Podcasts about Ciri

Pernah ngerasa kerja keras, tapi makin lama kok kayak dijauhin? Tugas lo diambil, posisi lo digeser, udah jarang diajak meeting…Lo bukan halu, Bang. Itu namanya Quiet Cutting — fenomena di dunia kerja, di mana lo gak dipecat, tapi pelan-pelan disingkirin.Di episode StillBack Podcast kali ini, gue bakal ngobrol soal: • Ciri-ciri lo lagi di-quiet cut • Kenapa fenomena ini makin rame 2024 • Tips ngadepin biar mental lo tetep kuat • Dan momen Idul Adha… yuk, qurbanin rasa takut & gengsi, biar lo bisa move on.Pasang headset lo, tarik napas, kita bahas bareng-bareng.Karena balik lagi itu selalu lebih baik… daripada stuck di tempat.➡️ Follow podcast ini & share ke temen yang lagi galau di kerjaan.

Bismillah,1743. TAWADHU CIRI ORANG BERILMU Riyaadhush Shaalihiin Bab 48 | Peringatan agar tidak menyakiti orang shalih, orang lemah, & orang fakirQS. Adh-Dhuha: 9-10Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,فَأَمَّا ٱلْيَتِيمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرْ9. Sebab itu, terhadap anak yatim janganlah kamu berlaku sewenang-wenang.وَأَمَّا ٱلسَّآئِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ10. Dan terhadap orang yang minta-minta, janganlah kamu menghardiknya.(QS. Adh-Dhuha: 9-10)

Joining us for the show this week is Nick's oldest son, Ciri. He's reached that formative age (14) where, for music lovers, his appetite for new music is insatiable. He wants to play some songs he's been really enjoying and get some recommendations based on the tunes. Songs: Childish Gambino - “Me and your Mama”Earl Sweatshirt - “Riot!”JPEGMAFIA - “Hazard Duty Pay!”Greg caught Phish at the Hollywood Bowl this past weekend and shares the experience with a Tales from the Concert. Greg has nothing but amazing things to say about the show and highly recommends everyone see this band at least once in their lives. High praise from Mr. Loman.Song: Phish - “Light (Live from The Hollywood Bowl 4/25/25)”What was originally intended to be a Jay's Jambalaya ended up being a follow up interview between Jay and Ciri about music, AI and Gen Alpha.Song: Neal Francis & Say She She - “Broken Glass”

Patrick MacPhee is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest earning him a trip to Hollywood for a week-long master-class workshop, an awards event and his winning story will be published in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41. As a young child, Patrick frequently saw his mother engrossed in a forest's worth of fantasy and science fiction novels. Wanting to join in the fun, he read his first ‘big-person' novel, The Fellowship of the Ring, when he was eight.Although far above his reading level, he pushed through, several hours a day, taking literally longer to reach Rivendell than Sam and Frodo. This magical experience hooked him on speculative fiction forever. In his teens, he was bit by the writing bug and later abandoned a degree in engineering to pursue a degree in English literature. He fell into teaching, first as a way to support his writing hobby/habit, then as a vocation where he was lucky enough to spend every day helping young people become better versions of themselves.Over a twenty-year teaching career, Patrick has taught phys-ed (i.e. dodgeball) to Fortnite-obsessed middle schoolers, the enigmatic complexity of Hamlet to university-bound high schoolers and everything in between. He has learned that almost every part of the curriculum has room for a little humor — sometimes a lot of humor. When he's not writing fantasy and science fiction, Patrick enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons with his wife and two children and going on long walks in the woods with his golden retrievers, Ciri and Arwen.http://patrickmacphee.comhttps://writersofthefuture.com/

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Bismillah,1732. HILANG SEMANGAT SETELAH LEBARANRiyaadhush Shaalihiin Bab 47 | Ciri-ciri kecintaan Allah kepada hamba-Nya & anjuran untuk berakhlak dengannya, serta berupaya untuk meraihnyaSesi Tanya Jawab

Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

Kuliah Tafsir Nurul Ehsan Jilid 2 yang berlangsung di Masjid Simpang Empat Permatang Buloh, Pulau Pinang pada 2 September 2013.~ Nabi terjaga dari tidur pada satu malam~ Apakah satu fitnah yang Allah nak timpakan kepada umat Nabi?~ Berapa ramai orang yang hidup mewah di dunia, diakhirat tak ada pakaian~ Fitnah yang cukup dahsyat, orang Islam bunuh orang Islam~ Tak ada sesiapa boleh tolong melainkan Allah~ Orang Mesir ranapkan terowong yang digunakan untuk membantu Gaza~ Bagaimana amal dan ibadah Nabi?~ Adakah Nabi seorang yang bermusim dalam beribadah?~ Jangan tinggal amalan selepas berakhir bulan Ramadan~ Nabi beramal secara konsisten, istiqamah~ Nabi bukan Superman, apa yang Nabi buat, kita boleh buat~ Doa yang Nabi sentiasa amalkan, supaya sentiasa ingat Allah~ Hari Nabi sampai ke Madinah~ Bumi Madinah menjadi bercahaya~ Cahaya dari masjid Nabawi~ Pada hari Nabi wafat, terasa alam gelap gelita~ Hati rasa sunyi dan kehilangan-- Tafsir Nurul Ehsan Jilid 2 Muka Surat 302 --~ Tafsir Surah An-Nahl~ Orang kafir yang suka mempermainkan Quran dan Nabi~ Cerita dogeng orang dulu-dulu~ Bila tibanya kiamat, Allah akan pertanggungjawabkan setiap tuduhan kafir~ Latar belakang Fatah As-sisi Mesir~ Namruh lempar Nabi Ibrahim dalam api~ Pembinaan menara di negara Babil (Babylon)~ Pengakhiran orang yang nak lawan Allah~ Bandar yang pertama dibina selepas banjir Nabi Noh~ Allah tanya, mana dia berhala dan tokong yang disembah?~ Kehinaan pada hari akhirat adalah untuk orang kafir~ Orang yang akan mati dalam keadaan susah~ Kalau kita ditakdirkan mati pada pukul 9 malam nanti..~ Kisah seorang pekerja hotel baru meninggal~ Saat-saat yang sangat penting dalam hidup~ Keadaan mabuk nazak menghadapi kematian~ Betapa dahsyatnya detik sakaratul maut~ Kubur menjadi taman syurga~ Kubur adalah rumah pertama sebelum alam akhirat~ Mati ketika buat zalim kat orang~ Bila nampak malaikat maut~ Cuba nak bohong malaikat~ Sejahat-jahat tempat kembali adalah neraka~ Apa yang diturunkan untuk orang beriman?~ Ciri orang yang beriman dan akan mendapat balasan baik~ Nabi berdiri walaupun jenazah kafir~ Solat jenazah di Mekah dan Madinah~ Allah akan ilhamkan dalam hati manusia~ Musuh politik mana boleh lepas...~ Jadi orang baik supaya kawan dan lawan kata kita baik~ Orang baik akan disambut masuk ke syurga~ Syurga yang mengalir dibawahnya sungai-sungai~ Mati ketika solat subuh, solat tarawih, antara tanda kematian yang baik~ Malaikat bagi salam sebelum cabut nyawa~ Boleh tak hantar SMS tulis salam saja?~ Masalah cara ejaan InsyaAllahSETERUSNYA~ Kepercayaan khurafat dalam masyarakat Arab Jahiliah~ Nazak kepercayaan karut marut~ Tidak ada hari sial~ Cara Nabi solat sunat gerhana--Dapatkan External SSD 512GB Sempena 11 Tahun Zonkuliah : https://toyyibpay.com/Zonkuliah-External-SSD-512GB--Sokong Projek Zonkuliah Dengan Menyumbang Ke Akaun Berikut : ➢ https://payment.tngdigital.com.my/sc/bDLnYClrWk➢ MAYBANK (Produksi Zonkita) - 557250054584➢ PAYPAL - paypal.me/DanaZK---☑● Doakan Dimurahkan Rezeki dan Diberikan Kesihatan Yang Baik Untuk Kami Teruskan Projek ZonKuliah ☑●✚ Untuk update terkini sila like Facebook Page kami : www.facebook.com/zonkuliah---#Zonkuliah #UstazShamsuri #KuliahAgama

Kuliah Bahrul Mazi Jilid 21 yang berlangsung di Masjid Abdullah Fahim, Bertam, Pulau Pinang pada 13 Mac 2019.~ Kisah yang terjadi zaman Nabi Daud, anak kena makan serigala~ Tak puas hati dengan keputusan Nabi Daud, tanya Nabi Sulaiman~ Dalam hati hang ada sayang~ Sayang satu benda yang susah nak dijelaskan~ Ada bezakah sayang dengan cinta?~ Betapa Nabi sayangkan umat-umatnya~ Tidak ada seorang manusia pun sayang anak macam Nabi~ Kisah anak Nabi bernama Ibrahim yang mati ketika masih menyusu~ Sambung kerja menyusu di syurga~ Kisah orang besar dari kalangan Bani Tamin, yang agak sombong~ Ciri-ciri orang sombong ialah bercakap dengan suara kuat~ Nabi sengaja tidak jawab panggilan untuk ajar hormat~ Mengaji tinggi tapi tak beradab~ Aku ada sepuluh orang anak, sorang pun aku tak pernah cium~ Kalau kita buat kerja untuk Islam, Allah akan tolong kita~ Kata sayang Nabi, tapi kita tak ikut akhlak Nabi~ Betapa sayangnya Nabi kepada cucu~ Sahabat Nabi sayang Nabi sehingga sanggup korban nyawa~ Salah seorang sahabat yang dijamin syurga~ Kelebihan Saidina Abu Bakar yang sangat dihormati~ Ujian yang berlaku semasa Perang Uhud~ Tangan lumpuh sebab pertahankan Nabi~ Kemuncak bukti sayangnya Nabi kepada kita~ Keistimewaan doa yang mustajab macam lampu Aladdin~ Syarat yang perlu jaga kalau nak syafaat Nabi ~ Sifat sayang ada dalam diri semua orang, tapi ada yang Allah cabut dari hati dia-- BAHRUL MAZI JILID 21 MUKA SURAT 108 --~ Allah sahkan iman Nabi dan pengikut Nabi~ Allah akan hisab dosa dan pahala apa yang terlintas di hati~ Kita banyak tolak ayat Quran hari ni sebab kita cakap pandai~ Tempat yang diterbalikkan Allah dengan bala yang cukup dahsyat~ Tidak boleh tolak walau satu rukun iman~ Apa yang dimaksudkan dengan percaya kepada Allah~ Amalan yang paling penting, ialah percaya kepada Allah~ Percaya tiada sekutu bagi Allah~ Serulah nama Allah yang baik-baik (Asma Ul Husna)~ Janji untuk orang yang hafal Asma Ul Husna~ Cara tarbiah untuk hati~ Yakin dan percaya sungguh dengan malaikat yang mencatatkan amalan~ Kita tak mau jumpa Malaikat Malik penjaga neraka~ Malaikat tak boleh nak kawtim~ Utusan-utusan Allah yang mulia~ Masalah bila baca Quran tak faham makna~ Tempat membiak kaum Nabi Luth ialah asrama~ Betapa keji dan tak eloknya perbuatan liwat~ Benda yang dimurkai Allah~ Apa yang dimaksudkan dengan percaya kepada kitab Allah?~ Islam tidak boleh diubah ikut kita, kita kena ubah diri ikut Quran~ Apa yang dimaksudkan dengan percaya kepada Nabi dan Rasul Allah?~ Kes hina Nabi dan hina Islam~ Nabi Isa adalah Nabi yang akan turun untuk bunuh Dajjal~ Ada dikalangan Nabi dilebihkan antara yang lain~ Beza orang Islam dengan Yahudi dan Nasrani berkaitan Nabi-Nabi~ Kita dilarang mencerca dan menyerang sembahan orang bukan Islam~ Dulu cerca Islam sekarang masuk Islam~ Dahsyat pengaruh media, dia boleh kawal otak kita~ Alam siber boleh digunakan untuk buli orang~ Jangan kalut nak forward berita yang dihantar kepada kita~ Jangan sampai muflis di akhiratSETERUSNYA~ Orang beriman tak boleh berpisah dari doa~ Lagi banyak bercakap lagi banyak silap~ Jadi trend zaman hari ni menjatuhkan ustaz~ Buat pembetulan tidak menjatuhkan maruah--Dapatkan External SSD 512GB Sempena 11 Tahun Zonkuliah : https://toyyibpay.com/Zonkuliah-External-SSD-512GB--Sokong Projek Zonkuliah Dengan Menyumbang Ke Akaun Berikut : ➢ https://payment.tngdigital.com.my/sc/bDLnYClrWk➢ MAYBANK (Produksi Zonkita) - 557250054584➢ PAYPAL - paypal.me/DanaZK---☑● Doakan Dimurahkan Rezeki dan Diberikan Kesihatan Yang Baik Untuk Kami Teruskan Projek ZonKuliah ☑●✚ Untuk update terkini sila like Facebook Page kami : www.facebook.com/zonkuliah---#Zonkuliah #UstazShamsuri #KuliahAgama

Dibawakan oleh Safira dan Ketty dari Paroki Santa Theresia Lengko Ajang di Keuskupan Ruteng, Indonesia. Kejadian 17: 3-9; Mazmur tg 105: 4-5.6-7.8-9; Yohanes 8: 51-59MELIHAT DAN BERSUKA CITA Renungan kita pada hari ini bertema: Melihat DanBersukacita. Perdebatan dan fitnah tentang identitas Yesus Kristus masihberlanjut. Hari ini penekanannya ialah pada sosok Abraham. Kitab Kejadianmenampilkan Abraham yang diartikan sebagai Bapak bagi sejumlah bangsa besar dibumi ini, mempunyai dua karakteristiknya. Sosok Abraham digambarkan sebagaiseorang pilihan Allah untuk mendiami wilayah yang asing baginya, yang dikuasaibersama segala keturunannya. Ia diberkati untuk memiliki banyak sekali keturunan. Ciri lain pada Abraham ialah perjanjian Allah atasnya yangharus dijamin dengan iman dan ketaatan kepada Allah. Dasar iman ini tidak hanyamembuat dia sebagai bapak iman bagi banyak orang, tetapi juga menunjukkantujuannya dalam persekutuan yang bahagia bersama Tuhan selama-lamanya. Iniadalah gambaran Abraham yang spiritual. Karakteristik yang pertamamenggambarkan sisi kefanaannya sebagai manusia yang mengalami kematian didunia. Sedangkan karakteristik yang kedua menggambarkannya sebagai pilihan Allahyang mengalami hidup abadi atau selama-lamanya. Dua sisi profil Abraham ini dijelaskan secara lengkap olehYesus kepada para lawannya. Ditegaskan-Nya kepada mereka bahwa Abraham yangmerupakan manusia dunia ini setelah genap usianya untuk mati, ia tunduk kepadapanggilan alam ini. Sampai dengan batas pemahaman di sini, para lawan itusanggup untuk mengerti dan percaya akan Abraham yang fana. Demikian juga denganpara nabi, kematian pada dasarnya merupakan bagian dari kefanaan mereka.  Mata mereka sama sekali dikaburkan dan hati mereka sungguhtertutup, sehingga mereka tak bisa menangkap bahwa Yesus Kristus adalahkenyataan janji Allah kepada Abraham dan pernubuatan para nabi. SebenarnyaYesus sedang menjelaskan bahwa karena Abraham punya aspek spiritual, ia sudahmelihat Yesus Kristus, Putera Allah. Abraham melihat dan bersuka cita karenajanji Allah kepadanya terwujud dalam diri Yesus Kristus. Aspek spiritual inilahyang tidak dapat ditangkap oleh kaum Farisi dan para ahli taurat. Yesus sedang mengajarkan kita tentang kekuatan rohani yangmerupakan karunia Roh Allah kepada setiap orang yang mengikuti-Nya. Dengankarunia ini, kita diberi jaminan untuk menikmati hidup ini melalui bagaimanakita melihat kemuliaan Allah yang hadir di dalam diri sendiri, sesama, danlingkungan sekitar. Pengalaman akan kemuliaan Allah itu menjadi dasar bagi kitauntuk bersuka cita dan bersyukur kepada Tuhan. Yang memperkuat suka cita iniialah aspek spiritual dari segala sesuatu di dalam hidup ini, karena di situTuhan sungguh hadir.Marilah kita berdoa. Dalam nama Bapa... Ya Allah maha murah,semoga kami selalu peka akan kemuliaan-Mu yang hadir di dalam segala sesuatu,khususnya di dalam hidup kami sebagai pribadi dan bersama. Salam Maria penuhrahmat ... Dalam nama Bapa ...

Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

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Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

Bismillah,1719. PENTINGNYA DICINTAI ORANG SHALIHRiyaadhush Shaalihiin Bab 47 | Ciri-ciri kecintaan Allah kepada hamba-Nya & anjuran untuk berakhlak dengannya, serta berupaya untuk meraihnyaHadits ke-392 | Hadits Abu Hurairah Radhiallahu ‘anhu Dari Nabi ﷺ beliau bersabda, وعنه عن النبي صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم ، قال : « إِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ تعالى العَبْدَ ، نَادَى جِبْريل : إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحبُّهُ جِبْريلَ ، فَيُنَادى في أَهْلِ السَّمَاء : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبوهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ، ثُمَّ يُوْضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ » متفقٌ عليه."Apabila Allah mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka Jibril mencintainya kemudian mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya, kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di bumi." (Muttafaq ‘alaih) وفي رواية لمسلمٍ : قال رسولُ اللَّه صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم : « إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى إِذا أَحبَّ عبْداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فقال : إِنِّي أُحِبُّ فُلاناً فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في السَّماءِ ، فَيَقُولُ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبُّوهُ فَيُحبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ يُوضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ ، وإِذا أَبْغَضَ عَبداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فَيَقولُ : إِنِّي أُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضْهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في أَهْلِ السَّماءِ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضُوهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ أَهْلُ السَّماءِ ثُمَّ تُوضَعُ له البَغْضَاءُ في الأَرْضِ » ."Sesungguhnya bila Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Jibril pun mencintainya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya. Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di muka bumi. Dan apabila Dia membenci seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Jibril pun membencinya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kebencian di muka bumi." (HR. Muslim)

In Witcher 3 könnt ihr die Handlung mitbestimmen und durch geschicktes Reden die Story zu verschiedenen Enden führen. Damit euch die vielen Entscheidungen nicht über den Kopf wachsen, findet ihr hier eine Übersicht mit allen wegweisenden Dialogoptionen für jeden Charakter und erfahrt, welche Enden es gibt und wie ihr dorthin gelangt.

Bismillah,1717. APAKAH ALLAH MENCINTAIKU?Riyaadhush Shaalihiin Bab 47 | Ciri-ciri kecintaan Allah kepada hamba-Nya & anjuran untuk berakhlak dengannya, serta berupaya untuk meraihnyaHadits ke-392 | Hadits Abu Hurairah Radhiallahu ‘anhu Dari Nabi ﷺ beliau bersabda, وعنه عن النبي صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم ، قال : « إِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ تعالى العَبْدَ ، نَادَى جِبْريل : إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحبُّهُ جِبْريلَ ، فَيُنَادى في أَهْلِ السَّمَاء : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبوهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ، ثُمَّ يُوْضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ » متفقٌ عليه."Apabila Allah mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka Jibril mencintainya kemudian mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya, kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di bumi." (Muttafaq ‘alaih) وفي رواية لمسلمٍ : قال رسولُ اللَّه صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم : « إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى إِذا أَحبَّ عبْداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فقال : إِنِّي أُحِبُّ فُلاناً فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في السَّماءِ ، فَيَقُولُ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبُّوهُ فَيُحبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ يُوضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ ، وإِذا أَبْغَضَ عَبداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فَيَقولُ : إِنِّي أُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضْهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في أَهْلِ السَّماءِ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضُوهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ أَهْلُ السَّماءِ ثُمَّ تُوضَعُ له البَغْضَاءُ في الأَرْضِ » ."Sesungguhnya bila Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Jibril pun mencintainya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya. Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di muka bumi. Dan apabila Dia membenci seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Jibril pun membencinya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kebencian di muka bumi."

Bismillah,1718. 1718. PUJIAN DARI SAKSI-SAKSI ALLAH ﷻ Riyaadhush Shaalihiin Bab 47 | Ciri-ciri kecintaan Allah kepada hamba-Nya & anjuran untuk berakhlak dengannya, serta berupaya untuk meraihnyaHadits ke-392 | Hadits Abu Hurairah Radhiallahu ‘anhu Dari Nabi ﷺ beliau bersabda, وعنه عن النبي صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم ، قال : « إِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ تعالى العَبْدَ ، نَادَى جِبْريل : إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحبُّهُ جِبْريلَ ، فَيُنَادى في أَهْلِ السَّمَاء : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبوهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ، ثُمَّ يُوْضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ » متفقٌ عليه."Apabila Allah mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka Jibril mencintainya kemudian mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya, kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di bumi." (Muttafaq ‘alaih) وفي رواية لمسلمٍ : قال رسولُ اللَّه صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وسَلَّم : « إِنَّ اللَّه تعالى إِذا أَحبَّ عبْداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فقال : إِنِّي أُحِبُّ فُلاناً فَأَحْبِبْهُ ، فَيُحِبُّهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في السَّماءِ ، فَيَقُولُ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُحِبُّ فُلاناً ، فَأَحِبُّوهُ فَيُحبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ يُوضَعُ له القَبُولُ في الأَرْضِ ، وإِذا أَبْغَضَ عَبداً دَعا جِبْريلَ ، فَيَقولُ : إِنِّي أُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضْهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ جِبْريلُ ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي في أَهْلِ السَّماءِ : إِنَّ اللَّه يُبْغِضُ فُلاناً ، فَأَبْغِضُوهُ ، فَيُبْغِضُهُ أَهْلُ السَّماءِ ثُمَّ تُوضَعُ له البَغْضَاءُ في الأَرْضِ » ."Sesungguhnya bila Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mencintai seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Jibril pun mencintainya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah mencintai fulan, maka cintailah dia.' Maka penduduk langit pun mencintainya. Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kecintaan di muka bumi. Dan apabila Dia membenci seorang hamba, Dia memanggil Jibril, Dia berfirman, 'Sesungguhnya Aku membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Jibril pun membencinya, kemudian dia mengumumkan kepada penduduk langit, 'Sesungguhnya Allah membenci fulan, maka bencilah dia.' Kemudian diletakkan untuknya kebencian di muka bumi."

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Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

Dibawakan oleh Tirto, Hendry, Rini dan Pater Peter, SDB dari Komunitas Pukat Labuan Bajo di Keuskupan Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Kejadian 15: 5-12.17-18; Mazmur tg 27: 1.7-8.9abc.13-14; Filipi 3: 17 - 4: 1; Lukas 9: 28b-36PENAMPAKAN BARU Tema renungan kita pada hari Minggu Kedua PraPaskah iniialah: Penampakan Baru. Di dalam era komunikasi yang sangat mengutamakanvisualisasi dan kesan orang terhadapnya, sebuah penampakan baru merupakankeharusan. Siapa pun di jaman ini yang tidak terjamah oleh yang baru atau yangter-updated, ia otomatis ketinggalan. Program-program aplikasi di hp dankomputer yang Anda miliki, jika tidak membaharui diri untuk mendapatkan produkyang baru, program itu tidak akan berfungsi lagi dan sangat mengganggupekerjaanmu. Profil akun pribadi di media sosial sangat perlu dibaharuipenampakannya. Halamannya juga berubah penampilan tiap hari supaya lebihmenarik. Setiap perubahan mendefinisikan eksistensi yang bersangkutan danmendapatkan pengakuan dari orang lain. Di dunia periklanan, penampakan baruuntuk memperkenalkan produk hukumnya adalah wajib. Di dalam dunia politik,penampilan baru generasi terkini akan mempengaruhi wajah politik seluruhnya. Singkatnya, kebutuhan sebuah penampakan baru terkaitdengan keberadaan, kegiatan dan mentalitas kehidupan merupakan kebutuhan dasardalam era komunikasi saat ini. Ciri spesifik semua penampakan baru ini adalahbahwa perubahan terus terjadi. Ia seperti air mengalir dan tidak bisa sebagaiair yang sama. Kebutuhan dan keinginan kita memang tak terhentikan. SantoAgustinus berkata bahwa keinginan hati kita hanya dapat berhenti ketika iasampai kepada Tuhan. Penampakan Tuhan di Tabor sungguh memberikan kita keyakinanbahwa itu adalah perhentian perjalanan dari segala keinginan kita. Penampakanitu menggambarkan kemuliaan kekal, yang menjadi tujuan setiap orang beriman dansemua yang dikasihi Tuhan. Sejalan dengan penampakan baru dunia ini yang menjadikebutuhan dasar kita, sangat dituntut pula penampakan baru dalam jiwa dan imankita. Bersama penampakan di Tabor, menerima pengajaran Santo Paulus tentangperubahan tubuh kita yang fana menjadi tubuh yang mulia di dalam Yesus Kristus,dan mengimani perjanjian kekal Tuhan Allah dengan kita manusia, kiranya kitamengusahakan penampakan-penampakan baru bangunan rohani diri kita di dalam masaPra-Paskah ini.  Perubahan penampilan rohani kita hendaknya bertambah dalamkelipatan. Tujuannya supaya semakin berjalannya waktu untuk menuju ke akhirhidup ini, kita semakin dekat dengan pencapaian yang mulia tersebut. Pada hariini, jika Anda berdoa pribadi selama 15 menit, besok waktunya ditambah lebihlama dan intensinya ditambah lebih banyak. Berpuasa, bermatiraga dan beramalkasih juga perlu penampakan baru. Begitulah kelipatan kehidupan rohani kita.Maka terjadilah penampakan-penampakan baru di dalam kehidupan iman kita. Marilah kita berdoa. Dalam nama Bapa ... Ya Allah, semogaRoh-Mu menggerakkan kami untuk membuat pembaharuan rohani yang sesungguhnya.Salam Maria penuh rahmat ... Dalam nama Bapa ...

Tarragona Ràdio estrena un nou espai dedicat a una de les tradicions més emblemàtiques de la ciutat: la Setmana Santa de Tarragona. A càrrec de Daniel Mogio i Laia Ventura, dos apassionats de la cultura tarragonina, Muntem un ciri oferirà un punt de vista familiar i diferent en què els protagonistes sereu vosaltres: la gent que fa viva la nostra Setmana Santa. Cada dilluns i dissabte, descobrirem curiositats, entrevistes i l'essència d'una festivitat amb segles d'història. No us ho perdeu! podcast recorded with enacast.com

CEO Maybank Indonesia, Steffano Ridwan, berbicara tentang filosofi dan komitmen mereka, “Humanising Financial Services”. Selain itu, Steffano juga mengupas bagaimana bank konvensional, fintech, dan institusi keuangan lainnya dapat bekerja sama di era kolaborasi seperti hari ini. Terakhir, beliau juga memberikan tips kepemimpinan dan bisnis—merefleksikan dari kesuksesan Maybank Group yang baru saja memenangkan 2024 Time World's Best Company.Dalam percakapan ini, Gita Wirjawan mengangkat anekdot-anekdot yang belum pernah dibahas sebelumnya terkait usaha kecil dan mikro, persepsi masyarakat lokal terkait ekspor, hingga pandangannya soal dampak terpilihnya Trump terhadap ekonomi dunia.#Endgame#GitaWirjawan#MaybankIndonesia-----------------Episode Endgame lainnya yang mungkin juga Anda sukai:Sejarah Uang dan EvolusinyaFaisal Basri: Prioritas Kita Berbenah, Bukan PindahArah Ekonomi di Era Pemimpin Baru - Hendri Saparini-----------------Jelajahi dan diskusikan lebih lanjut episode ini di:https://endgame.id/-----------------Untuk ajakan kolaborasi dan kerja sama, hubungi kami di sini: https://sgpp.me/contactus-----------------Ikuti akun instagram Narrator kami di:maybankidbapaksteff-----------------Episode ini dipersembahkan oleh:https://www.maybank.co.id/-----------------‘Mata kuliah'0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:17 - Latar belakang Steffano Ridwan0:09:50 - Bank regional, berprestasi internasional0:19:59 - Pentingnya nilai dalam perusahaan0:25:28 - Transisi digital, fintech, tech bubble burst0:35:21 - UMKM dan prinsip syariah0:47:48 - Ekonomi makro0:53:16 - Persepsi ekspor di kalangan masyarakat0:57:36 - Ekonomi dunia: Trump, suku bunga, AI1:03:38 - SDM1:13:31 - Ciri pemimpin1:16:40 - Pesan untuk sesama institusi finansial

Kencan Dengan Tuhan - Minggu, 9 Februari 2025Bacaan:"Berbahagialah orang yang takut akan TUHAN, yang sangat suka kepada segala perintah-Nya. Anak cucunya akan perkasa di bumi; angkatan orang benar akan diberkati."(Mazmur 112:1-2)Renungan: Ada seorang ibu yang sudah cukup tua awalnya merasa kesal setiap kali anak laki-laki satu-satunya, mengajaknya pindah ke rumahnya dan tinggal bersama keluarganya. Ibu tersebut merasa lebih nyaman tinggal sendirian di rumahnya sendiri. Tetapi akhir-akhir ini, ia sering sakit-sakitan. Sudah dua kali ia jatuh di jalan ketika pergi membeli makanan dan bahkan ia pernah nyasar ketika hendak pulang ke rumah. Sore itu, anak laki-lakinya mengunjunginya lagi dan berbicara serius dengannya tentang apa yang terbaik untuk ibunya. Ibu tersebut memandang putra satu-satunya itu dengan rasa haru. Dia teringat, dahulu ia yang sering mengajak putranya itu untuk duduk dan membicarakan tentang apa yang terbaik untuk anaknya. Namun, sekarang anaknya yang mengajaknya untuk duduk dan membicarakan tentang apa yang terbaik untuk ibunya. Berkat yang terbesar bagi orangtua adalah ketika melihat anak cucunya menjadi orang yang kuat. Kekuatan seseorang, dalam pandangan Alkitab, adalah takut akan Tuhan. Ciri utama orang yang takut akan Tuhan adalah memiliki kasih, bijaksana, dan bertanggung jawab. Sayangnya, sering kali hal-hal begini tidak kita perhatikan, karena kita hanya terpukau pada orang-orang yang memiliki kekayaan, gelar, atau jabatan. Untuk itu marilah kita minta hikmat Tuhan agar kita pun diberi hati yang takut akan Tuhan, sehingga hati kita senantiasa dipenuhi oleh kasih-Nya dan pada akhirnya hidup kita dapat menjadi berkat bagi sesama kita. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.Doa:Tuhan Yesus, penuhilah kami para orang tua dengan hikmat-Mu, sehingga kami dapat mengajar dan mendidik anak-anak kami di dalam takut akan Engkau, sehingga mereka menjadi orang yang kuat di dalam iman, penuh kasih, dan hidup secara bertanggung jawab. Amin. (Dod).

