Retro Warriors 559 - Falcom

Welcome to a two-way zep-559. There's so many, so many episodes. That has a big number. I never can say it's bigger, Justin.

We need to go backwards for a little while. We should. We should go countdown, countdown, too. I don't know what we'll do at one, but we'll see.

As I was just a maker, as always, I'm joined by Bible human, Chris Evans. Hi, Justin. Hi, Saturn. We have housekeeping.

Yeah. And it's that we're going to guys doing his after-party, after the ending theme. So stay tuned after the ending theme to hear a guy. I don't know why I always explain it like it's this complex idea.

Like, so the ending theme's going to happen. Don't go away because there's more cotton. I mean, Marvel movies have been out since 2007. We know how it works.

You got to watch the whole credits. There's another thing after the credits. He's our Nick Fury show. People get scared when they start hearing Patreon plugs.

And they're like, oh, I guess it's over now. But don't. They'll be scared away. There'll be more content.

There'll be ridiculous content. And it may or may not be on topic. You guys said he had a bone to pick with me. So I presume it's going to be 10 minutes of him yelling at me.

Yeah. But that's that's it. She's never done before, but for some reason, levying that at him now. So if anyone wants to know in advance why you should also be mad at Justin, stick around.

Right. There you go. My week I wrote a book. You did.

I see this. I've been I've been so busy. It's the most project. Well, so jettisoning out of Discord kind of made me sort of I've taken that momentum into my own life of being like, I need to get off of cloud platforms.

I need to host my own stuff. And I need to take my kind of digital existence into my own hands and take care of myself and my situation because the stuff I've relied on my whole adult life is going away actively. So and also we've had multiple people be like, I love the Linux talk at the beginning of the show. Don't love it.

You got to be louder than them because I'm going to have to say like 10 minutes. Yes. Right. Now, I know you're not used to telling everyone computer stuff all the time in your opinions on computers because you don't use Linux.

If you did, it would be a primary hobby of yours telling people how much you do or don't like hearing about computers. Right. So I did try to pull up points. So this is just a list of server slash Linux slash networking stuff that I've learned about and employed in my home.

I've been calling it my home lab because it's basically was turned into my home lab in the last two weeks. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenWRT, POE devices, Omata controller, VLANs, Podman image, merger, FS and faster whisper. I personally use several of those. Yeah.

I've heard about them, but I was like, why would you want that? And I did a little more reading. And so I, my router now, it's a Raspberry Pi 4. I'm talking on it now.

And I built it. I built the open. It's real easy. I mean, it's easy.

It's relatively easy. It's easier than the phrase I built my own router implies that it would be. Right. I'll say that because you say that.

I'm like, oh my God. But you're basically calling software. Yes. Yes.

It's been great. The bigger problem for most people would be then broadcasting a wireless signal that you already had access points. So well, I had two, my router was two or two or three hours away. I was like, oh, I'm going to say that.

But you already had access points. So well, I had two, my router was two or three mesh nodes and I just put them into access point mode so that they could then broadcast. But then I was like, well, I've got these outdoor access points that are a different mesh because they're Omata. They're not the orbi, whatever.

And so I was like, well, I should just, you know, I'm enjoying separating things out. I'm enjoying that my router just does routing and my wireless system can do my wireless and now they're not tied together because sometimes one on grid one and not the other. Right. And so I went out and I bought more Omata access points.

So I, of course, had to run the Omata controller software suite in Docker on my new merger Fs server to control all of this stuff. So I got two Omata EAP 650 access points and they're in mesh configuration and they are my wireless. And so they got the wireless backhaul on. So one is connected in my Pi four router and then everything else just links into that.

I also added this is just my new hardware list. So I got those two EAPs. I got a six terabyte Western digital red. I got a USB Nick for the Pi four router because you have to have two ethernet ports for it to be a router obviously.

I need a WAN and a LAN. I got a Pro box for Bay, SATA enclosure to hook up all my extra drives and my merger Fs. This is so cool. So my server rack is right next to my recording set.

That's all my computer stuff's on one spot. Yeah. So I was so loud that I'm always worried about it picking up on the mic. Yeah.

And I did some searching online and I bought isolation feet that go on the bottom of turntables. Yeah. I can't hear shit now. I mean, it made it so quiet that I feel stupid for having it sit there so long.

