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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 Some bullet points below the fold: My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac Aaron's puns, ranked Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even retire I bought my 8 year old a switch and didn't realize how much games cost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

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Aktuell wird alles teurer. Auch Videospiele und Konsolen sind davon nicht zwingend ausgenommen. Wenn ihr mit dem Gedanken spielt, euch eine Nintendo Switch zu holen, habt ihr zunächst allerdings noch nichts zu befürchten.

Die Switch ist nach Game Boy und Nintendo DS die erfolgreichste Konsole Japans jemals! Außerdem verkündete Nintendo-Präsident Shuntaro Furukawa jüngst, dass man sich auf Langzeitbeziehungen mit Kunden und Kundinnen verlasse, was unter anderem wohl auch dem stetig wachsenden und wachsenden Switch-Online-Service-Mitgliederstamm zu verdanken sei. Ob das wirklich so ist? Na, wir sind uns da nicht so ganz sicher. Ebenfalls noch nicht fest stehen unsere Ansichten im Falle von Nintendo-of-America-Angestellten, die über schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen klagen. Stimmt das - oder stimmt das nicht? Und, wenn es stimmen sollte, wie fänden wir das? Reggie Fils-Aimé hat außerdem ja vor kurzem sein Buch "Disrupting the game" veröffentlicht, was wir zum Anlass nahmen, uns einige Nintendo-bezogene Zitate daraus genauer anzuschauen. Zu guter Letzt kommen wir zur E3/2022 und sprechen über unsere Erwartungen. Denn schließlich soll es dieses Jahr keine E3 geben. Heißt das zugleich, dass im Juni keine Ankündigungen in Form einer Direct oder eines Digital Events stattfinden werden? Vor allem, wann kommt der Switch-Nachfolger, immerhin ist die Switch nun schon über 5 Jahre alt - es wird langsam Zeit... ... oder etwa nicht?! Timecodes & Themen 0:00:00 = Einleitung 0:00:35 = In Japan hat die Switch den 3DS überholt 0:02:21 = Shuntaro Furukawa: "Die Anzahl der Nintendo Switch Online inklusive Expansion-Pack-Mitglieder wächst und wächst und der Anteil derer im Vergleich zu allen NSO-Mitgliedern insgesamt erweitert sich ständig. Gerade in den United States ist das Verhältnis besonders hoch." 0:13:01 = Shuntaro Furukawa: "Während wir neue Nintendo-Switch-Software zur Freude unserer Kunden veröffentlichen, streben wir an, die Beziehungen über Hardware-Generationen hinweg zu erhalten, indem wir Services einsetzen, die Nintendo-Accounts verwenden." 0:25:11 = Beschwerden über schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen bei Nintendo of America 0:32:42 = Reggie - Disrupting the game: "In den ersten 5 Spielstunden von Metroid: Other M hat man eigentlich nur die Story vorangetrieben. Es gab kaum befriedigende Momente, nur jede Menge Dialoge." 0:37:06 = Reggie - Disrupting the game: "Für mich war das Konzept des Game Boy micro ein Fehlgriff. Die Hardware war außergewöhnlich klein. Nicht nur waren die Buttons schwer zu bedienen, auch der Screen war winzig." 0:40:33 = Reggie - Disrupting the game: "Miyamoto sagte: Keiner von euch versteht die Herausforderung, Software zu erschaffen, die die Leute gern spielen. Wir treiben uns ständig an, genau das zu erreichen. Wir verschenken doch nicht einfach unsere Software!" 0:45:12 = Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Streckenpass: Fans verstehen nicht, warum die Fahrzeuge in der Coconut Mall sich nicht bewegen. Sie fordern Nachbesserung. 0:52:36 = Unsere Erwartungen zur dieses Jahr nicht stattfindenden E3. 1:05:32 = Verabschiedung Hinweis: Die Mario-Rendergrafik stammt von Nintega-Dario.

