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you hey what's up everybody it is Friday may 66 where are those flowers six that's all don't say that again where the flowers april showers May flowers were in the thick of May supposed to be springtime and it's 44 what april showers april showers May flowers so you're asking where the flower where the goddamn flowers it's not raining now it's an 45 degrees outside like weird I didn't think that it would be like this it's awful but I'll tell you this yeah when I told Scott Stein this morning yeah said when he was worried about it but worrying about it over a bagel sure I'm like dude I would take the rain and the cold and the rawness outside overheat any day you kidding I want to cut off for you temperature while yeah what's too hot too hot for me is like above 68 shut your mouth you're lying if that's your life I'm tell even you don't like to wear shorts not really really yeah you've got a tattoo on your leg that is only visible when you're wearing it's for me and me only really it's for you no look at yourself in the mirror well apparently wearing shorts my whole life did me in John yeah you know it's true I don't know I that is ironic it is ironic I don't need to be warm I don't want to sit on the beach I don't need to be sweating disgusting warm but the idea of like perfect Mayweather where it's like 72 and like you can go outside the shorts and a t-shirt and like sit on a park bench yeah it's lovely who wouldn't want that for me it's the allergies to kick in right around that time but when when you when you have a heart yeah as black and and dark is mine yeah you only seek the dark it's just a sweaty heart it's the problem yeah and I hate sweating yeah I've I have I don't have a sweat problem yeah but and it's not like I'm out of shape I exercise I do my thing sure but I definitely sweat quicker than most yeah and if you can and if you can identify with that if you can relate to that you know worm coming from yeah and you just don't want to sweat right like i don't i don't want to do that i get it i hate it and people look at me and it comes out of my forehead yes and they're like what's wrong with this guy it's like 60 degrees while yeah exactly and the second at 60 degrees is when I start to really sweat yeah it's I know I know it's disgusting it's a real shitty way to start a podcast but that's what happened yeah you got us going on about the weather I'm sorry thanks a lot Russ fresh that's how it starts have you otherwise you're doing okay yeah I'm doing good have anything you want to talk about everything I have a new job we can talk about that wait a minute yeah you you're like a you're like a Renaissance man a journeyman I preferred journeyman why why do you prefer that nomenclature you know renaissance man implies I don't know it implies that you're doing many many different right yes whereas like you kind of just been orbiting the same thing that makes any sense yeah definitely in the same congrats on your new job but what the hell are you doing uh so there was a time several years ago mmm two ish years ago when I worked for a website called polygon com I have heard of that you might recall me being on the podcast talking about it before I was actually hosting this podcast and I've rejoined that teams back I'm back they needed some support it's on the video side so I've joined their excellent video team and yeah making cool fun video content for the Internet I feel like words are dying I don't know about you but the written word Shakespeare head his day you think do you really believe that and I know your current employment it obligates you to share that way there is a part of me and like so suddenly when I was thinking about like where to go and what jobs to take and whatever there is a part of me that feels like media in particular there's a value in video that just does not exist in text anymore which is to say like if you're looking like every video view you do is worth ten times the amount of every page like normal text page you do right so and people are lazy and and ever like where people are making money is in video so I would not be surprised if in five or ten years functionally you're gonna see a lot less I mean there'd still be written text but in terms of like big media companies I think the math of priority is gonna be on video oh man I mean it already is going that is but i think that keep going I think it is now because video is the more profitable medium on the internet right but I mean there's no way text is ever going to retake that throne right just can I feel like it epson flows right there there there does become room for like long-form journalism and and that kind of stuff I don't think that's necessarily going away no no no I think but I do think there is also like a bubble coming and I would also say long for journalism has the potential to be a very risky lost leader I think it's valuable and it's awesome content but if you spend let's say three weeks on a written piece of content that goes nowhere like audience was like that's very expensive and if that was a five minute video that essentially has the same amount of information oh there's more potential for gain and that's just like a very like gross monetary economic way to look at it what is it gonna do to us as a as a as a society I think you think like we're do eat no no no written obviously and long for written will still obviously always exist I'm really just talking about like economically where money will be made in bulk is at least in media predominately video so if you have these great ambitions and great desires to become an author a novelist yes you think you