Let's talk about rumors, let's talk about inside baseball, some
stuff about reviews and cover this week's gaming news for the
next couple days. Welcome to the side podcast with
ACG. Let's begin.
First thing I want to talk about now is.
The GTA6 rumors. So there were some rumors that
pre-orders were going to start today as well as a price
announcement. So basically, you know,
obviously you wouldn't be able to do a pre-order without a
price announcement. Otherwise that's just basically
running out into your front yard and screaming I really want GTA.
But there was supposedly going to be this release.
There was some information from a Best Buy supposedly we were
talking about it a couple days ago and chat trying to figure
out if it was real or what exactly it was.
Especially now when we're looking at them starting their
roll up for the PR, there's the discussion of will this happen
prior to the PR big rollout that they're doing in June and July
that they've talked about or is it going to happen afterwards
when they announce the price? You know, you do a couple
trailers, you get people interested, then you throw that
pre-order up, it's a little easier to sell.
I think in all honesty, it actually makes sense that if
this game was going to be normal price, they might have actually
announced the pre-orders and the trailer on the same day.
Might do that, you know, next couple weeks or they could have
done it today. But I think that if we are going
to see an 80 ninety, $100 price point on this game, it actually
would make a great deal of sense to do a trailer or two prior to
sort of get people primed and really excited for it.
And then looking at that game, you know, it was brought to my
attention that Nintendo's tried the $80 one or two companies
have tried to sort of scrape that price a little higher out
of Worlds 2. If you remember, they were going
to raise the price of that game and then they were like, now
we're going to remove that and put it back down at that lower
price. Yeah.
I don't think that's too crazy to do a trailer or two and then
do that price and do that pre-order.
But we we just have no clue exactly what they're doing.
And I think when you look at it, they've always been somebody who
beats to their own drum. They do something completely
different. This is why whenever anybody
says, oh, GTA is going to be at this Game Awards or this or
this, and they don't realize that GTA is bigger than The Game
Awards. A single GTA trailer dwarfs The
Game Awards by an incredible amount.
Maybe not by total watchers across the world with streamers
and all that stuff, but definitely on the live views and
on the views, that kind of thing.
And they just it, it just doesn't make sense.
Why share with anybody else and especially pay or even get paid
in a way where you know that people are there maybe not to
see your game, maybe they're there to see a ton of other
games and they're not necessarily Agta fan and you
have to share with somebody. But if you do it on your own
channel, you know that that's the thing.
You know that those people who are watching that distinctly are
either interested in it or interested in the discussion
around it. So I wouldn't doubt if we see
something like that now the price points come up a couple
times. You know 100 bucks, 100 bucks
still seems pretty outrageous to me.
But we did see Forza do the premium and sell incredibly
well. Forza also, you wouldn't be able
to do this with a lot of games. I think Forza is one of the few
games that you can do this, especially when you.
Look at how. Horizon has just continued to
advance overall and do better and better.
You know, there's been a couple that have maybe not done as many
sales as another, but it's a very large game.
It's a very popular game and it's a game that I would say for
casuals as well as hardcore, as well as just people who like
normal racing Sims, open world graphics.
It really has sort of the whole gamut to it.
And so the idea that you might be able to do something like
that with a premium pops up and then you look at GTA and you're
like, OK, are there some similarities we can draw?
And certainly you can draw some similarities here where at least
when it comes to how people and the groups of people who would
want to play this, where you have a game that's going to
offer you, you're shooting, you're driving around, possibly
flying, all those kind of things, your open world, your
excellent graphics, as well as just being Agta game, You know,
can they do something like that? Do they need to package a
premium? Do they just have the normal
game be premium? Do they try to tell you that
everybody's getting the premium in some way?
Like, I don't even know how they would word it, but it is
absolutely possible that they can just say there is no base
version of this game. They're all premium now.
Of course we would know that is the base game.
You know, that's just typical PR bullshit.
But that kind of stuff pops up now.
I also saw some people talking about the idea that they
wouldn't do reviewers for this game and that they were going to
take them to a special event. That's completely normal.
That's actually not the only company that's done that.
There's a number of companies that are starting to do that,
especially recently with all the leaks where they start doing
sort of private review events or they do there.
There's some other things that they can do where they can
restrict it to make sure you can't leak it.
But with this many leaks and AGTA being so big that even
just, you know, somebody screwing it up, we saw, we've
seen it a couple times with broken St. dates, with
Starfield, all that kind of thing.
You see these popping up all the time.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. And it would cost them
absolutely next to nothing to be able to control the environment
a little bit when it comes to what people are allowed to leak
or show. Also, if there are glitches or
problems like that, there would be people right there working
with them. So yeah, that kind of thing is
not unexpected for a company like them.
And they're not the only company.
I've seen smaller companies with really small games fly a couple
people out for previews at the very least.
And you can't tell me there's any real difference there
between a preview and review. It all cost the same amount of
money. So you ship some people out.
I don't know how they're going to do that.
If I were GTA, if I were the people releasing that, the
honest truth is I probably wouldn't do reviews.
And now that's not because I don't believe in reviews.
Obviously I do a review channel. I think it might just behoove
them to be like, hey, you know what?
We're just, we're not, we're just not going to because you
never quite know in today's current environment, who's going
to try to social Signa themselves into getting a super
popular video. And we've seen it so many Times
Now where it doesn't matter if it's journalistic, it doesn't
matter if it's YouTube, doesn't matter if it's TikTok or
Instagram or Twitter. There's almost with every game
right now, there's somebody who has a take that really, weirdly
enough, pun intended, takes everybody back where everybody
looks and goes like, whoa, that is such a weird take.
Why did this person concentrate on this one thing?
You know, and we know what GTA is going to have many of those
one things, right? We saw it with the Red Dead 2
when the person on YouTube ran around and grabbed all the
women's suffrage characters and put them in front of trains and
stuff like that. And the world freaked out.
And it's like, well, you know, that is possible in the game.
I mean, it is, yeah, I'm, I'm not saying I would have done it,
but I'm like, dude, that's legitimately a completely normal
thing that we all laughed about when it happened to anybody else
in the game. He just chose to do this one
particular thing, which was goofy, sure, but we got to see
it. And that's some bad, it's some
bad press. I don't think it's a bad press
for them. It was a Rockstar game, but it
could be depending on what actions you can take in the
title and what you can do. So if I were them, I probably
wouldn't. I mean, the honest truth is I'd
be like I'd be so worried about, you know, story spoilers and and
shit like that. Maybe some benchmarks.
You know, you could always, I mean, you could definitely
invite people. You could, especially when you
go to play these, you can usually choose console or you
can choose PC. Rockstar is one of the few
companies where you could probably say, you know, I want
to review this on a, a system that has these specs because
they closely aligned with mine. And Rockstar is probably one of
the few companies that could be like, boom, we we got you
covered. You know, we have 10 of these
with thirty 80s in them. We got ten of these with 40
eighters or whatever the AMD equivalent is, and we got ten of
these. You know what I mean?
They could do something like that.
So we'll just have to see how it all goes.
But I think we should probably prepare ourselves for an 80 to
$90.00, one hundred or more. We'll just have to see.
I do believe that a lot of people, depending on how long
they have to save, will be able to easily lie to them.
So not lie, sorry, but easily make it make sense to them why
they're paying 100. And I think that actually, if
Rockstar is going to do a higher price, it probably makes sense
to get this stuff out as quick as possible, Do the trailers,
then do that price point. That way it hits and a person
can basically sort of save up because, you know, you could
forgo a subscription one month and boom, you've got your extra
20 bucks that you need or something like that.
