Xbox comes for the handheld market, the Saudis have your data, and more!

Welcome to off the

console, the hottest podcast,

talking about gaming and news, tech news,

and anything nerdy generally.

This week, I'm joined

by my hosts, my co-hosts,

HiTech Low Life and James, AKA

The Brink, AKA Games Revealed.

How's it going, my guys?

It's going good.

It's going great. Yeah,

it's doing pretty good.

I'm out of time right now.

That's why my setup's a little weird

and why I might sound a little different.

Is that the beach I hear?

Are you just vacationing right now?

Yeah, are you on the beach?

I'm actually not.

I went up to help my

brother with something.

He needed me because

I'm the only one reliable

with tech in the family.

I feel that, man.

And it's a good

opportunity to go to a micro center

and hopefully get myself a GPU.

Nice. Nice.

Hell yeah.

He happens to live

near a micro center too,

so that's a win for both of us.

Well, that narrows it down

because there's only like eight of them

in the United States.

Yep.

Yeah, that does.

Are you getting the 9070

or are you attempting to?

The 9070 XT.

Well, yeah.

Who would get the 9070?

Unless that's the one

thing you could, I guess.

They do trade-ins too, don't they?

So you could trade in a GPU.

Do they do trade-ins?

I've never heard of them.

I think they do.

I was talking to someone yesterday

and they're thinking

about trading in their GPU,

their older GPU to get a 9070.

Well, I have an older 2080

Super just floating around.

Maybe they'll take it.

I don't know about that.

My 3090 is too hot for my room

and it overheats the computer.

So I'm thinking about getting a 9070 now

and trading it in.

What if you got a 5090 instead?

I mean, that's a good joke.

Like, could I get one?

And first off, could I get one?

Could I find one?

Second, how would that

resolve my heat issue of the 3090?

Because it's gonna be what?

It's gonna be a lot hotter

than the 3090 in my room.

Like, I don't get how

people run these computers

with the 3090, 5090 and all that

in certain rooms in their houses.

Like, you gotta keep that

thing cold or something.

Like, I had it in a basement that stay,

and I didn't have, and it was,

it's cold here where I live in Utah.

And so I didn't have issues,

but I'm on the second

floor now with my office

and it overheats, so I

don't know what people do.

Yeah, it gets really warm.

I have a 3080 and it

gets really warm in here.

And so like that window over here

kinda keeps the

temperature cool enough if it's open.

Like, if the blinds are open,

but if the blind is

closed and it seals it off

and it's fricking hot.

What if it's summertime though?

Well, he loses people's time.

In the summer, it only

gets up to like 80, 90 degrees

and I have an air conditioner, so.

Yeah, but even, I mean, same here.

Like, we get to about 80, 90

and the AC is just not powerful enough.

I wanna keep my room,

if I keep my door shut,

because I have kids, but

maybe that's my problem.

Yeah, I don't keep my door shut

because I don't have children.

Maybe we should do

what Linus Techtip does.

Techtip does, and just.

in his basement and it's liquid is all

liquid cooled and that liquid cooling

system is hooked up to his like back like

his his outdoor pool yes that costs

that cost money yeah I know that lightest

fun project though cuz he's

don't get me wrong

Even if he had money something tells me

that if he didn't have a YouTube channel,

he wouldn't be doing that.

Aw man, I like doing projects like that.

If I had the money, that's all I'd be

doing. I probably wouldn't do that.

I mean, Lias has made like what? Four or

five videos about that little project

including the part where he like it fails

and has me do the entire thing.

So I'm sure that makes him

quite a bit of money too.

I bet he enjoys doing it.

Yeah, of course.

Anyway, we're...

Besides the GPU talk and the Linus Tech

Tip pool talk, we're also going to be

covering some other fun topics today.

We're talking about the supposed Xbox

handheld that's coming through, coming

down the pipeline here.

The third party one

and the first party one.

We're going to be talking about...

Let's see, the SteamOS 3.7 preview.

We're talking about Pokemon Go being

acquired by the Saudi Arabian government,

which should be a fun non-political topic

and a whole lot more.

So yeah, the first thing we like to do on

the show is talk about the games that

we've played or the things

that we've done this week.

And Hi-Tech, what did you do this week?

So I got myself Rise of the Ronin or

rather my Koei Tecmos

on me, a key for it.

And let me tell you...

I haven't tried it out since the patch

that came out yesterday on the Steam

Deck, but when I tried it out when it

first launched on the Steam Deck, let's

just say it didn't run all that well.

It like runs on a 30 FPS, but it like...

Just started so hard sometimes. It makes

it practically unplayable.

And I'm going to try it

out later when I get home.

I brought my ROG Ally with me this time

because I want to try it out there.

And it runs a little better.

I would imagine so

because, you know, ROG Ally X.

On Bassite too, I should mention too.

Nice.

Hell yeah.

Nice.

James?

Yeah.

Doing a bunch of different things that...

Where I avoid gaming, reformatting my PC.

I'm going to be dual booting it.

I think this time because

I'm just getting tired of...

I don't think it's

truly a hardware issue.

I think it's my room overheating the

computer issue or at least hitting it

enough to where it just has issues.

And then Windows is also up, you know,

Windows is a whole issue on its own.

So I'm going to be switching over to dual

booting Linux for as much as I can.

And then Windows for my

game development for Unreal.

But this is like one of our topics is

going to be the Bassite DX.

And that's actually probably the flavor

I'm going to go for if I can.

Because I've been getting into Godot this

week and I've been enjoying it.

I definitely have more faith

as they've been upgrading it.

And so one day I could see myself

releasing a game using Godot Engine.

I do like Unreal, but

it is fairly bloated.

I will admit to that.

But I'm going to be playing with the two.

So it's fun.

It's fun stuff that I'm working on.

Nice.

Hell yeah.

This week I've been

working on Godot as well.

I've got my game, Doodling's Arcade

Sportsball, which is now on sale for the

Steam Summer or the Spring Sale.

Insert trailer here.

Insert trailer here.

I've been getting the code ready to

actually do a new, like, small

update and to open source it.

I'm going to make the game's code freely

available, which I'm

really excited about.

And I've seen some people joining my

Revolt server and helping me get stuff

done over there, which

has been really cool.

Yeah, I joined it too.

I didn't help you get

anything there, but I joined it.

I joined it and did nothing.

Yeah, no, it's...

Summer scrub.

Well, it's cool.

Like, Revolt is basically Discord, but

not closed source and

proprietary, which is nice.

And I've heard rumblings

that they're looking to, like,

federate it with either the Fediverse or

coming up with their own, like,

application-specific federation ability.

