Hey everybody, welcome back to Off the

Console, the show where we

talk about all the fun nerdy

things that we do in the week and all the

news that's happened in

the tech world. My name is

Gardner, I'm here with my friends Hi-Tech

and James are the brink,

right? You go by the brink?

Whatever you want to call me.

Games revealed, that too.

That's coming soon.

James revealed, just

stick with the crunch code.

Dude, this week we have a good show. I'm

actually really

excited about this. We have

some news regarding the Switch 2's

pricing changing, but it's

weird, we'll talk about it.

PS5 is also having a price increase in

the UK and EU and

Australia. What else we got? We got

the new Chinese HDMI and DisplayPort

competitor, which is kind of

interesting. I found it a little

titillating. 4chan was hacked, we're

going to talk about that too. There's a

whole bunch of stuff,

so stick around through the whole episode

here because we've got

some fun things that we're

talking about. We like to start off the

show each week with talking about the

stuff that we've been

playing and working on. So Hi-Tech, why

don't you start us off?

What have you been playing this

week? Well, I just beat Rise of the Ronin

and I thought it was a

pretty good game. I don't know

why it got so much flack. Well, I mean,

it had performance

issues on PC, which is fair,

but it was a PS5 exclusive, so I don't

know why it had so much flack during

that. I guess it was

because people don't really jive with the

whole historical Japanese

theme. So it's like, you know,

it's a game about Samurai and the Boshen

War right before the Meiji Restoration.

Back when you had American ships coming

over, stuff like that. Yeah.

I, it sounds really interesting. It's

something that I've been

wanting to check out, but

so many other things. I'm wondering if

that's just, it's a fatigue

thing for people that like,

I can either have fun or learn or do

both. I guess I just want to not think.

I find it weird that there's been so much

backlash for the

historical fiction set in Japan,

specifically. Like, I don't know what

that's about. Content for

these grifters. They just need

content, honestly, and it's low hanging

fruit. Kind of. I don't know that much

backlash. Certainly,

no Assassin's Creed shadows levels of

backlash, but it didn't do too well.

Like, review score wise.

And I don't, I don't see why, to be

honest. I thought the game was fine.

Except for the performance

of PC. Yeah. I mean, performance on PC is

always a contentious topic. Yeah. It

really is hard because

do you review the performance and the

game? Like, it's so hard because with

reviews, I'd prefer to

rate, when I've done reviews in the past,

review the content, the

play style, you know, just the,

how well it plays, the gameplay that is.

And then like, performance is a little

bit more towards the

end. And I'll still knock it a little

bit. Like, but hey, if you up the

performance, I might change

my score. And so, because it's something

they can fix. Just knock it

so that it hurts them a little

bit, but they need to fix it. Yes. And

also, I mean, this is

just me, but I've very rarely

found games that are like 10 out of 10,

but run terribly on PC.

This is my personal opinion.

Cyberpunk. Okay. I'll say Cyberpunk was a

10 out of 10 for me and it

ran horrible, but I had a 3090,

so I powered through it. Okay. That's

like you did. That is me.

That is me. I think Cyberpunk

eventually became like a nine out of 10

in my book, but it's a big

sci-fi and Cyberpunk style

fan. So yeah, speaking of when I, when I

like played Cyberpunk

for the first time, I was,

you know, I've always been a Linux guy

and so I tried it on

Linux and it was even worse.

You know, PlayStation four, whatever. And

I had no NPCs. Dude, and

the NPCs were falling through

the street and like they would like into

the street and fall

through. It was hilarious. I

did a line stream of it and I was like,

yeah, I'm going to get a

refund on this. That's crazy.

I want that mode. I like playing through

stuff like that. I don't

want to play through the whole

game, but that'd be fun. I want to move

down. So speaking of

Cyberpunk, they just announced a new

Ghost in the Shell anime and it looks

like the manga, the manga's

art style as opposed to like

the one from the nineties

that everyone knows about.

Yeah, that's an old manga too.

Yeah, it's really, yeah, it's quite old.

Honestly, man, Cyberpunk at

launch was like at most an

eight out of 10 and that's before you

take into account any of the bugs and

shit that happened on

everything back in the end.

I didn't have that many issues. Honestly,

like it worked pretty good

for me. There's a couple of

bugs, but if you're going to knock that,

then you need to knock all the Grand

Theft Auto's that have

released pretty much every game that's

open world that's released,

you have to knock because some

people forget open world games tend to

come fairly buggy almost.

I agree. I agree with that statement.

Yeah, I don't, I don't,

Grand Theft Auto's are super

buggy. I do remember it. And people, but

people tend to forget

that stuff because, you know,

they're also super detailed as well. Like

Red Dead Redemption 2,

people can still consider

to be some of the greatest games ever

made, but it's also still a

little buggy in my opinion.

A little buggy.

It's open world is such a hard one to

fine tune. And every once in

a while I'll see a game that

does a pretty good job of not having too

many bugs, but it's really hard,

especially if you're

running your own engine, which most of

these places tend to do.

Yeah.

James, what have you

been playing this week?

I played on the plane. I loaded up my

steam deck because I went

on a work trip to Atlanta.

And I loaded up my steam deck with all

these games I was going

to play. And then I like

remembered I needed to do my taxes. So I

played the tax game and I

did those while I was on my

four hour of height. I got it.

Oh, no. You gave on your way back at least.

Um, yes, I played. What did I play?

I don't even remember. I've been playing

through a couple of different games, just

more, more or less like having fun

testing them out on the steam

deck. And I just can't remember

what I played. So that wasn't a bad job

of saying what I played.

Was it an indie game you played or a

triple A game you played?

Oh, well, I died. I'm drawing a blank.

Obviously, it wasn't that memorable.

What was it?

Yeah, I don't know. I'll remember

eventually. But yeah, no, I did that.

What was probably because I was watching

something while I was

playing. So I was distracted.

Were you watching an

airplane movie or something?

No, I never watched anything on screen. I

always bring my iPad or

my phone or something.

Else I have cashed. So I don't remember

what I was watching.

Damn. Must have been a hell of a trip.

Well, yeah, I didn't get the best sleep.

Yeah, I mean, this shit

sounds super stressful.

We can't even remember what you watched

or played, to be honest.

It's not stressful. I'm just still

recovering from the trip.

And I didn't get good sleep last night.

Damn.

But yeah, it is what it is. It was it was

a fun week for, you

know, besides, I guess.

I have to do taxes.

Yeah.

So my accountant had to file extensions

for my taxes because, you know,

when you work for yourself,

it gets really complicated.

It does. I have both a W2 and then I also

had a bunch of other

1099s and stuff because I do

also side work and I've had clients

forever. And that gets

really messy between those two.

