, and
- 14:03then go immediately go back to either Final Fantasy Tactics,
- 14:06which I was playing before Front Mission 3 came out, or, or, or
- 14:10just get back to Monster Stories 2, which the good thing is
- 14:13Monster Stories 2, like I don't need to like start over from the
- 14:16beginning 'cause I know where I'm at and the games and the
- 14:18games easy to pick up and play. Yeah, I did buy the first one,
- 14:26by the way, It was on sale. How?
- 14:28How? How much?
- 14:30It was like 799 on switch. Oh, the oh front mission.
- 14:33I thought you were talking about Monster Stories.
- 14:35No. Oh wait, you bought the double
- 14:36pack for Monster Stories Two. You bought the one and two pack,
- 14:38didn't you? No, I bought 2 when it came out.
- 14:40Oh. OK, OK.
- 14:42And then I bought one later that was Pat that bought the double
- 14:44pack. Yeah, I did.
- 14:48I, I, what was I saying? Oh yeah, It was like 799, the
- 14:54first front mission. So I was like, I can't really
- 14:57pass that up. It's a good deal.
- 14:59So I was like, let's let's buy it, let's do it.
- 15:04And I did. And it's great.
- 15:07I haven't played it yet, but you know, it's great.
- 15:10I'm going to go ahead and say it's great because I can and you
- 15:13can't stop me. Can't stop, won't stop as they
- 15:15say. I mean, I've been, I've been
- 15:23playing some Metroid, but I've been playing a lot of I've been
- 15:28playing a lot of marathon. It's it's I my opinion has
- 15:34changed tremendously since the last time we talked about it,
- 15:40which like the last time, was it the.
- 15:43Last time it was the time. Before I said I liked it but
- 15:46didn't love it. There was a point in the second
- 15:51map, Dyer Marsh, when I loaded in and I decided to put my
- 15:58headset on, which usually is a huge mistake and you know it.
- 16:04In some cases it was a it was a mistake.
- 16:07But this particular moment made me feel like the old online days
- 16:15of like Xbox Live when you were playing Halo or something and
- 16:18you would just meet random people and make friends and then
- 16:21you would play together, right? Or like even the early days of
- 16:26Destiny were like that discoverability where you were
- 16:29working together with people online that you didn't know to
- 16:31find certain things speaking. Speaking of which, Matt is in
- 16:36the chat. That's how we met and.
- 16:41Wait, you guys met? You guys met on Halo?
- 16:44Destiny. Destiny.
- 16:46OK. Yeah, and we like I I'm, I
- 16:52started playing with these two dudes and they were like we were
- 16:54just kind of exploring dire Martian, completing our
- 16:58contracts together and and getting into firefights and
- 17:01stuff. And it like really, really,
- 17:02really reminded me of those old school moments in in Halo and
- 17:07destiny. Like, you know, I was I was
- 17:11using the kind of like the tank character.
- 17:14I always forget the names of these shells, but like one of
- 17:18one of the characters was down and I used my blast shield to
- 17:21like shield both of them while they while one of them was
- 17:26reviving the other. And then, you know, I hid hid
- 17:31behind something to heal myself. And then we got in this
- 17:33firefight as we entered the like this facility and it was just
- 17:38like this really cool moment. You know, it wasn't like a huge
- 17:41moment, but it was a cool moment.
- 17:45And I really, I really think Marathon is going to be
- 17:49something like special in a way that I feel like only Bungie
- 17:57knows how to do do, which is weird since they haven't really
- 18:00had an upswing in a while. But the the, the lore in the
- 18:05story in the game, like the way you find it, like when you
- 18:08complete contracts and stuff and you turn them in, you get little
- 18:11cutscenes, little audio logs are strewn throughout the maps, the
- 18:17different factions. It's so fun to learn about this
- 18:23franchise that I like really only know of like, oh man,
- 18:27marathon was, was a Mac shooter in the 90s, right?
- 18:31You had to like obtain the story through terminals and you had to
- 18:35read a lot. And it's like, why would you
- 18:37want to play a shooter where you read on a Mac?
- 18:40You know, so and it it it's just, it's really, it's really
- 18:48fun to like learn about this franchise that has been dormant
- 18:53for 30 years and they're continuing it like it's, it's a
- 18:56straight on continuation of those old games.
- 19:00And it's so cool to learn about those old games through this new
- 19:03game in this new lens in these characters, in these factions.
- 19:06And, you know, the generation ship that, you know, everyone
- 19:12died and disappeared. And you're going like you're the
- 19:15the runners are shells are, you know, kind of husks, kind of
- 19:19like Avatar, right? Where like you're kind of
- 19:22controlling these shells to go down to the planet because it's
- 19:26toxic to go find remnants for these corporations who sent
- 19:32things on this generation ship. And they're looking for anything
- 19:35they can possibly bring back to scrounge up any money they lost.
- 19:39Sending stuff, you know, typical corporate stuff.
- 19:44And it's just really fun. It's I, I did not think that
- 19:47marathon was going to grab its like get its hooks in me, but
- 19:51it's, it's gotten its hooks in it in me hard.
- 19:54Like it's, I love like, I, I love playing by myself and just
- 20:00going down and exploring and finding things.
- 20:03You know, people yell, people yelled at me online because
- 20:05they're like, it's a rogue like, I'm like.
- 20:10I guess by the very technical term, yes, but it's a shooter,
- 20:16it's a PVPVE shooter, you know, like, and all the guns that I've
- 20:22found have feel fantastic. I mean it's it's a bungee game,
- 20:26so it's going to feel fantastic. So I don't.
- 20:29I don't know if roguelike. I don't know if roguelike quite
- 20:32is the way to classify it. I mean, it's a, it's an
- 20:34extraction shooter, you know, if you die.
- 20:36It's an extraction shooter. Yeah, you die.
- 20:38You lose your stuff, you know, if you escape, you get to keep
- 20:43your stuff. I mean, that's, that's, you
- 20:45know, it's the dark stuff from The Division.
- 20:49Yeah, so in my opinion, that's not really a rogue like.
- 20:51I mean like it's it's this is more of an actions have
- 20:56consequences game. Yeah.
- 21:00And so the the final map unlocked, but like there's like
- 21:05a map within the map. The cryo, what is it called?
- 21:09The cryo something. But essentially it's like a
- 21:12Destiny raid within a map and you have to go in and like
- 21:17decrypt keys and fend off enemies and solve puzzles and
- 21:21stuff to get all the best loot. That's all in this kind of
- 21:26building in the center of the map, which in of itself is like
- 21:29this huge map. So I don't know, man, it's, it's
- 21:33super cool. I there's, there's going to be
- 21:35so many secrets being found throughout the, the, you know,
- 21:40the life of this game. Hopefully, hopefully I, I don't
- 21:45think it's going to die, but like, you know, people are so
- 21:48doom and gloom. So like, I'm just going to say,
- 21:50hopefully it survives long enough for them to see their
- 21:53vision because their vision. This feels like the game that
- 21:56Bungie has wanted to make for five years.