So, like, because one cool thing about

Revolt is you can actually

host your own server, right?

So it's not like you create just create a

server, which is like a chat room, but

you can actually set up your own

dedicated instance of Revolt.

But being able to peer them is not

something that's available yet.

So, once they come up with their

federation service, you'll be able to

have one Revolt account on any server and

then log into

different rooms or whatever.

It's confusing because they're called

servers, but you'd have one account and

you could just take it anywhere without

having to create new ones, which I'm

really excited about.

Yeah, it always bugs me a little bit why

Discord called them

servers, but I mean, it's whatever.

They made the program, they get to name

it whatever they want.

Yep.

Even if it's wrong.

Yeah, but I think calling it calling

Revolt an instance, you know, if you have

your own instance, I think

that kind of clears things up.

But yeah, anyway, I'll probably put a

link if you guys are cool with it to my

Revolt server, an invite

link in the description.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Check out the

description down below and yeah, his

Revolt server is going to be there.

Yeah, we've already got like almost 80

people in there, which is pretty neat.

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Cool.

All right.

First episode, first topic today, the

supposed Xbox handheld.

Hi, Tech.

You want to tell us about this?

So Microsoft is supposedly teaming up

with some sort of PC manufacturer to make

a handheld of some sort.

They're saying it's

unmistakably Xbox in that.

I don't know.

It runs Windows, I guess.

I don't exactly know what makes it so.

It'll be branded Xbox.

It's almost guaranteed.

I can just.

Yeah, I'll be branded Xbox.

It's going to be a green Asus ROG ally.

I can almost guarantee it's going to be

probably fill that route.

It's almost definitely Xbox in an era

where everything is an Xbox.

So I talked about this on my news video

this week, which was yesterday.

And a bunch of people said that another

news site had confirmed that it was Asus

who is actually going to be the third

party manufacturer here.

So Asus will be the OEM for this.

Oh.

Which I think is fascinating.

But I also think that Microsoft is going

to be like using this as a test, a test

bed for their eventual

like Xbox for handheld.

They're not going to call it that, but

that's what it will be.

Yeah.

And and interestingly, Fortnite and Epic

anti-cheat services are

coming to Windows on Snapdragon.

And I believe that this is because these

handhelds from Microsoft are going to be

ARM based with like a with a AMD GPU.

That's just my speculation.

That's why I bumped that next story up.

I mean, it definitely could happen as AMD

is working on ARM APUs.

And so that will be interesting.

What is also interesting is that Epic is

once again snubbing Linux.

Yeah.

And there's a chance that even if that

were to make the ARM deck, it's going to

be snubbed there, too.

Yeah.

I think there'll be a point where they

might like they'll either double down and

try to never support it or there'll be a

point where, OK, there's millions of

Steam decks out there.

When are you going to

start supporting it?

There's there's going to

be like this threshold.

Well, I'm hoping.

Well, the thing, though, is that Timothy

does things just despite Valve Timothy

like like the valve, like remember how

Valve banned NFT games?

Yeah.

Guess what?

Epic did right after they allowed them

despite also banning

them in the past, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I wouldn't go like.

That's an interesting one.

I don't know if I'd go as

far as spiteful for that.

I'd say changing their pricing, though,

is very is probably a little bit more

competitive slash spiteful because

they've they've changed their pricing

specifically because of Valve and Steam.

When you say pricing, you

mean like the amount they take?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's I mean, that was

probably their best move that they've

done in regards to the Epic Game Store.

I agree.

But yeah, the stuff they were saying

would definitely did sound

like a little bit of spy.

Yeah.

I think that Tim Tim

Sweeney, Timote Sweeney is.

I think he's as he

Edward Scissorhands now.

I don't know.

He's like, oh, let me

close the door real quick.

Yeah.

Tim Sweeney is like the ex-Amazon guy,

right, who is like we never validated our

core assumptions before we like spend a

bunch of money to fight Valve.

And and that's what Epic is like.

Epic doesn't really epic has like this

idea of what they want the

game industry to look like.

And what that is is is is like a

nepotistic thing that all things benefit

them, you know, and I just

and the gamers don't want that.

And so that's why they're still

struggling to this day to like get people

on board with the epic

way of the games industry.

And I just think it's

a load of horseshit.

And outside of that, too, Epic also

bought a bunch of

resources that people really like.

They they bought Bandcamp.

You guys know what that is?

Yeah. And then they sold it, didn't they?

Yeah, because they apparently didn't make

enough money or some shit.

Yeah.

They also bought

Artstation to if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah.

And they've also started leaving that

because the I don't know because people

started training on their data or

something like that.

Yeah.

I'm entirely sure

what the story is there.

They also have bought like a bunch of

indie studios like Psyonix and harmonics.

Harmonics. Yeah.

Harmonics. That was a big one

that I was really teoed about.

I believe Quixel some other like really

big game developer

companies they've bought to.

Yeah.

And they were on a good.

They were on a good track

and then they screwed up there.

So the Epic Game Launcher you could

download and buy and they they gave away

assets and stuff for game developers.

And then they went to their own website

and just they completely

fucked up the whole process.

I don't think it was their intention.

I think they want to make a better

product and they ended up making a

drastically worse product.

So I'm going to give them leeway on this.

Like they've been pretty I think kind to

developers but they just made the

experience so much worse.

And I just it's so frustrating.

That's such an epic move.

That's an epic game.

Yeah.

The thing that I find really suspect

about the decision makers at

Epic is they bought Psyonix.

I mean harmonics.

Right.

They bought harmonics.

Harmonics.

I'm not knocking on Rock Band.

Rock Band was awesome. Dance Central was really fun and they had

like amplitude and frequency on the PS2.

Those are those games are awesome.

They were also the

original purpose of Guitar Heroes.

They were.

Yes.

But Psyonix.

Oh my God.

Harmonics.

Rock Band 3 or was it Rock Band 4 putting

Mad Cats out of business.

Like they almost put a

red octane out of business.

Right.

Because harmonics they make decisions

based on their their.

The fun about their games

not about like making money.

And so it's like there.

I don't think there could be a greater

like corporate culture clash than

harmonics and epic games.

I just don't see why they did that.

I don't know man.

The only thing I like to look at.

I'm sorry go ahead.

No it's okay.

I'll have to look into Epic more because

I didn't realize that

it was so nepotistic.

And because I definitely and that is a

little political these

days nepotism but it's man.

That's frustrating.

I'm glad that Godot is

getting better though.

Like I'm all here on Godot.

I did.

They just for 3D stuff and for stuff I

like to do which is more like half life

like the modding like period of like 20

years ago when it started with half life.