Viele unserer User wünschen sich bereits in den nächsten 2 Jahren einen Nintendo Switch-Nachfolger, der einfach nur mehr Leistung mit sich bringt. Warum? Das Hybridkonzept ist für viele perfekt und mehr Innovation werden nicht benötigt werden. Doch vor fast 2 Wochen hatte sich nun Nintendo-Präsident Shuntaro Furukawa zur aktuellen Lage geäußert. Genau diese Aussage haben Felix und ich zur Brust genommen, diese etwas Auseinandergenommen und darüber geredet, was ein Nachfolger zur Nintendo Switch wohl leisten muss. Zum aktuellen Anlass möchten wir euch gerne auf eine wichtige Aktion vom ukrainischen Entwickler-Studio 11 bit studios aufmerksam machen. Aktuell gehen alle Erlöse des Spiels This War of Mine via Spende an das ukrainische rote Kreuz um sich dort um die verletzten oder gefallenen Menschen zu kümmern. Wir finden es wichtig euch auf diese Aktion aufmerksam zu machen. Unterstützen könnt ihr das Spiel u.a. bei Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/This_War_of_Mine/

Skateboarding mal anders? Olli Olli World, den mittlerweile dritten Teil der Spielereihe, gefiel mir optisch und spielerisch bereits damals bei der Ankündigung April 2021 während der Nintendo Präsentation. Ein kleiner 3D Sidescroller, in welchem wir mit einem Skateboard ausgestattet durch viele kleine Level skaten, Tricks und Grinds ausführen und diese in einer großen Kombination miteinander verknüpfen. Die Level und Herausforderungen sind knackig und manch einiger Level könnten mitunter frustrieren, dennoch ist man motiviert genug diese bestmöglich abschließen zu wollen. Liebhaber von Charakteranpassungen werden sich hier freuen, gibt es als Belohnung für den Levelabschluss viele Gegenstände wie Boards, Outfits und Accessoires freizuschalten. Und wem es nach Abschluss der Story und allen Herausforderungen noch nicht reicht, kann sich im Multiplayer Modus mit anderen Spielern messen. Olli Olli World ist ein traumhaftes Skateboard-Jump and Run Spiel welches man sich definitiv anschauen sollte!

Weitere Infos zum Autobahn Polizei Simulator 2, jetzt ganz neu für die Nintendo Switch, erfahrt ihr hier: pcgames.de/Autobahnpolizei Es gibt vieles zu besprechen in Folge 184 von Der Nintendo-Podcast! So schlägt The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask schon sehr bald bei Nintendo Switch Online auf. Es gibt ein erstes Artwork zu Metroid Prime 4 - oder doch nicht? Darüber spekulieren wir. Außerdem gibt es wieder einmal eine Aussage des Nintendo-Präsidenten zu einem möglichen Nachfolger der Nintendo Switch. Und: Bioshock wird zum Film! Ob wir das für eine gute Idee halten, erfahrt in der Folge. Das und noch mehr gibt es in Episode 184 von Der Nintendo-Podcast! 02:45 - Zelda: Majora's Mask bald für Nintendo Switch 12:50 - Erstes Artwork zu Metroid Prime 4? 20:00 - Nintendo-Präsident spricht über Switch-Nachfolger 28:00 - Bioshock-Film angekündigt 35:30 - Warum ist Kingdom Hearts auf Switch so schlecht? 38:35 - Ubisoft spricht über Übernahme-Gerüchte Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast

Cyber Month Deal! Gehe jetzt zu https://nordvpn.com/nintendowelt um ein 2-Jahres-Paket plus einen zusätzlichen Gratismonat und einen riesigen Rabatt zu ergattern! Bekommen wir Nintendo-Urgestein Donkey Kong schon bald auf der großen Leinwand zu sehen? Angeblich ist ein Kinofilm mit dem Krawatte-tragenden Affen in Arbeit! Die Chip-Knappheit trifft derweil auch Nintendo mit voller Härte: Die Produktion muss gesenkt werden, dem Bedarf des Weihnachtsgeschäfts kann man nicht gerecht werden, sagt der Nintendo-Präsident Shuntaro Furukawa. Gleichzeitig zeigt der neue Geschäftsbericht, dass die Switch allmählich ins Straucheln gerät ... 00:20 - Werbung: NordVPN 12:25 - Chip-Knappheit trifft Nintendo 22:00 - Kommt der Donkey-Kong-Film? 39:30 - Die Switch schwächelt - neue Zahlen 51:45 - Unsere anderen Podcasts 54:00 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr! Mario Party Superstars bei Amazon kaufen: https://www.pcgames.de/Podcast-MarioPartySuperstars Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast

Das große Jubiläum: Nintendos extrem beliebtes Direct-Format gibt's jetzt schon seit stolzen zehn Jahren! Was heute eine echte Institution in der Welt der Videospiele ist, begann im Oktober 2011 ganz unscheinbar mit dem damaligen Nintendo-Präsident Satoru Iwata. Heutzutage bringt schon die bloße Erwähnung einer möglicherweise stattfindenden Direct das Internet zum Durchdrehen. Außerdem sprechen wir diesmal über die Probleme mit den erst kürzlich erschienenen N64-Spielen auf der Switch, die erstaunliche Empfindlichkeit der Switch OLED, spannende Community-Fragen - und wie immer noch vieles mehr! 03:55 - Switch OLED versagt bei Kratztest 17:50 - Erste Direct ist zehn Jahre alt 31:50 - Probleme mit N64 auf der Switch 38:00 - Unsere anderen Podcasts 44:25 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr! Mario Party Superstars bei Amazon kaufen: https://www.pcgames.de/Podcast-MarioPartySuperstars Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast

Videospielspezial Max, Timo, Dochnad und Michael (klein) sprachen über die E3. Ich hörte die Episode so weit, dass ich den Titel, den ihr dort oben sehen könnt, aufschreiben konnte und habe sonst keine Ahnung, worüber genau geredet wird. Also schätzen wir eben. Und so schätze ich, dass über Elden Ring gesprochen wurde. Das geht ja nicht ohne. Dann wird sicher über Assassin's Creed gemeckert. Max erwähnt sicher Psychonauts 2 und ich glaube, irgendwer mochte Atomic Heart. Um Halo kommt man wohl kaum herum und auch Rainbow Six wird sicher kurz angerissen. Diablo 2 (ist das ein Remake oder warum ist das da drin?) und Hades (kommt ja jetzt für mehr Plattformen) sind recht sichere Kandidaten. Final Fantasy (Remasters und dieser komische Dark-Souls-Klon, den Timo, glaube ich mag) sind auch sicher. Monster Hunter und Ace Attorney verstehen sich auch von selbst, auch wenn bei letzterem wohl die Präsentation schlimm war. Und der ganze Kram von der Nintendo-Präsentation muss rein. Zelda, Metroid, Shin Megami Tensei, Monkey Ball, Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors müssen vorkommen und ich glaube, sogar über Dangan Rompa wurde geredet. Genug Programm also. Und unsere vier Fachlachsnacken sind ja kompetent/unterhaltsam genug, damit nicht nur ich, sondern auch ihr Spaß haben werdet. Vertraut ihnen, sie wissen (vielleicht) was sie tun. Podcast herunterladen