should maybe rethink know you can make a ton of money as a novelist so long as someone options here serious remove the Martian yeah okay there you go not tips yes little guidance counseling from Russ fresh dick I yeah I would say and I'm sure the kids already are well aware this like I'm learning a lot of video editing tools now that I never ever needed to learn cuz like hey written reviews and like all that stuff like did extremely well for a very long time I can see that changing and not just like it polygons I think everywhere where there's this demand for people in the media to know more than just like I know how to play a sentence together it's like oh but can you use premier can you record the oh can you do after facts can you put graphics in can you like they don't want specialists they want generalists measure makes them yeah they don't want a producer and an editor they want a predator exactly screwed up because I I'm gonna go ahead and say yes I did see the writing on the wall very early a mic when was that I saw it in like 07 yeah wait I mean there used to be people that whose entire job it was to take written text like they would be sent written text and they put it on the internet for you that was their job they're like and we had that digital producer whatever your men i'll tell you a shocking story okay about when i first started here yeah you didn't put you didn't use a CMS didn't use a content management system to get your stuff online yeah you sent a word doc yeah to some guy right and he or she was like the produce was like the web producer right that's crazy yeah and by today's standards 89 years later it's effing crazy and people talking about automation when it goes crazy back then totally people talking about automation when it comes to like building cars or like don't like auto check out at the supermarket but like it's effectively the same thing where these jobs that were pretty mindless but needed to get done are no longer necessary because the tools get better and easier for most people to use where you know specialists that you know you need to have a skill that most people can't use like if you were a drone pilot five six years ago and you were the only one shooting drone video you were like a huge luxury like everyone wanted you now some any Schmo off the street can you know by a drone and do somewhat decent video so where's the value like where is the value in humanity well you just need to keep expanding your horizons you can need to keep growing one capable of and learning and knowing like where the demand is next widen your your skill set exactly okay it's a scary thing it's extremely scary trust me out nothing more than just the coast on the minimal amount that I learned in school and the first couple years of my professional career just doesn't work I mean I'm sure there are companies and jobs were like you know your stuff and that's where you're at but um you know that's a lot of places not I mean you need to keep keep an eye on that horizon and let me give people listening who maybe are entering the job market for the first time in their lives yeah maybe they're getting out of college or soon to be getting out of college here I've talked to a few people who have been interviewing entry-level positions okay uh recently yeah over the last three months all these people need to get their together what the entry-level people these people I guess 21 about Millennials I'm talking about mallu but they still Millennials anymore they are we're pardon no we're not yes we are 80 early 80s is not a part of millennial is ray 18 to 34 right now yeah but I don't can I don't think that's pretty good your guard it I know I'm right listen ok sons listen fine right guys ever known as like boss just like always tries to say no you're wrong jeff and here's why cuz you're stupid and ugly no here's the deal yeah so i believe i do believe the cutoff is actually 1982 ok or 1980 okay but you also appreciate the fact that like there's no scientific anything to determine where they cut off of course not sure but I think like every time I talk about that demo to people yeah they're like who are older than me yeah they're like oh you just you just make it in that so again it's this you want to know my definitely zabal line i understand i'll give you my definition and i think i think mine makes a lot more sense because it'll probably be like more applicable yes yeah what's that my definition is if you just want to stay young have a peter pan con I understand if you were raised in a world and you know no other world then a world that was powered by the internet euro Moneo that's my definition I mean you could make the argument bra for us really sort of really in the 80 well I was 12 when I had my first but that's what I'm saying is it is i don't have over life before 12 you have any memory I don't know I just that's great my purse with your son nine to ten years many time my first Mary's 94 man that's very Jurassic Park and shawshank redemption my first memory all I can remember yeah this is being in the theater watching jurassic park okay is like my first down for it said yeah a dozen years went by and i didn't i didn't get any of that yeah not even any not even kindergarten nope that's what's supposed to happen right yeah you're supposed to remember how do drugs no memory no but okay fine yes I hey that's mine so how about we straddle all right maybe we straddle name straddle I'm pharmagen why but that's okay uh we're where we go where we going with it your point was your we're gonna talk ultra level so I talked to a few people and one person said to me they think we're dying to hire them like the entry-level