I love that period.

And so once Godot can

do that I'm off on real.

I've been trying.

I've been trying to figure out how to set

up like a wad type situation like how

Doom has wads in Godot.

And I don't think that

it's possible right now.

Which kind of bugs me bums me out because

like what I'd really like to do is have

my games code be open source and have

like a demo available with a wad that you

could just copy and paste into the into

the open source code base.

And there you go.

There's your there's the there's the game

doesn't seem like that's

entirely possible right now.

So I'm kind of working around that.

But that's an idea.

That's an idea from

Doom's open source code.

I mean, huh, I'm sure we

could learn from how Doom did it.

I mean, oh yeah, it's sources.

He could write it like Gardner could

write a thing but that takes that takes

time and effort to write

a plug in or an extension.

And the way the way Godot does it right

now is they package like you're

executable and all of

the assets as one bundle.

It's like an archive basically self

executing archive and and be and that's

done for a lot of reasons.

One of them is because it's faster to

have all of that stuff.

They can also as far as I understand it

Godot can only read and write from the

executable archive or from the user colon

slash slash like schema.

Right. So they're they've basically

they're they're isolating it as much as

possible so that your code can't like

your Godot code can't go out and like

exfiltrate a bunch of information from

your from your from server from.

Oh my God from the computers from the

host that's running the machine.

So like it's kind of a security thing but

it would be really cool if they if you

could specify like this is a file that I

want as a resource and I want to be and

it has to live within like the Godot file

structure and then you

could access it from there.

I think that that would be really neat.

They've got to be they've got to have

some type of ability at least in the

future because like Ron are saying unity

and unreal can do it.

They can access external resources for in

fact how do they do

settings and stuff like that.

So they have so the way that so there

might be the system

that's already in place.

I just don't know.

I'm not super like I'm not super well

versed in Godot but you can you can in

the project settings you can specify like

the what like where the games like read

write settings live.

So and that and then you access that

through an abstraction like schema.

So it's like user colon slash slash and

then whatever the path name is.

So you can load and do that stuff but

then I have to do that like file parsing

archival stuff loading it into get to

Godot and that means that everything has

to be done dynamically in the code rather

than specifying it in the editor which

makes it much more resilient when you go

to move things around and whatever.

So I do have a question though makes it

it makes it seem like Godot games just

aren't moddable by default.

Is that what you're getting at?

No, they're definitely moddable because

like what you can like there's a there's

a tool that you can use to extract Godot

assets from an archive game assuming that

they're not like like encrypted or

something but you can like on archive

like actual builds of Godot games and

then you can modify the files and

re-archive them and it.

But no like simple way to like load mods

without having to modify like the

internal files right.

As far as I've seen it I haven't I

haven't seen that so I would imagine that

there must be some way to do that.

But I don't know for sure. Yeah. I mean

from what I've heard Slay the Spire 2 is

on Godot this time and it's supposed to

be even more moddable than Slay the Spire

1 as per the developers.

So it might be worth might worth hitting

them up to see what their secret is.

It's open source too. So here's the thing

like Godot in relative timeframe to like

Unity on unreal is a

baby like legit a baby.

Oh, yeah, even though

it's been out for a while.

Unreal is what 30 years old technically

like there's been a lot of time to

marinate but that also with that comes a

lot of baggage with the Unreal Engine.

But to bring this all back into the Xbox

system because I really

am excited about this.

I really am curious what Microsoft is

going to do for this Asus version and

what Windows is going to be like because

I'm I've assumed that it was I've been

hoping that Microsoft is going to make a

game version like a game mode kind of

like how SteamOS has a desktop and a game mode.

I'm really hoping that Windows goes this

route and really limits any external

resources accessing it and that will be a

big game changer and I don't really think

it's going to be that

hard for them to do.

It was them just not having foresight,

you know, surprise surprise them not

having foresight and they're even they

even have executives that say that there

is going to be an AI burst and so I could

see them really doubling

down into this really late.

So I it would be

interesting. Do you think?

Snap. So do you think the official

handheld by Microsoft will be Snapdragon

and then this Asus one because what

they'll probably just do is rebrand the

next version of a sous ally as Xbox.

I guarantee that aces has been working on

something that they were going to release

like an ally to probably this year. Do

you think maybe Xbox will

grab that and rebrand it?

Well, I think I think so. And I think

there will be some advantages because I

mean, technically, technically speaking,

the ally X the ally and Alex don't have,

quote unquote, Xbox buttons.

What they have instead are buttons for

like armory crate and all that stuff,

which cannot be used for things like the

steam overlay or even

Microsoft's own Xbox game bar.

Well, with a with a they can map it. I

know it isn't a bios specific, but they

could they could release a bios update or

they could just like it and like from

what I understand, not even not hard for them to.

From what I

understand that not even like.

I a Neo has an a quote unquote, real

Xbox, but it's just the Windows G. It's

just mapped to a Windows G in the bios.

Yeah, but that's so then they just have

to swap out those buttons and then just

map it. It's it's it'd be very easy for

them to map those phrases.

Yeah, also one more one more weird quick

two is that the allies

buttons, the menu buttons, the.

Army crate button and the other army

crate button, you can't hold those down

for functions at all.

Like, you know how steam has like you

hold down steam and press X to build the

keyboard on Bazzo. You can't do that

because it just switches the map. It just

switches the analog stick to Massman. It

seems like it's a hardware thing.

If I'm not mistaken.

It very much could be. It could also just

be as I doesn't support it. There's a lot

of different layers with that.

Yeah, it's.

That's not it's a hardware. I don't even.

Yeah, it's definitely

not a perfect solution.

But at least it runs games really well.

It does. Yeah. But you're going to have

to be hooked up to an outlet.

Yeah, I mean, I think that like I think

Microsoft will probably have an arm based

solution for this in the way, at least

when they released their their.

Xbox for handheld or whatever it is.

Wouldn't it? Would that be Xbox four or

would that be Xbox? I was counting

earlier. It's Xbox five and they should

call it that. Honestly, if they really want to do that, they should call it that.

Honestly, if they really want to do right

by everything or they can even release

this and call this an Xbox four and then

match the PS five or six when it comes

out and do Xbox six

and just clean the slate.

Just make it easy for

everyone. No way. That's crazy.

What? No, it'd be the X X X X X X box. X

X X X X X X. No. Switch two is crazy.

That is the first time that they've

really done anything like that.

So Xbox could also get in line and just

be like hopefully it's

not Xbox series X two like.

Oh, my God. That would be perfect. Xbox

series Z. No, it would be the Xbox series one, guys.