Was können wir von Nintendo bei der E3 2021 nach der offiziellen Zusage erwarten? Nintendo-Präsident Furukawa will neue Marken schaffen - aber welche? Das und vieles mehr - wie zum Beispiel die neue Indie-World und die neue Switch Lite in Blau - besprechen Johannes und Lukas in der brandneuen Folge. Neben den besten Neuerscheinungen und Schnäppchen für die Switch sowie allerlei spannenden Community-Fragen schweifen wir auch wieder gehörig ab und berichten von den letzten Tagen und unseren Erlebnissen mit Spielen, Filmen, Serien, Twitch und Co.! 03:00 - Rückblick aufs Wochenende 33:25 - Spiele der Woche & Schnäppchen 46:00 - Gewinnspiel-Auflösung 47:30 - Nintendo bei der E3 2021 60:00 - Nintendo will neue Marken 65:45 - Neue Indie World 67:00 - Neue Switch Lite in Blau 67:55 - Unsere anderen Podcasts 69:10 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr New Pokémon Snap bei Amazon kaufen: https://www.pcgames.de/podcast-NewPokemonSnap Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast

Game Awards 2020, Nintendo PR, NIntendo Podcast, NPC Ep. 299

Chaque jour, deux chroniqueurs présentent les infos indispensables à connaître en matière de culture : les dernières actus musique, les sorties littéraires ou cinéma, les nouvelles pièces de théâtre et les séries à ne pas manquer... C'est ici !

Kommt The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time für die Switch? Möglicherweise! Zumindest, wenn man aktuellen Gerüchten glauben darf. In Japan wechselte eine seltene Pokémon-Karte indes für eine irrsinnige Summe den Besitzer. Neue Hot Wheels im Mario-Kart-Design wurden außerdem angekündigt. Super Nintendo World in Orlando wurde leider auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Und natürlich präsentieren wir auch wieder die spannendsten neuen Switch-Spiele sowie viele interessante Beiträge der Community - oh, und ein weiteres Gewinnspiel gibt es auch, diesmal mit Animal Crossing: New Horizons anlässlich des Weltkatzentags! 01:40 - Gewinnspiel zum Weltkatzentag 04:00 - Spiele der Woche (Switch) 08:30 - Ocarina of Time für die Switch? 15:00 - Nintendo-Präsentation im August? 20:20 - Pokémon-Karte für Rekordsumme 25:00 - Neue Hot Wheels mit Mario Kart 30:00 - Super Nintendo World verschoben 36:00 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr Paper Mario: The Origami King bei Amazon kaufen: http://www.pcgames.de/podcast-paper-mario Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast Der Nintendo-Podcast auf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/electricboogaloode Datenschutz (Gewinnspiel): https://goo.gl/tE1Ek5

Masahiro Sakurai hat in einer ausführlichen Videopräsentation die neue DLC-Kämpferin Min Min aus ARMS für Super Smash Bros. Ultimate vorgestellt - wir besprechen das Thema deswegen natürlich. Außerdem hat Nintendo-Präsident Shuntaro Furukawa angekündigt, in Zukunft weniger auf den Mobile-Markt zu setzen. Was das wohl heißt? Electronic Arts hat indes sieben neue Spiele für die Switch angekündigt, die in den nächsten zwölf Monaten erscheinen sollen. Und eine Pokémon-Präsentation mit spannenden Neuigkeiten, unter anderem New Pokémon Snap, gab es ja auch noch. Zu Beginn besprechen wir aber natürlich wie immer die besten neuen Spiele für die Switch, am Schluss kommt die Community zu Wort - und außerdem könnt ihr bei einem tollen Gewinnspiel insgesamt 15x Truck & Logistics Simulator für die Switch abstauben! Alle Themen der 97. Folge 01:40 - Gewinnspiel: Truck & Logistics Simulator 04:40 - Spiele der Woche (Switch) 16:50 - Min Min aus ARMS kommt zu Smash 27:30 - Nintendo enttäuscht vom Mobile-Markt 39:40 - Sieben EA-Spiele für die Switch 44:40 - Neuigkeiten aus der Pokémon-Präsentation 55:30 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr Paper Mario: The Origami King bei Amazon kaufen: http://www.pcgames.de/podcast-paper-mario Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast Der Nintendo-Podcast auf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/electricboogaloode Datenschutz (Gewinnspiel): https://goo.gl/tE1Ek5

