1 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,280 Hey everyone, welcome to The Withering Effect episode 177. 2 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,280 Today's date is January 14th, 2024 and I am duds or duds 3 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,000 versus known to the rest of the interwebs. 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,800 And I'm Karl. You may know me as Karl writes. 5 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,480 So what have you been up to recently? 6 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,880 Duds, after our quite long break between the like this and the 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,000 last episode Recording. Coughing. 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,840 Coughing. Yep, standard duds. 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,360 You know, the same thing I was doing before we took our break. 10 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,160 I've done a couple of things. I did some single player. 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,040 I was. I don't want to call it burnout, 12 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,960 but I've definitely been suffering some creative drought 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,400 and it was pretty rough. I didn't want to make videos, I 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,040 didn't want to build anything. So the way Minecraft works for 15 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,840 me is I have to be inspired. I have to be able to visualize 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,520 something in my head before I can start building. 17 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,000 And that's really good and all. That's what allows me to be able 18 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,120 to build in survival mode instead of like a lot of people 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,800 are building a creative mode and they bring it over to survival 20 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,760 mode. I'm not that kind of player. 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,320 I'm very much a survival player. If I do it that way, I kind of 22 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:27,440 feel like I'm building it twice and that just annoys me. 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,320 The the ability to envision how I want it to end up before I 24 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,640 even start usually helps, except for when it doesn't. 25 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,200 When you can't envision anything, you can't build 26 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,600 anything. This is true. 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,920 This is true. I went through a lot of that, 28 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,520 especially right around Christmas time, The Christmas 29 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,560 episode, a lot of that is because of Live in Arrington. 30 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,000 They really helped out on that. They hadn't stepped up and Lucy 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,320 hadn't come up with such a great poem. 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,760 My build would have been pretty bad, just putting it lightly. 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,960 So yeah, I did that. I played some single player a 34 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,720 lot of just kind of like caring from the homestead and making 35 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,479 sure the farms are working correctly, planting stuff and 36 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,520 all that. But doing stuff like that helps. 37 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,240 Just placing blocks, even if it's kind of meaningless, helps 38 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,240 me. Yeah, it helps you get back into 39 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,600 the vibe, done it, you know? Right. 40 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 Yeah. I didn't have any real 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,800 inspiration, but it got me wanting to play the game. 42 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,400 I didn't dread starting Minecraft anymore, so I went 43 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,960 into my creative world and like was looking at some designs. 44 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,160 Sometimes it can be just the way I've built a pillar, and that 45 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,600 alone is enough for me to design an entire base around. 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,000 I didn't have anything hitting me except for Ripple Season 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,280 four, my starter house. Do you remember it? 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,960 Oh yeah, yeah. I loved that house It. 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,000 Was a good one. Yeah, it felt like a home, which 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,880 is something I don't get in a lot of my bases. 51 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,560 Like I, I build bases that I'm very happy with, but not all of 52 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,960 them feel like a home. Yeah, they're more sort of 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,160 industrial. Like this is the same for any 54 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,280 like massive base. It's more of a sort of an 55 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,200 industrial complex that's got like a bedroom somewhere within 56 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,840 it, right? It's it doesn't fit. 57 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,680 It's, it's not like it's got like a living room and a kitchen 58 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,560 and a bathroom and a bedroom. It's like it's got farms and 59 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,480 storage and stuff. It's more like more like a 60 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,840 business premises than an actual house most of the time. 61 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,920 My Ripple Season 2 felt like a home to me, even though it was 62 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,880 very industrial. Yeah, Ripple season three was 63 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,120 just, it was just out there with how I built things. 64 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,240 And then Ripple Season four, that house felt like a home and 65 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,120 I was like, I just want to build that house again. 66 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,880 I loved being in that house and me being me. 67 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,360 Obviously I can't just make the same build again. 68 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,960 So I started designing a more grown up version is what I'm 69 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,920 calling it. Like if this house was like 8 70 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,240 year old duds, this is what this house would be at 18 year old 71 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,080 duds. And I show it in my video. 72 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,040 I do have a video coming up tomorrow which will have already 73 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,320 come out by the time this airs. But I I show that house in 74 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,760 creative mode and then I I show it when I built it in survival 75 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:11,320 on channel 64 and you can see it is the same house just upgraded, 76 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,160 which I'm very happy with. I really like how it came out. 77 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,160 It was super exciting to be able to envision something and I show 78 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,360 like, hey, when I am in creative and I am designing stuff, I'm 79 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,320 not designing the whole thing. I'm just doing a couple walls 80 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,800 and figuring out roof lines and then I just, I go, yeah, I feel 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,000 like a lot of Minecraft videos don't walk you through that 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,640 process anymore. They're just kind of like I did 83 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,800 a 2 minute time lapse and now we're going to go bug off for 84 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,200 like 18 more minutes doing random stuff. 85 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,360 I spent 10 hours building this is 20 seconds right? 86 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,160 Let's go play mini games or let's go and prank someone or 87 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,120 whatever. Yeah, and that's that's totally 88 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,080 fine if that's the way you want to do your content stuff. 89 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,080 But I'm not that kind of person and I really enjoy watching 90 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,440 someone build and hear why they made certain choices. 91 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,800 So I've been gearing my content towards that more so than the 92 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,840 normal stuff. Yeah, and I did a lot of that in 93 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:10,320 this episode. Nice. 94 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,520 Looking forward to seeing it. Hopefully people enjoy it. 95 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,600 You definitely hear how sick I've gotten in that episode. 96 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,200 Was it recorded over quite a while then? 97 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,480 Yeah, it took two weeks to get the episode out. 98 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,560 Right. So it's sort of you getting 99 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,720 better over that time as well? Yeah, there were a couple days 100 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,480 where I just couldn't stop coughing to save my life. 101 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,160 Like, it'd be every 30 seconds I would cough. 102 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,400 So it was really hard to record on those days. 103 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,040 Yeah. So I'd be like, well, I'm just 104 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,320 going to time lapse in these days. 105 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,480 And then I'm watching the footage back and I'm like, it's 106 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,360 too much time lapse. We don't need all this. 107 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,880 You get the gist in the first time lapse. 108 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,360 I shouldn't have three time lapses in here. 109 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,880 So I would just cut it out. And then I got really sick 110 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,320 Thursday of this week. I drove to work not feeling 111 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,120 right. About 30 minutes into the work 112 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,640 job, I got real dizzy and just like, cover your ears if you're 113 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,280 squeamish, Like just vomited majorly. 114 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,880 I was like, holy cow, what is it, 'cause I don't get sick 115 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,760 easily. Other than my allergy cough, 116 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,000 that's the only thing that really happens. 117 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,320 I was like, what is going on? And I ended up having my dad 118 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,320 come to my work and drive me in my car home, 'cause I couldn't 119 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:20,400 drive. I was so dizzy. 120 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,440 Turns out I have really bad Vertigo. 121 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,760 OK, that's heights though, isn't it? 122 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,120 Well, no, It's just your equilibrium being off, OK? 123 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,920 The way I can equate it to people, if you're an adult, it's 124 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,160 like being drunk and there's no sleeping it off. 125 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,080 So for like 2 days I was very dizzy. 126 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,920 Yeah, and nauseous there. There's no playing video games. 127 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,920 Can't do that. There's no watching TV, There's 128 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,880 no scrolling on your phone, there's no reading a book. 129 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,280 I can't do any of that. All that stuff made me nauseous. 130 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,120 Jeez. So I just kind of sat there and 131 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,120 I looked out the window listening to the radio and the 132 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,760 TV. I've just got this picture of 133 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,880 you in my head in like a rocking chair, just staring out the 134 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,920 window. You can't do rocking chair 135 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,080 because that's dizzying. Oh yeah. 136 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:07,680 True. Yeah. 137 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,000 Yeah, it was very sad. The good news is, yeah, I went 138 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,880 to the doctor. They couldn't get me in till 139 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,960 7:00 PM on Thursday. I go in and help me have 140 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:18,520 Vertigo. They give me some medicine, but 141 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,040 she goes try these exercises 1st and see how they do. 142 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,120 And it turns out the exercises were great. 143 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,200 I haven't had to take any medication. 144 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,920 That's good. Well, when she told me like, 145 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,520 hey, when you take these you get really sleepy, you're going to 146 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,480 pass out for a while. It's like I don't want to take 147 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,920 anything that does that. Yeah, anything drowsy? 148 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,040 Not good. Yeah, but I'm over that. 149 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,000 I'm going back to work tomorrow. Saturday. 150 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,720 I felt like 98% fine. It's just if a light hits me in 151 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,640 the eye while I'm turning my head and flicking my eyebrow. 152 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,000 Not eyebrows, but your eyelids. That kind of still gives me a 153 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,080 little woo. Hold up. 154 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,480 Yeah, yeah, I'm good to go. Good to hear. 155 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:55,680 What about you? What have you been doing? 