Now.

So what did you so what

did you play, Gardner?

So I have been playing some Nintendo

games for an upcoming

video that I'm working on.

It's going to be very different. I showed

these guys a preview of it.

And it's very different from anything

I've ever done, wouldn't you say?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It looked interesting.

It was exciting.

It's going to be a fun ride.

It will. It's more of like a kind of a

contemporary video essay style.

And I'm super stoked about it.

So I've been capturing

some footage for that.

But I also have my little my

old IBM app Tiva down here.

You can barely see it, but

this is an old Windows 98 PC.

It's got an AMD K9 and I've been playing.

Well, I actually haven't

been playing anything on it.

I installed an app for a different video

that I'm working on.

And the app is called

Mastodon for work groups.

What?

Dude, it is awesome.

Let me tell you, I've had

trouble getting it working.

But essentially, it's a

Mastodon client for Windows 98.

And it's so cool.

Windows 98.

That's crazy.

Holy shit.

And it required it required setting up

some other infrastructure on

my home lab in order to get it

working on on on the actual 98 PC.

And I've had trouble

capturing footage from this, too.

So I also installed it

on an 86 box emulator.

But it didn't work at all on the emulator

for some reason, but it works on this PC.

So I'm trying to figure out how to

actually like capture footage from it,

because I'm excited to

show people this this app.

But yeah, it's been

it's been a lot of fun.

I've been I've been

having a good time this week.

Now I want to know what it would look

like like Mastodon would

look like on an MS-DOS.

There is a DOS emulator.

A DOS client for Mastodon.

And there's also there's

also one called Maxedodon.

And I have a classic G3 Mac iMac out

there that the bezel is

smashed like the inner bezel.

And I tried to 3D print a

replacement bezel for it.

And that ended up like

releasing from the print bed.

And then I ended up getting a blob of

death on the inside of my print head

because I like went to bed.

So I got to fix that

before I can show off Maxedodon.

But it's it's pretty neat, though, like

these clients for

Mastodon are just awesome.

And it's going to be a big, big, big

video when I get it done.

Oh, dude, I'm going to awesome.

I'm working on a video, too.

Yeah, it's about the

Steam Deck's biggest problem.

Anti anti cheat games.

Yes.

Ooh, that is.

Yeah, that's going to be a good video.

Bungie's new game marathon.

This is not topic, by the way.

But it's new game marathon has been

confirmed to use Badly.

And as we know, Destiny 2 does not

support Steam Deck despite the fact that

I think it'd be a good fit.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, I kind of have come

full circle when it comes to

the to the anti-cheat thing.

And we don't have to talk

about this if you don't want.

But I don't know.

I have I have different opinions than I

used to about anti cheat on Linux on

Steam Deck specifically.

Yeah.

Well, what's your opinion?

What's what's changed?

I know, like you like and I and the DRM.

Well, OK, so there's a couple of things.

So the first thing is that it's not it's

not really as simple as

just checking a box in the

back end of these any cheat systems to

enable it for Linux.

Like there's actual work

that developers have to do.

And I and it costs them

money to actually support Linux.

So I understand like if if these any

cheat solutions aren't

up to snuff on Linux,

which doesn't sound like they are.

Most people, most companies

are saying that I don't know.

I don't know who to believe about it.

But I'm telling I do know that it's not

as simple as I used to think

it was for for them to support

Linux. So I understand not doing it out

of fear or whatever.

I mean, I think the blame should I think

in this case, the blame

lies on Valve for because they

they put they wrote in their blog post

about this, that developers

just need to click a switch and

then it just works all of a sudden, which

I mean, I guess in a technical sense,

in a quote unquote work, but like you

still got to do a lot of work to make it

optimized for Linux.

And yeah, I mean, if this many developers

are saying that it's weak

and that there's a bunch

of like Linux cheaters and

they can't all be wrong, right?

It's I honestly think they should just

split them up if you

really want to play it safe,

either go the route of not have a big

cross platform in the

sense of Linux and Windows,

and at least go off that and then or and

or open up some type

like, maybe we need an open

sort more of an open source anti cheat

client for Linux and then

let everyone that's Linux

play with each other. I think there's

options. There's ways

that we can go about it.

But it I'd like to see more companies

invest in it and know

that this is kind of like

this would open up and it'd become less

of a problem over time

as more and more people

game on Linux. And at the end of the day,

they'll probably end up

with a more secure platform.

But yeah, I hear it's it's there.

There's two things that I think right,

like some of the blame

does lie at Val's feet, right?

Because they're providing proton and

that's like Linux support

for Windows clients, right?

But the big problem lies with the actual

vendors of the anti

cheat software itself,

because they're providing the you know,

it's like it's like

easy anti cheat for Linux,

but it doesn't actually behave the same

way. It's like there's it's not feature

parody with Windows. So like it's is it

false advertising? I don't

know what the word would be.

But like they're I mean, and even Tim

Sweeney has said, like easy

anti cheat on Linux, you know,

is not good enough for us to release

Fortnite on Linux. So therefore, you

know, we're not going

to do it. But it's like, that's your own

product, my guy, like you're

going to bad mouth that, you

know, it's their fault. It really is, you

know, they could just check

a box. They could make it as

easy as checking a box in their back end

to allow developers to

support Linux through proton or

whatever. But they don't. And it's in I

think part of it is like, at least

incompetence on some

level, like they, you know, it's hard for

them to find developers who

actually know enough about

the Linux kernel, and can afford to work

at the lower price point in

the games industry than they

would making it, you know, as a server

admin, you know what I'm

saying? Like, I don't know,

some of it is that but also some of it

is, I believe it's epic,

just wanting to sabotage Linux,

because it's valve. Yeah, but yeah, that

makes sense. So that's

where my head's at. So I think

the ultimate blame lies with the cheat

makers and the guys who pay for cheats.

Because you're always gonna have that

though, you're always gonna have it. Yes.

But I think I think really, like, we're

like, you, it does fall on the cheat

makers, right? Like,

they're the problem. But the problem

really comes from the fact that that's

always going to exist,

right? And these companies are trying to,

like, make these games that

where they're always going

to have that, like, malicious force on

the earth, like this

malignancy on the periphery of their

games. And that if they don't continue to

invest tons of money, and

lock down systems and invest

and invest and invest in like, combating

them, then there won't be a

player base for their game.

And I just I think that it's

unsustainable. Like, I

honestly think that online games,

the way they exist now are completely

unsustainable. And that's, I think that's

where my head has gone

from before it was like, we just need to

support all the platforms

and including Linux. And now

it's like, now we need to be done with

online games as they exist

today, because it's just not going

to work. Yeah, from my understanding, a

lot of those anti cheat

programs, the vendors, they're

not actually that great anyways, like,

no, they're always like, the end, these

companies will go with

the cheapest option. So it's not like

it's doing the best anyways. Yeah. I

don't play a lot. Yeah.