Definitely see that with a game like this, but we'll just have
to see. In sort of tangentially related
news, LA Noire had some kind of anniversary and one of the port
companies, I think it was Virtuous or Virtuoso or
something like that came forward and said, Oh yeah, you know, we
want to do we want to do Red Dead and we want to do something
else. Was it GTA5 on Switch?
I'm assuming they meant Switch to and not Switch, but I could
be wrong on I think they meant Switch to and yeah, you know, I
don't want to see it. I think they were the ones who
did The Elder Scrolls Oblivion remake.
And yeah, it has some issues for sure.
That is an Oblivion game or it is a Bethesda game and is an
Unreal game. This would be the engine,
obviously, that, you know, Rockstar has.
But I would like to see it. I would, you know, I would love
to see those games on Switch. I think the more people who can
play them, the more excitement people can drum up.
Then there's just a higher chance that we get, you know, a
sequel of some kind of those games or I get a true remake or
something like that. See how popular it can be.
And on a Switch to, you could do Red Dead on a Switch to I think
fairly easily actually, when you look at it, it depends on how
much you want to do your draw distances and stuff like that.
But I think people are coming to grips with that system and
looking at exactly what they can offer.
And some games will be more difficult than others.
But we've seen some games sort of knock it out of the park on
that system that have been quite surprising.
We've seen a couple have some issues and we've seen a couple
that have been delayed. But yeah, I would I would
definitely be highly interested to see what that would look on
that system. So I know a lot of you guys are
playing Forza. Let's talk a little bit about
that. The Forza review period, people
were asking me how that was. It was good Forza reviews, you
know, it's Microsoft. They're pretty easy to deal with
when it comes to reviews. You know, you get your code and
you're like, hey, go for it. You can say this at a certain
time and you can jump in, you can race and you can do this.
And, you know, jumping in, testing that game, driving
around, there's it's, it really is.
Even though Japan as a map didn't, it's not that it didn't
impress me. It did.
It's that I feel like maybe I would have been even more
excited had this been one game ago.
I hope that makes sense to people.
But we've seen so many of these biomes that once you do get to
get to Japan, you're like, OK, it's Japan for sure.
And there's a little flavor on there, but they can't put too
much flavor on there. You know, when it comes to like
Japanese kind of thing or it would, it would actually skew
pretty weird. They still have to hit the the
Forza formula. And they did a great job.
Enjoyable game. I'm seeing a bunch of people
playing it today who seem to be absolutely in love with it.
I really do like that sort of, you know, I guess you would just
say customization generation, but it's it's time.
You've got so many different features in there and, and being
able to jump in there. And I was able to do that during
the review period and that was fun.
Yeah, it was really enjoyable. I was also asked if I got review
code for Batman and for what was the the disc Elysium sequel or
not sequel. You know what I mean?
The spiritual sequel by people who weren't involved.
God, who knows. I didn't for either one.
I did ask for Lego and was told I was on a list, but the way I
was told I was on a list and who I was told by I asked very late
so I was assuming I was not on there.
I was hoping I was going to be, but those reviews popped and
both those games reviewed quite well.
I think it makes total sense. I think the Batman game, when
you looked at it, when you look at the idea with Rocksteady now
supposedly being a Co developer or so, or at least assisting in
development for the game makes sense.
It's got a lot of positive praise for it.
A lot of people seem to love it. It is 6999.
It is a full price game. You know, I you know that that
doesn't surprise me, but I did see some people bringing up, oh,
it's you know, it's a $70 standard edition game.
It's like, yeah, it's a Lego game.
They do that. You know, that's just sort of
the way it is. I mean, Lego games, it's, it's
one of those things where they they pump up the price it, I
think with the amount of stuff that goes into Lego, it sort of
makes sense. I do get why some people might
be unhappy by that price point, but in all honesty, to me, it
actually makes a good deal of sense.
It's not that surprising to see that price point.
Next up, Herman Hull supposedly told people at a town hall
meeting. This is sort of Sony's big
internal gathering that their narrative single player games
will be PlayStation exclusive again.
I don't find it that strange. I.
Do see why people. Expect it to be on PC as well
because they made the switch. They bought a company.
Those are all real valid reasons why you would want to continue
moving forward, but some valid reasons why you may not.
They're not getting the greatest sales on those games, especially
when we're starting to see so many games announcing we're
selling a million, we're selling 2 million, we're selling 5
million in just a couple days. It's not every game, obviously,
but there are games that Sony internally does compare
themselves to sometimes. And you, if you're the big guy
on the block, they probably compare themselves to anybody.
And they expect, there's an expectation internally that,
hey, we want to sell these. And with Microsoft sort of
stepping back until their new system comes forward and doing
sort of the grunt work for Sony in a weird way, you have
Microsoft releasing what were once console exclusives on
everything. Even if there's a delay, at
least for now, Sony can step back and be like, okay, you know
what? Now we can sell our console more
and we're gonna add exclusives back to the console.
There's even more of a reason to buy our console, which means
even more of a player base, which means when we go to our
next system, there'll be even more of a player base to move to
the next system. You look at.
It from a business standpoint that makes total sense because
while they can sell a game, they do have to worry about other
stuff on the PC that they don't currently have to worry about in
great deal on the console, which is piracy and multiple different
things that they want to do when it comes to their security, how
they want to display games how they want to do them.
Now they did say single player narrative games, not to be rude
to Sony, but we know a ton of their games still haven't been
cancelled that were service games.
So we don't really even know what narrative player games from
them are coming other than Wolverine or one or two others
that are just expected in the sort of trilogy, trilogy of
titles or some kind of sequel that we really look at a
original game and say, OK, they're going to do another one.
So we don't even actually know what's happening from them.
So to me right now, it's like, hey, this sort of makes sense.
Most of the games that they would have released would have
been pretty old except for Ghost.
And I think for them it just makes sense.
When they look at those sales and you do you see a lot of
these companies that are much smaller doing insanely well for
some of the same price points or likely close price points.
And a company like this saying, OK, our competitors selling
occasionally on our system, why don't we just hold back here?
Also, right now, I don't think any of these companies can even
invest in places that are new avenues.
So let me explain that for a second.
Microsoft's one luck, I guess, of the draw is that they already
have investment in the cloud and they already have their RAM in
the cloud. They already have the stuff that
they need in the cloud. So they've got their systems
with the RAM that are doing the cloud gaming, that kind of
stuff. Now, are they great?
No, they're not. But it is a place where they are
entrenched with even older hardware.
It's still already there. A company like Sony who does see
the future and does understand that at some point you're going
to have all these other additions, has to pull back from
some spot and say, OK, where are we going to sort of draw our
battle lines? Right now, the battle lines that
they seem to want to draw are in areas where they're at their
strengths and not at their weaknesses.
And their strength is console exclusives and a console.
And they also have a console that is extraordinarily high in
price now with a very poor return.
Remember, the price went up, the performance did not.
So there is no performance. There is no extra performance.
You'll get people still trying to say that, oh, it's worth
this, it's worth that, you should still get it.
And it's like, I don't think you understand the game, the
hardware, they're the same. There's no improvement in the
performance. There's just an increase in the
price. And so for a lot of people who
don't have said something, all they're going to see isn't it is
an increase in the price with the exact same return they would
have got when they weren't making the buy decision at a
lesser price. So if something is $200 more
instantly the next day and a person doesn't have it, they are
still going from zero. There is no additional thing
that they're like, OK, I need to get it.
