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GoFundMe.com. Hey, I see a slider going up down there. I think that means I can talk. Drive off cast solo, December 4th.
It's Tuesday, 2018. Yes, we are in it. We are in the 2018. We're in it to win it.
We're so in it, we're almost out of it. We are so in it, we moved the podcast up an hour. That's right. Just so we get back to it.
This one is live again, right? And we're going to put this one up. What are we doing? We said at 10 o'clock on Tuesday, we're putting this up?
Yes, I believe that's right. By the time you hear this recording... Maybe like a little after 10. We just had a little later to make it seem real live.
That's a good idea. We should do that. That is smart. You will edit that part out.
Yeah, we'll run this one. This is normally my quiet time. I don't know what you guys are doing here. It's so funny.
Like when you guys tell me, when you tell everybody you're going to do it live. Uh, it's good. I mean, it works. I think most people think you do it live.
But being here. It's mostly for the people. I mean, you're kind of blowing it for everyone here who thinks that it does go out live because it makes them make fewer mistakes when we're recording it. So we usually do this.
But you guys can edit the show. Oh, no, no, definitely cannot. You just said we're going to edit that part out. That's a beast cast terminology for a crazy USA.
So still no cussing. That's just like stuff. By the time we get to the East Coast time, stuff has changed. It's the way time works.
It's false in the mountains. Yeah, it is everywhere. Live everywhere, but on the West Coast where you have to watch 60 minutes later. I'm just kidding, everyone.
This is definitely live. All right, edit point here. And hang on, hang on. Clap.
3, 2, 1. Hello. Hi. Hi.
I put headphones on. Thank you. I can hear my own voice. Professional move.
Yeah. Yeah, I can hear a guy talk into this and it comes out here. Now you know if you're near the microphone or not. That's awesome.
That seems handy. Also, it can be. I've got to say, your beard is really... Is it?
That's at least like level 4 growth, I think. I think so. It's tier 4. I'm going to be pomade.
Oh, you haven't been drinking the tonic? It's tier 4 operator. It's the tier 4 game of the year operator. I'm just using up shitty CVS razors and stuff.
Neck leave first thing in the morning. Oh, God. Don't press down on it. Light touch.
He has a light touch. Oh, really? Yeah, don't press down on it. Oh, okay.
Did Biotin exist in the old west? Could you get that and get your nails and hair growing? Wait, is that real? Yeah.
Does it actually work or is it like some kind of... I fucking don't know. It's like supposed to make your hair thicker and your nails thicker. Okay.
Who wants thick nails? Thick nails. How do you know if you have nail problems and you take it to the healthy open? I want nails.
No nails. I want nubs on my fingers. I want the skin. Stop it.
You can probably be arranged. Oh, no. You think there's such a thing as elective fingernail removal? I think so.
There's so much. No, no. Do it with a tag. Do it with me.
Remember that QTE in God of War 3 where you rip the Titan's fingernail off? That part's great. You can stop. We should stop.
It's like nose torque for your mind. Okay. Let's read in this podcast. Brain torque.
Brain torque. Mind torque. Big news cycle. Yes.
Indeed. Yeah, we're up to our eyeballs in game of the year production right now. Yeah. So...
It's been fun. That's good. Yeah. I think everything we record from here on out is where it has the potential to get off the rails.
Yeah. We all agree on what the game of the year is, though, right? Yeah. We figured that out pretty early on.
We're actually working backwards this time. Yeah. That's right. That has not left a lot of time for playing games.
Yeah. But games... Games are going to be played or for that pretty much. Yeah.
Except for Time Warpers, which I'm playing all the time. I might be playing it right now. I don't remember if I left my computer on or not. Sounds okay.
Dan? Yes. Just Cause 4 is coming out. Yeah.
When's that out? Came out... Is it out now? I got it a couple days ago.
I had a moment yesterday where I realized it was December. That's my concept of time right now. That's where we're at, for sure. Yeah.
