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059: Flip the Bit! · Hemispheric Views

• Andrew Canion 0:05 Hello, this is Andrew starting off hemispheric fuse with a very important announcement. It's June, which means it's Arcadia June. Now if you don't know what our KDA is, you need to check our archives in Episode 29 Last year, our KD a June as an event came into being as part of the hemispheric views universe. Then in Episode 31 It featured an interview with Irene who supports the developer Rafaella with the game. Check both those episodes for full details. But let me give you the quick rundown. Acadia June is an opportunity for you to play the iOS game Arcadia and compete with other listeners of hemispheric views for the high score and a fantastic prize. Eric won the prize last year. We don't want Eric to win again. Do we? It's up to you to prevent that. We need you to play the various games on our Cadia log your high scores and let us know what they were via discord or even email Hello at hemispheric fuse.com We just want to know what you're scoring. I Kalea is a game you can play anywhere on iOS. You can play it on your phone. You can play it on Apple TV. You can even play it on your Apple Watch. So there's no excuse not to play and not to have fun with Arcadia, June. And what's more, the developer of Arcadia Rafaella has generously provided some codes for us to use or to give away that will enable the lucky recipients of set codes to access the game download the game a copy of it for free but if you don't get that code don't worry it's very affordable on the App Store. We're talking on just a few dollars so whether you get the code whether you still have the download from last year's Arcadia June or you're a new listener and you want to play this year please join in it's a huge event we love it Acadia June let's get gaming Jason Burk 3:05 when you do your professional sports caster job that you do now house, Andrew Canion 3:10 yes. Jason Burk 3:11 Do you have that type of setup for that? Or do you constantly throughout the entire thing think man this? This could be a lot better if they would let me set this up? Andrew Canion 3:23 No, it's pretty good setup. Although the headphone and microphone the quality of the equipment Jason Burk 3:28 is not as nice I can attest you do not set a You don't sound like you first of all, okay, you that I know which is this. But to be fair, when you're doing your your alternate persona and maybe that's part of it. Maybe you are, you know, different personable guy. Yeah, maybe you are a basketball guy at that point. I honestly thought I was watching the wrong recording. Because I was like this. I don't I mean, it kind of maybe sounds but I didn't think it was you until I confirmed so they got some weird setup going on over there. I think. Martin Feld 4:05 Is it fair to say that maybe on this podcast, Andrew adopts a persona of business and technological authority. There's presence and resonance, whereas on the sports show, he's more of a not generic necessarily but a man of the people he's a relatable Everyman. Jason Burk 4:19 I thought that could be it. But then I remembered NBL pocket podcast, which is the most sportsy of sports things that one can listen to. And I know that from experience and having no idea what's going on throughout the entire thing. But even then, difference so I don't know I think maybe it's a chemistry thing partially. Could be right NBL pocket podcast, chemistry there. This show. Something's going on here. We're not sure what but something I want Andrew Canion 4:51 to know. So this basketball thing so they give me an Audio Technica headset. So it's got the integrated microphone. The mixer is ancient and And, and the levels like you exceed the levels allocation very easily. It's very crackly and Poppy. That's not great. And I just want to know at what point how many games in is it totally legitimate to bring along in a little backpack might my own mixer and just say Look, can we integrate this equipment into the into the show? Jason Burk 5:19 The fact that it hasn't happened already is shocking to me. I don't know how you didn't show up with your little Pelican case. branded on the side, pop it open. It's got a mixer, it's got a microphone, it's got a headset, and you're like, Hey, did you just kind of shove all that other stuff off the desk? Right? Plop all your stuff down and say now we're going to make a show. Let me let me show you how this is gonna go. Andrew Canion 5:45 I haven't done that. But I did have because because the last game we did was sort of a bigger event. It was on the Keio service, the streaming sports in Australia. There you go. So we had he had additional production crew there. And the guy just leaned over at one point and just readjusted my microphone very gently. Wow. That's amazing. Oh, my levels were full. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's that's good service. Martin Feld 6:11 This is what it means to be talent. Andrew Canion 6:13 NBL one.com.au/west. If you want to go straight to the Western Australian edition, look for any games featuring home games by Perth redbacks men and women. You can watch at your leisure is still available. You can watch them Martin Feld 6:30 slash AST if you want the superior side of Australia to say, you know, Okay, turn it up. Jason Burk 6:38 I actually that that actually brings up an interesting question, because obviously in the US, in the US east versus West is very, it's a thing, surely, right. Like they're very different, basically, in every conceivable way. And the West Coast is the best coast because it rhymes with best. So Andrew Canion 7:00 because it's full of chill stoners. Yep, Jason Burk 7:03 yes. Right. And the East Coast has nothing to offer. So there goes that part of our audience. Andrew Canion 7:09 East Coast is full of business people and politicians wearing suits. Jason Burk 7:13 Yeah, if you need to cancel your PATREON patreon.com/cancel If you're on the East Coast, so that makes that easy. But as I assume, is there something similar in Australia other than you guys just kind of talking with one another? Like, is there like a east versus West kind of thing or not as much? Martin Feld 7:33 There, the East typically gets all the attention gets to go first. So out of the graciousness and compassion of my