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I was really excited to wake up this morning and see how much stuff had been blown off of Florida.

Oh, my God.

The place needed a bit of a wash, honestly.

Too soon.

You should not make light of a gigantic hurricane.

A lot of people will die for you.

I have family living down there in Florida.

Well, in fact, I've got friends who are there right now.

And also.

Floma's from Florida.

That rapper, Florida, is from Florida as well.

He's been blown away.

I thought he was Flo Ryder.

Is it pronounced Florida?

Mr.

Florida.

That's a public disclosure.

It's an interpretation, obviously.

Mr.

Ryder.

Do I call you Flo?

Do I call you Flo?

No, it's scary stuff.

I mean, I think

some of some of my friends are also in Disneyland at the moment.

Jesus.

Well, it's closed.

It's closed for the 11th time ever because of this hurricane.

Well, they are sheltering in their hotel, I guess.

Florida,

they've had they have hurricanes every year, right?

And so Disneyland are long used.

I think it's like bolted down into the core of the earth, fucking Disneyland.

You know what I mean?

That's why.

Well, don't worry.

You're safe here, kids.

Just making it fucking spared through the eye by a flying branch.

Yeah.

So I'm psyched for.

So I watched a video about the difference between a cat one and a cat five hurricane, category one and category five

cat five.

They had the guy standing in front of a house, like your average American house.

Category one, you're like, you're going to lose some of, they call it shingles, right?

Like roof tiles, basically.

You're going to blow off the roof and some trees will be swaying.

A couple of things will be blown around.

Your bins will will get knocked around you might lose something you might lose a window to some flying debris but but by category five the sides of the house are just peeling away the roof is blown off all the windows blow in the doors blow in nothing this house is just totaled oh god it's like a like a nuke it's bad like the wind is so strong and there's so much debris in the air all the trees are flattened loads of buildings get knocked over and you then have to contend with what they call the is it a storm swell or a storm surge where the water level goes up and it's like a mini tsunami that water just comes in so i mean the amazing thing to me is that this is genuinely like a once in a once a century storm well it used to be once a century storm they're they're they're coming with more frequency now the the atlantic in that region very warm causing all these big storms is like hurricane after hurricane hurricane season in florida but it's getting more and more dramatic there's still people saying oh i'm just gonna stay it'll be fine and yeah they're driving around in these trucks with these loudspeakers saying, If you stay here, you will die.

Leave.

And they're just like, I ain't going nowhere.

And then at the last minute, they're like, shit, maybe this is going to be bad.

And then all the petrol stations are out of petrol and the roads are jammed.

There's people trying to escape.

It's crazy.

I don't know how I would just live in a bunker at this point if I lived in Florida.

I think weather weapons have come a long way since they were first introduced.

I mean, they are terrifying now.

That was Marjorie Taylor Greene said that.

The first weather weapon ever used pales in comparison to modern-day weather weapons.

Modern day weather weapons.

Weather weapons.

It's like we tested the rain weather weapon on the UK for years.

Yeah, God,

it's a bit like the red matter bomb.

It's just the weather weapon that keeps on giving.

She said she showed a map of the path of the hurricane, and it's mainly going through like Republican areas.

And she's like, don't tell me they don't control the weather.

It's so obvious that they do.

And it's like, well, what are you talking about?

Like, it's just you,

I would suggest that the South is a slightly more likely to vote Republican.

And it's also warmer and near the sort of hurricane area.

It's that.

But she's like an elected official saying that someone is controlling the weather to kill Republican voters.

It's insane.

It's insane what people are saying these days.

It's funny.

It's, I mean, it is like, it's a tropical storm, right?

In a tropical area.

It's like this is one of the downsides of living in Poland.

Yes, you get sunny weather all year round, and yeah, it's a humid, fucking sweaty ball sack most of the year, but it's also, um, you know, this is what you people, it's not like it hasn't happened before, is all I'm saying, you know, yeah, although it could be worse, um, because the BBC weather app, it could be a volcano as well, the BBC weather app said that we would be facing winds of up to 15,759 miles an hour in the UK.

Is that high?

No, it was just a glitch in their app.

15,000 miles an hour.

Sometimes people say these numbers to me, and I'm like, not sure whether they're high or not.

It's like, ah, today's humidity is 65.

I'm like, is that high?

Is that low?

I have no frame of reference for that number.

But there was a glitch in the BBC weather app that suggested we'll be facing near 16,000 mile an hour winds.

I think at that level, that's like, that would strip you to the the bone.

You're going to need some goggles for that.

Yeah.

I think it was also, it also said it was like 150 degrees centigrade.

Oh, I love it.

It's like, it's like, interestingly, your body will just boil off.

You will boil alive and then be flayed by the winds.

Yes.

I ain't going nowhere.

16,000 miles an hour winds or nut.

I just want to, sorry to change the subject.

I just want to share with you.

Somebody sent me something.

I haven't, this is the first time I've opened something in a while.

I get it.

Is it greasy?

No, it's

greasy on the outside, that can be a sign of

explosive.

It's a greasy.

You guys can guess in a second.

I just want to say, I get things from time to time, but normally, like around my birthday or Christmas, you know, there's a couple of people that will send me bits and pieces like mugs and shirts and stuff like that.

But this one was like out of the blue.

This was a random one from a guy called Oz.

It was beautifully gift wrapped uh delivered by amazon it came in like a nice little bag with a bow and everything and it's that is the amazon gift wrappings as yes you can order that and request that and it's a book it is a book uh that with with pages that i can read and the book is called how to live with a huge penis right yeah

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it's written by a doctor and a reverend What the fuck is a reverend doing?

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I'm looking forward to reading this one.

Can you, yeah, have you got any, you're looking forward, you have got any quotes from it?

Yeah.

No, I haven't really gone through to look at quotes and stuff, but I just wanted to make you aware that it exists.

And I've just looked it up on Amazon.

Impressive.

I have it.

It's mine.

Well done.

It's mine to change.

There's a little ad for a little gift for everyone.

Every man needs this on his shelf.

Yeah.

It's just when visitors come around, they're like, can I catch OMG from another person?

Do you want to be sat in the corner of a bar reading that?

Just go

open.

I posted a quote, Can I catch OMG for another person?

Read the reply.

Reverend

It's really priestly voice.

Absolutely not.

And the stupidity of this question really pisses me off.

How come everybody worries about catching a huge penis, but nobody ever says, oh, I hope I don't catch those enormous tits?

Well, I do hope that I do catch those enormous bazingas.

Oh, fucking up.

Every day.

There is someone who is sending me

books about positivity in in general.

So they keep, I occasionally receive these books about, I know how, in fact, things are getting better.

Or like, cause I have talked about this on the podcast a bit generally about reading books that are not just about doom and gloom.

And certain, I certainly, I received one recently about British politics

from someone.

Yeah, it was called like,

it's not all that bad.

actually, you know, how to fix the UK or something like that.