156 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,080 Looks like lots of stuff. That's not even all of it. 157 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,880 I've been continuing with my James Bond rewatch that I've 158 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,480 been doing over the last like year. 159 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,080 Hey, I do like 3 or 4 films and then I get bored and take like 6 160 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,760 months and then do three or four more. 161 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,480 Yeah, I'm up to License to Kill, which is the last Timothy Dalton 162 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,320 one, so I've got Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig to go. 163 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,560 So I've been doing those. The the reason I started this 164 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,920 was I wanted to get better at like writing and not the best 165 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,520 writer in the world. So writing like film synopsises 166 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,960 and reviews is really helping me. 167 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,600 Like, also fun to watch the films back from the days where 168 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,159 you kind of remember them, sort of bits of them, actually. 169 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:47,240 Like watch them all back and see what you like and don't like 170 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,880 about them. So that's really fun. 171 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,520 I've got a few to go, but some of the ones that I've really 172 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,280 liked to kind of surprised me. They were the ones that I 173 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,160 remember being rubbish. So that's really fun. 174 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,960 So I've actually got like the poster with all of the posters 175 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,680 on the 25 films, so I'm going to put like the the rankings on 176 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,240 there when I finish it. Nice. 177 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,280 I'll leave a link in the show notes to anyone who's interested 178 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,080 to the link to it. Minecraft wise. 179 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,120 I've been playing a little bit of decked out too. 180 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:20,160 Now we wanted to try and put it on our Patreon server, but 181 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,400 there's a mirage of technical reasons why we can't. 182 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,840 Yes, that has nothing to do with bisect, it's to do with how the 183 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,240 servers set up. There's no real demand from our 184 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,600 patrons for it, so we didn't want to completely re architect 185 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,320 the server to be able to do it. So I've been playing it in 186 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,200 single player with the voice mod and everything so all the audio 187 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,800 call outs work and everything. That game is hard. 188 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,640 It looks so much easier on video. 189 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:56,600 Yep, just sliding around that first corridor area where 190 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,480 everything's made of ice. Like I have been killed so many 191 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:06,280 times in that area by ravages. I haven't played it OK, but as 192 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,760 I'm on a controller I already imagined, I was at a huge 193 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,640 disadvantage because I can't turn as quick as other people 194 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,880 can. Yeah, I I don't use a mouse 195 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,520 either. I use a big trackpad. 196 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,680 Yeah, yeah, you're a weird one too. 197 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,280 Because I don't like using my siper for using my fingers on a 198 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,440 trackpad because I'm used to Macbooks. 199 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,560 So when I got a desktop, I was just like, I'll just get the big 200 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,320 trackpad because I'm used to, and that's what I've always 201 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,440 used. It's good for like in games 202 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,000 where you, like, have to turn quite quickly because you just 203 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,960 scrub your finger across it rather than like trying to meet 204 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,440 math. But Even so, like keyboard and 205 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,560 sort of mouse, like, it's really hard, Just that opening area. 206 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,400 I didn't really kind of realize how difficult that game actually 207 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,200 is. So GG to the Hermits, all of 208 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,600 them, for how well they did on there. 209 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,800 But I played a few games and got Frost Embers and did the whole 210 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,440 cards and things, and I played it maybe about 10 or 15 times. 211 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,840 But I think the fact that I kind of watched every single stream 212 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,680 of them playing and every single video has kind of burnt me out 213 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,360 on it before I even played it. Same. 214 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,760 So I was wanting to get like a group of people together and do 215 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,800 like a decked out to season. We're actually going to play 216 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,120 decked out the way it was meant to be played like the Hermans 217 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,760 do, separate from all the all the S and PS and video content 218 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,960 thing. If you want to make content, 219 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,800 that's fine, but that's not the main focus. 220 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,800 But I'm like you. I've watched every stream, every 221 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,760 video, and it's like, yeah, I think I'm good. 222 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,800 Yeah, it's kind of sad. Well, I think Tango ended 223 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,920 exactly when he should have. Yeah, completely agree. 224 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,520 There's not much about decked out two that he missed on down 225 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,320 to, like how the games play and everything like that and but 226 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,320 including the the start and finish date nailed. 227 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,120 Yeah, it's it's an incredible game that he built. 228 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,640 I even watched a lot of the streams through the design and 229 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,880 the planning and the and the building process as well, with 230 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,400 all like the bus lines and Redstone and all that kind of 231 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,440 stuff. I understand a lot of how the 232 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,360 Redstone works. Really cool, but. 233 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:23,280 I still remember the stream when he was playing with wardens to 234 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,840 see if he could name them and they wouldn't disappear. 235 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,600 Yeah, the Warden Stream was awesome. 236 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,080 But yeah, I kind of like I say, I was kind of burnt out on it 237 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,840 before I even played it. And I played through it a good 238 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,200 10 or 15 times and I'm kind of, you know, I enjoyed it, I really 239 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,040 did. But it's not something that's 240 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,960 kind of pulling me back to wanting to play it anymore. 241 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,080 Maybe in like 6 months a year, I think, because I do this with 242 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,200 games and we'll get on to this in a second. 243 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,360 But I'm not like a a massive gamer to start with. 244 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,280 So I will pick up and drop games, games that I love, I'll 245 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,160 pick up and drop them randomly for like years. 246 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,920 That's just how I am. And I think decked out too might 247 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,000 be like that. It's still on my computer, it's 248 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,480 still in my single player save folder, sat there ready for when 249 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,200 I want to play it again. Well, even Tango's come out and 250 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,360 said decked out three, it's probably not gonna happen next 251 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,160 season. Yeah, so there's gonna be at 252 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,360 least a year before decked out three even gets started. 253 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,440 So I very much think there's gonna be a spot where people 254 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,920 pick it back up and are planning it again. 255 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,440 Yeah, I bet you there will be custom maps with data packs 256 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:34,520 ready to go to streamline how everything works. 257 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,400 Yeah, I know. Exuma on his. 258 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,720 I don't know if it's a Patreon server or a public server, I'm 259 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,480 not sure, but his server has decked out on it. 260 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,040 Kind of like a modified version of it. 261 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,800 His team put it together. I'm assuming you can play on 262 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,000 that. I haven't looked into it so I 263 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,320 don't really know. But yeah, looking forward to 264 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,200 decked out three. I think he's right to not jump 265 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,600 straight into it for his own kind of sanity and for everyone 266 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,120 else as well. Just play season 10 normally and 267 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,080 come back to it. Season 12 even might give it a 268 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,760 couple of seasons, maybe, and then come back to it because 269 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,320 then everyone's fresh on it. Personally, that's what I'd be 270 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,200 doing, and that's the best way to do it. 271 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,360 Yeah. Speaking of gaming, I I came to 272 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,640 this realization, which is what I just said about me being a 273 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,240 casual gamer. And I pick up and drop games 274 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,760 quite a lot, very randomly. And Minecraft was always kind of 275 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,360 the game that booked that trend because I played it for eight 276 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,160 years straight, Something like that. 277 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,000 Age of Empires I used to play back in the day, and I've only 278 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,720 picked up recently LA Noire I picked up when it came out and 279 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,840 kind of dropped it a few months later. 280 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,080 Hitman. I never played until like 2 281 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,840 weeks ago. I realized that these games are 282 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,360 sitting on my computer for no reason because they're taking up 283 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,280 all this space because these games are like 3050 gig and I 284 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,600 have to play them through crossover most of the time. 285 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,240 That makes Windows games run on Mac. 286 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,040 That's has to be installed. The game has to be installed. 287 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,640 I'm taking up so much space on my computer, the games that I 288 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,040 play every now and again. So I started looking into cloud 289 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,640 gaming and obviously we had the we had Stadia close late last 290 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,400 year. Yeah, GeForce NOW became the 291 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,360 sort of default option, but GeForce NOW is sold out in the 292 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,720 US, Europe and I believe parts of Asia. 293 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,120 Too much demand, not enough capacity. 294 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,880 I went to another one, which is called Boosteroid. 295 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,760 I don't know if any of you guys at home have heard of it. 296 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,640 I have never heard of that. If you follow like the cloud 297 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,160 gaming channels on YouTube, they talk about Boosteroid quite a 298 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,680 lot. It came out of sort of Eastern 299 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,320 Europe and kind of came to the West, where GeForce Now is sort 300 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,200 of the other way around. Both GeForce Now and Boosteroid 301 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,600 use your Steam library for the games. 