heart, I'm gonna live Andrew, Jason Burk 7:41 even though you technically just went first. Exact, okay, Andrew Canion 7:45 the West Coast of Australia, because it's just one state and really one city, we're very isolated and half the country and half the country. And, and, and the profitable half of the country because we have all the resources. So we make all the money for the country entirely, which then gets siphoned off to the east coast. Where a lot Martin Feld 8:07 of beautiful domestic agriculture that happens in the the wetter temperate areas of the East that ends up fueling the nation. Sorry, go on. Jason Burk 8:16 Sorry, sorry, interrupt on that industrial there Andrew Canion 8:18 is definitely a divide. Okay, there's absolutely divided and we the West Coast basically feels like it's a forgotten side of the country. It's basically deemed irrelevant by the rest of Australia. And so we are constantly what are we talking about again, and so we basically call the men in the east, the wise men from the East think that they know more, understand more and more more powerful. So we basically try and forget that the East Coast exists because they always forget that we exist. Martin Feld 8:50 I feel like Tasmania gets a rougher trot than just about every state in the country. Like everyone makes jokes about that. It made perhaps unreasonably but of the kind of genetic quality of people from Tasmania. You don't get those jokes. Jason Burk 9:04 Now they just get hive is Andrew Canion 9:06 that we don't get those jokes. I'm just kidding. We're not all related to one another fair, Jason. Martin Feld 9:10 This is something that never enters my headspace. Like I don't even think EU was like, I just think this is a great opportunity to piss off Andrew. Yeah, that's when you ask that. Yes. Jason Burk 9:19 And that's what it was meant for fully. So, but it is interesting that it tends to be east versus West here. And it in to some degree. It's kind of similar there, I think. Andrew Canion 9:31 So what's your position? Martin? on the East Coast? Do you have a view of the West Coast? Yeah, or of the East Coast greatness? Martin Feld 9:42 Well, as I said, I like to hang it up for this podcast, but all that kind of thing. And this is a whole other discussion of things like State of Origin between New South Wales and Queensland with rugby, which just kind of annoys me to know and how it's even a popular thing. Well, you know what I mean like it doesn't even there's an example of East Coast centrism, right? The fact that two states think that the rest of the nation cares about some ridiculous marketed sports rivalry anyway. I suppose what I would say is there are people who care about this sort of thing, and it's like, oh, which one's better? Sydney or Melbourne? Or, you know, what's the deal with Queensland? Or, you know, are we like Adelaide for festivals? But it's kind of boring. And what's the deal with Perth, they're just out in the middle of the desert there. There are some people who actually hold on to these stereotypes. But of all the cities and towns that I visited, I think everyone's more similar than what they probably think. And I was in Perth once, and I thought it was lovely. So I don't really care for any of these arbitrary borders. But I still like to give Andrew crap. Jason Burk 10:43 Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah, my my only issue with either side is that they're so far apart. And that for me to get to both is going to be a very big pain in the ass, but it will be worth it. But it will be a pain in the Martin Feld 10:59 one prime plus there's a new member who is prime plus.com Jason Burk 11:02 is how you get there. And the new member is John. Jay, thank you so much, John, for your membership of one prime plus.com. We love the found it and have joined us. In this thing we call hemispheric views. I do want to give a reminder that it is in fact open to the entire world. So there is no queue. You can all sign up at the same time. It's totally fine. You don't have to wait for anyone else. For John, specifically, if you give us an address. If you would like some cool sticker merch, let us know we can send that to you for your membership. And also there is bonus content going back probably at least over a year. Now I think of episodes, blog posts, we've got the newsletter, that's every month. So there's been have we had a year on the newsletter yet, I can't recall Andrew Canion 12:03 would be very close. If we haven't maybe one month off. It's got Jason Burk 12:07 to be pretty damn close. So you got at least 10 or 11 newsletters in there to check out, which for the most part, I would say? Well, I would say in general, the show overall is mostly evergreen. But I think a lot of the blog post type stuff tends to be evergreen, there's not really, we don't focus heavily on the kind of here and now as much as a lot of places. So most of that stuff is probably still pretty good for you. And then we've got a bunch of episodes you can check out that's some cutting room floor stuff, some just very specific to one prime plus, and then some just straight up bonus that no one else gets. So one prime plus.com. Thank you, John. Everyone is free to join again. And we we really encourage everybody to go in the discord because that's kind of like the best place to chat with everybody. We've got a fun little Andrew Canion 12:58 community in there. And that's for everybody. That's not just one prime plus Jason Burk 13:02 that is correct. Yeah, there Discord is for everyone. There is a specific one prime plus channel in there that is locked to one prime plus to talk about various things related to the program or different events that we have. From time to time we do live watches of movies, we're doing a live watch of severance right now, episode by episode with commentary with the community. And I'm sure we're gonna have a bunch of other crazy things coming up for the remainder of the year. So if you haven't heard the good word, one prime plus.com is the place to be back. Martin Feld 13:39 I'm excited to do some follow up. I can see a robot head which denotes Jason follow up on iPad screen apps in parentheses, handwritten notes. Jason Burk 13:49 That is correct. So we talked about iPad screens. The other actually was that a one prime plus that might have been coincidentally, maybe