Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride through the latest developments, exclusive insights and lots of laughter! We navigate through the gaming landscape, covering everything from the unexpected departure of Major Nelson from Xbox to the ripple effects of the Activision Xbox merger. We'll also discuss how these changes may shape the future of fan-favorite franchises like Call of Duty and the constant tug-of-war for exclusive content between PlayStation and Xbox.
Speaking of challenges, ever wondered how the world of social media can feel like a relentless boss level? YouTube's automated system is a prime example, as we delve into the recent content creator woes and channel deletions due to explicit content. You'll hear firsthand from Josh about his personal encounter with channel deletion. Plus, we'll dig into the recent Twitter changes following the buyout and what it could mean for content creators like us.
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I Got another, do you like so?
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I often call myself suck boy, suck boy.
Speaker 3:
So, boy, we're talking about Josh's YouTube channel. I was confused.
Speaker 1:
Of course.
Speaker 2:
Cuz you don't say such festive gaming, you say suck just.
Speaker 1:
Dude, I'm questioning how I say suggested. Yeah, I don't really think about it.
Speaker 5:
It's weird.
Speaker 2:
Just you don't say you say it fast.
Speaker 5:
You don't, yeah, that's true, that's true.
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I think it wrong suggestive. So good, yes, you are.
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So you're saying it was like a scene suck just.
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Just who's who's, justin? Why never whoa? No, knowing her, she might actually be there.
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I know I haven't told her I was gonna, I was back to.
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That's okay, I'll let it go another two minutes.
Speaker 3:
I don't wanna go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, would you want to try Dom?
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You should go, try Dom go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:
So long trip ahead of us. Yeah, we, yeah.
Speaker 3:
We are not stopping, no.
Speaker 1:
No well, we haven't even started, so just get it out of your system. I Love that so much, it worked.
Speaker 5:
That's true. It's one of the things you think about it. You're thinking like, yeah, I really should it's just.
Speaker 1:
It's just ingrained in your brain from a young age.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I might as well, I'll go try so. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Share the stream on threads Dom, welcome back.
Speaker 1:
I suppose we can do this actually, do you want? I should probably go to the bathroom Back.
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Oh, okay, bye.
Speaker 2:
Please do his own show every time you dancing down.
Speaker 3:
I was stretching my back, sure you were.
Speaker 6:
Hello, hello, is this thing on? Oh, it's just, it's just. This is back you by right. It's where the guy that is. Yeah, no, my name is Gary. It's where the guy that is Gary. Yeah, but you get here. Well, you see, I saw the fat guy run up the stairs and I came over and I Know that you guys give away live stream codes for the for the summer giveaway and I figured I go and sneak it on there real quick, like this, where the guy I wouldn't know you can't do that.
Speaker 2:
We need that for listeners, yeah for listeners, not random old homeless people.
Speaker 6:
Yeah, what do you mean? The homeless people? Listen, I just over the code. You're right, we're just gonna give it away. Now you can't stop me. Now it's where the guys you can't right. No, please stop. Well, you sound very convincing, so no, no.
Speaker 3:
Computer.
Speaker 6:
No, what you know, I'm not touching nothing for the guy I ain't. Yeah, why do you guys now all we say, now come on now.
Speaker 2:
You're right, I don't know. I was told to tell you to stop.
Speaker 6:
Well, all right, you have to wait till later in the show then to get the code. So where the guy do is don't you don't want no one to win your big, expensive computer from dark views and swear to God you don't try with a guy.
Speaker 3:
You're dirty. Hands off the computer, get out of here.
Speaker 6:
Boy, I'll tell you what, back in my day, I would get out of here. God get damn it.
Speaker 2:
Who was that guy?
Speaker 5:
Who'd you let in your house?
Speaker 1:
Listen that, that's Gary. He's just this old hermit that lives in my sump. Up he looks in I told him in the sub pump. Well, okay, only one of them get out. Well, so I have no, it's only one of them works, but so the other one he just he lives in actually the one that works because it's not full of water. I don't know why he came out and thought he should come out and do that, but he did so apparently he's been listening and he knows about the computer.
Speaker 2:
He really wants to get away, yeah one foot.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, dude, he did. I tell you he's trying to steal it one day.
Speaker 2:
No, you didn't tell me that dude I, it was last week.
Speaker 1:
Last week I saw him he actually come up out of the basement and tried stealing the computer. He wanted to take it down in the sump pump. I'm like dude, what are you gonna plug it into? You can't, can't plug it into anything.
Speaker 3:
He's, they look pretty.
Speaker 1:
He didn't say anything. I fucking, I threw a rock at him in my, it did look pretty though.
Speaker 2:
I mean it probably looks probably looks good in the sub pump.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, but the water I don't know how well it'll work. So anyways, welcome to bucket bites. I'm Ryan Papa post, we've got Tom, we've got Logan, we've got Josh from suggestive gaming. We are all here. But on a little bit more serious note, I did want to start things off today because last week we had a show scheduled with the ever famous twitch Superstar you could I would call him bike man but we we had to reschedule that due to an emergency that we at the time thought was Better but unfortunately took a turn for the worst. An extended member of the bucket bites family not directly one of us, obviously, but extended family member passed away, unfortunately. So, and that's that's Josh. That's on your side, so Hopefully everybody's doing okay over there. You know you guys are in our thoughts. I know you guys are. You guys are pretty strong people over there, so I know you guys are handling it pretty well.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and I thank you and of course, I thank bike man if he's out there listening. That was it was. It was really like last minute and he was very understanding and of course, you guys have been very understanding and I appreciate your support and Condolences and everything. So thank you, um, but let's get the, let's get the show back on the road. I think that's for the best, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
Well, let's, I want to talk about some breaking news. I wish I had a sound effect lined up for this. Hold on.
Speaker 2:
I got one oh.
Speaker 3:
No.
Speaker 1:
I'm sorry for everybody's ears. That is apparently our breaking news sound, but no, did you guys see that major Nelson today announced that he is leaving Xbox?
Speaker 2:
I Didn't see that, I didn't get that was.
Speaker 1:
That was just for not even four hours ago, he posted on Twitter. He said, quote after 20 incredible years, I have decided to take a step back and work on the next chapter of my career. As I take a moment, as I take a moment and think about all we've done together, I want to thank the millions of gamers around the world who included me in part of their lives. And he goes on to kind of think you know Xbox and the opportunities that they gave him. So, and also the official Xbox podcast is taking a hiatus this summer and they're Formatting it, so that's kind of breaking news on the gaming front. Just cuz, larry, herb or herb how do you know how to pronounce his last name? I think it's herb. I think it is herb. He's been the pretty much the face of Xbox for Quite some time. I I personally remember him more so stepping up after the failure of the Xbox one launch, because they really needed someone to take the forefront of that.
Speaker 3:
He was on for Xbox one. At the bottom of the screen it always shows something about major Nelson doing X, y and Z, or doing that was always, even on Xbox 360.
Speaker 2:
Like when they first oh really started introducing like social media stuff into it, like there was always like major Nelson's, like whatever of the week, like he was. He was such a big part of Xbox's social media.
Speaker 1:
So it's he's still in some capacity going to be working with Xbox. I'm sure doing PR a little bit, I'm sure he'll kind of go. But he's taking a step back Out of that limelight. I mean, obviously, I think you know, with Phil doing such a great job of stepping up and kind of filling the role that Larry used to do or have in terms of being the face of Xbox, that kind of helped. But I mean I couldn't, I can't think of a single bad thing to say about Larry. I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 3:
I forgot about major Nelson for the longest time, until now.
Speaker 2:
Well, I mean, yeah, it's, it's. He's one of those guys where, like he's there but you don't really think of him and that's probably like a probably a good thing. This is like when Reggie left Nintendo, kind of sure. Yeah, I was gonna ask that.
Speaker 3:
Is it like? Did he have the impact of?
Speaker 2:
like Reggie, probably, I'd say probably, at least in terms of a PR at least in terms of a PR front like the dude he
Speaker 1:
was so relatable.
Speaker 6:
Right now.
Speaker 1:
He was nice, he was respectful, like you could just relate to the guy and he was a true gamer at heart, which you know Did big things for you know people kind of grasping on to him as a a face, of a brand. I wish I, you know, I, maybe I Wish I knew about this a little bit more in advance so I could do some more Digging about like some of the other like things that I think are really important, digging about like some of the other like things that he's done for Xbox, but unfortunately I don't have that prepared. This is only he only, and now he like he just announced it only eight hours ago Well, a, normal people were working. So it's a. It's a bittersweet day for Xbox in that regard and we wish obviously Larry the best, but I'm sure he'll appreciate that from you know, hey, hey, do you know what I'm gonna send it to him?
Speaker 2:
We're just gonna clip it, go to him and it's a little. You know what? Please do we are.
Speaker 1:
Adam, adam and we will. We will. So Any other thoughts on major Nelson or maybe his impact, just before we move on?
Speaker 3:
And when you send it to him, make sure you don't add the part where I said I forgot about him.
Speaker 1:
I'm gonna, it's gonna start with that. I'm gonna be like, hey, you guys know who major Nelson is and it's gonna cut directly to. I forgot about that guy. So yeah, so yeah, it's. You know it's a bittersweet day for Xbox, but also in Xbox news, just because I feel like Xbox. Ooh, there is one thing on PlayStation I think that's worth talking about. I did not add it to the list, but perhaps we can. But in other Xbox news, just because I've been talking about it a lot lately, the FTC, just the whole Activision Xbox thing some really big developments. A Couple days ago a judge ruled against the FTC, basically allowing the merger to happen. Then the FTC appealed it and then actually earlier today the Another judge denied the appeal. So now it's it's pretty much up to the CMA over in the UK.
Speaker 2:
So the CMA it's basically the country music awards. Oh, I mean you're not wrong.