We're back for an all-new season! We've heeded the siren's song (it's absolutely ear-piercing when you're nursing a hangover) and returned to the studio for a full season devoted to Witcher comics and animation, starting with the soon-to-debut Sirens of the Deep! We explain what we'll be discussing and what we won't, and how you can read and watch along with us. We also round up some of the latest Witcher news, discuss the recent Los Angeles fires (don't worry, we're safe!) and share our thoughts on the Sirens trailer that dropped while we were on hiatus. Oh, and Valerie gets really excited about a clock.

Are you worried about ICE raids in your kids' school district? Many school districts have released statements reassuring parents that they will protect kids who could be targeted. We got some perspective on this thanks to officials in Bridgeport. We spoke with Carli Rocha-Reaes with the district, Susan Schnitzer with CIRI and immigration attorney Alicia Kinsman. Image Credit: Reuters

Dan Patriss shares the latest news in the world of board games, including the release of the DC Deck-Building Game: Party Edition from Cryptozoic Entertainment. Subscribe to the Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed! Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed RSS Feed Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com NEWS Restoration Games released a pair of Unmatched sets in the Witcher Universe and should be available now. Unmatched The Witcher:Steel & Silver --Geralt of Rivia, Ciri, and the Leshen ($50) Unmatched The Witcher: Realms Fall--Eredin, Philippa, and Triss & Yennefer ($50) Asmodee has released Patchwork: 10-Year Anniversary Edition ($35) Next Move Games and Asmodee will release Azul Duel,  Feb ($25) Chip Theory Games will release a head to head card game called  Neon Reign,($25) (Neon knight game studios collab with CTG) They are also taking pre-orders for The Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the second era Cryptozoic Entertainment is releasing DC Deck-Building Game:Party/Starter Edition ($25)March ‘25 Thames & Kosmos will release a new ed of the Crew-- The Crew: Family Adventure Q3 25 ($15) Thames and Cosmos have announced a bunch of new boxes in the EXIT series of games (These are co-op escape room /puzzle style games) Exit: The Game - Adventures on Catan (~$20) EXIT:  The Game --2 Escape Adventures (Family based) ($30) EXIT: The Game: The Venice Conspiracy (~$20) EXIT:  The Game:  Midnight Spooktacular (Kids focused) (~$20) EXIT: The Game:The Intergalactic Race (Advent Calendar) ($50) Daily puzzles and challenges or riddles leading up to the last days challenge Beyond the Horizon from Capstone Games and designed by the guys at Motor City GameWorks will release Feb ‘25 ($60) Crowdfunding KICKSTARTER Click A Tree - The new Uwe Rosenberg game Lost Lumina 25th Century Games 2025 Import Collection La Pâtisserie Rococo MICRO HERO: Hercules Baghdad: The City of Peace GAMEFOUND FoxPaw

Dan Patriss shares the latest news in the world of board games, including the release of the DC Deck-Building Game: Party Edition from Cryptozoic Entertainment. Subscribe to the Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed! Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed RSS Feed Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com NEWS Restoration Games released a pair of Unmatched sets in the Witcher Universe and should be available now. Unmatched The Witcher:Steel & Silver --Geralt of Rivia, Ciri, and the Leshen ($50) Unmatched The Witcher: Realms Fall--Eredin, Philippa, and Triss & Yennefer ($50) Asmodee has released Patchwork: 10-Year Anniversary Edition ($35) Next Move Games and Asmodee will release Azul Duel,  Feb ($25) Chip Theory Games will release a head to head card game called  Neon Reign,($25) (Neon knight game studios collab with CTG) They are also taking pre-orders for The Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the second era Cryptozoic Entertainment is releasing DC Deck-Building Game:Party/Starter Edition ($25)March ‘25 Thames & Kosmos will release a new ed of the Crew-- The Crew: Family Adventure Q3 25 ($15) Thames and Cosmos have announced a bunch of new boxes in the EXIT series of games (These are co-op escape room /puzzle style games) Exit: The Game - Adventures on Catan (~$20) EXIT:  The Game --2 Escape Adventures (Family based) ($30) EXIT: The Game: The Venice Conspiracy (~$20) EXIT:  The Game:  Midnight Spooktacular (Kids focused) (~$20) EXIT: The Game:The Intergalactic Race (Advent Calendar) ($50) Daily puzzles and challenges or riddles leading up to the last days challenge Beyond the Horizon from Capstone Games and designed by the guys at Motor City GameWorks will release Feb ‘25 ($60) Crowdfunding KICKSTARTER Click A Tree - The new Uwe Rosenberg game Lost Lumina 25th Century Games 2025 Import Collection La Pâtisserie Rococo MICRO HERO: Hercules Baghdad: The City of Peace GAMEFOUND FoxPaw

Recent video game trailers and releases are being trashed online and in comment sections. Naughty Dog's “Intergalactic” was criticized so heavily for their protagonist, a shaved head unidentifiable, the company turned off comments on the trailer. Games like “Concord” lost $400-million and were completely shut down. Countless gamers are furious how Ciri from “The Witcher” has had her look completely changed from female to, maybe female, while others are equally furious over “Dragon Age Veilgaurd” and its totally amateur production. Turns out its director is no surprise, an activist. “Assassin's Creed Shadows” was delayed until February 2025 due to criticism and a Japanese petition to cancel the game due to its cultural insensitivity to Japan. Why? Because Yasuke, a real black man who lived as a vassal to the warlord Oda Nobunaga, was turned into a full-fledged Samurai as the main protagonist of a game set in Japan. It doesn't help that half the staff have literally never made a game before. Defenders of the game say it must be racism, because Japanese didn't care that the other character, Naoe, a female Ninja, wasn't real - yeah, but she's also Japanese, not black. This is the same type of argument made by Corrine Busche of Dragon Age and by the outgoing CEO of Sony, Tony Vinciquerra, over Madame Webb: these things failed because people hated them, largely because of hate campaigns directed at minorities. Or, people hated them because they sucked. On the other hand, there were Onna-Bugeisha in Japan, noble female Samurai warriors. In some battles, up to a third of the warriors were female, though it was uncommon. So the same anger directed as AC-Shadows is not justified when we look at “Ghost of Tsushima 2,” which features of a female Japanese Samurai. Whatever your option is, however, the fact is AAA games are on average failing with massive budgets, often incompetent staff, and inflated promises. That's why games such as MiSide are totally dominating with virtually no budget or staff. -FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKWEBSITEPAYPALCashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.

Fred's nearing the end of Metro Awakening (Chapter 10!) and wrapping up his journey with Darkest Dungeon 2, finally tackling the last confession. Jake? He's still deep into Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—on Game Pass, naturally.This week, we're diving into our PlayStation Wrapped for 2024! Fred and Jake both played 35 games this year, with Fred's journey starting with Final Fantasy XVI and ending with Darkest Dungeon 2. His top games include 90 hours in Darkest Dungeon 2, 39 hours in Helldivers 2, and 34 hours in FFXVI. Jake's list is, well, under wraps for now, but we know his 512 hours of gaming outpaced Fred's 285.Fred's role-playing gaming style saw him snag 263 trophies this year, with A Fine Hound from FFXVI as his first and The Last Confession trophy in DD2 closing out the year. No Platinums for Fred, but 8 Golds aren't too shabby.In the news, CD Projekt Red confirmed that Ciri will take center stage in The Witcher 4, though specifics about platform support remain under wraps. Mark Cerny hinted at a continued partnership with AMD for the PS6, and Amazon's Secret Level series has been renewed for a second season.It's a look back at an incredible year in gaming—join us for the full breakdown!By joining our Patreon community for ONLY $1.00 per month, you'll also enjoy these exclusive benefits:Early Access: Be the first to listen to our episodes as soon as they're ready. Get ahead of the game and dive into the latest news, reviews, and discussions.Personalized Shoutout: As a token of our gratitude for your support, we'll give you a special shout out during one of our podcast episodes, acknowledging your contribution and dedication to our show.Custom Die-Cut Vinyl Sticker: Receive an exclusive custom die-cut vinyl sticker featuring our podcast's unique design. Showcase your support with this limited-edition collectible.Your support goes a long way in helping us continue to create the content you love. It's a simple and direct way to show your appreciation for our podcast.To become a patron and unlock these exciting benefits, visit www.patreon.com/psthisisawesome today. Your support keeps us going and ensures that we can keep delivering top-notch PlayStation content.Please, if you enjoyed the content or even if you didn't quite enjoy this one, we encourage you to come back. We try to offer something for everybody. Please share with your friends and help us spread the show as we try to build a bigger community here! As always you can support our show at our Patreon Page. Thanks for listening.http://www.patreon.com/psthisisawesome  Support PS This is Awesome! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neue Heldin, neues Monster, neue... DLCs? Nach den Game Awards hat MeinMMO-Chefredakteurin Leya mit CD Projekt über The Witcher 4 gesprochen.

Vi snakker Indiana Jones, MechWarrior 5 Clans, Infinity Nikki, idiotisk "kontrovers" rundt Ciri i The Witcher 4 - og mye mer i ukas (og årets siste) episode av Rad Crew! God jul til alle våre lyttere og ikke minst våre backere. Tilbake rett etter nyttår!

Download for Mobile | Podcast Preview | Full Timestamps Go to http://shopify.com/superbeast to sign up for a $1-per-month trial period. - Go to http://auraframes.com and use code SUPERBEAST to get $35-off Aura's best-selling Carver Mat frames. - Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=CASTLESUPERBEAST and use my code CASTLESUPERBEAST to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. - Go to http://factormeals.com/50castle and use code 50castle to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping.  Keep Virtua Fighter 6 Boring Clive Is A Soul Calibur Character Clovers, Okami 2 and Lost Lustre ATTN MUSHNUTTERS: Emergency Onimushacast Peer Reviewed Goonpapers Elden Ring Nightreign Is a Threat Watch live: twitch.tv/castlesuperbeast Hideki Kamiya, creator of "Okami" and "Bayonetta," restarts his work! We asked him about the "4 C's" that his new company "CLOVERS" values, and the circumstances that led to Kamiya's departure from PlatinumGames BREAKING: A bug that allowed players to summon their atomicycle in regular missions is going to be turned into a feature! 'Fight me': Ben Starr The Game Awards 2024: The Witcher 4 revealed with Ciri at the helm Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a brand new Naughty Dog game Surprise Elden Ring spinoff announced, with PvP and PvE arena-like combat A tense and fascinating first look at the next project from Shadow Of The Colossus devs Ah, finally, the Borderlands 4 trailer we've been waiting for Work begins on the Okami sequel, after 18 years New The Outer Worlds 2 trailer gives off real Guardians Of The Galaxy vibes The First Berserker: Khazan is coming on 27th March 2025 Slay The Spire 2 gets a tongue-in-cheek gameplay trailer Hazelight reveals their new co-op game, Split Fiction Project Century is the new undertaking from the Like A Dragon devs Rematch is a football game from the Sifu devs, coming Summer 2025 Palworld: Feybreak update arrives shortly before Christmas Helldivers 2's new Illuminati faction is out now Demon-chopping platformer Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is in development Shadow Labyrinth announced, has dark evil Pacmen Clive from Final Fantasy joins the Tekken 8 roster next week New Virtua Fighter game is in development at SEGA The Warframe: 1999 expansion is coming tomorrow. Today. Whichever. Onimusha: Way Of The Sword is coming in 2026 Dungeon & Fighter: Arad is a new ARPG from Nexon Game Of Thrones: Kingsroad coming in 2025 on mobile

Is it last call already? Sadly, our fandom season has reached its end, but we're giving it an extra-sized, extra-sauced sendoff that's just as unhinged (and often unfortunate) as the year to which we're saying goodbye. Over some seriously strong Old Fashioneds, we unpack what we've discovered about fandom, revealing things that have surprised and delighted us over these past months. But that's not all! We also discuss the latest Witcher news—including that completely out-of-the blue Witcher 4 trailer! (We recorded a whole special section for it and everything.) Plus, Valerie discusses her recent trip to Iceland and we do another terrible review shot...of an aquavit she brought back from the trip. It's over two hours of often meandering, but also quite merry, nonsense from us which will hopefully make you a fan. Or at least make you feel better about your choices in life. Oh, and if you just can't wait to hear what we think about the trailer, it starts at 1:19:14!