it wasn't? I don't recall now. Martin Feld 14:02 But I think it was a topic suggestion. That's right. So you had another reason why there you go. Yeah, Jason Burk 14:06 you get to suggest topics as well. So we talked about our iPad homescreens. And just sort of how we had them laid out. We talked about what apps were on there, and not so much app by app, but just sort of our thinking around how we use the iPad, I think was probably more more closely to what we were talking about versus just going app by app from, you know, top left to bottom right. And one of the things we talked about a little bit was handwritten notes on the iPad, iPad Pro specifically and how that is a useful tool. But we touched on good notes we touched on notability and how the consensus I believe that I'm speaking a little bit for both of you was that they're both pretty good. Neither one is like way out ahead of the other in terms of what we prefer. It's just sort of this is the one I've been using. So I'm going to keep using it, I came across another one. And so I just wanted to bring it up for everybody to try out if they're into handwritten notes, called pen book. And it's been quite good, and I'm liking the way that it is laid out. And that's really the big difference here in terms of handwritten notes. They all do handwritten notes, use the Apple Pencil, and they write notes. Nothing profound. But pen book I'm finding has a nice layout in the way that you get new paper and the quickness with which you can change paper and layouts. And you can get new paper layouts, if you want to do I'm saying paper but just you know, the basically the background that you don't edit your writing on top of if you want to do like an agenda, or a dot grid or line or whatever. It's just it's it's another option I didn't know about, I just sort of stumbled upon it. So pen book is an option if you want to do handwritten notes on the iPad. And that's the one I've been using now over notability or Andrew Canion 16:00 good notes. Currently got 4.6 out of five on the Australian App Store 473 ratings, so I've never heard of it. Somebody has Jason Burk 16:09 Yeah, I had not heard of it either. I believe I came across it completely accidentally looking through the app store for something else. And there you go. Discoverability actually worked for me. So yeah, pen book, check it out. Martin Feld 16:22 The thing that I love about hearing about note apps from people is you have potentially opened a Pandora's box of people entering some sort of existential Note crisis and up ending their entire note. Yeah, yeah, filing and writing system. So I'm a little bit worried that we're getting on the discord. And people are gonna be like, Oh, I was using this. And I'm using that. And I don't know what to do. So Jason Burk 16:43 there's at least 14 people that thought they had the perfect solution. And now I have just crushed their entire world from beneath them and just taken out the foundation. And now they have to start all over. Andrew Canion 16:56 I just tried to load that on my Safari on their website on Safari for iOS. And of course, it didn't load because of that bug that we've been discussing. I just went flip that toggle, flip that toggle and then it loaded. Jason Burk 17:10 That's so weird, because I don't understand I don't have that issue, which is so strange. I have everything the same as you and David was talking about that. I feel like you and I Andrew would be different just geographically separated. There could be weirdness or something. Yeah, but he's like, right above me effectively, like he's one state up very close. So I would think that would be the same. But I have not seen any of these issues you all are talking about. It's so weird. Andrew Canion 17:42 So just to quickly summarize the last few days and like the only variable I can put it down to is since the latest iOS update 15 Five, yeah, I've been having Safari just having random problems loading some websites, it was just the little progress bar will commence. And then it will just hang there. White page, nothing loading. David did some great research because I was complaining on Discord about it. If you go into the iOS settings for Safari, scroll down to the privacy and security section. There is a hide IP address toggle, usually and Tippin appropriately, that would be hide from trackers. If you turn that go into that and say turn it off. It sounds scary. And you're probably giving up some layer of privacy. Jason Burk 18:31 For now. I'm sure this is temporary, right? I mean, I imagine whatever this is, will be resolved. Andrew Canion 18:36 Hopefully we'll flip the bit like you're about to flip back. But then go back into sverrir. Just see if your web pages load without any problems. Because we are finding that David and I are finding that that seems to be the solution. I went through everything. So I usually use next DNS as a alternate DNS provider slash ad blocker. I turned that off, I went back to my ISP DNS, still having problems and it was just I couldn't figure out what it might be. And so David H came to the rescue with that solution. You can also do it on the Mac, in System Preferences. And then you go into networks, there is a toggle for limit IP address tracking under your internet settings. That's seems like basically the same sort of toggle. And that only affects mail and Safari too. So if you having problems with those, that will be hopefully a temporary solution, but it's just bizarre. Jason Burk 19:37 It's so weird. And again, I would emphasize if nothing seems weird to you don't do anything like you're fine. But it seems like for whatever reason, there must be other variables involved here that are causing, you know, X to conflict with Y to conflict with the Z or something weird is going on because like I'm I'm looking on F Free system in my house and not seeing any of this, which is extra weird. You think it would be at least one of them. But I don't know. I went immediately to ISP because I figured, since I'm okay. And you both were having issues, maybe it was down at that level, but it does seem like it's further upstream. I don't know. It's weird. Andrew Canion 20:23 I will say I've just done another test on my Mac here. I flipped that Safari bit off and loaded a website, that, that the one that was just causing me problems. And then