I had it sitting on a neoprene mat on top of bubble wrap because it was so loud. It was on a wooden shelf, you know, and these feet are like super like gummy jelly. Yeah. And they're for turn there for for for eight rubber feet.

They're exorbitantly expensive at like $30. I would expect to pay like $2 for eight rubber feet. They're definitely weird rubber. They have a weird name too.

But they oh my God. So anyone that's like man, this computer or this server next to me reading these hard drives is so freakin loud. Get you some isolation feet. I don't know if you saw a guy's comment in the chat.

No, it is the same problem for your NAS and ass tonight. Because before you were talking about how you were having some loud farts. Yes. On the pre show.

Right. Now you're talking about how you have a loud NAS. And I just wanted you to think. I wanted to make sure you saw that because that's some poetry that guy shared with us there.

So my general projects right now, I downloaded and sorted all of my Google photos off of Google into image which were people looking for like a self-hosty cloud photo manager. Image is fantastic. Yeah. It's it's it's holy cow.

It's just not used photos enough for me to care. Right. Like if you're like, I got a few photos and that's whatever. You're fine.

But if you're like mean, it's like you've got three different people with three different phones and 300 gigs of photos each. How you fucking sort that? The only photos I have are my cat and my video game. So I don't really care.

Yeah. I have those and then a kid. Yeah. That's what I was.

I've started employing my old GPU to transcribe the podcast with Faster Whisper. So I'm hoping to get all of the podcast episodes transcribed so we can then search them for stuff because we don't know if the people come in and be like, yeah, you remember 2016 when you said this? And we're like, no, I don't remember 2016. I'll just take and remember all the times we contradicted ourselves, which is probably right.

We can find out perfectly. I have moved my pihole from my NAS to my pi VPN instead of property and that's already done. I should have done forever ago. I set up weekly downloads so that the show is downloaded and transferred automatically and I set up SQM so that my downloads quit killing my internet all the time because my house it's like being in 2001 where whenever the internet's going slow, you have to turn around from your desk chair and shout who's downloading a bunch of shit and you hear from across the house.

I'm going to be like, me sorry. Yeah. So with SQM, I don't have to do that anymore. I just not worry about it.

It's awesome. Yeah. You just ask somebody who's got naps to running. Yeah, quit downloading the butthole surfers.

I got to explain to one of my coworkers that butthole surfers was a real name of the band. Oh, because he's way too young. Yeah. He was born in this century.

I know that the youngs are a lot less vulgar with a lot of their vocabulary. I think a lot of it is from growing up in online platforms. You have to sell sensor. Yeah.

Granted, I think you can say butthole on the internet still. But I can see someone being like, no one really. They're more thing was they thought it sounded really stupid. Oh, he does.

He does. He continues to. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. He is definitely a stupid name. But music. Yeah.

So I've been like, because my wife's out of town right now and she works from home. So this is my chance to upgrade all my network shit, pull down all my access points. You know, like that all set up. Yes.

Because before it was like, hey, if you mess it up in the routers down for a day, she misses a day at work. Since she's out of town, I'm like speed trying to get this all set up. So I'm running my rise in five with a 1660 TI. That's my pool server.

I'm running my Ugreen NAS. That's my raid. And then I'm running a Raspberry Pi three, four and five, all performing crucial things in my network. And I've got a PoE hats coming for each of those so I can then PoE them on the new switch that I'm getting, which is exciting, exciting stuff.

But yeah, it's, uh, it has been an ordeal, but I'm feeling really good about my home setup. I got a little fire extinguisher up there. I got backups going. Speaking of PoE.

Yes. I we had the dumbest fucking problem at my office the other night. So our site manager, she just got a brand new office bill like area that used to be cubicle area is now walls. They put in drywall and everything so she can have this office every time that she had visitors, she was just sitting in a cube because she wanted to sit with everyone else.

Sure. And anytime that we had like guests show up or the governor or somebody like that show up at our office to meet with her, it was just like in the middle of all these cubes and it was becoming a problem. So she had an office bill and when she had her office bill, she had a, a video conferencing TV set up in there so she can do her conference calls without just being on her laptop. Right.