And frankly, the fact is, these these

vendors of these end cheat

software, you know, the only

power that they have, I mean, it's clear

to me, the only power that

the energy vendors have is

because they their software exists at the

kernel level on Windows.

That's the only reason that

they're effective at all, because they

don't exist at the kernel

level on Linux. And they're

they're junk on Linux. So it's like,

they're not doing anything

special. It's just that their,

their app has higher privilege. That's so

and it can only escalate

from there, right? Like,

there is no going back to, like, low,

like user space level

privileges for any cheat, where the

cheating software can interfere with the

anti cheat. It's just

going to continue escalating.

And that's why I think it's

unsustainable. That is fair. I mean,

we've gotten to the point where

we have two computer cheating, where, you

know, on one computer, you

have the game running on the

other. And on another computer, you have

a software essentially

doing the work. That reminds me,

that reminds me, I was following a

project by a YouTuber, I

can't forget his I can't remember

his name, but he essentially started up

something called Waldo anti

cheat. And it's powered using

AI, instead of, you know, instead of

whatever, however, regular

anti cheat works nowadays,

embedding themselves in the system,

instead, they use AI to determine, you

know, player behavior in

comparison to what should be possible in

game. Nice. And you know,

I know, I know we like to

rag a lot on on AI in their usage,

generative AI, but I think using this

like pattern recognition

for anti cheat is objectively a good

thing. It's one of the good uses for AI

can think of in video

games. And doing it at the server level

rather than on the client

side makes a lot of sense. Yes.

Like doing it on the client is always

going to be inherently less secure. And

yeah, I don't know. I

agree with you. But I take it. They're

just yeah, adaptive programs. I mean,

this is, there's a lot

of you like, I think too many people

scream about AI being like garbage,

whatever, but it has a lot

of, well, we don't even have

traditionally, it's not even real AI. But

you know, the AI that we have

is not, it has a lot of good purposes.

Yeah, once it starts taking jobs or

stealing to, you know,

in order to like, you know, like art,

let's say art, it has to

build off of someone else's and

that's essentially just theft. And so you

have to be right, right, you have to be

careful with it all.

I mean, in my opinion, I think I think

this is okay, because it's

not like you have employees at

like Epic or wherever watch every single

Fortnite match, right? You

don't have like a referee.

Whereas like an actual like sport, you

would have like a referee determine

things. So like having a

sort of AI, having a sort of AI referee

for each match in a game,

I can see it. I can see it

actually doing something. Some cheats and

some hacks are so

sophisticated, meaning they,

it's hard for the, I think a human

detective. So even if they had like a

human referee for each

match, I think a lot, I think it's still

slipped by at times.

Having an AI I think makes a lot

more sense to combat it. Yeah. Yeah. I

mean, it's like how like

sometimes sports you have guys use

steroids and it slips by every now and

then. Yeah. Yeah. Unless

you do like mandated, mandated

testing beforehand. And I kind of want

that to I want the AI side on

the server, maybe even like a

little bit on the on the client. But I

want it to be I would like the option

when I'm playing a game

to just opt in with a universal passport

of this is my identity. I

have one, you know, one identity.

And if you get caught hacking or

cheating, you're done. You can't play

with other people that have

that same identity. We've talked about

that before. Yeah. South

Korea does this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You have to use your social. Back in the

day, you had to use your

social security number to,

you know, even make an account for a

game. So and I mean, the good news is

that they don't have to

use anti cheat software like a I think.

Well, I think Lost Ark is

one such a game where like

the Western version uses easy anti cheat,

I believe. Whereas the

like Eastern Korean version

has no anti cheat software and they're

less cheaters because, well,

you know, if you get banned,

you can't play the game at all. Yeah.

It's a spicy topic to start saying

introducing, let's say, a passport or

identification. I know

a lot of people don't like that. And I

mean, it's something that

doesn't have to be governmental.

That could be an ESRB thing and it could

be opted in from like game

studios when they publish their

game. Like, frankly, like that does not

have to be government level,

right? Like you would it could

be a private thing which has its pluses

and minuses. Right.

Yeah. Right. But a government

level would be interesting to them to

just get that involved. I

would want probably a funded

nonprofit by multiple entities that have

like Goodwill, which I

don't know how that works. But

you know, I don't I don't know the ESRB

is very we've talked about

many a time how certain games

get preferential treatment as opposed to

others like Bellotto. I

mean, yeah, that's fair. But

the same time, though, you could spin

this around. I mean, this is going to

protect their interest,

which is maintaining a player base

because, you know, cheating

does damage a player base. People

stop playing games because of cheaters.

So in a way, I can yeah, I

think the USA could very well

do this. I mean, they're not good. I

mean, they haven't yet. I

don't know if they even care

enough to do it yet. But that's something

they certainly could do

if they just realize how

important this is, like a central

database where every game developer

shares game, like shares data.

And if like you get banned in one game,

you can't play anyone else's games.

That'd be kind of interesting to see.

Like if we're really talking about like

open ID, like it doesn't

have to be that, you know,

egregious or whatever. And you would you

would then attach it to

your actual identity. But that

real identity doesn't go out to any other

like party. It stays with

the central authority for

the service. And then that's what keeps

you from like making a new

account with a different identity

or whatever and circumventing a ban.

Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I

don't know. I really I like that

idea. But we have other topics we want to

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I don't either. But thank you. One person

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I would have kept saying it's on Apple

podcast when it wasn't. I

said it too, dude. Don't worry

about it. Yeah. So the first story this

week, Sony is hiking the cost of the PlayStation five

by 25 percent in the UK, Europe and

Australia. High tech. What

is this about? So as it says,

so it's only the low end one, the all

digital version of the PS

five that's getting a price

increase. But it's going up by the

equivalent of like twenty

five dollars like USD. It's

I don't know. It's not even in the US as

well. And some theories

suggest that they're doing to

quote unquote protect the US market where

like, you know, if the

tariffs do go through and I mean,

it seems like at the very least the

Chinese ones are going through, then, you

know, the prices are

almost certainly going to go up. And

rather than just raise the prices in the

US, they're going to

raise the prices everywhere else as well. And this is this is a very interesting question.

And this is this is this is an aspect of

the tariffs that people

don't typically talk about

because, you know, a lot of people,

especially abroad, think

that tariffs are just going to

affect the US. And in many ways they do.

But at the same time,

though, some companies,

Sony in this case, will raise the prices

for everyone just to

maintain price parity.