- 22:00And like, because they are tired of Destiny, you know, like, and,
- 22:04and I'm not saying everybody's tired of Destiny, but like, it
- 22:08just feels like so much time and passion went into building out
- 22:14Marathon. And you can feel it, you know,
- 22:19you can feel like this is something new and fresh and
- 22:22something we haven't been working on since 2008, you know?
- 22:25Yeah. Yeah, I don't think.
- 22:27I don't think Marathon's gonna die.
- 22:29At least Marathon's not gonna die the way they they people
- 22:32were acting like it was gonna die like 2 weeks ago.
- 22:34Yeah, well, people, people like to, people like to hate online.
- 22:41Yeah. So, but that's that's marathon.
- 22:45Yeah, they're a bunch of bitches.
- 22:47We're. Gonna we're gonna do a whole
- 22:52something on tower casuals this week, so it'll be out by the
- 22:56time you hear this on podcast services.
- 22:58But we're going to talk about our impressions because that I
- 23:01don't think that final area has even opened up yet.
- 23:04Or if it has, it's been, you know.
- 23:06It hasn't. It hasn't.
- 23:07And honestly, that's what's that's I want to play this game
- 23:11once that comes out, because then that's what I'm going to
- 23:13base my review on. Yeah, but you like The thing is,
- 23:17is like you can't access the next map until you hit certain
- 23:20levels like. Oh, so I need to play it.
- 23:23Yeah, so like the like you have to play through the tutorial
- 23:28like the the tutorial map 1st which is perimeter and then a
- 23:33second version of perimeter opens up.
- 23:35And then once you hit level 12, you can go to Dire Marsh and
- 23:39then once you hit, I think it's like level 25, you can access
- 23:43the the final map. OK, I I guess I'll have to mess
- 23:47around with it then. You should.
- 23:49It's fun. You should play with me.
- 23:52We'll get, we'll get on one. We'll get on one of these
- 23:53nights, Yeah. We'll shoot stuff.
- 23:58Yeah, I've been one. I've been one to play.
- 23:59I've been one to play a game in your lane.
- 24:01And I know I kind of let you down on Destiny, but that by the
- 24:03time, by the time I got started downloading like the stuff for
- 24:06Destiny, I was like, man, there's just way too much.
- 24:08It's just too daunting right now.
- 24:09It's like, it's like if I wanted to play Final Fantasy 14 right
- 24:13now. Yeah, but at least you can start
- 24:18at the beginning in Final Fantasy 14.
- 24:20Fantasy 14, yeah. As a matter of fact, I think
- 24:22there's like this crazy ass free trial going on to where like you
- 24:25can basically play like. You can play like the first two
- 24:28expansions, like all the way through for free, yeah.
- 24:31Yeah, before you have to pay, before you have to start paying.
- 24:34Yeah, I mean, there's, there are some limits, but like overall,
- 24:37yeah, it's like if you just want to play the story, you can like,
- 24:43but yeah, I mean, I've been so I've actually been thinking
- 24:46about after I after I'd played Marathon, I jumped back into
- 24:51Destiny a little bit just to like kind of see what was going
- 24:55on. And I talked about this on Pal
- 24:56Black a little bit yesterday. But like with the deluxe edition
- 25:02of Marathon, you get access to stuff in Destiny.
- 25:05Like you get a Marathon themed ghost and ship and you know,
- 25:10Sparrow, those sorts of things. But like I, I went in the tower
- 25:12to collect my stuff and then I just sat in there and watched
- 25:15people run around doing their tasks and everything, right?
- 25:18I, I didn't, I, I was working on something first of all, but also
- 25:22like I'm so deep into the destiny stuff, right?
- 25:29That like sometimes you don't see the forest through the
- 25:32trees, right? Yeah.
- 25:35I'm just watching people running around, you know, turning in
- 25:38their bounties, running over to Zavala to pick up stuff, you
- 25:42know, going over to the Crucible stuff to get their weapons and,
- 25:46and turning in their engrams and whatever.
- 25:48And, and I'm like, I wonder how many of these people even know
- 25:52anything about the situation that has been going on at Bungie
- 25:57the last two years. I wonder how many of these
- 25:59people are just here because they want to play a game and
- 26:03they're having fun and they just want to like, you know, shoot
- 26:07stuff or grind for stuff or whatever and don't listen to
- 26:11anything that's going on outside of this game.
- 26:14You're so blessed. They are so blessed.
- 26:16And I'm just like sitting there watching people like do dance
- 26:20emotes with each other and like, you know, I saw, you know, I see
- 26:23people running together as like a fire team essentially.
- 26:26And it's just like, man, what is we?
- 26:31I feel like we are just so jaded by being so into all this stuff
- 26:36and it's like, man, sometimes I wish I was just oblivious to
- 26:39everything. Yeah, I know.
- 26:40I just, I, I, I don't, I don't even know if I missed those
- 26:47days. I don't even, I don't even know
- 26:48what those days are like, you know?
- 26:50Yeah, it's, I mean, I haven't, I have an idea, but I don't, I
- 26:55don't think, I don't think I can ever get that joy back that I
- 26:59had like back then, you know, like, like, you know, once, once
- 27:04you learn how the sausage is made, it's there's no going
- 27:07back. Yeah, it it just really feels
- 27:10like there's no going back and it sucks because there's like a
- 27:12lot of cool things that I would love to like go try in Destiny,
- 27:19but it's been so it's just been it's just been so a negative for
- 27:29so long that like dude, every time I open up YouTube, also
- 27:33like I fall on enough Destiny creators and like every time
- 27:38their thumbnails pop up, it's like Destiny's dead.
- 27:42Will Destiny ever come back? Will they finish Destiny?
- 27:44Will Bungie? It's like, come on, guys.
- 27:46Like just shut up. I get like, content creation is
- 27:50your job, but like, it sucks that we we reward the negative
- 27:54people, yeah. Yeah, and you know what, I feel
- 27:56like this trend is going to end. We just don't know when that
- 27:59trend is going to end because like right now, right?
- 28:02And and, and it's, it's, it's sucks because it sucks because
- 28:06like YouTube and YouTube and you know, like all the other
- 28:12streaming platforms all the way up to Twit, all the way up the
- 28:14to TikTok. I mean, because Twitch, Twitch
- 28:17still, I mean the let's talks, I feel like the let's talk
- 28:20environment of of Twitch is kind of dead, Not maybe not kind of
- 28:23dead, maybe just dead dead. Just the Just Chatting stuff is
- 28:27like the biggest thing on Twitch.
- 28:30Is this still going on because I swear every time I log on to
- 28:32twitch like it's I don't see just chats.
- 28:35There's three, there's like 3 separate things now where it's
- 28:39like just chatting and then there's talk shows and then
- 28:41there's podcasts and then there's like Q&A, you know, and,
- 28:47and it's like, why, why aren't these all in just like the same
- 28:51category? You know?
- 28:53I don't know which it's, I don't know.
- 28:56From the things I'm hearing about Twitch though, it's like,
- 28:58boy, I know some people who work over at AWS and they're like, we
- 29:07don't even know how this place is still open.
- 29:08It's like, oh jeez, which sucks because I actually know people
- 29:15that work at twitch too and it's like, oh sorry guys, I hope this
- 29:18isn't going to affect you. Anyways.