And it kept hanging up and they were trying to reboot it and it would never reboot. And so they sent it back to the manufacturer four times to try to get this thing fixed because it just wouldn't ever unhang. And they sent me in there the other night to try to figure out if I could get it to reboot at night when she wasn't there just to get it working. And we finally realized that not only was it getting power from its power cable, it was also getting power from power of reason.

So you had to unplug both of those and reboot it. And then we discovered it was also getting power over HDMI. So you had to unplug all three things to reboot this device and plug them all back in and we're like, you just need to get a different brand thing. This is awful.

Destroyed by it. Too much. Too much. Yeah.

Other than that, I played a little bit of minisute adventures because you've been talking about it and still a fun game. So fun game. I'm still playing Slay the Spire 2. I've reached a point where I cannot beat the game as the silence.

I don't know why. Every other character I do find with. I'm like, I'm not like killing it with him, but like I do I perform normally, right? I'm going to send something with all the characters now.

Something about the silence. I cannot get through Act 3 one time with her and I don't I don't know what they changed or what I'm doing wrong or what it is. Right? No, no, silence is the the the the.

Oh, the poison we need from the first game. Yeah, the poison. Yeah, she's the first game. Yeah, yeah.

I cannot be the silence. I don't know why. I looked up the sides. Oh, is that the silent?

Pardon me. Silence is a bad guy from Doctor Who. Thank you guy. I cannot fucking beat it.

And I've I'm determined that I will not play anymore of the game until I beat it. I don't know why. I don't ever impose these kinds of challenges on myself, but I've just decided that and it's brutal. I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm like the poison.

Shif build. Yeah, I mean, too. I've got all these different builds and like rankings, everything like I'm in and I just the times I am doing well, I just get really RNG bone and I'm like, what the hell, man? Like this was exactly the battle that I can't beat.

It was bad match ups. I don't know. I swear that the game has some kind of AI that's like, oh, I see what you're building. But it's only for for the silence.

It's not for anybody else. But yeah, what are you doing? You've been building huge amounts of home server hardware, maybe? I mean, yes, but most of mine is built and functional.

So I've I've only been doing maintenance stuff on it. I did set up a new container on my server that runs anything LLM, which is just a local LLM host, but it needs its own processing. So I also had to set up a limited server, but my my server is not really good enough of that because it has no GPU in it. Yeah.

So I set up a limited server on both my desktop and my laptop. My laptop is running it off the NPU and my desktop is running it off the GPU. And on my desktop, it can handle bigger models because it's got the GPU because I'm running a 90 70 XT in there and it handles it fine. But if I leave it running in the background, my game suddenly drops from 160 frames a second to 20 frames a second.

Yep, they'll do that. And so I have to remember to kill it anytime I'm starting a game on my laptop. I can't handle as big of a model. I can only handle like three or four B models, whatever the B is.

Oh, yeah. That's anything below seven is going to be kind of sneaky. But because it's running it entirely off the NPU, it's like does not task the computer at all. It is super fast and it is absolutely no heat, no drain on the CPU or the GPU.

And I kicked it up to an 8B model just to see if it would handle it. And it does. It just takes a long longer because it has to throw it all in a RAM. But it is much more efficient than my desktop is.

This whole time I've been trying to figure out what the fuck the NPU in my laptop is for. And that is it. So it is explicitly that the problem that I found is I have no idea what to do with it. So I've got it all set up and I'm just like, well, now it's there.

Perfect. But also I've been playing more with Linux from scratch on my spare laptop on my HP. And I've gotten all the way into a functioning, gnome desktop. You did it.

The only issue I'm still having is one, I can't set up Plymouth so I can have a fancy boot screen. So just seeing all the log shit when it's booting up. And I learned the reason for that is I don't have an hit ram Fs, which is not a thing in Linux from scratch unless you make it yourself. And that's really complicated.

I don't want to do that. Yeah. So I've just decided I'm just going to look at system D logs when I turn on the computer from now on. That's fine, whatever.

Honestly, anytime I have a Linux install, I'm always trying to figure out how to turn shit off so that I can see the logs scrolling. A disabled plan. All you've got to do. Well, now I know.

And go into your kernel parameters and turn off quiet and splash and then you'll see all that shit. And then the other thing that I was trying to get working is the sound. For some reason, my sound works fine on my Linux from scratch in the left channel, but the right channel tries to output to a subwoofer. Oh, that's not right.