Speaker 1:
You're not you know, Along, so this is a kind of a strange tangent. Back when I was in I think it was senior junior year in high school we had a history test and my football coach was the teacher and Basically the question was who is Leonardo and all these other? I think it was just who's Leonardo and I said he's a ninja turtle and I got credit for the answer. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:
Because he did.
Speaker 1:
He didn't specify, that was my argument could have also said an actor. Yeah, you know I could have, but I went ninja turtle route.
Speaker 2:
I like that one.
Speaker 1:
But hey, I got credit for it, and the only reason I got credit was because he was my football coach.
Speaker 2:
But I mean, that's neither here nor there and I can I go on a Another tangent based on that tangent? My tangent bro, maybe my internet died, I think no, you're still here.
Speaker 1:
I Still did you. You're still here, You're just kind of like you look like an oil painting kind of all right things.
Speaker 2:
I think I fixed it, um, but anyway, uh, so, going off of that, in high school there was a history teacher who said that he didn't care how we wrote essay answers, as long as we answered the question, you know. So like it didn't matter, like grammar or anything like that so I took them up on that, and there was a question about like the Quakers or something, and I I wrote I swear to God, the front page and the back page about, about Spider-Man, and Then in the last paragraph I answered the question and then went back to spider-man, full credit, and he was like you answered the question.
Speaker 1:
There you did, man, I wonder I, you know I kind of miss those days, but I don't at the same time Just because we wouldn't have those stories without those right but Um, that's great, dude it good old southeast Wisconsin high school education gets you, get you afar, gets you afar. But yeah, no, they still so. Microsoft still needs to Go through the CMA and I think a lot of theirs, their problems, or? issues is with the growing just kind of like subscription service that they have and the the Just game past service is is kind of like at the forefront of their issue. So I Just kind of figured out, share that with you guys.
Speaker 3:
It might my question never get answered. What's?
Speaker 1:
your question. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:
I said woe to CMA, and we're like the country music. It what else?
Speaker 1:
Logan was listening. What's the CMA?
Speaker 5:
Country music awards, obviously yeah, see it exactly.
Speaker 1:
We didn't specify, all right moving on.
Speaker 2:
No matter what Garth, garth Brooks always wins. It doesn't matter if he's had an album out this year. Garth Brooks wins. To formally answer the question tree music.
Speaker 1:
No, it's the UK's FTC, basically, so it's a. It's a trade commission, just overlooking all the corporations and businesses, making sure there's no monopolies, which is a fun game so. I'm really excited. I am Still crossing my fingers that everything goes through, because a Day were all of these games I thought Activision owned take two, by the way, it was that a thing at some point.
Speaker 2:
I thought they were partnered, but I don't think they.
Speaker 1:
I Can't recall Ever owned by them right and maybe maybe they were just they were working together, partnered up, like you said. I because man, I swear I thought they were and like, well, wait, what about Grand Theft Auto? Because Grand Theft Auto is published by take two and there's nothing out there I was looking to yeah, there's nothing looking they were never owned, or they were never yeah.
Speaker 2:
From what I can tell partners with.
Speaker 1:
Activision so right, because there was a time earlier this year maybe, or maybe it was late last year where Sony was trying to buy take two. I'm like, well, how are they gonna do that one Microsoft's buying Activision, but I'm that's just me being an idiot again.
Speaker 2:
No, yeah, it looks like take take two is the parent company there. They don't have okay Like and you know they're not a subsidiary of another company. It looks like, right there, the parent company and then like 2k and rock star Right are Like their main. Yeah, yeah, it's just good, I tell you.
Speaker 1:
reason I bring it up is because Grand Theft Auto is on game pass right now.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, it is, yep.
Speaker 1:
So that's kind of cool. I'm like, well, that that's what brought it back to my the forefront of my mind again. I'm like, wait a minute, so maybe this is the thing, but no, it's not. Cuz could you imagine Grand Theft Auto being on game pass Honestly be the dumbest fucking thing for anybody, because that game makes so much money.
Speaker 2:
Well, no, like it, I don't see what you're saying.
Speaker 1:
So okay, for example, like um go ahead, finish your thought.
Speaker 2:
Well, I was gonna say, like Grand Theft Auto Online, is that free to play yet?
Speaker 5:
No, it should be you know, because they make all their money off of shark cards. Well, I thought on the the was it the game pass? You can get the newest one, and was that? Six, five, Five, Five is the newest or most recent? Yeah, there's four. Four is on there too. You can just play for free and play online. But I think the biggest thing is the microtransactions is oh yeah, that's where they make all their money. That's why they throw out all the free content in the world is because they know it takes so long to be able to actually accumulate the currency in the game, so people just buy the shark cards.
Speaker 2:
Yeah that's what I'm saying. Like I don't know how they would lose money by putting it on game pass. If anything, they would just get more money because now more people will play it for free, get in there and want to buy shark cards. So yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:
Well, I made the point because I think it was Phil Spencer. I can't remember, don't quote me. But uh, zulu, phil Spencer or somebody else said that Starfield is losing out on 10 million, or something like that, in revenue Just because they're keeping it exclusive to Xbox and PC, and I'm sure there's. I was trying to find the article but I can't find it now. But that's, I'm not saying that they would lose money. Now it's formal, it's official, it's official. But I just think that the revenue from being on all the platforms, especially for a game like Grand Theft Auto, is much higher than, say, like Starfield or Skyrim. Well, skyrim's kind of a different kind of animal, but like I, just I don't know how you could keep a game that big just on one platform if you want to make money.
Speaker 2:
Well, are you saying it's exclusive to game pass or it's just going on?
Speaker 1:
No, just to Xbox. Well, so I would assume if this is obviously a hypothetical if Microsoft had Activision take two, they would have Grand Theft Auto on game pass, but they would also sell it elsewhere. That's the right. That's how they would do it if that was the case. But for Starfield they are not doing that Correct, or Indiana Jones, or Indiana. Jones.
Speaker 2:
Which we recently learned.
Speaker 1:
So they're losing out on that revenue being on other platforms and, like I said, there was an article that now I am officially ingrained on the internet forever. That I'm pretty sure is Phil Spencer. You should change that quote now. I'm pretty sure it was Phil Spencer that said that they're losing out on $10 million of revenue. It was alright good enough.
Speaker 6:
Good enough.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, so that is. That's my whole spiel, I guess, on the FTC thing, just another step forward in the right direction, at least for what I want to have happen.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, we'll just have to stay tuned and just see what they plan.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, there's actually on Monday. They have their first court hearing on Monday morning with the CMA to kind of see how things are going to go and what Microsoft's going to have to agree to do to get approved there as well, and I think after the CMA it's pretty much a done deal, like it'll be there. It's going to be interesting. It's a brave new world. It's the single biggest acquisition in gaming history, pretty much so yeah, so do you guys have any thoughts on anything else you want to move on?
Speaker 3:
So is it leaning more on Xbox getting Blizzard and Activision?
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, at this point I'd say it's about eight. At this point I'm saying it's 100% happening. But to what degree will excruciate you?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:
So obviously Call of Duty won't, which is fine. I don't know anybody who like Logan. I know you are a huge Call of Duty fan.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, well, the interesting was, as of the last probably eight to ten years, all the exclusive content that dropped for Call of Duty was always on PlayStation before Xbox and then before the last ten years, or eight to ten years give or take it was all Xbox exclusive, especially like the professional gaming stuff was all Xbox. So they changed the PlayStation the last couple of years, so I doubt that they're going to change it to be just exclusive to Xbox. There's no way.
Speaker 1:
Well, like they said, they've made ten year promises to put it even on Switch, so you can have squeakers on Switch yelling at you about F and your mother. Hey on the Wii.
Speaker 3:
Modern Warfare is on it and had Game Chat. That's right, yeah, and it had Game. Chat. I remember I bought like a piece for the. Wii. Yeah, oh, and it was connected to the Wii and it was a long ass wire that would go to your ear and you just talked through it.
Speaker 1:
Did people play games online on the Wii. On purpose? Yes, well, I don't know on purpose.
Speaker 3:
But like I was playing with a bunch of people and it was never like empty lobbies, it was filled with people and everyone had a mic. Almost everyone did.
Speaker 2:
For the record, there was also Call of Duty games on the DS and they had multiplayer as well.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, but you don't have people screaming that they're going to F your mom.
Speaker 2:
That's probably a word, but you couldn't hear him. That's a good point.
Speaker 6:
That's a good point.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, it's one of those like oh, that dude's so mad, he's totally saying that he just F my mom right now.
Speaker 6:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
You know this is a slight tangent, but so we have a VR headset. My son while I'm working I can always hear him up there like screaming and having a good time. He's playing fricking. Was it Gorilla Tag? I think the game's called. Yeah, have you guys ever heard of that. Oh, dude, the stuff might my stuff, the stuff my son has learned from the kids that play that game has not been good. Oh no, he. I wish I could give some examples. I don't remember them off time. I wasn't expecting to talk about this. But he, oh shit, I can't remember.
Speaker 5:
So, we're like phrases or just phrases or songs, or or oh yeah.
Speaker 1:
He's got. There's this, there's this song, and I can't remember what it was. Maybe I'll text my wife and have him come down here and he can sing it for us.
Speaker 5:
Just enable the bad songs. No, it's funny.
Speaker 1:
He doesn't. But the thing is is he doesn't understand. You know, like, why it's bad. So like I'm like hey dude, just chill out.
Speaker 5:
So don't sing it at school, that's pretty much what I said I'm like dude.
Speaker 1:
I know you don't understand. I told him I'm like dude. I he's like why is it bad? I know you don't understand. Right now, just like try not to say that. So while I text my wife.
Speaker 3:
I worried what song it's his voice singing.