So I have no idea if that game's out right now. I believe it is. Okay. I played a couple hours of it.
It's what you think that game is. Although the customization stuff you can do with the grapple thing and adding balloons and all that, that's more fun than I expected. When people told me... What is that?
Is that like the new hook this time around? No, you still have that hook and it still tether things and whatevers. I don't know what it was meant to do. I never used it.
Neither. Jesus. Is tether stuff new? I thought 3 had some of that, right?
3 had the tether thing and you could make them go together. I thought Just Cause 2 multiplayer had the tether thing in it, didn't it? Oh, yeah. That was all made by fans.
That was never an official thing, so they made it themselves for free. Yeah, this one, you've got the tether and you've got the thing that can make two things go together, but you can also set all these different loadouts. So like, okay, my loadout A, automatically, after I connect a tether, it has a balloon attached and you can say high force, medium force, or low force. And then you can also add modifiers for it.
This thing happens if I tap up. This thing happens if I hold up, which those can be like boosters, which in the last one they had those booster grenades, so I'd throw it on you and then it'd fly around all funny. Now you can activate that how you want. So if you find a car or whatever, you can put a bunch of tethers on it and if you have the loadout set to tap up, you can have it activate all the boosters right then or after the balloon inflates, so it's going up in the air and then you have it rocket off, or you can have two helicopters tethered together and then have a bunch of booster shit happen.
Is there a storyline justification for why you would do any of that stuff? Did they try to be like, hey man, you need to Fultin this stuff. Weather is a thing. The bad guy, I think, likes weather and wants to make tornados, and so there are balloons.
There's a thing called a weather balloon. That's enough of a fucking through line for me. Remember in Twister, they had that thing filled with all the metal balls and stuff. That's probably...
Yeah, I don't know if that plays into it, but yeah, a weather balloon is probably a thing. So have you tethered yourself to a balloon to see how high it can go up? I have tethered a bunch of balloons to a tank, and then I have grappled myself up to the floating balloon tank in the sky and activated boosters and flown around all crazy, and it was very funny. The game just seems like a big sandbox for making stupid funny things happen and then exploding.
It just sounds like Gary's mod at this point. But there's still a video game, right? Yeah, there's missions. The missions I've done so far have been very much just like what you would expect from that game.
But can you use all of that stuff to great effect to solve those missions in really stupid ways? Yeah, I did a mission not too long ago where it's one of those things where you're in sight position on top of a car and a bunch of jeeps and motorcycles and cars are coming after you, and it's just like, well, you two are together and now attached to a high force balloon, so you're not a problem anymore. And do you have infinite balloons and tethers? Right now, and It's tough to like get your momentum and you kind of feel like when do I get started here?
But most of the time you can kind of get into a rhythm. Okay. Can you just put rockets on your shelf? Don't think so.
Can I grapple myself to a barrel, put a booster on the barrel? Yeah, I believe that would work. You can put like 10 boosters on the barrel and ride it. That's good.
Can you put enough boosters on the ground to move the earth? Don't think you can do that. Can you spin the earth backwards? That's how it works.
Undocumented feature. How you doing Abby? I'm good. Sitting down there.
I'm enjoying the talk of Jessica. I know it's just cause, but it'll always be Jessica's. I'm good. What have you been up to?
Game of the Year. Oh, well, yeah. I feel like I'm ill-equipped to answer anything right now. I can draw time while you play it.
Mostly Red Dead. It's a lot of Red Dead and Call of Duty multiplayer. Okay. Been online with your horses?
Yes. I have been doing Red Dead online and it is bad, but I think it's one of those things where it will get good eventually, probably. I think it's gonna be a GTA 5 thing where right now there's nothing to do and then in maybe six months there will be more to do and then I'm sure it'll continue to add more and hopefully less clunky ways than GTA 5 was because that got pretty kind of bogged down with just like a lot of different stuff. But we'll see.