302 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,200 So you buy the games on Steam and then they basically host 303 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,440 them on their servers. So that's what I've been doing 304 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,400 instead and it's like £9 a month but it's like cancel at any 305 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:10,120 time. So I can. 306 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,320 So I've paid for January and I probably won't pay February and 307 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,680 I might pay for March and then I probably won't do it till 308 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,160 August. Or because like I say, I'm the 309 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,080 kind of person who like plays games kind of sporadically. 310 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,600 It allowed me to play games that I that don't work through 311 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,600 crossover, like Hitman for example, which I really got 312 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,640 into. Cool. 313 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:35,360 I'd heard of it and it seemed like it was sort of like a first 314 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,560 person shooter at the time. But now I've realized that it's 315 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,880 more sort of like espionage space, kind of intelligence base 316 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,960 and stuff like Bond. So I've really been enjoying it. 317 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:46,880 Nice. I've been wanting to play City 318 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,960 Skylines too. Doesn't have a Mac version, 319 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,800 doesn't work on Crossover. Really having problems with 320 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,680 performance on PC anyway. Yup, that's all I've heard about 321 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,440 that game. Yeah, so I'm kind of waiting on 322 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,280 that one to buy it because it's quite expensive and I don't want 323 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,160 a rubbish experience. And even Boosteroid have got a 324 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,480 big message on it that says not optimize for cloud gaming. 325 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,040 So yeah, I'm not going to be doing that quite yet, but that 326 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,200 is a game that I want to play. They've got Age of Empires on 327 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,640 there, which is was already in my Steam library, so I don't 328 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,040 have to buy that. I've actually had a controller 329 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,200 for a long time, a steel series controller. 330 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,680 Yeah yeah, yeah. It works with like my Apple TV 331 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,000 and stuff, my iPhone, and it works with Boost Roid as well, 332 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,840 but it doesn't have as many buttons on it that you need for 333 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,520 these kind of games. So I got a cheap second hand 334 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,720 Stadia controller because obviously people are selling 335 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,560 them off dirt cheap because Stadia doesn't exist anymore. 336 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,640 Google released a sort of Bluetooth upgrade to them. 337 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,920 It was like a free download that you could do to turn them into 338 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,640 just a Bluetooth controller, and that works really, really well. 339 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,720 Don't know if you've ever, like, tried any cloud gaming services 340 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,240 at all. I have not. 341 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:58,440 No, because I know you you're looking for a new GPU and I 342 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,440 thought that might be something you might have looked at as an 343 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,720 alternative until GPU prices come down. 344 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,240 Technically the ones I'm looking at I can afford now, right? 345 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,600 It just comes with my monitors or older monitors. 346 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:17,080 I never got into the. I need 144 Hertz and 5000 pixels 347 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,360 on the. I'm very much in the realm of my 348 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,480 eyes can see 60 Hertz no problem. 349 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,680 That's where I'm at. So my monitors are actually an 350 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,400 older monitor. One of them still uses the white 351 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,920 DVI component. If I upgrade, I then have to 352 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,480 upgrade my monitors. Yeah. 353 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,840 Or buy an adapter for them. Either way, it requires me to 354 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,280 take apart my computer and reassemble everything. 355 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,160 And Carl knows every time I do that I have to go through sound 356 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,120 checks for about 3 days. Oh God. 357 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,920 Because there's some kind of grounding problem every single 358 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,720 time I do that, and I it's honestly, I just play Minecraft 359 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,960 for the most part, so it's not worth it for me. 360 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,320 Yeah, every time he quote UN quote upgrades his computer, it 361 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,080 affects my life. It does. 362 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,160 Well. I've determined the next time I 363 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,440 do something like that, I'm I'm going to buy a rug for my room 364 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,800 because right now where my chair sits, there's no rug. 365 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,600 My chair very much just rolls out from underneath me half the 366 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,120 time when I go to sit down and I know that's going to break my 367 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,760 tailbone one day. Yeah. 368 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,880 I want to put some better paint on the walls and stuff. 369 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,040 The next time I go to upgrade, the computer will be a big kind 370 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,280 of like final. I'm doing a lot of projects at 371 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,280 once kind of thing, and I'm not going to do that till I I take a 372 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,680 work a week off work that way. I'm not trying to do this in the 373 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,440 evenings and fight through that and stuff. 374 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,760 Yeah, yeah, you need to take time and like, plan what you 375 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,160 want to do with it and make sure you get all the right your ducks 376 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,880 in a row and all that kind of. Yeah, I'm sure there's going to 377 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,680 be a AAA game at some point. That kind of pushes me to do 378 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,080 that. But yeah, cloud gaming is 379 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,880 actually like, surprisingly good with, like, latency and video 380 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,680 performance. And it's it's surprising how 381 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,240 well it actually works. I'm happy with that for now. 382 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,520 If you're someone who like games constantly and has the the 383 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,400 latest titles and plays you know, every day and stuff, it's 384 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,520 probably not for you. But if you're like a casual 385 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,240 gamer that, like, picks up and drops games all the time, right, 386 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,080 right out cuz works surprisingly well. 387 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,480 Should we move on to the news? Let's do it. 388 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,800 The first thing I have is, well, actually really the only thing I 389 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,080 have. No more Legends. 390 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,080 The the game has one update it's putting out, and then that's 391 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:33,840 kind of it. They're not going to update it 392 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,360 anymore. It's no DLCS, none of that. 393 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,240 Yeah, it's not going very well considering there was a lot of 394 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,440 hype around it originally. Yeah, I'm not going to be like 395 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,920 really pessimistic or anything, but I could definitely tell when 396 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,880 I saw the first trailer for this game. 397 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,560 It was not going to be a huge hit, and I can't tell tell what 398 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,800 exactly made me feel that way. All the videos I'm watching, 399 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,240 most people say it's the repetitive gameplay that really 400 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,200 turned them off. Yeah, for me personally, I 401 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,280 thought the game looked ugly, like that cell shading. 402 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,320 It hurt my eyes. It did not. 403 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,960 I did not want to play that game. 404 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,040 I didn't want to watch anyone play that game. 405 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,560 But everyone who does video say it's gorgeous. 406 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,440 It's beautiful. I was like, huh, Maybe I'm in 407 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,520 the minority. I didn't mind how it looked 408 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,760 personally. It was a bit sort of in your 409 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,840 face. I think that's just kind of the 410 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,080 style, yeah, of like those kind of games and where they've gone. 411 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,960 But the fact it, you know it, it sold 3 million copies in the 412 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,800 first two weeks and then sort of by the end of like the next 413 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,960 month it was down to like 17 players or something like that. 414 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,080 It was, it was like. After one month, 99% of players 415 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,120 left to never come back. Yeah, that's based on Steam 416 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,280 data. So we don't know about like this 417 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,520 is true Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation or whatever. 418 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,680 But I feel like the same issues that the PC version had would 419 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,320 also apply to those. Which why he say is the 420 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,400 repetitiveness of go to a village, protect them from the 421 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,640 piglins, build up the defenses, go to a village, protect it from 422 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,480 the piglets. Even like the online stuff, like 423 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,120 there was no text chat, voice chat, there was no support for 424 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:22,680 local multiplayer. You know, you pay like $30.00 425 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,840 for Minecraft and you get this kind of info, infinite world, 426 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,880 this sort of ultimate replayability. 427 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,200 And for $10 more you get a game that has at best 15 hours of 428 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,000 gameplay. So you know, it's not the best. 429 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,280 I I just don't think it was the kind of game that Minecraft 430 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,160 players wanted. Yeah, I did see that. 431 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,160 Like someone say, like Mojang's. Oh, for three on side projects. 432 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,600 Whatever. I still stand by Dungeons was a 433 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,840 hit. Oh yeah, it's nowhere near hit. 434 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,440 That Minecraft obviously is the biggest game of the world is 435 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,400 kind of hard to beat. None of them were ever going to 436 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,360 be, though. People are still playing 437 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:04,480 dungeons. It's all 25,000,000 copies. 438 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,080 Yeah, like that is amazing. I've bought DLC for Dungeons. 439 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:14,080 I think it's a pretty fun game. It's a shame, kind of I I just 440 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,080 think that Microsoft decided that they were going to use the 441 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,600 Minecraft name to try and sell other types of games. 442 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:25,200 And yes, they use, they use the IP and stuff, they use the 443 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,440 piglins and stuff like that, and they use the the kind of broad 444 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,080 style of, you know, characters and things. 445 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,200 But at the end of the day, they're totally different games. 446 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,720 They just try to use the Minecraft branding, in my 447 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,840 opinion. Dungeons I think was a big 448 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,920 success. Like it it looked awesome 449 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,760 though. Even the gameplay was like 450 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,120 really good and kind of fitted the Minecraft style a bit more 451 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,880 than Legends did. And I think Minecraft Earth, 452 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,400 which is the other one that quote UN quote failed, came out 453 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,640 in 2019. I want to say, yeah, obviously 454 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,360 that got hit by the Pandemic. It's a game where you go outside 455 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,240 and you meet people and you build together using augmented 456 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,840 reality, and then everyone was told to stay inside for 12 to 18 457 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,040 months. And I think also at that point 458 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,600 AR wasn't as mainstream. I would even say today it's not 459 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,560 very mainstream. The the phones that were most 460 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,840 able to take advantage of it was iPhones. 