Speaker 1:
It's not bad. It's really not that bad. It's just it's one of those like. It's one of those weird, so there's like a normal song, but like you twist the words around to make it sound inappropriate. It's, it's something like that Like kids are still doing that.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, yeah, like a play on like weird L Yackovich type of stuff, weird.
Speaker 1:
L or it's like main songs Sure I mean sure, but this is like like a eight line song that they changed the words around, like it's kind of like dare right, like people would say, dare is drugs are really excellent, do you remember?
Speaker 5:
that, yeah, yeah, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1:
A Pokemon was banned because of. The mic feature on the DS would record a sound for a special move. That goes from the word pseudo in chat.
Speaker 2:
They did a lot of that with the Wii U too, where, like, you could record stuff or draw stuff and then they had to. They had to roll back on a lot of that, because you can't trust people with that kind of freedom.
Speaker 5:
Not for a second. That's like that kids toy. I was just it was there. It was a kid's toy that was floating around at Target where it's like a little teddy bear thing, that's like bouncing.
Speaker 6:
Yeah, oh no.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, don, you haven't seen this, I don't think I have.
Speaker 3:
Oh, you poor innocent child.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, off stream. We'll share it. We'll show it to you. Okay, I'm ready yeah. It's pretty great.
Speaker 2:
Is the show a quick for this? For what?
Speaker 1:
Oh, Loki cameo, Hold on. So, Logan, what's the song that you learned on Gorilla Tag? You know it was like some of I thought it was something about McDonald's, Do you remember? I don't know, what's one of the songs you learned from Gorilla Tag though?
Speaker 5:
It's just ingrained in his subconscious. Now he can just sing it without thinking about it, but he has to think about it.
Speaker 1:
I know, I know, I know I'm not appropriate and I'm glad that you understand that.
Speaker 6:
But I don't know how to sing it, though, what?
Speaker 1:
do you mean you don't know how to sing it? You were singing it the other day. No, that was not what.
Speaker 3:
I was thinking Put it on the spot.
Speaker 1:
But no, that was you. You did it. You sang it to me. What? How does the song go? You can sing it. It's okay right now.
Speaker 3:
For right now.
Speaker 1:
Just right now. This is the last time you can sing it.
Speaker 2:
Poor kid, so conflicted.
Speaker 1:
You don't have to if you don't want to. It's the last time, if you want to.
Speaker 2:
But if you don't, you won't get dinner, you're going to go to bed hungry.
Speaker 1:
Do you want to sing it or no? You can do it, it's okay, or you don't have to.
Speaker 6:
Maybe next time It'll be out of context. Thanks for coming down, buddy Smart.
Speaker 1:
Move on the next podcast Perfect Next week All right, dude he came down to it next week guys.
Speaker 2:
Hey, he knows how to get listeners to come back. Dude, he's a professional. He's going to get way farther on the Internet.
Speaker 1:
Critical thinker in the hot seat, so respect it.
Speaker 5:
That'd be great. By the way, next week we have Dan Miller for the show.
Speaker 1:
That'd be great. By the way, next week we have Dan Miller from, oh my gosh, brain Knowwerkey. It was Dan Miller. He's a game developer here, local to Wisconsin. It's Kansan. I'm pretty sure it's Fraculation and it is Fraculation. I just didn't want to mix up our last one, but Fraculation Studios is coming on. He actually just did a game jam with a game that's basically people are playing Connect 4 and your goal is to fuck it up. I retweeted it so you can check out the bucket bites Twitter. But anyways, back on track here. To be honest, I don't know. We got so far off track. I don't even remember what we were talking about. Good question Do you know what we came?
Speaker 5:
from the FTC. Yeah, I would say we'll just reel it in and scooch on to the next segment.
Speaker 1:
Scooch on to the next segment. Perfect, I love it. I think I'm going to go to just because I mentioned Starfield in the last segment. Have you guys seen or heard of the AMD sponsorship? That's like basically blocking DLSS on Starfield and other and other. I think it's just Bethesda games, right? Maybe not just Bethesda, but I wish I could find it.
Speaker 3:
Can you explain what DLSS is, josh? Can? I sure can. I was just about to.
Speaker 2:
There you go. Dlss stands for Deep Learning, super Sampling. It's Nvidia proprietary technology. It can only run on Nvidia cards, but what it is is basically AI powered upscaling. So like if you got a 4K monitor but you want to run in more frames per second or run at higher quality than your graphics card can maybe handle in 4K, you can render the game at, say, 1080p and then it'll use AI to upscale it in real time to 4K. So there are basically what Nvidia calls tensor cores which are dedicated to this AI technology. So basically, you get great quality because it does look comparable to like native rendering. You get great quality with less performance requirement. So I run DLSS on everything that I do, just because why not? You can barely tell any difference.
Speaker 5:
I remember seeing it for the first time on Cod and it did a pretty gosh job. Because in Warzone it was that game, At least for my build I was only getting about 70 frames.
Speaker 1:
Oh, you talk about the new one right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5:
So I lowered my resolution. That way I'd be able to at least upscale it and get better frames. So it does a really good job. But so you're saying AMD is blocking that from.
Speaker 1:
Well, okay, so it's a sponsorship deal, and so I don't know the specifics, but my thought process behind the whole thing is that and, logan, I think I told you this at work, actually, but because I believe, josh, please correct me if I'm wrong Microsoft's Xbox is an AMD chip GPU in their system, so I think the PS5 is as well, yeah, so why would they have no Well, starfield's not even going on, whatever, but so they're developing these games and it's sponsored, like if you're a company, a gaming company, you're developing these games. Why wouldn't you take the free money and just say, oh, they're gonna pay me money, so just not to have this DLSS feature.
Speaker 2:
Just sure and and also to be fair, so AMD's has a comparable solution. It's called FSD, which is, I Don't remember, some fight, fidelity, super resolution or something sure but it's not right yeah something. It's not on the same Tier it's not on the same like level, but yeah, what they have versus Nvidia's Proprietary engine is that AMD's FSR will run on anything. That's true, so it'll run on AMD cards and video cards, integrated graphics, intel cards, whatever. It runs anywhere like Steam Deck, yeah, fsr comes in handy because it runs on there. So okay. That's what's great about FSR. So in a way it's like alright, pc users aren't really losing out because you still get that. You know AI super sampling Feature. It's just not DLSS, which in my experience, looks better. Yeah. It's fast, like cuz it's faster and FSR gives weird Artifacts. Yeah, it's really hard to describe, but once you see it, you see it like you know, whereas I haven't really experienced that with DLSS, so right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, dlss is great and that's why so many people are upset about it and I, just like I said, I figured we would.
Speaker 2:
We would talk about it because, starfield, I can see I yeah, and I can see where AMD is coming from, because they're like we don't want you to put DLSS in it, because that'll encourage people to buy and video cards to run it. Yeah, well.
Speaker 1:
So this is one of the arguments I saw actually on Reddit. Oh, because everything's but it's. It's a good point. Nvidia in the past has been known for blocking and pushing their own kind of stupid salt like hair works, and I forget what the other ones are called. There's something. Yeah, yeah, physics, so, but in this whole time, amd's kind of been the good guy, not forcing anything anywhere. And and now people are like, well, what the hell? Now AMD is trying to do this whole scummy thing. And people are trying to shit on AMD, but at the same time, people quickly forget that, well, nvidia has been doing this like their entire life.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I say, we drop the what about is. I mean we just shit on both of them.
Speaker 3:
I Similar to. This is similar to Xbox and Sony, I think.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's any kind of yeah.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, any time right it's a shun thing, but that's often my head immediately when I heard that, because it when Xbox started making things Exclusive, it's a problem.
Speaker 1:
Well, it's, well I. Exclusivity is a thing that I just wish would fucking die, but but it won't it. But in a way, exclusivity is okay. The only reason I find exclusivity in any way okay is because these big companies with all this money pay these developers to be exclusive and that funds their development more.
Speaker 2:
Mm-hmm. Well competition is always good for the consumer at the end of the day, Because it drives each company to try to do better for the consumer right.
Speaker 1:
No, I agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5:
Which makes sense why the DLSS is better, because they've been doing it longer than Nvidia has. So how much money and research They've put sinking into that technology, it's gonna give them an edge. So it's just.
Speaker 2:
It's just one of those things where well, because it's proprietary, like they can develop hardware specifically for it, versus AMD's solution which has to work on everything. So you know, got it. Hmm, it's interesting. Well, we'll we'll see how the super sampling war Goes moving forward.
Speaker 1:
But well, hopefully the better one wins and AMD can just like fucking stop and just improve their tech.
Speaker 2:
I like how you. You're preemptively saying Nvidia's gonna win. Hopefully the better one wins and AMD fucks off.
Speaker 1:
But I did say it. Hopefully Nvidia or AMD improves their tech, so that's. It's the thing, that's the competition. It grows. So just real quick. In between topics here, I do want to let you guys know that we are doing a game of the month Again for the month of July. Last month we had banished courtesy of Henry from Dark Fusion Systems. This month, we are doing? What's that?
Speaker 3:
as a thank you, henry.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it was good. I didn't actually brought me back to banished and I had a good time with it, but we gave that away. Mom men's was the winner for that. She already got the copy of the game. This month is a game that I had no while I was on my radar and then it completely fell off. I didn't even know released. Then it came out and I fell in love with it. It's game called bramble. It's a nice little I Don't know how to explain it so it's like a third person kind of platforming action Not really action, but it's an adventure game where you play as this little boy Go ahead.
Speaker 3:
I think it could be. I think it can be compared to like little nightmares.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 3:
Like those type of the games.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, so really pretty indie game puzzle based. Yeah, it was a good storyline which your, your sample that you streamed, was really good, kind of Depicting, kind of the intro of the game.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, so what we do on bucket bites every month we do a game of the month. This month is bramble. We would love for you to play along with us if you already own the game, but we also give away a copy of the game and I don't know if it's actually working in chat or not. I don't know if I turned it on.