Regardless, it makes me think that

they're kind of trying to go

after just making more money,

not necessarily any other reason I don't.

Yeah, certainly. Price

parity, they use different

currencies in us. What the hell? That's

not even the thing. They already are

like, with games alone,

let's say games, they'll be cheaper in

other areas just so that

they know that you can get

sales. Like, I know this is hardware a

little different, but I don't

believe it. It's Christopher

Drings. He's the editor of chief of and

co-founder of the game business. And

that's his speculation.

And he also says the era of consoles

going down in price as a

generation goes on is over.

I mean, that's kind of been over for a

very long time. We have

inflation alone that will

naturally cause that to rise. So that's

an interesting statement

because I don't know if

they've ever, have they ever really gone

down over generations ever since?

Factor inflation, I think that they have.

Well, I think also just the

price, they also just lower

the prices of the consoles to in many

cases, meaning like, oh,

yeah, like, over time and

current in the current generation, it

goes like the PS4 did that

like the base PS4 like that in

price, like after a couple of years

because yes, to them. I think it's a

little preemptive to say

that they're not going to lower prices on

the generation over

time. If their cells slump,

they'll do stuff like when people are

dealing with price issues

like right now in the States,

people are having to deal with high cost

of living period with

everything. They're going to,

you know, they'll be choices made.

They'll probably lower the

prices again. Like I just don't,

I don't see these companies preemptively

say or like, or not

preemptively saying, but just not

lowering prices over time to in order to

sell more consoles

because then they make a lot off

royalties when they do sell a console.

Well, it does make the, it

does make the regular version

with a CD with a disc drive in more

appealing offer by the

other version being a much worse

offer. And also even makes the PS5 Pro

look good offer too in comparison.

I think it's wacky that they are like

that. Both Sony and

Microsoft offer like the lower

and the higher tier, like it splits your

player base. It changes the

specs. Like I, I just don't

understand why they do it that way. Like,

especially when like they

raise the price of the lower tier

one and it makes the higher tier one look

like a better value, but I

don't know. What do we know?

Like, like what the ratio of low to high

tier sales are.

Unfortunately, I don't know where I

could find that information. There's a

lot of it. A lot of it is just like

bundled. It's all PS5

sales, not PS5 digital or PS5 physical

sales. Also worth mentioning is that

prices of PS7 going up,

at least in Canada, $15 for the like the

base version of PSN and then

$35 for the other two tiers.

Wow. That wasn't in the topic, but that

also was just posted yesterday too. So

yeah. So PlayStation

five going up in price, PlayStation

network to play online and

going up in price on and like

console players do get kind of pissed off

when we say just build a PC because like

PCs are expensive upfront and stuff like

that. And yeah, I mean,

yeah, PCs are expensive upfront

because of the fucking Nvidia. Yeah, but

yeah, why don't you build a PC? But at

the same time though,

well, there's, there's cheaper options

coming out more and more. And

thanks to, I think the mobile

play, like a lot of companies going more

into handheld, that is not

phones, but has been helping

with APUs getting stronger. And they're

pretty capable nowadays.

We've talked about this multiple

times. Like you, like this next

generation coming up should be a fairly

close to at least PS4,

but maybe even get encroaching on PS5,

like level performances.

If you tweak things, right.

Now the games are optimized as much for

this. That'd be a nice

feature, but just know that

building a computer nowadays, you can

start with an APU and still

have some, if you get the right

one and not be into the thousands, you

could be under a thousand and

have pretty good performance

with your games. Yeah, absolutely. And

you could get one of

these, I love this mini,

minis forum, AI, whatever it is. How much

is that one? It was like,

it was just under a thousand

for that. But like, I think it was like

eight, eight, 99 or

something. But it has like excellent

performance. It's not upgradable, right?

Like you could build a cheaper PC

yourself. But if you're

a console gamer and you're coming from a

console experience and you

don't have the, you're not

comfortable building a PC, something like

that would be great for

you. Does it support eGPUs?

Yeah, there's a, there's a display link.

That's right. That's

right. So it is like,

technically it is upgradable for probably

a little while. I mean, display link, I

don't have a display

link hub or whatever you call it, but my

understanding is that it display link. I

thought it was Oculink.

That's what it is. Oculink. Yeah.

Oculink. I don't have one of those. So I

haven't tested it, but

my understanding is that it, it, it, it

can become a bottleneck on

high-end GPU's like through.

Yeah. You're so, yeah, I get that. Yeah.

You're definitely going to

hit limits with the like,

let's say 40 or 50, 80 and 90. You're

going to be hitting like

some limits at that point.

You'll still get a little bit, but

there's a bandwidth plus

latency issue going on. It's

definitely upgradable though. Like

anything below that, which I think you're

still going to have a

really good time. I am curious to see

with Thunderbolt and some

of these other, like we're

going to talk about a little later, some

of these other display

display and also other

waste connectivity, waste connectivity

options to increase that

bandwidth to have better,

you know, upgradable. I just really like

eGPs. I'm going off on a

tangent now because I like the

idea that I can get a small little device

and upgrade it over time.

So hopefully we continue

down that route. Yeah. You know, the Fox

doesn't have a gaming

desktop anymore. He's

given up that entire setup and tired to

go full in on Oculink and all that

modularity. Like he has,

if I were last time I recall talking to

him, he had a, he uses a

GPD Win Mini as like his main

computer and he plugs it in via Oculink

to game on the desktop. So

anyways, back to PC gaming,

there are two main strengths I consider

when it comes to PC

gaming. First and foremost is

near infinite backwards compatibility. So

you want to play that

X-Box 360 game from like

10 years ago that you loved back in the

day. You can still do

it. Most of them still,

most of the PC games from the 360 era

still run to this day.

I'm actually 20 years ago. And there's

decent 360 emulation now too. Yeah. Yeah.

Emulation. Oh yeah. Oh, that makes three.

That means three strong

points we have. We have near

backwards compatibility with all like PC

games. We have emulation,

which is great for back,

for game preservation, for like games

that you basically can't

find physical copies of anymore

for the offices you can't find. Yeah. And

finally, no online fees. Like are you

already pay your ISP?

Like I don't know how much you guys pay

for internet, but I pay like

$80 a month for my internet.

And like, I pay like 50. I need to do

another, um, I need to do

another video on this where

the price comparison of what you get with

a console, as opposed to,

um, a PC over like a one

or two year period, you're going to save

a lot more going with the

PC. Um, just be if you're

buying a lot of games, if you're buying

one game, let's say FIFA or something

like that, you know,

like a sports game, you're, cause there's

a lot of, uh, console players that are

just like really big

into like one or two games, then you're

not going to save much. But

if you're big into any other

type of game, the sales, the, um,

especially if you're online, like the

online fees, everything,

you're going to save a lot of money going

with the PC. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's years down the line,

not, you're not going to sit, you know,

it's, it's kind of like,

it's kind of going solar.