Doch keine Switch Pro? Dieser Frage gehen wir heute nach, denn Nintendo hat sich endlich offiziell selbst zum Thema geäußert. Außerdem kommt The Wonderful 101 bereits im April für die Switch, der neue Mario-Film hingegen erst 2022, dafür kommt der Streifen gut voran, sagt der Nintendo-Präsident. Der hat auch die neuen Quartalszahlen vorgestellt, die wir besprechen. Außerdem kommt eine spezielle Switch im Animal-Crossing-Design heraus, die Spiele der Woche gibts auch und wir beantworten die spannenden Community-Fragen! Alle Themen der 76. Folge: 02:00 - Gewinnspiel: Dr. Kawashimas Gehirn-Jogging 03:40 - Live auf Twitch: Super Metroid 05:30 - Spiele der Woche (Switch) 10:40 - Nintendos neue Quartalszahlen 22:10 - Super-Mario-Film kommt gut voran 28:50 - Switch im Animal-Crossing-Design 31:50 - The Wonderful 101 für die Switch 38:30 - Doch keine Switch Pro? 47:30 - Community: Fragen, Feedback, mehr Dr. Kawashimas Gehirn-Jogging bei Amazon kaufen: http://www.pcgames.de/podcast-dr.kawashima Der Nintendo-Podcast bei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast Der Nintendo-Podcast auf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/electricboogaloode

▶ImGes – E3 2019, Nintendo,Rage 2, Final Fantasy Shadowbringers und viel mehr! In der heutigen Folge sprechen wir über unsere "Highlights" der E3 2019. Angefangen von Pokémon aus der Nintendo Präsentation bis hin zu Ubisoft und ihrem kläglichen Versuch uns "Just Dance" für gut zu verkaufen, ist einiges dabei. Wir können vorab sagen, dass die E3 in diesem Jahr relativ mager war welches aufgrund der Abwesenheit von Sony eventuell etwas damit zu tun haben könnte. Außerdem geben wir euch einen tiefen Einblick in das Spiel "Rage 2" von Bethesda. Und, was natürlich nicht fehlen darf, sind unsere Abschweifungen in komplett andere Themen. Wir wünschen euch viel spaß beim Hören. Blogartikel: https://wp.me/p9ecPT-CF Kontakt: info@isedpodcast.de

▶ImGes – E3 2019, Nintendo,Rage 2, Final Fantasy Shadowbringers und viel mehr! In der heutigen Folge sprechen wir über unsere "Highlights" der E3 2019. Angefangen von Pokémon aus der Nintendo Präsentation bis hin zu Ubisoft und ihrem kläglichen Versuch uns "Just Dance" für gut zu verkaufen, ist einiges dabei. Wir können vorab sagen, dass die E3 in diesem Jahr relativ mager war welches aufgrund der Abwesenheit von Sony eventuell etwas damit zu tun haben könnte. Außerdem geben wir euch einen tiefen Einblick in das Spiel "Rage 2" von Bethesda. Und, was natürlich nicht fehlen darf, sind unsere Abschweifungen in komplett andere Themen. Wir wünschen euch viel spaß beim Hören. Blogartikel: https://wp.me/p9ecPT-CF Kontakt: info@isedpodcast.de

Nun sind es einige Stunden her, dass die E3 2019 beendet wurde. Für das genannte Ereignis finden wir uns erneut zu einem LiveCast zusammen und reden nicht nur über die Nintendo-Präsentation, sondern reflektieren auch die anderen Auftritte auf der E3. Wie stehen wir zu den Ankündigungen von Nintendo? Freuen wir uns auf Luigi's Mansion 3? Können wir 2019 noch mehr erwarten? Dies und viel mehr besprechen wir im 119. TowerCast.