millennial person I like they're very full themselves su perfil themselves believe the world is just waiting to just pick their brain yeah and I get that there's a certain naivete that comes with like being that young sure and assuming the world is ready to welcome you with open arms and I want to sound like mr. get off my lawn here but no that's not how it works I know automatically with like Instagram and Twitter and YouTube and like and the fact that like we don't really we kind of like hide conflict from from kids like we disguise it we can oh sure okay we kind of see like oh no you finished 83rd place but that's still good again I don't like participation drove right and I don't want to like fly the flag like oh we should never wish you know yeah treat everyone I don't want to get into like a controversy with that I just think like real world maybe doesn't operate like that shirt like i'ma believe in people who say like all I would never pay my kids for good grades yeah well guess what they're gonna get paid for being really good at their job later on in life you have to learn that lesson sooner or later right I think there's kind of two kinds of people that come into those interviews I think confidence in an interview is very important so like jelly I can do that totally sure I would also say obviously like confidence without sounding cocky or and and you need to something to back it up by mon people don't assume oh this is a capable person because they talk with confidence right like if you or let's say you're applying for a social media manager position show growth you gotta show that you've done stuff what's what have you done and and people will you know give you credit because of like what your experience is not because you came in with like a go-get-'em attitude necessarily I mean that helps but it's really just one part of it it's funny I was watching this quick and dirty little documentary it was about an eight to nine minute of little segment and it was about the plateauing of skill yeah and and I think it was called like have you noticed everything is a little bit meaning don't you notice like why why do we why have we found the god particle and can you know understand black holes and put a man on the moon and all this amazing revolutionary stuff but like train suck and they're always not on time everyone sucks at their job and why do we have to call customer service and wait on the phone for 84 minutes just to get five dollars off my next bill sure hell's wrong with everything why does why is the why is everything broken yeah and this the argument is that people get promoting people in their job is only going to ensure that you get promoted to your point of an competence yes meaning you will get promoted and promoted and promoted until you reach a level at which you suck or your miserable doing it or you're miserable and then your work then reflects that yeah so it's like hmm right the system is broken well in the but the new system that's replaced that is essentially no one stays a job for more than three or four or five years not every industry not never industry you're right but like in a lot of these industries even like industries that were traditionally like that like it's very rare that you have um you know these long term over ten year kind of employments yeah so yeah I mean we're talking about a lot of weighty issues here Jeff it's getting a little heavy on the city this friday i think it's the weather because you know you look at the weather and you see that that tranquil kind of then like rain yeah that just has this really hypnotic yes effect on someone yes and it makes you look deep into your soul if it's mine it's it's it's dark and black yes for most ppl makes you think about the world and where we're going where are we going Jeff I think we're gonna tour going to talk about your brush with 911 oh yeah what happened okay well I should be more specific I so in New York City there's the headline is what that well I called 911 in a way that's the headline you know way this week okay add to speak to a nylon 1911 off your operator okay there you go that's a that's a headline and as yet people who listen to podcast might know I don't do super well with bureaucracy or like government organizations because they as we've talked about tend to be a little bit old-timey in the way they do things and they all think you're edward snowed yeah well this was on the phone so they're still easy goes down like that and so that sleeps through the why it might it might so i live in in queens and i'm on the eighth floor of my building in Queens and i over look like a lot of smaller houses down below me and i'm working at home editing this video and there's an alarm that starts going and it's really infuriating it's not like i can't tell if it's a car alarm or house alarm expelled for the record Russ may have called 911 for a car wait stop stop one second because this is all relevant so this alarms going off it's like chirping hello really generally free okay oh sorry I had to do that so fair so I'm it's like a chirping noise and it goes on for like two minutes but it's very loud and then it turns off for about 15 seconds and then it goes on for another two minutes and it's it's infuriating now I know that I there's a police station right around the block from my apartment it's a very nice police station always you know cops outside whatever so I google map it and I find the number for the weigh station I call the police station they're like if you're calling about a noise complaint use 3113 um one in New York City is just for information generally so you'll like hey what are the parking rules for this week