I don't know. Right now it's like, the economy seems really busted. Yeah. I just saw that they're gonna rebalance stuff.
Like, you're very poor and it seems like there's a lot of stuff that you get the sort of like little gold for, like the gold that you pay real money for, but that stuff is so expensive that like I'm never gonna earn enough for the things that I want and there doesn't seem to be an equivalent version of the like, earnable money. Is that the thing it says at the beginning is you can use the gold to buy those items early. Like if you hit the level where they unlock for like regular purchase, then you can use the fake money instead of the real money. It's like, I don't want to wait till level 44 to get a pair of overalls.
Like, I want to have like my character look the way I want to look now because that's the appeal of this game for me. It's also like a lot of what's fun about Red Dead Redemption 2 is like wandering around and like feeling like you're in this like real lived in world and like discovering like, oh my gosh, I ran into this weird stranger. Like I saw this weird thing and like I would love to be able to do that with my friends, but this world feels very barren. It doesn't feel like it's alive.
And I think it's because they're like, well, we want the people to populate it. Yeah. Like there's like, it feels like there's like a 10th as many NPCs in this as there was in the single player game. Like you go to San Dene and there's like two people per block or something like that.
It just feels, it feels weirdly like, it's like a ghost town. Yeah, totally. And it's, it's, I wouldn't even mind that so much if there was like stuff to stumble on, but there really isn't. Uh, so I was mostly just going in and doing like quick missions just to get money and it's like kind of fun with friends, um, but also it feels like not really a full thing yet.
What, what is there to do? Like I've done, like I found Bonnie McFarlane at the McFarlane ranch, who's like the, one of the first characters you meet in the first Red Dead. It's kind of cool, but like. Yeah, I saw Bonnie too.
And then the thing glitched out and we didn't actually get to do the mission. Apparently she's had a billion wagons stolen because she sent me out to retrieve like three different wagons. It's like, uh, missions are kind of the same thing over and over. What if you put enough boosters on the earth and you were able to, that's how you slow down time.
Spin the earth backwards and everything. That's how it works. Undocumented feature. Yup.
Uh, how you doing Abby? I'm okay. Sitting down there. Yeah.
Enjoying the talk of Jessica. I know it's just cause, but it'll always be Jessica's. What have you been up to? Game of the year.
Oh, well, yeah. I feel like I'm ill equipped to answer anything right now. I can also time while you play it. Uh, mostly Red Dead.
It's a lot of Red Dead and uh Call of Duty multiplayer. Okay. Yeah. Been online with your horses?
Yes, I have been doing Red Dead online and it is, uh, bad, but I think it's one of those things where it will get good eventually probably. I think it's gonna be a GTA 5 thing where right now there's nothing to do and then uh in maybe six months there'll be more to do and then I'm sure it'll continue to add more and hopefully less clunky ways than GTA 5 was because that got pretty kind of bogged down with just like a lot of different stuff. Uh but we'll see. I don't know, right now it's like, the economy seems really busted.
Yeah, I just saw that they're gonna rebalance stuff. Like, you're very poor and uh it seems like there's a lot of stuff that you get the sort of like little gold for, like the gold that you pay real money for, but that stuff is so expensive that like, I'm never gonna earn enough for the things that I want and there doesn't seem to be an equivalent version of the like, earnable money. Is that the thing it says at the beginning is you can use the gold to buy those items early? Like if you hit the level where they unlock for like regular purchase, then you can use the fake money instead of the really.
Oh, I see. It's like, I don't wanna wait till level 44 to get a pair of overalls. Like I want to have like my character look the way I wanna look now because that's the appeal of this game for me. It's also like a lot of what's fun about Red Dead Redemption 2 is like wandering around and like feeling like you're in this like real lived in world and like discovering like, oh my gosh, I ran into this weird stranger.
