Rooster Teeth Podcast - Tiny Japanese Trucks are My Life Now - #621

Episode Date: November 3, 2020

Join Gus Sorola, Gavin Free, Barbara Dunkelman, and Cole Gallian as they talk about Tiny Japanese Fire Trucks, Technical Difficulties in 2020, animation evelution, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Gavin. I'm Cole. I'm Barbara. And I'm Gus. I'm Cole. I'm Barbara. And I'm Gus. Hello, Cole. My frame rate just asks yours. You look all the frame rates on V mix look ass. You seem fine.

How do I look? Look incredible Barbara. You're stealing all the frames. Oh, give them back. I'm in the matrix. I realized the other day that Cole had never been officially on like as a guest on the podcast. We were, we recorded a, uh, a dead by daylight gameplay together a couple of weeks ago, which was a lot of fun.

I think it just came out a few days ago. Yeah. Uh, and, uh, like after it was those like, man, Cole's really funny. Why, why have I never asked him to be like that before? I think it only took you five, six years to know. I think I slack you that day, Cole. really funny. Why haven't he arrested a big fan? I think, I think, I think, I think, it only took you five, six years to know. I think I slapped you that day, Cole, didn't I? I was like, hey, you said you said you were like,

hey, we had a lot of fun and fun, and did it by daylight. I was like, oh, thank you so much. Like, oh, that means a lot. And you're like, yeah, what about the podcast? I'm like, yeah, sure. I mean, I've worked on it. Like, I remember I worked on a long time ago. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, it's funny. It took all of us working from home, like we're actually doing all the way, the way we do we work in order for you and I to film something together for me to be like, oh yeah, Cole's really funny. Like I know you're funny.

It's just like, yeah, we never, I guess really filmed much together. You just forgot he was funny. Yeah. Yeah. And get him way funny. Cole, I'll always remember how funny you are forever. Thank you. There's just so many people. There's so many people. There's so many people to accompany. So a lot of a lot of very talented,

very funny people. So I understand, I understand. You've been hopping into a lot of our gameplay streams. Like we've been playing a lot of Among Us and Dead by Daylight together. Yeah. So it's been, it's been good to to play those games. I've been addicted to those that and like I think I'm going to have to uninstall Phasmaphobia. I have played so much Phasmaphobia just because like we played it like every week on backwards compatible and then like almost every stream privately would be like a month or a Phasmaphobia stream. And like I think I have like 140 hours in it right now. Wow. And it's only been out like five in a month. So I'm like, uh, that's it. That's too much. That's too much.

Yeah. We played a game together. I was on a backwards compatible stream. I think last Friday, last week. Yeah. And we like are looking at everyone's levels. And Cole was at like some absurd level. And I think I was at like four or something like that.

It's like how much hours have you been playing? Also, your basketball score was like, six, six, six. Oh my god. I had to have a zero. I missed, I missed 420 and 69 because it like, double scored. And so I couldn't, I couldn't get to this. I was like, okay, I'm gonna get 666

and not touch it ever again. Man, tough, tough lock, dude. I'm so sorry. You hate to see it happen. You were telling me something about Fast Before Be I hadn't even realized that you moved faster when you're crouched as opposed to standing. Yeah, like we found out because one time we were just like me and Carrie were leaving

the school and he was crouched and head shift pressed and was moving forward like super fast. And I was standing. I'm like, how are you faster? Like, what do you press in that you're sprinting? He's like, I'm just pressing shift. I'm like, I'm doing that too. And he was playing a different game called fast Mafobia. Fast Mafobia. Oh, the, like starving yourself. Got it. Yeah. It's gonna. My camera. Yeah, we're getting what's going on.

I like it. We forgot the flashlight. He forgot the flashlight. I've been a pickle now. What's going on? Did you get a die? Like, is it charged up and plugged in on? I can see myself in like the flip out screen. We got your audio. That's all that matters. Make sure you're HDMI connection.

Maybe it's a like got loose. I think it's a for a dare idea. Javit, a different webcam. Fire fresh this V mix. Do you'll a different webcam? If I refresh this V-Mix, do you'll die? You'll, you're audio, I mean, you're audio may go out of sync. You may need to like tell Slater something. Yeah, but I think you're fine. I think they said you could refresh if you need to.

Shane said to go for it, so I'll allow it. Thanks. I'm very, very good, but at least I'm on there. You're right. What's happening? He's tag. Well, I, okay, I'm having a, but at least I'm on there. You're right. What's happening? He's back. Whoa. Okay, I'm having a tech nightmare at the moment.

Firstly, I thought, sweet, I'm a check out the new living room app. And while I was installing it, the Apple TV broke. It just broke. It like, bricked it. And now when I put it in. Nope, nope, nope, not related to our app. the Apple TV broke. It just broke. It like bricked it. And now when I put it in. Nope, nope, nope. Not related to our app.

Do you think that's what I've said? Do you think that installing an app could break an Apple TV? You said it bricked it. That's when I jumped in. Yeah, not related to the app. This is complex. I downloaded the app and it melted it.

The literally the app melted it down inside through. Because I'm so, it's such a hot app. I downloaded the app and it melted it. Literally the app melted it down. Because I'm so it's such a hot app. All right. I was going to step on the market. Yeah. Spank that up. Am I doing a good ad for a new app? Backed up. So obviously nothing to do with the app. If you want to prove Gav wrong, you can download the living room app yourself and see. Take photos of it. Show that it's not on fire. Although, if yours melts too,

we should not worry. Don't take a photo, hide it, hide. It basically, like, the power supplies dead on it now. So I ripped it open in anger. Whoa. You're very strong. Yeah. And now my camera don't work good.