- 29:24It it's crazy too how YouTube streaming has kind of gotten
- 29:27bigger over the last year and a half without even really trying.
- 29:32And they were like when they were trying.
- 29:35It was like, I don't know, I feel like when these companies
- 29:38start not to try is when they start becoming bigger and then
- 29:41when they start trying is when things start falling apart in
- 29:45some cases. So oh boy, live streaming.
- 29:53What a what a what a great, what a great technology, Laurent, let
- 29:59me tell you, I was. Going to say where are you about
- 30:01to go with this because we're live streaming right now we're
- 30:03we're. I, I, I, I love live streaming.
- 30:07I love doing stuff like this, you know, I wish, I wish there
- 30:10was more time to do more and different types of stuff, but
- 30:14it's no time. See that that's, that's crazy
- 30:17because like, if we had a if, if we had a 26 hour day, Corey
- 30:20would use those extra 2 hours just to stream.
- 30:23I mean, I would I'd do all sorts of things that's not important
- 30:34anyways. Let's you know what is
- 30:36important. It it, it's Speaking of negative
- 30:38Le Ron, I I need I, I texted you what yes 2 days ago about this
- 30:46NVIDIA DLSS 5 stuff. Yeah, it was 2 days ago.
- 30:50It was 2 days ago. Yeah, I.
- 30:51Saw some of the NVIDIA keynote and I was like man this is cool.
- 30:57This is like this. I'm like man, this stuff looks
- 31:00awesome. And like they were showing off.
- 31:02There was like a a video that was going around that was like a
- 31:05minute and 1/2 or whatever afterwards and it was showing
- 31:08off Resident Evil 9. And there's some other stuff
- 31:13going on, but like the FIFA stuff that they showed at the
- 31:16end of the trailer. I was like, I thought they were
- 31:18transitioning from game to real person to game.
- 31:23Yeah, but it was all the game. And I was like, Oh my gosh, this
- 31:26is so impressive. And then I'm like, I'm like, I
- 31:30want to see more. I want to see more.
- 31:31So I did the dumb thing instead of going to like the NVIDIA
- 31:36video or the NVIDIA website or whatever and I went on Twitter
- 31:43and all I see is like a dumpster fire of memes going down like
- 31:47everybody hating this and. Calling it AI slop all this
- 31:50bullshit. I know I'm like, how can you
- 31:52say, like, I understand you don't want AI in games and I
- 31:55understand like you don't want AI to make games, but this is
- 31:58like really impressive. And it's going to, it's going to
- 32:01make consoles cheaper. It's going to make your hardware
- 32:03for PCs cheaper. You know, like, you know, in the
- 32:08long mid to long term, not right now, obviously, because of all
- 32:11the garbage RAM stuff that's going on.
- 32:14But like, you know, you get your games are going to come out
- 32:19faster, you know, because that's what everybody complaints about
- 32:22was it took five or eight years to make a sequel to The Last of
- 32:26Us. And like, also it's going to
- 32:32help underpowered systems like the Steam Deck and the Switch
- 32:36too. Yeah, I mean, we're already
- 32:39seeing it on the Switch 2. On the switch two, yeah.
- 32:42Resident Evil 9, that game runs at 360 P by the way.
- 32:47Did you know that? I did not know that.
- 32:49But with DLSS it upscales to 1080P.
- 32:55What? Yep.
- 32:56What? Yep.
- 32:59See, I didn't know that because I was not paying that much
- 33:01attention. To, I know, but nobody you
- 33:03wouldn't notice. That's the point, you know.
- 33:07Yeah. So like, it's just incredible
- 33:11what this technology is doing, you know, like I would love this
- 33:15to upscale every single game like this.
- 33:17I had. I had.
- 33:18No, I had no freaking clue because I wasn't like my
- 33:22attention was not in that lane. Well, you're not a Nintendo
- 33:25person, so you're not really paying attention to that lane,
- 33:27you know? True, but true.
- 33:29But at the same time, I, I work in tech, so like I'm supposed to
- 33:33know this stuff and, and yeah. And yeah, you know what?
- 33:36I it's not so much a, it's not so much a bias or, or, or
- 33:39unbiased or whatnot, but there are, there are circumstances and
- 33:43situations where it's like it, it's, it's, it's it, you know,
- 33:48as an IT guy, you know, like, like, yeah, like one of my blind
- 33:52spots is, is, is, is Mac is, is Mac in iOS?
- 33:56It's because like, I don't, it's because I don't swim in that
- 33:59environment. You know, just like, I just
- 34:02like, you know, like I like Nintendo games.
- 34:05I like games that are on Nintendo systems, but I don't
- 34:07swim in that environment. Yeah, it's and you know, Ed and
- 34:13I were talking about this yesterday a little bit of like,
- 34:16you know, if they can do this as Resident Evil, what is something
- 34:19like what would like Monster Hunter look like on this
- 34:22theoretically, you know, like what would they run that I.
- 34:25Feel like I feel like Monster Hunter Wilds can play on the
- 34:28switch too. It should be able to play on the
- 34:30switch too. It should be able to and
- 34:32especially now, because like now the PC Pat, now the PC the I'm
- 34:37going to call it the PC performance patch, even though
- 34:38like technically it's not the PC performance patch.
- 34:40It is. They're basically fixing the PC,
- 34:43the PC stuff with with Monster Hunter Wilds.
- 34:47I can play monster in the Wilds on the rock LAX now.
- 34:50That was, that was not, that was, that was not something I
- 34:52was trying to entertain at all when it first launched.
- 34:55Yeah, it's, it's just amazing to see this because like this could
- 35:05be the point where we've we've been we've been hitting
- 35:11graphical fidelities out of diminishing returns for a long
- 35:13time, right? Like we've been talking about
- 35:14that for since the essentially the end of the PS3 era all the
- 35:18way up to the launch of the the current generation.
- 35:20Yeah. And really the only console that
- 35:24has had any noticeable graphical differences is Nintendo.
- 35:28And that's because they didn't run in HD for, you know, a
- 35:31generation and 1/2 until the renew came out.
- 35:37And like this could be the next kind of evolution of graphical
- 35:43fidelity that people, you know, the, the average consumer would
- 35:49want, you know, like I, I really feel like the average consumer,
- 35:55the average gamer still judges consoles, at least on graphical
- 35:59fidelity, right? How good does it look?
- 36:02You know, how amazing would this game look on a four KTV, which,
- 36:07you know, they've they've come out and said that final square
- 36:11came out and said that, you know, only about 20% of the
- 36:15people played rebirth on performance mode.
- 36:19They're playing, you know, in quality mode because people want
- 36:22to see these games on in 4K with the ray tracing and all these
- 36:26other features. You know, I wish I was frame
- 36:32rate blind like some people I used to be.
- 36:35And then you experience 60 frames a second in a like a
- 36:39normal game and you're like oh man, I'm screwed.
- 36:42Yeah, I'm one of those people. 60 frames per second is.
- 36:44The is the bare minimum. Yeah.
- 36:48And like, you know, Destiny PvP and marathon run at 1:20 and
- 36:51it's like, Oh my gosh. Like this is like, smooth.