Like I saw this weird thing and like I would love to be able to do that with my friends, but this world feels very barren. It doesn't feel like it's alive and I think it's because they're like, well, we want the people to populate it. Yeah, like there's like, it feels like there's like a 10th as many NPCs in this as there was in the single player game. Like you go to San Dene and there's like two people per block or something like that.
It just feels, it feels weirdly like, it's like a ghost town. Yeah, totally. And it's, it's, I wouldn't even mind that so much if there was like stuff to stumble on, but there really isn't. So I was mostly just going in and doing like quick missions just to get money.
And it's like kind of fun with friends, um, but also it feels like not really a full thing yet. What is there to do? Like I've done, like I found Bonnie McFarlane at the McFarlane ranch, who's like one of the first characters you meet in the first Red Dead. It's kind of cool, but like.
Yeah, I saw Bonnie too and then the thing glitched out and we didn't actually get through the mission. Apparently she's had a billion wagons stolen because she sent me out to retrieve like three different wagons. It's like uh, missions are kind of the same thing over and over. Yeah, it's like, yeah, that was actually a little frustrating too because we're doing the quick match stuff, which is like, I don't think that will actually affect my honor or like my storyline because I haven't done those on my own yet.
But it was just like putting us into sort of other people's quick missions. But we got a lot of the same ones again and again. Oh, can you do them over and over? I guess so.
I mean, we were just doing, we were like hopping into other people's things. You have to like fill out because they're like, there's like four people per thing. So like fill out the number of people. Yeah, like the story missions.
Yeah, they're all multiplayer. And I just discovered yesterday, do not play that game with randos because they're all sociopaths. Yeah, I mean, they will make the worst decisions about everything they possibly can. This is true.
I've been playing with Pat Gale, but we still have to like pair up with two more people. So it's like, we're going to be with strangers either way. And it's kind of funny to be like, oh, look at this weird person somebody made. Or like, uh, they, the like second tier, I think DLC comes with like an online outfit.
So it's like, oh, everyone is wearing the exact same outfit right now. It was like Seinfeld all over characters cause that is a good character creator. So they did force you into filling out the other two people. Yeah.
So the vision I did yesterday was, I met a sheriff and he was like, the worst, the most notorious con man in the state escaped yesterday. Please go get him. And you started and then it like puts you into matchmaking. You have to.
Yeah. And then in my case, it was three randos. So you go have a firefight, you find the guy, you hog tie him Barely working. I really want the heist effort for Red Dead.
I know they're going to have to be very creative. Like I said, I think the setting for GTA Online allows for a lot of... You just have so many vehicles. So many different weird technology things that you can do.
Yeah, this is gonna be a lot more limited probably. Yeah, but you can still like... Get the iron cart that the bank is doing cause you have to park it on the tracks and ride the train. Get that wagon full of oil.
Yeah, and I hope they get... I hope they stretch a little bit. It's like, oh, this guy has some new explosive that we got to hijack. And that's the only way to break into the super max vault.
You know, I hope they get creative because that's what they do in GTA Online. Everything is like... We did an EMP thing, you know, like everything is like borderline. Like there's this new technology that is not really real, but we'll make it up because it's fun.
That's how online... EMP technology is reacting. And I know exactly how it works. There is one story mission in the single player that's a bank robbery that seems like a good template.
Probably know what I'm talking about. Like it gives you multiple decision points throughout of like how do you want to handle it? Like, do you... Like...
Even like, how do you want this character to act? Do you want her to act like she's injured, or do you want her to like come on to this, the bank teller, or... And then you go in there and it's like, should I dynamite this safe, or should I take longer to try to pick the lock to get more money that way? Are there more of those in the game?
Because I really like that one. There are a couple of bank robberies. Yeah, there's a couple of others. That's the only one that's like...
I also wasn't sure if that was a thing I got because I got like the second tier Red Dead. Because you know how... I don't know what I actually got with that. I think I got a horse that I no longer use.