I just did the same thing loaded it in Firefox, and it was much quicker in Firefox. So maybe Safari is not doing so well. Maybe it's time for a browser switch up. Jason Burk 20:47 That's the other interesting thing, too, is like these websites are not, it's not like you're going to weird, questionable websites, it was like some paint website, like literally like a like a paint painting, or I think maybe it was actually to buy paint. Yours was like ESPN, like the most the most generic basic of sites. So it wasn't like you're trying to go to like some weird Web. Yeah, it wasn't anything even remotely strange. It was probably in the top 10 websites visited on the internet ever. Andrew Canion 21:24 So maybe I'm gonna have to switch my browser? I'm gonna have to go back to Firefox and edge or Jason Burk 21:30 I've tried. I've tried. It doesn't. You can't? You can't, you can't switch. So if the Andrew Canion 21:35 iOS Sync is the issue or Apple Pay, too? Jason Burk 21:39 Well, I always think is nice. But most browsers have sync amongst themselves. The biggest things are Apple Pay support. You cannot do Apple Pay in any other browser. It does not. Okay. I know people talk about like iMessage being a lock in or whatever. No, this is, this would be an actual definition of lock in iMessage. You can default back to SMS. It's not great. But it works. This is literally only in Safari. The other one is when when you still run across that random bank website or something. Two factor based on SMS. auto fills it in, no one else is doing that Not gonna happen. So those two things are so huge. You'd think like, oh, what's the big deal? It's just Apple, tell you what, you go to buy something, it's a pain in the ass to not be able to just do touch ID and go on. So Andrew Canion 22:44 that two factor SMS Kertzer. I've told I think I've talked about that before, I might have blogged about I love that picture. So it comes out just often enough, yep, that it's annoying when it happens. And that's Jason Burk 22:55 one of those features where you're like, This is magic. That is one of those magical features where when it happens, you go, Oh, my gosh, I understand why this is so great. Because this just happened, I did nothing could I have gone and copy and pasted. I could have. But you know what I didn't, I just clicked the thing. And it was done. So those two things. So Andrew Canion 23:19 Safari wins, it won't load half your web pages, but it will fill in your SMS code. So therefore, it's the best browser that's never got another robot, we've got trying a new keyboard, and then in parentheses, and a new additional monitor thing. Jason Burk 23:37 I've I've my offices has been just bastardized, and I don't know who to talk to about it. I was hoping you all could be like, I could lay on the couch and talk about it. And you would console me and tell me that it's going to be alright, for like $200 an hour. Does that sound fair? Absolutely. I got a new keyboard, which also brings up another interesting thing, we're just talking about Apple Pay, and that is in the SMS code thing for Safari. No touch ID on a different keyboard sucks. It sucks so hard. So if we could get a little standardized Touch ID button for quite literally don't care how much it costs. I want one because right now I've got a stupid whole keyboard sitting over here. Just use the touch ID button. And it's ridiculous. But the bigger thing is this other monstrosity next to me, which is a monitor. It's a 32 inch monitor. It's big. It's really big. But it's not. It's tall. I've got it vertical. Off to the right. Martin Feld 24:50 This is a larger display than my main one used as a side same. Jason Burk 24:54 My my main panel is a 24 inch iMac. Martin Feld 24:59 So it's even more calm. I call him hilarious. So Jason Burk 25:01 I have let me paint a picture for you. So you can laugh at this please. 24 inch iMac, everything sleek, nice. Everybody loves it. It's just like, Ooh, this is this is what everything could life could be above it. 13 inch iPad? Sure, why wouldn't you do that? Then to the right 32 inch vertical monitor just over there. My poor standing desk is like the motors are having difficulty going up and down at this point. It's ridiculous. But I kinda like it. It's actually really good. And let me tell you why. I've said before, I think on record, I'm not a to monitor person. I'm not the kind of person that has two monitors. Next year, three monitors. Yeah, see, not to monitor three monitor. But like, you know, the classic two monitors next to each other. Normally with the big giant bezel in the middle. I would I can't No, that's terrible. I hate it. I hate looking at bezel directly in the center of my view. But there's so many things that I run day to day work wise that I want as quite literally a dashboard. I want to have slack up to be visible glanceable Asana, I use Asana a ton for very the project manager. Exactly. I use that a ton. And I always want that within view so that I can quickly reference and see what thing is where within a project. And then calendar I like to be able to be to glance as well without bringing it up into my main view. So now I've got this awkwardly weird stupid dashboard thing next to me with these windows on it. It it works great. I really like it. It just looks stupid. But I think that's okay, right? If it's functional and look stupid, that's okay. Is that correct? Am I do I have that right? No, no, not. Andrew Canion 27:01 Okay. Martin Feld 27:02 Well, Andrew, you had a vertical monitor to the side. What do you think of this I love Andrew Canion 27:05 I love the idea of a vertical monitor. I think they're really cool. I do have an I have a secondary monitor as well. It's, it's a Dell. It's one that we bought for my wife and she rejected it. So as I can't have something go to waste. So I've had it, I turned it on, I don't have it on all the timer turned on as required for a period of time I had it in the portrait orientation. But it's a 27 inch, I think. And I found I was getting next I was getting neck strain looking up at the top of it, because it was taller taller than my iMac display. So I've switched it back to portrait. Now, it's okay, I've tried the dashboard thing and it just never sticks. It just never kind of works but I do use it as just a random when I need to move stuff over on the