461 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,960 The Android phones that were around at that time, although 462 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,760 they could do some of this, it wasn't as well optimized as it 463 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,080 was on iOS. And I think that kind of limited 464 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,080 the market because Android is still a big part of the mobile 465 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,880 ecosystem. Yeah, take that apple for you. 466 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,400 Stop yourself, boy. Well, I have a Samsung S20 and I 467 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,640 basically got this one because this is the one they offered for 468 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:59,960 free when I when I upgraded and it it's definitely aged and 469 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:01,880 stuff. But at the time, it was like, 470 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,040 hey, this is a flagship phone. This is the comparable to the 471 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,720 iPhone. And it really was, but it it 472 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,800 didn't take advantage of AR. So Minecraft Earth came around. 473 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,960 I couldn't do that. And it's like, well, this is 474 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,800 still a pretty brand new phone. And granted, like I think the 475 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,000 very next model had a bunch of AR features on it, but by that 476 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,960 time AR had gone out of fad. Apple were definitely the 1st to 477 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,760 it and their implementation of it was really good. 478 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,920 Like, I played a few AR games and they were very well, you 479 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,640 know, optimize and they work really well. 480 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,240 But it was just a handful of iPhone. 481 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,240 So at that point that had the ability to do it. 482 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,240 Yeah, I just, I just think Minecraft suffered from an 483 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,960 adoption issue with AR and obviously the social issue of 484 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,360 the pandemic. And I don't think that game was 485 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,800 fundamentally a bad idea. It was just the timing was way 486 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,800 off, which was unfortunate because I think on the kind of 487 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,800 like back of the success that was Pokémon Go and they had a 488 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,280 real chance to make it a big success. 489 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,720 Like I said, those factors ended up with it being cancelled two 490 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,840 years later. I'm surprised it took that long 491 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,120 to be honest. I'm surprised it was only 492 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,080 discontinued in 2021. Maybe they thought they could 493 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,360 fight through the the closures and stuff. 494 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,400 But yeah, I don't know. They they don't seem to be able 495 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,960 to keep these side games going long term. 496 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,320 It always seems to be like a two or three-year cycle on them. 497 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,560 Maybe they're fine with that. It depends whether it makes 498 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,520 money. If they put a certain amount of 499 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,480 money into it and it makes double that in profit, then 500 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,000 maybe they're OK with that. They know that. 501 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,200 Well, I hope that they know that they're never going to be able 502 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,840 to make a game as successful as Minecraft ever again. 503 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,640 Correct. Maybe ever's a bit too much, but 504 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,560 like those kind of games that do those numbers and sell those 505 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,680 amount don't come along every day. 506 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,360 Maybe they're fine with it. We don't. 507 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,800 We don't know because they've never said to say Dungeons was a 508 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,400 failure is not, is not true, had its own issues, and I think 509 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,600 Legends is just the wrong kind of game for the audience. 510 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,840 And I think the repetitiveness of it was a big turn off for 511 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,560 people. Yeah, talking of Google killing 512 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,680 things as we were talking about with Stadia earlier, this is 513 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,800 something I kind of missed. Yeah. 514 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,560 Because this was announced late last year, kind of it kind of 515 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,800 didn't end up on my radar. Google Podcast is closing in 516 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,240 April. Which is crazy. 517 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,480 I use Google Podcast. They want to migrate everyone 518 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,520 over to YouTube Music. Yeah, I did see my YouTube Music 519 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,040 get updated to include Podcast now. 520 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,360 I also use Podcast Addict. Yeah. 521 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,440 Because a couple of the ones I listened to, it was the easiest 522 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,640 one to set up the withering effect RSS. 523 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,160 Feed We have listings on every platform that we can. 524 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,040 You guys who use Google Podcasts. 525 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,760 I'll leave a link in the show notes to Google's migration 526 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,640 instructions of how to like take your library out of Google 527 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,320 Podcast and into at least YouTube Music. 528 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,040 I don't know if there's other options on there. 529 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,920 I hope that there is like Spotify or Stitcher or whatever. 530 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,920 Is Stitcher closed now? I don't remember. 531 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,600 I think so. Yeah, the the the closing left, 532 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,120 right and centre, so it's hard to keep up with, but we've set 533 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:25,320 the YouTube version of the show as a podcast, so it will show up 534 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,280 on YouTube Music. You guys who want to transfer 535 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,560 from Google Podcast to YouTube Music, you can you can do that 536 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,320 and it will be there for you. I will say you can sign up for 537 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,680 YouTube Premium for like $13 and you get YouTube Music for free. 538 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,320 Yeah, YouTube Music by itself is like $10.00. 539 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,480 So for like an extra $3 you can sign up for premium. 540 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,920 I just did that in December. I had YouTube Music and I was 541 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,280 paying for it and then I realized Premium was like 2-3 542 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,520 dollars more. Yeah, so I switched over to 543 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,080 YouTube Premium. But I think the the podcast 544 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,040 section of it's free anyway. Yes, yeah. 545 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,120 But I think you might have ads. I don't know. 546 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,400 No idea. I just literally found out about 547 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,160 this an hour before we started recording. 548 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,120 Wow. This was the news to me. 549 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,480 So you guys who use that pick where you want to go next and 550 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,280 hopefully your library can be moved there pretty easily. 551 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,040 I think Google Podcast is like our third biggest. 552 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,560 I know that was a good bit. Yeah, because it goes Spotify, 553 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,720 Apple Podcasts, and then I think it's Google Podcasts and then 554 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,080 Audible and Amazon after that, there's options out there. 555 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,000 Should we move into our polls? Well, let's do it. 556 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,680 I was super excited when I saw the results of these polls this 557 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,080 these polls were asking what kind of Minecraft player you 558 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,080 are. We had stuff like Adventure 559 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,240 Zookeeper, Hoarder, PvP or Redstone or Home Buddy base 560 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,440 Builder and the majority of everyone is a Home buddy slash 561 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,400 base builder just like me. Yeah, I was kind of surprised. 562 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,440 I was too, because everything Mojang puts out is Explorer 563 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,480 adventure, Explorer adventure. They like, shove that down your 564 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,760 throat and I'm like, but I just want to stay at home and build. 565 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,920 And we will say that came second in both our Spotify and YouTube 566 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,000 poles, however. It wasn't close. 567 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,800 It was a distant second. Yeah, no, I I think because we 568 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,400 have an older audience, and by that I don't mean our audience 569 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,040 is old. I mean, they are not younger and 570 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,960 they're not kids or whatever. They're very mature when it 571 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,440 comes to the games and stuff. You don't look for adventure in 572 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,320 exploring other stuff. You like the aspect of design 573 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,440 and building and stuff like that. 574 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,960 I even would put Redstoner in with Home Buddy Base Builder, 575 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,280 because when you're building a base, you put Redstone in the 576 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,560 base, but I think there's a lot more of that. 52% of our 577 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,400 audience are between 35 and 44 on Spotify. 578 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,560 Now whether that kids using the parents accounts or whatever 579 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,280 skewing that data, I don't know, but that's the that's the data 580 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,680 I've got. Kind of surprised I'd thought 581 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,960 more people. I thought it'd be more spread 582 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,800 than it was. I thought they'd be more PvP 583 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,240 mini games. Everyone likes to say that PvP 584 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,040 is dead important and the combat changes were awful. 585 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,560 And you know, Redstone are being that low 7% on Spotify, free 586 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,360 percent on YouTube. It's kind of. 587 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,440 There's a lot of people who still like, they don't touch 588 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,960 Redstone. Yeah, just like there's a ton of 589 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,280 people who have never been to the end. 590 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,240 It's like 50% of all Minecraft players haven't been to the end. 591 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,760 Yeah, it was crazy. It's an insane stat, I. 592 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,320 Can't remember who told us that. It was a Mojang dev. 593 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,040 I think it was Oroff. Could have been. 594 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,480 Don't quote us on that. It's kind of crazy Adventure 595 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:49,360 Explorer being like 17% to 65% for homebody and 27% to 50% on 596 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,960 YouTube. That's not close on either of 597 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,400 them. Yeah, like you say, all the 598 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,720 updates seem to be. Yeah, they they push a gameplay 599 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,720 experience that at least the majority of our listeners don't 600 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,560 care about. Yeah, I don't know what data 601 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,320 they've got. I'm assuming they have. 602 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,760 I don't know whether there is any analytics built into 603 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,160 Minecraft actually. Even if you're just watching 604 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,000 YouTube videos, like, I think the data there still leans our 605 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,480 way. I don't know. 606 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,600 Yeah, you don't really have. At least I haven't seen many 607 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,840 videos with people just exploring. 