Hope you're full of festive cheer, dear listeners! We have a Santa's sack full of gaming related goodies for you this week. There's Game Awards bla bla bla, Balatro is still pronounced Balatro, more Game Awards bla bla bla, Ciri grows up, DBrand's cheeky Switch 2 "reveal", Funko Pop kill itch.io and Xbox get into darts! There's also loads of lovely letters to get through and, with a week to go before the big day, we also chuck a couple of gift ideas your way! What cheese would you use for cheese sandwiches? Who owes Simon twenty quid?? Tell us who you think it is at team@onelifeleft.com. Or join our Discord keep in touch over the holiday break. Link below! We hope you have a Merry Xmas, dear listeners, and here's wishing you all the very best for 2025! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link! http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link! https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link! https://hello.maraoke.com BLOCKWORDS Link! https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link! https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Novo episódio do Lá do Bunker chegando para falar sobre os vencedores (e polêmicas) do The Game Awards 2024. Também comentamos as indicações de Ainda Estou Aqui na temporada de premiações, o fim do “Sonyverso” de vilões do Homem-Aranha e a Cakes entra na editoria tech faz uma review de novos produtos da JBL. Magalu (Aliexpress) Conheça o Mundo Aliexpress no Magalu: https://nerdbunker.page.link/Magalu_Aliexpress_LDB Estante Virtual Garanta já sua leitura natalina com o Natal Literário: https://nerdbunker.page.link/Natal_Literario_LDB Citados no programa Astro Bot é eleito Jogo do Ano no TGA 2024; veja lista de vencedores: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/the-game-awards-2024-vencedores The Game Awards: Criadores de Sifu revelam Rematch, novo jogo multiplayer de futebol: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/tga-the-game-awards-novo-jogo-futebol-criadores-de-sifu Confira os anúncios principais do The Game Awards 2024: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/confira-os-anuncios-principais-do-the-game-awards-2024 The Witcher 4 ganha primeiro trailer com Ciri como protagonista: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/the-witcher-4-primeiro-trailer-ciri-protagonista FromSoftware anuncia Elden Ring: Nightreign, jogo cooperativo da franquia: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/elden-ring-novo-dlc-nightreign Novo jogo do criador de Shadow of the Colossus é revelado com trailer: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/novo-jogo-criador-de-shadow-of-the-colossus-trailer Borderlands 4 ganha primeiro trailer com visual futurista; assista!: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/borderlands-4-primeiro-trailer Astro Bot vence Jogo do Ano no The Game Awards 2024: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/astro-bot-vence-jogo-do-ano-the-game-awards-2024 Astro Bot foi o jogo mais premiado do The Game Awards 2024: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/games/astro-bot-jogo-mais-premiado-the-game-awards-2024 Fernanda Torres é indicada ao Globo de Ouro 2025; confira a lista: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/filmes/globo-de-ouro-2025-indicados-fernanda-torres Critics Choice Awards 2025 revela filmes indicados; Ainda Estou Aqui concorre: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/filmes/critics-choice-awards-2025-lista-de-indicados Universo do Homem-Aranha não terá novos spin-offs tão cedo, diz site: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/filmes/homem-aranha-universo-sony-spin-off Marvel nunca barrou Teioso de Tom Holland em derivados da Sony, diz site: https://jovemnerd.com.br/noticias/filmes/marvel-nunca-barrou-tom-holland-derivados-sony Canais do NerdBunker Entre no nosso canal do Telegram: https://t.me/CanalNerdBunker Siga o NerdBunker no Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nerdbunker.bsky.social Confira nosso perfil no Threads: https://www.threads.net/@nerdbunker Apresentação Cakes Sousa -- Instagram / Linktree Edição Doug Bezerra -- Instagram

In this packed episode, Frank, Squeaks, and Jonathan tackle the biggest headlines in geek culture, from Marvel Rivals and the return of Captain America and Agent Carter to the highly-anticipated Indiana Jones game. The crew also breaks down The Game Awards' most exciting reveals, including The Witcher 4 and other jaw-dropping announcements. Along the way, they explore unexpected crossovers, share their thoughts on upcoming movies like 28 Years Later, and rally support for the Elk Grove Animal Shelter fundraiser. This episode is bursting with laughs, theories, and insightful takes—don't miss it! Timestamps and Topics 00:00 - Introduction 00:36 - Question of the Week: Star Trek x SpongeBob crossover 05:28 - Pet Pantry fundraiser update for Elk Grove Animal Shelter 06:18 - Captain America & Agent Carter return: Timelines and emotional stakes 17:13 - Clayface movie announcement: Speculation and Penguin comparisons 26:33 - Star Wars: Thrawn's role and future directions 30:07 - 28 Years Later trailer: Chaos, nostalgia, and Last of Us vibes 33:20 - The Witcher 4 reveal: First impressions and Ciri's role 48:44 - Marvel Rivals review: Gameplay, standout characters, and balance 58:52 - Indiana Jones game review: Exploration, puzzles, and cinematic moments 01:08:50 - Geek Freaks Awards details + upcoming podcast episodes Key Takeaways Crossovers Galore: Star Trek x SpongeBob and Marvel x My Hero Academia ideas spark hilarious and epic possibilities. Captain America Returns: Chris Evans' rumored comeback as Nomad could reinvent the character while respecting his send-off. Clayface Movie Potential: Fans hope for a dark, body-horror thriller that captures Clayface's shapeshifting chaos. The Game Awards Recap: The Witcher 4 promises a fresh lead with Ciri and jaw-dropping visuals. Intergalactic mixes space exploration with stunning realism. 28 Years Later: The new trailer delivers grim chaos and fast-moving zombies. Memorable Quotes “Patrick Star handling the Borg? I'd pay to see that.” – Squeaks “You have to make the return of Captain America matter, or it risks undoing his perfect ending.” – Jonathan “Clayface as a failed influencer? That's the modern twist I didn't know I needed.” – Frank “The Witcher 4 made me want to finish the last half of Witcher 3… finally!” – Frank Call to Action Enjoyed the episode? Be sure to: Subscribe to Geek Freaks Podcast on your favorite platform. Leave a 5-star review and let us know what your dream fictional crossover would be! Share the episode on social media using #GeekFreaksPodcast. Links and Resources Geek Freaks Website: GeekFreaksPodcast.com – Your go-to for all the news discussed! Fundraiser: Help the Elk Grove Animal Shelter by donating here. Sponsor: Try Magic Mind with 20% off at https://www.magicmind.com/FREAKS20 and use code “Freaks20” at checkout. Follow Us Twitter: GeekFreaksPod Instagram: @GeekFreaksPodcast Facebook: The Geek Freaks Podcast Threads: Geek Freaks Patreon: Support Us Listener Questions What fictional crossover would you love to see? Send us your answers on social media or email us at [insert email]. Apple Podcast Tags Marvel Rivals, Game Awards 2024, Indiana Jones Game, Captain America, Agent Carter, Clayface Movie, Mandalorian and Grogu, 28 Years Later, The Witcher 4, Intergalactic Game, Geek Culture News, Podcast for Nerds, Geek Freaks Podcast

W dzisiejszym odcinku rozmawiamy o zwiastunie „Wiedźmina IV”, który oficjalnie ujawnił, że główną bohaterką gry będzie Ciri – co nie powinno być zaskoczeniem dla nikogo, kto grał w poprzednią część gry. Zahaczamy też o temat „Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet” – nowej gry Naughty Dog, której zwiastun oburzył część widzów tym, że kobieta w kosmosie może mieć ogoloną głowę.--

Da mussten wir uns erstmal am nächsten Morgen zwicken und versichern, ob wir das nicht doch geträumt hatten. In Folge 139 des PC Games Podcast sprechen wir über die grandiose Show der Game Awards 2024. Podcast-Host Michi Grünwald hat sich aus diesem Anlass Redakteur Matthias Dammes geschnappt und gemeinsam plaudert das Duo über die Gewinner des Abends, Neuankündigungen und die vorgestellten Trailer zu kommenden Spielen.Es war für jeden etwas dabei in diesem gelungenen Event - gut, wer auf neue Szenen zu GTA 6, Hollow Knight: Silksong oder eine Ankündigung zu Half-Life 3 gewartet hat, wurde einmal mehr enttäuscht, doch ansonsten gab es aber Spiele aus beinahe jedem Genre. CD Projekt Red überraschte die Fans beispielsweise mit einem ersten Trailer zu The Witcher 4. Und wir wissen nun: Im neuen Teil schnetzeln wir uns mit Ciri durch die Gegnerhorden.Auch Naughty Dog zeigte endlich, woran sie in den letzten Jahren gearbeitet haben. Ein Sci-Fi-Spiel namens Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet rauscht da in der Zukunft auf uns zu und macht einen großartigen Ersteindruck. Zu Mafia: The Old Country, Borderlands 4 und einem neuen Elden Ring gab's ebenfalls Szenen zu sehen. Dazu kamen noch etliche Überraschungen, die euch unser Podcast-Duo verrät. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Anhören!Kurze Zusatzinfo: Uns hat in den letzten Tagen eine Erkältungswelle besonderen Ausmaßes überrollt. Die Sonderfolgen des Podcasts zum Jahresrückblick und dem Ausblick auf 2025 gibt's dann erst im Januar zu hören. Sorry! (hust, hust)Der PC Games Podcast - der offizielle Videospielpodcast der PC Games - erscheint seit über einem Jahrzehnt regelmäßig und liefert dabei wöchentlich gleich mehrere Talks zum riesigen Thema Videospiele.Unser Moderationsteam, Michi Grünwald und Vivi Ziermann, deckt dabei etliche Bereiche ab: Review-Gespräche und Previews zu brandaktuellen Games, nostalgische Rückblicke, Reports, Interviews und vieles mehr. Dabei gibt es natürlich auch immer mal wieder spannende Insights in die Spielebranche und in die Redaktion des ältesten, noch aktiven Videospielmagazins Deutschlands - seit 1992 am Start!Unser Spiele-Podcast ist vollkommen kostenlos zugänglich und neben unseren Webseiten auch auf allen großen Podcast-Plattformen - von Apple Music bis hin zu Spotify - zu finden.

We're talking about The Game Awards 2024! First, we discuss our thoughts on the show overall. How was the pacing, the awards, the Muppets?? We poke fun at the cringe, try to figure out why Snoop Dogg was there, and the fact that Astro Bot won!In the second half of the episode we discuss the real reason we all tune in, the announcements! The show kicked off with the announcement of the new Witcher game (where Ciri is confirmed as the protagonist) and a new co-op game in the Elden Ring universe. The middle of the show had a variety of smaller announcements for a variety of games. And the show ended with Naughty Dog's secret scifi game being announced! We discuss it all and share our theories and opinions. WEBSITE https://www.fngamers.com/DISCORD https://discord.gg/euhEYZxC58 TWITTERhttps://twitter.com/F_N_GamerzINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/yourfriendlyneighborhoodgamers/YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgS_YRAM8_PlWNvxrjQshAFANTASY CRITIC LEAGUEhttps://www.fantasycritic.gSupport the show