And I was like, I read like a couple of chapters and I was like, oh, this is too dry right this is too serious i don't i'm not fortunately in charge of policy because oh god it would be a disaster if i was um

but i i also got sent uh the latest fighting fantasy book um wow by a gentleman who who then emailed me to check it had arrived right but he got it signed by the writers um the writers of fighting fantasy yeah there's a look called dungeon on blood island which we might do for jingle jam this year we always usually do one and it's a brand new this guy's always coming onto this podcast and plugging Jingle Jam.

Every week.

Every week we go.

It's going to be a big one this year.

It's going to be a good one this year.

Well, I always say that.

That's what they say every year.

Well, because remember last time on the podcast, I was talking about it being like a huge flop.

I've not had any wanted to sign up.

I've not had any games.

But fortunately, we've had a couple of

lads come into my email.

Right.

Well, we've had some conversations outside of this little sphere with people, and we mentioned your apprehensions, your worries.

Thank you.

And those people all sort of said what the is he talking about we got tons of things lined up for jingle jam

i got yesterday was there was a random guy um a random guy called connor right who emailed a games company right and just i've got this email here it's just like hi i hope you are doing well my name is connor i'm a huge fan of this game and the incredible fun it brings to players i invited to you both as a supporter of your game and a supporter of the yogscast a youtube collective that hosts an annual charity event called jingle jam blah blah blah blah blah.

I think this game would be a great addition to this year's drive.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Sent this nice email, right?

Yeah.

And

they replied.

They did him.

They replied to him.

And then he said, okay, I didn't expect to reply, but if you could contact the Jingle Jam at their contact.

And so then

they contacted the Jingle Jam email.

And then a week later, someone checked the Jingle Jam.

Connor, do you want a job organizing the Jingle Jam?

Jesus.

this guy's good uh and so then someone forwarded it to me from the jingle jam you are but like this guy's real good connor honestly like a

great job man helping me get through you know bringing joy to my life by doing that kind of stuff um i'm not suggesting everyone do it i was thinking it could be a bit of an unethical pro-life tip of never having to um pay for a game again because i think a lot of these devs get emails a lot and i do sometimes people saying oh can i have some keys for plate Playt Up?

I'm the Iranian Computer Club or whatever they are, or I'm the East German Computer Club.

We're doing an event where we need 100 of your Playt Up keys.

Can you send me them?

And then if I do, they go on G2A, you know, immediately.

But I think there is a, if you're smart about it and you ask the community managers on Discord and you say you're doing a live stream, you could usually get away with getting a key for most games.

People are, devs are very generous.

That's how I get all my keys.

I can't remember the last time I bought a game.

I forwarded a key to you yesterday.

I lie to people constantly, and they give me keys.

I got an email.

Sometimes people write to the Yogiscust email address and they say, Dear Sips,

and then Sophie forwards them to me.

Nice.

And I then have to be like,

this one looks really cool.

It's a really interesting game.

I'm glad that the guys email me directly.

And then I'm glad that Sophie doesn't just send them to me directly as well.

I'm glad that a couple of people have to read them first.

That's good for me.

That's like a serious assistance.

Yeah, I know.

Blessed.

But yeah, look, I'm excited to offer you a game key for my standalone version of our sci-fi building sandbox cutting-edge voxel technology game.

And there's a link to it for you, a key for you, Sipped.

Thank you so much.

Another free game.

Ah,

ah.

One free game.

And the rich get richer, baby.

Oh, there's a lot.

I'm just joking.

So I'm feeling better about Jingle Jam than I was last time.

I was worried this year because it's like

tricky to navigate those waters, right?

And walk that tightrope of asking people for generosity.

Look, listen to me, buddy.

You do great work every year on this.

Worrying about something means you care.

That's the way I see it.

So when you worry about something, it's because you actually want it to go well and you give a shit.

So fair play to you.

It's my big, it's my big passion.

So yeah, thank you, Colin, for helping out.

Thank you, everyone who's helped.

It might be Conor McGregor.

We always get like such a lot of might be God.

Could you imagine?

He's like, I'll fucking punch you out.

I've got a game for you.

You bastard.

Give me your game, you veckers.

I've got a wee game for you.

It's called trying to find me pottergold.

Oh, man.

I want to talk about two things.

All right.

First of all, first of all, this weekend, I want you guys to wish me luck.

Okay.

I'm going on a walk for Seattle.

Oh, yeah, yeah, good now.

18 miles we're going to walk on Saturday.

We're going to be very tired.

You're going down to Beemouth.

I am going down to the Bomo.

I'm going down to the mouth.

Oh, God.

18 miles in the cold.

It's cold now.

It's out.

It's nice.

The wind will be.

14 degrees.

Yeah, it's cold.

14 degrees ain't cold.

And once it goes below 10, maybe I'll put a coat on, but 14 ain't cold.

Come on, that's fine.

It's meant to be quite sunny as well.

There's going to be a a walk all around my hometown, um, in honor of my mate Lee, and we've raised a really good amount of money for it.

It's like over five grand, just friends and family.

And then I streamed for the last couple of weeks, um, just with a link, and loads of people in my community gave very generously, which is nice.

But I'm really nervous I won't be able to finish the walk, so I'm absolutely gonna push myself until I collapse because there's no way I'm not finishing this.

Just bring a cheeky um e-scooter in your bag, get some Heelys.

I was thinking I might get some Healy.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Just to take the edge off.

Yeah, maybe like some helium balloons.

Just get carried along.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or like, what else could you do?

You could have

someone push you in a little sidecar.

You could use some Wonka technology, make your life a lot easier, you know, or just lag to the back, hop on a bus, get off a few miles down the road, and then...

and then come out of a bush when the labs go past like I was just stopping for a pee and they haven't noticed that I was at the back.

No, I'm just gonna try and do the walk.

We saw something similar to that this weekend that just passed.

We went, my kids did a marathon mile, like a charity mile race thing.

A marathon mile.

They do, yeah, it's for them.

It's for little kids.

They run the whole way.

I'd like to see you run a mile.

Yeah.

You fucking would collapse.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

So these kids, they run a mile.

But then there's a grown-up marathon that lasts like two and a half hours.

Well, the guy who won won it in two and a half hours because we saw him cross the line.

Didn't notice him sweating or really out of breath or anything.

I said this to my wife.

I said, God, he's not even out of breath.

He's just been running for two and a half hours.

Didn't seem to be sweating from what I could tell.

Yeah, he could have been Prince Andrew.

Yeah.

And

then the guy, the announcer was like, God, this guy hasn't even broken a sweat and he's not even out of breath.

And then I looked at my wife and said, he's probably just hiding in a bush near the finish line.

Just waited for like two and a half hours and wandered out to win you know because he did i mean if i was running for two and a half hours i'd need to be hospitalized after i'd need to be hospitalized within the first 15 minutes this guy ran for two and a half hours and uh and looking fresh in the day he looked like he just uh you know but doing that is about keeping consistent pace and thing is if he's not being challenged do you know i mean if if there's no like sprint at the end he's not gonna get out of breath you know he had no competition No,

I think he

wiped the floor off.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think that's probably why.