Das Beste kommt zum Schluss: In der finalen Nintendo-Direct-Ausgabe vor dem Release von Super Smash Bros. Ultimate wurden nicht nur die verbleibenden Kämpfer des Nintendo-Prüglers präsentiert, auch der Singleplayermodus wurde endlich enthüllt. Außerdem gab es noch eine ganze Latte an kleinen und großen Infos für darbende Fans! Lukas und Johannes besprechen alle Neuigkeiten im Detail und beantworten zum Schluss Fragen aus der Podcast-Hörerschaft. Alle Themen der 13. Folge in der Übersicht: 00:00 - Vorstellung 03:00 - Nintendo Direct zu Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Übersicht 04:20 - Die neuen Kämpfer Ken und Fuegro 13:15 - Trophäen vs. Geister 22:15 - Multiplayer, Online-Probleme 33:00 - Kleinere Neuigkeiten - Helligkeit und Audio! 42:45 - DLCs, Season Pass, Piranhapflanze 51:45 - Der Singleplayer-Modus 58:30 - Fragen aus der Podcast-Community Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerNintendoPodcast/

Nun ist es schon fast 24 Stunden her, dass die Nintendo Direct: E3 2018 beendet wurde. Für das genannte Ereignis finden wir uns erneut zu einem LiveCast zusammen und reden über die Nintendo-Präsentation. Wie stehen wir zu den gestrigen Ereignissen? Freuen wir uns auf Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Können wir 2018 noch mehr erwarten? Dies und viel mehr besprechen wir im 113. TowerCast.

Nintendo hat die Ergebnisse seines abgelaufenen Geschäftsjahres 2018 bekannt gegeben und dabei erklärt, dass der bisherige Präsident Tatsumi Kimishima im Sommer 2018 in seinen Ruhestand gehen wird. Nachfolger wird der 48-jährige Shuntaro Furukawa der u.a. Director, Managing Executive Officer und General Manager von Nintendo ist. Weiterhin gab es erfreuliche Hardware- und Softwareverkaufszahlen zu Nintendo Switch und 3DS. Auch gab Nintendo einen ersten Ausblick auf die eigenen Pläne für die diesjährige E3, wo Super Smash Bros klar im Fokus stehen wird.

Nintendo Switch Launch 55+ Age Gaming, with David Young The Not Old Better Show, Interview Series NINTENDO SWITCH Nintendo is launching its new console, the Switch, tomorrow, 3/3/17. I was invited to the big Nintendo party in Washington DC, recently, where I interviewed Nintendo PR chief, David Young about the Nintendo Switch's grand coming out party, where it's not just the concept that and I got to see the games, in the bold light of day, and learned precious details about system itself. Nintendo is allowing hands-on Switch play by the press and public for the first time in a few events around the world. Rumors have been swirling about what exactly the Switch event will reveal. The two biggest rumors regarding the Switch at present are that the system will cost around $299, and that it will debut with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as a launch title. But there are many more mysteries to solve, including what other games the system will launch with, what third party developers will contribute to the system and the more technical aspects of the console and its self-contained screen-controller. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, RIGHT UP FRONT: Launches March, 2017, $299 “edgy, millennial angled home/mobile hybrid 3 basic modes: TV Mode, Tabletop Mode, and Handheld Mode The “Joy-Cons” which control the games, are like next gen Wii remotes with advanced internal “rumble” haptics (explain) that can distinguish different sensations Battery life is 2.5 – 6.5 hours, depending on game, according to Nintendo According to Nintendo Director, Shinya Takahashi, the inspiration for the Switch dates to the 19th (this refers to Nintendo's card making history, playing cards, and card games geared towards playing with other people) Core gamers are crucial to the Switch's intial launch and marketing, but from there, core gamers, and others will help convey the appeal of the new games (1-2 Switch, e.g.) to a broader audience, and get them excited. To that end, audiences like my own, of 55+ age community, will be excited about Nintendo's ongoing commitment to them, because Switch is partly an experiment to address certain cultural differences. As an example, kids playing with grandparents.  One of the games I read about, which IMO, shows Nintendo's commitment to the 55+ age, as well as to the notion of players working side by side, is the game Snipperclips. Could you describe this game, in terms of what you're to accomplish, when playing with other people, and how the “Puzzle solving” aspect builds hand eye coordination, so important to 55+ age community.  Plus, this is a very social game. The event was spectacular and I spoke to Mario & Luigi, Nintendo representatives, Nintendo fans, families  Here's what some of them had to say about the game.