Xbox series 360 one

Xbox series one again.

Xbox series 180.

What did they just call it? What did they

just reboot and just call it the Xbox?

Oh, yeah, that would be something. I

would not be okay with that. I would be

okay with it because I'm getting tired of

saying Xbox series X or Xbox one. I'm

getting tired of the stupid names.

You know, you know, the Xbox one, you can

shorten it to X bone.

You can do X bone. That's right. Yeah.

But like, yeah, it'll be Xbox parentheses

2027. If you look at the Wikipedia

article, if they do that. Yeah.

That's like my one pet peeve with like

rebooted movies when I have to type it

when I have to specify. Oh, I want to I

want to watch the plan of the eight. I want to talk about the plan of the eight.

But like not the one with Mark Wahlberg

in it, but like the original one from

like 1971 or some shit like that. Yeah.

Yeah. Doom's like that to Doom 2016.

Yeah. But Doom is like, man, do you

remember when Doom 2016 came out and like

just before and everyone was all

skeptical about how it was going to suck.

And then it like came out and it was

awesome. Well, to be fair, the

multiplayer beta didn't

inspire the confidence.

No, but I've never played the multiplayer

and the new. Yeah. I don't like doing for

multiple. That's the that's the only

thing people got. That's the only thing

they released before that.

Yeah. People are very skeptical,

especially gamers are very negative.

Well, I mean, it protects them from

making a seventy dollar mistake.

In today's world, if you buy something

that's bad that's on you with all the

reviews and gameplay out like you don't

have to buy day one.

If you're reserving it day one and it

sucks, that's kind of on you at this

point. Yeah, that's just my opinion. I

mean, that's I don't I

unless I want to support a studio.

I don't do I don't reserve a game before

it comes out. But with the Xbox handheld.

I if they come out with one this year,

there's a good chance I will try to pick

that up over anything else.

The Steam OS one is interesting, but like

the Legion goes non-steem-os version

doesn't give me a lot of hope that the

Steam OS version is going to be much

better than the Steam Deck.

And why would I do that? Like it doesn't

make sense. It doesn't make sense,

honestly. No. But the good news is Steam

OS is coming out for every handheld

supposedly. So we'll hear. Let's hear

more about that later, probably.

Yeah, before that, though, we've got the

Steam year in review 2024 were three

months into 2025 and Valve in their

infinite valve time have

given us their year in review.

What's this about, Hitec?

Well, I mean, if you get as much data as

Valve does, then I'm sure it'll take a

while to compile and make some

conclusions about it. So let's talk about

this. So 24 24 was a remarkable year for

the steam platform. We brought steam to a

new continent. I believe

the continent was Australia.

Yes. And they shipped out a game

recording. You see some new features.

Discovery and shopping. I'm gonna tell

you right now, I don't think Steam's

discovery features are very good. I've

made a couple of videos on why their

discovery algorithms suck.

They'll give you games based on

arbitrary, very arbitrary

categorizations, like is a game single

player or the game multi, a multiplayer

game, yada, yada, yada. So they even out.

They brought a couple of new features in

regards to they also gave us the advanced

access label, which is

different from early access.

Because remember how like people would

release, they would release games. And if

you bought like the more expensive

version of the game, you'd get like a

week ahead. Yeah. So advanced valve did

something good. They called advanced

access instead of early access because

valve already has an early access system.

But I still think the whole advanced

access concept sucks. Yes, I'm not a fan

of it. And so it's not that bad.

It's probably because unless it's half

life three that we're talking about, I

don't give a shit. It's more like ransom

access. Yeah, like it's one thing if a

reviewer gets a key early because I mean,

they're trying to play the

game and review it on. Yeah.

It's another thing when you're basically

when you're releasing game like a week

early, but for only only for those of us

that like pay more money, like, yeah,

they could just make the release date.

Because if you really think about it,

they're not giving you early access.

They're just making everyone else wait a

week. Yeah. Yeah. The game is ready for

public release, obviously, because you're

giving it to some of the public. So what

are you doing? Yeah.

I will say, though, like, I like the fact

that valve is being more responsive to

what's going on in the industry. And I

will say also say that I like how and I

they might touch on this, but like

they've done a bunch of big moves to help

curtail some of the more shitty aspects

of the game industry and its impulses. So

yeah, I do like that.

And they set rules that valve is using

their position to set like rules and set

the tone of what the industry should be.

And if there's one company I trust to do

that, it's valve. They're the closest

thing to a good guy. I think the entry

has. I know. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I

think and like I've mentioned the past,

like, because all these companies are

coming back, they keep leaving and coming

back to steam and they're doing it for a

reason because they're losing cells and

they're, they're

screwing themselves over.

Valve, there's been no other time, I

think, than now that valve has so much

leeway, like, just influence over the

industry as of now. And they really

should be labeling more and being a

little bit petty about it, in my opinion.

Obviously not to like be detrimental, but

like, I honestly wish they went a little

bit further and, and called this

something like a little bit more

predatory. Yeah, I mean, this is at least

good. Yeah, so I mean, I know valve is

trying. I know there isn't much valve

candy, but at the very least they are

trying to like help out consumers. So

let's see another thing. They could do a

ton if they wanted, they just might lose

business. Yeah, that's the unfortunate reality.

Let's see, playing and sharing. So they

made it so that when games enter their

preload states, it shows up more

prominently. See what else? Let's see

game update exceptions. You can choose when a game updates itself.

Like, for example, they have deeper

collected survivor, they have that sense

of wait till I launch the game. That way

it doesn't download to the background. I

mean, this is only this is pretty useful

for those that have metered internet

connections. I know sometimes I mean, I

don't have I don't I have a I don't I

mean, maybe I have I don't know if I have

a defined limit, but I don't have like a straight limit, so to speak. Right? Do you guys have limits in your internet?

When I had Comcast, because it was the

only option where I was at, it was

limited to, I think I could terabyte

updated, which content creator or

anything else. That's not a lot. And I

would without a doubt, I just paid $80 a month, maybe around $80 a month with with always would happen. I'd go over the limit up to and they have a max where you can go over. So you can get a lot of data.

I always paying that up charge. So I was

paying almost $200 for internet. I was I

there's nothing I could do because it was as as and this is another shitty thing. We paid for the infrastructure for Comcast, put it in and then we get zero.

Back and it's it's a little bit political

on that, but dude, Comcast sucks. Yeah,

it does suck. It really does suck. I really hate it. I wish there was more options, but there are now like my my town has where I live is Lehi. They put in a lot of money.

Yeah, municipal internet. Yeah. Oh, kind

of. Not really like I have to like it's not rolled into my it's not rolled into my internet. I mean, I have to go through the internet. I have to go through the internet, I have to go through the internet.