You know, if he'd been pushed to do it,

then he would have.

That's why they have to switch French.

He was French as well.

Do you think that has something to do with it?

Right, they don't sweat the French, do they?

They do not sweat the French.

There is no word for sweat in French.

He was French.

I think his name was Guillaume.

Guillaume.

Guillaume, a very French name.

Very French.

So they did a full marathon, did they?

They did a full one.

Yeah.

Let's just say two and a half years.

The kids can run a mile.

I think the best time for the kids running a mile is like five minutes or something.

Yeah, it was quick.

What the fuck?

That's impossible.

They're quick kids.

How old are we talking?

These kids were probably like 13, 14, man.

Yeah.

I mean, the world record used to be the four-minute mile.

I'm sure that's been broken.

So yeah, Roger Bannister, I remember.

These kids were finished like five, I think it was like five minutes, minutes, five and a half minutes or something.

It was pretty good.

They were really going for it, though.

They were racing.

Like, there's two kids.

One of them tripped over right at the end.

They were racing so hard.

Damn.

The rest of them trickled in sort of like between seven and nine minutes, I would say.

I don't believe this at all.

Even like this.

It's the four-minute mile is insane.

Yeah, four minutes is insane.

Although I think now that's quite common.

But back then, when they didn't train, when they just drank a couple of pints a mild and then smoked a woodbind and went down.

It's incredible that they accomplished as much as they did back then.

That was, they would turn up, they didn't even have the right gear.

They would have like soulless shoes.

Yeah, it would just be drunk.

You know, they would have like a dress shirt on and

those,

you know, the, you know, those sock hold-up things that businessmen wear.

Yeah, they would just turn up like that.

Here's Roger Bannister running the mic.

Exactly.

Dressed in a business suit.

He appears to be wearing Wellingtons.

Camels.

and he is really running smoking a wood vine and putting some brittle cream in his hair before heading off here's a world record

he went back in time and we're just in any reasonable shape this man's a superman

incredible

i'm gonna say something talking about sport Let's go, Mets.

We fucking beat the Phillies in,

we're working our way towards the the World Series.

We've got the,

we won the Division Series.

Now we've got the championship and then the World Series if we can win these.

God bless the Mets.

This has been such a crazy season if you're a Mets fan.

Sports.

It's been amazing.

And I love it.

I'm so fucking happy that we're getting a good season finally.

It's been a long time.

It's been a long time.

What's my equivalent of that?

Oh, I want to say, oh, shout out to Brian Kibbler, who's made Legend again in Hearthstone.

He's having a great month.

Yeah, big shout out to the new Magic the Gathering set that came out.

I really like the Where's Waldo crossover this season.

Really good.

Some pretty overpowered cards.

I thought you'd be a serious there is a new set.

Yeah, it's good.

Well, isn't that one like every month, pretty?

No, not every month.

The new magic set's quite good, though, apparently, according to all people.

Dusk morn, isn't it?

Yeah, and the previous one was like little

burrows.

Yes, it was quite nice and actually pretty good to see.

It was really careful.

It was really clear.

People have spoken highly of it.

Shout Shout out to the new Lego sets that are coming out.

Shout out to the knockoff ones as well.

Wait, did you did you guys hear the Magic the Gathering drama?

No.

No.

There's always a lot of things.

This is really good.

Okay, this is interesting.

I watched a bit about this the other day.

So, Lewis, you'll know this.

There's a format.

I'm going to explain this.

I'm going to assume, Sips, that you know nothing about Magic the Gathering.

I do.

I know nothing about it.

Okay.

So there's a format called Commander that you can play.

And it's like four people's drama, right?

Yeah.

So the idea is you play Commander with more people, and there's different cards in Commander and all the rest of it.

And it was balanced.

It was created by this guy called Sheldon.

I can't remember his last name.

Young Sheldon.

It wasn't Young Sheldon.

Thank God.

But

it created this format.

And it was really popular.

I'd say it's probably the most popular way that people play magic with their friends and stuff like that.

So it's called Highlander.

It's one, remember, like 100 cards in your deck, they all have to to be different.

Apart from the lands, they can be the same.

But the idea is that it's kind of more casual format.

It's a more fun format.

It's also multiplayer.

And so most of the time, it's not as competitive.

It is a little competitive, but mostly it's like I've played a lot of it with four of us.

You have these sort of silly decks.

It's kind of a free-for-all.

It's really fun.

You know,

it's a much lighter,

more chill version of it, which magic needed.

Okay.

Yeah.

Carry on.

It's so silly, right?

That is sound.

Maybe the silliest thing I've ever heard.

So the game was balanced by this guy, Sheldon, and this committee that were like the commander committee that would sit around and decide which cards were in and which were out.

And the main rule was, let's have fun.

Like the rule zero or something it was called was basically, if a card isn't fun for everybody, even though it's strong, we're just going to get rid of it.

And Sheldon dies, all right, which is, which is

a real shame.

What, in young Sheldon?

No, this is a totally different Sheldon.

So he.

He's 13 seasons.

Wait, he dies before the Big Bang to happen.

Wow, incredible.

That's weird.

So he dies, and the committee is now these five people or four people, and they're balancing the game.

And it's kind of unusual for this huge game to be balanced, this format to be balanced by people that don't work for wizards.

These are just some people that play the game, and they're sort of quite well-esteemed sort of community figures, if you like.

They banned these cards, these four cards, that a lot of people had invested in because they were good cards.

And they were like, these cards are stupid and broken, so we're going to ban them.

And all these people came after them on social media and on Reddit and shit like that.

How dare you?

I've lost all this money because I invested all in these cards.

And now they're not legal in Commander.

So the value of them has crashed.

You guys are the worst, blah, blah, blah.

And one of them, a woman who was on the committee, of course, got the brunt of the hate.

And when other people stepped in and said, look, she was the one who was against this, everyone was like, what do you mean?

So it wasn't even unanimous.

You know, you guys just got rid of this card without unanimity, and how, you know, this is bullshit.

It all implodes.

The people on the committee are like, this sucks.

We don't want to do this anymore.

And Wizards steps in, Wizards of the Coast, and they're like, We will control it from here on out.

So now Wizards of the Coast are in charge of Commander and which cards are legal and stuff.

Which, given that the community basically had this pretty sweet deal where fans of the game who had no financial incentive were were in charge of the game.

Now it's wizards.

And they really don't like banning cards that are popular because they make a lot of money from that.

So I think they've kind of the magic community has lost

a pretty cool thing.

A hundred percent they've lost.

It's absolute fucking lootly they have lost.

But it's the internet.

That's the internet.

You can't trust it these days.

It's

the internet is getting worse and worse and worse.

And it's just

a couple of

bad tweets and it feels like suddenly that's every that represents everyone.

when of course it doesn't it represents a tiny vocal majority minority of people and i i i i know what this is like but i i yeah you've got to understand though that there's probably a reason why these cards were banned and it's because certain people who play commander don't really play it for fun no they play in it to be lame yeah um and they come to their certain people they come to their

Friday night magic games night with random people and they bring these decks that are just super lame.