Speaker 5:
It is a game, pass do by the way it do.
Speaker 1:
It's funny, it was not even planned. It was not even planned. They literally announced it for game pass like three weeks after I had it on the list for game of the month. But you can choose to win a copy of bramble or a bucket bites t-shirt or next month's game. So if you go to bucket bites dot GG and you go to the game of the month pad, you can see that there. So stay tuned for the summer giveaway code. We'll be giving that out a little bit later, so we'll talk about that later. Um, something you want here. Let's go to what? Let's go to a Dom topic.
Speaker 3:
Oh, dom topic. So one of my topics was Talking about more to combat one the reboot. To the reboot. Yeah and I think so far from what I've seen, it might have more potential than more to combat 11 and from the little like steam reviews and Players talking about it, it might feel better than more to combat 11. I don't know if anyone here is enjoys the more combat series like I do, but more to combat 11 to me was very Annoying to try to get into. There was a lot of like random things. They added very poor tutorials, but what from what I heard?
Speaker 1:
fighting game. What kind of tutorial. You just mash buttons.
Speaker 3:
No, like the special, none, but like special moves, and then I'm gonna be out of is there?
Speaker 5:
is there From a from a guy that doesn't really play any of those type of games? Is there a lot of counter moves or is it just all?
Speaker 3:
offensive. There is like quote-unquote counters, like if someone misses a move then it can be punished, and Sometimes punishes will do more damage. And then there's other moves, called crushing blows, which I think they might have taken out. They would do even more damage. What a combo. 11 had a lot of like balance issues, I think. But yeah, there is punishes, there is defense and other things which I think every fighting game kind of has now. But I'm very, I'm very excited to see how more to combat one turns out, especially since the DLC was kind of leaked already.
Speaker 1:
Oh, what's well? What's the DLC?
Speaker 3:
The DLC is Like, I think, homelander from the boys.
Speaker 1:
Is it really? Okay, that's actually really fucking good that.
Speaker 3:
I think the DLC for more to combat 11 was very mediocre because it was a lot of old man stuff.
Speaker 1:
Sorry, what do you mean? Old man stuff?
Speaker 3:
Rambo Robocop Arnold.
Speaker 1:
All those things are badass too.
Speaker 3:
They're cool as shit, right, but like there's an appeal to me actually I'm not.
Speaker 1:
I'm probably gonna get hate for this, but I've always not loved Robocop, and there's actually Robocop, a cop game, that's coming out, but that's that sidebar, sorry.
Speaker 2:
Well, to be fair, you're not from Detroit, so I don't think anybody will shit on you.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, another DLC character those could might be confirmed is Omni man as well as Homelander, but I don't know how those two are gonna work in the same game.
Speaker 5:
No, it's so funny about the boys and that, being a DLC, is they're dropping Noir Homelander and Starlight in Call of Duty. Yeah, I was that.
Speaker 3:
I was like yeah, if you go on the boys like Instagram page, they're promoting it all the time. Or black noir Starlight in Homelander All gonna end in New Call of Duty.
Speaker 1:
You guys have all seen the boys.
Speaker 3:
I'm a super I have, I love it.
Speaker 2:
It's not no.
Speaker 1:
The boys is one of those shows that I absolutely love. It's just. But I can't. I Get to a point where I just like I'm not interested, like I don't know, I I don't know how to explain it, I can't finish it.
Speaker 5:
Was the cringe too much or you just get bored.
Speaker 1:
But that's just it. I don't get bored. I think that's because my wife gets bored of it, so like we just kind of stop watching it. I.
Speaker 5:
So it's not necessarily on your end. If you had the opportunity to just sit around and watch it yourself, you would just keep going. Yeah, I finished the current, like all cut no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:
I think we've only gotten to the end of season two, or start of season three, I think, because there's five.
Speaker 3:
Four four three, three isn't there. Aren't they making four right now?
Speaker 5:
Yes, there's three and they're making. Yeah, yeah, Jeffrey D.
Speaker 3:
Morgan is in season four, is he? Yes, he is. I'm excited to see him.
Speaker 1:
He's in walking dad, right, that's.
Speaker 2:
Oh.
Speaker 5:
I love that man as a character. He was in super, on that, or, yeah, he was the dad in Supernatural. He was on that One hospital show that I can't think of.
Speaker 2:
Graze anatomy the Graze anatomy.
Speaker 3:
Yes, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was yeah.
Speaker 2:
He was also. He was also Batman's dad in. Batman v Superman. Oh, really, for about two seconds he was. He was Batman's dad spoilers. Batman's parents are killed.
Speaker 3:
Oh, I don't believe this isn't Jensen Eccles in Supernatural as well.
Speaker 5:
No, he is in the boys, obviously I know Jensen.
Speaker 3:
Eccles, but like he's in Supernatural.
Speaker 5:
Oh, supernatural, that's what it was. Yes, yes, which that was like they were.
Speaker 3:
they ran like over 20 seasons, it was yeah, funny enough, jensen Eccles also voiced Batman in something. Did he really everybody's voiced Batman.
Speaker 2:
At this point, though, I haven't no, sorry, damn.
Speaker 3:
Have you been a super man already did.
Speaker 2:
Supernatural is like nine, ninety thousand episodes, so yeah you want to watch that set aside a year. It can't be worse than lost. No, it's way worse than lost. Lost was only six seasons, yeah, but there was like 20 season episode 20 episode seasons Like the first couple, and then, after the writer's strike, it wasn't okay, I guess, yeah, I suppose that's true.
Speaker 1:
The boy what is up with the boys lately? They're really going hard on the marketing because they they're starting a like a boys. The boys like in like college or high school.
Speaker 3:
Or what was it. I think it's called um. I Forgot the name of the show, but yeah, they're. They're gonna make a new show. Student was a bunch of college students life compound, probably, because I don't know why they're doing it, but I think it could be interesting.
Speaker 2:
What are they calling it? The young men like how do you?
Speaker 1:
Well wait, wouldn't that make them older? They should call them the children, the toddlers.
Speaker 3:
It's called Gen V.
Speaker 6:
That's the thing they're making it's called Gen V.
Speaker 3:
And. I'm gonna guess there's gonna be like a lot of shitheads in that show probably, I mean most like these days.
Speaker 1:
Do you say post likely, most likely. I thought it was a shot. I thought it was a shot.
Speaker 3:
Wait, another one of my topics was talking about one of my favorite games, cyberpunk 2077, one of your favorite games.
Speaker 2:
I think we've had this.
Speaker 1:
I don't mind that game at all.
Speaker 3:
But dumb. After two and a half years, the reviews on steam are now positive. This is very like minor things, right, but I thought it was so cool because I think that game deserves the recognition.
Speaker 5:
Sure and how much money they spent in marketing. It's it's mediocre at best and it's not negative.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'm kind of on Dom's side with this one because I very much enjoyed cyberpunk. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:
I enjoyed it just fine, but it's just. It's just a funny thing to be excited about. It's like after two years negative.
Speaker 3:
Because everyone was shitting on that game and I hated to see it happen. But I understood why it got shat on.
Speaker 2:
I Understand it, but had to have shitted on, not shatted on.
Speaker 3:
Okay, sorry my bad.
Speaker 1:
Can't say shut. I say shut all the time. I was joking. Oh, okay, I forgive you.
Speaker 3:
But and I'm also hyped for the DLC come for cyberpunk as well. So, yeah, I'm why I wanted to bring this up.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, is that patch out like the? Because aren't they releasing a big patch and then the DLC?
Speaker 3:
I don't think the patch is out yet. No, I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2:
Because I've been waiting for a replay until that patch is out. Yeah, it might be, yeah.
Speaker 3:
Probably in August, I'd assume, since the DLC is coming out in September.
Speaker 1:
Are you going male V or female V?
Speaker 3:
I'm gonna continue on my character I have already, which is Playthrough I was asking Josh oh.
Speaker 2:
Oh, yeah, probably male again male. Just cuz it's easier for a self-insert, you know sure yeah, I get that, I get that.
Speaker 3:
I will say female V is a better voice actor, I think yeah usually the case, man Shepherd, shepherd takes it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'm chef. I'm chefs way better, dude, do I got to do a fem chef play through? I've never done a fem chef play through, me neither, but I. You know you need to get over your like, your, your young Person self and like, stop hating old people. But you need to play Mass Effect, just for the record, I.
Speaker 3:
Do I start on a certain one. Do I start the first one?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you get the definitive edition or whatever it was. What was it called?
Speaker 1:
It's yeah, they have the. Yeah, it's on. Yes, it's the definitive edition.
Speaker 2:
Yeah they just play the play, the trilogy. Okay, legendary edition. I just looked it up.
Speaker 1:
Yeah you'll. You'll have to get over the the 2006 or 7 control scheme on an action RPG.
Speaker 3:
I hope it's not that bad. It's not bad, it's not bad.
Speaker 2:
Oh my god, people, people shit on it way more than they should pace, I went back to. I went back and played the first Mass Effect. That game still fucking holds up like it is, so good this. The second Mass Effect, does not hold up and the third Mass Effect was always bad. But um you know, I like them.
Speaker 1:
If you can get past the Citadel and Mass Effect one, you can finish the game. Okay, it's the first time you're in the Citadel, josh. After you know what I'm talking about, I know that we totally hijacked the cyberpunk segment. Um, I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, so don't worry about it's not important, but I know that I will be Playing through cyberpunk again.
Speaker 2:
You just mean pacing wise? Yeah, pacing wise.
Speaker 1:
No, no, no, no, no, it's just. I am sure you're gonna, I'm sure you're gonna replay cyberpunk and totally finish it. That's not a little sarcastic.
Speaker 2:
Why are you not finished cyberpunk? Oh, no, I did, oh.