And on my laptop speakers, that does nothing. But when I have it plugged into my dock, I have a subwoofer. So whenever I test the right channel, I just hear, which is trying to output to the subwoofer. Right.

It's trying to imitate the guy from a altarpiece. Right. Everything is working fine now. It is just as functional as my pre-built distros went now, which is really exciting.

I did not think I was going to get this far. One of my favorite things setting it all up is, with Linux or scratch, you're just compiling pre-built source code. You're not coding it yourself. Right.

And a lot of the code that you download for a lot of these packages that are necessary for Linux install are mason packages and the compiler that Linux from scratch recommends is Ninja. And so when you're compiling this stuff, you'll do your mason config and then you'll type Ninja to compile it and then you'll type Ninja test to make sure that all works. And then Ninja install it and installs it. And every time I do, I think about this cartoon that I used to watch back in the 80s or early 90s where there was a Ninja character and anytime you threw a smoke bomb, he was like, Ninja Vanish.

And then you would disappear. And so I just think that I'm like, Ninja test. Ninja install. And then he just vanishes.

And it makes me think that every single time. And I appreciate that. Right. As is natural.

Right. Yeah. Anyway, back to video, baby stuff. Yes.

So I for months now have been having a problem with my 8-bit-dough ultimate controller on my desktop where it just randomly disconnects in the middle of the playing game for about a second and then it reconnects. Oh. Oh. It's really frustrating when I'm in the middle of like a boss fight or something.

Oh, you don't say because it doesn't disconnect long enough for games to auto pause and realize that it is disconnect. So the game just keeps going. And it's been incredibly frustrating. And I've been struggling to figure out what the issue was.

And I even got that 8-bit-o-pro 3 hoping that it would fix it. I remember. Yeah. And you still had issues with it.

Yeah. I was having some issues and of course had other issues with the 8-bit-o-pro 3 just because it was in switch layout sort of Xbox layout and everything. Right. Yeah.

I was trying to mess with a wireless thing on my Linux from scratch setup and I was scanning wireless networks and I realized that two of my neighbors are broadcasting the 2.4 gigahertz on literally every channel. Why? I don't know. I don't even know.

So all of my wireless stuff is only connecting through 5 gigahertz or 6 gigahertz because of that. Because the 2.4 is full. It's a fucking war zone on the 2.4 gigahertz channel. I don't even know how you get around to do that.

I don't know. It'll only go on a couple channels and select automatically. Right. Are they running an actual jammer?

That has to be what's happening. And the thing is their name is like the default name for the carrier for the ISD. You think maybe they just went and bought like 50 of those default, you know, charter routers and just put it into the spectrum wireless, whatever. I'm thinking that the new routers from Spectrum are fucking it.

So because all of these are on just named Spectrum Wireless, I'm guessing that it's something that Spectrum has put in their new routers, but they're issuing to people to destroy everyone else's Wi-Fi. To destroy any internet for anyone who's not on Spectrum. So, months ago, I had thought about maybe it was a 2.4 gigahertz connection issue and I started looking up and I found that Intel had issued a white paper saying that 2.4 gigahertz wireless mice that are plugged into USB 3.0 ports fail. Unless you either drop them to USB 2 or USB 1.1 or you put a dampener on the USB connector.

And I was like, maybe that's my issue. So, I found an old extension cable that came with a USB mouse that I had bought like 20 years ago that is a USB 1.1 extender in case your USB receiver was too fat to fit in your USB port and not cause a conflict. So, I tried that. It did effectively drop it to USB 1.1, but it did not fix the problem.

And so, this whole like week, I was like, I just got to find a Bluetooth mouse or something. But shit, now I remember the problem was I don't have Bluetooth on my desktop. I need to find a USB Bluetooth receiver for my desktop and I'm researching those and I'm looking for like something that's going to work and I'm just like that. And then I was trying to troubleshoot something else on my desktop and the motherboard.

I was like, make sure you disable the Bluetooth first because this motherboard has an aggressive Bluetooth rate. I'm like, no, it has no Bluetooth radio. And then I realized I had never actually enabled a Bluetooth service in Linux after I bought this desktop. And so I just go into the terminal like system control enabled Bluetooth.