You have FOMO. But right now they haven't built
FOMO very well because many of their single player games that
came out were in the past. So this idea that hey, we're
putting them back one of the way, I think you can tell quite
easily that they don't know exactly where their battle lines
are at this exact point is the idea that we haven't heard from
them at all. Now, they don't have to tell
anybody. That's one thing they don't.
There's really no reason to tell anybody unless somebody asks
them for an interview. And by the time that happens,
they're going to be prepped with their answer.
But right now, there's no reason to answer an interview from
anybody. There's no reason to even talk
about it. They'll do their internal
choices and their internal decisions and they don't need to
tell everybody else the ideas and their game plan.
I also think in all honesty, everybody's in a tightrope right
now. Think about it this way.
Everything increased in price without an increase in
performance. And so maybe you decide, hey,
you know what, it's time. We need to get, we need to get
cracking on the PS6. We need to get cracking on the
new. Xbox.
Well, guess what? They're up in price too now, of
course, PCs up in price as well. But if somebody hasn't made that
choice, then you're probably still looking at people holding
on to prior consoles. And I do believe that Sony is
under the impression that this is the best way to make the most
out of what they've got. Where they try to hold on to as
many people and get more people buying into a hardware that
they're not investing billions in to roll out a new system.
But instead getting more and more people into that older
system that they still have some contracts for, They're still
buying for. They're still, you know, looking
at price raises, which we've already got from all these guys.
But you just have to do that. We are in a situation where
nobody really knows where all of the prices are going to go.
And for them, a lot of this makes sense.
It really does. And it's also why you're seeing
huge changes. Like people think this is all
because of the new CEO at Xbox, but you're seeing these new
changes. These new changes were already
rolling forward prior. You're starting to see like all
these, well, some small, some large, but you're starting to
see all these different things popping up.
It's because everybody is starting to look and say, OK,
the status quo is completely changed and we need to be
flexible. When it's almost, it reminds me
in a way of the old style of agile versus waterfall
development. You know, waterfall development,
you start out, you're all working on one thing, then
you're moving to the next, then you're moving to the next, then
you move to the next. And then you sort of go to the
agile kind of game development where people are working on all
different things and, and well, it's sort of the term itself,
but you have all these different ways in which games are usually
developed and you don't see waterfall as much.
But what you do see are people trying to adjust quickly.
And I would say when you look at it, big companies definitely go
or usually went on the old style of waterfall kind of game prep
and planning where it was. Here's our ramp up time.
Here's this, here's that. And over time, we've started to
see more, oh, this beta isn't working internally.
Let's rejigger this completely. We're going to have to pull it
apart. You're seeing this more and
more, and you're seeing different avenues to try that
out too. You're seeing early betas that
we've just never seen before from games.
I mean, it's pretty crazy when you think about it, that some of
these games were getting tests early where everybody can just
jump in. Now.
Some of that's built on early accesses bones where they
originally started doing it. And the bigger companies started
seeing that and saying, oh, you know, we'll do this.
Ubisoft's like, hey, we'll do this.
So and so's like that. Sounds like a good plan.
But what we're seeing is a lot of huge changes in the entire
environment to sort of eat up some, I guess you would say some
of the flexibility to burn out, some of the flexibility of all
of the weirdness with the price and figure out a good solid
ground for everybody where they can offer people what they think
is a good price. People can get what they think
is a good deal. And right now the two are not
meeting. I mean, I think it would.
I think it's very difficult for any of us on any hardware we own
to say we're getting a good deal.
That would just be me. I mean, you guys might feel that
way, but I would say maybe we're getting a good deal day and date
prior to these raises. But now that games are going up
and consoles are going up and PC parts are going up, there isn't
a middle ground anymore. There's no, you know, it's
weird, but people are saying, oh, it's like, you know, there's
just the poor and the rich in many societies now.
It does at times feel like weirdly enough in hardware,
there's now really the poor or rich.
There's the past past Gen. maybe you know, people still sticking
on 3080 cards 4090, which is an old obviously it's still very
powerful, but you get my drift Stuck on the PS4 Pro, maybe
stuck on the PS-5, stuck on the Xbox SNX and just being like,
I'm going to I'm going to sit here and I'm going to wait it
out. And then people who have like a
great deal of money, have all the consoles or have a console
on APC. It's very difficult now when you
realize also that if you had one console and you wanted to buy
both others, if you tried to do that now, you could buy an
additional old console for the difference in price.
That's. Crazy when you think about it.
Or at least almost an additional.
It depends on which of the additional consoles you would
have wanted to buy back in the day.
But the price difference is that much now.
Like it's insane. And for PC of course it's risen
even more. And with PC, you have an even
larger problem where it's very rare you see multiple parts on
any any particular item that raises all the items.
A lot of times in the past we would just get one thing going
up in price. But now because it's RAM chips
and now we're starting to see controllers, not handheld
controllers, but controllers on motherboards and stuff, all of
those using different chips. All these times that we've been
like, look at this improvement, they put a RAM chip on this.
There's a memory in my controller, there's memory in my
TV, there's this, there's that. All of those benefits and
improvements means that the moment RAM price went up,
everything did. So it's not just a video card,
it's that you need 32 gigs of RAM.
It's not just that, it's that your damn sound card has a
little buffer chip of RAM in it or whatever, you know, you know
what I mean? It's just like everything has
gone up. So yeah, it's going to be a
difficult time for Sony, It's going to be a difficult time for
Microsoft, and it's going to be a difficult time for us.
There's going to have to be a middle ground here somewhere.
And I don't know where it is. I do not know where it is.
I am excited to see the games that are coming out this year,
but I'm also really tentative on exactly exactly how they're
going to arrive and they're how many people will buy.
Like are we going to, for example, you see five, I think
it was 5 million for Crimson Desert.
Those are great numbers, but imagine if everything was
cheaper. I mean, how many times have we
heard just this year? And I can tell you countless
times where I heard people saying they didn't buy Crimson
Desert because they didn't have the money.
They did not. They had already bought their
game. They had already, you know,
because Crimson Desert may not have been their primary game.
It might have been the the very next secondary game they wanted.
So there's a very real issue going on, especially depending
on what systems you have. So yeah, it's going to be a
crazy one, man. We'll all come out of it though.
You know how it is. We'll we'll come out of this.
People are also asking me if I thought ram prices or everything
would go back down to 00 point, meaning the original price.
So ram prices had gone up and down.
And it depends on what we're really talking about.
We had seen expensive ram prices in the past and we've seen them
go down. We've seen them go up, go down.
I don't think they'll ever go down to where they were unless.
So what we're probably going to get is an over rebound effect
where we see so many companies trying to aim for that gap
because the gap is memory. Just so everybody understands
what I mean by that. There isn't a desire for memory.
There's a gap. OK, So what does that mean?
There's when there's a desire for memory, that means people
want memory from the current memory providers and they want
some more. It's a desire, right?
But there's a true gap now, meaning the desire hasn't even
got filled. There's you can't even get what
you want, let alone what you need right now in RAM.
So what you could see and what we are seeing as many players
trying to jump into the RAM space, depending on where they
are, depending on where those players are, depending on what
nations do what. China's got their own plans.
Plus you've got Taiwan doing their thing.
You've got to America doing their thing.
I don't know if there's a a, if, if there's even a single
European RAM manufacture. There might be.
But anyway, different companies who are trying to do this with
the idea that there's two different ideas going on right
now. One, make for the gap and make
for the desire #2 make for the gap, make for the desire and
make for the future. If this pops up again, because
it probably will, something else may pop up.