Speaker 3:
Po, oh, you put, he gives me, he gives me shit because, yeah, I finished the cyberpunk once. Oh, I'm surprised.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, me too, you were there.
Speaker 3:
I wasn't there for that, no okay, I was there for your reruns, like your 10 reruns.
Speaker 1:
Oh, because I played cyberpunk offline because I wanted to watch all the weird like naked scenes oh yeah. Okay, listen, don't judge me over here.
Speaker 2:
Okay, well, that's a great segue, because video games with nudity are apparently a problem on the internet.
Speaker 6:
Well oh, what do you mean?
Speaker 2:
Okay, Well, so, friend of the show great game trade, greg posted something on Twitter earlier today, so he's part of a YouTube channel called drop rate and that is a. There. They've been huge fans of mine and suggestive gaming's for shit years now, like five or six years at this point, and Apparently YouTube just up and deleted their channel today out of nowhere. No, no, whoa, no strike nothing, no strikes.
Speaker 1:
One caveat is that they got a warning like three years ago about something from the game, but it wasn't a strike. I don't. I don't know if it was a strike, but they did get some kind of like email warning or something and they took the video down.
Speaker 2:
But anyways, you know, yeah so their entire channel was just removed today. For what was it? Sexual content or something?
Speaker 1:
Oh, oh, it was. It was quote-unquote. Apparently, they severely violated the policies For nudity and sexual content you know it's crazy.
Speaker 3:
We're getting feedback. Yeah, his channel got fully deleted. What. There's a guy Named Kevin Leonardo. He made a video removing butt hairs using nair cream and he showed his whole asshole on the camera.
Speaker 2:
Well, that was educational, so you know right.
Speaker 5:
But you think that what that channel? You think that they would have at least just demonetized the channel before the video flat out, don't? Well, I'm assuming that they had more than just the one video that might have had explicit content in it.
Speaker 2:
So the the thing I will say is and I'm sorry, jeremy, I love you, is that actually? I don't. I don't know if it was. If it's Jeremy or Jared who does it, one of the two, I'm sorry, I love you, but they do cover a lot of the weird, like sex games like sex, like Hitler.
Speaker 1:
Kind of yeah, not that I've ever played that on stream before on this.
Speaker 2:
I yeah, right, I don't know if that was one of them, but like that kind of stuff, but from everything I've seen, I haven't seen like any explicit, you know, like actual right. Like they're pretty smart about not showing off like the actual stuff, right.
Speaker 1:
So like I don't know if that's what it was or you know what's going on, but the worst part about it is a lot of their streams for drop rate have been charity streams that like I and he'll just post the videos on YouTube and Like it's just a slap in the fucking face and it's actually kind of scary. And just just so you know, I can hear a little bit of myself on your mic. Yeah, I'm trying to fix all this, I will. I will talk quieter. No, I'm turning my sir my volume down.
Speaker 2:
I have a lot of fans on so I had to turn you up super loud. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1:
Sorry you have a lot of YouTube fans as well. Ah-huh, um, but it's, it's kind of scary. You know, obviously I don't have, we don't have a big YouTube channel, but like, for example, josh, you have a Pretty large YouTube channel with suggestive gaming, like. What would, what would go through your mind if you woke up one morning at like six in the morning and you got an email from YouTube at four Saying you have too much sexual content on your video and we just deleted your channel?
Speaker 2:
I've had Single videos get demonetized. That like completely ruined my year. You know what I mean? Sure cuz, because my shit is so long, you know right. So they take so long to create and all of a sudden YouTube's just like nope. And you'll be like um, hey, can I dispute this? And it's like Nope. The automated robot said nope, it's like okay. Well, can you tell me what was wrong so I could fix it and reupload? No, get fucked. So like that shit always scares me. It's literally the only reason I still have a day job, because like this kind of shit makes me think like, yeah, one day YouTube might just be like oh, no, you know what? No, never mind.
Speaker 1:
We're done with you, we're done.
Speaker 5:
It's bug hold the channel.
Speaker 2:
Yep, yep. So how would I react? I'd be like all right, well, that was fun, that was a good run. I guess I focus on my day job now. You know what I mean. Like it sucks, but that's I don't know like.
Speaker 1:
God, I couldn't imagine the amount of like stress and hysteria and just like the peer, and it wouldn't even be like stress, it would be rage, frustration. Yeah, I wouldn't even do. No, I wouldn't even be frustrated, I would be, like I would be so frustrated that, like, if you disagreed with me on the housing market, I would punch you in the face.
Speaker 2:
Fair enough, man Fair enough.
Speaker 1:
I mean you know what I mean Like it would be that frustrating, Like I would want to punch somebody.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Well, and it's oh, sorry Go ahead.
Speaker 2:
The thing that's most frustrating is again I think Jared said that like last time this happened, like three years ago or whatever, there was a person that they could talk to and get it all figured out, whereas now they've removed so much of the human element that you can't there's nobody to talk to. It's all automated. So like, when this happens, you can't dispute it and YouTube doesn't care. They're just like, whatever Channels are, a fucking dime, a dozen who gives a shit. So like, and a great example of that I can speak from experience is and I don't know if I'm breaking an NDA, so if I am, I'm sorry, don't sue me YouTube, if I had a YouTube channel with 350,000 subscribers, theoretically, and so when On YouTube, when you hit 100,000 subscribers, you qualify for the I forget what it's called, but it's like it's something where you get like a partner, manager, like a person that you can actually work with yeah community manager Yep. And they'll actually like help you with stuff like that, like disputes and copyright and all of that. So if I had a YouTube channel with 350,000 subscribers, I would have finally gotten like a partner manager a couple months ago. So I would have been super excited because now I could finally get the answers to all of these questions like why did this video get demonetized? Or so on and so forth. And then I would be met with massive disappointment when all that manager did was go oh no, I'm just here to show you how to use shorts and how to make your channel more appropriate for shorts, because we're really pushing this shorts thing. So I'm not going to help you out with anything, but if you want to set up a meeting to talk about shorts, let's do that.
Speaker 1:
Dude, that would be not a good thing. I'm so glad that that didn't happen to you.
Speaker 2:
No, theoretically, if that happened, it would suck because it would show that YouTube is really moving away from focusing on actually giving their creators any kind of support, feedback or you know clarity.
Speaker 5:
Right. Right.
Speaker 1:
And that's I don't know. That doesn't make me feel good just because I know like that's one of my big focuses on the second half of this year is like for bucket bites pushing more YouTube content, video content, just to kind of like help, try to put you know.
Speaker 2:
Obviously you know, but like let me tell you, shorts are real important. You should really focus on that.
Speaker 1:
You know the dumbest fucking thing is there's no button for shorts on the YouTube fucking website. You got to do it for your fucking phone. No, there's. There's a thing for shorts or to make them.
Speaker 2:
No and no, I'm like, I'm on YouTube. If you go to YouTube's website, yeah, it's on the left, it's like on the first thing Under home. It's literally like right there.
Speaker 1:
No, no, no, no To create Okay. So what I mean is to like to upload the short.
Speaker 2:
Yes, yes you like that is.
Speaker 1:
It has to be on your phone.
Speaker 2:
Kind of. I'm sure there's a way to go around that, if you make a vertical video that's under a certain amount of time, it'll automatically be a short.
Speaker 1:
But that's the other thing that sucks. It's not like TikTok, where it's you got. You know, if you make whatever you get, you can get like 10 minutes on TikTok. You know where it's. You're limited to 60 seconds on YouTube, so yeah.
Speaker 5:
What's the point of short? To be honest, Is it just a direct competition with the stories on Snapchat and?
Speaker 3:
Facebook and Instagram TikTok Yep, it's the competition with TikTok.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, everybody's just trying to be TikTok.
Speaker 1:
No one's going to be TikTok, that's just it.
Speaker 2:
Well, shorts is pretty close. I'm not going to lie, I've I've do you know what.
Speaker 1:
Actually, facebook's really isn't that bad either.
Speaker 2:
That short.
Speaker 1:
Like, I hate to say, I hate to say that, but Facebook yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, facebook and Instagram obviously are the same thing, so yeah, Sure Right, I just they're, they're close.
Speaker 1:
I just I've something hits different about TikTok's algorithm, and maybe it's just the content that's on the platform.
Speaker 2:
And it's that Chinese.
Speaker 5:
They figured it out, man. Yeah, they cracked the code for algorithm, clearly.
Speaker 1:
They know how to turn my back on the American people. So I don't know, but it is, it's disconcerting and it makes me nervous to try and you know, obviously it's not a full-time job but like to try and push.
Speaker 2:
Forward for pseudo in the chat. Wouldn't shorts work? Great for suggestive gaming? Suggest game for small bits of knowledge? Yeah, that would work absolutely perfectly. Thank you for that. Actually, no, I don't know, I'm so into long form content Like I love, like the fact that I made a six hour Metal Gear video and they want me to make a less than 60 second video. It's like I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1:
Do you know how hard it is to make a 60 second video?
Speaker 2:
When you're trying to push out information, hardest thing to do is to make a six hour one.
Speaker 1:
Yeah Well, dude, just trying to figure out what you got to cut. Right, like sometimes Like key components. I remember when tic-tac was you know a 60 second limit and trying to figure out how I was going to fit a video into that. I didn't know how to, and my shit wasn't even an essay like what you do, josh Right.
Speaker 5:
You know so. But the funny thing on the flip side, well, that's what made Vine so great, because they were three seconds, so you'd have a general reaction or something that would happen and then you go and then it would end and it just yeah, it just worked. That's what was so great about it, because now this tic-tac is this 60 seconds, the two minute, like since they updated the two minute on tic-tac, it definitely allowed.
Speaker 6:
Ten minutes For more Right Right post.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I think you can actually. Yeah, tic-tac, depending on what they allow you to have, can be 10 to, I think, 15 minutes. Now is actually the longest, I think.