I alreadyāve I don't

haveSNT in state and knew

But then we're getting double tax once

again, every time that it's shit.

So it's like, it's, and this is just to

help people understand

what's going on with your

guys's internet.

People sometimes don't understand this.

It is you're being taxed for your, for a

lot of people's infrastructure.

You're getting that tax money goes into

that, but then Comcast

can then say what they, they

charge.

You don't get a say.

You don't have any other

people that help leverage for you.

And so you're not getting any benefit.

It's a crappy system that people need to

be aware of, I think.

Yeah.

Dude, all major ISP suck.

I'm advertising Fios.

They don't have, they don't have data

caps to my knowledge,

but they suck because I'm

paying for gigabit internet, but it's

very rare that I get that.

Maybe it ends up being

like effectively half of that.

And I'm, I'm hardwired into my life.

I'm hardwired in on my

mate, like my desktop.

Is that fiber?

Yeah.

And Fios is a fiber optic fire.

Fios is fiber.

Yeah.

I wonder if I have really

overburdened the note on that.

Cause even with, with

fiber, there's nodes.

And so they oversell.

That's another crappy thing

that these companies do that.

They don't put enough nodes in.

And so they oversell and saturated.

That's why you don't

get enough bandwidth.

I have a local ISP that just had just,

they have, they own the

infrastructure and they

ran fiber optic to my house.

And now I have fiber.

So actually I moved to

this town because of the ISP.

I didn't want to live anywhere else

because this was like

the best ISP in the country

as far as I understood.

I mean, with what you, I mean, with you,

what you do, you

effectively run your own company

from your house.

So like, yeah, that's probably the best

move you could have made.

Yeah.

And I also get like, I pay for 300

megabit and I get 300 megabit.

How much do you pay for it?

You don't want me.

It's like 80 bucks a month.

It's pretty expensive,

but it's symmetrical.

Actually no, no, it's 50.

They just lowered the price actually.

It's like $55 a month.

Oh, that's not bad.

And that's including, that's actually

including a static IP as well.

So that's, that's actually fairly decent.

Could you go, I think

that's a really good deal.

Could you get a higher, could you get

more, could you get a

higher tier version that's

faster?

Yep.

I can go up to 1.5 gigabits.

How much would that cost you?

It's a lot more and I would have to be

like a dedicated business

line at that point, which

I just have residential right now.

Oh, I thought you had

a dedicated business.

Okay.

$80 for my FiOS bill for a gigabit.

Oh, here's another fire truck.

Until it's a hundred

dollars, over a hundred dollars.

I don't think it's that expensive.

Yeah.

You've been, you've been

like screwed by Comcast.

I can't, I've been screwed.

And so anything below like a hundred is

an amazing deal for me,

but yeah, I understand

man.

I, I really did.

Comcast sucks.

All right.

And they're so blatantly like asinine

about it because they'll

say, well, based on averages,

even when I've called them, they're like,

well, based on averages, people don't use

over a terabyte.

I'm like, well, I'm not you because I'm

not like the average person.

If people don't, then

what's wrong with me?

Dude, you're not, dude,

you're not a statistic.

You're a person.

I know.

I hate them so much.

Yeah.

They're, they're like mustache, mustache

twirling villains, dude.

Like they're so evil.

I keep getting call.

I keep getting telemarket calls from

Xfinity that I believe Comcast owns them.

Yeah.

No, they rebranded.

They rebranded.

That's how bad that's why I still call

them Comcast because it is

Xfinity, but they rebranded

dude.

So that was Xfinity and company.

Yeah.

Though they rebranded

because they were so bad.

All right.

We had, sorry.

I, I, one more thing there.

Emily when she moved in with me, she had

spectrum, which was it's,

it's a time Warner cable or

whatever.

Yeah.

And then she had Comcast and when she

moved in, not Comcast

spectrum and she, I had already

been living here for

like a year and a half.

And when she moved in here, dude, they

call, they would not

cancel her, her contract with

her.

And so I called them up

and I like, bitch them out.

And I was like, you need to take her off,

you know, close her account, whatever.

And she's not paying a closing fee.

And eventually I had to go into the

spectrum store with her

modem and give it to them and

be like, you guys

need to leave her alone.

They didn't stop calling her for three

months and two

representatives from spectrum showed

up at my front door, dude.

And I was like, you guys need to go away.

I'm never going to use your service.

You're evil anyway.

That is horrible.

Oh my God.

That's like some money and stuff.

And the one guy, the one, the, like the

guy that showed up,

because there was a guy and

then the lady showed up, the guy who

showed up at my door was

like, well, what do you

mean you don't want our service?

I was like, I have a fiber

optic and it's a really good deal.

And he goes, well, I could

get you fiber optic for free.

It would be subsidized by the government.

I was like, I don't want that.

I was like, why would I want free

internet when I could

have good internet that I pay

for?

And where's the catch?

Why weren't you giving it to me for free?

Like fuck that.

Here's the problem with that.

This makes me really upset.

Obviously.

Yeah.

I had Comcast call me because I canceled

and they're like, well,

what can we do to sweeten

the deal?

Like you and the thing is I wasn't, I was

exempt from that cap.

But then when, um, my, like you have to

renew your, uh,

contractor, your price every year,

they took, even though they said they

weren't going to, they

took it away from me.

So I bitched them out.

I tried to be nice to customer service,

but I was just like,

there is nothing on this

earth you can do right now

to make me switch over to you.

I'd rather use dial up at this point.

Um, it would suck, but I would rather go

that route because

you've treated me so poorly

and they still didn't get that.

They're like, well,

what can we do to get you?

I'm like, Oh my gosh.

Like leave me alone.

Do you not understand?

Like, I don't know why

I didn't just hang up.

I was just trying to be nice, but I was,

they don't understand

and they need, they need

to rewrite the customer service scripts

because it just makes

them look like idiots.

Yeah.

Sorry, we've totally derailed.

I know this is, I'm sure a lot of people

can relate to this though.

Oh yeah.

The ISP.

Yeah.

ISPs in the US are terrible.

I'm sure there are a lot better in like

Europe or something like that.

If we have any international viewers, let

us know your experiences.

Do European ISP suck as bad as American

ISPs or Australian ISPs?

I don't know.

Whatever.

Usually it's, it's much better.

Um, and like I said, a lot of

infrastructure is laid out

by the government already.

And a lot of those other countries, um,

have, I think municipal

or like they have public,

but I'm sure with that,

that even comes its own issues.

Yeah.

So there is a lot, there is a lot more

that we should get to.