That's the one I bought too, so yeah, I think it was like, I think I got a couple of guns that were free in the catalog. The stables near Valentine will have the free horses. I got a horse eventually. And it's also like the online stuff, I got a better horse, Which was nice.
Like I think there was some stuff in the online... I had like a better horse, I had some guns. But the another annoying thing with the online is like, I had to go to the fence for my gun and like the stable for my horse, and like the general store for my clothes. And I wish they would have just given it to me because I didn't know what I had.
Like I got my packs so long ago, and at that point I was like, I haven't played this game. All this stuff is sort of like weird things that I don't actually know what they are. So I was a little like, let's see if I have free stuff at any of these stores. Okay, oh cool, I do.
Which was like a nice surprise, but... I will say the other interesting thing about GTA Online is they actually create some unique minigames just for the heist stuff. So there was this hacking minigame that wasn't in the original one. There was like a safe cracking thing where you have to like...
They're not all necessarily super fun, but they are unique pieces of content for the heists. You did the drilling thing, right? With the drill, the bore out. Did I?
And you can get the hot, make a break or whatever. Yeah, there's unique stuff in there that makes it more interesting. Because one person is doing that, and somebody is doing something completely different. It is cool to like kind of be forced to communicate a little bit of like, oh, I have the plane ready, or like, should I take off?
Like, are you ready for this? Whatever it is. That stuff is cool. I hope they put the work in because Rockstar ain't never making another piece of single-player DLC again, so I hope that they've got the resources to do that.
I, like, my thing with GTA... Or Red Dead Online now is like, it has the potential. This is sort of exactly what I expected. I'm like disappointed that it's not more fully fleshed, but also I'm not surprised.
I think a few months down the road will probably be the game I want. Anybody play anything else? Like I said, we're kind of... Tetris.
Tetris is good. Everybody, I just look around the office, everybody's just like playing stuff. Talked a bit six or eight months ago. I would like to get into...
I think it's coming out soon, the Mutant Year Zero. Is that out now, or is it coming out soon? I'm pretty sure it is out as of now. I haven't had time to check it out, but I want to.
Let me double-check. I saw something about it launching early. Which one is that? It's the next one with animals.
It's Excom with animals. I'm pretty sure it's based on a pretty popular existing franchise. Animal Farm. It's very political.
And it is Excom. The rule set, I believe, is also coming as a... It might be a tabletop. I played it at PAX.
Jen, you played it at E3. E3. E3. Yeah, Jen did much better than I did.
I got creamed. I just did a little bit better than you. I just got like maybe five minutes for the... It was pretty tough.
There are some interesting mechanics in it that do make it different than Excom. And I'm sure... Fighting for urban age. The duck is a rocket.
It was like a weird duck bat. That's right. Okay. If I stall long enough, I might remember something.
Okay. We'll check it out. Yeah, there were some stealth elements that you could kind of dip in and out of combat. You could choose who in your squad actually engages while you're moving other units around to kind of get the drop on them.
Yeah, some people can be in combat. Some people can also be in stealth. And some people also... I feel like they could...
Somebody was reviving the downed enemies. I remember that was... That was a pain. That was a big pain.
And I remember them throwing a lot of grenades at me and being like, fuck, stop! And quack, quack! I tell you, the Steam reviews are very positive. Cool.
They look good. A random one says, early days yet, but this is everything Excom should have been. Okay. I mean, that's a bold statement.
That sounds good. That sounds very good. Also, I didn't realize that this team includes former Hitman leads and the designer of Payday. So there's some pedigree on that game.
Yeah, well, there was this one part where you dress up as the enemy and just kill everyone. No, I'm just kidding. He's already a flamingo, probably. It was not a great demo because the mechanics in it seemed more complicated than I was ready to just take on.
Like a demo. Yeah, it does not... Yes, it was a demo. Not the fault of the game and not the fault...