Oh, look, it works. Oh, you did it. I'm just going to link up my controller. Oh, look, everything works is all fine.

Oh boy. You solved it, Saturn. I am an idiot. So, no, when you tell the story, you say that you you hacked Linux to fix your Bluetooth.

Right. I tell them the rest of it. Right. I have to attack my, I have the name frame and I have Bluetooth.

Also, I downloaded the new decidio game on mobile, which released. Is this a mobile game? Yeah. It is chock full of tutorials and monetization garbage.

Crystal. Can you buy crystals? You can buy a lot of currencies. I don't think they're crystals or something, but there's like six currencies and a little mingle character that won't shut the fuck up about how to do everything.

Fortunately, they haven't bothered to translate any of the recorded audio yet. So, at least it won't shut up in Japanese, which is slightly less annoying than the not shutting up in English that Square Enix usually has in their games. Right. Also, it has this really weird art style, which I don't hate where the characters have alternate costumes that are either anime style of their regular costumes from their original games or anime style of them in modern Japanese attire.

Yeah, I saw that. My guess is they're just like, hello, Zoomers. Yeah, I think that's what they're doing. It's the only thing I can think.

And some of the characters look neat in the new art style. Some of them look barely changed from how they are originally. Final Fantasy I Warrior of Light looks like he's trying to pitch his new demo album or something, which is weird. I don't think I'll go back to the game.

That's basically what I gathered from it from my first playthrough. I did win my first play. I was the player of the game that contributed the most. Now, do you know that you actually won your first game or that was the thing that mobile games do where they make you win your first game so that you become addicted?

I'm guessing that I actually won because one of the players then messaged me afterwards to tell me that I suck. Oh, did you respond with it? Then why did I win? No, I just did not respond.

But yeah, other than that, still chipping away during quest 7, which is still good. Yeah, yeah. And they did add a feature to the new version of it where you can change your job wherever you want now without having to go back to the all-trades I have you, which is nice. Yeah, that was tedious as shit.

Yeah. However, the character that changes your job tries to talk like a valley girl and I don't need to hear that every time. I could have just used a menu. That would have been fine.

Yeah, no, no, no. They got to show you what modern hardware can do with this PS1. Yeah, right. It's a block of game.

Let's do some news. First up, Classic CinemaWare game Defender of the Crown is getting a remake. I played a ton of this on the game. I've never played this.

I have never played this. No idea. Konami ported it over to NES of all people, but it's just an old Apple II PC game. And it's, I don't know if it holds up all right or not, but I played a ton of it for some reason.

Yeah. A Slidespire 2 has sold over 3 million units in its first week of Early Access. I think they deserve it. It's a real fun game.

I'm having a good time. Oh, yeah. I do appreciate the early access art. What do they call the timeline, I think it is?

Yeah, the Xbox or something like that. It's just like a little squiggle doodle art. Yeah. And it's like a story to come later out of Early Access.

And it's just like Squiggle Art. I love it. I wish they would keep that in the game or make it a toggle for people who bought it in Early Access. Well, I unlocked a couple little cards on it and it was good art.

And then I unlocked a squiggle art and I was like, what the fuck is this? And then I kept unlocking a little squiggle art, placeholder art. And I was like, oh, it's just not done with it. I also found one card that still has placeholder art on it.

Oh, really? Yeah. I kind of wish that for like Early Access adopters or something, they would include a special mode where it's all the placeholder art for everything. I just want to toggle when the full version game comes out that I can go back to Early Access.

Yeah. Like I pay a buck 99 for that as you'll see because I know there's some stuff they probably don't have Squiggle Art for. They have to go make it for, you know, but I'd pick a couple bucks for that as you'll see. Yeah.

Hackers have managed to crack the security on the Xbox One using a Power Voltage exploit. Xbox One has to date been unhackable. So this is exciting news for the emulation community. And there was questions as to whether it was unhackable because it was unhackable or if it was unhackable just because it had that easy access developer mode.

And so nobody really needed to have it. Nobody wanted to. But now that has been hacked, I am excited to see what comes from it. Say about two, three years from now, I think there's going to be some cool shit.