Yeah.

Like that you can build commander decks which are entirely full of board wipes, right?

And they just and destroy lands, and it's like every five minutes you reset the whole board, and it's like you can't win, you can't have a game, it's not fun, right?

And and yeah, you're right about the

wizards being like, ah, well, that's a free thing that's really popular, we when we which we kind of wanted to control anyway, and it's just fallen into our lap.

Perfect.

Yeah, I'm not a fan, but oh well.

I was wondering what the drama would be because it's not a competitive game.

No, it's not.

It's not like there's tournaments.

It's kind of going against competition.

I think so often, though, over the last 10 years, we have seen the idea of games be turned into esports, right?

Everyone wants their game to be turned into some sort of professional sport with pros, you know, playing at a high level and showing off.

And I think this has been the first kind of breakout of that, of like, this is a format which is largely what people play.

But there's no tournaments.

There's no high-level games.

There's no, you know,

pro-scene on the commander front.

You know, there are obviously very, very well-optimized and very, very good decks, sure, that you can net deck and copy.

But I think it's more,

you know, because it's a free-for-all format, if someone brings one of those incredibly strong broken decks, the other three people can just gang up on him and kill him, you know?

And so it kind of is a little bit self-balancing.

It's like in our Civ games, you know, if you do pick some broken Civ, there's a good chance everyone's going to go on you and hold you down, you know, because that's just how it works.

It's not like chess, you know, and one person has more pieces than the other.

I think that

I don't know, it's more of a fun thing.

And it's the way things should go.

Certainly, we we try and do this with Games Night.

Like we try and make

our miniatures games more DM'd, right?

Like the way they started the first, I've talked about this before, but the first version of Warhammer, there was a DM.

There was a guy there, third player, who was like, okay,

I'm going to allow that.

That's fun, isn't it?

That would be a fun way to spend your gaming time.

Oh, I'll DM, guys.

It's not even a game where you get to tell a story.

You just have to be the rules lawyer and the

referee here's the thing about blood and the clock tail so we've been playing a lot of blood and the clocktail and you're going to play one with us i think next week blimey that sounded like uh like an order but yes uh yes you are i think you are in and i think we are trying to get you in one wednesday it's really fun i don't have minecraft

i'm not going next week you can't i can't do do i have to be there can i do no do it remote dude it's a video game

oh it's a video game i thought it was like a board game no it is so blood and the clock tail is like werewolf it's like mafia but it's more optimized.

It's better.

There's a lot of problems with Werewolf and Mafia.

One of them, for example, is that once you're killed, you're out.

A lot of the roles kind of do nothing.

It's quite arguey.

And there's quite a lot of like,

I don't know, it's just the voting system is pretty bad in Mafia and Werewolf as well.

It's involves just pointing and sort of very arbitrary, getting people hanged.

It's kind of, it's just not good, right?

Right.

And Blood and the Clock Tower is this very professionalized version, very polished version of Welfare.

It's really fun.

And the storyteller is a big part of it.

And they are involved in the game.

And in fact, they're involved in a game.

There's a big controversy at the moment on the Blood on the Clock Tower subreddit about whether you should, the storyteller should sort of use the rules as written or be more of a DM to keep the game balanced to try and make it more exciting.

And I am definitely on the camp of the storyteller is a player.

And

they want to have fun as well.

And their game is to try and balance the game so for example sometimes you'll get a game of blood in the clock tower and you hand out the roles and the way you're supposed to do it you're supposed to hand out the roles and then

just leave them right

for example um imagine there's a role called the empath who knows if they're sitting next to an evil player it might well be that that empath on day one is sitting next to the demon that they're that they're trying to kill and maybe he gets up on day one and he says um i'm sat next to two evil players uh or one evil player, you know, let's kill one.

And so they kill him immediately and the game ends.

The storyteller has the power to do things like, oh, we, I haven't chosen which of these players is drunk.

Maybe I'll make the empath drunk so the demon has a better chance, okay, of surviving.

So there's a lot of rules in the game where it says a player might die or a player may die or could die, right?

So you kind of have this sort of not very many, but a few fingers on the sliders on levers where you can kind of change the the change the game in favor of one or the other team and obviously you shouldn't go

one way or the other can you tell a cool story where i win the the quad that would be good

we'd all enjoy that yeah i see when you're on it next week um i the storyteller is supposed to be neutral no and well you're a friend of mine though but neutral doesn't mean um completely hands-off in my opinion and i think that it has caused a bit of a divide like i understand but this game again isn't competitive it's supposed to be fun people are supposed to be having fun and i think if if the townsfolk feel like they have no chance to win it's not fun or people think if all the rules are stacked against them it's not fun either i think i think we've had this this happens a lot like there's a few scripts there where if you because there's a lot of scripts and they have 20 characters on them when you set a group up you might have a group of seven you might have a group of 15 those two games are going to be very different right?

Because in the seven one, you're going to be picking seven random roles, and they might not work together very well.

Um, they might not be very fun, they might be a bit one-sided.

You might end up with a situation where there's this minion called the Mazephalese who can turn another player bad.

And in a seven-player game, you know, suddenly three bad people versus four good people, it's it's really one-sided.

And so, a lot of the a lot, a lot of the game isn't balanced, but I think that a lot of there's a lot of resistance to

breaking the rules or doing your own thing.

A lot of people are very much scared to mess with the system because

they've played the game.

I talk about this a lot about game design.

And I think people sometimes hold game developers in too high esteem.

And I think most game developers you talk to will say, ah,

I just did it.

I didn't test this 10,000 times.

I didn't put this through some sort of advanced calculator.

I just put it out and it works okay.

And I think a lot of storytellers realize that it is their job to make it fun.

So this is the problem, I think.

Anyone with a friend group that plays games will understand what I'm saying, is that the people saying, I think the storyteller doesn't work, just don't have a good storyteller.

And the people who say this is fine.

have a good storyteller.

Like if you have someone who just doesn't get it, or you don't have someone in your group of friends who plays games that can do it well, it probably does feel shitty.

Just like if you ever play D ⁇ D and your DM is awful, you'd think this game sucks.

Because it comes

on the D ⁇ D subreddit.

Someone posts this convoluted story about what's happened in their D ⁇ D session and the answer, usually the top answer is your DM is bad.

Yes.

Or, you know, like that, that's almost like always the case.

And it's not that it's easy to be a DM and it's, and it's sometimes people are learning and making mistakes or sometimes they just don't know how to do it um

it is an art in itself it is and if they're learning how to do it you shouldn't expect brilliance it is very hard like i've played with bad dms and great dms great dm makes the game hands down and the dm shouldn't just be a calculator right they shouldn't be just replaceable by a robot they are actively involved in the game you know and and their joy is seeing a game go down to the line you know if if you are the storyteller and your game ends on day one, sorry, storyteller, but you've probably either been very unlucky or not done your job.