Like it's going to cost a lot going,

going up front, but like

down the line, your investment's

going to pay off. It, no, it can be a

year. You'd be shocked at how much you

can save by going with

sale, like steam cells and some other

cells. Um, if you're not buying like the

brand new game right

off the bat. And even if you are places

online will sell up for about

10 to $20 cheaper, partially

because they don't have to eat that

royalty fee that PlayStation

has or Xbox, because they have

what is like 10, $20, uh, fee to sell

games on their devices. So I

think people would be shocked

at how much they save just going to PC.

Yeah. And if you're coming

from like the Nintendo space,

like Nintendo always keeps their, their

first party titles at the

maximum, like their high,

like, like their brand new, even, even

though they've been out for fucking 10,

13 years or whatever.

And speaking of Nintendo, uh, the switch

to pricing has updated. And, uh, this is,

this is interesting. If we, if we go to

their blog post, it says, Nintendo

maintains Nintendo switch

to pricing retail pre-orders begin April

24th for the U S but that

is like the most disingenuous

title that because while the switch to

itself, the console is

staying the same and the game prices

are staying the same. Uh, they they've

like, they're increasing the prices for

all the accessories.

Uh, high tech will give us the details on

this. So Nintendo doesn't

tell you what the old prices

are, but some Redditor compiled some

prices and I, I've put the, uh, I put a

chart, I put a little

Excel chart in our, uh, document here and

you can see most of these

went up by like $5, but some

went up like $10 in the joy con to strap

one up $1. Is this what

you're talking about? Yeah.

That's the one I was talking about. Yes.

Yeah. So yeah, the switch,

the switch to pro controller

has gone up $5 that joy con to

controllers have gone up $5.

Uh, so has the charging grip.

The strap has gone up $1. The wheel has

gone up $5. Yes. And man, that's just

crazy. But the wheel,

the joy con to wheel is that literally

like the we like we wheel. Is it just

a piece of plastic? Oh, yeah.

God, you should do, you

should three print one of those.

Oh my God. And charge myself $5 for it.

Um, yeah, these prices don't

even reflect how much tariffs

have gone up. These are like, this is

preemptive stuff. I don't

think they're being charged yet.

Cause I think they're like what we're

being told and what's

actually happening with the

administration. I think are two different

things. I don't think

bravado kind of going on right now,

but if they actually go fully into

effect, this would be, this

is child's play increases.

They're going to be double this if the

tariffs actually go through

and not like double the increase, right?

Like this, this would be double the

actual price that you're

seeing on your screen. I don't want to

pay 240 for a fucking

Nintendo switch to doc.

Yeah. The doc said is the doc said is

$110 was already $110.

How much was the, uh,

I don't remember the switch one doc being

that much. Let me see.

The doc, the first doc was like

$60 MSRP. Actually, that's a lot more

expensive than I thought it was.

Wait. So what's our double the price? So

the doc is double the

price of the original one.

Well, this new doc comes with a fan.

Okay. Okay. It comes with a fan.

Okay. They must've put like a knock to a

fan in there for it to cost that much.

This is just despicable. So are you ready

to buy, are you ready to

spend almost a hundred dollars

on joy cons when you're inevitably stick

drifts? I'm not buying a

switch to. Oh, this is for the

audience. But I know you're not buying a

switch too, but I know

that. Well, I don't think it's,

I don't think it's fair to say that

there's going to be stick

drift. I would hope because they,

they had to eat so much shit with the

original and having, I think they had

class action lawsuit

that made it this. So they had to do

repairs. I don't think

they're going to make that same

mistake. Um, but we'll see. Like I don't

think it will. I think

they're going to test the durability

and I think they'll last a lot longer. If

that doesn't mean that

they're not going to have stick

drift in like three years, but two years,

but I think they're going

to be passed a warranty and

pass some other, um, uh, class action

lawsuit, uh, danger zone there. So, um,

you know, I did a little

bit of, um, a little bit of math, cause I

don't know exactly how

long I've played on my switch,

um, with the joy cons, but I've only

played, uh, Mario

Odyssey and I've only played

Metroid dread on, on the switch in joy

con in handheld mode, right?

Every other game I've played

on my switch, I've played with, uh, a pro

controller on a TV, right?

And so, and if you look at like

how long to be, um, this is something

that's coming up in my next

video. If you look at how long to

beat for those two games, it's like, you

know, 18 hours or something

like that. And then you add on

at least 10 hours because I'm, I'm like

really bad at video games. And, and I

have stick drift on my

sticks, right? Like, so it like 32 hours,

maybe total of, of, you

know, 38 hours, maybe total of

gameplay on my switch, um, on my joy cons

and, uh, like they're bad

and Emily has done way more

gaming and her drift is way worse than

mine. So it's like, I don't

know. It's a thing that affects

pretty much everybody. Even if you don't

really use the joy cons that

much, it's, it's crazy to me.

How old are the joy cons? Oh, they're

launched day. I mean, I,

okay. Yeah. I bought them. Uh,

I bought this, well, I guess they're not

launched day because I bought it like

right after the, um,

like the, the, the hack, the hardware

hack came out. Okay. So

it was like eight months.

Yeah. Any period within like a year of

those controllers coming

out, they could be longer.

I'm just giving you like an arbitrary

date to just make it easier.

You're going to end up with

that strict stick drift on most of

controllers event. Like that's, that's

why there was such an

easy, that's why they had to handle it.

They had to handle all the

stick drift and have a whole

system to replace controllers because it

was such a bad problem.

Um, I can definitely say that

I I've had multiple controllers,

partially because my kids

are hard on their controllers

since day one to over the past few years.

And the newer ones do the

last law law. I have not had any

stick drift on the newer ones, but that's

saying I, I'm not gonna, we

don't play it as much now,

but it definitely has more hours than the

older ones. But I not

saying that there's not going to

be a stick drift issue. I just, I, I

would not see it happening within the

first years. I think

Nintendo at the very least learned their

lesson from that. I would hope so too.

I would hope so too. We'll see. Cause

they're going to lose a

lot of money. Like why, why,

why lose the money? Fix it in the R and D

and on that level, that

side, or else you're just

going to be paying a less shitload more

money. Maybe that's why

the switch too. So expensive

because I lost a shitload of money from

joy. They're bitter.

They're like, you sued us. We're

going to, we're going to get it back.

Yeah. That'd be hilarious.