Right. The performing rights society in the UK has sued Valve over distributing games with licensed music without themselves obtaining a license to the music. So we chatted about this for a little for like a good hour or two because I didn't know what the performing rights society was in the UK. And apparently it's kind of like a guild type situation where you pay them a fee and then you can have a license for their stuff.

And the weirdness because I saw a lot of people being like, why would Valve have to pay to license? That's like Walmart paying the license, the music and the movies that they sent. But I think it's because I was thinking about it of licensing in like American terms. Where I'm like licensing to me means, hey, I'm selling this copy of Halo.

So since you have to license it now, which means you have to go to Microsoft and pay them to use the Halo music, which is weird. But it's more like a driver's license or like in the UK, they pay for like TD licenses where it's more like you pay this broad licensing fee and then you may utilize these works. It's still a little weird with the whole international situation. Well, it's all weird because the publishers of the games have already paid that.

Right. They have feasibly paid that. So it is like double licensing to me. It is still odd and double dipping, but there are some kind of UK nuances to it that make it a relation around it.

I would say this, I would say slightly less ridiculous than a lot of news has been pitching it as lately. To our dumb American brains, it still seems weird. Right. I mean, even knowing the details, it still seems weird.

But apparently like Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft, everybody else does it. So there's precedence. So just a weird situation. Electronic gaming development company, which is apparently what some not good at naming stuff for some named a company, which is the Saudi investment group that previously acquired us in K has acquired a 5% stake in Capcom.

For the love of God. Yeah. Name your company. Anything else.

This is the stupidest name. It's so dumb. Well, the dumb is the dumb is electronic arts, dumb. Which I believe is also owned by that same group.

Goddamnit. Sony and Andy showed off a new PSSR model for the PS5 Pro on a handful of games. I cannot believe they're calling it PSSR. Yeah.

That says Pisser. It's a PlayStation screen reflections or super resolution or something like that. Again, rename it. It's Pisser.

You made Pisser for the PlayStation. Why would you call it Pisser? Everyone is going to pronounce this Pisser. Immediately, I called it Pisser every time it came up.

Yeah. That's pretty nice though. I'll give it that. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the technology sound bad name. Yeah.

Speaking of the inverse of that, Nvidia announced and showcased DLSS 5 in the Internet had a reaction. They ranged from... Because I looked at the... I watched the video and the digital foundry video.

It ranged from like this is pretty good to this looks real bad. Yeah. A lot of it is also because the models that it was trained on are all based on like supermodels. Yes.

A lot of the characters end up looking not correct. Yeah. They're all made up and shit. And it just does not fit the game itself.

Also, somebody was showing the slow-mo of the FIFA footage or AFC or whatever the fuck it's called now. And like the ball was going through a person and then also through a net for a couple of frames. Like in motion, you don't notice it. But if you slow it down, you can see that the AI is having some real bad hallucinations there.

Yeah. And then of course... It really seemed like the bits that we saw of it were very carefully selected. Yeah.

And not carefully enough. Yeah. And then also where some... Jinson Wong came out and said no, no, no, it's the users who are wrong.

Of course it is. And then we saw the technology and you guys are reacting poorly. We have to love it so he can for all those leather jackets. Right.

The leather industry is on its knees begging him to please stop buying so many leather jackets. Right. And he refuses. I don't remember what a tech guy showed up at an AMD conference and like what looked like the knockoff brand jacket of what Jinson Wong only wears.

It was one of the AI guys. I don't remember which company though. Oh God. I love that they have these little stupid outfits.

Yeah. I gotta have like a little... This is my little outfit. Steve Jobs had his little outfit.

Jinson Wong has his little outfits. So dumb. Todd Howard says he made a mistake announcing Eliske rolls six so early. You don't fucking say.

You don't say really? Who would have thought? I'm sorry. Todd Howard made a mistake.

It was really to an announcement. This is unheard of. Yeah. Next you're going to tell me Peter Mullen you over promised something.

Eliske rolls six was announced in 1993. I want to say it was a 2018. Oh my God. I think that's when they showed the teaser was in 2018 or 2019.