other screen. I can't ever get a window layout that's perfectly sticks in position. My Windows go all over the place. But the idea the idea of a portrait 32 inch i don't know i don't know how you're seeing the top of that screen. You need binoculars. Jason Burk 28:13 It's it's actually working I as much as it pains me to have this like giant ugly thing on my desk. I mean it's not to be fair, it's not the monitors fine the monitors. It's just huge. But now I've got my whole iMac freed up to just do my day to day stuff and be able to glance over I'm doing it right now I've got you all on the iMac so I can look you up on the iPad show notes up at the top now this is this is more intimate this is this is not meeting that Martin Feld 28:46 intimate situation he's he's locked onto our eyes he's not referring to something Jason Burk 28:50 I don't want you think I'm looking away I want you to be looking into my eyes deep deep into my eyes. So I've got show notes I've got my notes and I've got a you know Audio Hijack at the bottom. It's it's great. All of this the iPad screen above the big giant stupid thing to the right. These were not new these were things that just existed in the house already. Martin Feld 29:16 I thought you were getting on the path of these are not three devices now Jason Burk 29:18 these are not these are you getting it it's a it's an iPad above your monitor. It's an iMac and it's a 32 inch ugly thing next to it these are all one thing called my desk Yeah, no these these are just all things I had in the house already so i i You know experiment. I try things so played a corner played a corner Alright, so quickly played a corner which is the yellow square emoji, which good for good, you know, thinking ahead on their part that there already was an emoji for the device could call on that. A couple of games that I wanted to mention For playdate enthusiasts. Pick Pack Pup. Fantastic game. It comes with the device in one of the weeks. Love it. flipper lifter third party sideload fun game set. Pymble No, it's like this game. We're an elevator operator with the crank and you're trying to get penguins to different levels of the hotel that they're trying to get to. Because, yeah, obviously I mean it's pretty self explanatory. flipper lifter. Come on. Bebo collect another third party. sideload um, I'm mentioning these because I'm, I'm so happy with how many third party sideload games there are on. I've been finding them all on itch.io I don't know if people are familiar with that. It is a place to get all manners of content but it's a it's a marketplace for people to sell their wares. So bubble collect is another one and then casual burger is another one that I'm back on to now after beating pick Pack Pup, which is also within the weekly releases to say that played a steal to major thumbs up. Love it. Can't say enough about it. Andrew Canion 31:17 And what's it pool sweet? Jason Burk 31:19 Oh, pool sweet. We touched on that when we were talking about the play date because there's the little dock that it's going to have at some point where you can have on your desk and it'll have your pool suite FM app for the play date. Yeah, and it got me listening to pool suite and it plays quite literally 24/7 in my house now. I can't stop it's so good. I Martin Feld 31:42 just wiping lotion all over yours all as Jason Burk 31:47 I am just looping up listening to pool sweet FM. It's my favorite thing now. Do either of you listen to that? I guess app Martin Feld 31:58 intermittently. Yes, it's good. Jason Burk 32:00 Oh my gosh. It's just not as much as you do cards the best. It's so good. What is your favorite station? I have to ask. Martin Feld 32:07 I think I mentioned last time it was the Tokyo disco. Yes, Jason Burk 32:11 it's the best brilliant Bass Station. It's so good. Martin Feld 32:15 But it's kind of what I like about it is that it's clearly retro and nostalgic and cheesy which fits the app but it's also kind of modern so you listen to it you go oh this is kind of funky. You're new so it's like old and new again. Sorry old is new again like the I have never Jason Burk 32:30 felt cool in my life except listening to pull sweet Martin Feld 32:39 so our listeners tripels with FM and tell us if you also feel cool. Jason Burk 32:46 All right now foot gaming corner. Martin Feld 32:49 I thought it would throw you off to put a foot next to a gaming controller in our notes. It's really mundane white news as in mundane white menus, which is in no way important to anyone. But yeah, I got a new Xbox. Andrew Canion 33:03 A whole new console Jason Burk 33:04 what like the like a proper X Xbox series Andrew Canion 33:09 X. You got a series X holy this guy. Yes. Did you see about discord commentary the other day too? And he Jason Burk 33:18 held that he held that over your head like I'm gonna drop this on you so hard. During the record I Martin Feld 33:26 didn't mean to be spiteful. Natasha found that like a an exchange place where they refurbish them, essentially, I think it was bought and instantly handed back so I went and gosh, Jason Burk 33:35 this is amazing. I can we can we mark a calendar so far. John, John, get that on the calendar series X. Martin. Tag it down. Thank you. Holy hell. Welcome to Martin Feld 33:52 the expected to inspire this month. Jason Burk 33:54 Welcome to the next generation. Andrew Canion 33:56 Can you get one from me? Martin Feld 33:58 Well, this is my first new console and about 16 years. So I thought Jason Burk 34:03 might as well. Okay, so she's Andrew Canion 34:05 been playing Forza no doubt. I'm sure. Martin Feld 34:10 I've been trying some things. It's been interesting to see Halo in such high resolution. Yeah, I'm sure. So that's been nice. Absolutely. Your 4k 6k I just thought I get this. Yeah, that's right. That's right. But the funny thing is, this is what i This is the huge kind of I suppose seismic shift in gaming, which I just completely skipped. So I think I mentioned before playing the original Xbox Play the Xbox 360 locally at home for years the internet never really kind of worked on I didn't really care I didn't need to get online to play my games. So I have this whole history of local stuff but different Live account made through the whole X boxes or sorry like Microsoft profile. So if you find me on like the system, it's like this Pimply score