Yeah.

There's a change.

So they, uh, updated steam workshop.

One of the big changes with steam

workshop is that you can

actually change what gets

synced to what devices.

So like one thing is that like some

people, sometimes there

will be mods that like optimize

games, but you don't need that on your

high powered gaming PC,

but on the steam that can

may be useful.

Like starbound is one such a game that I

play that has steam

workshops for and has optimization

mods.

Oh yeah.

Steam family sharing.

That's one of the biggest new features.

So how it eats.

So you guys remember how it used to work?

Yeah.

So for the audience that does that, they

may not remember how it used to work.

How it used to work is that you would

join a family with a bunch of people.

And then you want, if you want to play a

game from someone else's

library, you could, but

if they wanted to play another game from

the library, it would kick you out.

And I thought that was

totally bogus, right?

Now they made it made more,

now they made it make more sense.

You like, if say we were all in a family

together, we could all

play each other's games.

If you had, if we had like multiple

copies of a game, like

say, for example, Gardner

and I had a copy of a game, then you can,

then we can play two,

two of us could be playing

those copies of that game.

Right?

Yeah.

So it's just more common sense now,

instead of like locking

out someone's entire library,

you can just play another game from the

library and have a much better system.

Yeah.

The one caveat and people get heard about

this, but I actually

think it's fine is you,

in order to be part of a, of a steam

family now, you actually

have to like be on the same

like general premises as the person.

If you're, if you're not, then they'll

detect that and be like,

you guys don't live in the

same household.

You can't do this.

Yeah.

It is a little bit of a bum because I did

share with my sister who lives, you know,

four hours away.

Like, okay, you can play some of my games

when I'm not playing it.

So that's the only bummer.

But like what a family really means is

like you have kids or you

have your spouse at home

and that's how it's supposed to work.

And that makes sense.

Yeah.

Could you not like set up a VPN in your

house, have your sister

tall into your network and

then she just be, she just

be in your house supposedly?

You probably could, but I would rather

just buy you a game that she wants.

I know Valve has anti DRM.

They don't really like

DRMs, but I don't know.

But I think that usually means like

international, right?

Like they don't like using DRM to like,

they don't like using VPNs

to buy games in Argentina

where they're a lot cheaper essentially.

But I don't know if they actually have a

policy against using

VPNs for family sharing yet.

If I imagine, if I tunneled in, like if I

let her tunnel into my

network, like I don't

think it would matter.

I bet it would work fine, but I'd rather

just buy the game for her at that point.

It's a hassle because at one point I'll

do something to screw

up that VPN tunnel or the

tunnel or whatever.

I'd do something screwed up

and then I'd have to fix it.

And I just over that these days.

Fair enough.

Oh, and also game recording.

Game recording is a pretty cool feature.

I don't really use it because I have a

capture card, multiple

capture cards from AVerMedia,

not sponsored by the way.

But yeah, I need to get one of the, I

need to get the Steam Deck specific one.

I like the game recording stuff.

I don't use it, but I like it.

I like the idea that if I was playing an

intense part that I could

go back and save that kind

of like you can on the console.

What this does is it just makes it that

much more a console competitor.

And I think that's a good thing.

Even if not everyone uses it, there's a

lot of people that do

like using that type of

stuff.

And there's typically the

ones I know are console users.

So this is a great step to

be competitive with consoles.

I think so too.

It's honestly one of the

best features of Alpha Z.

And I'm also surprised that it doesn't

use that much, use

that many resources too.

Yeah.

Or maybe I'm just not

playing the right types of games.

I really haven't noticed a great

difference in performance.

Yeah.

It's because the APU has

built in like encoding hardware.

So it's really, it's just about

redirecting the

recorded footage to your drive.

And that doesn't take much.

That is true.

Speaking of which,

there's also specific game.

There are also game specific features

that you can implement

via Steamworks for game

recording.

In theory, let's say Gardener, I don't

think you have any

features implemented yet, but

you could make it so that when you score

a goal in Doodlings,

you could make it, you

could make the slow mo and instant replay

and then save that as

the game record, like

using game recording to do that.

Yeah.

And there's simpler ways

you can integrate it too.

Like if you get, let's say Doodlings

integrates with the thing

where it just says, "Hey, a

goal just happened."

It can then mark your timeline with like

a goal icon and you

could color it red or blue

based on which team scored.

Yeah.

And that way when you go back, you can

just find those events really quick.

Yeah.

And it also marks events, generic events,

like achievements too,

when you get an achievement

in a recording.

Yeah.

That's another one too.

Valve put in a lot more effort, like a

lot more effort than

what I would have imagined.

Honestly, I think most people would have

been fine with just

being able to record and clip

and stuff, right?

But they went above and beyond with the

whole timeline stuff and

game integration too, I

should mention.

That's pretty neat.

I was asking Valve in my videos to do

that exact feature since

the day I got the Steam

Deck in my hands.

Like a recording

feature or like the timeline?

Having a rolling cache of video storage

for what you've played

for the last two hours

or whatever.

There's still one feature

I want Valve to implement.

And for what I understand, it should be

possible with the hardware in it.

So you know how the DS, 3DS, PSP, and

Vita, you could play ad hoc multiplayer?

That's what they call it.

Yes.

That.

That's what I want.

Yes.

I want that too.

People are saying, I posted it on the

Steam like requests and

people are calling and people

are saying, oh, it's already possible.

Like no, not in the

way that I suggested it.

Right.

I've been asking for that too.

I've wanted that for a long, long time

because like if there was a

basic API that would allow

the game to create an ad hoc network and

to search for local

nearby games, that would

be amazing.

And it's definitely possible.

There's not it's not like special

hardware you need to do that.

And Nintendo does it too.

So like why not, right?

Yeah.

Nintendo of all companies.

Yeah, I would love to see that.

I'd also love to see like a street pass

type feature, but that's

that would require special

hardware.

I think.

Yeah, I think that does require it

because I mean, the 3DS

was ARM based too, if not

mistaken.

Yes.

Probably the number one feature.

I know not a lot of games will be

designed for that, but I

but I am like a thousand

at certain if a feature like that

existed, developers would program for it.

They would make it happen.

Maybe not triple A developers, but

certainly some indie games would do it.

And you know, Monster Hunter.

Yeah, yeah.

Monster Hunter is always a good way.

Is the new monster are always online?

Do you guys know?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Monster Hunter is always a good option

for the like that type

of connectivity because

I mean, it was on the PSP and

the 3DS and stuff like that.

So yeah, yeah, basically.

All right.

So tools for game developers.