- 36:54This is so smooth. Smooth.
- 36:57Like. Butter.
- 37:00So I don't know what do you, how do you feel about the the DLSS 5
- 37:05stuff? OK, OK, so I am, I am definitely
- 37:095050 on this. I like the innovation.
- 37:12I I like it, but at the same time I feel like I feel like it
- 37:17over does it, if that makes any sense.
- 37:20And it's mainly, it's mainly when we actually concentrate on
- 37:23the actual, on the actual, like the characters themselves, you
- 37:26know, so like that the background, the background
- 37:28upscaling cause dynamic. Why do I always forget what the
- 37:34L stands for? But it's dynamic, something
- 37:35super sampling. Basically, it's using, it's
- 37:38using genre, it's using genre of AI before genre of AI became
- 37:43like a, you know, like a, a bastion in our, in our
- 37:46vocabulary. It was using this to help to
- 37:49help inferior hardware actually make games seem more like up the
- 37:56up the snuff with with with current technology and stuff
- 38:00like that. You know, it was actually just
- 38:02imagine, just imagine taking the PS2 game and making it look like
- 38:05it's APS 4 game. You know, it was using, it was
- 38:09using, it was using deep learning, super sampling, there
- 38:12we go. It was basically using a form of
- 38:14inbuilt AI to actually like, to actually like pre, not just to
- 38:19pre render images and stuff like that.
- 38:21So you know, like they, they're actually loaded more textures
- 38:25and everything is loaded. There's more quality basically.
- 38:27That's why there's like we look at DLSS, there's 4 versions
- 38:29DLSS, there's, there's, there's performance, there's quality.
- 38:33And I can't, I can't remember the other two, but yeah, there's
- 38:35four versions of DLSS that you can, that you can set if you
- 38:38have DLSS capable thing, just like there's four different
- 38:41versions of FSR, which is AM DS. Oh my God, Why am I?
- 38:47Why do I always forget when it's time for me to talk?
- 38:49I always forget what all these acronyms stand for, You know,
- 38:52like it. I know I, I, I, I just sound
- 38:54like a really shitty, like, like, like like IT person
- 38:57sometimes, you know, but yeah, but FSR is, is is not up to
- 39:03snuff where DLS. Well, FSR is not the snuff where
- 39:05DLSS is, even though FSR does a very good job because, because
- 39:09the one thing that FSR cannot do that, you know, DLSSDLS works in
- 39:14combination with is ray tracing. If you have a, if you have an
- 39:17RTX 30 series or higher graphics card, Yeah, yeah.
- 39:22But yeah, going back to DLS is 5, it looks nice now.
- 39:27I think the problem is it, it, it, it, it does, it does too
- 39:31much. You know, when we start looking
- 39:33at what it does for like the character designs and stuff like
- 39:35that, because, because I kid you not, like honestly, honestly,
- 39:40like the RE-9 stuff, for example, in DLSDLS S5 looks
- 39:44stunning. But then we got to Starfield and
- 39:46I'm like, oh, I feel like they kind of it kind of it kind of
- 39:51put a bad spotlight on, on the character designs from from
- 39:55Starfield. You know, also the the thing
- 39:59from the Harry Potter game, like, you know, when it showed
- 40:01like the old lady with that, you know, working the spell and
- 40:04stuff like that, I was like, oh, they did too much for they did
- 40:06too much for that, you know. And I think that's what
- 40:09everybody looked at. They didn't, they didn't pay
- 40:11attention to the background because like you like when you
- 40:13watch the Digital Foundry video and they show what's going on in
- 40:16the background behind the characters.
- 40:18Yeah, it yeah, it's another uplift.
- 40:22And this is what we want to see. We want to see graphical
- 40:25fidelity like increasing and without costing us more money,
- 40:30you know, because like if we just talked about from a
- 40:32computer standpoint, right, you know, from, from like PC master
- 40:36race perspective, graphics cards are graphics cards are more
- 40:40expensive than your entire machine put together.
- 40:44You know, and this is also going to trickle down to consoles.
- 40:48As a matter of fact, we talked about last week about the price
- 40:51of like the, the, the project Helix versus the, the Steam
- 40:54Machine versus the PlayStation 6.
- 40:56The PlayStation 6 is looking like, looking like the bargain,
- 41:00you know, especially if when you look at the specs like, you
- 41:04know, like they all look like they're going to do the same
- 41:06thing they all do. Like like 1's going to edge out
- 41:09the other in one point where another one's going to edge out
- 41:11the other one in this point and and the and the other one's
- 41:13going to be like, oh, I'm just perfectly balanced.
- 41:16Perfectly balanced. If that if that even means such
- 41:21a thing, right. But now.
- 41:22But yeah, we're going to, it's going, it's going to happen.
- 41:25And, you know, like, once again, like that, you know, like
- 41:28everybody's going to be fighting about like, Oh, well, this is
- 41:31the brightest and all this stuff.
- 41:34I but like I said, I'm 5050 on it because like, you know, for
- 41:37every for every pro that I saw, you know, and this is, this is
- 41:41just everything that I cheered about DLSS 5, there was an equal
- 41:44amount of things that was like, oh man, like you got some work
- 41:48to do, you know, and, and, and NVIDIA does a phenomenal job
- 41:52working magic on this stuff. I mean, look at look at the DLSS
- 41:56technology that's been helping out the switch too.
- 41:59Yeah, that's DLSS. But the ladies and gentlemen,
- 42:02you, you guys, just because they don't say it in the in the
- 42:06language when you hear them talk about Switch games, it's DLSS
- 42:09because in NVIDIA, NVIDIA houses the Tegra chip, the Tegra.
- 42:14What is it? Isn't that even like what is it
- 42:15Like the two What? What was that?
- 42:17Chip, it's a custom. The switch to is based off of
- 42:21the off of the custom Tegra 2X. Yeah, I want to say.
- 42:28Yeah, that's right. That's right.
- 42:30I knew it was 2. I just couldn't remember what
- 42:31what nomenclature was after the two and stuff like that.
- 42:35But yeah, but yeah. And, and the one thing they
- 42:38boasted back when it was even just like rumor was that it was
- 42:42going to have DLSS technology behind it.
- 42:45And anyone who knows anything about gaming knows that DLSS is
- 42:48definitely what you want. DLS makes your makes makes
- 42:51potato games look like masterpieces.
- 42:56Potato games? That's funny.
- 42:59It does. It does.
- 43:00I know it's just, it's funny. That's it's just funny When when
- 43:06you said that, it just made me laugh.
- 43:11It makes it makes it DLSS, makes Laura Croft in Tomb Raider one
- 43:18look like how we thought she was supposed to look.
- 43:22You know what I mean? Yeah, well.
- 43:27No more. No more pointy triangles on her
- 43:30chest. Oh God.
- 43:34Right. Can you imagine?
- 43:36Can you imagine we loaded the original Tomb Raider from PS1?