or hey where can I get a good bagel you can call 311 really I think you can actually oh they were a lot of different happy there 311 huh yeah so I called and I went like through the robot thing to find the noise complaint number and it connects me to a person and the person is like high with your complaining I'm like well there's an alarm going off it's been going off for an hour and she's like okay I need to cut to connect you to 911 I was like that seems unnecessary I mean it's just annoying just like no that's how we have to do it what so I'm going to connect you to the operator right now and stay on the line okay so she stays on the one she's like okay 911 operator we have someone on the cut line and the operators like is this emergency and she's like nope not at all and I'm like hi so there's an alarm that's been going off the 91 what so the 311 operator gets off the phone okay so it's just me and the 911 operator she's like okay so what kind of alarm is it I'm like I don't know it sounds like a chirping and I hold the phone up sort of in the general direction cause like I can't hear it sir Sir I came here sure half her day is like I can't hear it yeah um and she's like is it a car alarm your house alarm and I'm like well it's hard to say cuz I'm like above it and I don't know where it's coming from specifically i'm gonna say I've never heard a car alarm sound like that but you know it could be a house alarm yeah she's like yeah well where is it coming from don't you know the house I'm like no I'm like I'm just looking at the general space where the sound is coming from there's no way to tell she's like well if it's a car alarm that's 31 ones responsibility if the house alarm that's 911 s responsibility so she's sending you she's sending you back like which I'm like well I don't know what it is and just like well what do you think it is I'm like at this point I don't want to go sent back to 311 so I'm like it's probably a house just like okay we'll send someone over 20 minutes later I get another phone call they call you back I call me back um that's surprising and they're like okay there there there now I gave them a block like I didn't give them a specific address because I didn't know where it was so i gave them like a cross street and they're like okay so they're there and I'm like okay and I look out the window and I see like a cop car like slowly cruising down the street that I gave them and she's like so are they in the right spot and I'm like yep they just need to roll down their window and just like well they don't hear anything and I'm like it's going on right now just open their window and they don't and they taste like do a slow drive and I'm like watching the window watching this car happen what's wrong with them and it keeps going on for like another hour and then eventually gets shut off because probably the owner the house came home or something but like first of all I went a little bit of power trip because it was pretty cool to see like like Omega phone calling the cops like show our kind of just like puppet master and I also feel like I was completely like in the bike it's a little bit of a grandpa move to like make a hat like a noisy point it's up there but it's a it's a house alarm it's not like it I thought like it's a Saturday night and they're like having a party downstairs who knows what could be happening and yeah well I did it cuz it was annoying I mean I wasn't super concerned about somethings house getting did you give their being burglarized you just know it was 90% annoyance yeah but it's just crazy to me that like that like how many stages needed to happen for someone to come by and then for the end ball to just be like totally dropped but if it was an emergency though yeah I feel like things because maybe it wasn't emergency maybe someone was breaking it no but the first thing that they said yeah was that this wasn't an emergency I said I am so it's fair so then but what do I know right but the second that happens like all right not the okay so what if i said this is not emergency but someone's on a shooting spree in the middle of Times Square will see an hour so by that as an emergency uh yeah so it was very intimidating the call and I guess 3112 911 making that transfer but I guess it worked out I don't know I it feels like such an old-timey way of doing things it's like can I just like I am someone and be like hey what up yes emoji siren it's basically like the equivalent of going through a switchboard yes what you did yes alright let's put that aside okay let's get into some video games ok I want to talk about a bunch of stuff today first thing I want to talk about you know III is on the way and we'll get into that a little more if you care about video games as a xiii approaches or about six weeks out now uh five whatever it is yeah but i want to talk about um the games like the wartime games that were like getting inundated with i mean i've been the last 20 years right yeah and a lot of this comes from the call duty game that just came out or just that was announced called infinite war yes there's been like a very kind of lukewarm reception of I mean the YouTube like downvotes is one of the highest YouTube downloads for any YouTube video out there right so what do you think it is do you think people are just like nothing called duty infinite warfare yes I am not joking that's what this actual game is called yeah I don't have a problem with the title I think the title is colossally stupid who cares what do you mean who cares that why do you think it's stupid infinite warfare or whatever never-ending forever war yeah war forever that sounds like a good way to make money like