July 12, 2023 • 43 mins
Join Jules and Justice as they discuss everything in tech, gaming and more, from unraveling the mysteries of Twitter's downward spiral to exploring the virtual realm of Diablo. With their signature humor and clever insights, they discuss the massive ESPN layoff, the decline of movie theater attendance, and Netflix's crackdown on password sharing.
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You're listening to the Cool Black NerdPodcast presented Say One Radio. Yo,
what's up, everybody? Welcome backto the Cool Black Nerve Podcast. This
is episode number thirty four Selenium.I'm your host Jules, and I'm here
with everybody's favorite co host Justice.How are you today? I'm doing awesome.
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You know. I just realized weare doing this on the four.
Oh it is July four. Itis for us, we're recording this on
the fourth. Yeah, I candig it. Happy Independence Day, everybody.
Yeah, for those of you whocelebrate, Happy be Independence Day.
For those of you who do not, go get your hot dogs having the
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day July four. Yep. Howhave you been. It's been a while,
it has been. I've been prettygood. I've just been playing Diablo
though. Yeah. That's it.That's what it is. Diablo came out
and I can't. I can't doanything else. It got everybody been hearing
good things about it though. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely a pretty fun
game. I don't know if youhave you played any of the other Diablo
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games. I attempted to play oneof I think it was Diablo Q.
Like I play back in the day, way back in the day, and
I was not very good at becauseI didn't, you know, really wasn't
understanding of what I was supposed tobe doing or how we're supposed to be
doing, so I didn't continue onwith it, That's sure, Okay,
Well, the full disclosure. Theonly other Diablo game I've ever actually played
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was Diablo three, and it wasjust a game that I you know,
I'll give you that when when Ifirst started playing it, I didn't really
understand what was going on. Icouldn't like. It's definitely a game like
a true RPG, where you havebuilds, and you base your build around
your gear that you get. You'realways trying to get better gear so you
can have better bills and do moredifficult content like the and it they've even
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Diablo three and even now Diablo fourseems like they've done a pretty good job
of making it so that the contentalways kind of scales to how powerful you
can make your character, and I'mnot sure if there's really ever a stop
to it. So you're just alwaystrying to get better and better gear and
improve your bills so you can,you know, kind of get through the
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levels faster and faster, right,you know, it's it's definitely I would
say if if there are people whohave played Diablo three or even I've been
seeing a lot of people saying likethey skipped Diablo three and went to Diablo
you know, went from Diablo twoto four seems to be pretty enjoyable for
everybody. It is a little bitdifferent than Diablo three. This was definitely
more of a live service feel.I think everybody's going that route no matter
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what, Like every game is justlive service. And for those of you
guys who don't really know what thatmeans, I'm what I'm saying by life
is you know, back in theday, if you were playing like a
Street Fight two or Super Mario Brothers, like you, you inserted the cartridges,
you started up the game, andyou were playing the game from that
system, just like that. Now, most of the games that are out
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there, you have to connect tothe Internet and then you are playing with
other people with throughout the world,so to speak, and it is updating
and pretty much generating contents on aconsistent basis. Whereas that Street Fur two
or the Mario game, whatever wason that disc or that cartridge, that
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was it unless you bought the names. Yeah, so yeah, this was
definitely got that going on. Likeyou know that you can see other players
on and around as you're doing stuff. People can kind of come in and
out, and if you happen tobe on a particularly challenging fight or like
an event going on on the map, other people if they're there, they
can come help you out if theywant to, or they can just keep
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running past you and not be helpfullike the evil, evil people that they
are. I mean, it's yeah, it's definitely been pretty fun so far.
I'm enjoying it. They have recentlyannounced that they're gonna do a seasonal
model. I think first season startsin a couple of weeks, so you
know what comes along with that.Obviously there's going to be micro transactions and
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all of that, and you know, seasons are probably not gonna be free.
I think this first one is,I would doubt that the other ones
are. So yeah, that goeswell. I mean, so let me
ask you this as far as likethe story and things of like that with
when it comes to Diablo, thisis definitely not a game for younger people,
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you would say, right, Igenerally I would say, you know,
you definitely want to have you know, older kids at least, maybe
not adults only. Like it's notcrazy like that, Like it's nothing you
know, X rayed or anything goingon. But it's definitely like a it's
definitely a you know, battle ofheaven and Hell type of ill. And
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it is just so everybody's clear asoutside of any like specific religion, we're
not talking about God or Jesus versusSatan or any other specific religion going on.
It's just more of like a conflictbetween some made up angels and demons
type of stuff. But it,you know, it's pretty bloody game the
guys. Yeah, pretty gory.Yeah, all right, Well, I
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mean I would say, you know, it's it's a so okay, let's
just say it's a cool black nerdrecommending, just definitely recommended. Yeah,
for sure. It's definitely a goodgame, something I think people would enjoy,
Definitely worth picking up up. Ohyeah, we could say seventeen and
up or if you're gonna be youngerthan that, parents monor to your children,
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you know, do what's comfortable foryou. Yeah, okay, I
got you, I got you andall you you know, youngsters that are
listening to this podcast. First ofall, we cuss on here. So
I don't know what you're doing.But if you're you know, talk to
your parents, don't just you know, wouldn't be picking up stuff just because
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you heard it's cool or wasn't.There's a reason why people say all this
stuff some stuff you just don't needto know about right now because you don't
want to think about all this getcomplex, key migraines. Don't worry about
all that. Yeah, you knowwhat. I put it this way,
if you pay some bills, youcan get this game without asking anybody,
you know what. So I don'tknow then if the people in the next
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story qualify. So I'm just I'mjust staying like, you know, okay,
So what was it June thirtieth,Esken just drop the hammer on a
lot of people on their shows.So, um, I think it was
about what fourteen or some people aboutwhat I've been reading it was twenty and
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some of them were like pretty wellknown on air, people like I think
Keyshawn Johnson got let Go, JeffVan Gundee let Go, Jalen Rose got
let Go, which Jalen Rose isan interesting one because I think he I've
been seeing some rumors that he mighthave found a landing spot pretty quickly at
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on Fox Sports One with Skip Baylissto replace Shannon Sharp. So we'll see
if that happens. That'll be aninteresting thing. But yeah, I mean,
I don't know why it's been havingit, but it seems and let
me say this to ESPN is ownedby Disney, but it seems like every
couple of years or so, everyyou know, every once in a while,
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kind of honestly, kind of regardlessof how the economy is doing or
how ESPN or even Disney I guessat large, is doing, ESPN seems
to do this really, yeah,they do it. Just seems like every
few years or so, they'll justdo this where they lay off a bunch
of the on air people and kindof shuffle everything. Interesting. And you
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know, right now, I don'tI don't know that Disney is doing bad
per se, but you know,definitely not doing as well as it was.
Kind of honestly at the height ofthe pandemic when everybody was at home
streaming and you know, Disney Pluswas blowing up, ESPN was Plus was
blowing up, and I think theyalso owned Hulu, right like all of
that was had some big money comingin. I know they've definitely been restructuring
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otherwise, like taking a lot ofshows off of streaming, canceling things,
trying to, I guess find thatbalance because you know, they dumped a
lot of money into it during thepandemic. And you know, people out
of about again, now are theythough? I mean we've been seeing I
don't. Yeah, people are outand about, but they're not going to
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see the movies that they wanted themto see. Well, yeah, that's
true. I don't know that people. Yeah, people have definitely stopped going
to the movies like they used to, depending on the movie. Though for
somebody like me, that works outfine because I want I love going to
the movie theater just because I likethe experience of the big screen, the
sound system, you know, havingsome fresh, you know, hot movie
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theater popcorn. You know, Idon't put butter on that no more,
because you know, I found outthat we don't really know what that buddy
is in the movie theater might justbe straight up vegetable oil on you.
But Nicole Kidney is uh, that'syour friend then, right? You know,
heartbreak is is best seen in themovie theaters. I never did understand
maybe they need to take that off. That's we don't need to see that
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anymore. They need to stop havingher do that intro at AMC. But
that's that's another story. Yeah,okay, but yeah, I mean,
yeah, people aren't aren't hitting upthe movies like they used to. I
enjoy it, like I said,but man, a lot of movies that
you would expect to be doing wellare not. And I think all of
that is just part of all ofit is restructuring, you know, Netflix,
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cracking down on passwords, and thenall the other services, like I
said, just canceling shows, WarnerBrothers buying HBO Max and then changing the
name Oh my goodness for some reason. It's according to them, they were
saying, because they wanted to keepHBO a you know, to have its
own brand since they're now part ofyou know, Discovery, and the shows
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on there will also be from youknow, like HGTV and the other brands
that are under the Discovery umbrella,and they just didn't want it to just
to just be HBO because that canalso include things that are adopt only content
like you know, Sopranos, Gameof Thrones and things like that, whereas
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Discovery is it? So they wantedit to just be Max, And I'm
like, but that don't make nosense. You just did HBO Max.