- 43:39Let DLS us it would make It would make her look like
- 43:44freaking. It'd probably make her look like
- 43:47Bayonetta. Yeah, I mean here here's the
- 43:53thing. Not not everything from these
- 43:55are going to be perfect, right? Like, you know, obviously people
- 43:59were like doing their whole, you know, making everything, even
- 44:06cartoony stuff look realistic with this kind of joke now,
- 44:10right. But it's like, I don't, I don't,
- 44:14I don't know, man. I, I feel like I, I still feel
- 44:18like there is AI still feel like there's some sort of bugs to
- 44:27work out for sure. But I still feel that when they
- 44:31showed off like the Resident Evil stuff, I was like, man,
- 44:33that looks like I that game already looks, yeah, that game
- 44:37already looks amazing. But like, man, this, this like
- 44:40looks even better, you know, like.
- 44:44Yeah, the Resident Evil stuff looked amazing.
- 44:46I'm I'm, I'm, I'm just going to say it.
- 44:48It looked amazing. And, and, and, and it's crazy
- 44:51because Resident Resident Evil 9 was already impressive and just,
- 44:54and basically all they did, I, I, I was listening, like I said,
- 44:59I was listening to the Digital Foundry thing.
- 45:01And the guy was just like, the guy was just like, you know,
- 45:03like it removed, like the, IT removed what, what they called
- 45:07the Capcom face. And I was like, I was like, when
- 45:10you say it like that, you know, now it makes it seem like, you
- 45:12know, like it's like, it just did a disservice to like the
- 45:15whole thing. But yeah, he's right.
- 45:18He's right though, the wrestling I want to say when Resident Evil
- 45:234 came out Resident Evil 4 like set the set the standard for
- 45:27what like the character models are going to look like and it's
- 45:30kind of stayed that way. You can see you can see how it
- 45:33all it even like it even like ran itself back to the Resident
- 45:36Evil 1 remake. You know when when the.
- 45:39The only the only character they can't decide what they want to
- 45:41look like is Chris. I know, I know one, I know he's
- 45:46skinny. He's skinny in one of these.
- 45:47He's he's he's he's he's he's like, he looks like he's on like
- 45:51he's looks like he's on the T version of the steroids.
- 45:54The T virus version of the steroids at other points is
- 45:56like. Yeah.
- 45:57And then in eight, he looks like a retired NFL linebacker that
- 46:00like, doesn't know how to stop working out.
- 46:02And it's like what? Yeah, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't
- 46:05be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised that we
- 46:07find out that, you know, like he was using some type of like
- 46:10strain of, of the T virus 'cause you know, you can't use the G
- 46:12virus and the G virus is like, is like, is like meth on meth on
- 46:17crack. Yeah, it's, it's something,
- 46:24yeah. I and then like I, I can't stop
- 46:27thinking about the FIFA stuff either because like the the
- 46:30lighting from this, that was impressive, dude.
- 46:33The FIFA stuff, like the lighting on the jerseys, the
- 46:35fabric, like the the movements, like the the essentially like
- 46:42the the lighting effects was just it was amazing.
- 46:44It was really something incredible, right.
- 46:47And like, you know, Sony just released PSSR 2, which is, you
- 46:51know, apparently a major upgrade over PSSR one which, you know,
- 46:57there's a lot of games that try to utilize PSSR 2IN it or one
- 47:01and like the the base PS 5 looks better than the PS-5 Pro.
- 47:06Yeah, I, I, I was thrown by that.
- 47:09I was thrown by that because I was like, you have a situation
- 47:11here where inferior software is actually outdoing like the, the,
- 47:16you know, like the, the benchmark right now, you know?
- 47:20Yeah, I think I just think there are too few, too few people who
- 47:27care. Like I think there's just too
- 47:29few people that would make it matter to them.
- 47:31And that the PS-5, this whole generation for PlayStation just
- 47:35feels like an experiment essentially.
- 47:38You know, like with backwards compatibility, the this PSSR
- 47:45stuff. Like I kind of think whatever
- 47:49the next PlayStation is going to be, whether it's this
- 47:52PlayStation 6 or they just name it PlayStation or whatever, like
- 47:57I just feel like that that's going to be the console, you
- 48:00know, this, this feels like this feels this kind of feels like,
- 48:05remember when we jumped from like the guitar to the NES,
- 48:08right? And like some of the games look
- 48:10great. Some games don't.
- 48:11Some games run awesome, some games don't.
- 48:14But then you get into like the Super Nintendo and the Game Boy
- 48:18Advance era of pixel art and it's like, this is perfect.
- 48:22I don't want anything else ever in 2D, right?
- 48:25Like, I feel like we're in that NES stage of, you know, the 4K
- 48:32HDAI Bray tracing era. And like, everybody's still
- 48:37trying to figure it out and do the best they can with the tech
- 48:40that we have. But the next generation is going
- 48:43to be like it. It's going to be the Super
- 48:46Nintendo Game Boy Advance era of like this is this is where it's
- 48:50at. You know 4K60 with path tracing,
- 48:54ray tracing, You know the option of 120.
- 49:00Maybe this is, maybe this is our new, our new middle ground, you
- 49:04know, for, for gaming, 'cause you know, like I want to say
- 49:07like the the Xbox 360 PSPS. 3. 3 Thank you, thank you.
- 49:13I almost, I almost said four that and I, I almost said 4.
- 49:17But my brain was breaking even trying to like let those words
- 49:19slip out. Well to be fair, most you could
- 49:22you could skip the PS3. Yeah, yeah.
- 49:25But yeah, but just like how that it was the middle ground for for
- 49:28gaming for a long time, you know, like even PC games, even
- 49:32PC games back then, you know, the, the medium, the median,
- 49:38they look like, they look like 360 in PS3 games, you know, you
- 49:42know, there are certain games that did come out, you know,
- 49:44like Crysis, for example, that, you know, just blew the blew
- 49:48doors off, you know, but yeah, like, but yeah, like they're,
- 49:52but you know, for the most part, like all games kind of look the
- 49:54same, you know, you know, and that was kind of where they
- 49:57coasted for a while, you know, PS4PS4 and Xbox, Xbox One came
- 50:04out, you know, and like it was like, OK, we're trying something
- 50:06new, you know, And then PS5PS5 and the Xbox Series X came out
- 50:11and all of a sudden it was a whole bunch of flash and bluster
- 50:14because now we've got, you know, performance mode and, you know,
- 50:17and, you know, like, you know, performance mode and.
- 50:23Quality mode. I'm sorry, my my brain is just
- 50:26my brain. Is just I get it.
- 50:27I get it. I'm sorry.
- 50:28I get it. I'm right there with you.
- 50:31I I feel your pain. Yeah, yeah, I'm not.
- 50:34I'm not sure if it's just been a long week, you know?
- 50:38It's been a long something you. Know it's.
- 50:45Been a It's been a long something.
- 50:48Yeah. But no, I I hear you.
- 50:51It's definitely what is this? Huh, interesting.
- 51:03What were we talking about now? Gosh, I got distracted by
- 51:05notification. That oh, you, we, we.
- 51:07Pay attention to but we. Were just talking about like the
- 51:10PS. The PS-5 era has seemed like
- 51:12it's been 1 big like test or experiment.
- 51:14Yeah, it's just one experiment after another.