if I'm naming a game I don't call it call of duty Worf all the time forever never ending war like that just sounds so stupid fine forget that is sort of I don't have a problem with the title all right I just hate the word infinite yeah um and then you know on the B sketches were like oh why's is so too much war what war war war and I get it worse I I don't think that's the reason people know like they think the idea is lame yes because it's space yeah and it's like well guess what there's a lot of space games why is called do need to go to space now gonna blow up space these are without tension go up space you're gonna blow up outer space yeah good for you let's blow it I mission accomplished space is looking at me funny like blow it up take that take that vacuum yes I agree that's why people freaked out about I actually on paper have no problem with the concept if it remains pretty grounded and doesn't have aliens what you have is the the real issue with call duty games the last bunch of years is like you know we've seen basically any possible environment in every possible environment you could do on earth like jungle desert castle snow yeah like any castle yes there's like an old-timey castle sure sure uh you know like a chalet invite like we've seen all these maps overlay warfare so like there's something kind of intriguing and know about like say this planet is no not in space but like hey this planet is blue and has like weird architectural stuff and maybe the gravity's a little off and whatever that like at least you have a little more variety and I'm just talking about the multiplayer here and even the single player like all those campaigns feel the same because because they are is it yeah they are and there's a limit to like that places you can set them and the technology whatever that being said I understand why people were pissed because essentially there are so many games like in watching that trailer like visit their alien ship flies over and it looks like halo like it looks like halo just does and I thought and I'm a big call of duty fan and I was like well that doesn't feel super creative tomato like essentially just or Dwight even destiny like aliens I don't think it's aliens I think it's a lowly it's sorry here's what I think it is I think it's like aliens in so far at the movie series in so far as like the different corporations fighting against each other gosh I'm not with the aliens themselves that being said I'm sure at the end of the campaign is like a cult like a kicker at the end of the credits where it's like an egg opening and like a three eyes looking out or something like that it's it's war fatigue that's what people are upset about but you there is the rya understand that but there's a demand for it still those games still sell really well and the reason they sell really well is because there is a limit the number of things that you can do in a competitive space that is still fun for video games like it's pretty much sports like baseball and rocket League and stuff like that and shooter just like I got it and low and you know how much I love black ops 3 yep i was a big fan of that game kind of stopped playing a new player yeah i stopped too but oh you know i was super into it that's great for the longest i played a call duty game in terms of the the replay or in the multiplayer anyway so that happens on monday they announced this game and apparently so this so that game was leaked accidentally by sony yes we in the PlayStation Store of course not to be outdone Microsoft then accidentally leaks the new battlefield game whoops which is called battlefield one yeah that's as isn't the number one yeah and it is a and get this an alternate history world war one game yep where I don't know what the hell that means uh it's set rule or one but it's like in a world war one we're like there's probably some like weird test Tesla technology Tesla yeah I mean that's all you got uh and there's gonna be Zeppelin's with like we it'll be like bioshock infinite which is you know set after world war one but like that's it no but isn't this a pao chicken uh let's add your own team 10 no it's certainly around that I sure so that technology um and I mean I mean here's what I'm gonna say Battlefield games I I used to be a huge battlefield fan I love bad company I loved battlefield two I guess and but recently i have not been digging them they feel very stick like kind of static and predictable and boring and i'm glad that they're trying something new and also world war one is not a war that we see very often mostly because it's a miserable war that would be following war but if you throw in tehsil robots and like electricity guns I feel a little more interesting all of a sudden you might care about it I don't know if and for me it's just like I know like you covered a second ago there is a need to have this kind of game kind of just on repeat like we just need our war game yeah because they said it's the only bankable genre there is especially for EA and activision that like it's just guaranteed money it's just the sell these can without a doubt and they and it's not only that yeah but when you even look at like black ops 3 and advanced more like they keep breaking records yes not like oh yeah like they're like plateauing right I mean no peak eventually I'd I think they might peak with this one but yeah maybe um I mean they just continue to just kill it yes so you can't blame them right you can't blame anyone it's the reason why we have 83 you know Raymond and because they need to make these games they really do just from a like a financial spected I just have to have two numbers at least here's what i will say