as if like Martin is new to games. Be gentle on Yes, like it's like I've never touched anything before but I'm like whatever. But so yeah, it's been fun to experiment with it. And it's, it's a large black box object, which actually fits the name. And I'm glad they put the greenback in it. Andrew Canion 35:10 Is it very noisy? No, it's Martin Feld 35:11 totally quiet, which is such that's probably the biggest upgrade from the 360. Because the 360 sounds like an industrial cooling system for a warehouse. Jason Burk 35:19 Martin would hear that 360 And think he was at work at the blast furnaces, because like that shit was awful. Martin Feld 35:26 It does approach that yes, yes. Jason Burk 35:28 So what did you see your gamertag is Feld Meister? am I assuming that's correct, or Martin Feld 35:34 I think that might have already been taken. unfilled, moister and other things. I think it's MJ W filled. You can find me there, but nothing much interesting. That's my initials. Jason Burk 35:45 Wow, look at that. So wow, X Box series X. I love this. I love everything about that. Because I would have guessed you would have been like, I'll just get a series s it's fine. But you were like, No, I'm going, I'm going for it. Martin Feld 36:00 Well, I figured I've got the 4k TV, Andrew Canion 36:02 rationalizing it as well, trying to find one not being able to find one again. I'm sure the I'm sure the SOP fine. I'm sure it'll be fine. Martin Feld 36:10 I mean, no one really need such a thing. But the way I rationalized it because you know, we'll justify these things is I hadn't had one that was new for years, I got plenty of use out of that this is not going to be old or superseded super quickly. Of course, they might do slim version. But who can make it smaller. But whatever, I got such value out of the two previous ones that I got years ago that why not. And there's pretty fair backwards compatibility, which is good. I do think they need to go further. Because there are games that I have on disk, hence the disk drive interest with the series X. I don't think they go far enough. And there's a little thing that makes me smirk on the Microsoft or Xbox website. That's our promise to you keeping our promise to you about backward compatibility. And as far as I'm concerned, the promise is not fulfilled, because I have old stuff that I can't play. And it's probably due to some bizarre licensing issue. Or they can't be bothered so impressed Microsoft, but it's not far. Now. Let's put the PlayStation Jason Burk 37:10 is the same way. But at least there's an hour. I mean, it doesn't make any better. But there was the excuse of like, from a ps3 standpoint, it was like this weird architecture thing that they thought was going to be great. Sure ended up not being great. So I give him a little bit of a pass on that of like, we're not gonna re architect all these games. But like for the Xbox side, I'm kind of like, Come on, guys. Like, Martin Feld 37:36 this is the company that has kept Internet Explorer limping along for so long to keep corporate people happy, you can make a couple of original Xbox games more compatible, or resurrect them. Jason Burk 37:49 I will continue to say though, Xbox Game Pass is the best bang for any gaming dollar that exists in all of gaming game that took me over the Game Pass is just so good. On the PlayStation side, it's a flippin disaster. They've had two different things, which I have both, they're both May. Now they've put them into one, which gives me like to mess into a bigger mess, I guess I don't know. But like Game Pass is just it's so it's such a good value in terms of ever, you know, there's always this kind of like, oh, I don't want to subscribe to everything. But Game Pass is really a good value. I think in terms of gaming, amount of gaming, you get per dollar. I don't think you can be Game Pass. Martin Feld 38:39 Yeah. And I was so impressed with how worked on the iPad, I thought, well, this is cool. But it's really still not the center of a gaming universe. It's a cool thing to have and move around with. And I thought if I'm enjoying it this much on this tiny little thing that's just playing it through a browser, what's it going to be like when there's actually the dedicated box with the power and the vent for it? And now I haven't been disappointed. It's been really good. Jason Burk 39:01 And isn't that wild that you started playing on the iPad, you started playing Xbox games on the iPad, then bought an Xbox series like that's just such a weird, in a good way direction to go that that's even possible. I think that says a lot about the way x box thinks about this stuff. And I think they're very smart, capable and intelligent about the way they've built this entire gaming kind of environment compared to everyone else. Martin Feld 39:34 Very clever. And it's the sort of integration and it just works experience that Apple's generally been famous for. But I think Microsoft's really done a good job in this case with gaming and I'll be honest with you, a lot of minus Daljit came back just from actually watching Halo and Paramount plus, it was like that final tic over I went you know what, I loved this game. I want to play it through again and do the ones that I never played because they were on your consoles that I didn't have access to. So I just went in What that's it all of these things slowly adding up over years and I just finally got pushed to do it. Andrew Canion 40:04 I just can't believe you got to console. I've been looking everywhere. I haven't found one anywhere. Then I resolved myself to getting the s. And then I was like, well, I need two controllers. You can't even buy a second controller. I'm happy for you. But I'm actually also really, really pissed off. Jason Burk 40:21 Yeah, Martin Feld 40:22 I didn't. I didn't mean for it to be like that. I was just trying to be mysterious with emoji. Not to make you feel Jason Burk 40:26 bad. It really hits him. Deep. I'm sorry about that. Wow. Okay. I'm so glad we can have gaming corner going forward. Now. This is gonna be great. Cool. Thumbs up next. Andrew Canion 40:43 My kids have discovered NBA 2k. So I'm excited for them. They're playing 2k 20 on the Nintendo Switch. Martin Feld 40:52 EA have da. Is that the one that's on Apple arcade Andrew Canion 40:54 two? Yeah, the new versions on Apple arcade. But