Speaker 2:
I tried it, though, and I think, like my three minute videos performed way better than my 10 minute videos.
Speaker 1:
Right. Well, yeah, and that's just how tic-tac is, though it's all short for it, right, like you got to get that attention in literally 1.8 seconds or they're gone.
Speaker 2:
So Because I did experiment with splitting my videos up into tic-tacs, yeah, where I would just do like part one, part two, part three, part four, and it actually did like semi-well. So it's weird, well because, people are like oh.
Speaker 1:
I mean, if you can get them in that first second Yep.
Speaker 5:
And they're like oh hey, watch the whole thing, watch all the parts.
Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
We're like you don't know why it's getting pushed the way it is, but you know it's absolutely the worst Weird.
Speaker 1:
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Speaker 6:
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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
I'm a professional.
Speaker 6:
I'm a true professional.
Speaker 3:
This is a mess.
Speaker 1:
But that's, but, that's, that's, that's bucket bites, it's certainly as bucket bites. There's no other way. So I did want to talk a little bit about this weird tic-tac clone or not tic-tac clone Twitter clone that seemed to have come out fairly recently and I kind of know Logan's stance on it and I am really looking forward to his actual thoughts on it, but threads came out about a week ago maybe just over a week ago, I think it was and they amassed some crazy amount of what. What is it? I think it was like 15 million or 10 million people in the short amount of time. Now, granted, it's easy because it's linked to your Instagram.
Speaker 5:
So if you had an Instagram counter in there, but which means it's tied to Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, eisenberg, mr MMA.
Speaker 5:
Mr MMA is the backer of it.
Speaker 2:
So however you feel about, so before we get into any any you know Zuckerberg meta stuff, I will say the one thing that threads did insanely well was how it linked with Instagram and you just hit like one button and it ported everything over. You could follow everybody that you're already following. You know, anybody who's already following you can easily already follow you, so that was actually like surprisingly user friendly. Yeah, I was actually kind of amazed at how well that worked, but aside, from that we can just wanted to get the good stuff out of the way.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, damn, damn Dom, did you were you aware of threads?
Speaker 3:
at all. I know about threads, but I don't. I'm not interested in that type of stuff for media.
Speaker 1:
No, I don't even have a Twitter account. I don't say you're not big on Twitter either.
Speaker 3:
I do have a Twitter account, but I don't use it.
Speaker 1:
Gotcha Um plug in. What are your thoughts, buddy?
Speaker 5:
Uh well, I'm just not a huge fan of Metta and Mark Zuckerberg and what he's been promoting. As far as just trying to make an anomaly of the social media realm, I think it's just based off of the previous experiences that he's had. Without going into great detail of as far as selling private information, all that good stuff it just I have a bad taste in my mouth about him. So for him just to make another platform, for him to, just because he's got the support to handle it, and then there's the whole backlash with people are not a huge fan of how Twitter's going since the buyout.
Speaker 4:
So also oh, sorry to cut you off. No, no, you go Go.
Speaker 3:
For Twitter, don't they add like a? They added a limit, didn't they? That's the other thing.
Speaker 5:
How many? How many think? How many things you can view a day? Based off of how many, is it your following count or your followers count?
Speaker 2:
No, it's just if you're, if you're Twitter blue.
Speaker 5:
Oh, that's right. Yes, if you either pay for the checkmark or you're verified because you're famous or whatever, yeah, it's actually the story behind that's amazing as to why that had to happen.
Speaker 2:
Because Zuckerberg, or Zuckerberg Musk, just decided not to pay the Google cloud storage, so they can't support the amount of traffic anymore. So he's just like ah, fuck it, you just can't view tweets anymore. You can't view a tweet unless you're logged in anymore, which is insane.
Speaker 3:
Oh really. Oh my God, yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 2:
It broke tons of Google searches and stuff like that. Like if it linked to a tweet like oh, my God.
Speaker 1:
It doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 2:
So Google can't scrape Twitter anymore, so like you can't. Google search for tweet, because you have to be logged in in order to see tweets, so it's really strange.
Speaker 5:
It's crazy because there has been such a shift in momentum, because it's almost like this impending acquire of Twitter and then it's just been like a slow burn of basically a crash and burn, if you will, of Twitter, and it's sad to see that it's taken that way because, obviously, with his name is escaping me right now, who owns Twitter right now? Elon, musk, musk? I don't know, I couldn't think of Elon, but it's just his radical way of how he is operating. That platform, unfortunately, is slow, crashing and burning and people are just not a huge fan of him and how, like, where he got the money from and whatnot. So people are being, I would say, a little bit more liberal, if you will, on just the aspects of the app versus. So it just seems like this whole new app is taking advantage of the slow crash and burn of Twitter, which people are projecting that it will tank and Twitter might not actually exist within the next probably three years or something.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, musk is I mean he is scrambling to get Twitter to be something like he's got Tucker Carlson on there with the show he's trying to get, like other video creators, onto Twitter and it's just not working Like there was a really pathetic tweet where he tweeted at MrBeast and he was like hey, we'll pay you more than YouTube, I promise oh my God. Mrbeast was just like no, no, thanks. And then it was hilarious because right after that, MrBeast gave away a Tesla with a giant thread sticker on it. Oh, it was amazing.
Speaker 3:
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:
It was amazing. Mrbeast is great just for that. But yeah, so Musk is really trying. But yeah, I could see. I mean considering they're not even paying the bills anymore, like it's not going to go well for Twitter.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, they're just doing enough to keep the lights on.
Speaker 3:
Oh yeah, can I jump back like a tiny bit real quick? Yeah go, he gave Tucker Carlson with fucking Carlson. Tucker Carlson, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Carlos Tuckerson got a. It's Tucker on Twitter is the name of the show Wow. And yeah, when he got fired or left Fox News whatever happened there, nobody really knows he immediately yeah, he's got a show on Twitter now and his last episode, or one of the latest episodes, he interviewed Andrew Tate. So that's a great example of where Twitter's going.
Speaker 5:
Oh no, that's awful, which is transforming the identity of what Twitter is into something else Just 100%. But that's why Musk did it.
Speaker 2:
That was his whole thing of like I you know Twitter's this thing and I you know everybody sees it as this thing. So I'm completely shifted into this other thing. I wanted to be. I really I, as in Musk, not.
Speaker 1:
Josh Hart. Obviously I don't want to make this a political thing, just because I know how it like, we're really dancing.
Speaker 3:
That's why I'm being vague. We are.
Speaker 1:
Did you see that yesterday that they're going, twitter is going to be sharing ad revenue with its creators? Did you guys see that?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, well, that's, that's them trying to get creators there. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And you can see that a lot it's like it's selective on who they chose to first kind of be one of those creators that's getting ad revenue, and a lot of those people are, and I don't know who's on it, but supposedly they're all really like far right wing. Oh, so what here's? Here's what I'm on like. Honestly, I'm scared of happening so bait. What I'm afraid of happening is Twitter becoming truth social and thread becoming your left wing, like just having two separate.
Speaker 2:
Where does blue sky fit into this.
Speaker 1:
And it's funny because blues and I saw this, so I wanted to talk with this, about with a bike man last week, because I know that he's on blue sky. He just he just got in there. So I thought, and we're going to bring this up when we have them on. I don't know where that fits.
Speaker 2:
But those unaware, blue sky is Jack Dorsey's new kind of Twitter alternative. He was the the former, I guess CEO of Twitter Sure. So before before the Musk takeover. So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1:
It looks. It looks a lot different than what Twitter used to be, though it looks like it's a lot more of a almost even like a video. Like it's weird Not video website, like something with domains and and some other shit.
Speaker 2:
That's the weird thing, but threads is doing that too. Like if you go on threads, yeah, and you look at somebody's like username, there's like a threads dot, whatever. Really, yeah, mast it on does the same thing. I don't get it. Like I'm a computer science major and I don't understand this shit. Like it makes no sense to me. So for the normal consumer I don't know how that's going to work. Where there's like multiple, like subsets, it's almost like a subreddit, almost where, like, you can sign up for a different domain within the app.
Speaker 1:
Right when I don't know if that just good points good point.
Speaker 2:
We won't even get into that. Um Jesus, but yeah. So I'm sorry, go on with with what you were seeing as Twitter being right.
Speaker 1:
And then it just scares the shit out of me that we're just going to have people sticking to one platform or another because you're going to just have the same, just echo chamber of what you want to hear and I, can I give an alternate? Can I give an?
Speaker 2:
alternate just real quick. Yeah, um. So the way I see that, as I'm sure, twitter is reaching for the you know far right folks because and and again, I'm a centrist I don't want to get into any kind of politics or any kind of political thing about this, but most of what the right and very much so the far right like to talk about and like to include in their you know media is not allowed on most platforms. Right, because most platforms are like sane and they're we don't want to just you know shit on people for their identities and whatever. So the right sees that as censorship. So then you get people like Elon Musk who are like we're I'm all about free speech, so I'm going to bring them in, but really it's more so just like advertisers don't really want to associate with like for lack of a better word like discrimination or anything like that Hate speech, sure. So that's the way I see it, whereas, like, I don't see it as necessarily political. I just see it more so as Elon's reaching for anybody he can get and the only people he's going to be able to get are people who are already kicked off of better platforms.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, yeah, yeah Right.
Speaker 3:
Is he playing off of them? Basically? I feel like that's what he's doing, like he's playing off like right wingers.
Speaker 2:
Oh, 100% yeah, Because they can't go anywhere else. They can't go to YouTube. They can go to truth. They can go to truth. They can go to rumble.
Speaker 3:
Oh, yeah, let's bring Alex Jones back.
Speaker 2:
Well, I wouldn't be surprised. Well, I think Musk doesn't like Alex Jones because of Sandy Hook, so I think we're safe there, oh shit, yeah, oh no.