I need you to wait, Ineed you to wait, but I don't
I don't understand the name changed,and then that the little ads that I've
seen, which is ridiculous. Okay, you change your name because you want
to, you know, you wantedto, I guess, to be its
own thing or whatever. Right,yeah, why would your ads then be
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like, oh, this is Maxhome of HBO. Yeah don't that's why?
Yeah? Yeah, h so nowit's just Max with HBO instead of
HBO Max. Like come on,man corrects. Yeah, it could have
stayed HBO Max. But that's that'sfine. But again, all of this
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I think is just reaction to Imean, yeah, I guess the changes
that we're seeing now, Like Ithink a lot of things have changed and
they are going to stay different.But the thing, and I don't know
if this has to do with themeverybody jumping on the ship of we need
to beat Netflix and doing that indevelopment where it was rush or doing that
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in development that was not planning thoroughlyor just But it does not seem to
have worked out like they wanted itto. The only person that has come
out on top out of all ofthis is Sony because Sony never tried to
make their own streaming service. Butevery single person, I'm the last person,
sorry, every single company that didrun out to make their own streaming
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service to compete with Netflix is inthe red. Sony was like, nah,
we'll just keep licensing, and they'rein the black on everything. And
again, their movie Across the SpiderVerse right now is about to cross a
billion dollars, whereas I didn't.I didn't even realize this, But there
was a movie that just came out. I believe it was over the weekend
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and it costs seventy five million dollarsto make. The movie opened to five
million dollars over five thousand screens.Wow, what movie was this? I
forgot the name. It was likethe Teenage Cracking or something like that.
Oh yeah, yeah, And I'mlike, yeah, right, million dollars.
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Then I saw there was another moviethat came out this year, and
I didn't I'd never even heard ofthis. The only way I heard of
this movie is I'm not sure ifyou guys like watch YouTube like I do,
I don't have like cable cable.I watch YouTube every now and then
I'll buy a show or whatever.I have Netflix and all the rest of
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that stuff. But there there arethese channels that will kind of like give
you summaries of movies. They don'tgive you the entire thing, but they'll
give you like a summary of whata movie was about. And there was
a movie that came out this yearcalled Hypnotized or Hypnotic one or the other,
and it starred Ben am Flat andapparently he was supposed to be some
like agent who had lost his memory, but he didn't know it had lost
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his memory, and he was tryingto help this other lady who had lost
her memory to find out what reallyhappened and to uncover this whole ruse through
the government about this thing whatever.Even that movie cross five million dollars,
it made six million dollars, butit's still and that movie is still made
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less. That movie Hypnotic been aflet. This is an award winning director,
an award winning screenwriter. I don'tknow if he wanted an award for for
acting. I think I don't thinkhe ever should have if he got one,
I personally don't think he should havegot that one, but he continued,
I'm just not a bien Afflet fan, I know. But so that
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movie made less money than a horrormovie about Winny to Pooh, the Winny
to Pool movie called Blood and Honey. Because the Winny to Pooh ip became
public domain this year, so whenpeople found that out, of course people
jumped on it, which makes youknow, like, oh shit, free
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money. So everybody wanted to seewhat this is gonna be about. So
in January when this trailer drops,everybody's like, what the hell trailer drops?
It was just as bad as everybodythought it was. But the movie
was made for like three hundred thousandor something like that. It looked like
it. They look like they shotthis on the Polaroid camera. And the
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movie Steel made six like seven milliondollars. Still made that, and this
movie would have been Affleck only madesix million dollars. These stereos, and
then this teenage cracking movie seventy fivemillion dollars budget five million dollars. I'm
like, yeah, people are notThey'll go see what they want to see.
People are not going through the theaterman, They're definitely just going to
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see Yeah, they're go see whatthey want to see, exactly the movie
that they want to see. Man, and out of it. I have
a lot I think I think thiscould be an episode on itself, just
even talk about like the differences thatyou see now between like critics being like,
oh, this movie is garbage andthen regular people just being like,
actually, this is like one ofthe best movies of the year, Like
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what are you talking about? Yeah, that does need to be a showing
of itself that yeah, yeah,yeah, definitely. I don't know.
I can't explain it other than peoplejust are not going to the movies and
when they do go you write,people will yo, go see the movie
that you exactly what you want tosee at nothing else. So and maybe
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all of that this time has ESPNor Disney looking to make these changes on
the fly. But it's definitely somethingI feel like they do often. And
you know, I brought up,you know, first taking Skip Bayless.
Everybody body shouldn't know Shannon Sharp.He left that show kind of abruptly.
You know, they had some onair. I'm just gonna say, from
from my point of view, SkipBayless got a little disrespectful with Shannon Sharp,
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and then it wasn't necessarily like disrespectfulof whatever opinion he had on topics
they were discussing, but like personallydisrespectful, oh, kind of taking shots
at his career even to say,like they were talking about Tom Brady,
which I mean, if you've everwatched that show that they if it's not
Lebron James or the Dallas Cowboys,they're talking about Tom Brady, and Skip
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Bayless is like the Tom Brady superfan. Tom Brady can do nothing wrong.
I personally felt like Shannon Sharp wasa little bit more objective, specifically
when talking about Tom Brady and whateverthey were talking about this time had to
do with Tom Brady got a littlebit heated, and Skip Bayless basically said
the Shannon Sharp, I think you'resaying whatever it is you're saying because you're
jealous tom Brady's career. Tom Bradyis forty have every forty one forty two
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years old still playing and you hadto retire and tom Brady one to have
her many Super Bowls, and youknow you wish that you were still playing.
And then you know, Shannon responded, took his glasses off and was
like, look, I'm a threetime Super Bowl winner. I'm a Hall
of Famer. I'm good like I'mgood with my career. I'm one of
the considered one of the best tightends ever, if not the best tight
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end they ever played football. I'mgood. And Skip just got even more
disrespectful and said, you know,I'm saying stuff like your career is not
then compared to Tom Brady, thatkind of deal. So yeah, it
just went it went way too far. Then Skip had that whole thing with
Damar Hamlin when he collapsed on thefield. Skip had a tweet up that
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was a little it was a littledisrespectful. Channon Sharp kick the next day
off because he didn't want their showto be talking about Kip and trying to
address that when it should have beenabout Damar Hamlin. So he took that
next day off, and then whenhe was trying to explain himself on the
show after that, Skip put himoff in the middle of him trying to
explain how he felt about it.It was just so it just became like
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a definitely kind of a contentious situationat the end there. But with that
change and then also with these layoffs, for me personally, I realized,
like the only reason I had.I'm gonna call it cable. I have
YouTube TV, so streaming TV,but the only reason I had it was
like the sports shows and other sportsin general. So for me, I've
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even canceled that now. But becausesports the NBA Finals are done, maybe
I get it again when it comesaround to the World Series. And honestly,
even then, it to only beif the Astros in the World Series.
Football is over for now, likethere's nothing you know, really going
on with sports right now, atleast for me. So I'm good on
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that, and I don't know whenI'm going to get it back, like
I might not bring it back untilNFL seven starts. Wow, and even
then that's only to watch games,Like I may actually just look at is
it cheaper for me to just getsomething where I can watch NFL Red Zone
on Sundays. I don't know.We'll see, Well, we'll see.
That's kind of where I'm at.I think that kind of speaks to where
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people might be at with going tomovie theaters and even just other things.
Now, like I really taking alook at what do I actually use and
why am I paying for this IfI'm not I'm not using that. Yeah,
you're right, everybody's come to thatconclusion. And I think the only
person who has not realized that isElon Musk, where he's thinking that everybody's
going to pay for Twitter Blue orpay for whatever when it comes to Twitter.
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And now he is getting to thepoint where he's going to rate limit
where you know, what you areable to see on Twitter. You can
now not see any tweets without beinglogged in, so you have to have
an account, which hind us sucks. And I say that because if you
know, a lot of times peoplewould post some things as far as like
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news and breaking information just on Twitterbecause it was easy and everybody could.
It was accessible to everyone. Youdidn't have to have an account. Now
you have to have an account.Sucks, it does, Yeah, I
mean I know he's got to tryto make that purchase makes sense. I
mean it was bad, honestly,and then I think the things that he's
doing are making it worse. Ohyeah, I mean he certainly got his
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his audience, right, there's peoplethat are gonna ride or die with it.
But but yeah, I think he'smade a lot of mistakes with Twitter
and is continuing to do so.All in an effort to try to figure
out how to make some money outof it, I think, and not
doing a very good job of itso far. It was funny because the
initial limits that he had put onthere because so initially he put it out
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because he wanted to stop data scrapers, and those are bots and people who
will go to websites and scrape thewebsite for data and then posted somewhere else.