608 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,840 You get the the initial exploration in a new world, and 609 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,520 then you start building a base, and then you get a little bit of 610 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,520 exploration when you have to go to an ancient city or when 611 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,960 you're looking for the end portal and stuff like that. 612 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,880 But this is just traveling to me. 613 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,840 Yeah, There's no real adventure happening along the way. 614 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,240 You're just traveling. I mean, an ancient city. 615 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,840 It's to the point now where you just look for a tall mountain. 616 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,280 There's an ancient city underneath it, Like 90% of the 617 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,800 time there's an ancient city under there. 618 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,360 It's it literally made me not build in mountain biomes. 619 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,960 Yeah. Way to go. 620 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,600 Way to go. Should we get into listener 621 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:04,040 comments? The first question comes from 622 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,640 Jesse W They ask if there's a combat update, do you think the 623 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,240 fletching table would get updated? 624 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,720 Short answer, yes, hope so. And do you think some of the 625 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,160 mobs will act differently? Maybe zombies having a horde 626 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,560 mindset? Zombies already have a horde 627 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,720 mindset. If you attack a zombie, other 628 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,320 zombies start spawning. Yeah. 629 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,120 Or, you know, if your base is on a mushroom island and you turn 630 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,600 around and there's like 20 zombies coming at you, that's 631 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,240 scary. Especially at night. 632 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:32,520 I know because this happened to me. 633 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,040 This was a few days into, yeah, Ripple season three. 634 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,120 It was a few days into that server. 635 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,520 So I didn't. I wasn't exactly packing. 636 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,360 You know, diamond. Yeah, swords and stuff at that 637 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,360 point. And also, if I'm right, zombies 638 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,160 can see players from a further distance than other mobs. 639 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,600 Yeah, I believe so. Which gives them that horde 640 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,560 mindset. Already creepers can flank you 641 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,040 as a small group. I think that's true, Opie. 642 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,040 Yeah, Creepers. Exploding is already extremely 643 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,920 dangerous, but having multiple creepers that can explode and 644 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,640 destroy items really sets the player back into a position 645 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,880 where they may not want to come replay the game, which I think 646 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,679 Mojang would really want to avoid. 647 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,199 Yeah, I don't think multiple creepers is a good idea. 648 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,480 And finally, this was a question from Jesse W The Dino fanatic 649 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,639 finally had a peaceful afternoon, I tell you. 650 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,600 The slain by an anvil with legs. Sassy anvil with legs. 651 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,960 Yeah, there's an emphasis on sassy. 652 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,159 Very sassy. And your question, Carl, is by 653 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:36,199 Warrior Queen Caitlin. Yeah, the crafter gives off a 654 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,800 very steampunk vibe. Whatever steampunk like 655 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,159 contraptions do you want to see in 1.21? 656 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,760 See, I think the Create mod does a very good job with steampunk. 657 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,400 So my first initial thought is none, because I think the Create 658 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,679 MoD's a very good thing on its own and I don't want moeing 659 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:58,240 copying it, I'd like it to be more original. 660 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,960 I think it's because the way the door opens and spits out the 661 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,120 item and then closes back. Yeah. 662 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,480 Is what gives off that vibe. Yeah, just trying to think if 663 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,920 there's any kind of steampunk locations they could add, you 664 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,680 know, like you've got like the bastions and stuff like that. 665 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,640 Like, is there anything like that they could add to the 666 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,280 world? But would it look out of place 667 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,160 though? Right. 668 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,640 Like if you add first thing I think of when I think of 669 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,960 steampunk, it's like a hot air balloon or an airship that would 670 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,560 look really out of place in a Minecraft world, just spotting 671 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,520 in. Yeah, I'm just looking at some 672 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,480 pictures of some different steampunk things and it just 673 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,440 feels like a totally different game. 674 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,320 If that was and it looks so out of place, I think big kind of 675 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,840 things wouldn't work, but I'm sure that there could be a few 676 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,280 little things. Yeah, like maybe a chimney 677 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,600 block. Yeah, so people wouldn't have to 678 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,840 keep using campfires surrounded by trapdoors and stuff. 679 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,040 Oh yeah, yeah, that kind of thing. 680 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,080 I guess you could kind of make the Cauldron a bit more steam 681 00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,440 punky. Yeah, that's true. 682 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,320 Yeah, you do that. I just think it's a totally 683 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,320 different style, and I think you can add bits of it in here and 684 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,720 there, like subtly. But I don't think anything big 685 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,560 would work at all in Minecraft. Shall we move on? 686 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,600 Yeah, I don't have anything else on there. 687 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,800 Before we move to Creator Clash, here's Jimbo with a reminder of 688 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,720 how you can get a discount on your own Minecraft server from 689 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:28,200 Bisect Hosting. You can get a discount on your 690 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,440 own Minecraft server through our partnership with Bisect Hosting, 691 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,800 offering our community 25% off any game server for their first 692 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,840 month. This is for new clients only. 693 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:44,640 Visit bisecthosting.com TWE and use the code TWE Checkout to 694 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:51,720 receive the discount. Thanks Jimbo, we're going to do 695 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:53,280 Creator Clash a little differently. 696 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,920 So normally this is when I would be like hey here's three data 697 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,720 packs or three resource packs to have everyone vote on. 698 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,880 This time I would like to hear from you guys what is what is 699 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,560 something you would like us to check out instead of me 700 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,200 guessing. It feels like Creator Clash 701 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,480 isn't getting as much interaction as maybe Block of 702 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,160 the Week did and stuff like that. 703 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,960 So I would like to kind of turn it on its head for a vote and 704 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,680 see what everyone else would like. 705 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,040 So if you would like to be a part of that, post a link in the 706 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,680 Discord or reply to our Spotify Q&A with a data pack or resource 707 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,480 pack you want us to try out. Definitely. 708 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,920 We'll never be able to recreate the success of mending Minecraft 709 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,920 that was. No. 710 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,400 That was a wonderful thing on its own, and maybe Mojang had 711 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,320 some more stuff we could do. Some more mending Minecraft. 712 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,840 Yeah, which? Would be nice because there was 713 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,160 good stuff there. But last month you guys voted 714 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:56,880 and the winner was Piglins in Balloons and I believe you did 715 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,280 take a look at that. That's not on stream, but in 716 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,360 your own time. What did you think of it? 717 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,120 So yeah, I got it to work. It was an easy Optifine resource 718 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,240 pack. It does exactly what you think 719 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,200 it does. It puts a a piglin in a hot air 720 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,600 balloon, shoots a cannon at you. The sounds were very 721 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600 disconcerning. They're very scary. 722 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,160 But The thing is, it wasn't very big. 723 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,000 It actually felt smaller than aghast. 724 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,800 Really. Right, Yeah. 725 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,640 The picture looked really big. It wasn't as intimidating, 726 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,000 exactly. That's what I expected. 727 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,680 Yeah, that's interesting. Right, there's that. 728 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,720 Theme wise, I feel it fits better than the Gas does. 729 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,080 Now people will argue with me over that because the Gas is 730 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,440 classic. But it's only classic because 731 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,960 it's been there for so long. Exactly. 732 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,120 It doesn't mean that it's like the right thing for it to be. 733 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,680 It's just it feels right because that's all we've ever had, 734 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,800 correct. But thematically, this does feel 735 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,920 like it fits better. You'd obviously have to rework 736 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,320 the AI because it still moves around like a ghast. 737 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,400 Yeah. Which is strange, but. 738 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,480 Hey, we were talking about steampunk. 739 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,520 There's your hot air balloon. This this is true. 740 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,440 This would fit in there. Yeah, I haven't checked it out, 741 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,640 but it seemed like a really cool idea. 742 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,840 It fits in the never because like, you've got piglings 743 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,760 already and it's not too far of a stretch to think that they 744 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,120 could hop in a hot air balloon. You know they're running after 745 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,680 you, you haven't got your gold on, They see you run off in the 746 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,840 distance and they go, right, I'll go get my hot air balloon 747 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,600 and I'll follow them across the lava. 748 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,160 That makes a lot of sense. So I think it fits really well 749 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,080 within the kind of law of the never. 750 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,960 Obviously they're not going to take the gas down now, right? 751 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,000 Never going to happen. And I wouldn't ask them to, but 752 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,640 if they wanted to dress the gas into this in certain biomes. 753 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,360 Yeah. Kind of like how they do with 754 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,280 strays and husks and stuff. I wouldn't be against it. 755 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,400 It would work. I I'd have no fault. 756 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,840 Maybe just in the Crimson Biome they do that or because they 757 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,240 they spawning never wastes gas, don't they? 758 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:13,840 More so, you could keep the gas there and then have these maybe 759 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,160 around the bastions even. Yeah, you know, within like 50 760 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,480 blocks of the bastions, there's always a hot air balloon up 761 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,680 there as sort of security. Yeah, that could work really 762 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,200 well. But yeah, I'd love to see it in 763 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,040 the game, I think. I think it's a great idea and 764 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,120 props to the developer of that resource, but it really fits the 765 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,160 game. Is it time for our main topic? 