Um, yeah, the price increases is

great. Like I, I shocked that they were

actually smaller. Like that's why I'm

saying like, I think

these are preemptive, but they're smaller

than they technically

should be to match in, uh, what,

uh, tariffs are, but still crazy to see a

price increase right

before launch like this. And I

don't think they want to, I think they're

doing it here and not

touching the console itself.

Cause they know if they touch the console

too much, it's going to

hurt their cells a lot.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. I mean, uh,

what, what's like the average

increase like percentage here? Um, is it

like around five or 10% maybe? Um, um,

Oh, yeah. That's for most of these. Yeah.

It varies. It's not, it's not one set

percentage increase. Yeah. It's really

hard. They're just like,

Hey, let's slap this up.

Uh, you know, five, $10. Yeah.

Yeah. They, I think they, they ran the

numbers and they were

like, if we increase the prices

on all the other things, we'll make up

whatever we might lose, uh,

from the bad press of, you know,

yeah. Yeah. So also one more thing too,

the joy con to charging

grip is $40. I saw a Twitter

post from J socks. If J if you guys

remember J socks, their,

uh, premier steam deck, uh,

accessory manufacturer, J socks is making

a charging doc of their

own, like not charging

that sorry. The, uh, controller grip

grip. Yeah. Charging grip of

their own. It's like 20. Yeah.

And also it doesn't look half bad. Is the

charging grip like the joy con, uh,

grip thing. Um, so like it's not so

controller rather. Yeah. So

rather than being like a big

square, like the Nintendo one is instead,

it's like split and

angled out a little more,

but look at that. It's called the joy

verse, uh, series dual

by J socks. It actually

doesn't look half bad.

Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. So yeah. So the,

like the switch ones was

also kind of like a big square.

Yeah. Huh. That doesn't look super

comfortable. Look at

the J socks one. Yeah.

Yeah. I've never been a big

fan of this, even though it is

nice sometimes to be able

to combine them. It's just,

yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, what I

really don't like is the

fact that the deep, I don't

like the deep pad. I understand what

Nintendo did here, but I don't like when

deep pads are separate

buttons. It just doesn't feel right. It's

not right. Yeah. I don't

even know if you can call

that deep pad. It's not the pad. It's

what they call a deep pad

because as arrow keys, I know,

I know it's just directional button,

directional buttons.

Is this what you're talking about right

here? Sure. Yeah. That

that's what I'm talking about.

I mean, that looks more comfortable. It

definitely looks more comfortable. Yeah.

It also charges. You can also charge your

controllers using that too.

Interesting. So I haven't noticed on the

joy cons, like, uh, how

they're actually like getting power

from the, is it like a, there's a

charging kind of thing or what? No,

there's, there are pogo pins

in the controller. Yeah. It's like, it's

like that. You can't see

them in these photos, but

there are some pictures of the joy cons

where you can see like

the pogo pins and the, uh,

actual switch unit itself, the switch to

unit $20 to like, yeah, I'd much rather

go with this option.

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure there are plenty

of other accessories too,

that are a lot cheaper too.

Like a, uh, a dock that's probably a lot

cheaper and it has a

fan. And let's just say,

whoa. I just like tried to go to like,

uh, to the joy con

listing, the joy con to listing on

Nintendo's website and it's not

available. Oh, that's weird. I, I just

click their link on the

duck that go here. Weird. Anyway. Yeah. I

mean, this is, it's very strange. Uh,

this behavior is, is it's just clearly

anti customer and I don't like it at all.

I agree. Um, wait, how

much is the racing wheel?

The racing wheel. Um, according to this,

the racing wheel is a 25 bucks now. Oh,

oh, the JSX one's more expensive.

Nevermind. Don't get the

JSX version of that accessory.

If you're going to get a racing wheel,

dude, just 3d print one. It's just

plastic. I'm imagining.

Is it better though? And that's my thing

at the end of the day,

which one looks more comfortable

or better. And that's, uh, I don't even

know what the actual one

looks like to be honest.

So this looks like your standard, like a

steering wheel for a car. The JSX one

kind of looks like a

steering wheel for like a Ferrari. Where

it's like, what's the point of this? Um,

like my kids would like it. Like, it's

interesting. Like, I like the, this, the

wheel because they're

just kind of fun. Um, but yeah, I mean,

it did. It's the one thing

I'm seeing it doing is it's

adding buttons. Like it's adding like

levers that will like shorter

buttons. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

which that can be useful, but, uh, to be

fair, that looks actually

much more useful and much

better than the original. It does. I will

admit in the past ones, much better.

Yeah. So look at the

JSX one though. There's a whole, they

have a whole section of

switch to accessories. We can

actually look at all of the wall, the

ones they have. All right.

Um, yeah. All right. Let's

we're not sponsored by JSX by the way. I

should probably mention that we're not.

I have, I do want to disclose I've had a

relationship with them

in the past, but I don't

anymore. This right here. Yeah. I've,

I've had some stuff from

them too. Yeah. Um, yeah. So,

okay. That one looks more like a $27.

That just looks like a grip. I mean,

it's not really a wheel. Well, yeah. It's

like one of those, it's like

one of those Ferrari racing,

like Ferrari, uh, steering. Yes. Yep. I

can see that. Okay. It's a

two pack though. At least it

comes with two. Oh yeah. Wait, does the

switch one not come with

two? They both come with two.

I'm just saying at least it comes with

two. I do like them.

Yeah. I did a little better.

I think I'd rather go with the switch

one. The Nintendo version.

I mean, yeah, it's cheaper.

For partially just cause I think my, what

I'd be getting it for my kids to be fair.

And I'm just going to have fun every once

in a while with it. If

I seriously getting this

for racing, then I'd get this one

probably cause it just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Hmm. I mean, Hey, I like that charging

station. That's the RG. Oh,

that does look pretty sick.

Well, this one in the numbers while you

have to, you can see

the portable gardener.

Yeah. Right there. The what? The, like

pins in the center of

like the slot. Oh yeah.

In the center. Yeah. Oh, I like that. All

right. That was like, uh,

are those pogo pins or are they, um,

something else? I think that's the

insert. I think that's,

uh, that's the, um, that goes into the

controller. I'm not

entirely sure what it is for sure.

Okay. Oh, Hey, neat. The battle armor

protective case for switched to that

actually doesn't look

too, I don't like the way it looks

necessarily, but it looks

like it'd be comfortable.

It kind of looks at the mod case that

they have for those. Yeah.

And I've never been a big fan

of the way they designed it, but dude, is

that AI generated Pokemon?

Lossed incoming. Oh yeah.

Dude, legally distinct Pokemon.

Yeah. As long as you put that in the AI

prompt that generated it,

it's fine. It's fine. There's

no AI copyright issues at all. Now they

checked with their, their

legal team, which is just AI.