That is a big problem for alot of websites in general, so
I get it, and a lotof companies have not been able to come
up with a great solution for itwithout hampering the user experience. Unfortunately,
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what he started does not work forwhat it's social media, so you cannot
and it's one of the main socialmedia platforms, the one that he started
with. I believe it was likeyou could not see more than three hundred
tweets a day or something like that. If you were unverified, could not
see more than I'm sorry, itwas one hundred tweets, and then it
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was three hundred tweets if you wereverified. And what it means by verified
as if you had an account andyou were logged in, but if you
had quote unquote subscribe to the Twitterblue you could see around like a thousand,
and people wanted to see how easythat would be to go through.
Now this is just you scrolling.You don't have to click on the tweet.
You don't have to go through it. And this also includes whether or
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not that tweet has replies or interactionand engagements to it. So even if
one of those has like a shiptime to it, that also includes you
know, you interacting with that tweetas if you had seen those thousands of
tweets and it's just like it's goingto be done in a few minutes.
So one person did it and ittook them two minutes to get through all
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of them. That was it athousand? Right, Yeah, I got
you. Yeah, see that.To me, that's I think that's gonna
make it even more difficult for him, Like I mean, it obviously makes
it more difficult. But even ifyou were trying to charge, like let's
say you wanted to charge a companylike you brought up like house affecting people's
customer service, because some companies likethat's how you get in touch with customers
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service, right like or it's atleast one of the avenues like you got
a problem, you can who atwhoever customer service and get a response if
they're not if they're only able tolook at a certain amount of tweets,
even if they are paying for thesubscription, like that's I could definitely see
them just being like, well,we just have to stop this, Like
it's not even a like we're goingto stop doing this because now I can't
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see everything that's actually happening on Twitter. So exactly gonna get worse if I
respond to my three hundred people aday and then everybody else was like,
well, why you didn't respond tome? And I can't just be like,
oh, I couldn't see it becauseI was rate limited, So that
ain't that's not gonna work. Yeah, he's gonna have companies leaving Twitter now
even more now now you do havesome companies that have gone ahead and signed
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up for it. Like if yousee them with that gold check, they
have signed up for his the TwitterBlue subscription, And that can be depending
on the company previous follower account ishow much they were they would be paying.
Now, if you are under acertain amount, you would be paying
anywhere in the amounts of like twentyto fifty thousand now or something like that,
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which again is crazy, Okay,but if you want to be able
to continue to as you said before, this was what you were using for
customer service because it was easy,free, and this is how you communicated
with people, what do you donow? Yeah? No, I mean
again, we'll see how this goesagain, I do. I want to
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point this out though. This isone thing that I think people do need
to be reminded of. Twitter,along with all of these other social media
companies, are companies, like theyare free to do whatever it is they
want to do, Like this isnot this is not you know, the
town square, Like this is nota public thing. So he's definitely well
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within his rights to do that whatI think is going to happen. Actually,
let me let me say this becausethis also just leads into another thing
that I did want to talk abouttoday. We had briefly talked about before
we got on here, that thereis now legislation in Congress and it seems
to be by partisan to ban TikTok, and you know, we, you
and I you know, briefly kindof talked about how how that might be
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possible, and you know, wekind of came to the conclusion that it
really isn't even about banning TikTok.It's really more about just saying to like
Google, who makes and you knowhas all the Android phones, and Apple
who has iPhones, like this apphas to come out of your app store
now, and that generally would eliminateninety nine point nine percent of people from
having that app, just because eventhough yes, you can't sideloaded, but
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who's gonna make that effort? Notmany people? Yeah, and to do
what like if you sideloaded and it'slike four people on there, what's quite
Yeah, right, so if thatpasses, you know, and I think
that will definitely kill TikTok, atleast in the US. But you bringing
up this thing about Twitter just mademe realize because the way I found out
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about this legislation for TikTok was thearticle was actually talking about buying stock in
Meta now because Meta, you know, hasn't been doing the best because they
put all of their efforts into themetaverse, which is still not what Mark
Zuckerberg thought it was going to be. But bringing up so they were saying,
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get it because TikTok is likely goingaway. Yeah, And Medica step
in and you know, fill thatgap. The what some of the stuff
that's happening with Twitter, especially thisray limit, I feel like that just
kind of doubles it up. LikeFacebook, Instagram is about to be kind
of the last one standing that doesn'thave just kind of crazy stuff going on.
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So yeah, it does kind ofseem like that and unfortunate. And
people have been saying this for years, and I've been one of those advocates
too, and nobody really wanted tohear me when I would tell them,
especially for any content creators, donot put all your eggs in one basket.
You would always have these, especiallypodcasters, because they would be like,
will you only do podcasting on audiofarming, you don't do YouTube or
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anything like that. I was like, you can take an audio podcast and
make it into anything you want.I said, I know I grew my
audience from Instagram, but it's easythat way. I said, Like audio
is keen, like the video andstuff like, you can make that into
anything. You can do that onYouTube, you can do that. You
can do that on read It doesnot matter where it could be the problem
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with people would see this easy moneyon TikTok and be like, oh,
well you could blow up. Yeah, it would just be the attention that
you would get. TikTok is greatfor getting your name out there if you're
a small business, that is true. But unless like what's his name,
Carby Lane, who is the mostfollowed person on TikTok, and I think
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he has somewhere near like five hundredmillion users or something like that. Yeah,
wow, that's incredible. That's thethat's the guy who don't say words
all right, he just makes faces. Yeah, I think it's something like
that. And everywhere else trace bookdoesn't do it anymore, and Instagram doesn't
do it anymore, but everywhere elsehas a creator fund, But in that
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creator funds for TikTok, like theyonly pay you for the views, and
I think it's like ten cents ofyou. This man would have, like
I said, five hundred million users, even if it's only five tenth,
that's it. That is it.You go to YouTube, same thing,
five million, five hundred million views, just like mister beasts views come on
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name. But a lot of thesekids would be like, well, no,
TikTok is easier, is this andthis and that? And I would
try my best to explain what youwill get from TikTok is attention. Yes,
you won't get any notationable things fromthat, Like you won't get the
sponsors and things that you want fromthere. You're not gonna make any money,
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honestly, Like you'll get the attention, you'll get the people, and
it's nice, but if you've gotnothing to build off of, you got
to move that to YouTube or somewhereelse. And you have to have more
than one platform to standoff of.You have to have a baby. But
if it's only on TikTok and youcan't really do anything other than the TikTok
stuff, yeah, you're not gonnamake it. And it was very very
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hard to tell that to people andthey understand what I was saying without them
saying, oh, where you're justhating because you're shit is old or whatever,
like okay, whatever, hey,I'll get it. I understand that.
And I never really thought about TikTokthat way, to be honest.
I mean, I personally don't useTikTok. I don't have the app at
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all, but you know, peopledefinitely send me links from TikTok all the
time. But again, I meanthis is with all of this stuff going
on with other social media companies.You know, Meta has a chance to
do something. We'll see if theytake advantage of it. And you know,
Instagram has been looking more and morelike TikTok for a while now,
so it might be able to fillin that spot. I mean, it's
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easier for a lot of people todo something, and it's what a lot
of people know. TikTok unfortunately hasthat it's been tarnished. So yeah,
and YouTube is a it's the lesserof two evils. I was just gonna
say, YouTube seem like it's beenthat just that from what I've been seeing
from content creators recently, YouTube reallyjust seems like it's the old standby like
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that. People are starting to haveproblems with Twitch and whatever other is going
on, and YouTube just seem tokeep on trucking. Yeah, YouTube will
always be there. It just hasto. You have to abide by their
rules. And it's always funny tome when people were saying, well,
I work for myself, now youwork for Google, and okay, if
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Google don't like that, you haveto change it. So stop thinking like,
oh, I work for myself,because you do not. And I
think That's where a lot kind ofgoes back to what I was saying,
and generally, like you gotta rememberall these these companies are not they're companies.
Like they're not They're not here necessarilyfor you. They are making money
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off of you. Like yeah,pretty much you can post whatever you want
on your website, like when youcome to those websites and things, and
even that is to a certain extentbecause the hosting covering your website hosting company,
well, I mean, if youget to a certain point you're doing
something, they'd be like, ah, they will shut you down as well.
There's there's very much an extent toall of the stuff that you can
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do. But when it comes topeople who are paying you for this stuff,
like like like I said, YouTubeis under the Google umbrella and most
of the stuff is paid for byads. With that, there are certain
standards that come with those ads,and it's just the way it is.