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I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it. Send your complaints to podcast@searls.co and they will be read on air. Some bullet points below the fold: My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac Aaron's puns, ranked Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even retire I bought my 8 year old a switch and didn't realize how much games cost Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds Install the Mozi app (manifesto here | app here) Vision Pro getting PSVR2 controllers The 2024 Game Awards news roundup Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet looks badass, but is it too inclusive for The Gamers? We don't talk about Luigi An invisible desktop app for cheating on technical interviews (HN comments) Sora is out, but it's not good yet Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is out, and it is good yet Emudeck is so great it shouldn't be legal, and some people probably think it isn't Pikmin Stay tuned to my YouTube channel for upcoming LIVE streams Transcript: [00:00:00] Thank you. [00:00:29] Good morning, internet. [00:00:32] I started speaking before I realized, as an asynchronous audio production, it's actually pretty unlikely that it's the morning where you are. [00:00:43] Although, if it is the morning, coincidentally, please feel free to be creeped out, check over your shoulder. [00:00:51] Today was, I woke up with Vim and Vigor this morning, super excited to take on the day, thinking maybe I've got what it takes to record an audio production today. [00:01:07] And then we have an elderly coffee pot. [00:01:11] I don't want to completely put the blame on it because we were using it wrong for several years. [00:01:24] And it's a long story that I will shorten to say, any piece of consumer electronics or appliances in America, the half-life keeps decreasing. [00:01:37] And so when I say elderly coffee pot, I mean that we bought this coffee pot post-COVID. [00:01:42] And it's already feeling like, oh, we should probably get a new coffee pot, huh? [00:01:45] What happens is, from time to time, heat will build up in the grounds dingus. [00:01:55] I'm just realizing now that I'm like, you know, I'm not a coffee engineer. [00:01:58] Some of you are. [00:02:00] But, you know, of course, we all know that the dingus is connected to the water spigot, which is above the craft. [00:02:09] And what happens, as far as I can tell, is once in a while, you get all that hot water and grounds swirling around. [00:02:20] And if it clogs at all, like if it doesn't release just so, the whole little undercarriage, again, this is a technical term, just stay with me. [00:02:30] And we'll pop forward like three millimeters, which is just enough for the water to kind of miss its target on the craft and then spray all who's he what's it's, as well as for the spigot to start just kind of like splurring, you know, this water coffee slurry everywhere. [00:02:49] And so I went after, you know, but then you still get the triumphant ding dong sound that the coffee is ready. [00:02:56] So I walked over to the coffee expecting like, yes, it's the best, best way to start my day or whatever. [00:03:06] Pull out the coffee. [00:03:07] And the pot is too light. [00:03:10] And I had a familiarity of like what that means. [00:03:13] It means like there is water somewhere. [00:03:17] And it's not in this pot. [00:03:19] And so it's just like, you know, this big, big machine we actually have we've put because of our Mr. [00:03:26] Coffee's, you know, elderly onset incontinence. [00:03:33] We have we have put the entire coffee pot on a tray, like a rimmed silicone tray that you would use for like, I guess, a dog feeding bowl, right? [00:03:45] A dog, you know, messily eats food and slaps water around and stuff. [00:03:49] And you don't want it all over your hardwood. [00:03:50] Like you'd put this underneath that and it would catch some of the water. [00:03:53] So we I spent the first 30 minutes of my waking life today getting my hopes up that I was going to have coffee, followed by, you know, painstakingly carrying this entire cradle of of of coffee pot full of hot brown liquid. [00:04:10] That would stay in all of my clothes and, you know, get on the cabinets and stuff with a silicone underbelly thing. [00:04:18] And just kind of like, you know, we've got one of those big we're very fortunate to have one of those big farmers, farmer house, farmhouse. [00:04:25] I never know what to call it. [00:04:27] Steel, basically a double wide sink. [00:04:30] So what's nice about a double wide sink is that if you've got a problem in your kitchen and you're only a few steps away, whether it's the coffee pot part of the kitchen or the fridge or the freezer or the God forbid, the range or the oven, you can just sort of strategically hurl whatever it is you're holding just about into the into the sink. [00:04:51] And then once it hits the sink, it's, you know, the the the potential damage is limited. [00:04:57] So I gently hurled my coffee apparatus. [00:05:02] Is that the plural of apparatus? [00:05:04] One wonders into the into the into the sink and then spent the next 20 minutes, you know, scrubbing them and all to make another pot. [00:05:13] And Becky, of course, walks down the minute that the second pot is about to be finished. [00:05:18] And I'm like, I've already seen some shit and I'm going to go record a podcast now. [00:05:22] And that swallow you just heard was me having a sip of coffee that was not disgusting, but not great. [00:05:31] But I'll take it over where I was an hour ago. [00:05:39] Thank you for for subscribing as a as a true believer in breaking change. [00:05:47] We're coming up on one year now. [00:05:49] It's hard to believe that it's already been a year, not because this has been a lot of work or a big accomplishment, but just because the the the agony of existence seems to accelerate as you get older. [00:06:03] It's one of the few kindnesses in life and so as we whipsaw around the sun yet again, we're about to do that. [00:06:11] This is the 26th edition version 26 of the podcast. [00:06:17] I've got two names here to release titles and I haven't picked one yet. [00:06:22] So as a special. [00:06:24] Nearing the end of the year treat. [00:06:29] I'm going to pitch them both to you now, right? [00:06:31] So so we're in this together. [00:06:33] I like to think this is a highly collaborative one person show. [00:06:37] Version 26 rich nanotexture. [00:06:42] And that's a nod to the MacBook Pro has a nanotexture anti-glare screen coding option. [00:06:52] It's a reference to the rich Corinthian leather that was actually it's a Chrysler reference. [00:06:58] It's a made up thing. [00:06:59] There is no such thing as Corinthian leather, but like that's what they called their their seating. [00:07:03] And Steve Jobs referenced that as being the inspiration for I think it was the iPad calendar app. [00:07:13] With the rich Corinthian leather up at the top during the era of skeuomorphic designs back in 2010, 2009, maybe I can't remember exactly when they I think it's 2010 when he had his famous actually leather chair demonstration of the iPad. [00:07:28] Maybe the reason that that stood out to me was the car reference because it is it is an upsell. [00:07:34] The nanotexture $150 if you want to have a don't call it matte finish. [00:07:41] The other one, so that's option one, rich nanotexture. [00:07:46] And I didn't love it because I couldn't get texture. [00:07:49] I couldn't get the same Corinthian, right? [00:07:53] Like you want that bite, the multisyllabic bite that adds the extra, you know, the gravitas of a luxury good. [00:08:04] Yeah, texture just didn't have it for me. [00:08:06] But then if you change that word, it doesn't make sense. [00:08:08] So I mean, the other option two that came to mind version 26 don't don't by the way, don't think I'm going to edit this in post and fix it. [00:08:19] I will not. [00:08:20] I will ultimately land on one of these and that will be the title that you saw on your podcast player. [00:08:25] Or maybe some third thing will come to mind and then this conversation will be moot. [00:08:29] I do not think of this collaborative exercise. [00:08:32] Just imagine it's a it's a it's a quantum collaboration. [00:08:37] So by observing it, that's you actually took part. [00:08:41] You opened your podcast player and then the yeah, the entangled, you know, bits just they coalesced around one of these two names or some third name. [00:08:58] It's all just statistics version 26 Luigi's Mansion, which is a nod to two things at once. [00:09:05] I'm going to talk a little bit about GameCube, but also I'll probably not escape mentioning Luigi Manjoni Manjoni man. [00:09:15] You know, I haven't been watching the news. [00:09:17] I don't know how to pronounce his name, but it looks enough like mansion that I was like, oh, man. [00:09:21] I bet you there's a Nintendo PR guy whose day just got fucking ruined by the fella who is a overnight folk hero. [00:09:30] More attractive than most assassins, I would say. [00:09:35] Great hair. [00:09:36] Good skin. [00:09:37] Apparently, skincare Reddit is all about this fella who murdered in cold blood the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. [00:09:45] If you haven't caught the news, if you're even less online than I am. [00:09:51] And yeah, so I'm trying to decide. [00:09:53] I think Luigi's Mansion is probably going to win. [00:09:56] It's more timely. [00:09:57] It's the first time the name Luigi has come up in the last year. [00:10:00] And I may have mentioned nanotexture before when discussing Apple's very compromised studio display. [00:10:11] So I'm leaning Luigi's Mansion, but, you know, don't tempt me. [00:10:15] I might switch. [00:10:18] I'm going to just keep drinking coffee because I got to power through this. [00:10:21] Let's talk about some life stuff. [00:10:24] I so when we last talked that way back in the heady days of version 25, I had just gotten off a plane from Japan. [00:10:34] I was still a little bit jet lagged. [00:10:36] I recorded later in the evening. [00:10:38] I was tired. [00:10:39] You know, I was still overcoming. [00:10:41] I listened to the episode, realized I was overcoming a cold. [00:10:44] You know, then Becky shortly thereafter, after recording, she developed a pretty bad cough. [00:10:51] And so we've both been sleeping relatively poorly. [00:10:53] And I can't complain about this cough because her having a cough for four nights is nothing like me snoring on and off for over a year. [00:11:02] And I think the fact that her cough is consistent is actually a kindness compared to the sporadic nature of my snoring, where it's like I might go a week without it. [00:11:11] And then all of a sudden there's like, bam. [00:11:14] So she doesn't, you know, it's like sneaks up on her and that's not fair. [00:11:17] So so she's got a cough and I haven't been sleeping particularly well. [00:11:20] Maybe that's it. [00:11:22] I also, you know, I wanted to dry out because I was living on shoe highs, you know, canned cocktails in Japan for way too long. [00:11:30] Just drinking, you know, five whole dollars of alcohol every day, which is an irresponsible amount of alcohol. [00:11:36] It turns out. [00:11:40] Yeah, that's one nice thing about living in Orlando and theme park Orlando is that the average price of a cocktail here is seriously $20. [00:11:49] I think it is. [00:11:51] I am delighted and surprised when I find a cocktail under $20. [00:11:55] That's any good. [00:11:55] In fact, the four seasons right around the corner, their lobby bar has a some of the best bartenders in the state of Florida. [00:12:05] Like they went all kinds of awards. [00:12:06] And so when you say a lobby bar, you think it sucks. [00:12:09] But it's actually it's like it's a it's a restaurant with a room if you're ever around and they still do a happy hour with like $4. [00:12:18] It was $4 beers. [00:12:19] I think they finally increased to $5 beers draft beer. [00:12:23] And it's all craft. [00:12:25] You know, it's all fancy people stuff. [00:12:27] And they do it's I think it's $10 margaritas, French 75s, and they got some other happy hour cocktail. [00:12:37] It was highballs for a while. [00:12:39] Whiskey highballs was like probably centauri toki or something. [00:12:43] I gotta say like that $10 margarita. [00:12:47] They'll throw some jalapeno in there if you want some tahini rim, you know, they do it up. [00:12:52] They do it well. [00:12:54] But that might be the cheapest cocktail I've had in all of Orlando is at the Four Seasons. [00:13:01] Famous for that TikTok meme of the Four Seasons baby, if you're a TikTok person. [00:13:06] Anyway, all that all all this drinking talk back to the point. [00:13:11] I've been not drinking for a week. [00:13:12] And I, you know, I'm back to tracking my nutrients every day. [00:13:17] The things that I consume and adding up all of the protein and carbohydrate and realizing [00:13:21] if you don't drink, it's actually really easy to blow past one's protein goals. [00:13:25] And so I had one day where I had like 240 grams of protein, which is [00:13:28] enough protein that you'll feel it the next morning if you're not used to it. [00:13:34] And I still was losing weight. [00:13:38] I lost like five or six pounds in the last week. [00:13:43] And to the point where it was like, you know, I was feeling a little lightheaded, [00:13:47] a little bit woozy because I wasn't drinking enough is the takeaway. [00:13:52] So so thank God we got to go to a Christmas party last night. [00:13:57] It was it was great Gatsby themed. [00:13:58] And I dressed up like a man who wanted to do the bare minimum to not get made fun of at the party. [00:14:05] So I had some some suspenders on instead of a belt, which was the first time I ever put on suspenders. [00:14:13] They were not period appropriate suspenders simply because they had the, you know, the [00:14:18] little class B dues instead of how they had some other system for I don't I don't fucking know. [00:14:25] Like I, I had chat GPT basically helped me through this. [00:14:28] And it's like, hey, you want these kinds of suspenders? [00:14:30] I'm like, that sounds like an ordeal. [00:14:31] How about I just get some universal one size fits all fit and clip them in? [00:14:36] I also had a clip on bow tie. [00:14:37] So that worked. [00:14:39] When you think clip on bow tie, I guess I'd never used one before, but like it, I always [00:14:45] assumed it would just be like, you know, like a barrette clip that would go in front of the [00:14:49] front button and look silly for that reason. [00:14:51] And maybe that's how they used to be. [00:14:53] But it seems these days, if you want to spend $3 on a fancy clip on bow tie with a nice texturing, [00:14:58] I'll say, uh, it's just pre it's a pre tied bow with a still wraps around your neck. [00:15:04] It's just, it has a class mechanism, which seems smart to me, right? [00:15:08] I don't know what. [00:15:09] Look, if you're really into men's fashion, uh, there's this weird intersection or this tension [00:15:19] between I'm a manly man who, who ties my own shoes and, you know, kills my own dinner and [00:15:25] stuff. [00:15:25] And I, I, for fuck's sake, tie my own bow tie from scratch every day. [00:15:29] Right? [00:15:29] Like there's a toxically masculine approach to bow ties, but at the same time, it is such [00:15:35] a foofy accoutrement. [00:15:37] It's like an ascot, um, that the idea of like a manly man, like a man trying to demonstrate [00:15:43] his manliness by the fact that he doesn't use a clip on bow tie, uh, came to mind yesterday [00:15:50] when I was, uh, struggling even with the clasping kind. [00:15:54] I was like, man, I wish I could just get this to anyway. [00:15:58] Um, I had a vest at a gray vest. [00:16:03] This is all brand new territory for me. [00:16:05] Uh, yeah, I, I've, I've leaned pretty hard into the t-shirt and shorts and or jeans life [00:16:10] for so long. [00:16:12] Uh, the, the fella in front of us when we, when we were checking in, cause they took little [00:16:16] photos of you, uh, all of the women had the same exact flapper dress from Amazon, you know, [00:16:22] with the, the, the, the hairband thing with the, you know, fake, the polyester peacock tail. [00:16:28] Becky's looked the best. [00:16:29] I'm not gonna, I'm not even lying. [00:16:32] Uh, uh, her dress actually fit. [00:16:35] He had some, uh, very ill fitting flapper costumes that these women couldn't even move in. [00:16:40] Um, it was interesting. [00:16:42] Uh, but the, the fella in front of us at check-in was wearing a, a, a full blown, you know, tuxedo [00:16:48] get up that he brought from home. [00:16:50] And he was talking about, Oh yeah, well he's got two of them and his wife, you know, ribbed [00:16:54] him a little bit that he could only fit in one. [00:16:55] I was like, man, owning a tuxedo, that's nuts. [00:16:58] Like, and then it like turns out he's like got all these suits and these fancy clothes and [00:17:02] he's an older gentleman. [00:17:05] Uh, but my entire career only the first few years did I have to think about what I was [00:17:10] wearing and, and it never really got beyond pleated, you know, khakis and a starched shirt. [00:17:18] And, and I had, I had to wear a suit maybe on two sales calls. [00:17:22] Um, and they were always the sales calls that were just, uh, there were certain sales demos [00:17:30] when I was a, a, a baby consultant, these really complex bids. [00:17:39] I remember we were at cook County once, uh, uh, the, the county that wraps Chicago and it [00:17:44] has a lot of functions and facilities that operate at the county level. [00:17:48] So, but of course we're in Chicago in some, you know, uh, dystopian office building. [00:17:54] That's very Gothic, I should say. [00:17:57] And the, the solution that we were selling was a response to a bid around some kind of [00:18:05] document, electronic document ingestion and, and, and routing solution. [00:18:09] And so what, what that meant was it was like a 12 person team. [00:18:14] It was a big project working on this pitch. [00:18:18] And most of the work and most of the money came from the software side at the end of the [00:18:23] process. [00:18:23] It's like, you're going to get IBM file net and you're going to get all these different, [00:18:26] uh, enterprise tools. [00:18:28] And we're going to integrate, uh, with all your systems and, and build these custom integrations [00:18:32] that you've asked for here and here and here. [00:18:33] But the, the, the hard part is the human logistics of how do you get all of their paper documents [00:18:41] into the system. [00:18:42] Uh, and that was my job was I had to get paper and then scan it, uh, with a production, big [00:18:50] Kodak funkin fucking scanner. [00:18:52] Uh, and then use, what was it? [00:18:54] Kofax capture or something like a, like an OCR tool of the era. [00:18:59] And the thing about it is that scanning is not, was not ever a science and neither is [00:19:07] OCR, the OCR stuff and OCR stands for optical character recognition. [00:19:10] So you'd have a form and you'd write on the form, like, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, some, [00:19:15] some demo address and name and all this. [00:19:19] I spent. [00:19:22] So like the people doing the software, like they, they could just like click a button and [00:19:26] like, they could even just use fakery, right? [00:19:29] Like, Oh, the API is not really there, but I'll always return this particular, like, let's [00:19:33] call it an XML soap message. [00:19:34] And so the, the software guys clocked in, clocked out, got back to their billable work. [00:19:39] I, because the stakes were so high in this particular, uh, and I'm here right now explaining [00:19:46] all of this nonsense because I had to wear a suit and that was also really bad, but I [00:19:51] was in Chicago late at night with a group of like, at that point it was like 9 PM and it [00:19:54] was just me and two partners. [00:19:56] Cause the partners had a sickness called avoid family, stay at work. [00:20:02] And, uh, I, I was just running over and over and over again where I'd like, you know, [00:20:09] I'd take the paper, I'd put it through the scanner and it would get 90% of the OCR stuff [00:20:13] done, or I'd get it perfect. [00:20:15] And it would scan everything just right, which would result in the downstream, you know, after [00:20:21] the capture, like all of my integrations, like would route it to the right thing. [00:20:24] So that like, it was basically a game of mousetrap or dominoes where like my task was both [00:20:29] the most important to being able to demonstrate, but also the most error prone, but also the [00:20:37] least, uh, financially like, um, valuable to, to our services company. [00:20:42] And so I had no support, uh, on top of that, they, the, our fucking it people pushed out some [00:20:49] kind of, um, you know, involuntary security update security and bunny quotes that, that [00:20:57] slowed my system down dramatically in the course of just like a day. [00:21:01] And I had, I had no way to test for this. [00:21:04] So I remember I was up at like 11 PM at that point, trying to make this work consistently [00:21:10] and realizing that the only way to get it to run it all required me to, um, install a virtual [00:21:16] machine, put windows in the virtual machine, install all this software inside that virtual [00:21:22] machine, and then run it there because only in the black box of an encrypted virtual machine [00:21:27] image or, uh, you know, a virtual machine, like disc image, could I evade all of the accountant [00:21:33] bullshit that was trying to track and encrypt and, and, and muck with files and flight and [00:21:38] so forth. [00:21:39] And so it was only around like probably one 30 or two that I got to bed and our, our demo [00:21:46] was like at seven in the morning and I had to wear a suit. [00:21:47] So if you ever wonder, Hey, why is Justin always just in a, a t-shirt and shorts? [00:21:54] Uh, I would say childhood trauma, fuck suits. [00:21:59] The only, the only time I associate like nice clothes, you know, having a lot of [00:22:03] having to dress up is church shit. [00:22:05] I didn't want to go to. [00:22:06] And usually it's like the worst church shit. [00:22:09] Like there's some cool church shit out there, you know, youth group where everyone's a horny, [00:22:14] right. [00:22:15] And singing pop songs to try to get people in. [00:22:17] That's as church shit goes, that's above average. [00:22:21] But when you're talking about like, Hey, you know, this aunt you've never heard of died and [00:22:27] we got to go all the way to goddamn Dearborn to sit in a Catholic mass, that's going to [00:22:32] be in Latin. [00:22:33] And they're going to, you know, one of those, you know, you should feel bad for him because [00:22:39] he's abused. [00:22:39] But one of the altar boys, he's going to be waving that little like incense thingy, [00:22:43] the jigger back and forth and back and forth like a metronome. [00:22:46] And, uh, you're going to get all this soot in your face, all of that, you know, frankincense [00:22:51] and myrrh and whatever the fuck they burn. [00:22:52] And, uh, yeah, then they're going to play some songs, but they're not going to be songs you [00:22:57] want to hear. [00:22:57] And you're going to be uncomfortable because I bought you this suit at JC Penny when you [00:23:01] were like nine and you're 12, you're 12 now, and you've gained a lot of weight, but [00:23:06] here we are. [00:23:07] And then you got to go and, you know, like, don't worry because after the service, there's [00:23:12] a big meal, but it's mostly just going to be, you know, styrofoam plates and plastic forks [00:23:16] and, uh, cold rubbery chicken. [00:23:19] And then a whole lot of family members who want to pinch your cheeks, uh, had an aunt that [00:23:24] always wanted to, um, put on a bunch of red lipstick and kiss me and leave kiss marks. [00:23:30] And she thought that was adorable and everyone else thought it was funny. [00:23:33] And for whatever reason, I wasn't a fan, uh, that's the kind of, uh, yeah, so anyway, moving [00:23:45] right along the, uh, the, the other than having to dress up, the, the Christmas party was really [00:23:50] nice because it had an all you can drink martini bar. [00:23:52] So that, that helped that took the edge off a little bit since I hadn't been drinking for [00:23:57] the previous week. [00:23:57] Uh, and it was, you know, uh, they, they had a great bartender, the, the, I assume that [00:24:07] that people drank gin martinis back in the day of Gatsby, but it seemed to be a vodka forward [00:24:12] martini bar, which I appreciated. [00:24:15] Uh, as I get older and my taste buds start dying, uh, I found myself going from dry martinis [00:24:23] to martinis with an olive to martinis with two olives to me asking for like a little bit of [00:24:30] olive juice and then drinking the martini and realizing that wasn't quite enough olive juice. [00:24:34] So that's just disgusting, but, um, it's where, uh, it's one of the signs of age, I guess. [00:24:43] Uh, so the martini bar was good. [00:24:46] Uh, they also had an aged old fashion that they'd made, you know, homemade, um, with like nutmeg [00:24:51] and cinnamon in there. [00:24:52] That was impressive. [00:24:53] Uh, so yeah, had a, had a big old Christmas party last night, had a couple of drinks, uh, [00:25:00] and, and, uh, because of the contrast, whenever I go, you know, go a week without any alcohol [00:25:06] and then I have some alcohol and then I wake up the next morning and I'm like, oh yes, I [00:25:11] know what people mean now that alcohol is poison. [00:25:13] And it's a mildly poisonous thing because I feel mildly poisoned. [00:25:19] Um, and, and I just usually feel that most days until I forget about it. [00:25:23] So it's a data point, uh, to think about, uh, uh, I, I, I had a good, good run for, [00:25:30] for a while there, just cause like when you live in a fucking theme park and there's nowadays [00:25:34] alcohol everywhere that I go and every outing, I had a good run for a few months. [00:25:40] Um, not last year, the year before where I just didn't drink at home as a rule to myself. [00:25:46] I was like, you know, I'm not going to pour any liquor for myself at home unless I'm entertaining [00:25:49] guests. [00:25:50] And, uh, even then go easy on it because I I'm, I'm, I'm going to just the background radiation [00:25:56] of existence in when you live in a bunch of resorts. [00:25:59] Uh, I'll, I'll get, I'll get, I'll get plenty of alcohol subcutaneously. [00:26:05] Um, a contact tie. [00:26:07] So maybe I'll, maybe I'll try that again. [00:26:10] I don't know. [00:26:11] It's the stuff you think about in mid December when you're just inundated with specialty food [00:26:17] and drink options, uh, do other life stuff that isn't alcohol or religion or clothing [00:26:27] related. [00:26:28] Oh, uh, uh, I've been on a quest to not necessarily save a bunch of money, not necessarily. [00:26:35] Uh, I was going to say, uh, tighten my belt, but, uh, I don't know what the suspender equivalent [00:26:43] is because I did not wear a belt last night. [00:26:45] I just wore suspenders. [00:26:46] Uh, I've been interested in, in not budgeting either. [00:26:52] Just, I think awareness. [00:26:54] Like I want, I know that a lot of money flies through my pockets every month in the form of, [00:27:01] um, SAS software subscriptions and streaming services. [00:27:05] I mentioned this last, uh, last go round that I was recommending, Hey, let's say, go take a [00:27:11] look at like our unused streaming subscriptions of those. [00:27:14] Uh, yesterday I did cancel max. [00:27:16] Cause I realized that, uh, if I'm not watching a lot of news, I'm not going to watch John Oliver [00:27:20] and, and they frankly, a lot of HBO's prestige shows haven't been besides they cut a Sesame [00:27:28] street and it just so happened that I canceled that day. [00:27:31] So maybe there's a, some data engineer at HBO who's like, Oh man, people are canceling because [00:27:37] we got rid of Sesame street. [00:27:38] Uh, that would be good. [00:27:40] That would be good for America to get that feedback. [00:27:43] Uh, yeah. [00:27:44] I just want awareness of like, where's the money going and in what proportion and does that sound [00:27:50] right to me? [00:27:50] Uh, and I've, there are software tools for this. [00:27:53] Uh, they are all compromised in some way. [00:27:57] For example, we just, uh, we'd used lunch money in the past, which is a cool app. [00:28:02] And it has the kind of, you know, basic integrations you would expect. [00:28:06] I don't know if it uses plaid or whatever behind the covers, but like you, you connect your, your, [00:28:11] your checking accounts, your credit card accounts. [00:28:14] It lists all your transactions is very, um, customizable in terms of rules that you can [00:28:21] set. [00:28:21] It has an API. [00:28:22] Jen is a solo co-founder and she seems really, really competent and lovely and responsive, [00:28:27] which are all great things. [00:28:29] But the UI is a little clunky for me. [00:28:32] I don't like how it handled URLs. [00:28:33] It was like, once you got all the transactions in there and, and set up, it didn't feel informative [00:28:41] because there wasn't like a good reporting or graphs that just kind of at a glance would [00:28:45] tell you, this is where your money's going. [00:28:46] At least for me. [00:28:47] Uh, additionally, like it, it can't do the Apple card. [00:28:51] That's the, that's become the crux for a lot of these services is that, um, Apple card [00:28:55] only added support for reading. [00:28:59] Uh, well now you can read, uh, uh, so I, Apple added away on iOS and specifically iPhone [00:29:07] OS to read, uh, transactions from Apple card, Apple savings and Apple cash. [00:29:14] And this was like nine months ago, if that, but copilot, uh, money is one of two apps maybe [00:29:22] that supports this. [00:29:23] And so if you, if you have, we have, we each have an Apple card and we use it for kind of [00:29:29] our silly stuff whenever we're, you know, using a tap to pay. [00:29:33] So, so if, if you want to track transactions and you don't want to manually export CSVs [00:29:40] from your wife's phone every 30 days, which is the process that I'd fallen into with, with [00:29:44] lunch money, then you, you basically have copilot money. [00:29:50] And then there's another one, maybe Monarch, uh, the copilot money. [00:29:53] People are always talking about this other app called Monarch. [00:29:55] I haven't checked it out. [00:29:55] I don't know if that's why they like it or if it's just the other one that's being developed [00:29:59] right now in this post mint apocalypse, as we all grapple with the fact that mint was [00:30:04] always bad, uh, but people got into it and I don't copilot money is like nice, but like [00:30:11] it, like, for example, like if I'm, uh, if I buy a, uh, if I put $10, the equivalent of [00:30:19] $10, so 1000 yen on my Starbucks card in Japan, which is totally separate because of course it [00:30:25] is there's two Starbucks cards. [00:30:27] There's the one in Japan and then the one in the rest of the world. [00:30:30] So you open the Japanese only app, you put a thousand yen on it. [00:30:33] Uh, you pay for that with Apple pay. [00:30:36] So which goes to my Apple card and copilot money will read that transaction. [00:30:40] But if you read like the text in the merchant description, it's literally like [00:30:44] staba day and it's like all no spaces. [00:30:47] It's just like 40 characters in a row to, and if you really squint, you can kind of see [00:30:52] Starbucks, Japan, um, you know, app store payment, which is, you know, like I want to [00:31:00] change that to Starbucks, Japan, and then set up a rule to just like always change that. [00:31:05] So I don't have to like memorize these random ass merchant names. [00:31:08] Uh, apparently like after, after two hours of setting up copilot money yesterday, I realized [00:31:13] that there's like both no way to set up that kind of rule. [00:31:16] The only rule that it supports is categorization of, of spending fine, but then if