Because what we've now entered is sort of a sine wave, sort of
a, a, a wave kind of system. In the past, we almost always
had some kind of support and backfill for desire and need for
memory. This is the first time where
it's completely gone. Think of it like a bit like an
earthquake where you get 2 tectonic plates and they're
hitting each other. And right now we're at the point
to where they're grinding to a halt, but they're still trying
to move. And that pressure is building up
and building up. And what's happening is, and
what you would normally sort of want is smaller micro quakes to
to sort of break that up so that that pressure doesn't build up
too high, but it doesn't unleash all at once.
What a lot of people in the semiconductor groups are worried
about is that we're going to get a ton of players and then it's
going to go sky high and then super low, sky high, then super
low. The reason why that's an issue
if you ignore all the business, is because you also might get
sort of an overabundance where people are using RAM chips for
different things that put them in different ship.
Let's say 7-8 years down the future, people are creating more
technological devices. They're throwing a ton of RAM
into something and then all of a sudden boom, you get another
desire for RAM and you become or end up in the exact same problem
again because you have sort of introduced this giant
instability there where it'll feel comfortable and you'll be
like everything's comfortable. Nothing's moving.
We're we're at this price and you're going to be not really
reacting to the small adjustments.
And then at some point, something will happen, whether
it be a new company coming up in some new technological device.
I mean, you could even say, let's go this far.
You know, Roombas were popular. Let's take it a step up and say
it's some kind of personal device that becomes quite
popular, you know, where it ends up becoming popular everywhere
at once. Maybe we see a step up in AI and
people like these little personal robots or something
like that would just go with that.
You know, I don't believe it'll be that, but it could be when
you get a ton of RAM. Maybe they need 128, maybe they
need 256 per robot and at the time the price is low 256, no
big deal. But then 100,000 ordered 200,300
thousand a million, 2,000,003 million, 4 million are ordered
and then you have a new console release around the same time and
suddenly you have 23410 million consoles that need.
Do you see what I'm saying? That's how fast it is.
That's all it takes. And that instability can become
an issue. So I don't know if we'll see
them arbitrarily if support popped up, I don't think it'll
go down now. Memory for LLMS and for all of
the stuff that you see with AI, memory is not going to forever
be the, the, the end all be all. There's multiple ways that these
developers are going where they're trying to do other
things outside of memory and and there's different systems that
may come up that aren't tensor bound the way we see that aren't
weight bound with giant parameter systems that we see
where we may find a future where we're not using RAM near as much
and we're using something else that, you know, it may be an
interconnect between chips and it may just turn out to be
something that's completely different than what we're using
now. It in fact, I don't think
anybody would be surprised at all by that.
So we could see that as well where we just don't need it.
And I don't think of the price will ever go down as low, though
I do think that there will be a probably a controlled price drop
when you get these companies coming in, when you get more
companies coming in and some of these big companies trying to do
LLMS aren't going to be able to build them in some of their data
stores that they want to build. Those would be cancelled.
Some people will step back and be like, well, our system got
cancelled that we wanted to build in this state.
It'll take us 18 months to set up another one.
But these three competitors are there.
Let's move to the next round of technology and try something
else. And what you'll see as a, and
we've seen this so many times, you'll see this rise and desire
and need for something. And then because people can't
get it, there's a cascade effect.
And then everybody moves to the next thing, which I think we
will see here. We will definitely see you
people moving to the next thing or changing technologies just by
the sheer need of it. So you got to be interesting to
see, man, I think these consoles are going to be expensive as
hell. The new ones, you know, I, I
mean, if I was a company, I would never go above 999
obviously. But I feel that console players
just, they're just not going to accept it at 999 if there isn't
something so grandiose that's combined with it.
They're going to stick to the old systems and the companies
will want to stick to those old systems for quite a quite a
great deal of time. I could.
I mean, it's going to be rough if you try to sell somebody
$1000 system, especially because GTA will have already been out
for a while and there's just really no game, you know,
Crimson Desert being one more technologically advanced game,
Cyberpunk, those weren't selling it on the systems guys there.
There's nothing like GTA. There's nothing like it.
So I just can't see it. It'll be very interesting to see
what they try to offer at 999 because that thing is going to
have to do crazy stuff. I think Microsoft, Steam, Valve,
sorry, they both have somewhat of a good idea, which is sort of
a home device that might do some other stuff to sort of get
people maybe not having to buy a PC with an extraordinarily
expensive video card. I mean, dude, how many Times Now
have we been talking about, you know, these console makers
looking at segmented hardware where you have like a sort of a
modular system. I mean, we've already seen it
now we've been able to replace hard drives and since the
original Xbox, but it's never really been perfectly done.
Then you see the ability to use USB devices on these and then
you see the, you know, the memory fucking whatever the hard
drive thing in the back of the Xbox Series X.
You see people replacing the NVMES.
It's like, do we see a system that has a modular video card,
some of some kind that you can plug on and off one of these new
devices by somebody? Because it does seem like AMD.
I mean, they lead the market in external GPU's too.
And I'm not saying external, I'm not saying you use in a USB.
Even though there's a new interconnect called copper I
believe. I believe it's called copper,
which is a new wired connect for external graphics cards that is
perfectly PCIe. Compatible and loses no FPS.
So AM DS already got a couple video cards in a box that they
sell. And it's like, is that what
they're going to do? You know, does AMD just say, OK,
yeah. And now you've got a system
that's technically got the APU. And then at some point in the
future, you know, if they if whether it be Sony or Microsoft
wants to add on a a system, you just plug it into the side.
We'll have to see the form factor, right?
I mean, do I think that's a good idea?
No, but it's going to be hard to sell somebody $999 console.
I'd love to know what you guys think with like what's I mean,
what does a $999 console look to you?
Oh, sorry, that was my device turning off.
If you have a $999 console, which is probably your best
price, right, You price it under you could you could say 899 to
price it under 1000. There's certain psychologies
there, but I don't know about you guys.
You'd have to really, there'd have to be something special
about it. You'd have to really figure out
a way to be like, OK, this is this is special in a way that
we've not seen before. And then you look at it, you're
like, what would that be? You can't say something like
Discord integration because not only we already have it, but you
don't want these systems being too integrated with a third
party. You certainly don't with
Discord, which those guys just don't know what the fuck they're
doing ever. And I know Xbox has got that
little game pass thing with Discord, but that's that's more
of a throwaway. You know, Microsoft has always
been sort of forward thinking when it comes to, you know,
giving deals or putting packages together, but true integration
into that, you know, software. I mean, you could, we've seen
EA, we saw Ubisoft, you know, merging their subscriptions in,
you know, do we see? Yeah, it wouldn't happen.
I was going to say, do we see a system that no longer charges
for online at all? And, you know, I mean, you could
see it still wouldn't be worth it.
It's still you. You've got to go out there and
you've got to deliver something that a console player turns it
on and goes, oh, OK. You know, this is, this is what
I this is all I need for a while.
And you know, they're somebody's going to have to nail it, man,
because Switch is probably the only one right now that's sort
of I think has done pretty well. I mean, when you look at Sony's
numbers, they dropped the price. They had the best week ever and
then the worst week ever right after.
And as any analyst will tell you, that's because they Ford
pushed their sales. They, they basically sold out to
desire. Everybody who wanted one got
one. But there was no gap.
Meaning the reason why that had the lowest sales the next time
is there just was no real gap there of people desiring their
system at that cost. And unless one of these guys
comes forward and says, hey, look, man, here's the new
hotness. I just don't see that happening
here with consoles and got a. Bit of lightning round
questions. First one is Carrick.