Definitely not the fault of the people presenting the demo. But you walk into those things, you're like, I played Excom and tried to... I got 20 minutes to look at this thing. And you're like, this is going to take more than 20 minutes.
On day four of the... And it was like, I'm gonna play like Excom, and then immediately got wiped out and then I'm like, don't play like Excom. You're gonna get creamed. So I'm very curious.
It looks cool. I like turn-based tactical shooters and it seems like it is. And the setting seems interesting as well. Yes, for sure.
Unfortunately, I haven't played it. Yeah, we're in that weird gray area now where games are still coming out that we're interested in and we're also giving out awards right now and kind of have to try to play stuff as fast as possible. Yeah, and I'm also relegated to trying to... I mean, that runs on a MacBook Air.
I am trying to get in there and go for it. And I don't think that one does. There's a Mac version of Into the Breach now. There is?
I did not know that. There we go. Just restarting squads again. There are Mac versions of a lot of very fantastic games.
Celeste also just got a pretty big update. Oh wow. Yeah, I saw that. They're adding, like, modifiers.
So after you clear the sea sides, they have like modifiers now that are, like, kind of... It seems like sculls almost, like negative. Here's your ways to make the games harder. This anti-assist mode, I think they called it.
So I'm interested to dip back in and check those out. Have you already finished all the sea sides or no? I kind of left those because I read that there wasn't really anything that they unlocked. So I was like, eh, I'll do.
Anything else? That's it for games. That's, yeah, mostly. Like I picked up the Black Friday PlayStation VR bundle.
Save. Everyone got that one. Yeah, I'm the only one, right? Yeah, you'd be weird if you picked that up.
My wife's sitting at home boxed up. Oh, really? Yeah. So you're waiting for Christmas, huh?
I think at this point, I might wait for Christmas. I didn't wait. Well, I knew if I opened it, I would then open it and then abandon my wife to have to, Back off with them. Whoops, they landed on the road.
Yeah, like pranks. Oh, you do so many pranks, right? Let's put the camera on it. We're going to fly into someone's backyard.
Biddle their window. Oh, really? Check that shit out. I put little cameras on them for YouTube compilations.
Like, I freaked out the mayor with my drone. And now I'm in prison. Like and subscribe. If you freak someone with your drone, can the person smash the drone and be okay?
Oh, there was totally that situation came up not long ago. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you with my drone. I think if a drone got close to me, I would my instinctual fucking smash to the ground and step on it and be like, fuck you, dick.
Drones are so loud. Like you can't sneak up on someone with a drone. They're loud and they're like so unstable that even like the slightest tap will like. Yeah, there it is.
Judge rules man had right to shoot down drone over his house. Hell yeah. Fucking A. That's the kind of freedom that we need.
Where is this from? Where was this? That's the deal with that from? That's from the beginning intro movie of Meet Me at zero in a newspaper that is hitting the screen.
And it last lasted. Yeah, duck, uh, duck running for Mayor, you know, like. So I'm proud to announce that I'm working on drone hunt. It's just a duck hunt, but with drones.
Right. And we're, yeah, the dog still laughs. This was, this was outside Louisville, Kentucky. The dog is like the Boston Dynamics thing.
Robot dog. Ha ha. Suck it. Little drone.
That's a tough shot. Cause it turns out a drone hovers. It only has to stop for a second. Yeah.
I remember that being a thing when Amazon was talking about the drone. You guys have that as a real thing? I don't think they ever tried it. They tested it, but they didn't like.
They did it with pizza for a Silicon Valley premiere where they would deliver pizza with drones. Did we ever talk about that? Like open source, uh, drone navigation system that people were working on. I'm sorry.
Like it's like TCP IP for drones. Like, you know what I mean? Like it's a, it's a protocol that propagates itself as opposed to servers controlling drones. No.