They also updated steam demos so that

they can have their own

pages now and they would

link it back to that main game itself.

The content survey catalog management.

VR and steam deck.

Platform, platform growth and data.

In 2024, more than 500 new titles

exceeded $250,000 in new release revenue.

And I want to bet Blotcher was probably

at the top of that

new titles list, right?

Yeah.

And more than 200 titles exceeded 1

million in new sales release.

And those are up from 2023.

So it was a remarkably year for new

releases, according to

Valve, yada, yada, yada.

This seems like a very shareholder thing

to mention, even though

Valve is a private company.

So I guess it's pretty good, I guess.

Yeah.

One of the most successful launches from

a first time steam dev

was TCG card shop simulator.

Released by Malaysian studio OP Neon.

Wait, what is this?

I've never heard of this before.

TCG shop simulator.

It looks like, what it

sounds like, to be honest.

I'm surprised they

didn't mention Blotcher.

Maybe Blotcher didn't sell

as well as I thought it did.

Despite being like a mega hit everywhere.

I think this sold well.

I think how much money it probably

generated wasn't as much

as maybe some other games.

I mean, that's fair.

Plus Blotcher is on everything now.

I'd be shocked if they didn't make just

tens of millions of dollars.

I'd bet you they probably made more money

on mobile, to be honest.

Yeah, there's a good chance.

I mean, I play it on my iPad, but I have

it through my Apple subscription.

So yeah, there wasn't too much to talk

about outside of Valve's

new features and some metrics.

But as we recall, Valve

had hit a new all time high.

But yeah, that's my thoughts.

What do you guys have to say?

I mean, the SteamOS update or the year.

I mean, sorry, not the SteamOS update.

The year in review.

Yeah, I think go ahead.

Go for it.

No, I don't have much.

I think I've already.

The thing that I thought I thought was

interesting in this update was the last

paragraph before

platform growth and data.

It says, the future of

hardware at Valve is bright.

Steam Deck, SteamOS and SteamVR are

delivering tons of value to players and

devs built on top of decades of

investment into UI, Linux compatibility,

input support, custom silicon, motion

tracking, displays,

battery efficiency and more.

Every game develop every developer making

PC games benefits from these investments

and players can now enjoy their PC games

in so many new contexts.

Hardware teams at Valve are delighted to

see Steam in the living room, the

airport, the backyard and wherever else

customers want to bring

their library of PC games.

And that just kind of stuck out to me

because Emily has been watching the pit

on HBO Max and she

like she called me out.

She's like, Gardner, come look.

And one of the patients in the show was

playing on Steam Deck.

And then I saw a I saw a YouTube video

from a camera name, but there was a woman

who went down to like Disney and they

were showing her like some of the robots

that they have running around the park

and and they were using Steam

decks to control the robots.

And I've been I've just been seeing Steam

Deck everywhere late recently, like even

like people I don't like

online are using Steam Deck.

I was like, dang, that's pretty neat.

Like who?

I'm not going to mention any names, but I

a streamer that I find just contemptible

was playing on Steam back and I was like,

hey, that's that's nice.

I guess, dude, the pit, the pit.

I've heard of that show is pretty good.

It's like a medical show, isn't it?

Yeah, it's pretty graphic.

I went out there one just like I was just

walking to the living room

and I saw what she was watching.

I was like, oh, my God,

dude, I'm very queasy.

I pass out like just at

the sight of a needle.

So yikes.

I've seen some shit, man.

I used to be a medical a medical device

technician, especially

during covid times, too.

And you can imagine how scary that was.

But, hey, I got some of the benefits that

doctors did like free

Starbucks every day.

Nice.

Yeah, I got sick of it real fast, but it

was pretty cool the

first couple of times.

Yeah, let's see what.

Yeah.

So so steam was three point seven.

Yeah, this is this is like a new preview

of Steam OS and there's some pretty

interesting stuff in here.

They've updated to a new arch build,

which is nice to see.

You know, I kind of wish that they would

do this a little more

frequently, but whatever.

There's a new Linux kernel version six

point eleven new Mesa

graphics driver base.

The desktop is now shipping plasma six

point two point five.

And let's see, there's

there's new controller support.

There's new Bluetooth fixes.

So they Bluetooth devices still being

able to wake up the steam deck from

suspend, which they fix that, which I've

had like my steam deck here on my desk.

And I have the Logitech mouse.

And if I like just switch over to one

thing, it turns on my steam deck and I

like it was actually driving me crazy.

But the fact so they now fix that.

Anyway, there's a whole bunch.

Anything in the stick out to any of you

guys, the beginnings of support for non

steam deck handhelds.

Yes, it's interesting that it's the

beginnings of support.

So I'm curious if this three point seven

is going to be is it going to be the

official one that comes

with non steam deck support?

And they're just saying for this preview

that it's just the beginning of it.

I'm kidding.

Maybe, maybe.

Another thing that really sticks out to

me is Bluetooth controllers can now wake

LCD units from sleep previously only

available on OLED models.

So if you recall, one of the cool things

about the OLED is that you can get like

an ex like a controller that's connected

via Bluetooth and then just turn that on

and it turns on the steam deck.

Whoa.

But now you can do that

LCD with the LCD models.

I thought that was like a hardware thing.

I thought so too, but I guess not.

I guess Valve just MacGyver did.

That's awesome.

Yeah, sometimes you can make a hardware

issues with software.

That that is one of the nice things about

having a device like the steam deck is

valve has like very deep like control

over the device drivers for these things

and the firmware of the hardware in it.

And so that's pretty that's pretty neat.

That's really.

Yeah.

So you still have if you have to steam

decks, you can just make the LCD one your

dedicated docked one.

Yeah, because I have I

have I still have an LCD.

I don't really use anymore because that

the Ola but now it

might have a use for it.

Yeah.

See what else?

No issue.

Blue Bluetooth.

L.E. based controllers.

I believe that's a little bit addition.

Low energy.

Low energy.

Fuck man.

I'm still thinking of cars.

That is a solution.

Yeah.

When cars are better.

They're not like

they're like special cars.

They're like limited

in like capabilities.

That's what they usually mean by L.E.

Yeah.

See, the Bluetooth L.E. based controllers

are not currently compatible with

Bluetooth wake on LCD models.

So it's still they're

still perfecting it.

I don't know what I don't know what

controllers are Bluetooth L.E. based.

But I'll figure that out later.

Let me see if there's

anything else of interest.

What is they enabled AMD P

state CPU frequency control?

What does that mean?

P state?

Is that performance state?

That's a good question.

Let's ask Google.

I think it has to do with like, like CPU.

I thought I was power state.

Let's see.

