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it's Tuesday februari 21st your experience in the crave podcast I'm Donald Bell eric franklin Bonnie cha welcome hello we're all here again hello welcome back here enjoying the joy ride thank you I'm feeling really good all right you fools glados man you cannot get a more dynamic and exciting beginning to you everyone I'm trying to hold it back and try building up just like that we're talking the book that's right I was a highway guys the best and we're at it yeah you know what that means no no it means you want to talk about lego minecraft i do is happening who does it it's already happened it's happened it's a they already have a preview page here for you can pre-order your 480 piece lego minecraft microworld set do this summer for thirty four dollars and ninety-nine cents huh and it's all over that bet you'll see little connector pieces that connect the little grids of minecraft soil together yeah i can have you ever expanding minecraft world because him lose a little Greek credit I've never played minecraft I've never actually went on that's not true i played the iphone version of Minecraft for like five seconds before i decided that it was not worth my time I turn off I was more excited about this just being an expansion of lego universe I love ya oh yeah but how did you have any experience with my friend no no no no no next week when it's the actual lego lord of the ring set coming out i'll be just as excited about that right I'll be more excited I'll be excited about that yeah I guess one thing can coexist in the same lego universe though you can have Lord of the Rings trampling over your minecraft creation you can have mine craft Mordor yeah I got the orcs attacking your your your fortification that you've built in Minecraft I understand that's part of the game like you build these forts and people monsters come attacking me up the bath in the mall for some little hat all right moving on then story always good I thought we had a video for this know there is a most exciting videos all right that guy you know he looks like that guy looks like if you're watching CES messiest CS I and they have the one guy who created minecraft it's like one guy it would look just like that guy like not that one guy could create a game like they're they're playing what if they did it would be that dude yeah you're gonna say it was like David Caruso when he was younger oh no uh-oh seriousness reducing lego minecraft a minute by these guys yeah like we need to monetize yeah and that's then they do that and they print out the lego minecraft using their probe ninja the 3d printing skills in the 3d printer no it just started pouring out of his laptop okay that works apparently sounds nasty it was funny fish alright so what you will not be building with minecraft unless you have a very long time and I like actually no I guess this would be only place you could in your lifetime build this thing instead about to death sorry yeah you could build it in Minecraft digitally in a day may be right sure like a hours yeah but if you were to actually build the Death Star using real-world materials in this case it's a estimated that they would build it out of steel right and using a typical steel density of a modern warship it's been estimated from economic students at Lehigh University that it would take around 800,000 years to produce the Death Star at current rates yeah I like that that's your thinking that this is gonna be built by robots right well does mean that man a little BOTS yeah the fine name they're not yet this name didn't look like was like you know well you're talking about you're trying to return a Jedi of course when it's like it's like it's like two-thirds or three-fourths built already and like there's a one piece I wasn't built yet and I'm so building alright well yeah I mean we could we could debate you know the the fictionalized movie version of it but if you if you were an actual person you're like you know what that was a really good idea why don't we do that right why don't I build a moon-sized warship that can just travel in outer space and destroy stuff I can't why don't we do that och now but uh because it would take a hundred thousand years according to the corn to these guys I'm just saying what why why limit yourself disease why limit yourself to steal Madison you want your you deliver yourself to something yeah right um if you're gonna do this little is no fun estimate thing whatever I I don't want people to be discouraged in building a REAL Death Star's I'm saying right I don't want people to be out there like wallets we can never have it 800 that's impossible right it's like people we have building the pyramids are like oh well it took you know forty thousand slaves you know hundred years to build these rocks and huge boulders coming from miles away like no need a little bit of rock yeah what are you which what do you imagine a bathroom conspiracy it isn't a bit yeah no I just I don't want the next evil empire to be discouraged uh you know not building the desk so if you were estimate if you were Darth Vader's second-in-command that it survived the the chokehold yeah you would say you know what we could do this a lot faster no I balsa wood and a stronger force field Plexiglas it oxidizes by the way the future is my pain is that I guess so I you know anything quite see the toxic residue from manufacturing entire planets worth of Plexiglas it's the movie overboard taught me anything it's that Plexiglas he's the answer to all our problems that movie let me be walking around the dust are not just the reek of plastic with that knock you down no no I wouldn't bother you get used to it let me get used to I think well people if we're gonna really make this happen we're gonna have to work