The Koppai Podcast returns with hosts Zak and Kaz Risk! An all Nintendo podcast dedicated to reporting/discussing news as well as other hot Nintendo topics! This week's episode discusses Super Mario Maker news and hype, as well as Splatoon, some Nintendo PR and more!

Melons!Die 63. Folge Uncommon Taste!Inhalt der Folge:News: PS4 mit großem Vorsprung auf Xbox One in Europa (8:16-15:10), Batman Arkham Knight PC-Port Desaster (15:11-24:58),Prototyp des Playstation-SNES von Nintendo und Sony in freier Wildbahn aufgetaucht (24:59-31:53), Nintendo Präsident Satoru Iwata im Alter von 55 Jahren verstorben (31:54-1:27:42)Hauptthema: Nachruf auf Satoru Iwata (31:54-1:27:42)Der plötzliche Tod von Nintendos Präsident und CEO Satoru Iwata Ende vergangener Woche hat zu großer Trauer unter der Videospielgemeinde gesorgt und auch das Uncommon Taste Team war zutiefst schockiert und betroffen von dieser Nachricht. Aus gegegebenem Anlass hielten wir es für mehr als angebracht dieses Hauptthema dem Mann zu widmen, der Nintendo nach der entäuschenden Gamecube-Ära mit dem Nintendo DS und der Wii zu neuen Erfolgen geführt hat. Dabei wollen wir sowohl auf den persönlichen Werdegang von Iwata sowie auf seine Zeit als Präsident von Nintendo zurückblicken. Was machte diesen Mann so besonders vor allem im Vergleich zu anderen Firmenpräsidenten unserer Branche? Wie sehr tragen der Erfolg Nintendos nach dem Gamecube seine Handschrift? Tasties:Joes Tastie: Final Fantasy X - Sonata quasi una fantasia (1:27:43-1:32:13)Merlins Tastie: Skyforge (1:32:14-1:38:23)Und natürlich interessiert uns auch diesmal wieder: Wie war eure Meinung zu Satoru Iwata? Was hat ihn eurer Meinung nach besonders gemacht? Schreibt uns! Unter uncommontaste@gmail.com oder hinterlasst Kommentare unter uncommontaste.de, facebook.com/uncommontaste oder über Twitter @Uncommon_Taste!Intro und Outro aus dem Track Immersion von Digital X unter der Creative Commons Lizenz.Viel Spaß beim Hören!Joe & Merlin

Trauer im Games Aktuell Podcast. Zu Beginn von Folge 372 beschäftigen sich Host Andy sowie seine Gäste Thomas und Lukas mit ihrer Beziehung zu dem kürzlich verstorbenen Nintendo-Präsidenten Satoru Iwata. Dem folgen die Besprechung von F1 2015 und die Auswertung zur jüngsten Umfrage "Die Emanzipation weiblicher Protagonisten". Wie sich dies auch in der Diskussion zu Duke Nukem wiederfindet? Hört selbst. https://www.facebook.com/GamesAktuell

Featuring: The whole RFN team is finally reunited, plus another special guest!Cory Lewis takes us on his unique journey through the games industry, from IGN64 to Nintendo PR and Pandemic Studios!New Business is stacked with games, including Spirit Tracks, Excitebike World Rally, Band Hero, and PixelJunk Shooter!