They would all have the same logic for how to navigate. That's some black mirror shit. You just turn them all on and they just go without any human intervention. So it's like the idea was that like cities would have like thousands of drones just constantly flying through them.
How could that go wrong? It was for delivery and shit. Who's got the key? Well, it's like, I think self-driving car.
It's basically the same type of algorithm. We're just like, okay, these things need to get around. They need to be aware of each other. It is that.
And like that, the thing then people start to get to is like, well, actually, it's the humans driving the car instead of the problem now because they're not on the grid of, you know, so let's just bolt this to your brain and then you drive this way. Like the idea was like every office building would have like a hundred drones on the roof. It's like Harry Potter. Like if you wanted a courier of package across town, you would just like hook the package up to the drone and punch in the address and it would just know how to fly there.
Oh man. It's frightening. Yeah. The stuff about the self-driving car stuff was the, I think the most recent thing that I was reading about was the idea of just like they have to be coded to, or, or they are being coded to try to spare people in different classes of like, they have to classify people in different ways.
It's like a hypothetical scenario of like, here's a bus of kids. Yeah. There's like a child here and like two older people here. And the car has to hit one of them.
What do you do? And then literally having to code the self-driving cars in ways that like have to consider that sort of stuff. And then that gets you really dark shit about like, well, uh, you know, this, uh, this obese person is going to get hit before this fit person. This, uh, this big person gets hit for a small person.
And like the, the logic that was being posited was just like, hang on, let's just check their social credit scores before we decide who's the best. That was on the list. Like, yeah, it's cool. But yeah, drone network, the fly shit around.
That sounds cool. I like the pizza. Yeah. Well then, right.
So then anyway, the thing of like people intercepting the drones and shooting them down, I remember it was a thing that was talked about too of like, I mean, I assume that it would be a crime, but, uh, also a federal judge disagreed. But I think if you got to a point where you were saying, Hey, these drones are now part of a network of services that, that would then classify that. I think Amazon would have had an easy time thinking that happened. Yeah.
I think, but if you're low enough and somebody's property, like what's your air, what's the vertical airspace? How much do I own about my house? What's the airspace? That has to be established already.
I'm sure, but it's established for like the conceptually for airplanes, you know, like put a little blinking light on my ham radio antenna. Just so drones don't hit it. Can I put up a big net that just catches drones? There you go.
It's a really long butterfly net. And then just get a bunch of free pizza. Yeah. Do you think pizza delivered by drone, do you think the pizza would be like incredibly screwed up or do you think it would be like pristine?
Uh, I think if that drone is not having trouble flying, I think stabilizing. If you just knock the drone out of the air and get the pizza. So that's the thing is like, you know, could you, could you build something like knowing basically what frequencies drones are going to like receive signals on? Could you just build a very high powered dish that emits those frequencies at a high enough level to just where you pointed at the drone and that's enough to disrupt it enough.
We're going to get some really good. I think you'd have to get the pizza. That's the communication would definitely have to be encrypted. Like the communication.
Could you overpower it where it's getting a signal? It's not necessarily like that. You need to send encrypted. It's more just like a packet overflow.
Just like I'm going to fucking overload like a DDoS. Or how about this? A really big net. Yeah, but like, what if it was a cyber net is what I'm saying because a really big net is hard to like put up and take down.
How about you shoot it and it's protected by the government. Oh. I don't want like a buckshot in my pizza. Okay, that's a good point.
And the point is I'm trying to steal somebody else's pizza. What if it was like Rockshock and you would just be salting your pizza? Oh, yeah. Okay.
Or what if you just have like a goo gun and it just like, you like goo. Just like lasso it. Just like sticky sauce to shoot down the road. I'm going to slice at it.
And then expertise. Oh, there we go. That's the right answer. If you get a big enough and focus enough fan that you are blowing air at it in a way that messes with its ability to it's going to be sealed in some kind of like, you know, what if it was a t-shirt cannon and you put a log of pepperoni in it?