766 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,640 Yes, an hour into the show. So expect it in April. 767 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:52,320 Dear no please no. I came up with this topic while 768 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,880 scrolling through Twitter. So the Minecraft oh I'm sorry, X 769 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:03,000 The Minecraft page itself posted a caption that says What 770 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,320 Minecraft opinion will have you like this? 771 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,760 And it's Steve leaning up against the wall with a bunch of 772 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,760 swords pointed at him. So basically, it's your version 773 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,200 of a hot tank. It's time for hot tanks. 774 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,440 I took a couple of them. I was giving credit to them, and 775 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,040 then there were like several. What are they? 776 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,840 They're not tweets now. The posts now. 777 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:26,040 There were several posts that were basically the exact same 778 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,480 thing. I stopped doing credit for every 779 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,320 single one of them, but some of them I agreed with, some of them 780 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,560 I didn't agree with, and I wanted to make sure to kind of 781 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,520 get both in there. The first one was the new cave 782 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,520 system sucks. This was for ramp mania, and I 783 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,240 agree. I don't like the new cave system 784 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:44,040 at all. I definitely think it sucks. 785 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,640 Shocking, now I agree. It cuts to the terrain too much. 786 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,960 There are holes in the ground everywhere which is super 787 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,560 annoying. The spaghetti caves give so many 788 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,280 areas for mobs to spawn, so it's extremely hard to get underneath 789 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,080 there and light everything up. It's just not good. 790 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:05,280 I still go down and cave like I've been caving since 1/8, so 791 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,760 it really didn't bring anything new other than some new blocks. 792 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,040 Yeah, the blocks were really good, but. 793 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,680 Moss is awesome. I like how easy it is to get 794 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,040 clay now. Glow berries is a sweet 795 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,240 generation. Sucks. 796 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,280 I'm not sugar coating that one. Sorry. 797 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,280 Yeah, it's not the best and they they spent so long on it as 798 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,520 well, right when they could have been doing other things in my 799 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,040 opinion, but. This next one's a tweet by Toxic 800 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,440 Plays. I'm sorry, post by Toxic Plays 801 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,280 and they say the progression to get Netherrite tools in armor 802 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,280 was good before the addition of the upgrade template. 803 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,800 The upgrade template just adds another layer of difficulty to 804 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,680 obtaining Netherrite Tools in armor that is unnecessary. 805 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,720 Agreed. I get why they added it. 806 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,000 Yeah. It's a continuation thing with 807 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,240 the Smithing Templates and all that stuff, but the fact that 808 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,960 you now have to travel to a Bastion. 809 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,200 Moyang's very much in this mood lately where they're forcing you 810 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,120 to go places to progress in the game, and to me that's not real 811 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,640 progression. You're hiding progression behind 812 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,760 a travel wall. I'm not getting better at the 813 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,400 game, I'm just traveling further. 814 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,880 You're turning an open world game into an objectives game. 815 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,000 Yes, that's exactly it. You're this is kind of takes me 816 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,600 back to Hitman. It's like you've got these 817 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:22,120 objectives that you've got to hit before you can leave the 818 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,440 mission, but you've got to take this person out. 819 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,880 You've got to collect this flash drive, you know, you've got to 820 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,600 make it look like an accident or you've got to poison them or 821 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,520 whatever, and to progress within the level, and that's what it 822 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,800 feels like Minecraft's doing. To be able to upgrade this 823 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,080 armour, your first objective, you've got to go to this place, 824 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,080 Your second objective, you've got to acquire this. 825 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,080 It's an open world game. It's not supposed to have 826 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:49,000 objectives. It's supposed to lay everything 827 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,520 out and go. You play this game how you wish, 828 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,040 where I feel like they're trying to structure a path through the 829 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,640 game more and more with these things. 830 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,880 Well, I definitely feel players have lost the abilities to 831 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,680 structure themselves and they really need stuff spoon fed to 832 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,520 them to enjoy the content. And I'm not trying to be like 833 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,920 disrespectful in that way. I'm thinking a lot of games have 834 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:16,600 been made where it's a linear story progression and everyone's 835 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,960 just gotten so used to that when they go back to a Minecraft, 836 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,840 which again has been out for forever and is very free and 837 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,160 open world, it it takes you back a little bit like, oh hold on, 838 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,160 what do I do here? What do I do now? 839 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,520 Yeah, but that's the kind of thing. 840 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,040 It's like there's you go on YouTube and there's loads of 841 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,080 videos that say, what do I do next in Minecraft? 842 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,280 What's the top 10 things you should do when you're bored in 843 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,840 Minecraft? You know, all those kind of 844 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,960 videos. So it's kind of like, in a way, 845 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,240 like you say, because of the way games have been structured, a 846 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,880 lot of them anyway. We've kind of lost the ability 847 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,560 to think for ourselves in a way, when it comes to games. 848 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,880 I mean I've, I've had it where I've been playing mine craft and 849 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,920 I kind of log in one day onto Ripple or whatever and think I 850 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,560 don't actually know what to do today. 851 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,360 Maybe they had an objective, maybe that would help. 852 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,520 I don't know. It's kind of a double, double 853 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,120 edged kind of thing. Like you you kind of want a 854 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,320 little bit of structure just to sort of give you a push in the 855 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,120 right direction. But at the same time it's it's 856 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,200 not really what the game is about. 857 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,400 Yeah, it's kind of kind of strange. 858 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,560 I get why they're doing it, but there should be multiple ways of 859 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,080 doing things. You should be able to even put 860 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,080 resources into something that you can do at home. 861 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,040 Or you can go out and get something which saves your 862 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:37,240 resources. Maybe. 863 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:41,440 Maybe something like that? Yeah, for me, as a player, my 864 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,360 game doesn't start until most players game have ended. 865 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,920 By the time they beat the dragon and they get nether and stuff, 866 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,520 like their game's over. They're done with Minecraft at 867 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,480 that point. For me, my game's just now 868 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,600 beginning, like I'm just now getting to work. 869 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:59,400 Yeah, the fact that I'm now hiding more useful items for 870 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,360 myself behind more work does not make me enjoy the game anymore, 871 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,000 Does not make me like going exploring even more. 872 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,320 It hates me. Regret having to go out and do 873 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,560 this stuff. I think we're kind of used to 874 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,440 the way Minecraft has been, though, correct? 875 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,080 We're looking at this from the point where the game was a lot 876 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,160 simpler. I feel like people coming to the 877 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,080 game now or in the last five years would probably have a 878 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,040 different opinion on it all. For sure, yeah. 879 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:31,560 Yeah, I think we're kind of we. We kind of log for the days when 880 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,960 it was simpler to do everything and there wasn't, you know, Take 881 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,560 the villager update, for example, with the biomes being 882 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,400 locked books. That is a hot take that we will 883 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,560 have later. I bet. 884 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,080 I bet it is, but. Here, here's one that works with 885 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,840 that. A lot of people do not like the 886 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,880 way how Elitra has changed the game. 887 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,960 They prefer Elitra to be removed from the game. 888 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,840 Whereas someone who joined the game just as the Elitra was 889 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,720 added. I completely disagree. 890 00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:58,960 Correct. Same here. 891 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,600 I remember what it was like moving around the world without 892 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,480 Elitra. Yeah, I remember what it was 893 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,040 like building without Elitra. Everyone had a jump pad, so when 894 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,440 you fell off your tall structure you would land safely. 895 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,680 Yeah, I remember having an Elitra and having to use the. 896 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,360 The punch bow. The punch bow technique. 897 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,680 Yeah, you look like a porcupine every time. 898 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,640 Yeah. And then when they added the 899 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,040 firework rockets to it, I was like, yes, come on. 900 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,360 And you could actually like properly fly places, I remember, 901 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,400 but having to like go through deserts and forests and that to 902 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,840 find a particular type of wood and get some saplings or yeah, 903 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,520 doing that in the very early days of me playing the game. 904 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:42,680 There were minecart rails everywhere. 905 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,240 Yeah, every plains by home just had this big Minecraft minecart 906 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:50,000 track all the way across it, yeah. 907 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,440 My next one is from Flip. They're saying survival 908 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,600 Minecraft wouldn't be as popular without mending and netherite 909 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,440 tools not breaking as fast. Agreed. 910 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,960 This comes back to the grind. A lot of players begin their 911 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,640 gameplay when a lot of other players are ending their 912 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,400 gameplay and the grind does not count as gameplay. 