What's your hot take for 2026? My hot take is that GTA6 will be
good but not great and that's not a lie that once the I I
thought the GTA5 was great. I think the GTA 6, because of
the way those characters are entwined, it has a chance of
being Bonnie and Clyde and being just phenomenal, but without
Dan, they're writing. I think this has a very high
chance of that being something that let me down.
And I think the GTA as a game, I like a lot of their mechanics.
It's certainly. Fun, but I have liked their
writing in the past, and there has been a reason why that
writing has attracted me in the past.
For every single game he's worked on, there's been
something there that has always felt.
Intangible and different until you really hear him talk.
So that'll be my hot take that after the rigmarole and.
The technical wizardry has calmed down.
That it might might. Be sort of, at least in my
personal case, AGTA 4. That's my hot take.
It doesn't mean it's it's even true.
That's just the way I I sort of feel that that'll roll out at.
Least for me. Next up, which a what nation are
fans the nicest from and what nation are fans the meanest
from? That's a weird question, dude.
That's a how would I know? OK, man, you know, it's very
difficult. I would say when you go to
events, everybody's you know they're.
Awesome like events have been Well, yeah, most have been
completely awesome if. We're talking about fans.
Oh, you do say fans are the industry or people in the
industry. Oh, OK, so OK, we can do this.
You know, I would say, man, that is difficult.
I would say I haven't had an issue with really anybody and
any nation in particular. You know, I would say that have
you ever heard the same? I'm sure you have that usually
every nation has sort of, I guess you'd call it the urban
myth about it, right? And sometimes it might be true
in, in the way in which people interact with their tourism
trade or might be true in the way that people interact with a
certain demographic. So you might hear like, let's, I
think the majority, you'll hear most people say that French
people are rude. American tipping is weird,
right? These kind of things.
So by the way, I'm not saying American tipping isn't weird cuz
it is for a lot of people. I'm just simply saying you, you
hear these things out and about. You hear, oh, people from this
place are, are always nice. And we all know that that's not
true, right? We, it's absolutely not true.
It's a sample set of an incredibly small amount and
through a billion filters, it's just not going to work that way.
You know, some of the nicest people I've ever met in my life
are people from New York. So there you go, right?
And you'll always hear and some of the meanest people I've are
from like some, you know, some Australia or something, you
know, where you just don't expect it.
So I would say, you know, I really can't answer that.
If I had something that stuck out, I would be able to answer
it, but I can't. And I said this was going to be
quick answers that I vacillated far too long.
That's my quick answer though, right?
We'll just go with that. Carrick, what's better, virtual
fighter or Tekken? Virtual fighter by a landslide.
It's not even within like it's Tekken is doing better, Tekken
is more successful, Tekken is flashier, Tekken has more
characters, Tekken has in every. Way, shape or form?
In the group out there who like games I have, I absolutely
believe that Tekken is for them the better game.
But if we're talking about the actual fighting mechanics in the
game themselves, the game itself, virtual fighter by a
land, it's not even in the same bailiwick like Tekken would be
like 7 levels below the worst virtual fighter.
Yeah, I said it. Let's see.
Next up, Carrick. Hot take, do you think games
like Directive 8020 have seen their time and that they're
passing because real time graphics are already better, you
know? No, but I do think that they
need to start selling us on more and more stuff.
And I think that it's a good question.
Dark Anthology style games give you the little real system where
you can go and look and you can have different people die.
And now they've added in movie versions and multiplayer hot
seats, they're going to have to add more and more because we are
certainly at the time where for the most part, every game that
is made by a larger company looks better than Directive
8020. Nothing against Directive 8020,
I thought it looked pretty good, but that's it.
And in the past, those games, because of the way they were
cinematically presented in the mocap, they had a tendency to
look better. Until Dawn when it first came
out, it had some FPS issues for sure.
But when it first came out, there's a lot of people are
like, that's one of the better looking Sony games of all time.
It was, it was fantastic looking.
They did a great job, but things have passed by and technology
has gotten to this point to where the very way in which you
present is weird. In fact I would say your only
real competitor to current best of graphics is FMV and FMV
doesn't work well because the way to make FMV look better than
current real time graphics on a high end card.
Is to use special effects in the FMV.
Think about how crazy that is, how weird it is that to make
real life look in some way like a cyberpunk or whatever, you
actually have to use. You have to add these special
effects to them. You have to Add all of this
stuff to make it look in a way like a game and better.
Otherwise it is just going to always look like an FMV and we
are going to start seeing that. We've already seen it in movies
like A Scanner Darkly had cell shade, cell shading in a movie.
Lord of the Rings had the retroscoping.
So I absolutely can see these companies who want to go the
Directive 8020 trying other things as well because when you
play Directive 8020 that you know, facial.
Textures and stuff like that. You start to see those Next up.
If there was one YouTube channel you would pimp.
For the rest of your. Life.
What would it be? What would it probably cool
worlds. I mean, I love Simon Whistler
stuff, but they're really just facts about things.
And then he's got his different channels.
Got a ton of them, which are great.
But I would say for just true listening, I love science.
Cool worlds is probably my favorite little difficult to get
through some of his stuff because he is such a he.
He not only is, I wouldn't say a pacifist, but he's very calm,
but he talks that way and it can be very close to a sleepy time
video for people. You know, he's like, and today
we'll be talking about Uranus and you're like, normally that
would make me laugh, but you say it so calmly.
It's very difficult to actually, you know, feel even even humor
from it. And it's just the way he is.
He's, from what I understand, at least a couple people who've
taken his classes. He's a fantastic professor.
He's fucking obviously insanely talented.
Love his stuff. But I have to be sort of
energetic to watch it. What's the best console of all
time, Carrick? Best console.
Let's go with best meaning in and of it's time.
What it could do even if it didn't do it like or do we mean
like what? You know what, I'll just go with
my version of best. I think the Dreamcast is up
there because not only what it could do, it was highly
powerful. It was a smaller shape towards
what I think gamers at the time were looking for, which was that
smaller shape. It was a it was intriguing in
that way. It also had the broadband
adapter. It had four controller ports and
it had the VM use whether they were used or not.
It didn't have the greatest controllers, though.
They were not comfortable. And this was back in the 1
analog stick days. So yeah, I would say yeah, yeah,
I would say Dreamcast probably. I mean just as a solid, you
know, obviously if you look at like what system had the best
games, PS1 or PS2 are definitely the the top tier dogs.
But when it comes to just what I think it was like the best
console, it would be the Dreamcast.
It was just everything about it. And for me, ultra reliant,
reliable, like utility wise, you know, a couple did get broken by
me, but that was on my, that was my end.
That was not theirs. So.
Yeah, I would definitely say Dreamcast, Carrick.
Best martial arts. Best martial arts?
Do you just mean? It just says best, let's talk
about best in real life. And then like if you were
defending yourself and then best in, let's say best in real life,
if you're defending yourself and then like best, just most
enjoyable. Most enjoyable for me is always,
probably forever going to be Kempo.
That was by far the most enjoyable to spar with people.
It's usability. You know that there's some
weaknesses in every single martial art.
Now, when it comes to real life, if I was out and about, do I
feel comfortable with what I know?
Absolutely. Do I feel like I can defend
myself? Absolutely.
Do I feel like it's the best martial art for, let's say, if
you were just out and about, I would actually go with something
like judo. And the reason why I wouldn't go
with like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, while I love it is because.
I guess I've had a different. Experience than everybody else
in the world. Well, the people I talked to
have all had different experiences than everybody else
in the world. But let me explain this.