at least they're willing to like put themselves out there a little bit and do something different so like even that battlefield talking about battlefield sure so battlefield I mean even to a lesser extent call of duty I mean call of duty certainly feels of like a very safe way to change things but like advanced warfare was kind of like like adding a double jump to a call duty game is a pretty risky move yeah um and like so at least they're trying different things and trying to keep it fresh more so than like look at madden the reason madden peaked is there's just a limit to what you can do is football game so sports games in general yeah having a rough go at it yeah totally so that so yeah that's what i want to say is like at least they're EA certainly is is trying a little bit more to do something different we'll see if it pays off i mean i could see it certainly the name alone is not going to scare people but like i can see the setting you know for people that are looking just for like a realistic more game scaring some people off who knows i'll be interesting i also want to talk about and this is more Insider E but we get asked this a bunch and it's definitely worth bringing up um specifically for like recent events and whatnot right so there's a lot of games coming out there's a lot of you know I don't skepticism like the way games get disseminated from publishers yep and the review process and all that I guess we kind of like want to talk about a little bit specifically with one example where a game that's coming out very soon um there's no there's no there's no review happening really right well they're not they're not sending early copies out to right which is which is usually a normal thing i would say on average yeah on average a game will show up about of roughly about a week before it yeah comes out that's pretty stores yeah maybe 45 days writes about par for the course yeah on certain cases like on charter we got super early um it varies by by game yeah you can tell when a game is sent out super early it's maybe more like a bigger game yeah usually yeah usually they have more confidence in it and the game itself is just like takes a lot of time to play through right so there you have important word confidence yes logical to assume that if a game is not being sent to press yes and perhaps you know because a or saying a game is not being sent to press until maybe the day before or the day of release yeah it forces people to make a lot of assumptions yes same thing with movies yes when a an embargo is set for the day of release yeah when people can actually go out and get it for themselves see it for themselves you kind of say hmm yeah thinking bond yeah I think there's a lot of movies is a little different because because for movies if there's no press screening so a lot of movies have like early press screenings a couple weeks in advance if there's no press screenings i would say 99% of times that means the movies just garbage just because there's no reason not because that is the the studio saying yes not literally if they are saying we don't have necessarily the confidence in this movie right to get the critical acclaim that could potentially drive numbers right instead we will take our chances with word of mouth right and well we would see if crap right we feel that review at opening it up to early reviews would only hurt us is essentially what they're saying and there's no benefit so they'd rather try to make it their money as quickly as possible and opening weekend and then it'll fall off after the fact and that philosophy is pretty much page 4 page the same with a game I think so the difference with games ordinarily I'd say eighty to ninety percent of time yes that's the case like if you're getting a strategy right there are circumstances for a game there was a for example there was a game called Dark Souls 3 came out there was a patch that was supposed to go live at launch it didn't drop until a little bit after launch and in that circumstance I actually if I was them probably would have held it because the game ran terribly on us on ps4 for example right that them not sending out copies until the patch was ready probably would have helped their reviews quite a bit or just like hold a certain copy of it or something like that so sometimes if a game like an update or whatever is happening very late maybe they like won't give it out the press because they're afraid oh this updates going to change perception of it I would say that's rare that's again maybe ten to twenty percent of time more often than not it's just they think response is going to be bad and I would also say all this ties into the fact that like especially for gaming publishers are more and more coming to the realization that their reliance on the press is more not required at all right they just don't me too sure so when's the day going to come when they just don't give the game out I mean certain publishers do that already like I mean I can't think of anywhere they just don't give it out well I mean me giving it out whatever I mean it's the equivalent of waiting until launch day Davis you're right it's the same right and you're I'm once the games out what the hell is a matter and for this in particular game we're not going to shatter at or anything but for this game I wouldn't be surprised if they like gave it to youtubers or streamers whatever that like under the situation that they had to be talked about it in a positive light or something like that like that's very cuts happened in the past we're like those sorts of people to pro get the game early and it's it's sad because you lose the you know the honesty that you would get from