you set [00:31:22] up a rule and you don't like it, there's no way to edit the rules cause there's no UI for [00:31:25] rule editing. [00:31:26] And so then, you know, where do you go, but read it and you're like, okay, well there's [00:31:30] a subreddit. [00:31:30] And then like, what's half the post in the subreddit? [00:31:32] It's about, Oh, of course it's a bunch of dads who are like, I can't see my rules and I have [00:31:36] to contact support. [00:31:37] And it's been nine months. [00:31:38] And I was like, Oh God. [00:31:39] So that's, uh, if anyone's got any great budgeting software that supports Apple card, you let me [00:31:46] know. [00:31:47] Uh, and also isn't a part-time job. [00:31:50] I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna spend all day on this. [00:31:52] I'm not, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna check in on this, uh, the four times a year that I, that [00:31:58] I wake up in a cold sweat wondering, Oh my God, how many subscriptions do I have? [00:32:02] Which is, uh, I, I really missed my calling by not being a dad, I guess. [00:32:07] But it did land me on looking at rocket money. [00:32:11] Uh, so, so, so there was an app called true bill that marketed heavily with like a lot of [00:32:19] other DTC apps where the pitch was, we will negotiate your bills for you. [00:32:26] And by bills, I think that one of the reasons why this, this, this business probably struggled [00:32:31] is that there's really only two that they could reasonably negotiate on your behalf. [00:32:37] You know, you, you imagine they've got a call center or they've got people who've, who [00:32:40] are trained, who have scripts that they follow, who, who will doggedly keep calling back until [00:32:44] they get what, you know, the discount, the, just the steps that you would have to go through [00:32:48] if you wanted to call Comcast or Verizon, they, they, they, they can basically could basically [00:32:57] only really negotiate your ISP and your cell phone carrier. [00:33:01] Cause those are the two sort of, you know, that are, that are transactional enough that [00:33:08] are regionalized or nationalized enough that they, that they could train on. [00:33:11] And then of course, like they, they're the ones that like get you in with a teaser rate and [00:33:15] then gradually turn up the heat over the course of a couple of years. [00:33:19] Well, Quicken Loans bought, they rebranded as rocket and then rocket fill in the blank [00:33:26] with other products. [00:33:26] And they bought true bill around the same time. [00:33:29] And I, my understanding from a distance is that true bill, uh, uh, that became rocket money [00:33:36] in order to be an entree into other rocket star services. [00:33:41] So like you, you now, when you install rocket money, it's still got the negotiation thing. [00:33:46] Cause that's what they market it on, but you have to slog through so much like, no, I'm actually [00:33:52] all set with credit and, and, and, and debt repayment services. [00:33:57] And I'm, I'm already all set with financial advisors and retirement goals. [00:34:00] I just get me to the, to the thing where I can pay you 35% of whatever you save me on [00:34:06] my ISP bill. [00:34:07] And so of course, you know, like I, I, I signed up for the first time, went through the app [00:34:12] onboarding. [00:34:13] I was not impressed with the bugginess of the app, but I was able to soldier on through [00:34:19] it. [00:34:19] And where I landed was I was, uh, following its little setup wizard for first. [00:34:27] Spectrum, which is my internet provider. [00:34:28] And I was, I'd initially paid a hundred dollars when I moved here in 2021, uh, a month for, [00:34:36] for one gig down, call it 30 megabits per second up. [00:34:40] And I can't get a, another ISP here. [00:34:43] They had an exclusive agreement. [00:34:44] They're building neighborhoods bullshit. [00:34:47] Uh, and I, I, so I can't get higher upstream and that really gets in my crawl. [00:34:53] Nevertheless, they have increased prices about $15 a year. [00:34:59] Each time I'm here to the point now where I think my monthly, you know, debit is like $150, [00:35:05] $145 and you fill it out and you give them your pin number. [00:35:11] You got this customer pin that like, you know, is secures your account. [00:35:14] I'm like, eh, all right, well, that's four digits, you know? [00:35:17] And besides I'm already on like this one dead simple plan. [00:35:20] It's just their normal plan. [00:35:22] And it's, you know, like I'm paying top dollar for it. [00:35:26] So what's the worst that they could do if they, if somebody else were to call and change [00:35:30] my plan up, you know, like it, it wouldn't cause that much lasting damage. [00:35:34] Cause it's not like I'm on some teaser rate. [00:35:36] It's not like I've got a great deal as it is. [00:35:38] So I let them do it. [00:35:39] And three days later, I had low expectations, right? [00:35:42] Cause you go on Reddit, speaking of Reddit, you go on and you, you search other people's [00:35:46] experiences and people will say, oh yeah, well like the, you know, I, some of them are [00:35:52] pretty hyperbolic. [00:35:53] It's like, you know, like they, they changed my plan to this and now I'm stuck with this, [00:35:57] you know, TV subscription for the next four years. [00:35:59] And then they charged me a thousand dollars in imagined savings that never materialized. [00:36:03] I'm like, shit. [00:36:04] All right. [00:36:04] Well, that's, that's not good. [00:36:06] But I, I gave them a shot. [00:36:08] They came back three days later and they said, congratulations. [00:36:12] We saved you $859. [00:36:14] I was like, what the, excuse me over the next 12 months. [00:36:18] And it turned out that they got me from $142, $145 down to 70 flat. [00:36:25] You multiply that by 12 and then indeed comes out to eight something. [00:36:28] And I was like, damn. [00:36:29] All right. [00:36:30] And so I've been, I've been looking for the other shoe to drop like ever since, like something [00:36:36] is fishy here. [00:36:37] Like I, they didn't sign me up for other services. [00:36:39] I did receive, I'm looking over at it now. [00:36:43] I did receive a relatively large box that has a, you know, one of those wifi modem router [00:36:50] combo units in it. [00:36:51] That was partly like apparently part of the deal. [00:36:54] I don't know if they canceled my service and then in one fell swoop also signed me up for [00:36:58] service. [00:36:58] But now I've got this gigantic fucking wifi thing that wouldn't even fit in my patch box [00:37:02] if I wanted it, which I don't. [00:37:04] So I'm, I'm, I'm currently in this ether of like, well, if my modem that I rent is still [00:37:11] going to work, I rent for $0. [00:37:14] It's one nice thing about spectrum. [00:37:15] If my modem that I rent is still going to work, uh, maybe I can just keep this wifi thing in [00:37:20] the box and not call anyone. [00:37:22] And maybe everything will keep working and I'll pay the $70 a month, or maybe I should send [00:37:27] the other one back, but then that might trigger some other thing. [00:37:30] Right. [00:37:30] I, so look like, do I recommend the service? [00:37:36] I don't really, I don't, we'll see. [00:37:38] Right. [00:37:39] Like call me in a year. [00:37:40] I should set a reminder. [00:37:41] Oh, I'm sure if something bad happens, I'll, I'll be right on the airwaves screaming about [00:37:47] it. [00:37:47] Like I, like I do, but even after this experience, saving me a lot of money, like what I trust [00:37:53] them with my T-Mobile account, right. [00:37:54] Where I have been grandfathered in on what was called the one choice plus plan in 2014 [00:38:01] or whatever. [00:38:02] And it's genuine, honest to God, unlimited data without any real throttling. [00:38:08] As far as I can tell, until you get to some absurdly high number where you can watch your [00:38:12] videos in HD on your, you know, like, like it's, it's, it's a good one. [00:38:16] It's better than their magenta crap. [00:38:18] Um, and a lower price than their magenta max thing. [00:38:21] Well, we got three lines. [00:38:22] You got, you know, the watches and I would love to pay less for that, but I just don't [00:38:27] try like you, you, you fill out the rocket money form, uh, with the, uh, the, the, it wants [00:38:34] your T-Mobile, like login information. [00:38:36] And that's, that was a bridge too far for me. [00:38:40] I got there and I was like, you know, I could just imagine this going poorly. [00:38:44] You know, these plans are so complicated and feels like even when I call T-Mobile and I [00:38:48] ask, Hey, how's the weather? [00:38:49] Like they click a button and it fucks up my shit for two weeks. [00:38:52] So I'm, I'm, I'm good. [00:38:55] I can probably afford a cell phone bill. [00:38:57] Uh, I just, I just would prefer not to have to pay it. [00:39:01] Only one other life item in the last week, I was given a special opportunity. [00:39:11] Um, I've talked about massages a couple of times on this program and the, uh, I mentioned, [00:39:15] uh, the one I went, uh, the one I had most recently in a previous episode, I, I, I was, I was wrapping [00:39:29] up my massage with a human like you do. [00:39:31] And the human said, have you, have you tried our robot massage? [00:39:36] And, uh, I didn't know how to take that. [00:39:38] And I said, I, I've heard of it. [00:39:41] I know Becky tried it. [00:39:43] If you check Becky's, um, Becky Graham, you'll see, uh, there's a video of her, uh, getting [00:39:48] felt up by a robot. [00:39:50] Uh, I forget the name of the company, but it's, it's, uh, it's like a robot that tries to simulate [00:39:59] the experience of a human massaging you. [00:40:02] So it's, uh, you're on a bed, you're face down. [00:40:06] It's, uh, got arms that kind of go back and forth, uh, on a track and they, they push and [00:40:13] whatnot. [00:40:13] And it kind of reminds me of the white birthing robot from star Wars episode three at the end [00:40:21] when, when Luke and Leah are being born, it does everything short of make the cooing [00:40:26] sounds to get the babies to calm down. [00:40:28] You know, like I, you do have a tablet and you can, you can pick out these pre-baked Spotify [00:40:34] playlists while it's pushing on you. [00:40:36] Anyway, all that to say, I signed up, um, mostly cause it was free. [00:40:41] So I had a 30 minute trial and, uh, the fact is trying to imitate humans was really interesting [00:40:49] to me because I had just spent a month in Japan, uh, getting, uh, what'd you call it? [00:40:54] Uh, massage chairs, our hotel chain that we stay at has always has massage chairs and even [00:41:01] bad massage chairs in Japan are pretty intense. [00:41:03] Uh, uh, but, but good ones are just like, you know, you go in there and it's just like, [00:41:09] I'm sure there's been, you've probably seen a horror movie image, right? [00:41:13] Where it's like, you sit in a chair and then like 25 hands grab all the parts of your body [00:41:18] simultaneously and that is meant to be horrific. [00:41:20] But if those hands, if there was some nice music playing and it was illuminated and those [00:41:25] hands were massaging you simultaneously all over your body, maybe it would be pretty, pretty [00:41:29] great. [00:41:29] And so that's what a Japanese massage chair is like. [00:41:33] Cause they, they don't have this arbitrary conceit that a massage must happen in a format [00:41:39] that resembles how it would happen if a single human on a bed surface was rubbing your tiddly [00:41:45] bits, which is what this robot is. [00:41:49] Right. [00:41:49] And so it's trying to think of another analog, right? [00:41:55] Like where we, we kind of retain the artifice of the way that it used to be before we automated [00:42:00] it. [00:42:00] And, and in some, sometimes we do that to keep people being comfortable like that rich [00:42:05] Corinthian leather. [00:42:06] It's like, we wanted to look like a traditional calendar. [00:42:08] So people know what they're looking at instead of just a bunch of boxes. [00:42:11] It's like, Oh yeah, this looks like a placemat style calendar that I would have had on my desk. [00:42:15] And then eventually that ages out. [00:42:16] And the younger people are like, I've never seen a calendar on a desk, even though my dad [00:42:20] grew up with one, you know? [00:42:24] So maybe that's it, right? [00:42:25] Like, like sometimes that's why we would have a robo massage that like, you know, pressures [00:42:31] and needs you, you know, kind of with just the two arms up and down in particular points, [00:42:35] sometimes at the same time, sometimes just one arm, you know, it's, it's, it's less efficient [00:42:41] is my immediate frustration. [00:42:43] Cause it's like, you could have 45 fucking arms going to town all over my body and I'd [00:42:49] get way more work done in 30 minutes. [00:42:52] Right. [00:42:52] Cause I'm just trying to min max my existence, but instead by, by, by, by imitating a human [00:42:59] massage, like nothing is really gained because I can't see it. [00:43:03] I'm facedown. [00:43:04] I'm looking at a silly tablet and watching imagery, imagery of forests and, and, and ocean waves [00:43:10] and whatnot, and I'm kind of getting a, you can look at a weird overhead view of what [00:43:14] your body is looking at, looking like right then, you know, like it scans your body and [00:43:19] then has like a little illustration of like, here's where I'm pushing you. [00:43:21] Here I go. [00:43:22] It's, it seems more to me like they designed this, you look at this unit and it's just like, [00:43:31] this has got to cost at least 15 grand. [00:43:34] This is an expensive, complicated piece of equipment. [00:43:38] It feels like a lack of imagination, uh, to, to somebody had the idea, let's take human [00:43:47] masseuses out of the equation and just make a robo masseuse thing that we could put in spas [00:43:53] when, uh, you'd actually have a better experience. [00:43:56] It would be cheaper. [00:43:57] And there's like more prior art at Panasonic or these other companies in Japan. [00:44:01] If you just made a, you know, massage chair, but that would be boring, I guess. [00:44:08] Uh, and massage chairs, like you, you hear the word massage chair right now as you're listening. [00:44:13] And if you haven't had like a real one, you know, at a Japanese Denki-yasan on the third [00:44:17] floor, where all the salary men on their way home tell their wives, oh, I got a, I got a big meeting [00:44:24] with the boss and then they go to, they go to Yamada Denki or they go to Yodabashi camera. [00:44:28] And then they just, you know, they take their briefcase and they set it down next to one of the [00:44:33] trial units of the massage chair. [00:44:34] And then they, they, they, they, they go into this little like sensory deprivation pod and [00:44:39] they get all their bits smushed simultaneously and they got a remote control and they can [00:44:45] say, just do it hard. [00:44:46] And then they can forget their worries for, for 15 minutes until, uh, one of the staff has [00:44:52] to remind them that, uh, they don't live there and that they have to go home now. [00:44:56] If you haven't had that experience, uh, you probably, when you hear a massage chair, think [00:45:02] of like those $2, you know, leather chairs that are, you know, just like our just normal [00:45:08] fucking chairs that may be vibrate, like the vibrating bed equivalent that you see at an [00:45:12] airport. [00:45:12] Um, this is not what I'm talking about. [00:45:15] So get your head out of there and, and go Google, you know, for high end Japanese massage [00:45:22] chair, and you might get some idea. [00:45:24] Uh, also I, uh, in the course of a 30 minute massage, I encountered so many fucking Android [00:45:32] tablet bugs. [00:45:33] I, I didn't, I gave them a lot of feedback cause they, this is sort of a trial that they're [00:45:37] doing. [00:45:37] They wanted to want to know how, what I thought. [00:45:40] And I gave them a lot of this perspective and feedback about like, well, you know, this [00:45:44] skeuomorphic design, yada, yada. [00:45:45] But I didn't even touch any of the software stuff. [00:45:49] Cause like there's an absolutely nothing that they're going to be able to do with that much [00:45:52] less like they won't even be able to communicate this back to the company in a way that's helpful, [00:45:55] but it was, you know, it would freeze or the display would become non-responsive. [00:46:01] One time I had the music just turn itself all the way up. [00:46:05] The, um, the, so many things about this design are meant to make you feel comfortable are [00:46:13] meant to make you feel safe. [00:46:14] Like if, if you, it moves at all, or if it detects anything is off at all, it basically [00:46:20] like will, will disengage entirely and reposition itself. [00:46:23] And then you have to actively resume the massage. [00:46:26] And then it's got to put the little flappy doos back over you. [00:46:30] Like it's really worried about people flipping out about this robot pressing up against them. [00:46:36] And it extends to, to like, you know, you pick your firmness, like light, medium firm. [00:46:41] And I clicked firm. [00:46:42] And then there, you could see there was like a little like pressure bar on the right. [00:46:47] And that even though I'd clicked the firm preset, I wasn't at a hundred percent pressure. [00:46:52] And I was like, well, that, that won't do. [00:46:54] And so I jacked it up to a hundred percent right out of the gate. [00:46:56] And the whole time, 30 minutes, like you could, uh, [00:46:59] Hmm. [00:47:01] It, I knew that a massage was happening. [00:47:05] Like I knew when contact was being made, but like, it was not a massage. [00:47:08] It was, it was somebody kind of like, like, like back rub would be generous. [00:47:14] It was like somebody like took an open palm hand and just pressed it. [00:47:18] Just, just, just an obnoxiously against different parts of my body and no firmness beyond that. [00:47:26] So you got a robo massage. [00:47:29] It's limited in what it can do. [00:47:33] Cause it's trying to imitate a human. [00:47:34] It's very worried about liability, which is why I imagine the max firmness is light pressure. [00:47:39] Uh, and it's fussy and it's buggy. [00:47:42] And of course it can only do very limited regions of the body. [00:47:45] Like if I was a massage therapist, I'd be like, Hey, sweet. [00:47:49] You know, I'm going to keep having a job longer than all these programmer juckle fucks. [00:47:52] You're going to get replaced by a Claude and open AI. [00:47:56] So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm confident that a massage therapist is going to be a, a lucrative, you [00:48:03] know, going concern as a career for a little while programming. [00:48:08] I'm not so sure of, but most of us listening have already made our choice, whether we're [00:48:14] going to be massage therapists or programmers. [00:48:16] So we're just going to have to see how this, how this plays out. [00:48:19] All right. [00:48:20] Well, that's all, that's everything going on in my life. [00:48:23] So let's, uh, well, let's follow up on stuff that had been going on in my life and is now [00:48:30] continuing or is once again, I started to realize that there's a, there's a certain theme to this [00:48:37] show. [00:48:37] Hmm. [00:48:38] All right. [00:48:46] There's basically two major areas of follow-up today. [00:48:51] Um, but somehow the two of them take up 11 bullet points in my notes. [00:48:59] So I'll try to be expeditious. [00:49:02] The first is I bought a, uh, M4 pro MacBook pro, I guess an Apple nomenclature, a MacBook pro [00:49:13] left parentheses, 2024, right parentheses with M4 pro. [00:49:19] I think is probably maybe the 2024 is at the end. [00:49:22] Maybe they don't put the date now that they have the chip name. [00:49:25] In any case, I needed a computer that was built for Apple intelligence, which is how they also, [00:49:32] they crammed that in the fucking name. [00:49:34] Um, and like the, every subheader says Apple intelligence on it, which, you know, I mean, [00:49:40] if you're, if you're a marketing dude, it's the thing that, you know, like you gotta, every [00:49:48] year is a struggle to goose people into, to buying computers. [00:49:51] And, uh, it's been a while since they've had anything new to say that your computer can do. [00:49:56] So it makes sense, but come on. [00:49:59] It can't even make Genmoji yet. [00:50:02] Uh, just if you've, if you've downloaded it, used 18.2 iOS or iPadOS, uh, go turn on the, [00:50:13] um, you know, the AI feature, if it's available in your region and language, and then you open [00:50:19] the image playground app and you click through there and let it download all of the image [00:50:24] playground shit, uh, in particular, the image playground itself, where you can take a person [00:50:30] and a place and kind of like, you know, create sort of a, uh, a witch's brew of bad imagery [00:50:35] and then, and then have a keep swiping to the right as, as they just all look bad that I have [00:50:43] no, no need for, but Genmoji, or at least the promise of Genmoji, I like quite a lot. [00:50:49] I enjoy, you know, um, typing in little like name, like, so we were at the parks, uh, with [00:50:57] our friends last week and it was a Jollywood Knights event, which is also Gatsby themed. [00:51:06] There's a reason why ordering 1920s era costumes on Amazon in Orlando was like not an overnight. [00:51:13] It was like a two, three day leg because this, this Jollywood Knights 1920s era themed, uh, [00:51:21] ticketed event at Hollywood studios has been going on. And it was one of those nights. And so some [00:51:26] flapper lady in line, she had a purse that had a phone handle on it. And her husband, who now that [00:51:34] I think back on this was dressed very similarly to how I dressed myself last night. So something tells [00:51:39] me he was sort of a long for the ride in this, she picked up the phone handle off of her purse and [00:51:46] handed it to Becky. And then he, you could sort of see him on the phone being a bad ventriloquist [00:51:53] and talking to her on the phone. So like his cell phone was somehow communicating to the purse phone. [00:51:59] It was very, it reminded me of get smart, you know, like that spy TV show from the sixties that was on [00:52:05] Nick at night in the eighties or nineties when I would have watched it. Uh, of course it didn't [00:52:10] work. And then we were just in line and it was like, sorry, we're in line. It didn't work. And then, [00:52:14] and then of course the way that lines work, right. As you turn left, turn right. And now it's up, [00:52:18] here's the same people again. And so they're like, all right, try again. So she picks up the purse [00:52:23] phone and here's the guy talk. And she's like, yes, this is indeed a telephone. That is a purse. [00:52:28] My reaction, my contribution to this experience was to try to generate a Genmoji for the group [00:52:35] that I was with. That was like purse phone. And, uh, wouldn't you know it, uh, it struggled to like, [00:52:43] I was like purse with a phone handle on top. And it was, it gave me like one with like a, [00:52:49] like a locker combination lock instead of a rotary dial in the middle. It was all, it was not, [00:52:54] not good. And, and I think like a lot of these Genmoji, in addition to being bad and not good, [00:53:01] they are when they, there's, they have to be so detailed because usually it's people mashing up [00:53:07] different concepts. They have to be so detailed that when in line with texts, you have to squint [00:53:12] and you can barely see what they are. And then if they're as a tap back, you have no hope of knowing [00:53:16] what they are. Like if it's of a person, for example, like it's, you're going to get like 80% shirt [00:53:21] and then like 10% head. So you're not going to be able to tell who's what. Uh, so those need work [00:53:27] and no one wants my Genmoji. My, my brother has formally requested. I stopped sending them and, [00:53:32] uh, I will, I will take that request under advisement. Anyway, uh, bought a MacBook pro. Um, [00:53:42] Oh, I've got a, I've got a parenthetical as a C notes. All right, well, here's eight more bullet [00:53:50] points. I'm going to rattle through these. So Becky, actually, it was her idea. She wanted to [00:53:54] get me this. We were in Japan. She's like, Hey, you know, I heard you talking about the nanotexture [00:53:57] display. And like, of course, you know, the, the, the brighter screen and us being in Orlando, [00:54:01] you never use a computer outside or out of the house. So she wanted to buy it. And she said, [00:54:06] it was just really complicated. I didn't want to fuck up. I didn't want to get you the wrong set of [00:54:09] options. I asked Aaron and Aaron didn't know either. He said he hadn't really been on top of it. [00:54:16] Uh, and I was like, honey, that's so I didn't say like, bless your heart. I, it was a such a sweet [00:54:23] gesture. And it is true that I've been curious about it. Um, but I didn't feel like, uh, I had [00:54:30] to get one right this minute. Uh, and, and honestly, the, the, the 14 inch MacBook pro is still too heavy. [00:54:36] I, I, I, I lifted tonal my, my weightlifting robot, uh, reported in my tonal wrapped because [00:54:46] everything has to do a goddamn wrapped dingus to try to share in social media as if like, you know, [00:54:52] one assumes that all these wrapped posts just go to the goddamn bottom of every algorithm because [00:54:57] they're all the same. But in any case, it showed me a little wrapped video and it said, I wait, [00:55:02] I, I lifted one and a half million pounds last year or over the course of 2024. And I was like, [00:55:07] that's a lot of weight that I lifted. I, yesterday I did the equivalent of like, you know, 250, [00:55:12] 275 pound deadlift barbell deadlift. And that was hard, but not too hard. It's the max weight that, [00:55:20] that tonal can do. Um, I, I, I, I like to think I'm pretty strong now. Uh, that four pound fucking [00:55:31] MacBook pro is backbreakingly heavy, no matter where I am, I'll pick it up and like, that is denser than [00:55:40] it looks. It's a, it's like when you pick up a baby, that's like a little bit too dense, you know, [00:55:46] and you're just like, Oh wow. I was expecting this to be more fun. This is just going to give [00:55:51] me pelvic floor problems. If I do this for more than exactly 30 seconds and then hand it back to [00:55:57] its mother who surely has pelvic floor issues. Um, I don't want to be carrying around this MacBook pro. [00:56:05] I don't want to carry it with my arms. I don't want to carry it in a bag. I don't want to carry it [00:56:09] into the car. I don't want to carry it, you know, uh, in a Starbucks. I want to hire a Porter to [00:56:16] bring it around to me, you know, from place to place. Maybe, maybe they could also saddle up and [00:56:23] have a, uh, vision pro. So that's what I really want. Uh, at least until, and unless Apple releases [00:56:30] the 12 inch MacBook pro, uh, that we were promised in our early years. [00:56:34] Anyway, when Becky said that it was hard to configure and figure out what she'd want to order [00:56:43] or what I would want her to order. And as a result would have made a pretty lousy gift because [00:56:49] the likelihood of her getting it right. Where if you look at the number of configurations for these [00:56:53] seeing this thing, like astronomically small, I actually spent, I sat down, I look, I, I said, [00:57:01] I didn't need the thing. And then I come home and then within a day and a half, uh, my MacBook air is [00:57:07] crying because it's out of storage to the point where like I composed an email and I hit send on the email [00:57:12] and then Apple mail reported, yo, we just barfed on all this and just deleted all your shit. Cause we [00:57:17] ran out of disk space, no warning. And in modern day Mac OS, you don't get to know how much disk space [00:57:23] you have because all of it is like optimized storage. So like whether it's your iCloud drive [00:57:29] or it's your Apple photos, once the system is under any sort of, um, storage stress, it'll, [00:57:35] it's supposed to detect that and start deleting shit. Your phone does this too. So sometimes like [00:57:41] you're like, like I was importing a bunch of raw images on the phone and it said, Oh, you're out of [00:57:45] storage. And then I knew, because I know how it works under the hood, even though it exposes zero [00:57:49] controls or visibility as to what is going the fuck on. I knew that when it ran out of storage, [00:57:54] the right solution was sit and wait for 30 seconds while it deletes shit in the background and then [00:57:59] just hit import again. Right. Well, I, that didn't work in this case. Like I actually went and deleted [00:58:05] like a hundred gigabytes of garbage. It's a small SSD. It's a 512 gigabyte MacBook air. I deleted all this [00:58:11] stuff, but, um, from my iCloud drive on another computer, because this one was finder was completely [00:58:17] unresponsive. Uh, and it never got better because it had suspended all iCloud drive syncing as a, [00:58:24] probably like some sort of like memory safeguard or storage safeguard to like make sure I didn't, [00:58:27] it didn't fuck up anything in the cloud. And so like even going, I'm not going to, [00:58:33] most of that storage was in my iCloud drive, which is how it got full while I was overseas. [00:58:38] And when I came back, I, I didn't have like, I could, I could have gone through and like run [00:58:47] RM dash RF from the terminal and deleted stuff from the iCloud drive to like as a, as an emergency break, [00:58:52] like get, get this SSD empty enough that the operating system can run and then figure it out. [00:59:00] But then of course it would have synced all of those deletions up to the cloud and deleted the [00:59:03] same things off of my other computers. So this is a tractable problem. And I, I, I ultimately did solve [00:59:10] it, but I, I realize now why Apple markets so much of its pro devices to photos and video people, [00:59:20] because photos and videos take up a shit ton of space. Uh, they have different performance [00:59:26] characteristics than programming and, and the, their needs in many ways are higher than what you need. [00:59:33] If you're just writing Ruby code, right? Uh, it just so happens that Swift, the programming language [00:59:38] that they wrote is also like, we'll, we'll take advantage of all of these cores during compilation [00:59:42] in a way that like a lot of local development in other languages won't. [00:59:45] But in my last year of doing a lot more video work, doing a lot more audio work, I can definitely [00:59:52] understand now like, Oh yeah, like the, the MacBook air actually is inappropriate for a lot of the [00:59:57] workflows of the things that I do. So that experience, I came to Becky and I was like, look, I know I said [01:00:05] I didn't need this, but I think I might need this. Um, where need is in very, you know, very gentle [01:00:12] text. It's, it's a thin font variant to say, I need this. What I mean to say is like, I, it would save [01:00:19] me a lot of time and stress and headache and, uh, uh, rework to have a better computer, a more [01:00:26] capacious computer. And of course you can't upgrade the storage and your existing max. So here we are. [01:00:32] Um, but anyway, I was in the configurator for the new MacBook pro. And the first decision you got to [01:00:36] make is do I want a regular M4 chip, which I did not, or one of the pro ones, which is a, you know, [01:00:43] 12 or 14 core. I want to say a chip, uh, which is a huge upgrade over the M3 pro the M3 pro had a way [01:00:53] more efficiency cores and the M4 pro has more performance score. So it's like a, it's doing [01:00:57] much better in synthetic benchmarking that that's impressive. It's a big year over year change or the [01:01:02] M4 max, which is, you know, uh, an incremental improvement over the M3 max, but to the extent [01:01:10] that it's better than the pro it's like, you know, got another meat and quote unquote media [01:01:14] e