913 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:15,120 Yeah, making me work more and harder to get back to doing what 914 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,520 I like just should not equal gameplay. 915 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,400 And making me constantly repair a tool or constantly grind for 916 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,480 material so I can repair a tool is not fun. 917 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,120 Mending is an amazing enchantment and allows me to be 918 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,280 able to play the game how I like. 919 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,080 I I said many times in my last episode, I only get like an hour 920 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,400 and a half, two hours, three if I'm pushing it after work to 921 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,120 play. And that's not every day after 922 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,360 work. So that's a little bit of time, 923 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,120 and if I had to spend an entire night repairing tools, it's not 924 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,680 worth it anymore. I wouldn't play Minecraft 925 00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,920 anymore. And plus, mending gave a reason 926 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,160 for the levels, because the levels aren't really that useful 927 00:48:55,680 --> 00:49:00,280 unless you're enchanting mending or like renaming something. 928 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,400 So it gave them a big purpose to get levels, which meant you 929 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,200 would come up with Redstone contraptions to take mobs, crush 930 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,640 them and then take them down to half a heart and then installed 931 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,840 them and you get the resources from them and the XP to repair 932 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,880 your picks and tools and everything like that. 933 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,360 So it kind of led to more gameplay, Mending Mean added. 934 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,120 Right, Rather than just I've now got to go and mine for diamonds 935 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,560 again. Well, you remember there was 936 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:33,560 only ever an Ender Ender. There really weren't spawner 937 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,720 grinders as often. Yeah, you had one early game, 938 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:39,520 but the second the Ender Ender got made, everyone used the 939 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,480 Ender Ender. Yeah, there was no need to go 940 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,000 anywhere else. The second you got mending, the 941 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,360 grinders became just as important as the Ender Ender 942 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,120 'cause if you had a grinder at your base, you didn't have to 943 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:54,040 travel all the way to the end to repair a tool or enchant a new 944 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,760 one. You could spend 5 minutes at 945 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,000 home repairing something quick. Heck, if you had villagers, you 946 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,560 can just trade with villagers and usually repair tool at that 947 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,960 point. Yeah, but I remember many times 948 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,800 having to go build a new pickaxe, go to the end render, 949 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,200 get 30 levels, enchant it, realize it's not the 950 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,960 enchantments I want unenchanted. Or actually we did have one 951 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,720 enchanting at that time, so you had to build a new pickaxe and 952 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,880 enchant it again. No, it's not fun. 953 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,480 No, I think that's just a lot of nostalgia getting to people. 954 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:27,240 Definitely. In other ways, we're kind of 955 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,960 guilty of that as well. This is this is true. 956 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,240 I I'm not afraid to admit that that that's 100% next hot take. 957 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,760 Lego Fortnite is better than Minecraft. 958 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,040 I'm going to disagree. I've never played Fortnite, so I 959 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:41,320 have no idea. Well, Lego. 960 00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,320 Fortnite isn't really Fortnite. It's Fortnite brand, but it's 961 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,560 Lego. A bit like Minecraft Dungeons. 962 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,000 It's not really the same game, it's just branded that way. 963 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,640 Kind of, yeah. Yeah. 964 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,560 Lego. Fortnite is not as integrated 965 00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:00,240 with certain mechanics as Minecraft is, but Lego Fortnite 966 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:03,400 puts out updates like that. They don't have to wait an 967 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,320 entire year for an update, They don't wait weeks for an update. 968 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,000 They notice something's wrong with the game fix the next day. 969 00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,760 Players are asking for certain things next day. 970 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,800 So it's like, yeah, these changes can be made fast. 971 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,600 And that's where Lego Fortnite demolishes Minecraft. 972 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,920 Not even close, but Minecraft is still the better game, at least 973 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,400 in my person opinion. Here's a hot take. 974 00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,600 OK, coming in hot. If it would, if it would improve 975 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,600 updates dramatically, I would be prepared to pay for them. 976 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,640 Yeah, I've already said that I'd be willing to pay for DLCS if we 977 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,280 got more content and they came out quicker. 978 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,400 I'm not going to pay $40.00 for ADLC every two months. 979 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,480 No. So there there is that. 980 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,080 We always hear that, like the updates are getting smaller. 981 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,920 I don't think anyone could deny that, including Mojo. 982 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,400 And a lot of people go, well, they are free. 983 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,000 OK, then charge for them. Yeah, I I hate that argument 984 00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,360 too. Well, it's free. 985 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,320 And it's like, well, it's always been free. 986 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,160 So I get it. But that's not saying I'm not 987 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,400 willing. I'm willing to pay $15.00 for a 988 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,960 very good DLC. If you want to bring out a a 989 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:14,040 Nether overhaul DLC style for $15, I'm going to buy it. 990 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,400 Yeah, that's where your money is, Microsoft. 991 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,720 But The thing is, if you're going to charge me $15.00 for 992 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:23,920 121, I'm not buying it. Yeah, definitely not. 121 is not 993 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,800 a very good update right now. I know that might get a lot of 994 00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,320 backlash, whatever, but the the whole trial chambers does not 995 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,800 interest me at all. The Deep Dark did not interest 996 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:34,840 me at all. No. 997 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,640 And see, those are the kinds of things that like, well, now 998 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,800 where are we at? Some people are buying updates 999 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,720 and DLCS, some people aren't. Yeah, it gets to the point where 1000 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:47,040 you kind of like talking about stuff that a percentage of 1001 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:51,120 people haven't got access to. I kind of think that's how we 1002 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,800 are anyway, because there is a lot of servers that are still on 1003 00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,480 older versions of Minecraft. There's there's people that 1004 00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,880 still play older versions of Minecraft, right? 1005 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,240 I I don't actually know. I don't think Mojang has ever, 1006 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,280 like, disclosed this information, but I would love to 1007 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,720 know what percentage of active players are on the latest 1008 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:12,880 version. Right, Channel 64 isn't. 1009 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,440 What percentage of people are on 1.8 still? 1010 00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:17,640 Yeah, right. Yeah. 1011 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,400 Because I bet it's a lot higher than we'd imagine. 1012 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,920 That argument kind of works and doesn't saying, well, if you 1013 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,320 charge for it, it's a barrier to entry. 1014 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,040 And yes, maybe it is, but what we're getting is not that great. 1015 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,320 You know, I would have stopped paying for updates. 1016 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,680 AVEs and Cliffs Part One. After that, I wouldn't have paid 1017 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,440 for any of them. That's where I'd still be. 1018 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,800 Now if they went, you know what, it takes money to develop these 1019 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,000 updates, and we've only got a certain budget. 1020 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,480 If we charge for them and we get, you know, 5% of the player 1021 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,120 base to pay for it, then we'll earn this amount of money. 1022 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:56,880 And that allows us to put more time and effort, more wow, into 1023 00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,240 these updates because we've actually got to sell it. 1024 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,880 They're making these updates knowing that they're free. 1025 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,920 If they treated it more like they've got to sell this update 1026 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,880 to people, they've got to convince people that this is 1027 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:14,440 worth $15 or $10 or whatever it ends up being, then I think you 1028 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,640 would see a lot more in them than there is right now. 1029 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,520 I think you would see a lot more feature updates instead of 1030 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,440 things update. Yep, let's keep going. 1031 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,360 I've got three more left. This one. 1032 00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,680 Locking trade items on villager location is a good thing. 1033 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,440 No it is not. No, it's not. 1034 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,800 That adds a lot of unnecessary grind to the game and would be a 1035 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,880 deterrent and I think that's that's the whole point is they 1036 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,960 want it to be a deterrent. They want enchanting to be the 1037 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:44,960 main thing, not villager trading. 1038 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,800 Let me just say, playing on Channel 64, there are players 1039 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,720 who are not afraid of that grind at all. 1040 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,800 Like that grind would be over within a day or two, no problem. 1041 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,040 Me personally, I do not look forward to that kind of grind in 1042 00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,080 my single player world. I still have a fortune to pick. 1043 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,200 That's my biggest, best enchantment pick because it's 1044 00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,760 not worth going for the crime. I don't want to have to go to 1045 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,920 every Biome and build a village of Rita. 1046 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,120 And then transport villagers to the villager breeder. 1047 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:16,480 Oh. Just to breed them, please. 1048 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,640 Especially when some of them don't have villages. 1049 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,240 Right. You're going to do this. 1050 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,960 You better make swamp villages. Period. 1051 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,400 Yeah, it does seem like they want it to be a deterrent. 1052 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,200 Yes, it's a deterrent. You want that enchantment? 