You heard a lot of people say Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which I
agree, amazing. But there is a different tactic,
there is a different style with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu many times.
And it, I don't feel that it's as strong in its throw game and
in its balance game as judo. And I don't want to be on the
ground very long because every single fight I've ever seen, if
two people are on the ground, one or two things happens,
another person jumps in because it's almost never one-on-one
anymore. It just isn't.
I mean, just, you know, you'll get kids at a school who are
one-on-one. But the moment they get on the
ground, it doesn't take very long.
If somebody doesn't, it doesn't get top guard.
Where's the people pick them up. Oh, you know, quit.
You know, they have even less, they have even less patience
than like a Las Vegas crowd at the UFC.
So something that where you can throw, do damage on the throw,
which I'm a big believer in that you don't just throw somebody,
you're trying to throw somebody, at least for me, trying to throw
somebody to hurt them so that they can't come back.
At you and the speed at which you can throw and and and.
Just I've been highly impressed with every person I've ever
sparred who knew judo And and I, I don't mean impressed, I mean
highly impressed and far more, far more threatened in the
feeling of my own personal safety.
Not in a bad way, but in AI got to protect myself so I don't get
thrown so I can work my stuff by them than by anybody.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu until we get on the ground and then you get
on the ground then yeah, they're both very highly skilled and
amazing moves and just amazing people fighting it.
But yeah, I would say those two I I really do.
I have an appreciation for judo and have since I was younger of
appreciation for all martial arts really and I think almost
any martial art in the world. Dude, I've seen people knock
somebody out with Taekwondo that they knew nothing else.
You'll hear people say it's a useless sport and I get it
because I understand where they're coming from.
But used in the right circumstance at the right time?
Gojiru Karate, Kempo, Muay Thai, they not that Muay Thai has that
kind of thought process around it, but a lot of the martial
arts that you might hear or like, oh, that's not super, not
super useful have turned out to be useful in the ways I've seen
it. And the ones that have been sort
of touted as being super useful have actually, weirdly enough,
not been as much in the stuff I've seen.
And I've seen a lot. And there is just a lot of times
where you see a somebody get jumped or, you know, somebody
need to be put down momentarily. Why?
Everybody can move from one section to the other.
And you don't want to be wrestling with somebody.
But but certainly throwing somebody to do we, you know, on
to something like concrete or something like that is as fast
as humanly possible. There's just, there's just a
different thought process there which which works really well.
But yeah, they all work well. Good martial arts stuff.
What's the worst martial art? Don't really have one.
I mean, I'm sure there's some that were created, you know, in
in some weird modern day thought process.
I mean Kempo's one of the later created ones when you really
think about especially Ed Parker.
But if you, when you think about it in the term of centuries, but
technically, you know, many are going to teach you reactions,
many are going to teach you the ability to move.
Those things are vital. Understanding distances,
regardless if the distance is being used to get in closer or
or stay at range there, you're going to have to learn distance.
You're going to have to learn those kind of things.
So they can all be useful in times when you absolutely have
to use them. And you certainly shouldn't use
them unless you absolutely have to because especially today's,
you know, it is the the one biggest change I've seen isn't I
would say there's two huge changes in person in in person,
on person contact now in real life when I was.
Younger, there was almost no suings.
There's almost no. Lawsuits you You would see
people go at each other. You'd see broken fists, you'd
see broken wrists. You'd see bite marks.
You'd see busted out teeth. You'd see ruptured eardrums.
You'd see massive ocular hemorrhages.
You'd see, I mean, I'm just thinking about school.
You'd. See us stomped on hands you'd
see saw a broken ankle one time. You'd see somebody.
I saw somebody get body slammed onto a giant park rock one time
which had to fucking hurt. Beyond all belief.
And I don't think any of those resulted in anything more than
two dads. I'm not saying this is right.
I'm literally just talking about how times have changed when it
comes to the world. And it's it's you know, the the
flexibility there. I saw, I saw dads get together
and just be like, yeah, my son beat up your son, your son beat
up my son. Whatever we need to stop them
from fighting. That would be the most.
Otherwise there wouldn't even be anything said.
You know, sometimes you go home and a teacher.
I still remember one time watching two people get in a
fight and a kid walked into class and he was busted up.
Nice kid. They're both OK.
One of them I didn't really like, but the the one that was
busted up, he was pretty busted up and he walked in and our
football secondary coach, he was the the secondary and defensive
line coach was like got him ice from the staff lounge and gave
him ice. To to fix his eye and that was
it. That was it.
There was no like in school suspend, there was nothing.
There was nobody even investigated.
They were just like, that's the way it is now.
You'd have a suing, you'd have, you know, parents, you'd have
social media, you'd have Facebook, you'd have cyber, you
know, you'd have all this crazy shit.
So yeah, again, don't use it. You know, don't use it unless
you feel like you absolutely have to.
It's super important that you don't care.
What's your favorite food now? I know you change all the time.
My favorite food right now, right as we speak, right now,
this is going to sound really weird, but I've become so I talk
about becoming addicted to something that's easy usually.
So in the past, you know, I was joking, I was always addicted to
Uncrustables. I love those fucking things.
You grab a box of them, that's your day or or snack, whatever,
you know, you just grab them, you chew them up.
So I found this company that makes a bagged precooked spicy
chicken wing and it's a very good brand.
It's not super expensive and they're just at the right spice
level. They're hot.
They are definitely hot. Like you eat two in a row and
you're like, OK, this is it's. Growing, you know, it's getting
up into my nose, onto my mouth, starting to burn, but because of
the way I usually fast. I'm usually fasted.
I'm definitely in keto most of the time, but I'm usually
fasted. So those chicken wings are
great. One time I was in the chat with
a bunch of people and I was just like, Oh my God.
I got the like the bag of the spicy chicken wings where all
the spice had fallen to the bottom of the bag.
And this was the bag. It's like the last bag.
It was like a milkshake with all of the best parts of the bottom
of a milkshake as a milkshake. But this was the heat, man.
It was a spice. I've, I cooked those things up,
couldn't smell the difference, right?
Grabbed them. I was like, yeah, man, this
isn't so bad. I took a bite of 1, took another
bite and it it grew quicker and I was like, OK, I'll be fine.
Took two or three, grabbed another wing.
I was about halfway through the other wing and I was like Rat
Row. And I mean that shit.
It was like it was probably, it felt twice as strong as normal
work through them, of course, but boy did that roll my stomach
for a couple hours. Man, I was not prepared for
that. That was like right at the cusp
of. Of.
Comfortable handling, you know, no eye burning or anything like
that, but it was just like, whoa, you know, have to and get
some air in there. But yeah, for right now, that's
what I'm addicted to, man. It's, it's good.
I have some spicy wings. I work out fasted.
I like to work out in the morning fasted.
Then I like to work out in the evening if I can.
And if I do, it'll usually be a couple hours after that.
And I like to go to bed not hungry.
So I have to really time it very, very particular when I
time my eating at night, I sort of have to judge how much energy
I have so I can go to bed where I'm not hungry because that's
really hard to go to bed. If I'm super hungry, it's I get
really restless. But where I can go to bed and
just feel comfortable and stuff like that and not uncomfortable.
Man, one of the worst things going to bed when you have a
full belly. I'm sorry, I know I was talking
to maybe it was, it might have been Jay, it might have been
void. It was somebody, but somebody
was like, yeah, maybe it was solar, but somebody's like,
yeah, no, it was solar. He's like, yeah, I can go to
bed, you know, just with a full belly, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like, dude, well, of course that guy can go to bed in
the middle of like a war, dude. They'd be bombing him and he'd
just be falling asleep in the trenches.