Is this legal? That reminds me. There are

two like big

YouTubers that use AI for like

legal consultancy. One of them was, uh,

have you heard about Carl

Yopst's, uh, legal suit against

Billy Mitchell? I mean, yes, I have.

Yeah. So, uh, Billy Mitchell

sued Carl Yopst because Carl

Yopst insinuated that, uh, he, that, uh,

Billy Mitchell caused the

death of another of like a

contact. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I've heard

this. Yeah. And Carl Yopst

put all of the facts inside

AI and asked who would win. And it said

Carl Yopst win and he lost.

Uh, and there was another one, uh, there

was another one who

pride himself on being a, uh,

hunter of terrible people. Um, I'm not

gonna say, I mean, probably the worst

people you can think of.

I know who you're talking about. Mama

Max. And, uh, it was

discovered that he's been

using chat GPT for actual legal advice.

Dude, I want, I, I was watching this

podcast the other day

and this guy, I don't know. I don't

remember who it was, but he

was like, all right, we need to

ask chat GPT for something that you

should just Google. And it made me so

crazy angry. I was like,

why are we asking chat GPT when you can

just Google it and they'll

come up with a better answer?

I don't remember. It was something, but I

remember it made me angry.

I will have to admit, depending on what

it is these days, I've been using chat

GPT more. Like I had,

I always forget how to get the YouTube

API from Google. Um, and

I'll Google for that. Like,

instead of Googling for it to find an

article, because whatever

chat GPT just has it like,

listen for me. It's really easy. It's so

hard. Chat GPT. Why does

Gardner Brian hate you so much?

I think at least answer it. It might not

be truthful, but yeah, it wouldn't know.

Google nowadays. It's a shit show of if

you're going to get what

you want. Yeah. That's why you

go is well, duck, duck, go. Yeah. Is, is

better. But even then, like, you're

dependent on articles

that are also AI generated sometimes. I

don't know. It's

interesting, which I'm not against

AI generated articles. Actually,

technically, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't

but they better be at least they tell me

what's going on. Oh my

God. No, he's not doing it.

Replace hate you with hate at GPT.

Dude, this is what the podcast is all

about. Hey, I'm down for

this. This is a fun journey.

Did it lose the what was what's the

company? What company do

you hate the most? That'd be

a fun one, too, though. Nintendo. Yeah.

They're like the most

litigious company in the world

outside of like, I don't know, the church

of Scientology or

something. Well, you know,

I think it would come up with an answer

if I said Microsoft.

That's a crazy statement.

That they're on par with church of

Scientology. I said

they're like the second most like

I know, but they kind of are, though.

Yeah. Crazy. I love how it's

pulling this from my website.

See, why does he hate Microsoft so much?

Yeah, they had a he has

not publicly expressed hatred

towards Microsoft. That's not true.

That's not true. He has a need to start.

Hi, here. I know the podcast. Let's see

how however he's been involved

at accuracy preference for Linux over

Windows. OK, true game development.

In an interview, Bryant mentioned that

while his lead developer used

Windows for debugging purposes,

he personally prefers Linux as his

operating choice. Is that

true? Is this something you

said in an actual interview, Gardner?

Yeah, I mean, wait, he

personally prefers Linux as

his operating system of choice. I mean,

that's true. But like I and I did say

because he's mentioning the interview I

did with our casters

notebook about dude links.

And I was talking about how Ethan, one of

the developers I had on my team,

was using Windows for for it. But I was

using Linux. Let's see. Also,

no, the export process of his game,

doodlings was

straightforward on both Linux and Windows

platforms with no

significant issues reported on either.

Brian Stance aligns with a broader

community of developers who favor Linux

for its open source nature, customization

options and developer friendly tools.

Yeah, I mean, I do hate Microsoft,

though. It's just

saying, I don't know. I think,

honestly, this is like chat GPT and

yourself is more

pathetic than Googling yourself.

That's so funny. Yeah, chat GPT me chat

GPT me say who is

high tech little like you

get spelled correctly, though. I think

it's fun. Like that. Yeah, like that.

Oh, no. Oh, see, I couldn't find you. Who

was high tech like the YouTuber?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna put your name in

quotes, too. Oh, my God. Come on.

This is proving how bad of a type I am as

well. I've seen worse.

Stay like that. Yeah.

Okay. So it knows who you are.

See, he's telling me that always BS

polishes some of the

bigger tech influencers. Wow.

Wow. It's not citing that. That's just

hallucinating. I think

your videos are great.

Wow. Exactly. That's why it's reading.

It's reading comments or something.

Oh, my God. Now you need to see what it

says about me based on the

comments I get on my videos.

I think, yeah, games are unique enough

name that he may not need quotes.

Yeah, I think games are available to pull

up something. But it's going to be like,

in a little bit. No space.

Just put a space. It'll make it easier. I

don't I can't remember

if I put a space or not.

I do that sometimes. Wow. Wow. You've got

quite the resume. You even

have bullet points for your

for your summary. Honestly, I think it

pulled a lot of that stuff

from my description of my

YouTube channel. So wow. Let's see what's

going on there. Games

revealed. The game reviews. Game

reveals and trailers. Wait, what? Oh,

yeah, you did do

that. I see industry news.

Does this sound like the

channel you were thinking of?

It does. Yeah, does it sound like you? It

follows it, but I don't do

all that stuff very much.

OK, I need to. I do steam deck more than

anything, but I think

I agree. I don't know.

It's not going to be. It's not fully

accurate. But we should ask.

It's close. We should ask about some of

our friends, like our good friends.

But ask you to tell us about the cast of

the nerd nest podcast.

Tell me about the cast. Oh, my God.

Of the nerd nest podcast. All right.

We're going to be we're going

to move on after this. Yeah.

Holy shit.

Oh, my God. It is also

going to. Wow. That is fully.

It is fully hallucinating. That is

awesome. This needs

to be its own separate.

Oh, my God. Oh, dude, that is. I love it.

The cast of the nerd nest podcast is a

gaming and pop culture.

Wait, the nerd nest podcast is a gaming

and pop culture podcast that covers a

wide range of topics,

including gaming news, reviews, pop

culture discussions and

occasional deep dives into

specific subjects like anime, movies and

tech. I've never seen

them talk about anime.

I don't think so. I haven't. We talk

about it more than they do.

And and then it says that I'm like the

main host. I'm also

known as high tech or life.

So also the bill we have

to send this to Bill. Yeah.

And then it says Megan Bryant. Megan is

another regular of the nerd nest podcast.

And she proves a provides a balanced

viewpoint, often contributing a more

thoughtful and analytical

perspective. Her contributions help round

out the discussion,

encourage ensuring Megan Bryant.