with Eric and these economic students define yeah yeah because they should contact me for sure can't really rule over the universe as a single Empire without a really kick-ass moon sighs you know battle station that has a really really stupid weakness and we point but I just shine frickin laser yeah a little hole that you can shoot a torpedo down there you go gotta breathe somehow right breathe one just cover that why is that there is why don't you need an entrance into that I room with I don't know either smells we die basically it's what you say another story that blends the movies with reality here is that DARPA is actually putting seven million dollars of funding behind a program code-named avatar okay which will develop develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allowed to act as a soldier surrogate okay now this is actually happening this is at we add we have been million dollar program what do you say dog-eared seven million dollars of funding here I don't say that it's right over here in the second paragraph yeah um DARPA's got it they're gonna make it happen avatar ish in at least robotic Lee becoming closer to reality so is this not on them is this james cameron influencing the real life or is did he get that idea from like a like an idea that someone else um engineers had years ago right and he was just like well I could make I should make a movie out of it you know and like you know put that in the movie or something like that my oars is like is it both are they both feeding off of each other in this you know i just i don't i defended me I don't want to give James Cameron credit yes I knew that's what you're going with yeah the the take your gonna have um this seems like a really in and I would actually put the having just finished and I hate to admit this from my own key credibility having just fender finish finish orson scott card's ender's game why I'm trying to slide again put a person for the first time oh wow nice everybody oh we gotta gotta talk after right there it's like it's not the spoil the book but it kind of plays into the same thing / ya are sure by decades sure sure sure oh yeah for sure that yeah and he wrote that we was like early 20 so they should have they should have really nickname this thing entered or something the ender program maybe I've been waiting for that movie for so long the Ender's Game movie it's I don't think they should do it at this point I actually what before I heard they they're actually cast it they just got ya know they're actually actually are doing it now they're aging the kids wow I think I'm in the book fair like from five to ten maybe yeah right at least for the first half of the book but like they're casting like 12 and 13 year olds it will just fine I don't want a five to 10 euro act try to act its kind of totally turn into a disna fight monstrosity no matter how you got it because if you get kids why do it big why do if your dad is no Phi monster because that best story is so undignified especially want to get an end like when you say this you know all the speaker for the dead stuff and this is on deep agencies Hollywood can do weird twisted things to a story that involves children that's what no one can to help good at twisted horrible things out of know that's I mean if they're if they're done in the way that this book was done sure treating kids as like kind of delicious and adults yeah Hollywood has a hard time doing that room authentic less true without making it that's that's the month es part that's the best part of Ender's Game you know there's there's a this is a shower murder scene in that book it with its kids and some kids try to murder one dude and and people a person gets killed in that shower so much for I spoilin and well the way I was reading candles who's anything in that book is like 40 years old so I think we're losing the chatter oh my god let's talk about the last blending of reality and horribleness and twisted this an AR what is this an app that blends Barbie and your photographs tell me about this guy's it's showing Barbie's dream closet and using augmented reality you can try on clothes him thank you for that aqua for you um Barbie and Ken's outfit you can try it on yeah so but Bonnie came to me last week was like give a whit cam as I I could find one and I ventually brought one over to her and she made me I did try on these clothes virtual clothes you were happy to volunteer don't even put that on me he forced me to do this o people and but we did get at least one very cute picture about that yeah um out of this is not ok you can tell them both these these photos that be the costumes are made for kids like little necks or something you're supposed to get wired like an arrow my shoulders to try to fit into that little thing it's just wasn't hey guys the app wasn't very busy and it kept switching like it wasn't I don't know what some when i was in the buggy or somehow knows why but you can make fun pictures that you post on facebook yes does it play this in the soundtrack the entire time you do fortunately no would have been that much better than this is this is like my my life soundtrack so always playing in my head so i don't really need it so yeah this enthusiasts I khals between this and hold my hand on me p that's why I'm so happy all the time yeah bubbly I need to do that all right this last one here I'm throwing in because I don't know how I feel about it I'm am ambivalent about this the D can the camera of the future yeah yeah so basically the designer said you know now that we don't have like actual film canisters anymore you don't have to have cameras that are square yeah and he thinks this is a more ergonomically better camera sure I guess cylinder and it reminds me of the lytro camera yeah more about the lens and the the