In today's Daily Fix:Last night's The Game Awards dropped several huge reveals: the first trailer for The Witcher 4, a trailer for a new Naughty Dog game—Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and a new Elden Ring game. Elden Ring: Nightreign will be a multiplayer-focused action game that takes the main experience and tosses roguelike, pvp, and pve elements into one pot. While there's no release date yet, there will be an upcoming closed network test and we'll tell you where you can sign up. As leaks and teases have revealed recently, The Witcher 4 will be Ciri's show, but Geralt will have a role to play. And finally, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a new IP from Naughty Dog and looks to be different from their groundbreaking The Last of Us games in practically every way.

Game Awards Post Show, December Games, The Best Gaming Podcast 499 The 2024 Game Awards unveiled several high-profile game announcements that elicited significant fan reactions: Okami Sequel: Capcom announced a sequel to the PlayStation 2 classic Okami, directed by original creator Hideki Kamiya. The reveal was emotionally charged, with host Geoff Keighley visibly moved, reflecting the deep affection many fans have for the original game. Polygon The Witcher 4: CD Projekt Red confirmed The Witcher 4, featuring Ciri as the protagonist. This announcement excited fans eager to explore the Witcher universe from a new perspective. AS.com Elden Ring: Nightreign: FromSoftware introduced Elden Ring: Nightreign, a spin-off emphasizing multiplayer combat with teams of up to four players. The game's faster-paced action and cooperative elements generated considerable buzz among the gaming community. The Scottish Sun Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet: Naughty Dog unveiled a new original title, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, marking a departure from their trend of remakes and remasters. Each Friday ACG and some pals get together to discuss games, life, books, movies, and everything else. The new home of the ACG Best Gaming Podcast Follow me on Twitter for reviews and info @jeremypenter -JOIN the ACG Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ACGVids/ https://www.patreon.com/AngryCentaurGaming