Speaker 1:
It's just it's going to happen, naturally. I mean, that's just how it is, people. Unless you're trying to troll somebody on the opposite viewpoint, you're just going to want to be in an echo chamber, and if there's not, a place where there's going to be everybody together. You're just going to be in that same. You're just going to be in an echo chamber. And that's honestly what scares me, because it's important, I think, to hear both sides of the aisle, regardless if it's right or if you agree with it.
Speaker 2:
I agree with that 110%, like I'm always a see what everybody's doing and right in the middle somewhere that's why, like I said, I'm yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1:
You know one side or the other, necessarily, but you know right, it's just yeah, and, like I said, we don't like it in political, so I don't want to. I don't want to. You know, push it that way. But it's really interesting what this whole thread Twitter, you know what's the other one, blue sky and truth it's going to be really interesting to see what kind of comes from all this. But what I do know is that threads was not ready to release, but they saw how bad Elon was fucking up his platform and they're like flip the switch flip it and look at they got 15 million in a week and a half. So it's insane, it's insane.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, you made a valid point, though, ryan, just talking about how there is a divide, because well, there always will be there, always will be, and it's sad because it's just getting worse and worse over the last quite a few years. So it's sad to see, but I hope that threads just stays a little bit more in the middle aisle and not and doesn't go as deep as Twitter did, especially with all like, because that was what Elon was riding the high on was all the leaks from all the interesting things that happened behind the scenes, which was making headline news for a minute there. But we just it just, and that's where the bad taste by mouth is with what happened with Facebook and them changing the meta. I just like, I hate this thing that he would go that route.
Speaker 2:
But I think that I mean, the one thing that gives me hope on that is, like you don't see a lot of that on Instagram, but then again, instagram isn't necessarily about just sharing your thoughts, so like, we'll see where it goes, and I'm just speaking from, like, the audience perspective.
Speaker 5:
Well, that's, that's the, that's the catch 22, without trying to be too political because it's catered like content. What you see on Instagram is what you think is happening out in reality, in world or whatever. Yeah, social media in general Well versus what's on on TikTok, because there's some. There's riots and stuff that people are not covering on the news and they're leaving it out on social media. But you've got these independent people that are filming out on the streets as if they're their own video journalists or whatever, sharing about what's going on in the world and it's just like well, that's.
Speaker 1:
That's one reason I like TikTok is just because of it's just you see what's posted. Yeah, it's, it's raw, I love. I love that. I don't. even if it's, you know, it's up to you to determine what's right and what's not, and what's real and what's not, and it's something that I like that Twitter used to do before the Elon takeover was and I think Facebook did this to a degree to they had, you know, the third party fact checkers, that who knows where the bias actually was, but it was nice to see it on both sides. For the most part, you would see it and you could click on it to get more context into the the. You know, whatever it was at hand there and I actually really liked that it was still there. I think it's crowdsourced, so is it okay, and I hope that shit stays there, because getting I just like I don't know it really bugs me when something's just purposely put out there. That's false and it happens both sides that it's nice to get extra context as to hey, this is why we think this is false and it's up to you.
Speaker 2:
That's politics Like yeah, all right. General like it's good to have a grip of reality. Yeah, like, or at least other, you know sources or opinions on something, so you don't get, you know like oh yeah, like, but that's, that's what it is for a grain of salt. Yeah, I'm trying to think of like, here's a good example outside, like maybe like the Johnny Depp Amber heard thing, like where, like there were so many opinions going around without the full information, it was just like, oh, she is manipulative, oh, he's a wife, peter, like there was no nuance to any of it. So you know, you get those headlines and just it's. It's so hard to put context into 140 characters or whatever. We're at these days.
Speaker 5:
That's true, right, yeah, and with that case was like opening behind the curtain of celebrity lifestyle, which most people cannot understand what that's like. So if you hear one thing or the other, both could be wrong, because that lifestyle in Hollywood is just an animal of its own.
Speaker 2:
Well, yeah, and that's what I loved about that entire. Thing. It was really interesting. It was really interesting, but it was so like. It is so telling to see everybody taking one side or the other instead of just being like wow, both of these people are kind of shitty, aren't they? You?
Speaker 1:
know, especially somebody's pillow. Hey, I get it, oh man.
Speaker 5:
It wasn't the bed itself.
Speaker 3:
Yeah whatever it's the bed, but yeah, that's fine, Listen, post it was.
Speaker 2:
it wasn't a home run, but it was definitely a double the center.
Speaker 1:
So hey, do you know what? You get a couple of those and you score points, that's all that matters.
Speaker 2:
Yep, they're called runs, but whatever.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, I hope someone makes a really in depth documentary of just an unbiased viewpoint of that whole court hearing case.
Speaker 2:
I would love, yeah, I would love, oh yeah, it would be so funny.
Speaker 5:
Because there's there's a whole level. I don't know if any of you guys paid attention to it too closely, but there was a lot of Amber Heard's like outfits that mimic Johnny Depp subconsciously. It was so interesting. It had nothing to do with the court case at all as to why she was dressing the way she was dressing. It was like what, what? What significance was that? Because there was, there was, there was intent. Was there really people.
Speaker 1:
Really Was that a? Thing? Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm yes, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:
There was a lot of subtle stuff that was like that's just so petty, bro, yeah. Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 5:
It's from a human element, of just seeing how people react to this. It's kind of like you know people that interview serial killers after they've been imprisoned, you know. It's like obviously it's just from a human element, interesting viewpoint and just not trying to understand them, but just I don't know, experiencing it in a different way. So it was just really interesting. So I hope someone does make something. I'm sure that it's in the works, because how many hours of filming and editing and timelines and all that, it would take a while.
Speaker 2:
I'd be surprised if we didn't get some kind of like do you guys remember that 30 for 30 about OJ? Yeah, yeah, I'd be surprised if we didn't see something like that that just combs through all of the or stuff.
Speaker 1:
Somebody's going to rip something out and put it up on Netflix in the next year and a half, just so they can be the first, and it's going to be awful.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I can't wait to see Amber V Johnny, the Netflix series.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, right, and it looks like the cover. It's like a face off MMA main card fight. Yes.
Speaker 2:
And then there's a little dog looking guilty in the in the center. I will say that's one of the one of the.
Speaker 1:
I've never seen my mom talk about something more on Facebook than that case which is interesting, breadfarm's dick. I don't think my mom's ever talked about breadfarm's dick.
Speaker 2:
No, she did. I remember, did she yeah?
Speaker 5:
It's Purple Hummet, it's Peyton man thing.
Speaker 2:
No, it was the whole dick pic. Controversy with the sideline reporter.
Speaker 1:
Oh dude, how do you remember these things?
Speaker 2:
Dude, there's some things you don't forget, and one of them is Mrs Post talking about breadfarm's dick.
Speaker 1:
Oh my God, they wanted to make an OJ and Casey Anthony show about being the most hated not guilty people. I don't know, I think Casey Anthony kind of.
Speaker 2:
Casey and takes Wow, I don't know.
Speaker 1:
That's pretty close, it's, I mean I don't have to think twice about it.
Speaker 3:
Oh, Jase is kind of weird.
Speaker 1:
I think OJ is just so far gone now at this point that, like Casey Anthony, so much more.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, casey Anthony recent was also to, so yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:
So, by the way, if you're listening to this or watching this after the fact we do this show live and that that comment came in from 414 pseudo.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, follow us on a twitch so you can pop in the chat and give us live feedback and we'll respond to you sometimes, hopefully not about child murders, right, yeah, until we go to kick. Sorry, no, it's me Michael, sorry, not guilty. Child murders.
Speaker 1:
That's dad. Yeah, that's what the yeah, or a kick, whatever that's. Maybe we'll be there, just kidding.
Speaker 2:
Oh no, oh no. I'm only on kick K, I K where you can message me.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's okay, that's totally fine. So I guess we'll close it up down. You're going back to college.
Speaker 3:
Tom is going back to college in a month and I wanted to, so we everyone here go to college at one point.
Speaker 1:
Yes, I mean yes, yeah, yes, yeah, at some point for a little bit.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, at some point I said that because I know post dropout right yeah.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, it was. For me it was a two year, not a four year. I'm in a two year right now, oh, okay. Yeah, I'm trying to get my associates and then I don't know.
Speaker 3:
I don't know what to do after that. So what's it hard.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3:
Was it hard for you guys to really hone down on what you wanted to do?
Speaker 5:
Yeah, For me. No, I knew I knew exactly what I was striving for. If I would, I went to a four year. I wouldn't have known. But with the two year I definitely felt like what I was going to school for, like because there's not a lot of electives, it's all based around really quickly in that degree. So I knew really quickly this is what I want to do, at least at that point in time, because obviously I don't do it anymore, but I digress. It's. It got you. Really. You hit the ground running pretty hard because it that that program was like a four year program in two years they it was very rigorous.
Speaker 1:
So so why are you going? Why is Dominic giving up on cybersecurity?
Speaker 3:
I didn't say I was giving up on it, I just I've been, I guess, like classes soon and I don't know how it's going to go, because I talked to it.
Speaker 2:
I think I've talked about this in the past, but but just to give an opposite and everybody's different, everybody's going to have their own own journey through that but just to give a different perspective, like the opposite from Logan's is. I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do, so I went to one school for animation I think we've talked about this in the past, maybe on a post show, though, so but I quickly found out that wasn't really what I wanted to do. So then I went to a university, originally majoring in digital arts, and then it was through electives actually that I realized like oh shit, I really like computer science and programming, changed my major and then graduated with that. So it's like, if you know exactly what you're going to do, like going for an associates or like a trade like that's perfect. But like for somebody like me who wasn't necessarily like 100% in, like it was nice to be able to dip my feet into other things and then find where I wanted to go, but at the same time, like that's going to cost a lot more. Like because the thing that sucks is like while you're trying to figure it out, you're spending a lot of fucking money.