Yeah.

Because

a lot of times we're playing a game in the evening and, you know, we get eight or nine people together.

It's eight o'clock.

You know, we have a chat, we get everything set up.

It takes a little while.

Then you go through the night phase and give everyone their roles.

That takes 20, 30 minutes.

And by the time everyone's 45 minutes in, you don't want to have to say, oh, you lost on day one.

Let's start all that again.

Because then people are like, well, I haven't got enough time for another game or whatever.

Like, right?

You know, it's, it is,

the people who are the rules as written people are often the same people who are not in it for the fun.

They're, they are competitive.

They want to win.

But there are DMs like that, too.

Like, I've played with DMs before who almost see it as them versus the players.

And that's not the case.

Like, it's not like

you're trying to beat us and we're trying to beat you.

But some people see it that way.

So I think a lot of these arguments literally come down to the person who is DMing or whatever is just kind of not good at it.

Like they don't really understand the role.

So I look forward to seeing what your storytelling is like.

I'm going to critique you on a following episode of the

for example there's like I don't know there's like a story called like Curse of Strad or whatever it's quite famous.

It's a D adventure book right and it's got this kind of

it's quite well known because it's got a lot of elements.

It takes a while to do i, you know, like it's a campaign that goes on for i don't know 12 or 23 hour sessions right?

It's a long session.

And if you're in a game for that long, just having you all die on the end boss kind of sucks, right?

If you're playing a board game where it takes three hours, it's one session and you die on the end boss, come back next week and try again.

I get it, right?

But I think that D and D often isn't supposed to be that.

It's not supposed to be, let's try and beat this book.

Unless you've really sat down with the characters and really said, look, characters, are you okay with actually dying and failing?

And they, they really, they always have to sign something at that point.

Because I think even if they commit to it and agree to it at the start, I think when it comes, when they've invested, you know, so much time and energy and love and, and, in, into this story and so much, you know, they've had these characters all built up.

You know, this is why superhero movies don't end with, you know, the bad guy winning, right?

It's

just

the end of endgame, it did.

What are you talking about?

The end of Endgame.

Yeah, Infinity War, right?

With the snap.

Yeah.

yeah and thanos one he was sitting on his in his we're looking at the sunrise on a grateful universe uh what a beautiful ending to a film should have ended there should have been the end of all the marvel movies that would have been he should have just killed all of them not even half no no that's what he tries to do in the second one because what he he just he realized that they're never going to stop coming back and trying to write what he did so he's going to kill everything in the universe and then rebuild it from scratch basically like a god and they would never have known uh about what happened that's his idea.

It's a good idea.

Sorry.

It's a great idea.

Maybe the best idea.

No, no, no.

Oh, can I say the Penguin TV series?

Really good.

If you've got HBO or access to it,

it's really good.

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it.

Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as the Penguin.

Nice.

Really?

Absolutely brilliant performance.

Really, really good.

Everyone in it is actually.

That's how I prefer my Colin Farrell.

Unrecognizable.

Dude, he's so good at it.

This is probably one of the best roles I've seen him in.

He's so good.

And it's genuinely interesting to take a character that I've always seen portrayed as a kind of cartoonish guy with a big nose that walks

like that and make him actually a really interesting, almost sympathetic

villain.

It's really excellent.

I've been really enjoying it.

And of course, I've had lots of people say Slow Horses was worth a watch.

Watch Slow Horses.

Yeah, yeah.

I started watching it, and I need to get back into it.

We just started season three of

Industry.

It's got Kit Harrington in it.

Yeah, Mrs.

F.

Watch is that.

He plays

this like, I don't know, posh tech, you know, eco startup guy.

He seems, it's completely different to his role as Jon Snow.

Of course.

He gets his dick sucked a lot more in industry, is what I understand.

Yeah, he is.

There's a lot of dick sucking happening in that show for sure.

And other things.

I want to shout out

the TV I watched this week.

I watched

Ludwig.

Ludwig.

Oh, yeah.

It's really fun, isn't it?

BBC.

It's David Mitchell, basically.

I can't help not saying him playing himself, but I think it's hard when you have watched a.

It's always hard when you watch someone like David Mitchell.

I've seen him so many times.

I've, you know, in Peep Show and other

stuff, but also in like panel shows.

You know, I've seen him in panel shows for the last 10 years.

And so it's hard when you have an actor to...

Because a lot of these actors, we don't see them unless they're acting, right?

So I think a lot of people are saying, oh, David Mitchell's just playing himself.

But I think that's not really fair.

Well,

there's more to acting than being another character.

I mean, there are plenty of actors who are considered great actors, but we're basically themselves in most movies.

I mean, for example, let's take Robert Redford, right?

I like Robert Redford.

He's a good actor.

But I don't think he's ever played someone other than Robert Redford in his movies.

He's pretty much Robert Redford the whole time.

That's fine.

You need that sometimes.

You almost like that.

I feel like George Clooney is like that too.

He just plays George Clooney.

I will say this.

George Clooney can do comedy in a way that a lot of other actors cannot.

And I think he's been in some serious roles and he's been in some comedy roles, but he's very likable.

You don't want your leading man all the time to be playing some extreme character

because that sometimes is a little, it's got to be the right role and sometimes it's kind of difficult, I think.

If this, you've got an actor that like Daniel Day-Lewis can pull it off.

Daniel Day

fantastic, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, he's so brilliant.

Brad Pitt plays Brad Pitt a lot.

He's Brad Pitt in every film.

So Ludwig is basically this idea that there's this sort of bumbling, ineffectual kind of

puzzle-solving nerd who's the brother of a detective.

And the detective

twin brother of the detective.

And the detective goes missing.

So he has to sort of infiltrate the office and impersonate his brother and immediately gets involved in a murder investigation, you know, and because he's sort of this genius puzzle set, his job is like a puzzle setting solver, whatever.

It's great.

It's a lot like Monk, which was also a very popular detective show.

It's very monkey.

It's very funny.

And I really enjoyed Monk, honestly.

I thought it was a great show.

And so, I don't know, like, there's something about that kind of...

nerd in out in the real world bumbling around making these awkward having these awkward moments with people and I don't know it's got a lot of that it's very funny and I really enjoyed it so yeah

it's a really good show there's this weird sort of bit with Carl Pilkington yeah what the fuck is Carl Pilkington when I saw him on the cast list I was like please no in any

such a lot

he is he's he's in I haven't seen the whole thing because I've only watched like the first four episodes or whatever but he's got his his face is on this picture and when it's like as a missing guy and it's like that's Carl Pilkington I know

I really hope he's not going to have to do any acting.

But he does a phone call, and I'm like, oh my God, Carl.

But actually, it was fine.

I guess he had to cast for it and stuff.

And maybe, maybe he can act.

But

it just blew my mind that

he was involved in it.

Yeah, really odd.

Just good though.

Good to see you.

What's it called Ludwig?