But seriously, that's not me, man.
If I'm even slightly like, you know, filled stomach or
whatever, it's very hard for me to sleep.
It feels like a rough sleep the first two or three hours.
I I don't sleep very well. I sort of like that light sleep.
Where you're not super foiled, but yeah, currently that's my
favorite thing. Eric, what's your favorite rock
star or Monster Energy drink right now?
It is probably right now it's orange from Monster.
I can't believe this because this is a newer type.
I haven't drank. I I was a big cranberry fan, a
big white. I've got one in front of me
called like. Zero.
Well, they're all called 0. What is this?
It's a white one. I think it's a cranberry type
and it's good. You know, it's not super
cranberry. I think it's like a mix.
But anyway, it's the white, right?
And then I ended up getting a couple others and trying them.
Fruit Punch isn't sold a bunch here, but it's pretty good.
And then I got super addicted to pineapple and then I believe a
cranberry. Yeah, cranberry I got super
addicted to. And now I'm massively addicted
to orange. It it, it popped up at our store
here and I was like, I'm not an orange fan of I wasn't even an
orange juice fan when I was a kid.
I love oranges though, man. Slicing an orange in half and
just biting into that son of a bitch and just eating it's.
Delicious. I love.
Oranges. But yeah, it's good.
I like things super tart. I like when they have a bit of a
bite to them, so that's what I usually like.
But you got to watch out. Can't have two many of those
things because, well, normal person can't.
My too many is probably twice as many as your too many, if not
three times as too many as your too many.
But yeah, you don't want to drink too many of those.
Carrick, I know you have problems sleeping.
Give me one sleep aid that you use.
So I'm assuming it means non medical because I do have to
take Ambien a lot of times outside of that.
I'll tell you a sleep trick that does work for me.
That's outside of the white noise and outside of anything
else. It's if you have nothing.
It is. I believe originally there's
it's apocryphal. You know, you don't don't know
exactly where the story came from or if it's true.
I've heard it's a military trick.
I've also heard his Boy Scouts. I've heard it in 4H.
So I don't know where this trick came from, but it does generally
work. So normally when I lay down,
I'll usually find out I'm tense in some part of my body.
So I'll lay down and I'll think I'm comfortable and then I'll
realize I'm holding my arm almost my head off of the pillow
for a little bit or something where I'll I'll notice something
is tense. And I had heard from one of my
friends who was in the military. He was also in 4H like me.
He was in, he was in the military, he was in Boy Scott, I
think he was in everything. But he told me about a trick
that did pretty much work. And basically what happens is
you lay down. You tense your feet sort of as
hard as you. Can like you're just straining.
You can put your feet together and sort of push against one
another. You can sort of curl your toes
up or down if you don't get calf cramps.
So that doesn't give you 1. You do that for about 10
seconds. Then you do the same with your
legs, almost like you're stretching your legs, but you're
sort of locking your knee and pushing so that your thigh
muscles engaged and your hamstrings are engaged.
And then you do the same thing with your stomach, almost like
you're doing a diver, A diver push where you hold in your
breath and you tighten on your stomach.
And you do that for about 10 to 15 seconds.
And then you do the same thing with your shoulders, almost like
you're just tensing like a kid when they're ready to poop, You
know, when they're shaking, when they're like, I gotta pulp.
And you do that. You do make balls with your
fists. You do that for about 15 seconds
and then try to do something sort of in your neck area,
shoulders higher up. And then once you do that, about
10 to 15 seconds each, you will fall into a generally much more
relaxed state. That is true.
I can guarantee. I cannot guarantee it'll help
you sleep because I don't think many things guarantee I can
sleep. But I can tell you that every
single time I remember to do it every single time.
This is, I can say this with 100 percent, 100% efficiency for me.
Every single time I've done it, I've realized some part of my
body was tense. I was, there was something I
didn't realize I was stressing against in bed, my foot, you
know, on a blanket with a blanket between my legs or
something where I didn't really realize it and I wasn't super
comfortable that way or something.
And that little bit of tenseness and then relaxing, huge
difference in how I sort of sink into the bed.
And I think for a lot of people, the comfort of the bed, the lack
of irritation, whatever they can get, that's going to be your
number one way of doing it. But yeah, I would say for me,
working out is terrible. I've heard people say work out.
For me, working out usually just tells my brain it's ready to
fight. So I'll be up for another 8
hours at. So working out is not something
you would hear me suggest unless it's something like restless
legs, which might help you. But for most people, I think, I
think that's, I think that's sort of a myth.
It doesn't seem to help that much.
Carrick, I've heard you talk about the zombie apocalypse many
times and how you would off everybody.
How would you defend your home? I mean, I mean, listen, if the
zombies were attacking, the first thing I would do, I do
have double dead bolts. Double dead bolts.
Also have a. Gate lock, gate locked up.
I also have my car, So what I would probably do is pull a car
up to the door so somebody couldn't get through the door
because my car's ass into my car would be directly up against my
door. I'd move as much stuff away from
my windows as humanly possible. On the inside.
I have a gate on one side. I have a play a way.
I'm not going to say how to reinforce that to the point to
where I don't think anybody's getting through it.
Then you got the back door, the back door.
I'd pull the dogs in the back door.
I have multiple bits of lawn furniture.
I would pile all that up in front of the lawn, in front of
that door, and I would lock that up.
I also have a quick release for our generator that's outside, as
well as a remote start for the generator.
They're already inside the house and those wires while they are
in a place that I would consider to be not as secure against like
a zombie invasion, but secure enough.
So I we would be set on the inside from that point on.
I grabbed the old guns that I do have.
I would they don't need to be that they need to be loaded.
I don't I don't keep them. I keep them right next to
whatever it is that needs to go in them.
But I don't keep, you know, a bulletin chamber or something
like that. I'm not that kind of person.
So those are there. I would have those and then flip
the beds over the windows on the inside of the house so that you
always have something soft behind something hard.
A lot of people don't realize that, but especially even even
people the much as much friction as you can get, you know, for
somebody trying to get into something, put a bed against a
window, somebody busts the window, they still got to get
that bed moved to the side. And you have to put constant
reinforced pressure on my bed. And our bed is a monster.
It is heavier than I've ever in my life experienced in a bed way
heavier than a water bed, which I've owned.
It's one of those ones that has its own vibration.
Both sides can do their thing, like raise lower.
It's got its own metal supports. I can flip that up, though.
I can flip it sideways. I can't pick it up at all.
And I mean, I'm strong and that thing is ridiculous.
Lock that up and then grab all my swords.
I got some Bud Gay swords here from when I was 18.
Throw those out 'cause you never know.
There's no reason to waste a bullet when you can chop a
zombie's arm off with a sword, right?
And then, you know, hey, at that point you got to pick off a
couple neighbors so that they, you know, the zombies can eat
them, right? You got to, you got to slow them
down and then and then make sure the dogs are inside.
Well, they would be inside, dogs would be inside and I'd be in
there. And then, you know, it's a
waiting game, right? You got to figure out the
waiting game that all these zombie movies always have.
The zombies basically breaking quantum level energy.
One of the things that zombie movies always crack me up about
isn't that something can live after a weird point, like you
see with the parasites on flies that ride them around like skin
cars and can control them. We see that clickers, that kind
of stuff. We see that kind of stuff, but
with no energy going in, nothing in the universe can work with no
energy coming into it. And so you get these times where
the zombies aren't eaten and they're milling around, dude,
wouldn't take very long before those things would shut the fuck
off completely shut off there. I mean, just like even if they
were digesting their bones, they would be shut off because you
would digest like if you were, let's say you had a virus inside
of you that not only digested the food, your fat that you had
inside you brain power down to your lizard complex so you're
still able to bite. Breathe.