Man. The CEO of Crafton, a pub Gee, a cluster protocol, et cetera, used an LLM to come up with an excuse to fire the CEO of Subnautica Studio, Unknown Worlds as well as several of the main developers on the game weeks before they were entitled to a massive bonus for the launch of Subnautica II. A judge has now ruled the firing illegal and ordered Crafton to pay out over $250 million to those who were terminated good for them for winning that court case. Yeah.

Getting their money. If you're going to fire someone at least have a decency to give them a stupid badly written human reason. Well, apparently Crafton's lawyers couldn't come up with a reason to fire them that was legal. And so the guy just went to the LLM was like, well, you come up with a reason.

I was like, great, here's a good reason. Why would they think that that's... Why would you think this? This is the problem people.

This is the problem. They're tired of people using LLMs for everything except for what they're good for. Let's see, you have this weird AI brain rot right now where they think that the LLMs are so smart. Like, yes, it's good at disseminating large chunks of information that I don't want to go through.

It is not good at being my girlfriend and firing people. It's not good at... LLMs are smarter than the CEOs. So they don't realize what dumb it is.

Animal Crossing's GameCube port has now been recompiled on PC. I haven't played it yet, but I'm excited. It's kind of a wild screen. It's kind of a wild screen.

So we're all kinds of a new feature. I got all the project downloaded. I haven't gotten to it yet. I have some other projects you might have heard about.

No. The Final Fantasy IX Anime adaptation may be back in production via a French studio. We'll see if they include all of Zidane's tendencies. Is this still anime if it's French?

Yeah, no. We've decided that other people can make JRPGs that aren't in Japan and that it is now a style not necessarily a determiner of the location of the production. I guess I was also a fan who made it to you. As a society, we've decided.

They made clear up scurries, so they're allowed to make anime and JRPGs. Can we get those before the same judge that decided that AI firing suit? Yeah. So the French are now for all artistic purposes, they can now be both French and Japanese.

I can do JRPGs and then do anime. That's the rule. That's fine with this. It has been declared.

A pair of Jalka Arcade collections were announced for future release on Steam, no release date yet, but each collection includes 16 titles. It's cool to see some of these smaller companies since opt in Jalka and such kind of get middle collections out there. Yeah, they see. The first collection, they've only announced 10 of the 16 titles on each collection so far, which is weird.

That's a weird way to do it. The second collection does have EDF and Binging Spirit. That's enough for me. I'll probably be talking about that one.

Play Station is reportedly phasing out the PlayStation Network branding, which I get it. I feel like in the Xbox 360 PS3 era, there's a lot of different things. The online components were very much like this is a new idea and it needs to be its own separate product so we can explain to you how this product is different from just the hardware you bought. In these days, it's like your PlayStation is PlayStation Network.

Your Xbox is Xbox Live. I kind of get it. But, you know. And finally, due to a stoppage for reasons we don't want to get into, helium prices are spiking, which is affecting magnetic hard drive prices.

We don't know traditional hard drives above a certain capacity you're often filled with helium. I think it's like 8 terabytes and up usually. So those are going to now get expensive. So glad I got in under the wire.

I got two 4 terabytes on the way. Because those are going to go up. Then everyone's going to buy the non-helium ones because the helium ones aren't accessible. And everyone just gets ready.

Nobody's got any storage anywhere. Yeah, it's going to suck real bad. I want to buy fucking SD cards. I would now in my head, I'm like, surely SD, because I buy 5 packs of 16 and 64 gigs just to have around because I use them in so many projects and they wear out and stuff.

And I went to buy a 5 pack of 64 gigs. How many SD cards do you go through? I mean, you know, I've usually got three to six pies in rotation at any amount of time. At least two or three retro handhelds.

We got phones, tablets, all sorts of stuff. We use them in all of our cameras. We have six or seven cameras on our property that are always recording SD cards. And we got through a lot, man.

We really do. And I went to buy, normally I buy a 64 gig 5 pack and it's like, I want to say it was like $25. Not anymore. It's $25 for like one 64 gig SD card.

I know it went up astronomically. We traded it still in the realm of like money relatively cheap. But I like, I couldn't find an 8 gig for less than like $20. I've got a bunch.

I might buy some off you because I need some. You remember when I got all those Raspberry Pies for my last job? I do, yeah. Every single one of them had either an 8 gig or 16 gig SD card still new and sealed.