Cardy and Matt had the pleasure of visiting CD Projekt Red ahead of The Witcher 4's reveal at The Game Awards 2024. On this special bonus episode, they speak about what they learned from talking to the studio, and what might be in store for Ciri. The IGN UK Podcast will return for an extra episode on Monday where we'll discuss all of the other reveals from Geoff's Big Night. Remember to send us your thoughts about all the new games, TV shows, and films you're enjoying or looking forward to: ign_ukfeedback@ign.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠ Join Analytic Dreamz in this segment of Notorious Mass Effect as we dive into the highlights of The Game Awards 2024, celebrating its 10th anniversary. This year's event was a showcase of monumental game reveals, including the highly anticipated 'Witcher 4', where Ciri steps into the spotlight in a new, expansive RPG crafted with Unreal Engine 5. We saw the unveiling of several notable trailers like 'Elden Ring Nightreign', 'Mafia: The Old Country', and 'Onimusha: Way of the Sword'. New titles such as 'Intergalactic: The Heretic Project', 'Dispatch', 'The First Bezerker Khazan', and 'Turok Origins' were also introduced, stirring excitement among gamers. Analytic Dreamz discusses major announcements from CD Projekt Red, including a deep dive into 'Witcher IV' with Ciri as the protagonist, alongside other Witcher universe projects. Naughty Dog's new venture, 'Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet', promises a dystopian space adventure, while Netflix surprises with 'Squid Game: Unleashed', an innovative online party game. The segment covers the award winners in detail, with 'Astro Bot' by Team Asobi taking home Game of the Year and three other awards including Best Game Direction. Other big winners include 'Balatro' and 'Metaphor: ReFantazio', each securing three awards. Analytic Dreamz also highlights the cultural impact, star-studded presentations by figures like Harrison Ford, live performances from Snoop Dogg and Twenty One Pilots, and unique moments like the Muppets' Statler and Waldorf adding comic relief. The segment concludes with a look at the statistics and records from the event, noting that 'Astro Bot' led with four awards, while 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' and 'Astro Bot' tied for the most nominations at seven each. This year's awards are compared to last year's where 'Baldur's Gate 3' took home six awards, setting a high bar for this year's achievements. Tune in for an in-depth analysis and passionate discussion on how these awards and announcements shape the future of gaming.Witcher IV detailsCD Projekt Red historymore gamer slangSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Weltexklusiv können wir als eines von zwei Medien CD Projekt Red direkt zur Enthüllung von The Witcher 4 mit Fragen löchern. Wir sprechen über Ciri, die Vision des Spiels – und über einen gigantischen Skandal, bei dem Maurice das Opfer ist.

Tim and Val from Whiskey with Witcher join Alyssa for our discussion of Andrzej Sapkowski's Baptism of Fire, Chapter 1 (Part 1). Very important bits include: the origins of Whiskey with Witcher, Sapkowski's beloved framing narratives, odd things that become our whole personalities, book-inspired tattoos, baptisms of fire, catching up with Ciri and the Rats, and the introduction of a fan-favorite character, Milva. [0:00] Cold Open [0:52] Introduction [3:06] Guest Introductions [13:58] Chapter Recap [16:57] Overall Thoughts [22:16] Milva and the Framing Narrative [32:20] Milva's Loyalty [43:21] The Scoia'tael's Role [49:52] “A baptism of fire” [58:56] Ciri's Character Arc [1:08:19] The Rats' Impact [1:15:52] Final Thoughts [1:19:05] Outro [1:21:24] End Credits The full episode transcript, show notes, merchandise store, and access to our social platforms are available at breakfastinbeauclair.com.

Look, we're not sure how it happened either, but somehow we made to 100 episodes. That's 100 episodes of bourbon, bards, Brotherhoods, Blood Origins, bloopers, barrel-proofs, bone caves, broken bottles, bad subtitles, and beastly shots of bitter booze. Oh yes, and absolutely wonderful conversations about our favorite fantasy franchise with all of you. To commemorate this malted milestone, we crack open a bottle of a surprisingly delicious Polish rye whiskey—The Globe—while celebrating all that we love about The Witcher. From our most beloved characters, to the Netflix episodes we can't stop replaying in our heads, to the Witcher 3 quests that thrill us more than any other, to the Andrzej Sapkowski short stories that we come back to again and again, this is a liquored up love letter to Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri and the rest of the Continent. We hope you enjoy it and thank each and every one of you for joining us on this wild ride. Here's to the next hundred!