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Some of it will be they're like, it'll be limited. You can still
put the video out, you justdon't get paid for it. Yeah,
and get where it's crazy And Iliken it back to us in you know,
the business world for our nine tofive jobs where sometimes there are decisions
that are made and we're like,the hells that makes no sense because it's
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made from a decision from a personthat's at a thousand foot level. They're
not at the ground floor, andit does not make any sense. It
will backfire on them, But theydon't have all the information. People like
I wouldn't say people like us,but people who are more on the on
the end can make it work.So when you hear these people who are
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yelling about oh, well, that'sa stupid reason, it's I hate that
they're having these az and stuff likethis. Now, if you have a
few people that will make it work, it can work, and that's all
that matters. Yeah, you'll havea few that bucket the trend, but
if there's enough to show that itdoes work, that's all they need.
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It. Really, business is business. If you work for somebody else,
that's just kind how it is.And even if you do work for somebody,
even if you work for yourself andyou get money from somebody else,
there's still standards that you have toabide by that does not go away.
And I think because there's this misconceptionthat people have, or let me say,
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younger people have that when you areworking for yourself or that no one
is there over your shoulder every fiveseconds, that you can do whatever you
want, and that you should haveno consequences because I've done everything that I
should, or I've done everything thatI think I should, and now I
should get what I deserve. That'snot how it goes. It's never.
That's never how it's winning. Neverif you've never had a job before.
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I think it's a route awakening fora lot of them, and I think
that's what's happening, especially like yousaid, with this twitch stuff. It's
hilarious seeing some of them just belike, well this is American you said,
Yeah, Yeah, it's not ayeah. Maybe it's there realizing that
hey, even though you know technicallyI work for myself, I'm real I'm
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actually relying on this giant corporation that'sgoing to make giant corporation decisions. And
they're like, well, they needto be more, communicate more, and
they don't have to be. Yeahthey should. They don't have to,
though, And I don't know howmany times I've seen decisions that just come
down that just make this absolutely nosense, and they will look at you
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and just be like, do it. I don't want to hear nothing about
it, kind of like when youknow what your mom yeah, I don't,
I don't care. I don't wantto hear no lip, just just
get it done. It's strange though, to see it, I guess play
out for other people. Yeah,I got you, you know who,
well who it might be playing outfor now. Well, maybe not in
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the same way. But Microsoft,they struggled with this Activision acquisition. They
always definitely planned. Oh lord,I have never seen a merger. Get
I mean just backhead just every fiveseconds, Oh yeah, we're going through
Nope. Well it's about the Nope. Every single governing body has said no
at some point it's merger. I'venever seen this. It's all reliant on
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Call of Duty becoming exclusive and cloudgaming. And I know that a lot
of people are saying that cloud gamingis so far away, and I'm like,
I I would not head that betbecause what I'm gonna go ahead and
say, it's not like we kindof have it now, Like I know,
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yes, with these games like thesethe I'm gonna go ahead and say,
with these live service games, yeah, you download the game to your
computer, but with them always beingon the Internet already, like now,
it's not that far away from justyou know what, it's not, it's
really not. And it's Microsoft whoknows what they've been doing for the longest
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they have like there, they havea bunch of cloud servers out there for
just people running their business from thecloud already, they know this. It
would not take very much to beable to do the same thing for game
development. Plus their leaders in thegame development to begin with Activision is and
Microsoft was in the forefront of itin the beginning with Xbox. So it's
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like, no, it's not thatBarthetche. It's like, come on,
like, I understand Stadia wasn't whatmost people want it, but the technology
is still there. You don't haveto do Yeah. I was just about
to bring up Stadia. I wasgonna say, I know, you know,
kind of generally it people would saythat it failed or whatever, but
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it kind of didn't. Like itdefinitely proved that it can work. Yeah,
Yeah, need a little bit morepolished and a company that would be
more willing to put the resources andeffort into actually not shutting it down within
two years, right, Yeah,but yeah, it is there. So
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I don't know why people keep downplaying the cloud gaming thing. I believe
it was a CEO. Believe itwas the CEO, may be wrong,
but it was a higher up.Let me say that. I higher up
in Microsoft kept giving quotes saying itwouldn't make financial sense to make games exclusive
to Xbox, and I'm like,if you want to sell the hardware,
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it is yeah, yeah, Imean you say that, yeah, it's
not even that is that? Andthen honestly they're doing it now, right,
what is it called? What isit? Game pass? Yes?
If I want to sell a subscription, which is seems to be what everybody
wants to do now, it's wayeasier to sell that subscription if I have
exclusive games. Yeah, Like theonly way you're going to be able to
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play Call of Duties if you havegames fast on on an Xbox exactly,
because unfortunately, like the last gaminggeneration, um, we have the PlayStation
five in the x Unfortunately they fuckedthemselves with this. You have the PlayStation
five, that makes sense, thefifth generation PlayStation, right, you have
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the Xbox one xx, L WQwhatever, And it's just like what was
the last generations Xbox Xbox one S? What is that why don't you do
that? Was that the last generation? Isn't it the Xbox One? Now
exactly? That's the problem. Theyscrewed themselves doing that. Confused, that's
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for sure. I don't exactly soa lot of people are confused. You
have a there's a bunch a bunchof bunch of people who have actually bought
the other generation thinking they got thisgeneration, and they return it back after
they figure out, oh, thisisn't the one that I really wanted,
so right now, Well that theconfusing launch. Okay, that's one.
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The other one is they don't havea lot of excusive games, and the
exclusive games that they do can havecome out and been trashed. So for
them to be like, oh,well it's not it doesn't make financial sense
for it to be exclusive to Xbox. And I'm like, I don't know,
but if you do it like whereoh it's exclusive to the Xbox each
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ghost system where you also have thecloud gaming, Oh yeah, it makes
a lot more sense then. Soyeah, everybody's sitting there saying, oh,
no, cloud gaming is not afactor. Yeah don't know about that.
I personally think it is the thefactor for them doing so. I
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mean and you know, I'll saythis, even though I think Sony has
done a good job of protecting themselvesfrom this actually happening, you know,
they're also a company that is likelytrying to figure out a way to do
the same thing. So yes,yes, yes they are. They are.
I think they're just right now moreinsulated on the development of it.
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Like you said, they've been ableto hide it a little bit better and
unfortunately well to their fortune. ButMicrosoft's unfortunate. Microsoft has been everybody's function
back with this. I again,I have never ever, ever been a
merger. Every single time they takeone step forward or they pick up their
foot at all, they're like nownow, Like everybody is like, and
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you know what else I've seen Likenow's as as these like lawsuits are going
on and some of these details arecoming out. Even the companies that Microsoft
has purchased prior to this deal arekind of being like, yeah, oh,
so this is the offer they madefor activism, Like why couldn't we
do that when we got acquired?Like, what's what's going on here?
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So yeah, it's not looking toogood. Oh, one thing I did
see that I was actually kind ofsurprised that they did Sony basically admitted like
without Call of Duty, like,there's not going to be a PlayStation what
pretty much? Yeah, Like inone of the filings, it like the
amount. It was like something likeninety percent of people who own a PlayStation
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five played Call of Duty, andthen it was like eighty percent of those
people have played it at least onehundred hours. So it was it's it
was a crazy thing to be like, like I did. I knew Call
of Duty was popular. Everybody knowsit's possible, but yeah, wow,
yeah, no, there's no waythey can sit there and be like it's
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not a factor. We're not goingto make it exclusive. Yeah, And
then I know that they were sayingthe date and as they've been saying we're
not gonna make it exclusive, theywere like, we're gonna honor the contracts
that we have. I think Callof Duty is only like two more years
with Sony M So it's not likeit was coming when that contract was up.
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Why if this goes through and thatcontract when that contract is up,
watch call of due to be onethousand percent exclusive. And by one thousand
percent, I mean like it mightnot even be available on PC. You
probably right, I didn't realize,Like I know, computer computer gaming is
a big area, but it's nowherenear like where it is for console gaming.
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Yeah, I didn't realize that.Absolutely crazy. I think this might
be a good place to end it. Yeah, man, I mean this
is this is good. We gotsome good stuff. Have we got so
much more common? If you mentionedthe Krypton episode is coming up soon,
uh yeah, so be on thelookout for that one. I think that
we are going to take an opportunityto really look at what's going on with
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the DC comics. You know,Cinematic University what it called, uh DCU,
DC Universe is that what it is. Well, they're going to retire
that and they're supposed to different one. Yeah, they're gonna return that much.
Yeah. I think we'll take thatopportunity to really kind of look at
it, you know, talk aboutthese new Superman movies that are coming out,
you know, in honor of Krypton, I suppose, and really see
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what James Gunn is going to do. And I know there's another guy,
I'm sorry, the other guy,I don't remember your name, don't that's
also the head of DC Universe.But we'll know it for Krypton and that's
when we'll let y'all know what yourname is. Let's go ahead and call
this one an episode. Ladies andgentlemen, thank you for listening to the
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You're listening to the Cool Black NerdPodcast presented Say One Radio. Yo,
what's up, everybody? Welcome backto the Cool Black Nerve Podcast. This
is episode number thirty four Selenium.I'm your host Jules, and I'm here
with everybody's favorite co host Justice.How are you today? I'm doing awesome.