And I'll just sit in a door. Yeah, those are what I use because I use a lot of pies around my estate for various projects. Usually it's a little stuff like I have a pie three that all it does is just like Grafana. And so I just need a little tiny.

I'd use like 120 gig for that because I didn't have anything smaller. Grafana sounds like the parody of Nirvana on a bad cartoon. Right. We're going to go to the Grafana concert.

Come on, Doug, funny. Let's go. Let's be skater. Hong Kong.

That's exactly what it sounds like, yes. We need to get to the topic here because we're already running long. And it's Falcom. Makers of the hit video game, Guru Rumin, which I do remember well from PSP.

Although I've never played it. Oh, and for the S&P shortly. I forgot I got ports. It didn't.

Yeah, I forgot all about that. By Grafana, I was founded March, 1981 by Masayuki Kato Kato Kato in Tokyo, Japan. Yeah, I guess it would be Kato. As far as first encounters, I guess I would have been aware of Falcom as a company because I knew of faxing to do.

Which they didn't actually make. It's true. Yeah. But it's Falcom.

Right. It's a Falcom probably though. Yeah. But I never owned or played it before our show on it.

I was aware of but never owned or played a Guru Rumin or what's the other NES one legacy of the Wizards. I knew of it. Also, Treasures and Crop Doors, I think it was called in the US. So I think it would have been playing ease on your recommendation is probably probably my introduction to them.

I remember being at my old house and my daughter was just born because I remember she was in, we had a little portable crib so that she could be like Baby Jail while you did something. And I had her little baby jail in my office and she was like playing with a toy and I was playing ease. And I was like, this ease thing is pretty cool. So I guess roughly 10-ish years ago would have been my introduction to Falcom.

To him, so try to read. That's the one thing. Oh, yes. It's another NES game that came out of a game.

It basically is. Yes. Okay. That's the first person done in Colorado.

Yes. Yeah. What about you? So it's hard to say the first time.

Probably like to see the wizard would be the first time that I played one of their games. But the first time I noticed them as a company would have been ease probably on the Turbo graphics. Maybe the Super NES, E3, one or the other. But I pretty quickly became a fan of the E series.

I liked it. I was a fan of it. And then was sad that they just never made another one after their game. Oh my gosh.

Well, wait. No, of ease seven. I played the E7 on PSP. Oh, no.

Cool. I wonder where the other six are. Never heard of them. I remember that.

Oh, he's seven on PSP. Okay. Yeah. He's seven.

He's seven on PSP. Don't play that. That's a mistake. Okay.

All right. It has like two minutes of load time between every screen. There's a real bad port anyway. Weird.

Yeah. Yeah. I remember after he's three. I was like, man, it sure would be nice if I released another one.

It wasn't until many years later that I discovered that they had just not over here. And then he's six came out and I got super into that and have kind of followed the company since then. Yeah. Well, this is another Saturn heavy episode.

What? So thank you for doing all the notes. I know it's a company who would have guessed that Saturn did these notes. Well, it doesn't say Game Boy in the title.

Saturn must have brought these. I get real obsessed over looking over the history of a lot of these old companies. I appreciate it because I get so bored. I'm saying it's like reading old historical texts to me.

Okay. It's fun to read the fun parts. But when you seem to legitimately be interested in this company about this company and the name of this company and they bought that company. Yes.

I love all that shit. Just know that I love that you love that. I'm here for the weird shit. I want to know about canned milk sales.

That's what I want to hear about. We'll get to some soft for porn. We'll get there. Oh my God.

So we start out Masi Okekato who is the founder. He had spent some time working in Thailand specifically working for a computer research division of an international aid project. And it was while I was there, he became pretty obsessed with computers and games. This would have been in the late 60s or 70s.

Oh, really? Okay. I'm trying to think like what computer games would have been playing in the early 70s. Computer space or Pong?

That's kind of it. It's kind of it. Yeah. But first he just developed a lot of computers themselves and then also games unrelated to computers.

He got really into like mechanical games and stuff like that. He was just interested in the whole mechanics of it. And so when he came back to Japan, also D&D, he was apparently a big D&D person. I know.

Not a little early for it too early 70s. It was when I was in the 70s that he was getting into D&D. Even mid 70s in, well if he was still in Thailand, I don't know when it made it there. I know it made it to Japan.