Well, you don't need to breathe, I guess.
You know, you do though. We're going to say the zombies
need to breathe in some way because dude, again, lack of
power. But if we're talking about a
zombie, zombie, like a infection kind of thing, yeah, easy to
take out. If we're talking about the rage
virus, also pretty easy to take out.
I mean, you know, you just got to be quiet and I have places to
be quiet in my house. As well so.
You know, you just got to make sure the dogs have some food.
I would make sure the dogs eat before me because I can always
hunt dogs. My dogs are not.
My dogs are not hunters, man. Our little dog.
Sigh. He thinks he's a hunter.
And so like squirrels will come out and that guy's zero 200 at
least in his rate of attack on these, these chipmunks stymie
this dog something fierce because they're small, they're
fast and they're loud. And he does not like that.
And that chipmunk will be up there celebrating, running over
the top of that dog's head. And the dog will run up try to
run up the fence and the, and the chipmunk is just like just
laughing at him. Just it's like, you know, that
they have their own language and they're up there going like this
fucking idiot. On the other hand, hey, it only
takes one mess up before my dog. Probably.
Well, not probably. I'm sure he would kill.
He's he's killed a bird. I think we had a bird in the
backyard and he chased the bird down for some reason.
He just and then did nothing with it.
You know, typical, typical chase behavior in a dog.
That'd be how I'd prepare myself.
And I have enough Mr. ES and random shit in my house.
We would be prepped. I got board games, we'd be
playing board games. I'd be laughing.
I would probably occasionally try to get some to go to another
location, though. I'm a big fan of diversion, and
we have a really nice spot here. We're near a park, we're near
some other houses. I'd probably figure out a way to
make some sounds across the way that were separated from us to
get to get them to go, you know, to that location, that kind of
stuff. It depends on where they were
and where I was trying to get them.
But I've got some diversionary tactics, like, you know, just in
case you're attacked by zombies, right?
Just in case. And all you really got to do is
stop one from being able to eat you.
I mean, and then, you know, if they're trying to, I mean, if
they're still alive in some way and it's like just their head is
still biting. Like you see in some of the
movies. I just chop their heads off and
put them all around the ring of my house so that like if people
tried to get in, they'd have to fight through the zombies to get
to me. You know, it's about that's one
of the things about zombie movies, man.
You see people making some really dumb mistakes.
I would also team up with people, though.
You see people like not teaming up.
They most humans die alone. It's it's so strange because
every single culture in humanity has like being ostracized.
It's built into cultures. It really is built in as as
basically you are doomed, right? There is very few people.
I don't know if there is a story of somebody who is ostracized
without supplies, who's lived. It's possible.
And I'm sure there's been a hunter who is ostracized, who's
lived. But if being ostracized from a
culture, especially without electricity or something like
that, you know, and and not being prepped for it, not having
that be your plan is usually sure death.
And it even happens here on the Pacific Northwest, a freezing
night. That's all you need.
We have homeless people who pass away.
We have, you know, like weather, nature, you can die of the
craziest shit, a single scratch. You get tetanus, you know, all
these things, right. So you do got to you do got to
join up with somebody every once in awhile.
So I would probably join up with somebody, but I'd always be
watching them, right? Watching them for infection
where you're just eating and you have the gun aimed at them the
entire time. And they're like, dude, can you
put the gun down? And you're like, no, I trust
you, man. But just I'm never putting this
gun down. Scraping their nose when they're
trying to eat because you just got the barrel against their
face. I'm just joking.
But yeah, that's that's how I defend my house.
I got enough weapons and stuff like that.
I actually feel pretty comfortable about where we are
and what we do against a zombie invasion.
We were actually joking around one day if like Red Dawn
happened, you know, like if N Koreans, Chinese, something like
that invaded, like what, what, what what would you do?
And I'd be like, listen, every single defense that you have
planned falls apart in the wake of that.
Every prepper, anybody you see in the military videos, even the
best Navy Seals, the best Delta Force, they'll be like, oh, I
would do this and I would do that.
But I think when you really sat them down and we're like, no,
no, no, listen, we're talking about an invading force, the
best invading forces coming into your place with overwhelming
odds. Yeah, you're in deep shit,
right? You're in deep shit.
Like, there's you. You would have to find a place
that was, I mean, especially with technology now with
people's abilities to see heat, heat sensors and stuff like that
that are so far beyond where they can see you and you know,
drones and all that kind of stuff.
You'd be in deep shit if something like that happened.
I think drones have changed the changed the universe, man.
Drones are amazing, but I think the technology and the
situations we're in now, things have just gotten incredibly
difficult with drones. They become, so they've advanced
in the wartime effort so fast that really their commercial and
personalization efforts, the fun the racing have really they have
a, they have an almost a vibe to him now that I've noticed with
some of the people that I have who have drones where they
almost feel, I guess I would say inhibited from enjoying them
because of the feeling of terror they elicit from people so much
now because of just, I mean, just because of the of what we
have right now. Will that return people enjoy
them later? Absolutely.
Just like people enjoy guns now, even though they've killed many
people, it'll be one of those things that, you know, hopefully
we can get back to enjoying. I love a good drone.
Actually I'm more of Arc plane, but yeah, I love that.
But anyway, that's how I would defend my house.
It's a good question, Carrick console or PC?
Oh, right now probably if if you wanted to just get in and play
as many games as. Possible.
I don't know what a Series S costs.
But unless a series S has dramatically increased in price,
I think there's only one or two games that don't work on that.
I'm not saying they all work well, but I'm, I'm legitimately
talking about like if you're just trying to save money and
get into gaming, that might be your system right there, which
is crazy. But that's really in all
honesty, it, I mean, obviously Playstation's got great games,
but that, you know, you could go PS4.
Actually, if we're talking, I, I assumed you were talking about
like right now, then I would say that when it comes to PC, we all
use our PCs for many things other than just games, as Johnny
and I were talking about on Friday on the podcast.
But I still don't think, I just don't think it's an easy sale
anymore, especially if, you know, dual use when you start to
say, yeah, I use it for other things.
It's like, OK, you want APC to be able to play game and also
render. Well, then that's a completely
different PC than if you want a game that's just or if you want
a system that can play games on low and they've all risen in
price. It's a hard question, man, It's
a hard question. I mean, you could say a switch,
but I don't think switch or switch to have the third party
support that I think we would all love to see from those.
So you I can also say, weirdly enough, I don't know what they
cost anymore. I I know they raised in price.
I don't think they're worth it anymore.
But back in the day when you looked at something like a
Legion and you were like, hey, I got APC and a handheld and this
PC can actually play PC games at a low rate.
But they can play them. They can they can watch movies
and transmit an HDMI signal to something.
You know they were APC right now, you really can't say that,
which is sad. Anyway, that's it for me.
If he got this far, hashtag hot take.
I appreciate all you guys listening.
I hope you're having a good week.
Well, I'm going to try to do maybe one more of these this
week. It's sort of a down week because
of the videos. I'm going to look and see what I
got to cover. I might do the best games of
next month coming out. There's not a lot, so I'm going
to have to look at that a little sharper this month.
But anyway, that's it for me. Hope you guys have an awesome
week. Thanks for listening.
Appreciate you all, peace out and enjoy the rest of your week.