Oh, yeah, it could be.

Update the plasma 6.2.5.

Previously, it was 5.2, 27.10.

That's a that's a lot of

versions of jump through.

What's changed there with plasma? It's it. It's it. It's it. It's a kernel module.

It's okay.

Yeah.

So it'd probably take a lot to get into

it, but it is

specific to Linux, I believe.

Okay.

So why?

Yeah.

So I don't think there's much else that the user will need to know.

No major changes. I think it's a lot of different things. I think it's a lot of different things. I think it's a lot of different things. I think it's a lot of different things. I think it's a lot of different things. That the user will need to know.

No major feature updates.

You know, Mesa graphics updates are

always good because it may result in some

performance increases.

Not always, but sometimes.

Yeah.

But I mean, it's cool.

It's cool that Valve is still updating.

I know they're starting to slow down on

the major updates, but yeah, there's

always so much you can do with hardware.

That doesn't require a

second, like a new Steam Deck.

I think they took on a lot of the easier

stuff and also stuff that people maybe

wanted that was a little easier.

And there I think it's slowing down a

little bit because they're working on the

major thing, which is making SteamOS more

compatible with other devices, which is

probably a big task.

And you could probably see it

slow down for a little while.

Yeah.

I mean,

it might be.

I mean, I hope Valve gets to telling us

something about the Steam Deck, too.

If not now, then like a

couple of months down the line.

I think end of the year, we'll learn at

least about one of the projects are

working on because we know that they're

working on like three or four.

So I would be shocked if they didn't.

So I will say Bluetooth

controllers that wake up LCD models.

That's a big.

That's a big plus.

That's probably the biggest new feature.

But that's coming to

like the older Steampicks.

Yeah.

But I mean, so that though.

Yeah, I don't I don't have

much else to say about this.

No, I mean, with that, we can move on to

the Saudi Arabia thing.

This is absolutely wild.

Saudi Arabia bought Pokemon Go along with

Pikmin Go or whatever it's called.

And like Monster Hunter

like mobile and all this stuff.

They bought a bunch of everything that

Niantic was doing with Nintendo.

Saudi Arabia bought.

This includes a hundred million players

real time location data,

at least going forward.

We don't know if this also includes

historical location data,

but I would imagine it would.

And this is just absolutely wild.

I don't know.

What do you guys think about this?

Do we know which Saudi Arabian Prince?

Oh, this company.

No.

So this is Saudi Arabia

is a very interesting.

And I'm not going to get too much into

the political side on this because you

get really deep into all this.

But I don't understand companies not having at least some.

Some loyalty to their country, because

once you sell it to Saudi Arabia, it

becomes like a huge betrayal, I feel

like, to your players.

If you sell it to another country, almost

in some ways, it becomes a

betrayal to your players.

Like when I'm playing Pokemon Go and with

all my telemetry and all

the other data, I don't know.

I don't know.

I almost feel like there needs to be laws

against doing some of this stuff because

I don't trust my data in Saudi Arabia.

I don't think they're going to do

anything themselves nefarious, but they

could end up selling that to.

Does the Saudi ground

have any stake in Nintendo?

The Saudi crown is

Nintendo's largest outside investor.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, snap.

Yeah.

Saudi Arabia is a huge investor into

technology and people don't

understand this sometimes.

There are very much behind

the scenes on a lot of stuff.

I know Saudi Arabia owns a lot of

companies that I mean, they might be like

the new they might be the new Tencent.

People are worried about Tencent only

things now, but Saudi Arabia is like I

would rather have Tencent, honestly, at

least I know about

Tencent more than Saudi Arabia.

My problem with Saudi Arabia is that I

guess I'll get in a little bit of

politics, but they haven't entered

servitude and they have a lot of other

issues on the social side

of things that it's just.

Yeah.

Plus there was that huge controversy with

the assassination of the

journalist of a Cushion.

I don't know if that's a controversy.

I think that's just

something that happened.

Just straight up murder.

It's straight up murder.

Fascination.

Yeah, honestly, I mean, it also depends.

I mean, I don't know.

I don't know what there are.

So I should mention that fun fact.

There's a Saudi Prince on Steam and his

have you have you seen

his profile on Steam?

It's crazy.

No.

Saudi Prince Steam profile.

Yeah, it's it's not what you would have

expected out of the

Saudi Prince, to be honest.

But it's shit.

Let me see if I can find a link to it.

Does he have a really

high kill death ratio?

That'd be awesome.

Well, you play as Dota too.

So I don't know.

Or is this like an Elon Musk kind of

thing where he doesn't

really play that much?

We have someone else.

No, I just like to be that indentured

servant servant that has to play games

for your math, like for

the person you're serving.

No, it's a I got a

speech out of it right here.

Let me let me send it

to you guys on Discord.

We're going to put we're

going to put this on this.

We should put this on

in the video, by the way.

Yeah, this is what I need to take this

out so I can travel to Saudi Arabia.

We are Yuki Yuki, Prince Abdullah Bin

Salman Bin Abdullah Zizah.

He is. Oh, wow.

He's an otaku.

He's he's a he's a weeb.

He's a weeb.

You can tell he's the number

one investor in Nintendo here.

Just yikes.

He's got a picture of it looks like

trying to remember the

sister's name from Demon Slayer.

A Nezuko.

It kind of looks like Nezuko.

Yeah, but I don't think it is.

The eye color is level 274.

Damn, I don't think I know anyone that's

that high on steam like that.

I'm actually friends with.

He has almost as many games in

his steam library as the Fox.

Almost. Wow.

Doesn't the Fox have like

like 5000 games or something?

Oh, yes. Ten thousand games.

Ten thousand games.

This guy, this Prince Prince.

Come on, dude.

Dude, the Fox has you out out Fox, dude.

Well, dude, no one

can compare to the Fox.

That guy Fox.

He does.

Does he play them, though?

That's my only problem

having ten thousand games.

Is there the Fox?

Just collect them.

Well, from my understanding, the Fox used

to collect a bunch of games

when I when I asked him about it.

Yeah, it's it's it's crazy, man.

They had a bug once you went past like

four or five because I know

someone else also like you couldn't view

their profile properly.

It would break.

Yeah, the bug still exists.

I still can't look at

the Fox's game list.

Yeah, it is.

It's it's an outlier.

Probably have like 100

people that have that type of bug.

Yeah, but what's weird is that the Fox is

even like that high of a level

on Steam.

I don't know.

I don't know.

It matters.

I think it's playing the games that you

have matters at the level.

Yeah, the Fox only level 99.

Yeah.

Whereas Mr.

Mr.

You keep Prince Yukio.