Speaker 3:
So the problem with me is I like doing a lot of different things, but I don't know which one to hone down on, because I know I want to work with technology in some way, but I'm not sure if that's going to be like with cybersecurity or maybe something else, like I don't. I think I mentioned before that I like writing before and writing is fun for me to do. I also like film type of stuff and I like that whole area. So it's very hard for me to figure out what I want to do if it makes any sense, but I know I want to work with technology in some sort of way. What's?
Speaker 5:
interesting about going to school and having the electives because obviously you just want to take easy courses to get the electives and do get good grades. So kind of what Josh was saying is challenge yourself on some of your electives, push the envelope. Question if, is this something that's more interesting that I'm shooting for for my own degree? You know what I mean, because clearly he found something that he latched on to which had nothing necessarily to do with his degree but seemed a lot more interesting for him. So seems like to reinforce that something to try to do.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I think I will try to give that a shot, but I don't know exactly how I want to organize my classes for this year, since it's a two year program type of thing and I don't know what classes to pick or what would help me, you know, be able to graduate this year I mean next year. So it's a bit weird for me.
Speaker 2:
Is there like a guidance counselor you?
Speaker 3:
can talk to. Yeah, there is, but I tried to go on their website to book an appointment, but they're saying there's nothing available. So I don't know what to do. I think I was going to go in person, either on Monday or something, and figure it out, but I know I have to set up for classes this week regardless, so I don't know.
Speaker 5:
The interesting thing about college life versus actual day to day out, like in a real world job. There's a lot of things that people don't talk about, depending on which company. If you're in a big company, you're going to stick to your one Excuse me, your single job role. As Ryan would know, you can sometimes have your main job, but if you're in a smaller company, you have opportunities to wear different hats, to contribute in other areas that you enjoy doing, which Ryan should expand on, because he knows that a lot more based off of him and I working together. So Ryan set stage, go.
Speaker 1:
I do a lot of stuff that I didn't get I didn't sign up for.
Speaker 5:
I signed up for him but I you volunteered yourself because you're not a one trick pony. Yeah, I have creative abilities outside of a detail oriented person that can just yeah you know. Look, what's the day to day that you're supposed to do. You have other things like, for example, dom could learn more creative outlets through electives focus on more of a technical technology thing but of a certain company might like oh well, we struggle on a marketing area, but we don't have a lot of you know, we don't have funds to do it. You can say, hey, I've taken these classes, here's what I can bring to the table for you.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I have a similar experience, like in my day job. I'm a developer but like I've helped do graphic design, I've edited marketing videos for my company. Like having that. Those. All other skills are always important because it provides extra value to the company or the employer, whatever it is and yeah, that'll help you in the long run, for sure.
Speaker 5:
Really it coming in fresh into the workforce, having that instead of being like, well, I finished my my degree and X amount of months and I worked under this company versus, hey, I worked under this company, got this degree, I was able to take these other electives these are other things that I'm interested into. It just shows a little bit more diversity to your portfolio as far as your resume and what you're interested into, because someone that can do more than just what they're asking for. Any company wants more bang for their buck, right. So just because you get paid X amount of dollars salary hourly from some company, you can do these other things. Sure, you might not be compensated as much as you would like to think, but it adds job security and it shows that you're wanting to go above and beyond for that employer. So that's my, that's my two cents, because it's unspoken, there's a lot of, there's a lot of opportunities in a lot of different companies to do other things besides your day to day.
Speaker 2:
See, make fun of us for being old. All you want down, but this is what we're providing all right Life experience life experience and each of us charge 25 bucks an hour for this yeah, I'm just waiting
Speaker 5:
for my check. Yeah, I'll do it for free. Taught to me down. No, thank you.
Speaker 2:
You're fired, you're damn, it's trying to monetize this show.
Speaker 5:
I said for Dom.
Speaker 2:
You know, we dip into our own pockets, all right.
Speaker 5:
First five hours is free.
Speaker 3:
There you go, very nice. Yeah, I think I might try to take. Maybe there's like a like electoral for like editing. I might try that out because I was interested in that a long time ago, but I don't know if that was my thing or not, so I'll see.
Speaker 1:
Do things that interest you. Ultimately, you want to do something that doesn't feel like work. Obviously, a job is a job, it's going to be work, it's going to feel like work, but it'll be something you enjoy doing and maybe it's not your main job. You know, like, like Logan said, like I came into my company and now, because I need, I wanted to add value, because I'm like the only person that's not a fucking like engineer at my company. I feel like at least that's how I felt when I started there I did everything I could to show value and, you know, from making graphics to whatever, like, you'll find something, even if your main job is not something you love doing. There's ways to contribute and with things that you love doing and that's my, my, my personal, like my direct boss hates that I volunteer so much my time to do this things but like I can't not do it because, like number one, I love it and number two, it helps everybody else around me. So, like I, I just do it. So, just like I said, find something you enjoy doing and stick with it and you're gonna love that. You did that for yourself.
Speaker 3:
15, 20 years from now. That's kind of what I try to do. It the job I have right now. I want to show that I have value and impact.
Speaker 5:
So I always do like the extra shit cuz I'm extra and what's funny about okay, you go to school, you get a degree in like a certain area, cuz it's gonna evolve and change and shift. It's like it's a, it's like a ball that isn't a complete ball yet. You're just adding small pieces and that ball might, by the end, when you're in your 30s or 40s, it might not be a perfect circle, it might be a deformed circle, but you have all these extra pieces that you didn't think, that you acquired along the way and you kind of I don't know you. Just, it forms into its own unique object and that's what makes you you and what you could bring. Because just hiring someone that has been doing the same thing, I don't think that many players are just looking for that they want, especially on a smaller company. I mean, if you, if you go to a big company, sure, if you just want to be a number, that that that checks that box, that fills that hole, sure, but I've worked at a big company, I've worked at small companies. I've always been more of a fan of a small company because you have these other opportunities to do other things outside of your norm yep nice to live by yes do you got it.
Speaker 3:
I do got it. I think that's push yourself.
Speaker 5:
Want to do as well, push yourself as of right now. Just push yourself and even look for, like an internship that you can do like eight hours a week. That might be close enough to what you think you're going to school for, and then you could see what they're doing. And it's like oh, there's a lot of other elements of that I didn't think about, or that's super boring or super dry. I don't know if I can do that continuously, you know. And then you're like, okay, well, or on the flip side, it's like, oh, there's other elements with that that I actually think is really really cool.
Speaker 2:
So and one final piece of advice for me is don't give up the like other stuff that you enjoy doing. So, like you said, you like writing. So like just write. You know, just, even if it's not related to your career or anything, just write. I'm a perfect example of like your hobby can very quickly turn into your job. Or, you know, in my case, like something that just I do for fun but you know, still gives back. Well, you know, because now it's work, but you know I still, I still do it because I enjoy it. It's not my day job, but at this point like it's quickly overtaking my day job, for you know what I'm putting my energy and effort into. So, like it, you know, keep keep the dream alive, but you know, be fiscally responsible yes, yeah and don't
Speaker 1:
feel like anybody owes you anything because you gotta work your ass off the dud. Like that's a real thing. There's so many people right expect that people owe them the world when they haven't done anything.
Speaker 2:
This is our boomer coming out right now. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Speaker 1:
Well, it's easy, anything to work a, but like it's a real life lesson where, like you know, maybe you like aha, yeah, okay, guy, you know when you're younger, but like it's a real fucking thing, like hard work gets you places don't, don't kill yourself. Don't kill yourself for somebody that can replace you in a in a snap of a finger for a low wage, but like, if you've got a future where with a company that you love, that you really enjoy, dude, bust your ass and they will take care of. If it's a good company, they will take care of you yeah, I guess that's another good.
Speaker 2:
That's another good point is like don't settle for somebody who isn't going to respect you and what you're providing. Yes, but at the same time, don't you have to recognize what you are providing and not expect more?
Speaker 5:
and that takes practice to it's certainly getting burned it's. It's kind of like the you don't appreciate your soulmate till. You've had that toxic relationship.
Speaker 2:
Yeah yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5:
Yeah, it's like you have to get burned by an employer to some degree or a bad experience where you you try to do all you could and you're like, okay, I'm not doing that again for something like that, because I've experienced that. Now, like I'm gonna identify that and remove myself from that situation before I waste any more of my time.
Speaker 2:
But yeah, good luck, good luck you.
Speaker 3:
I will yeah.
Speaker 1:
I love this fucking show. We talk about so much different, like just all different corners of everything. It's so fun. I love it. So, if you're still listening, thank you so much for hanging out, dominic, did you have any last things you want to get off your chest, or you?
Speaker 3:
I don't think I have anything else I want to talk about about.
Speaker 1:
Okay, going back to college, so I think I'm good good, just do what you like, man, we appreciate you guys coming and hanging out, listening, watching. However, you are consuming this content for bucket bites. We really do appreciate it. We'll be back live next week with Dan from Fraculation to talk about his game and some of maybe some of his other things small indie dev here in Milwaukee and really looking forward to that. Make sure you go to bucket bites. Dot gg. Either slash summer dash giveaway or game dash of dash the dash month for game the month.
Speaker 2:
You couldn't you just do go tm for that, like I sure I could?
Speaker 6:
yeah, I'm actually even be that I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:
I was just trying to make you happy listen, it just go to work on this.
Speaker 2:
We're gonna work on this off off stream. Don't worry, no check out our stuff.
Speaker 1:
We're giving away stuff all the time. We love giving stuff away and we'll check you out next week. I'm Ryan the pop a post. That is Josh from suggestive gaming. Logan up over there. Appreciate you, we'll check you out out.
Speaker 3:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that.
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