- 51:18You know, the live service stuff, the acquiring studios,
- 51:23you know, mismanaging and managing studios, you know
- 51:27acquisitions. Which Sony is not.
- 51:30Which Sony is not the only one guilty about.
- 51:33No, I mean, Microsoft is too, right?
- 51:35I mean it's. Matt's like this week has been 6
- 51:41fiscal months. He's not wrong.
- 51:46He's not. He's not.
- 51:48He's definitely not wrong. Especially with the weather.
- 51:52Yeah. But yeah, I, I, I just feel like
- 51:57they're trying to nail it down now before that next console
- 51:59comes out, because once that next console comes out, they're
- 52:05the way people are still playing on PlayStation 4, There's a real
- 52:07possibility that Sony's going to have 3 or 4 consoles on the
- 52:11market at the same time. At the same time.
- 52:13You know, if you include that the handheld, right, there's a
- 52:17real possibility people could be playing Fortnite on PS4, PS
- 52:21Five, PS Six and the project Canis at the same time, you
- 52:26know, and GTA, right? I mean, obviously not GTA6 won't
- 52:32be playable on 4, but it'll be on PlayStation 5 and 6 and
- 52:38presumably the handheld. Like it's insane.
- 52:43It's insane to think about how many things like this could be
- 52:48just changed with all this, this AI stuff.
- 52:53And I, I think Sony is looking at what this DLSS stuff is
- 52:58right? And they're like, oh, we, we
- 53:02better, we better, we better get Mark Cerny on the phone, you
- 53:07know, get his weird haircut and his soft, soothing voice out
- 53:11here to build us a console that's going to do all this.
- 53:14Yo Mark, yo no Mark Cerny has been putting work in since the
- 53:17PS4. He's like you can, Sony's like
- 53:20you can design the insides, but we need, we need somebody with,
- 53:23you know. We need artistic vision for for
- 53:26how it looks on the outside which which which?
- 53:29Here's a question. OK.
- 53:31So like if we look at, if we look at every, if we look at
- 53:34every generation of PlayStation, which one do you think has been
- 53:37the most beautifully designed in your opinion?
- 53:40Man, I mean I like the PS2 a lot.
- 53:44I think the PS2 slim is really. The PS2 slim is the GOAT in my
- 53:48opinion. Yeah, but if we're, if we're
- 53:51not, if we're excluding that, right, dude, The PS2 Slim, by
- 53:54the way. Oh my gosh dude, I I used to
- 53:58have pockets in the back of my jeans big enough to put that
- 54:01thing in. You were wearing jinkos.
- 54:04You were wearing jinkos back in the day.
- 54:05No, they were just fat people, jeans and.
- 54:08Fat people, Oh my God. And couldn't afford Jinkos, but
- 54:18I, I, I think man, I, I actually, as much as we made fun
- 54:22of the Kit Kat bar style thing of the, of the place of the
- 54:26PlayStation 4, I actually really think that, that the slim model
- 54:31is a really nice design. I think the Xbox One SX consoles
- 54:37are really nice looking. I love the Xbox One's design
- 54:41because the Xbox One it looked like.
- 54:44AVCR the launch. Are you talking about the launch
- 54:48one? No, I was talking about wait,
- 54:50wasn't there? There's three versions of the
- 54:53Xbox One. There's the launch version which
- 54:56was like a fat VHSVDCR looking thing.
- 55:02Then there's the Xbox series or the Xbox One S and the Xbox One
- 55:07X which looks similar but there's slight differences.
- 55:12I do think the Xbox One S is a really nice looking console.
- 55:15I also think the Xbox Series S is a nice looking console.
- 55:18But it's the 1X, it's the 1X that I like.
- 55:22Yeah, it just, it just, it just had simplistic elegance about
- 55:25it. It's elegant, it's sleek, it
- 55:29blends in. It's yeah, it's a really nice
- 55:32console. Yeah, and I and I and I even
- 55:35like the Series X, the Series X design, but you know, also, you
- 55:39know, there's. Also, that looks like a giant
- 55:40Amazon Alexa. Yeah.
- 55:44As they cancelled Cortana, remember when they were trying
- 55:49to incorporate Cortana and everything is their?
- 55:51Voices everything into everything.
- 55:55And Cortana wasn't that, wasn't that, was that Windows 8?
- 55:59Wasn't that back then? I don't know, man.
- 56:00Cortana's been around forever. Isn't that is that when she was
- 56:03introduced Windows 8? I don't know, man.
- 56:07I I don't remember anymore. It's it's all blur.
- 56:11It's all one big blur, dude. So let's see here.
- 56:22I think we're streaming on Facebook now, by the way.
- 56:25Oh, cool. I think I'm not sure we might be
- 56:30we might not be. Somebody can tell us later if we
- 56:33are. So yeah, my my thought on this
- 56:40is like, will there be follow-ups to this from other
- 56:45companies? Like how's this going to affect
- 56:47like the ROG Ally or the Steam Deck or switch to, right?
- 56:53I mean, switch to runs on NVIDIA.
- 56:55So this could affect that faster than the others.
- 56:58Although I don't know what kind of power you need to have these
- 57:01sorts of capabilities, right? I mean, obviously it's powerful
- 57:05enough to upscale something from 360P to 1080P.
- 57:08So there's that. But you know as as a ROG Ally
- 57:13user Leron, what would that be AMD right?
- 57:17It's AMD, yeah. You think AMD has something like
- 57:20this? Like even remotely close to
- 57:24this. OAMDAMD has been in the in the
- 57:28works of getting that done. We just, it just, it just has
- 57:31not, you know, like come to fruition yet.
- 57:33It's been it's been in the works for the past couple of years.
- 57:36And actually and actually is because AMD was try.
- 57:39AMD is trying to make a cheaper solution for ray tracing.
- 57:45What do you I mean? And once they keep writing them
- 57:48more affordable. Nothing, nothing new, nothing
- 57:51new. As a matter of fact, the last,
- 57:52the last keynote that actually the last keynote.
- 57:57I don't even think Lisa Sue is at that keynote.
- 57:59And and usually whenever she's there, that means some news is
- 58:02coming. Yeah.
- 58:04Lisa Sue is the is the CEO of AMD, by the way, For the people
- 58:08that don't, for the people that might not know.
- 58:11Oh yeah, you're not just talking to me, are you?
- 58:13No, no, I wasn't. I was talking, I was talking to
- 58:15stream. I was talking to stream
- 58:16Streamland and and the people who will be listening to us in
- 58:19the future once the once the vlog is actually once the VOD is
- 58:22actually out. Yeah, yeah.
- 58:28Is, I mean, anybody else doing something like this?
- 58:31You. I mean I get I, I.
- 58:33Intel. Intel.
- 58:35Intel's been quiet, you know. Like, well, that's because their
- 58:38business is failing. Which is wild.
- 58:42Intel was like pioneers of like, of like CPU technology and stuff
- 58:46like that And, and what the hell, you know, like, yeah.
- 58:51I know it's crazy they're turning it around though I
- 58:57think. They are.
- 58:58They are. They are.