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You know. I just realized weare doing this on the four.
Oh it is July four. Itis for us, we're recording this on
the fourth. Yeah, I candig it. Happy Independence Day, everybody.
Yeah, for those of you whocelebrate, Happy be Independence Day.
For those of you who do not, go get your hot dogs having the
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day July four. Yep. Howhave you been. It's been a while,
it has been. I've been prettygood. I've just been playing Diablo
though. Yeah. That's it.That's what it is. Diablo came out
and I can't. I can't doanything else. It got everybody been hearing
good things about it though. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely a pretty fun
game. I don't know if youhave you played any of the other Diablo
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games. I attempted to play oneof I think it was Diablo Q.
Like I play back in the day, way back in the day, and
I was not very good at becauseI didn't, you know, really wasn't
understanding of what I was supposed tobe doing or how we're supposed to be
doing, so I didn't continue onwith it, That's sure, Okay,
Well, the full disclosure. Theonly other Diablo game I've ever actually played
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was Diablo three, and it wasjust a game that I you know,
I'll give you that when when Ifirst started playing it, I didn't really
understand what was going on. Icouldn't like. It's definitely a game like
a true RPG, where you havebuilds, and you base your build around
your gear that you get. You'realways trying to get better gear so you
can have better bills and do moredifficult content like the and it they've even
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Diablo three and even now Diablo fourseems like they've done a pretty good job
of making it so that the contentalways kind of scales to how powerful you
can make your character, and I'mnot sure if there's really ever a stop
to it. So you're just alwaystrying to get better and better gear and
improve your bills so you can,you know, kind of get through the
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levels faster and faster, right,you know, it's it's definitely I would
say if if there are people whohave played Diablo three or even I've been
seeing a lot of people saying likethey skipped Diablo three and went to Diablo
you know, went from Diablo twoto four seems to be pretty enjoyable for
everybody. It is a little bitdifferent than Diablo three. This was definitely
more of a live service feel.I think everybody's going that route no matter
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what, Like every game is justlive service. And for those of you
guys who don't really know what thatmeans, I'm what I'm saying by life
is you know, back in theday, if you were playing like a
Street Fight two or Super Mario Brothers, like you, you inserted the cartridges,
you started up the game, andyou were playing the game from that
system, just like that. Now, most of the games that are out
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there, you have to connect tothe Internet and then you are playing with
other people with throughout the world,so to speak, and it is updating
and pretty much generating contents on aconsistent basis. Whereas that Street Fur two
or the Mario game, whatever wason that disc or that cartridge, that
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was it unless you bought the names. Yeah, so yeah, this was
definitely got that going on. Likeyou know that you can see other players
on and around as you're doing stuff. People can kind of come in and
out, and if you happen tobe on a particularly challenging fight or like
an event going on on the map, other people if they're there, they
can come help you out if theywant to, or they can just keep
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running past you and not be helpfullike the evil, evil people that they
are. I mean, it's yeah, it's definitely been pretty fun so far.
I'm enjoying it. They have recentlyannounced that they're gonna do a seasonal
model. I think first season startsin a couple of weeks, so you
know what comes along with that.Obviously there's going to be micro transactions and
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all of that, and you know, seasons are probably not gonna be free.
I think this first one is,I would doubt that the other ones
are. So yeah, that goeswell. I mean, so let me
ask you this as far as likethe story and things of like that with
when it comes to Diablo, thisis definitely not a game for younger people,
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you would say, right, Igenerally I would say, you know,
you definitely want to have you know, older kids at least, maybe
not adults only. Like it's notcrazy like that, Like it's nothing you
know, X rayed or anything goingon. But it's definitely like a it's
definitely a you know, battle ofheaven and Hell type of ill. And
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it is just so everybody's clear asoutside of any like specific religion, we're
not talking about God or Jesus versusSatan or any other specific religion going on.
It's just more of like a conflictbetween some made up angels and demons
type of stuff. But it,you know, it's pretty bloody game the
guys. Yeah, pretty gory.Yeah, all right, Well, I
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mean I would say, you know, it's it's a so okay, let's
just say it's a cool black nerdrecommending, just definitely recommended. Yeah,
for sure. It's definitely a goodgame, something I think people would enjoy,
Definitely worth picking up up. Ohyeah, we could say seventeen and
up or if you're gonna be youngerthan that, parents monor to your children,
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you know, do what's comfortable foryou. Yeah, okay, I
got you, I got you andall you you know, youngsters that are
listening to this podcast. First ofall, we cuss on here. So
I don't know what you're doing.But if you're you know, talk to
your parents, don't just you know, wouldn't be picking up stuff just because
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you heard it's cool or wasn't.There's a reason why people say all this
stuff some stuff you just don't needto know about right now because you don't
want to think about all this getcomplex, key migraines. Don't worry about
all that. Yeah, you knowwhat. I put it this way,
if you pay some bills, youcan get this game without asking anybody,
you know what. So I don'tknow then if the people in the next
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story qualify. So I'm just I'mjust staying like, you know, okay,
So what was it June thirtieth,Esken just drop the hammer on a
lot of people on their shows.So, um, I think it was
about what fourteen or some people aboutwhat I've been reading it was twenty and
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some of them were like pretty wellknown on air, people like I think
Keyshawn Johnson got let Go, JeffVan Gundee let Go, Jalen Rose got
let Go, which Jalen Rose isan interesting one because I think he I've
been seeing some rumors that he mighthave found a landing spot pretty quickly at
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on Fox Sports One with Skip Baylissto replace Shannon Sharp. So we'll see
if that happens. That'll be aninteresting thing. But yeah, I mean,
I don't know why it's been havingit, but it seems and let
me say this to ESPN is ownedby Disney, but it seems like every
couple of years or so, everyyou know, every once in a while,
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kind of honestly, kind of regardlessof how the economy is doing or
how ESPN or even Disney I guessat large, is doing, ESPN seems
to do this really, yeah,they do it. Just seems like every
few years or so, they'll justdo this where they lay off a bunch
of the on air people and kindof shuffle everything. Interesting. And you
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know, right now, I don'tI don't know that Disney is doing bad
per se, but you know,definitely not doing as well as it was.
Kind of honestly at the height ofthe pandemic when everybody was at home
streaming and you know, Disney Pluswas blowing up, ESPN was Plus was
blowing up, and I think theyalso owned Hulu, right like all of
that was had some big money comingin. I know they've definitely been restructuring
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otherwise, like taking a lot ofshows off of streaming, canceling things,
trying to, I guess find thatbalance because you know, they dumped a
lot of money into it during thepandemic. And you know, people out
of about again, now are theythough? I mean we've been seeing I
don't. Yeah, people are outand about, but they're not going to
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see the movies that they wanted themto see. Well, yeah, that's
true. I don't know that people. Yeah, people have definitely stopped going
to the movies like they used to, depending on the movie. Though for
somebody like me, that works outfine because I want I love going to
the movie theater just because I likethe experience of the big screen, the
sound system, you know, havingsome fresh, you know, hot movie
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theater popcorn. You know, Idon't put butter on that no more,
because you know, I found outthat we don't really know what that buddy
is in the movie theater might justbe straight up vegetable oil on you.
But Nicole Kidney is uh, that'syour friend then, right? You know,
heartbreak is is best seen in themovie theaters. I never did understand
maybe they need to take that off. That's we don't need to see that
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anymore. They need to stop havingher do that intro at AMC. But
that's that's another story. Yeah,okay, but yeah, I mean,
yeah, people aren't aren't hitting upthe movies like they used to. I
enjoy it, like I said,but man, a lot of movies that
you would expect to be doing wellare not. And I think all of
that is just part of all ofit is restructuring, you know, Netflix,
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cracking down on passwords, and thenall the other services, like I
said, just canceling shows, WarnerBrothers buying HBO Max and then changing the
name Oh my goodness for some reason. It's according to them, they were
saying, because they wanted to keepHBO a you know, to have its
own brand since they're now part ofyou know, Discovery, and the shows
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on there will also be from youknow, like HGTV and the other brands
that are under the Discovery umbrella,and they just didn't want it to just
to just be HBO because that canalso include things that are adopt only content
like you know, Sopranos, Gameof Thrones and things like that, whereas
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Discovery is it? So they wantedit to just be Max, And I'm
like, but that don't make nosense. You just did HBO Max.
I need you to wait, Ineed you to wait, but I don't
I don't understand the name changed,and then that the little ads that I've
seen, which is ridiculous. Okay, you change your name because you want
to, you know, you wantedto, I guess, to be its
own thing or whatever. Right,yeah, why would your ads then be
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like, oh, this is Maxhome of HBO. Yeah don't that's why?