1053 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:30,880 You got to travel all this way to get it now. 1054 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,280 It's a deterrent. It's not a fix. 1055 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,280 I personally don't think there's anything wrong with the villager 1056 00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,440 system, like I think the enchantment table needs work. 1057 00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,480 Right, yes. But I don't actually think since 1058 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,000 they made the changes with the POI. 1059 00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,960 I think it's fine. Yeah, I don't see what the the 1060 00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,680 issue is. So many people are like it's two 1061 00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:54,840 OP and don't use it. I remember for the longest time 1062 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,400 people were giving that complaint or whatever, like 1063 00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,880 don't use it then and then now that it's come to villager 1064 00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:03,240 trading, no one's saying that everyone's like no, it needs to 1065 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,200 be fixed. It's like if you think villager 1066 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,120 trading is too easy, then don't do villager trading like this 1067 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,880 comes back to the players sometimes find it hard to 1068 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,400 regulate themselves. Yeah, it's like I know players 1069 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,120 who don't ever get out of iron armor just because it it makes 1070 00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,600 it harder for themselves which makes the game more enjoyable 1071 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,920 for themselves. It's like, yeah, it's not the 1072 00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,080 best stuff, but that's how they like to play the game. 1073 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:28,600 I think a lot of players see the higher tier stuff as a target 1074 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,920 rather than a choice, right? Exactly. 1075 00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,840 That's the wrong mindset to have. 1076 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:38,200 It's like when everyone on your server has never right armour 1077 00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,680 and you're the guy in diamond. I wear diamond. 1078 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,640 I don't wear never right because I don't see the value in it. 1079 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,720 Yeah, and they go, boy, you've got diamond. 1080 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:48,840 It's like 3 years ago this was the top tier mate. 1081 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:51,760 It's like. All of last season on Channel 1082 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,640 64, I used an iron sword. I died so many times because I 1083 00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,560 used an iron stupid sword and I needed to get in an extra hit 1084 00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,480 and I didn't. But it makes combat fun. 1085 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:03,320 Not for me. Not for. 1086 00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,160 You, but it was very much a different. 1087 00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,360 Makes combat different. Exactly. 1088 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:13,160 You know, if you have a sword that's all singing, all dancing, 1089 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,200 and you can take out any mob with one swipe, you're just 1090 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,960 taking the fun away from the game for yourself, right? 1091 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,640 I hate to take it back to Hitman once again, but I've been 1092 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,760 watching a lot of videos on Hitman recently and the kind of 1093 00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:28,040 correlations between what we're talking about here and that kind 1094 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,600 of work. Yeah, I could just snipe them 1095 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,360 right now, but then I admit, out on all the story behind it, I'd 1096 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,240 miss out on finding a a staircase where they're coming 1097 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:42,560 down and I can drop a chandelier on them, or I can put poison in 1098 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,400 their drink and make them go to a toilet and then drown them. 1099 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,520 Like every single mission you could just snipe someone and 1100 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,000 walk out. That's the easy way to do stuff 1101 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,960 where what we're talking about here is making the game more fun 1102 00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,880 for yourself by not taking the easy option right, And those 1103 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,760 games can correlate together in that kind of respect. 1104 00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,360 Well, and this goes back to what we said earlier, that there 1105 00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,600 should also be the easier option like getting that nether right 1106 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,200 Smithing template. I shouldn't be forced to go 1107 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,280 somewhere, just like players shouldn't be forced to play a 1108 00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,120 certain way like the choices are there. 1109 00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,640 You can either do villagers opie wise or make a little bit harder 1110 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,400 yourself and only use the enchantment table. 1111 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,280 I've done that. I think this season on Channel 1112 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:27,240 64, we're all enchanting table till about a month ago. 1113 00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,920 I finally started adding books to things like just get like 1114 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,000 mending and stuff. You kind of see where you walk 1115 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,600 into people's bases and they have the same thing. 1116 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,600 Yes. The same farms, the same village 1117 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,840 of trading halls, the same everything. 1118 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:46,240 I was noticing this when I was doing the gallery for Ripple 1119 00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,520 Season four. And you go into certain members 1120 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,640 bases and like I said, the same village of trading halls, the 1121 00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,320 same farms, the same this, the same that. 1122 00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,040 And I will say if that's the way a person wants to play, they 1123 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,720 should be allowed to play that way. 100% But I feel like the 1124 00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:06,200 game is designed to push you in a certain direction these days. 1125 00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,560 There should be options. Everything should have two ways 1126 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,000 of doing it right. An easy way where you pay a 1127 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,640 little more for it or. Game knowledge helps you get to 1128 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,600 the easy way. Yeah, if I could stop using 1129 00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:25,760 Lapis in the Enchanting table by going and finding a Lapis Shard 1130 00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,960 in this faraway place, I'd probably do it. 1131 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,400 Because I I don't collect a lot of Lapis. 1132 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,640 Like, I've never had big stockpiles of Lapis, so when I'm 1133 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,640 trying to use the enchantment table, it's like going to spend 1134 00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,400 lapis again. But that's what I'm saying two 1135 00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,640 different ways of doing it. The easy way is shoving some 1136 00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:48,320 lapis and it'll eat through it. Or you go on this mission to get 1137 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,160 a special key to not have to use lapis anymore. 1138 00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,240 Two different ways of doing it. That's what everything should 1139 00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,800 have because it's an open world game. 1140 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,960 I get there has to be a progression kind of tier system, 1141 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,600 but the way you go about implementing that, you can 1142 01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,400 either do it in a way that they seem to be going down, which is 1143 01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,120 a this is the path through the game. 1144 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,960 Or you give people options to kind of split out in different 1145 01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,960 directions, and then from those they split out in other 1146 01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,640 directions and everything's got a choice to it. 1147 01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,560 Rather than feeling forced to do something, you have the choice 1148 01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,280 of A or B. Which one do I want to do based 1149 01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:28,280 on where I am within the game, what level I'm at, how much time 1150 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,120 I've got to invest in it, and all those kind of things? 1151 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,960 Next one, Mojang should stop with spinoffs. 1152 01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,000 I kind of agree with this and I kind of don't. 1153 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,680 It's not Mojang that's doing the spinoffs. 1154 01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:43,880 It's usually another company and Mojang just assists with the 1155 01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:48,080 spinoffs in like when it comes to design aspects and things 1156 01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,760 like that. Like we we know the piglins were 1157 01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:54,360 introduced from a game. Produce them together. 1158 01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,720 Yep. So like stuff like, that's very 1159 01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,000 cool and I do not want that to stop. 1160 01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:03,000 The only reason I would want the spin offs to stop is if Mojang's 1161 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,200 doing more than just helping with a design aspect. 1162 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,280 If they're pulling resources to help with spin offs and that's 1163 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:13,040 the reason we're getting such lackluster updates, then yes, 1164 01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,160 please stop the spin offs. Yeah, I don't think that's 1165 01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:17,200 what's going. On. 1166 01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:19,640 Doesn't seem to be gins was made. 1167 01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:23,640 By Blackbird Interactive, right alongside Mojang. 1168 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,960 I don't want Mojang to stop swinging. 1169 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,560 Because we got dungeons, which was a hit. 1170 01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:32,520 Yeah, I love dungeons. So there might be another game 1171 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:34,280 right around the corner that's another hit. 1172 01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,000 So they should definitely keep swinging. 1173 01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,920 Unless it's taking more resources than we think away 1174 01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:43,920 from the Minecraft game, then yes, please, for dear Lord, 1175 01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,520 stop. But I don't. 1176 01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,280 I don't think it is. So keep swinging last one. 1177 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,960 The final one is vanilla. Cannot beat modded. 1178 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,040 Under any circumstance. True. 1179 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,640 I've never played any modded Minecraft. 1180 01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,480 So I haven't either, but I've watched a good bit of. 1181 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:03,120 Modded in itself, Modded is just an add on to the vanilla game so 1182 01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,480 therefore it will always have more and allow you to do more 1183 01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,360 than the vanilla game so therefore it can't beat modded. 1184 01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,840 That being said, if you really want to get down to it, it's a 1185 01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:17,160 personal opinion. I prefer vanilla over modded. 1186 01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,920 That being said, I've been really wanting to play Create 1187 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,560 mod. I have the create mod set up on 1188 01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,400 my system, I just have to get around to like hey do I want to 1189 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,480 make a video out of this or do I just want to play? 1190 01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,040 I like that modded is an option, yes. 1191 01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,040 I like games that support modded. 1192 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,720 Prison Architect has a great modding system. 1193 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,440 They can add things in that a little developer like 1194 01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,840 Introversion Software can't. Like there was one where they 1195 01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:46,920 turned the delivery trucks into helipads and they had like 1196 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,360 military helicopters landing with supplies and stuff. 1197 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,880 That's the fun things you kind of get with Modern. 1198 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,280 There was another one where someone had made an entire 1199 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,840 basketball game with counters and everything and proper ball 1200 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:03,080 physics and put that in prison. Architect Modern's really cool. 1201 01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,160 I'm glad it's supported, at least in Java. 1202 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:10,920 But yeah, the the vanilla game is your king and modern is the 1203 01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:15,880 sprinkles on top of the cake for people who want to go in a in a 1204 01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,160 different direction, either because they're bored or and 1205 01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:22,000 they want something different or you know, they they see 1206 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,160 something they that they really want to play with someone else 1207 01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,240 and that's the way to do it. I think moderns great, totally 1208 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,720 support it in as many games as possible. 1209 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,920 But yeah, vanilla is king. But I think that's going to do 1210 01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,160 it for today's show. 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