Yeah, I was hoping it would be like

Gardner's wife or something.

This is just ridiculous.

Who's J? They don't have a J.

Maybe it's a J station. J station.

Well, there's wow. And yes, hosts. It

doesn't specify any get it says

developers, creators and fans.

Yeah, and fellow game fellow gamers to

see. That's hilarious,

dude. We should look at.

Yeah, I think we're done with this,

right? Or do you want

to come off the console?

It won't know off the console. Let's move

on. Let's we've spent some time.

Yeah, but it's so good.

We just like destroyed half of the Amazon

by googling that shit on there.

Dude, it was worth it for it to fight. We

finally know who high tech low life is.

Yeah. Yeah. I've never seen

you and me in the same place.

Yeah. Never seen you in real life high

tech. I Gardner's really

good at throwing his voice

or something because I now I'm thinking

you guys are the same person.

Dude, yeah, I'm just a

massive sigh up on you, dude.

Yeah, I'm really good. I James, I've I'm

the one who organized the whole podcast.

It wasn't it wasn't my alter

ego. My high tech low life.

Man, we're going to start finishing each

other's sentences like that.

You're really messed with me.

That's going to take too much. That's

going to take too much work to actually.

Yeah, that's like part of we

need to come up with like a

lore wiki for the for the podcast. I

think that would be pretty cool.

That'd be fun.

High tech is Gardner.

All right, let's let's move on. I'm going

to do this next one in

the voice of strong bad

from Homestar Runner and video GeForce

RTX 50 60 T I 16 gigabyte review.

It's not very good. All right.

That was good. I like that

was good. I like high tech.

Me. Go ahead and tell

us about this story here.

So the 50, 60, 60, 60, and the fit in the

two 50, 60s came out and

for some reason, the 50, 60 T.I. has more

VRAM than the 50, 70.

It's like it has 16 gigs of VRAM, whereas

the 50, 70 has 12 gigs.

And I don't know why Nvidia did this. I

don't know how I just don't get it.

They plan these many months in advance.

Yeah.

And and the 50, 60 has you can get an

eight gigabyte skew.

I think that's you know, people in my comments were I was like,

comments were I was talking about this in

a video yesterday and people were saying

that eight gigabytes is more than enough

VRAM. But is it really?

I mean, 1080p barely

in today's world. No.

But you're right. If it's 1080, like

you're definitely OK.

If you're playing Counter

Strike, go. You're fine.

But if you're trying to play anything

that's like has any serious textures,

like you're screwed.

Yeah, it's honestly a joke nowadays.

How little VRAM we have

and it's not increased much.

That's because they're afraid that, you

know, if they put too much VRAM,

like they're going to we're going to

cannibalize the enterprise sector.

And I think that's partially it.

Yeah, because like a 50 or is expensive,

but it's also a lot cheaper than

the enterprise side of Nvidia. If they

had if they had like 30,

that like 64 gigs of VRAM that I'm sure

many companies probably

would probably buy that

instead of, you know, well, whatever the

enterprise version is.

Oh, like they just need

more unified RAM, I guess.

I don't know more APUs like AMD just lean

really heavy into APUs

that have unified RAM.

But then again, you've run

into issues with that, too.

So supposedly the 5060 Ti is supposed to

be quite a bit better

than the 20, the 4060 Ti.

But I mean, not as really matters because

you're not going to be able to find this

and you're certainly not

going to be able to find an MSRP.

Yeah.

I my friend asked me to like put together

a gaming PC build for him.

And he said his budget

was like a thousand bucks.

And I was like, it's going to be it's

going to be hard if

you want to dedicate GPU.

Get him an AP bill.

Yeah, that's what I was that start out.

You and then you upgrade them into it.

That's how I would do it.

Yeah.

Upgrade into a GPU later

on if you have a budget.

Yeah.

Yeah. But you'd be hard pressed to find an APU

like CPU that wouldn't

actually I don't know what

the I don't know what the desktop side

looks like when it

comes to APUs, to be honest.

You have to look more into that.

But 5060 it's out.

Apparently we should try looking for some

like let's go on a new egg and see if we

can hit find any hits.

5060.

Yeah.

Well, let's see 5060 TI because that's

the more desirable one.

Look at a stock out of stock.

Yeah, this one's in stock.

Yeah, but that's also what?

That's five hundred and forty nine bucks.

Yeah, that's that's

definitely not MSRP price.

But you know, MSRP is supposedly four

hundred and twenty understanding.

Newegg is raising their prices on select

models of like Nvidia GPUs

by like up to four hundred.

I've heard that's yeah,

that's what I've heard too.

And so but you know, they'd have to be in

stock in order for you to like matter.

Yeah, I mean, all of

these are out of stock.

Yeah. I just just fuck them like a fuck it like

it's going to be this.

If I can't buy something off the shelves

after, you know, a month or two,

why does it why do I why

do I even care anymore?

Like I hate it.

There's they have two and this they have

two that are in stock and

this one is four ninety nine.

That's from from NSI.

Yeah.

Okay.

Listen.

I used to have one of

their graphics cards.

It took me six months of just our main

shit back and forth.

And I and this is before I

became a content creator.

I had I've never told the same one.

I've had the army six months back and

forth to the point

where by the time my 20 70,

I got working 20 70 and they upgraded me

to 20 super, by the way.

Mm.

Because I like demanded they do so I

channeled my inner Karen to do so.

But by the time I got a 40 80 super that

was in working condition,

the fucking 30 series released.

Yeah, that's crazy.

I have a 30 70 now.

Thank God.

But like I was I was not happy with MSI.

No, because they kept sending you lemon

after lemon somehow.

Yeah.

I mean, that that sounds you know, the

thing is, MSI to me has always stood for

mindless self-indulgence, which is a band

I used to listen to when

I was just in high school.

Nice.

Yeah.

So I don't I don't really like the MSI

stole my favorite band

when I was like a teenager.

Their acronym.

No, I think I still think I still think

my self-indulgence is

much more popular than

Micro Star.

Whatever the I stands for, you know.

Speaking of GPUs, though,

China has a new HDMI competitor,

GPMI.

This is interesting.

I'm just going to share

the doc here for this.

Yeah, we've got a nice table here.

What do what do what do what do what do?

What do what do we got here?

What's going on with this story?

So I say before a consortium of 50 or so

Chinese companies came

together to come up with

GPMI or general

purpose multimedia interface.

Media interface.

That sounds yeah, it sounds right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So oh, we're spoiling the next topic.

But that's okay.

We'll talk about that later.

But anyways, there's

two different versions.

There's a type B and a type C version.

The type C version goes over.

It goes through, you know,

standard USB type C interfaces.