Ludwig.

It's on BBC.

I play it.

I recommend it.

You'll like it.

It's very British, very homely.

My parents will enjoy it, you know, and probably laugh at the wrong reasons at the wrong places, you know.

But that's, it's good.

I had fun watching this video.

You recommend a high.

Is that the main shout-out for this podcast?

I think so.

What else did I want to shout out today?

More so than the Jingle Jam.

More so than

Wizards on the Coast.

The Bournemouth Walk.

The B-Mouth Walk.

Can we get some lose news?

Yeah, do we have any?

Yes,

we do.

Lose news.

This is just lose news.

Technically, Sam, Sam's news.

Sam's news.

He's the guy who's the news guy.

Let me see what happens.

Cut off the press from the news desk.

There is a Unreal Engine-powered Hurricane Milton simulator.

What?

So the

basically, Unreal Engine.

I don't know if if you know this but unreal engine epics um unreal engine is being used in so much tv now it's insane uh and movies too really like they're it's kind of started to become like let's not bother cgiing stuff let's just do it in unreal engine oh the unreal engine are properly selling it to to to to movie makers and hollywood and and as as a just a way to create backdrops and just really quickly create things in in next to no time and so much cheaper because computer graphics are almost at the point where you can't tell for a lot of it, especially if they're wearing a mask.

The user interface for the weather weapons.

Yeah, so

the weather channel have got an immersive weather presentation tool

powered by Unreal Engine showing how a storm surge is coming in.

Like I've got a little picture of it here.

I'll link it.

I've also got my own weather immersion tool.

It's called Going Outside.

Right.

That's a line.

Don't you ever do that?

No, but sometimes when I do, I feel like I'm in a simulation.

So it achieves the same thing that the weather network is trying to peddle.

But I mean, you've always seen these really crappy, like I was watching when the election came, I was watching some of the old election broadcasts, and they had some really old, like 3D models of the prime ministers and stuff that looked like they were out of bloody, you know, Lara Croft Tomb Raider,

hexagonal boobs

type shit.

And it was bad.

And now there's still, it doesn't matter though on like weather reports and a lot of things, you know, when you're trying to, a lot of these things just need something quick and dirty and, or, or silly and funny, you know, to just keep

people's attention.

And so having some poor weather girl be

washed away in a nine-foot storm surge by Unreal Engine, I think is pretty funny.

Anyway, next up, Nintendo, their next thing.

Do you know what it's going to be called?

Wait, an interactive

clock.

Their next

interactive clock.

What is that?

The Nintendo sound clock alarm.

It's called Alamo.

Of course it is.

This is not a joke.

It will be available early 2025.

It's $100.

But if you're a Switch Online member, you can get it now.

An interactive alarm clock called Alamo.

In addition to playing sounds inspired by Nintendo games to wake up the user, the clock reacts to body movement by playing other sounds from the company's games.

What do you mean?

I guess if you jump up and down, it's like, yahoo, waha,

weehee.

Or maybe the traditional boing,

boing, like the boing sound that Mario makes when he when he jumps in the old game.

You can set up 30

scenes inspired by Super Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Pikmin, and Ring Fit Adventure.

You will, in the morning, you'll experience immersive sounds and music from the game you picked.

You can rise to the sounds of Mushroom Kingdom with Mario waking you up.

Oh, I just see, I'm seeing some of the notes on here.

It's it's it says, Move your body to quiet the alarm so it can detect your movement.

But then there's a message: if you get back into bed within an hour of the alarm, it will start going off again.

Yes,

I can't wait for my mushroom to rise.

That's my princess.

Immersive experience.

It's quite little.

That was the occasion to wake up music.

Good idea, Nintendo.

In the middle of the night, it plays the

fucking ghost in the corner of the room.

As soon as you close your eyes to go to sleep,

oh, that was that was good.

Okay, that's a good one.

That's good.

Okay, so I don't know if you remember in Ubisoft's watchdogs, there was like a pair of glasses that let you scan NPCs who were walking around on the street and you could like discover facts about them what they're doing.

You know, like Google Glasses.

Yeah.

Two people have essentially created this tech in real life using Meta's smart glasses, fantastic, providing a scary glimpse at our future.

Well, so someone looks at me with their glasses on and it pops up with, like, you know, facts about who I am and shit.

So, two Harvard students have built working smart glasses that use facial recognition technology to automatically identify someone via their face.

That's really bad.

Not only that, but then those glasses could use that information from their name to track down and quickly, like, I guess using AI, figure out their address, phone number, family photos.

Yeah, but then it's, it's just going to be like on Minority Report or whatever.

You know, you're gonna walk in greetings, Mr.

Eyes.

People are just gonna fake all their info immediately and get there'll be there'll be programs that block all your real info from being fed to these things and stuff.

Don't worry about that.

Don't stress yourself.

They've made a

actual detailed guide on how to protect yourself online.

You can remove yourself from data sources like PimEyes and Fast People Search

and facecheck.id.

They apparently will let you delete your face if your face is on there.

So you can be invisible.

You could have like a blurry information,

which is kind of even cooler, honestly, than being recognized.

Right.

Look out Joe Rogan and Triforce.

Google's AI research assistant, which is called Notebook LM.

Okay, I don't know if you've heard about this.

it's basically a groundbreaking tool with the power to distill text into realistic sounding podcast style explainers right like little little explainers and potentially because i mean already right when you've googled stuff you might have noticed it starting to say these are what ai has found at the top have you you've seen that right when you're googling stuff and so this is the next thing it's like Would you like a little or basically an AI generated text summary that they read out so you can kind of submit anything so a redisa submitted a document containing of nothing but a thousand times the word poop and fart

like like written over and over and and the hosts of google's ai generated podcast spent like a while trying to distill deeper meaning from that

the document poop and fart is a real useful guideline for how to spell the word poop and how how to spell the word fart.

You know, it's like this whole

thing.

It's just nonsense.

It's like a hamster running in a wheel.

The whole thing is just a pointlessness.

I assume the real value of it is like, you know, I need to learn about this thing for school.

Make me a, I can't be asked to read the book.

Give me a podcast version.

And I guess that will be helpful for some people.

It will be helpful for many things, I'm sure.

But it will also generate a lot of misinformation and a lot of dumb shit on the way.

So emphasis on dumb shit.

It will be

generating a lot of dumb shit.

I wonder if we're going to have to have, I don't think it would be workable, but you know the way the Amazon stores where it was like, you just walk in and the AI knows what you've picked up had to be proofread by people to train it.

I wonder if they're going to have to have...

banks of people looking over some of these answers and being like, well, that's gibberish.

Because it could cause real problems.

Um, if someone was like, Quick, I'll ask an AI how to do CPR, and it's like, First, place your buttocks on the person's mouth.

You know, it's like, well, it doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.

Hello, Mr.

Yamamoto.

I notice you've bought a lot of maxi pads today,

it just doesn't know what the buttons are.

I hope that this AI-driven future is all

presented by the automatrons in the Fallout universe.