it's no good without a controller. You need to play that game with controllers. Yeah, fair enough, is 2k 20 Typical EA, they've just they've turned off the service for it. So you can't the only thing you can do is play exhibition games basically, because they want you to buy the new version and use so you can access service for NBA 2k 20 on the switch anymore. Jason Burk 41:36 Media corner Martin Feld 41:39 I thought we would take a topic suggestion from one of our one prime plus subscribers Jason Burk 41:44 Laker one prime plus.com Martin Feld 41:47 Thank you Lekha for your ongoing subscription. And also for the suggestion. Laker asked us. What are some of our favorite podcasts beyond our own universe? Maybe out there in the tech genre? maybe beyond? I'm not sure we're going to find out from each other. Who wants to start off Andrew, maybe you do you have a podcast recommendation that is perhaps a bit unexpected? Andrew Canion 42:10 Yeah, I've got a number of I've got a couple of them. Probably the old go with pocket podcast. Of course MBL pocket podcast number one, subscribe. Enjoy. It's fantastic. Jason Burk 42:21 Favor patreon to I hear, yes. All these patriots, Andrew Canion 42:25 I never seem to get any of the money, they always go to the other guy. So I've done something horribly wrong in my management podcasts apart from the normal ones that everybody knows all the tech ones. So I don't want to avoid those. I'm a Patreon of another podcast. It's the unmade podcast. It's probably that's probably fairly well known as well, because it's got Brady Haran hosts that and he does a bunch of YouTube stuff and podcasts and used to be hello internet with CGP Grey. He this podcast started off as coming up with ideas for podcasts that they're not actually going to do. So each week they have to, he and his co host come up front with an idea of a of a show for a podcast, an idea for a podcast. And they talk about it and say why it would make a good podcast. But as with any good show, over time, it has morphed and created its own culture and norms and segments and all that kind of stuff. So the actual idea of coming up with a podcast idea is only probably 1/5 of the entire show these days. But it's just it's really good banter between the two of them. They have lots of engagement, a huge audience from what I can tell. It's just a really fun, enjoyable listen, and Brady being ex Australian now and UK, and he's very good at these sort of things, really high quality editing, and then his mate that he grew up with. In South Australia, so is a South Australian church minister. It's just a different kind of vibe you get from the other co host. He's not a techy dude. But He's a family man who is a minister of a church and just has a totally different take on life. But they had this common heritage being friends as kids. And so it makes like a really lovely and wholesome show. But it's um, it's a lot of fun. So the unmade podcast. Jason Burk 44:21 I love how you exiled Brady from Australia. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but ex Australia, like he's, you know, you're either here you're not. You're out. Andrew Canion 44:34 Hey, man. Somehow he got lucky, sort of some Order of Australia metal and I want to know, I've been I've been lusting after one of those my entire life and he just gets one. He's not even here. But that was the order out of Australia metal. I don't want to pay for it. And it's really for kids. I've got it for our kids. It's like a Mr. Rogers equivalent podcast. Mindfulness for kids. It's called like you it's quite wonderful. If you've got kids, and you're trying to just just younger children, we listen to it at night time. They love it. It just talks about, you know, how do you cope with your emotions? How do you get through a day? What if you have a hard time, there's some songs and talking, it's really lovely. And it's gotten to the point now where we've been listening to it for so long, that now I find it soothing and calming. It's just like, ah, takes me to a nice little comfortable place, even though it's pitched kids, you know, six to eight year olds, but it's fantastic. And the guy does a lot of work. It's really well produced. He does his own songs. Does, you know, got a script each week puts a lot of hard work into it. So I recommend like you, mindfulness for kids. Martin Feld 45:44 But that's a good point, isn't it? Because we all were once kids, and I think sometimes as adults even, there's pressure to always just be an adult, you can be silly or take time out or just explore something and be a little bit more childlike. Not childish, but childlike. Right, Jason, you can go next we'll go alphabetical by first initial, you know, it's nice to have a process. Jason Burk 46:04 Okay, so Andrew did too. So I'm going to do 123457, I'm going to do seven, Martin Feld 46:10 strap yourselves in a row. Andrew Canion 46:12 I'm going to enjoy it. Jason Burk 46:14 And here's the key. I browse your notes to see what the heck is in it. And I got it say notes in almost every podcast severely lacking in what could be in these notes. Very piss poor job of notes Martin Feld 46:33 across the board. Yeah, but to be fair, the tech genre is generally the best or most attentive with notes. It's not just a thing for us, I think it's Jason Burk 46:41 sometimes but they are also the worst offenders of and that'll be in the notes. And then it's nowhere in the know, I hate that. Never. It's not in the notes at all. Killing me anyway. Um, so the ones that I actually picked had nothing to do with I don't think I have a single tech related podcast on here, which is probably pretty good for well, okay, one is kind of sorta but anyway, number one. Welcome to Night Vale, which is a fictional story driven, episode two episode. Think of it like a TV show almost. But in podcast format of an ever evolving world that you are immersed into through storytelling. It's amazing, like a radio play. But for pay. Exactly. That's exactly right. And they do live shows which we've gotten to many, Valerie and I've gone to many of these live shows. They're phenomenal. All of the voice actors in the show are just, there's so good, you you, you gain this kind of you don't know them, but you just you connect with them so well. So Welcome to Night Vale is great. I'm going to skip around on my list