actual so he like post Vegas uh selection with this as well it's it's really just a kind of just a fantasy here yeah but what I guess what has my throne is just the scale of this it looks like it's beer cans size flashlight so yeah there's another picture on a what a pig's little bit device is something else shows it to scale kind of yours that the batteries i got me 50 good not in a source petapixel keep talking about all I'm saying is that like something going in my pocket and it looks like a roll of quarters it might be a weird if you by chance or it might be beneficial be sure to keep your g maybe I just say you angle it the right way square you can interpret as a wallet oh that's camera this is this wallet honey don't work oh that's right that's right this is me Donald Bell wap fem Street the holidays even my TRO goes for a little bit more of a square design I'm sure the first design was very um cylinder like and someone's like you don't want to it looks a little yeah yeah you can't see the kitchen think of the kids my kids are just walking down street just path it's like the fight club subliminal thing kids will all pass you the only me know either upset they just start crying you got a big smile on your face yeah so cool if they make this I just I think it's going to need a design revision or three four I'm gonna use it sure I don't know uh yeah but it could take amazing pictures yeah I think we're focusing on exactly the reasons why people won't buy it but whatever even thought of that but it but it's all about ergonomics I by a woman yeah baby that's a little a lonely woman oh there's a vibrate question no but if the macro selection does go from vigorous to calling which in particular now you know this is welcome back to gadgets oh no no welcome to our favorite segments meanwhile oh I love it I love I'm gonna perfect the awkward pies oh no no it's so good because it really does feel like you are you take control of the board your telekinesis all of a sudden just like he's like you get your shining on or something and exactly i use my youtube I get your Cooper guys um anyway yeah what do we have what everything is um so I was out last week guys well if you remember this we cry a little bit I made it through okay good alright cool that's good good to know I was missed um one of the things I did do uh when I was at home sick and I finally woke up after my nyquil induce unconsciousness is I download the mass effect 3 demo the mass effect to a mass effect one or two of my favorite games of all time aspect to especially these are great games that are there RPGs but they have a very very defined shooting mechanics so they they're almost like Gears of War plus an RPG on top of it you have all these decisions you can make all these moral choices one of the best things about mass effect is that the choices you made in part one will carry over to part two and and now part two in the part 3 so characters that you know probably one you actually have to decide if someone's going to live or die like there's two characters you can't save them both your decide who's gonna leave a diet made the selfish choice in part one to save the woman I was banging oh my character was back in the game so in the subsequent Mass Effect she's there what the dude who I chose to have killed you had me a virtual banging banging games yes it's kind of weird our debt amazon prime here we go so anyway um one of the UM so I've been playing through that the demo and it's it's of part three and it's so good like the part to that the control was was awesome but they've further refined it to be more like your kicks more agile run faster doesn't get tired what he's running show us a little oh yeah you can start playing at UH run this while you ran yeah sure yeah you don't listen look at my face when it's going on yeah that was just go by is that that's that's that's no that's that's you that the great thing about mass effect is that you kind of you create your own main character so you can create a woman or man they can be you know whatever race you want them to be they can be gay they can be straight it's not like you pick old gay or straight you just make organic choices throughout the game of who you want to have relationships with you can you know men can pick certain men women can pick certain women or you could pick the opposite sex as well you pick aliens or humans whatever this is our I which is what you see in is a multiplayer that's the new thing a mass effect mass effect 3 is that there's a multiplayer mode which is basically um I can I love that this guy you use the inception music for this stuff it works really well um but the new thing as effects that there's a multiplayer mode that's basically horde mode from gears of war but you you know you're trying to survive these 11 rounds as opposed to like 50 rounds of hormones is like kind of you know unattainable stuff 11 rounds I can survive which I've done in the demo planet demo and basically you have like you're taking out all these AI troops that are coming in and you're kind of defend your positions and you also have like missions every every couple of missions you'll have specific missions to take out certain AI stuff anyway it's awesome stuff and that character burglar you have actual character progression in the multiplayer so it's like you make these meaningful choices every time you level up like in previous mass effects you don't make as many people as many meaningful choices like it can be like you know you can choose from like well I want thirty percent more damage on this thing or I wanted to affect more larger radius or some like that so we making these meaningful choices like all the time so it's really awesome in there's different classes and when do we get it March sex is when we get it um I've