- 58:59But the fact that, but the fact that we are that, the fact that
- 59:02we are sitting in here talking about how they are in the Hurt
- 59:04Locker right now is terrible. Yeah, that's crazy.
- 59:11I'd I man, I mean, they were supposed to open up all kinds of
- 59:15like chip fabs in Ohio and, you know, I think a couple others
- 59:19across the United States and they kind of put a hold on
- 59:23those. And you know, they laid off a
- 59:25whole bunch of people last year and changed their whole business
- 59:30plan essentially. So yeah, that's.
- 59:36Yeah, it's, it's, it's strange days.
- 59:39Strange days. Well, I don't know if you have
- 59:44any more to say about this stuff.
- 59:45I think it's really cool. I hope that.
- 59:48I think it's really cool. I, you know, I, I, I live, I
- 59:51live for these days and the only thing, the only thing that makes
- 59:53the only thing. Well, actually I feel like this
- 59:56is Nvidia's attempt to like kind of because I think NVIDIA, I
- 1:00:01think I think Nvidia's starting to see that their that their
- 1:00:03whole business models imploding because like they've thrown way
- 1:00:06too much in on the AI to the point where like, you know, like
- 1:00:08they're they're now to the point where where their hardware and
- 1:00:12this is graphics cards particularly are priced out so
- 1:00:15high that you know, like the regular consumer is having a
- 1:00:20hard time. Trying to get their foot in the
- 1:00:23door now, you know, You know. AMD is trying to do what they
- 1:00:28can, but AMD also has a MDAMD can't.
- 1:00:32AMD can't keep up, you know, and, and, and be cheap, you
- 1:00:38know, if that makes sense. You know, AMD was, AMD was a
- 1:00:41cheaper alternative to both Intel and NVIDIA at one point.
- 1:00:45But as technology has changed and stuff, you know, you know,
- 1:00:48they've also got to like, they've also got to like use a,
- 1:00:51a consistent pricing model now, you know, So it's one of those
- 1:00:56things. Yeah, also like all the
- 1:01:00everybody's using this like subscription services now for
- 1:01:03things that don't need subscription services.
- 1:01:06You know, I, I just. That's going to come to an end,
- 1:01:08too. I, I, I I can feel it.
- 1:01:10Yeah, I just, I feel like, you know, I, I look at things and I,
- 1:01:14I see certain things and it's like how, how are these
- 1:01:20companies still, like functioning as businesses?
- 1:01:22Because like it like data like, yeah, OK, data, whatever.
- 1:01:27But like, how much money are you spending to get this to where
- 1:01:32like you're making X amount of dollars?
- 1:01:35Is it even worth the investment of doing that instead of just
- 1:01:38like providing a product? Like I just feel like everything
- 1:01:41is becoming so incredibly complicated and like on purpose,
- 1:01:48like they're making it complicated on purpose and it's.
- 1:01:50Like. No, people in an in an era where
- 1:01:54people want convenience over quality, essentially.
- 1:01:57Like, yeah, and I know that kind of goes against the whole
- 1:02:01subscription thing because people like Netflix over, you
- 1:02:03know, you know, they would rather just flip through Netflix
- 1:02:06instead of getting up and putting a Blu-ray in their
- 1:02:08player or whatever. But like, like the convenience
- 1:02:11factor is like, man, you're making it so complicated.
- 1:02:14Like, oh, this thing works with this thing and you can get a
- 1:02:18plug in for this thing and it's like, can you just provide me a
- 1:02:20product that does everything and works, You know, like.
- 1:02:24Yeah, we don't even, we don't even need to, we don't even need
- 1:02:27to be like the the bleeding edge either.
- 1:02:29You know, that's the crazy part. No, I mean the.
- 1:02:31Bleeding edge. I mean, you look at something as
- 1:02:33simple as like Photoshop versus Canva, right?
- 1:02:37Look how complicated Adobe has made all of their products
- 1:02:40because they have to implement, you know, fireworks and
- 1:02:45Illustrator needs to work with with Photoshop, which needs to
- 1:02:49work with white room and bridge. And you know, all that needs to
- 1:02:53be integrated into, you know, premiere or whatever if you want
- 1:02:56it to. And it's like you go to Canva,
- 1:03:01it's like half the price. First of all, a month.
- 1:03:05It's not hard to cancel. And I don't know, Canva's a
- 1:03:09pretty good tool. I used to be like pretty anti
- 1:03:11Canva just because I was, I've been using Photoshop forever.
- 1:03:14But then it's like, oh, Canva's actually like a really nice tool
- 1:03:18that you can use and it's free and it's professional or, you
- 1:03:22know, there is a free version, but there's like, you know, it's
- 1:03:27just nuts, man. It's it's nuts how complicated A
- 1:03:30lot of this stuff is. And you know, I mean, it's what
- 1:03:33I'm dealing with with Facebook to the live stream now, right?
- 1:03:36It's like you said, I'm looking in the back end of Riverside,
- 1:03:40which is what we're using to record now.
- 1:03:43And it's like everything, every single integration.
- 1:03:46Oh, just log in and enter your password.
- 1:03:48OK, great. YouTube's logged, logged in,
- 1:03:51Linkedin's logged in. You know, Twitter's logged in,
- 1:03:54Twitch is logged in. You go to Facebook.
- 1:03:58Well, Riverside hasn't updated their Facebook meta stuff login
- 1:04:04for a while, it looks like. So like you have to go in and do
- 1:04:07the custom RTMP and you have to go into the Meta Business Suite
- 1:04:12and, you know, enter all these things in.
- 1:04:15You have to enter in your Riverside code into Facebook and
- 1:04:18then you have to like get the stream key and then you need to
- 1:04:22stream URL and it's like, what are you doing?
- 1:04:24Like. Yeah, it's.
- 1:04:25Wild. Everything else is so easy.
- 1:04:27Why are you making it so complicated?
- 1:04:29It's why nobody likes Facebook anymore.
- 1:04:32That's why they're shutting down their VR services, too.
- 1:04:34Did you see that today? Yeah.
- 1:04:37Well, I kind of, I kind of, I kind of saw that.
- 1:04:40I saw that a little while ago actually.
- 1:04:42I mean I saw. I mean, I I heard about it, but
- 1:04:47they're shutting down the entire platform.
- 1:04:49Yeah. Which is like my nephew just got
- 1:04:53a metaquest. You're telling me he's not going
- 1:04:56to be able to play his games anymore?
- 1:04:59He literally just got a metaquest for Christmas.
- 1:05:02That sucks, I'm sorry. And like he he loves it, but
- 1:05:09like you're telling me he's not going to be able to play it now?
- 1:05:15Man, what a what a joke. Now, I didn't read a bunch into
- 1:05:19it. I don't know if the games, like
- 1:05:20the games will still be available or whatever, but it's
- 1:05:22like shutting down your whole VR division.
- 1:05:25That doesn't sound great. Yeah.
- 1:05:27It doesn't. I'm sorry.
- 1:05:29They're metaverse division. Metaverse division?
- 1:05:34Oh my gosh, what? What's the protest going to look
- 1:05:39like outside of meta? Zuck sucks, so what's going to
- 1:05:42happen man? Anyways, you got anything else
- 1:05:50to add to this conversation on you?