What if you did that? That would suck. Just like no, I mean, like, like the sample that you sent to them, you just like took a bunch of different stuff and then like some sewer water and let your cat lick it for a while and then put it and send it to them. That's like in Ratatouille when he's like, it first came back and it was a rat hair.
That was a really bad accent. That was pretty good. I got it. Pretty much nailed it.
But you did, you bring up something interesting, which is like, what if you just submit somebody else's stuff and put your name attached to it? And then you're just basically, I'm clear with them. I feel like, who cares about what your DNA is? The government.
Yeah, because they can use it. But they don't run 23andMe, do they? Yeah, they do. I'm pretty sure they have agreements with like federal law enforcement.
They've passed over stuff to like, you can because. What's the crime? They have my finger. Hey, if I've got, if I'm innocent and I've got nothing to fear, I guess.
They already have the fingerprints. They already have my entire history online. Burn off your online. I'd take even blood at the doctor's office.
Burn off your blood. What's the list to frame you though, huh? What if they find your, your genetic information? Cool.
Fun story. They can write a memoir about it. We can start a podcast about it. Yeah.
We've been looking to get into the true crime. Is that, was that how we got the golden gate killer, right? Or was it, is that the name of the killer? I could just be making that up.
The guy, Golden State Killer. Uh, yeah, they basically did. They had his genetic information for like 30 years ago. And then I believe they just submitted it to 23andMe and it was like, who am I There's a big strike going on at the Marriott next door and the WF Street.
I was like, I wonder if someone was incentivized to fuck those hotels over. Everything's going, yeah, exciting times. They had a thing from Newegg that was like, hey, our cart was hacked for a month, so any purchases you made through Newegg basically just siphoned off to a third party. Okay.
Destroy your credit card. Like what? They injected code into the checkout. I totally get how that could happen, but holy shit.
And apparently, when I looked it up, I was like, okay, this is absolutely real. And it's happened to a couple of other places like Ticketmaster and – I've been hearing some crummy stories about Newegg the last like six months. And I traced it back to the – they have new ownership, I think, like two years ago or something they got bought. And that's a bummer.
I used to use Newegg all the time. What's the bad shipping? Yeah, like subtle price bumps here and there on little marginal, maybe not best practices kind of for a company that was pretty universally well-regarded to be like a go-to electronics. Yeah, like decent prices, fast shipping.
Yeah. Speaking of best practices, let's get into the news. The news. The news.
News you can use. Jason Mews news. All the news that's fit to print about Jason Mews. It's a thin newspaper.
Snuchi Boochies. Oh, that guy, right. He's in a new weed game. Whoa.
Did you remember Noobs? Ranting out. He was in Noobs. What?
The movie? Okay. Let's not. Let's not.
No? What's in the news? It's been a wild week in digital storefronts. Steam made this announcement last, what was the 30th?
Whatever day the 30th was. Steam's getting into Jason Mews vape juice. That's right. That was a close one.
Do you like it, Jason? Yeah, I pulled that one out. Jason Mews is now a registered Steam VR developer. They're changing the revenue split to favor the most profitable games on their service, almost as if they sensed an impending competitor getting ready to launch right around the corner.
Or, you know, they've already started to have an exodus of the big games from the platform. Sure. So what does that mean? Black Ops 4 didn't launch on Steam.
Fallout 76 has yet to do so. I don't think it's ever on there. But yeah. Okay, so as of the previously, the kind of industry standard revenue split is 70-30.
On Steam. Across everything. One platform. Yes.
Google Play, the Apple Store, just about everything. Oh, really? Steam included. So Steam, Valve is adjusting that so that now if a game makes over $10 million.
Dollars or units sold? Dollars. Okay. If a game makes over $10 million, the split now adjusts to 75-25 in favor of the developer.
After the $10 million. I don't know if it's progressive or not. I don't know if it says. You're talking about like retroactive.