Yeah? Yeah, h so nowit's just Max with HBO instead of
HBO Max. Like come on,man corrects. Yeah, it could have
stayed HBO Max. But that's that'sfine. But again, all of this
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I think is just reaction to Imean, yeah, I guess the changes
that we're seeing now, Like Ithink a lot of things have changed and
they are going to stay different.But the thing, and I don't know
if this has to do with themeverybody jumping on the ship of we need
to beat Netflix and doing that indevelopment where it was rush or doing that
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in development that was not planning thoroughlyor just But it does not seem to
have worked out like they wanted itto. The only person that has come
out on top out of all ofthis is Sony because Sony never tried to
make their own streaming service. Butevery single person, I'm the last person,
sorry, every single company that didrun out to make their own streaming
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service to compete with Netflix is inthe red. Sony was like, nah,
we'll just keep licensing, and they'rein the black on everything. And
again, their movie Across the SpiderVerse right now is about to cross a
billion dollars, whereas I didn't.I didn't even realize this, But there
was a movie that just came out. I believe it was over the weekend
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and it costs seventy five million dollarsto make. The movie opened to five
million dollars over five thousand screens.Wow, what movie was this? I
forgot the name. It was likethe Teenage Cracking or something like that.
Oh yeah, yeah, And I'mlike, yeah, right, million dollars.
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Then I saw there was another moviethat came out this year, and
I didn't I'd never even heard ofthis. The only way I heard of
this movie is I'm not sure ifyou guys like watch YouTube like I do,
I don't have like cable cable.I watch YouTube every now and then
I'll buy a show or whatever.I have Netflix and all the rest of
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that stuff. But there there arethese channels that will kind of like give
you summaries of movies. They don'tgive you the entire thing, but they'll
give you like a summary of whata movie was about. And there was
a movie that came out this yearcalled Hypnotized or Hypnotic one or the other,
and it starred Ben am Flat andapparently he was supposed to be some
like agent who had lost his memory, but he didn't know it had lost
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his memory, and he was tryingto help this other lady who had lost
her memory to find out what reallyhappened and to uncover this whole ruse through
the government about this thing whatever.Even that movie cross five million dollars,
it made six million dollars, butit's still and that movie is still made
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less. That movie Hypnotic been aflet. This is an award winning director,
an award winning screenwriter. I don'tknow if he wanted an award for for
acting. I think I don't thinkhe ever should have if he got one,
I personally don't think he should havegot that one, but he continued,
I'm just not a bien Afflet fan, I know. But so that
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movie made less money than a horrormovie about Winny to Pooh, the Winny
to Pool movie called Blood and Honey. Because the Winny to Pooh ip became
public domain this year, so whenpeople found that out, of course people
jumped on it, which makes youknow, like, oh shit, free
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money. So everybody wanted to seewhat this is gonna be about. So
in January when this trailer drops,everybody's like, what the hell trailer drops?
It was just as bad as everybodythought it was. But the movie
was made for like three hundred thousandor something like that. It looked like
it. They look like they shotthis on the Polaroid camera. And the
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movie Steel made six like seven milliondollars. Still made that, and this
movie would have been Affleck only madesix million dollars. These stereos, and
then this teenage cracking movie seventy fivemillion dollars budget five million dollars. I'm
like, yeah, people are notThey'll go see what they want to see.
People are not going through the theaterman, They're definitely just going to
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see Yeah, they're go see whatthey want to see, exactly the movie
that they want to see. Man, and out of it. I have
a lot I think I think thiscould be an episode on itself, just
even talk about like the differences thatyou see now between like critics being like,
oh, this movie is garbage andthen regular people just being like,
actually, this is like one ofthe best movies of the year, Like
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what are you talking about? Yeah, that does need to be a showing
of itself that yeah, yeah,yeah, definitely. I don't know.
I can't explain it other than peoplejust are not going to the movies and
when they do go you write,people will yo, go see the movie
that you exactly what you want tosee at nothing else. So and maybe
(16:10):
all of that this time has ESPNor Disney looking to make these changes on
the fly. But it's definitely somethingI feel like they do often. And
you know, I brought up,you know, first taking Skip Bayless.
Everybody body shouldn't know Shannon Sharp.He left that show kind of abruptly.
You know, they had some onair. I'm just gonna say, from
from my point of view, SkipBayless got a little disrespectful with Shannon Sharp,
(16:34):
and then it wasn't necessarily like disrespectfulof whatever opinion he had on topics
they were discussing, but like personallydisrespectful, oh, kind of taking shots
at his career even to say,like they were talking about Tom Brady,
which I mean, if you've everwatched that show that they if it's not
Lebron James or the Dallas Cowboys,they're talking about Tom Brady, and Skip
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Bayless is like the Tom Brady superfan. Tom Brady can do nothing wrong.
I personally felt like Shannon Sharp wasa little bit more objective, specifically
when talking about Tom Brady and whateverthey were talking about this time had to
do with Tom Brady got a littlebit heated, and Skip Bayless basically said
the Shannon Sharp, I think you'resaying whatever it is you're saying because you're
jealous tom Brady's career. Tom Bradyis forty have every forty one forty two
(17:26):
years old still playing and you hadto retire and tom Brady one to have
her many Super Bowls, and youknow you wish that you were still playing.
And then you know, Shannon responded, took his glasses off and was
like, look, I'm a threetime Super Bowl winner. I'm a Hall
of Famer. I'm good like I'mgood with my career. I'm one of
the considered one of the best tightends ever, if not the best tight
(17:51):
end they ever played football. I'mgood. And Skip just got even more
disrespectful and said, you know,I'm saying stuff like your career is not
then compared to Tom Brady, thatkind of deal. So yeah, it
just went it went way too far. Then Skip had that whole thing with
Damar Hamlin when he collapsed on thefield. Skip had a tweet up that
(18:14):
was a little it was a littledisrespectful. Channon Sharp kick the next day
off because he didn't want their showto be talking about Kip and trying to
address that when it should have beenabout Damar Hamlin. So he took that
next day off, and then whenhe was trying to explain himself on the
show after that, Skip put himoff in the middle of him trying to
explain how he felt about it.It was just so it just became like
(18:37):
a definitely kind of a contentious situationat the end there. But with that
change and then also with these layoffs, for me personally, I realized,
like the only reason I had.I'm gonna call it cable. I have
YouTube TV, so streaming TV,but the only reason I had it was
like the sports shows and other sportsin general. So for me, I've
(18:57):
even canceled that now. But becausesports the NBA Finals are done, maybe
I get it again when it comesaround to the World Series. And honestly,
even then, it to only beif the Astros in the World Series.
Football is over for now, likethere's nothing you know, really going
on with sports right now, atleast for me. So I'm good on
(19:17):
that, and I don't know whenI'm going to get it back, like
I might not bring it back untilNFL seven starts. Wow, and even
then that's only to watch games,Like I may actually just look at is
it cheaper for me to just getsomething where I can watch NFL Red Zone
on Sundays. I don't know.We'll see, Well, we'll see.
That's kind of where I'm at.I think that kind of speaks to where
(19:41):
people might be at with going tomovie theaters and even just other things.
Now, like I really taking alook at what do I actually use and
why am I paying for this IfI'm not I'm not using that. Yeah,
you're right, everybody's come to thatconclusion. And I think the only
person who has not realized that isElon Musk, where he's thinking that everybody's
going to pay for Twitter Blue orpay for whatever when it comes to Twitter.
(20:04):
And now he is getting to thepoint where he's going to rate limit
where you know, what you areable to see on Twitter. You can
now not see any tweets without beinglogged in, so you have to have
an account, which hind us sucks. And I say that because if you
know, a lot of times peoplewould post some things as far as like
(20:26):
news and breaking information just on Twitterbecause it was easy and everybody could.
It was accessible to everyone. Youdidn't have to have an account. Now
you have to have an account.Sucks, it does, Yeah, I
mean I know he's got to tryto make that purchase makes sense. I
mean it was bad, honestly,and then I think the things that he's
doing are making it worse. Ohyeah, I mean he certainly got his
(20:49):
his audience, right, there's peoplethat are gonna ride or die with it.
But but yeah, I think he'smade a lot of mistakes with Twitter
and is continuing to do so.All in an effort to try to figure
out how to make some money outof it, I think, and not
doing a very good job of itso far. It was funny because the
initial limits that he had put onthere because so initially he put it out
(21:12):
because he wanted to stop data scrapers, and those are bots and people who
will go to websites and scrape thewebsite for data and then posted somewhere else.
That is a big problem for alot of websites in general, so
I get it, and a lotof companies have not been able to come
up with a great solution for itwithout hampering the user experience. Unfortunately,
(21:36):
what he started does not work forwhat it's social media, so you cannot
and it's one of the main socialmedia platforms, the one that he started
with. I believe it was likeyou could not see more than three hundred
tweets a day or something like that. If you were unverified, could not
see more than I'm sorry, itwas one hundred tweets, and then it
(21:56):
was three hundred tweets if you wereverified. And what it means by verified
as if you had an account andyou were logged in, but if you
had quote unquote subscribe to the Twitterblue you could see around like a thousand,
and people wanted to see how easythat would be to go through.