never really played a demo this much like it's a demo and I'm planned crap out of it it's it's crazy how much how addicted i am to this game right now so is this why we didn't see you last week or is that well no um and if you're interested in the Mass Effect universe you should check out io9 day this is great one of the writers did a great write-up it's called why mass effect is the most important science fiction universe of our generation and you can read it and read you know his take on that why he thinks that is one of the the best things he says about that is because in like you know Star Trek Star Wars and all these other science fiction universes the the main protagonists is whoever they want the main protagonist to be but in this you know in this universe like I said you this the main protagonist could be non male non-white and can be gay you know so it's like and and the the character the main character of shepherd is one of the only characters in science fiction or in video games where the main character is people's favorite character because it's you and you make your choices based on you know whatever you want you know you can be go down the Paragon um away you go down the renegade way and make all these really cool badass choices or you could be like you know paragon of virtue whatever its yeah so it's really good you agree that it most important I actually do agree that thought that even before i read this i was because it's so well thought out so detail I mean there's a lot of reasons these go he goes into but beyond just that kind of stuff like like these the history like the kind of lure of that universe is very well thought out and it seems very plausible at the same time and when the biggest thing he says is that human beings aren't the most important people in the galaxy in this universe where is like you look at Star Trek is always like you look at the Federation is like well the Federation of Planets and it's like mostly human and I was kind of so they even make jokes about that in the Star Trek universe and the same thing with Star Wars you don't see as many aliens you humans and with hit with this one you get to see like human beings put in their place so they like you guys what you just started this thing you just got this fashion light travel you can't have this much responsibility that kind of stuff so the Admiral Ackbar quotient is raised up definitely definitely all right definitely lots of Akbar's anyway uh-huh Admiral Ackbar's uh it's always a trap uh select to the last episode yeah yeah yeah but I ever I saw it good hey support and why do you say was amazing I just rated show ever Jacqueline was not there hmm it's look into that see the meaning of that villain is um there's also a new trailer from a severe you can start playing that we don't have to like go through the whole trailer anything like that but it just looks really cool um you know the hell of that warning the whole thank you the whole fame is odd take back the earth because every there there there Reapers are finally attacking Earth and it's been kind of you know something you know you've your characters kind of predict it's gonna happen and no one kind of believed you and it's finally happening Earth's being attacked and whatever and it's just really really great suit egcg if you want to check that out we all have to play the whole thing here I kind of want to move on to the next thing but it's really cool the next thing is someone did an awesome they mailed it to my favorite well one other movies of all time and one of my favorite movie series of all time prestige and the dark knight series they kind of melded that and and they kind of like kind of put the depressed ease audio over the three Dark Knight trailers or the great Batman trailers and you could play that right now because it's really cool every magic trick consists of three parts Thanks first part is called the pledge the magician shows you some only becomes bird he shows you the subject perhaps the ocean teach me Satan is it a grip I don't know course it probably isn't the second is called a tow the magician takes before me something and makes us do some extraordinary now you're looking for the secret where you weren't found because of course you're not really looking if you don't really want to know want to be full but you wouldn't clap yet because making something disappear isn't enough you have to bring it back that's why every magic trick as a third act now or this power the part we call impressed e pretty great ads off and if you didn't know about the movie again you just assume that's just the most elaborate prank yeah trailer for The Dark Knight but they went through this whole magic thing about the deconstruction of the magic trick but it works for me whatever you ever seen a prestige anyone a stable i have i've seen it okay i know you see it it's awesome yeah it's great yeah anyway that's a free-kick news this week that's it for the great podcast this week what a great block has like a baby body shower slide it off and then we're off well be sure you for some much side flood come out that come on down to shakeys at your face is killing me i'm sorry i couldn't get gonna give it going you just said sitting and staring at the air it's not fun davao downtown just stay there how about Donald interact with does a little bit let's go it was a lil sumpin here it's a is 1143 day of Donald bells in the studio what is sated shirt on say where was that about Donna hates when I do like I cuz he knows I'm just hamming it up thank you guys for being here sure this last episode of cribs over we just handed it in it hang it up no with any luck we'll be back here next week Tuesday's eleven o'clock pacific please join us continue to join us yeah in spite of all of this let's see next week you