like a you lose the indifferent editorial reaction right where it's like oh I haven't signed anything to have a feel like have an opinion about this get boils down to where you earn your money yeah and you work hard and you want an honest opinion about whether or not you should spend right a lot of freakin money on a video game yeah yeah so uh you know but that doesn't benefit publishers directly to have that level of honesty so they'll continue to cut people out left and right there's really no reason not to and that's their prerogative I don't blame them for it it's a business it's a business decision that's totally fine with me and it and on the media side like it just makes us work harder to get you know more of what people are looking for more interesting stories honestly on reviews and but also just like more insight than like an everyday guy would potentially offer right but it's it's tough reviews are very weird thing I think in games in particular like they are becoming less and less important and like stuff like playthroughs and commentary over gameplay is becoming the new norm because people just watch the game watch you play it and say like oh this is a game I want to play or not so it's hard to say I mean review still have their place but it's definitely not some not as much as previously that's what's crazy to me and it's something I don't I'm not sure I'll ever get my head around is when I see people talking about whether or not they should buy a game yeah and instead of buying the game they settle with the notion of well I'll just watch that game sure I actually it was crazy me for a while like I didn't get it like okay i can understand it if you just want to get the story shower game yeah you're like you know what I don't really care what happens in uncharted I just want to see like how Nate turns out yeah what happened or more you see like the big set piece moments bright like they just want to see the big okay fine yeah i guess i can i can understand that sure like they're certain games i'll never finish and like maybe i just watch the end right seen sure i want to see that yeah but to totally say well this game i really want to play but I can't afford soon said I'm just gonna watch it alright that hey you do whatever you want right you do whatever you want for me I can't I could not live with I could not settle for that yeah but you're not in a position to like happy have to make that decision of course not but I'm do I about soup for the rest of the month or do I back on duty uh I get it you know I get that I get it but I mean is that if that is a typical situation I don't think it's a super to but I agree like I think there's a lot of people that like just like if they're at a job they're miserable at and I just want to kill the day so we're just gonna watch a playthrough of the next call duty game and like whoa you can see the crazy space attack whatever thing so and that becomes the review like oh if they like what they're seeing maybe they'll buy a game maybe they won't but that becomes the review yeah it's interesting it's a shift from where things were I know it may I don't I don't know whether or not to be oh how to embrace is I'm sure how we kind of go on I think yeah I mean it goes back to what I was talking about earlier which is like constantly being willing to look at ways to offer your audience what they're looking for without pandering to them and and not being locked into like certain formats of you know how you do things yeah be interesting yeah we'll see how it all plays out I'm just happy to be a part of the ride right totally just a dream just fun to be on the roll it is it's great all right I think that's gonna do it for this week it was like nothing tech news it's a rough week for really nothing going on real rough um I'm glad we got to cover the things we did there's a new macbook there there's a name there's a new macbook ya um a couple rumors floating around in videos gonna be showing off their new stuff yeah I'm kind of excited about that new cards inside cards yeah next the next level hmm of Pascal car yes it's a weird that I can't get excited for that stuff because it's like like they announced a card but and they might like they'll show like a tech demo of it running but that's that's not a game that I'm gonna play no but you you care because you you know the next evolution of specifically their card yeah um and as an enthusiast I I tend to just follow their stuff I dry AMD is kind of yeah right at their heels with everything or not heels but doing their thing to hear um it's just like the promises of the next jump in just in terms of hardware performance yeah it's really exciting you know technological stuff yeah I get it I'd it's just hard for me to like make that leap from like here's it does 60,000 gigaflops to do gigaflops are cool don't write that off man don't don't write it off just bigger numbers is not enough for me I need to like see it in a game for me to be really impressed well maybe you can freakin call like those crazy like smoke physics stuff that they put in Assassin's Creed was like awesome but that that's only when it makes into a game yeah all right don't go calling 911 i'm going to write 31 1 866 404 cnet that's a number you should pay attention to that's the voicemail number shoot us a call leave us a message tell us what you think tell us how you're feeling and we'll hopefully play it on the air if it warrants such a thing the 44 at Cena calms the email you can reach out to Russ I'm sorry polygons Russ fresh dick yeah address rustic on twitter i'm at jeff bakalar that does it for us we're 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