Now this is just you scrolling.You don't have to click on the tweet.
You don't have to go through it. And this also includes whether or
(22:17):
not that tweet has replies or interactionand engagements to it. So even if
one of those has like a shiptime to it, that also includes you
know, you interacting with that tweetas if you had seen those thousands of
tweets and it's just like it's goingto be done in a few minutes.
So one person did it and ittook them two minutes to get through all
(22:38):
of them. That was it athousand? Right, Yeah, I got
you. Yeah, see that.To me, that's I think that's gonna
make it even more difficult for him, Like I mean, it obviously makes
it more difficult. But even ifyou were trying to charge, like let's
say you wanted to charge a companylike you brought up like house affecting people's
customer service, because some companies likethat's how you get in touch with customers
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service, right like or it's atleast one of the avenues like you got
a problem, you can who atwhoever customer service and get a response if
they're not if they're only able tolook at a certain amount of tweets,
even if they are paying for thesubscription, like that's I could definitely see
them just being like, well,we just have to stop this, Like
it's not even a like we're goingto stop doing this because now I can't
(23:21):
see everything that's actually happening on Twitter. So exactly gonna get worse if I
respond to my three hundred people aday and then everybody else was like,
well, why you didn't respond tome? And I can't just be like,
oh, I couldn't see it becauseI was rate limited, So that
ain't that's not gonna work. Yeah, he's gonna have companies leaving Twitter now
even more now now you do havesome companies that have gone ahead and signed
(23:47):
up for it. Like if yousee them with that gold check, they
have signed up for his the TwitterBlue subscription, And that can be depending
on the company previous follower account ishow much they were they would be paying.
Now, if you are under acertain amount, you would be paying
anywhere in the amounts of like twentyto fifty thousand now or something like that,
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which again is crazy, Okay,but if you want to be able
to continue to as you said before, this was what you were using for
customer service because it was easy,free, and this is how you communicated
with people, what do you donow? Yeah? No, I mean
again, we'll see how this goesagain, I do. I want to
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point this out though. This isone thing that I think people do need
to be reminded of. Twitter,along with all of these other social media
companies, are companies, like theyare free to do whatever it is they
want to do, Like this isnot this is not you know, the
town square, Like this is nota public thing. So he's definitely well
(24:52):
within his rights to do that whatI think is going to happen. Actually,
let me let me say this becausethis also just leads into another thing
that I did want to talk abouttoday. We had briefly talked about before
we got on here, that thereis now legislation in Congress and it seems
to be by partisan to ban TikTok, and you know, we, you
and I you know, briefly kindof talked about how how that might be
(25:14):
possible, and you know, wekind of came to the conclusion that it
really isn't even about banning TikTok.It's really more about just saying to like
Google, who makes and you knowhas all the Android phones, and Apple
who has iPhones, like this apphas to come out of your app store
now, and that generally would eliminateninety nine point nine percent of people from
having that app, just because eventhough yes, you can't sideloaded, but
(25:37):
who's gonna make that effort? Notmany people? Yeah, and to do
what like if you sideloaded and it'slike four people on there, what's quite
Yeah, right, so if thatpasses, you know, and I think
that will definitely kill TikTok, atleast in the US. But you bringing
up this thing about Twitter just mademe realize because the way I found out
(26:00):
about this legislation for TikTok was thearticle was actually talking about buying stock in
Meta now because Meta, you know, hasn't been doing the best because they
put all of their efforts into themetaverse, which is still not what Mark
Zuckerberg thought it was going to be. But bringing up so they were saying,
(26:23):
get it because TikTok is likely goingaway. Yeah, And Medica step
in and you know, fill thatgap. The what some of the stuff
that's happening with Twitter, especially thisray limit, I feel like that just
kind of doubles it up. LikeFacebook, Instagram is about to be kind
of the last one standing that doesn'thave just kind of crazy stuff going on.
(26:47):
So yeah, it does kind ofseem like that and unfortunate. And
people have been saying this for years, and I've been one of those advocates
too, and nobody really wanted tohear me when I would tell them,
especially for any content creators, donot put all your eggs in one basket.
You would always have these, especiallypodcasters, because they would be like,
will you only do podcasting on audiofarming, you don't do YouTube or
(27:10):
anything like that. I was like, you can take an audio podcast and
make it into anything you want.I said, I know I grew my
audience from Instagram, but it's easythat way. I said, Like audio
is keen, like the video andstuff like, you can make that into
anything. You can do that onYouTube, you can do that. You
can do that on read It doesnot matter where it could be the problem
(27:32):
with people would see this easy moneyon TikTok and be like, oh,
well you could blow up. Yeah, it would just be the attention that
you would get. TikTok is greatfor getting your name out there if you're
a small business, that is true. But unless like what's his name,
Carby Lane, who is the mostfollowed person on TikTok, and I think
(27:52):
he has somewhere near like five hundredmillion users or something like that. Yeah,
wow, that's incredible. That's thethat's the guy who don't say words
all right, he just makes faces. Yeah, I think it's something like
that. And everywhere else trace bookdoesn't do it anymore, and Instagram doesn't
do it anymore, but everywhere elsehas a creator fund, But in that
(28:15):
creator funds for TikTok, like theyonly pay you for the views, and
I think it's like ten cents ofyou. This man would have, like
I said, five hundred million users, even if it's only five tenth,
that's it. That is it.You go to YouTube, same thing,
five million, five hundred million views, just like mister beasts views come on
(28:41):
name. But a lot of thesekids would be like, well, no,
TikTok is easier, is this andthis and that? And I would
try my best to explain what youwill get from TikTok is attention. Yes,
you won't get any notationable things fromthat, Like you won't get the
sponsors and things that you want fromthere. You're not gonna make any money,
(29:02):
honestly, Like you'll get the attention, you'll get the people, and
it's nice, but if you've gotnothing to build off of, you got
to move that to YouTube or somewhereelse. And you have to have more
than one platform to standoff of.You have to have a baby. But
if it's only on TikTok and youcan't really do anything other than the TikTok
stuff, yeah, you're not gonnamake it. And it was very very
(29:23):
hard to tell that to people andthey understand what I was saying without them
saying, oh, where you're justhating because you're shit is old or whatever,
like okay, whatever, hey,I'll get it. I understand that.
And I never really thought about TikTokthat way, to be honest.
I mean, I personally don't useTikTok. I don't have the app at
(29:44):
all, but you know, peopledefinitely send me links from TikTok all the
time. But again, I meanthis is with all of this stuff going
on with other social media companies.You know, Meta has a chance to
do something. We'll see if theytake advantage of it. And you know,
Instagram has been looking more and morelike TikTok for a while now,
so it might be able to fillin that spot. I mean, it's
(30:06):
easier for a lot of people todo something, and it's what a lot
of people know. TikTok unfortunately hasthat it's been tarnished. So yeah,
and YouTube is a it's the lesserof two evils. I was just gonna
say, YouTube seem like it's beenthat just that from what I've been seeing
from content creators recently, YouTube reallyjust seems like it's the old standby like
(30:29):
that. People are starting to haveproblems with Twitch and whatever other is going
on, and YouTube just seem tokeep on trucking. Yeah, YouTube will
always be there. It just hasto. You have to abide by their
rules. And it's always funny tome when people were saying, well,
I work for myself, now youwork for Google, and okay, if
(30:49):
Google don't like that, you haveto change it. So stop thinking like,
oh, I work for myself,because you do not. And I
think That's where a lot kind ofgoes back to what I was saying,
and generally, like you gotta rememberall these these companies are not they're companies.
Like they're not They're not here necessarilyfor you. They are making money
(31:10):
off of you. Like yeah,pretty much you can post whatever you want
on your website, like when youcome to those websites and things, and
even that is to a certain extentbecause the hosting covering your website hosting company,
well, I mean, if youget to a certain point you're doing
something, they'd be like, ah, they will shut you down as well.
There's there's very much an extent toall of the stuff that you can
(31:30):
do. But when it comes topeople who are paying you for this stuff,
like like like I said, YouTubeis under the Google umbrella and most
of the stuff is paid for byads. With that, there are certain
standards that come with those ads,and it's just the way it is.
(31:52):
Some of it will be they're like, it'll be limited. You can still
put the video out, you justdon't get paid for it. Yeah,
and get where it's crazy And Iliken it back to us in you know,
the business world for our nine tofive jobs where sometimes there are decisions
that are made and we're like,the hells that makes no sense because it's
(32:15):
made from a decision from a personthat's at a thousand foot level. They're
not at the ground floor, andit does not make any sense. It
will backfire on them, But theydon't have all the information. People like
I wouldn't say people like us,but people who are more on the on
the end can make it work.So when you hear these people who are
(32:37):
yelling about oh, well, that'sa stupid reason, it's I hate that
they're having these az and stuff likethis. Now, if you have a
few people that will make it work, it can work, and that's all
that matters. Yeah, you'll havea few that bucket the trend, but
if there's enough to show that itdoes work, that's all they need.