They have like that, the broken sentences.

That would be perfect.

I would love that.

That would be so good.

Yeah.

So in France, there has been this hunt called On the Trail of the Golden Owl.

It was a book of riddles published in 1993 by this guy called Regis Hauser.

Right.

Wow.

It contained 11 difficult puzzles and a hidden 12th one.

This is a bit like fucking Ludwig

to decipher the exact location of an owl token.

So there was this hidden thing, which was too difficult at the time.

This is not the first time this has been done, by the way.

I had a whole bunch of French relatives visiting recently, and I had to speak a lot of French while they were here.

And I noticed my French is pretty rusty, but I noticed over the course of the week, speaking to them in French at length every single day, my French was getting much better.

Wow.

It's impressive.

Apparently, that is the best way to learn a language is to go there.

Well, I've already learned the language.

I just don't

practice

the language

very often.

Well, but you forget stuff.

Anyway, the week.

The week, the hunt has come to an end.

And someone posted, don't go digging.

We can confirm that the golden owl countermark was unearthed last night.

So there was this huge cult-like following of owlers in France and also all over the world searching for this thing because the guy, Becker, had previously

searching for things.

What was the last thing?

The last Luz News, you talked about the sixth actor or whatever, and people have to track them down as well.

People love this stuff.

Basically, there was this guy who made this Hauser who this guy who his pen name was Max Valentin Valentin, or whatever.

And he

basically had this

owl made up out of gold.

It's £125,000 worth of, it's worth a lot, apparently, like this gold now.

It's worth £125,000.

And

they buried a replica, and it's only just been found.

But it wasn't, you couldn't simply find it with a metal detector.

You had to submit it with all the answers to the riddles.

And anyway,

it's been found, which is fantastic.

Because

it's, well, it's been found.

I mean, in a sense, some people are disappointed because they're like, oh, you know, I wanted to solve it myself.

I wanted to find it myself.

Only one person can.

So in a sense, like it's a bit of a spoiler now.

It's been found.

It's kind of taken away that mission, you know?

Yeah.

But I think people, it's about the journey too, right?

I think people have had a lot of fun going to France and finding, like, hunting for it.

You know, we need a new one.

Right.

Well, so there was one in 1979, a book called Masquerade by Kit Williams.

And it was a treasure hunt puzzle book.

It was like a series of pictures.

And if you follow the pictures, it would lead you to the treasure.

And it's sort of, you can read about this if you look up on Wikipedia.

Masquerade or Masquerade, however you want to say it, was the name of this book.

And it ended, they published in 1979.

On December 11th, 1988, the Sunday Times printed a story accusing the winner of the masquerade contest of being a fraud.

Okay.

They basically,

a guy who was a fraud.

So here we go.

Thompson's business partner, John Gard, was the boyfriend of Veronica Robertson, who had previously been a girlfriend of Kit Williams.

And allegedly, they convinced Robertson to help him win the contest.

because they were both animal rights activists and he was going to donate the profits to an animal rights cause.

The Sunday Times alleged that while living with Williams, Robertson had learned the approximate physical co-location of the hair while remaining ignorant of the actual solution to the puzzle.

And then they basically, it was, they didn't sort of get it.

They hadn't actually got it.

They just sort of tricked and said, oh, it's in Ampthill, which is this town.

But they didn't say how they'd got there.

And it was something to do with you had to like draw lines between the fingers of this person and then that person.

And it was eventually there was a statue at a certain time of the day that would point, her shadow would point exactly to where it was buried.

Something like that.

So there were seen.

What time of the year, though, the sun was at a lower side?

During the equinox.

Either equinox is when it's at the same point.

So

yeah, it's like this book was like, you would just have to sit and study the images.

I guess back then, of course, you would just have to do this on your own or with a couple of mates.

Whereas now, all this stuff can be solved collectively by Reddit or whatever.

There's loads of puzzles and

stuff like that that are online.

So you'd have more help.

But the thing is, if you, if you solved it with a group of strangers on the internet, if one of them used that to actually solve it, they're not going to share it with you.

So this is just getting loads and loads of people closer to the solution.

And then one of them figures it out and

fix it up.

Yeah.

I think, like, again, this is a little bit like a lottery, right?

The idea is, is that you make a book, you sell it for five pounds, and it has clues in it that might lead you.

If you're smart, if you're lucky or whatever, if you go to the right place and work it out, and you could potentially win a lot of money.

And there was this whole loads of them in the 80s.

There were a load of video games as well that were attached to this idea.

And there's various things, various hunts went on for a great sword and a great goblet and a great crown or whatever.

And you hear about them afterwards, because I'm sure like James Nintendo and a few other people have done videos on them over the years.

Some of them were melted down, or some of them were sold off, you know, at the time or whatever.

And it's, and it's, it's, it's, it was a fascinating time with these treasure hunts, but it's sort of, you're right now with the power of the internet, it's going to be very quickly solved.

But it was a different time back then.

You sort of had to buy the books.

It was, it was, I don't know, it, it had obviously the creators of it obviously realized, oh, if we sell 10,000 books, we can, you know, put up a treasure worth £10,000, you know, to do it, you know, and I feel like that's, it's a fun idea, right?

Like it's, you can see it being compelling, compelling, especially when I mean, like this game called Treasure in Search of the Golden Horse, right?

It was on Laserdisc, and the cover says, win a prize of $500,000.

Wow.

Um, and so it was like this big kind of event.

Imagine the whole movie was just like a three-second clip of uh, you picking up a horse in Tarkov that you find like in a film cabinet or whatever.

That's the whole thing.

It was that's the whole movie.

What a shit bit of treasure.

Takes up two slots is worth like 8,000 rubles.

I know.

I know.

Although the promoters of that contest claimed the puzzles were solvable within the allotted timeframe, no one did it.

The deadline passed five years later and was donated.

The prize was donated to the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America charity.

Jeez.

Hey, speaking of winning money, I went to the store yesterday to get some milk.

And guess what they're selling?

As of the 9th of October, Christmas lottery tickets.

Oh, wow.

I was feeling

my first little, little...

and not only were they selling Christmas lottery tickets, they're also selling Cadbury's puds, you know, the little Christmas, Christmas chocolate balls, right?

Cadbury's puds.

Yeah.

Oh, God, that's frightening, isn't it?

That the lead up to Christmas just gets longer and longer and longer.

It's not even, I mean, I guess they're overlapping with Halloween decorations.

Well, yeah, they are, yeah, because there's loads of Halloween stuff up.

But then, yeah,

they're starting to get Christmas boxes of chocolate and all that kind of stuff.

I did see a couple of

the things I follow advertising their Christmas merch.

That's too soon, man.

Too soon.

That's too soon.

Give me some time here.

Last bit of news.

Google have made

a double-sided circular G-board keyboard.

Okay.

I thought that was going somewhere else.

This is made by Google Japan.

So it could well have been put somewhere else.

Here's a picture of a lady holding it.

You could put a lot in there.