a little bit because Welcome to Night Vale has universe around it of other shows. So I did want to touch on within the wires, which is another show, which is based on taped conversations around different fictional time periods and events. Alice isn't dead is sort of a science fictiony storytelling thing. I'm specifically being vague because much of what they're about, you want to learn as you're going through the experience. So I don't really want to dive in too deep on what they are. But they're all within this Welcome to Night Vale family. The other one is the most, the most tech related, most tech related is dark net diaries, which is a really good show about delving into different areas around kind of hacking in that culture and stories about maybe it's one week is about some crazy malware thing that happened or some hacker that did this wild thing when they were 13 that ended up you know, ruining the government of XYZ country. So there's just a lot of really cool stories around that. And I am a patron of that one because there's that, historically they've done patron specials as well. So that's a good one. And I will touch on off the hook, which is another one that's been going on forever. branches off of 2600, the magazine, hacker culture, American history tellers is another one. It's a little hit and miss it depends on what the topic is. They'll do seasons based on different events throughout spoiler American history. So if you don't care about American history, probably not super relevant. But they dive in and they do it through this kind of voice actor narrative thing where they tell the story with people from the time so it's kind of as if you're immersed into that. So if it was, let's say about the Civil War, there would be characters that were in the Civil War being voice acted through that narrative, which is nice. And then the last one that I just want to add is ologies, which is a show that every episode is about a different ology. So it's like, psychology is this episode and they bring in the host, she brings on experts in that field to talk about that field. And they go through the history of that field where it's at today where they think it's going, you know, what sucks about being in that field. What's awesome about being in that field. But the message is, every episode is about a particular ology Martin Feld 50:32 thing. There's a podcast that I've mentioned before, which isn't really my main one or the focus, it's called the cinematographer list. So if anyone's ever into movies, cinematographer lists really, really good. It's a show all about cinema, hopefully pretty self explanatory, but they also have a decent set of bonus content on their own Patreon. And they do a really nice newsletter as well, which is very reflective or personal about things that they're experiencing written in the first person. So I like that I like that when, because they're actually academic writers, but they kind of pour all of their personal experiences into this accompany newsletter, if you're into that kind of whole film exploration thing. But my actual thing, I thought I would crowdsource this, because a lot of the things I listened to are very tech, white male and all that. So who can I ask, and of course, there is a woman who lives in my house called and Tasha, she is my wife. And I thought, I'll ask her, she is she is a woman. And she had a suggestion. So I thought, I'm gonna offer that on the show. And she had a great suggestion, which she has actually shown me and I can attest to this. It's a great one. It's actually from the BBC, or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Mark vanilla. But the show itself, the podcast is called stuff, the British style. It's a fantastic show. It's historical, I hope you get that vibe. And the whole idea is, in each episode, they take a particular artifact or thing from history, which was scooped up more or less and stolen by the British Empire or commonwealth and moved to a museum. And minorities are the people who originally owned or the traditional owners of this stuff are trying to reclaim or bring back to their native lands. And it's a fascinating program, just showing how people think that the British Empire or similar empires or institutions are a thing of the past. Well, actually, they're not the ramifications of that stuff are ongoing. And a great example without spoiling the entire story was one of the episodes was about a thing called the Benin bronzes from the kingdom of Benin, or Bonine, which is now modern day Nigeria. And the Brits moved in, scooped this stuff up, and now it lives in the British Museum. And people were saying, Well, can we have our stuff back? And they're going no, no, no, we are holding on to this because it requires historical maintenance and promotion. And this is our stuff. Now. That's a simplification. That's, that's an over simplified version. But then there are other interesting arguments that come up about well, in certain cases had not been stolen. Would the local owners have treated it with such reverence and sacred respect and historical care? Or would it have just been weathered somewhere on a temple? So it's interesting, I don't want to say the British did the right thing. But it can be quite complicated in some circumstances. So if you live in a place that is post colonial or was under the role of an empire or maybe you are based within said old imperial capital, listen to this show and see what you think. Andrew Canion 53:52 Whenever I see a worm, I just start thinking they call me Doctor. Good morning. How are you? Which certain things you know, that's really annoying, so I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real actual worm. I am. I like to play the drums. Martin Feld 54:14 Can I Can I be honest with you? I reckon I'm not saying this facetiously. One of my favorite things about the growth and development of this podcast, like you said, Andrew, with the segments that have come out of unmade is your propensity to start singing to explain it and Andrew Canion 54:27 I'm not even a singer. I'm terrible at it. I don't like doing it. Martin Feld 54:31 Don't put yourself down you have your own kind of ethereal quality. I Andrew Canion 54:35 never would have imagined myself fulfilling that role. But here we are. 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