(32:57):
It. Really, business is business. If you work for somebody else,
that's just kind how it is.And even if you do work for somebody,
even if you work for yourself andyou get money from somebody else,
there's still standards that you have toabide by that does not go away.
And I think because there's this misconceptionthat people have, or let me say,
(33:21):
younger people have that when you areworking for yourself or that no one
is there over your shoulder every fiveseconds, that you can do whatever you
want, and that you should haveno consequences because I've done everything that I
should, or I've done everything thatI think I should, and now I
should get what I deserve. That'snot how it goes. It's never.
That's never how it's winning. Neverif you've never had a job before.
(33:45):
I think it's a route awakening fora lot of them, and I think
that's what's happening, especially like yousaid, with this twitch stuff. It's
hilarious seeing some of them just belike, well this is American you said,
Yeah, Yeah, it's not ayeah. Maybe it's there realizing that
hey, even though you know technicallyI work for myself, I'm real I'm
(34:07):
actually relying on this giant corporation that'sgoing to make giant corporation decisions. And
they're like, well, they needto be more, communicate more, and
they don't have to be. Yeahthey should. They don't have to,
though, And I don't know howmany times I've seen decisions that just come
down that just make this absolutely nosense, and they will look at you
(34:31):
and just be like, do it. I don't want to hear nothing about
it, kind of like when youknow what your mom yeah, I don't,
I don't care. I don't wantto hear no lip, just just
get it done. It's strange though, to see it, I guess play
out for other people. Yeah,I got you, you know who,
well who it might be playing outfor now. Well, maybe not in
(34:52):
the same way. But Microsoft,they struggled with this Activision acquisition. They
always definitely planned. Oh lord,I have never seen a merger. Get
I mean just backhead just every fiveseconds, Oh yeah, we're going through
Nope. Well it's about the Nope. Every single governing body has said no
at some point it's merger. I'venever seen this. It's all reliant on
(35:19):
Call of Duty becoming exclusive and cloudgaming. And I know that a lot
of people are saying that cloud gamingis so far away, and I'm like,
I I would not head that betbecause what I'm gonna go ahead and
say, it's not like we kindof have it now, Like I know,
(35:43):
yes, with these games like thesethe I'm gonna go ahead and say,
with these live service games, yeah, you download the game to your
computer, but with them always beingon the Internet already, like now,
it's not that far away from justyou know what, it's not, it's
really not. And it's Microsoft whoknows what they've been doing for the longest
(36:04):
they have like there, they havea bunch of cloud servers out there for
just people running their business from thecloud already, they know this. It
would not take very much to beable to do the same thing for game
development. Plus their leaders in thegame development to begin with Activision is and
Microsoft was in the forefront of itin the beginning with Xbox. So it's
(36:29):
like, no, it's not thatBarthetche. It's like, come on,
like, I understand Stadia wasn't whatmost people want it, but the technology
is still there. You don't haveto do Yeah. I was just about
to bring up Stadia. I wasgonna say, I know, you know,
kind of generally it people would saythat it failed or whatever, but
(36:50):
it kind of didn't. Like itdefinitely proved that it can work. Yeah,
Yeah, need a little bit morepolished and a company that would be
more willing to put the resources andeffort into actually not shutting it down within
two years, right, Yeah,but yeah, it is there. So
(37:14):
I don't know why people keep downplaying the cloud gaming thing. I believe
it was a CEO. Believe itwas the CEO, may be wrong,
but it was a higher up.Let me say that. I higher up
in Microsoft kept giving quotes saying itwouldn't make financial sense to make games exclusive
to Xbox, and I'm like,if you want to sell the hardware,
(37:36):
it is yeah, yeah, Imean you say that, yeah, it's
not even that is that? Andthen honestly they're doing it now, right,
what is it called? What isit? Game pass? Yes?
If I want to sell a subscription, which is seems to be what everybody
wants to do now, it's wayeasier to sell that subscription if I have
exclusive games. Yeah, Like theonly way you're going to be able to
(37:59):
play Call of Duties if you havegames fast on on an Xbox exactly,
because unfortunately, like the last gaminggeneration, um, we have the PlayStation
five in the x Unfortunately they fuckedthemselves with this. You have the PlayStation
five, that makes sense, thefifth generation PlayStation, right, you have
(38:21):
the Xbox one xx, L WQwhatever, And it's just like what was
the last generations Xbox Xbox one S? What is that why don't you do
that? Was that the last generation? Isn't it the Xbox One? Now
exactly? That's the problem. Theyscrewed themselves doing that. Confused, that's
(38:42):
for sure. I don't exactly soa lot of people are confused. You
have a there's a bunch a bunchof bunch of people who have actually bought
the other generation thinking they got thisgeneration, and they return it back after
they figure out, oh, thisisn't the one that I really wanted,
so right now, Well that theconfusing launch. Okay, that's one.
(39:02):
The other one is they don't havea lot of excusive games, and the
exclusive games that they do can havecome out and been trashed. So for
them to be like, oh,well it's not it doesn't make financial sense
for it to be exclusive to Xbox. And I'm like, I don't know,
but if you do it like whereoh it's exclusive to the Xbox each
(39:23):
ghost system where you also have thecloud gaming, Oh yeah, it makes
a lot more sense then. Soyeah, everybody's sitting there saying, oh,
no, cloud gaming is not afactor. Yeah don't know about that.
I personally think it is the thefactor for them doing so. I
(39:43):
mean and you know, I'll saythis, even though I think Sony has
done a good job of protecting themselvesfrom this actually happening, you know,
they're also a company that is likelytrying to figure out a way to do
the same thing. So yes,yes, yes they are. They are.
I think they're just right now moreinsulated on the development of it.
(40:05):
Like you said, they've been ableto hide it a little bit better and
unfortunately well to their fortune. ButMicrosoft's unfortunate. Microsoft has been everybody's function
back with this. I again,I have never ever, ever been a
merger. Every single time they takeone step forward or they pick up their
foot at all, they're like nownow, Like everybody is like, and
(40:31):
you know what else I've seen Likenow's as as these like lawsuits are going
on and some of these details arecoming out. Even the companies that Microsoft
has purchased prior to this deal arekind of being like, yeah, oh,
so this is the offer they madefor activism, Like why couldn't we
do that when we got acquired?Like, what's what's going on here?
(40:55):
So yeah, it's not looking toogood. Oh, one thing I did
see that I was actually kind ofsurprised that they did Sony basically admitted like
without Call of Duty, like,there's not going to be a PlayStation what
pretty much? Yeah, Like inone of the filings, it like the
amount. It was like something likeninety percent of people who own a PlayStation
(41:16):
five played Call of Duty, andthen it was like eighty percent of those
people have played it at least onehundred hours. So it was it's it
was a crazy thing to be like, like I did. I knew Call
of Duty was popular. Everybody knowsit's possible, but yeah, wow,
yeah, no, there's no waythey can sit there and be like it's
(41:38):
not a factor. We're not goingto make it exclusive. Yeah, And
then I know that they were sayingthe date and as they've been saying we're
not gonna make it exclusive, theywere like, we're gonna honor the contracts
that we have. I think Callof Duty is only like two more years
with Sony M So it's not likeit was coming when that contract was up.
(42:01):
Why if this goes through and thatcontract when that contract is up,
watch call of due to be onethousand percent exclusive. And by one thousand
percent, I mean like it mightnot even be available on PC. You
probably right, I didn't realize,Like I know, computer computer gaming is
a big area, but it's nowherenear like where it is for console gaming.
(42:25):
Yeah, I didn't realize that.Absolutely crazy. I think this might
be a good place to end it. Yeah, man, I mean this
is this is good. We gotsome good stuff. Have we got so
much more common? If you mentionedthe Krypton episode is coming up soon,
uh yeah, so be on thelookout for that one. I think that
we are going to take an opportunityto really look at what's going on with
(42:50):
the DC comics. You know,Cinematic University what it called, uh DCU,
DC Universe is that what it is. Well, they're going to retire
that and they're supposed to different one. Yeah, they're gonna return that much.
Yeah. I think we'll take thatopportunity to really kind of look at
it, you know, talk aboutthese new Superman movies that are coming out,
you know, in honor of Krypton, I suppose, and really see
(43:15):
what James Gunn is going to do. And I know there's another guy,
I'm sorry, the other guy,I don't remember your name, don't that's
also the head of DC Universe.But we'll know it for Krypton and that's
when we'll let y'all know what yourname is. Let's go ahead and call
this one an episode. Ladies andgentlemen, thank you for listening to the
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