- 1:05:52Got anything else to to say about the DLSS stuff that we
- 1:05:56have already hit on? Not really.
- 1:05:58Yeah. All right.
- 1:06:02Well, I don't really have anything else on the agenda.
- 1:06:09You know, I just thought this was fascinating and you're the
- 1:06:11person I like to talk to about these things because you're the
- 1:06:15tech guy. So, but why don't we?
- 1:06:21Why don't we call the show? OK, I'm cool with that.
- 1:06:28I'm cool with that. I mean, you know.
- 1:06:30Yeah, we're Lauren and I are going to try to rework this show
- 1:06:35a little bit to be more. You know, I mean, we are the
- 1:06:43remaining panelists, I'll say, you know, I mean, Pat will
- 1:06:49probably join us once in a while, but he's doing games cast
- 1:06:52and, you know, Stephanie's focusing on the writing stuff.
- 1:06:56So it's mostly just me and the run and probably guests moving
- 1:06:59forward. So we're going to try to retool
- 1:07:02the show to something that we would like it to be more Aiken
- 1:07:092. So I don't know if you have any
- 1:07:11ideas, Laron, you want to throw out there that we can wrap the
- 1:07:13show up with, but I I kind of want.
- 1:07:17It Let's save it for planning. Let's save it for planning.
- 1:07:19Yeah, I was. I was just going to, I was
- 1:07:21trying to extend the show Laron due to bad job extending the
- 1:07:24show. Oh my.
- 1:07:25My bad. Any top any top level idea just
- 1:07:29to wrap the show on? Like top level idea.
- 1:07:31Of like what you kind of want, what you would envision the show
- 1:07:34to be. I, I, I, I kid you not like, I,
- 1:07:41I like this. I like this because this is our
- 1:07:43third week in a row that we've done like, just basically like
- 1:07:45this, this, it's almost been like one topic, but it's been
- 1:07:48like 1 continuous topic that, you know, has like, honestly
- 1:07:51like rolled into like other talking points, which is which
- 1:07:54I, which I love. It doesn't seem all over the
- 1:07:56place. You know, we're still talking
- 1:07:59about current events and gaming and entertainment news and stuff
- 1:08:01like that. You know, I can't think of
- 1:08:05anything off the RIP, you know that I would say, you know, it's
- 1:08:09like a, it's like ultimately, ultimately we just want to get
- 1:08:15back to having fun. Yeah, yeah, I've, I've been
- 1:08:20thinking a lot about that across the board of like fan fun,
- 1:08:25remember fun. Fun, yeah.
- 1:08:28And obviously I've been like, personally, I've been like,
- 1:08:32really over the last couple years just stressing out about
- 1:08:35all this Basra stuff and like, what can we do to, you know,
- 1:08:39improve? How much more can we do?
- 1:08:41Can we push ourselves? Can we do this?
- 1:08:43Can we do that? And it's like, at the end of the
- 1:08:46day, it's like, man should just be like hanging out with
- 1:08:50friends. And, you know, if we're enjoying
- 1:08:54each other than people are going to enjoy us, you know what I
- 1:08:56mean? Like it's just kind of like,
- 1:08:58yeah, that's how I've kind of felt the last couple weeks.
- 1:09:02I've been rethink a lot of aspects of life for on take it
- 1:09:08to I. Mean, I mean we all do that
- 1:09:11we're. We're all but I, yeah, I, I, I
- 1:09:16like how this has gone too. I kind of like the two person
- 1:09:20show to be honest, too. Like the back and forth.
- 1:09:22I used to think. I I mean, I, I used to think
- 1:09:24like 3 people was like the nice sweet spot, but like, I don't
- 1:09:30know, Tower casuals is pretty successful.
- 1:09:34It's two people, pal Box pretty successful.
- 1:09:37It's two people. This show's successful, but
- 1:09:40like, you know, it could be successful with two plus people,
- 1:09:44Yeah. You know, here's one thing I
- 1:09:46would say because, because I'm, because I, I, I, I've listened
- 1:09:48to a lot of podcasts in my career and it's, it's
- 1:09:51interesting. It's interesting because
- 1:09:54because, because sometimes there's just two hosts and
- 1:09:56they're bouncing off each other like it's like that perfect
- 1:09:59synergy. And the other times like, you
- 1:10:01know, like 4 and 5 panel people where everybody gets, you know,
- 1:10:04a round Robin type thing like that also seems like, you know
- 1:10:08the sweet spot here. I will say, I will say this,
- 1:10:11Corey, I, I, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like you and I
- 1:10:14like, actually like we, we stopped being the main host when
- 1:10:19it's just us and we just, and we just, and we're just like 2
- 1:10:23dudes talking in the, you know, in the same room.
- 1:10:25Yeah. Whereas you know, like when it's
- 1:10:28when it's like, you know, like panels 3 or bigger and stuff
- 1:10:31like that. You and I, you and I switching
- 1:10:33to the the host slash moderator mode, you know.
- 1:10:36Yeah. And we try to give everybody
- 1:10:38else the voice, you know? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:10:41And that's like the the quote UN quote moderator thing is
- 1:10:45something I kind of want to get away from.
- 1:10:47It's just like, like you said, I just want to kind of hang out
- 1:10:50and talk and, you know, have fun.
- 1:10:54So we're going to Lauren and I are going to kind of look at
- 1:10:57that and see what's what and get back to the get back to the fun,
- 1:11:04as they say. So, but that's it.
- 1:11:08We did it. I want to thank everybody out
- 1:11:10there for watching or listening to this episode of the Boss Rush
- 1:11:12podcast. You can catch us live on
- 1:11:14Wednesday nights. It's going to be you and me
- 1:11:17again next week, Laurent, just you and me because everybody's
- 1:11:19going to PAX. Yes, Sir.
- 1:11:22Unlike unlike me, I am not going.
- 1:11:24Nothing wrong with that. Nope, nothing wrong with that.
- 1:11:28Nope. Hey Laurent, you want to talk
- 1:11:30about Nintendo next weekend? Weekend or week, weekend,
- 1:11:35Whatever. Since Eddie was right.
- 1:11:36Oh, since Edda be gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:11:40I'll do it. By the way, there was a point
- 1:11:43where you were on Nintendo Power block a lot.
- 1:11:45A lot, yeah. Around, you know, mid 2021.
- 1:11:49Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't.
- 1:11:52Remember that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not a
- 1:11:54hater. Like I have fun when I'm on
- 1:11:56power block. And and it's funny because like,
- 1:11:59you know, then people find out. Oh, La Ron does know what he's
- 1:12:01talking about when it comes to Nintendo stuff.
- 1:12:04Maybe I'll beat, maybe I'll beat Metroid by then and we can talk
- 1:12:06about it. We'll talk about there.
- 1:12:08You know what, I I might play a little bit of Metroid.
- 1:12:11Zero. Do it.
- 1:12:12Do it. Night.
- 1:12:13Do it. It's not my wrong ally.
- 1:12:15I might play a little bit of it Night.
- 1:12:17Do it. All right, everybody, everybody
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