It's a weird

3D circular keyboard.

It looks like a Mobius strip.

It does.

Yeah, it does look like a Mobia.

It looks like something you would...

It looks like a visor, like a tennis, like a really futuristic tennis.

It looks like a hat that a lady would wear to ask it.

Yes,

it's nuts.

It looks completely impractical for use, but

I really applaud the.

It looks like one of those things that a surgeon would put into your asshole to hold it open while he does the surgery deeper within.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone completes Elden Ring with it or whatever.

Oh, yeah.

That's yeah.

People like doing that.

Yeah.

In fact, that's probably easier than playing it with the bongos.

What a weird bit of design.

Yeah.

I mean, it is.

They've made a bunch of them, apparently.

Like one that's just a long ruler.

a lot of this, and one which is like a cylinder.

A lot of this is the craziest one.

Seems bonkers.

When you're pushing the boundaries of what everybody else is doing, I like stuff that's nuts like that because you never know.

Although this might not be good, something might come of it where you're like, actually, if we did this, it actually becomes really useful, or this is really good for certain situations.

They invent all this stuff, but there's still no hourglass-shaped pickle jar.

I don't get it.

I know.

The hourglass-shaped pickle jar.

You told me about this.

Was this when we were in?

Yeah.

It's such a good idea.

You heard this, Lewis?

What?

Tell them, you haven't mentioned this on Triforce.

I don't know.

Imagine a big hourglass, but it's a pickle jar, right?

So you got the pickles in the juice.

And then when you flip over the hourglass, the juice runs down into the bottom part, but the pickles stay on top.

So you can open the jar.

pick out a pickle without having to dunk your hand in the pickle juice, right?

You're a genius.

And then after you

have the pickles, you put the lid back on, flip it back over, and then the pickles can chill in the juice again.

Yeah.

Okay, like this.

Oh, no.

That is available now.

Talk of it.

It's like you don't have to drink the liquid.

You don't have to fish for the food.

Like, like this idea that already exists.

This is already out there.

Oh, I didn't do my research.

Sorry.

So, just for obviously people are listening to this, Lewis linked to TikTok of this exact item.

Oh, man.

Well, it exists.

It exists.

There you go.

It exists.

It's out there.

You don't have to design it and have

you don't have to invest.

It's already done.

You should be happy.

I was just about to get started as well.

I need a hundred thousand pounds for 10% of your business.

How much do you think your company is going to be worth within its first year?

A million.

Easy.

I've laid on a load of pickles for you.

You need to find a way to make money off of these pickles

i just i'm just stepping in to see i'm out that's dominant's contribution he doesn't ask any questions it's not for me i'm out i'm out i'm out okay i found this weird thing on the google japan and i'm not sure what it is it's it's called g board spoon bending version right um which is a spoon that you bend yeah and it and it's got a flex sensor in the handle

okay and i don't understand it like however much you bend the spoon by it types a key so if you bend the spoon a lot it goes like Z but if you only bend it a tiny bit it goes a and you can just type by holding a spoon in your hand Why?

This is I don't know if I will ever use this

I don't think I will ever use this thing The pickle jar I will use so you're holding

this is amazing because there's a ton of these and there's clearly a big department at Google whose entire job is come up with dumb shit like this.

And like I said, I think this is like, what do they call it, a skunk works or something, where it's just loads of people sitting around coming up with clever ideas.

And some of them, most of them are dog shit.

But the technology for this might end up being in something that's actually good.

This might be useful.

Let's say, if not a spoon, it could be anything.

For someone who's got extremely limited mobility, has access to a full keyboard.

Let's say you can only move your hand.

Now you've got a full keyboard just with bending a thing.

That is quite useful.

But for general usage, I'm not going to sit here on a spoon playing dots.

Imagine playing dot with a spoon.

I would love to see that.

Maybe that's why my

international, you know, everybody's sitting down with their headsets and then this, some dude's just reclined with his spoon.

He's got his spoon.

Here he is with his famous TI winning spoon.

Yeah, God.

Oh, Tua, can I just say one thing about video games?

I didn't know this.

I spoke to someone who works in esports and they were saying that the biggest esport in the world, have I mentioned this before that it's PUBG Mobile?

Did we talk about this on the previous

when I saw you?

Yeah, you were telling me

so big.

Millions of people.

It's all huge in Southeast Asia.

They watch PUBG Mobile.

And I said, do they have like stadium events?

He was like, yeah.

And I said, when the players are on the stage, he was like, yep, they're on their phones.

So you look at the players sat there on the stage.

They're all on their mobile phones.

Like just holding their phone up and playing.

But

is this because they've got like bans on how much time you can can

play PC games or whatever?

That's China.

Or is that Korea?

South Korea?

No, no, China.

I think if you're under a certain age, you're limited to wait.

I believe it's about two hours a day of gaming, something like that.

And then, yeah.

And then

by having multiple phones with games on them.

I don't think it's that so much as they use their parents' phones.

Because I'm pretty sure that.

I mean, anyway,

that's not the thing.

I don't think PUBG Mobile is necessarily, it could be the biggest thing in China.

I don't know.

But my friend said, this is like Southeast Asia.

This is enormous.

When they had COVID, all the land cafes closed down.

People can't afford PCs.

Because a lot of Southeast Asia is very poor.

And so the average person really doesn't have money to buy a PC and play Dota and stuff like that.

So they would go to land cafes.

COVID killed all the land cafes.

I've got friends.

from like Malaysia who owned land cafes.

And as soon as COVID hit, they had to shut down.

And all the kids had to, they wanted to keep gaming.

So they all moved on to mobile games and so pubg mobile is like enormous they all love it but um wow yeah it's crazy it's it looks like fortnite yeah it really does it's really cartoony um

got to be simple graphics

i guess they gotta like um trim it down for mobile oh it's weird watching all these pros uh on their phones yeah it's really odd holding their phones like it's so weird Oh, it's so funny.

Oh, wow.

It's like they're on a train.

Do you mean?

It's so odd.

It's not for me.

Wow.

What a

that is the future of esports is mobile games.

Well, well, I'm sign me.

Sign me off, indeed.

Yeah.

I'm definitely.

This is Lewis signing off.

He does not want to be

able to do these esports.

I'm done.

Well, there you go.

That is our podcast.

That was a great podcast.

Really good one, yeah.

Love that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, everyone.

We love you all.

Yeah.

And thank you for supporting it.

A few people have said this to me.

Sips, have you played Trading Card Game Shop Simulator?

No, I bought it, though.

I will play it.

I'm almost finished Satisfactory.

I'm almost done phase five.

When I'm done that, I'm going to put it in.

Okay, I think it's tough.

It's phase five, isn't it?

Oh, my God.

I've been playing phase five as well.

It's tough.

It's tough, yeah.

It's tough, though.

I've made it a lot.

I made a little dent.

Well, we'll talk about that next week, I'm sure.

Indeed.

All right.

Okay.

Bye-bye, everyone.

Love you.

Bye-bye.