You also have... You got a new new camera though. The other cool thing, yeah, got a new camera which I'm excited about, Sony cam, right? Pupu, pupu, pupu, a 7s3. But in order to, the reason I got it is that I'm testing this like new mode out for a different project and it has like this like 10 bit 422 mode which needs faster cards. So the card I had just a normal sort of 170 megabyte per second SD card is like that's too slow so it's like oh shit so I bought a bought a faster one this one

300 and it was like nah that's too slow you're a moron and so I was like, nah that's too slow, you're a moron. And so I was like, wait, was it one for me? And then I realized it takes a new kind of format of card called a CF Express card. I was like, I don't know what that is. Sounds delicious. So I got one of these, which is crazy. It's got 17 hundred, by spare second.

Holy shit. Turns out, it's three different kinds of CF Express, the one I spasecad holy shit turns out? Three different kinds of CF express the one I actually want this is CF express B And what I actually need is CF express a which is slightly smaller that makes it smaller The B stands for bigger CF express bigger you need to see if express a smaller The B stands for bigger CF express bigger you needed to see if express a smaller Compact he stands for compact. Yeah, so this one is me angry for you Get it get it get it is a eight hundred seven hundred oh, it's tough to got there in the end that one works

Check me out Well, not I've been testing it for the thing I'm gonna do with it, but not not shot the thing yet. Got it. Anyone else have been bad tech day? I, oh, oh, can I bitch about tech? Yeah, yeah, I have a tech thing up you. Okay, okay, okay, me, me next. So my stupid laptop, it's right down here. You can't see it.

The battery, like, I noticed that the battery wasn't lasting as long. So like, you know, on the top of right, you can click on the battery icon and it tells you like how much longer the battery has left. When I clicked on that and said it's still living how much longer the battery has left, it just says service recommended.

It was like, oh, fuck. Oh, cool. So I was like, it's a MacBook Pro. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna schedule an appointment with Apple to go take it in and have them put a new battery in, right? Battery's obviously fucked up. So I go to their website and I go,

schedule a service appointment. And of course they try to get you to get service otherwise like, look at these help articles online. Like, nothing online is going to help me. I can't read my way to fixing the battery, right? Like the battery needs to be replaced. So I finally get to the point where it's like, make an appointment and the Apple store up in the domain

in Austin is close. They're not taking a genius bar reservations because of COVID. Like, well, fuck, you know, I need to, I need to get my laptop fixed, but the Apple website is like, don't worry, there's these other Apple authorized retailers where you can take your laptop.

I've never heard of any of these places. I was like, well, I need to get my battery swapped out so I'll do it. So I picked one that was relatively close. It was like close to downtown. It was like, all right, the nearest appointment was like a week away. I made the appointment, whatever, went down there, like on a Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. or whatever the fuck it was. And I show up and I'm like, the only one in the store, I've never, I've never even seen this store. I don't, it must have just opened. Right? It's like it just popped up, walked into the store,

and it's completely empty. It's me and like the dude who works there. And I'm like, hey, uh, I'm in an appointment online, uh, to have my laptop look at, it's broken. He goes, oh, okay, yeah, what's your name? I tell him. He's like, I'm not finding your reservation online. So then I spell my name for you. He was like, Oh, here it is. Your keyboard's broken, right? Like, no, but he's like, Oh, don't worry about that. I could fix that. He just like starts he race. He starts typing a whole bunch. I'm like, the, the, I explained to him the batteries broke in and started comming it all that. He's like, okay, well, what we'll do is we'll run

a diagnostic on it, the diagnostic costs $49, and then once we have the results of that, we'll let you know and then we'll proceed with fixing it. Like, well, how long is that going to take? He was, oh, it should take about a week. I'm like, you want me to leave my laptop here for a week? He's like, yeah, yeah, no big deal.

I was like, well, I already diagnosed the problem. It just needs a new battery. Can you just put a new battery in it while I wait? He's like, no, yeah, no big deal. Like, well, I already diagnosed the problem. It just needs a new battery. Can you just put a new battery in it while I wait? He's like, no, that's not the way it works. You need to pay $49 to diagnose it. And then we have to order the part. And then the part comes in. And then we swap it out. I was like, can you just order the part? And I come back when you get the part. And then you go to an actual doctor. But then you get charged for a diagnosis. And he's like, oh, no, that's not the way it works. We have to diagnose it.

And then we have to order the part. We can't order the part before then. I was like, well, I'm not leaving my laptop here for a week. I need it for work. I was like, I thought maybe I would get it at the worst the next day. He's like, no, that's impossible. I was like, well, I'm not leaving my laptop here. And he's like, well, if you don't leave your laptop here,

the soonest will be able to look at it is middle of November. It's like, well, I'm never coming back. So that's not a problem. Yeah. I don't know. Okay, you can swap a different laptop in there on that. Like, you've been booze all day. I don't know.

I was like, I know. So yeah, my laptop's just, I mean, it's fine. Like, luckily, we're not traveling. I'm not going anywhere, so I don't need the battery to last very long. So what's the thing with like him paying to, or you paying for having to have him diagnosed it? Like, does he not believe you? Or is it like people, I bet what the problem is? I bet that's their middleman charge. I bet that's where they make their money, right? Like, I pay Apple for the battery, but I pay this dude 49 bucks to diagnose it. Yeah, we got the affordable care act and we got the Apple care act.

Apple care. I'm gonna look online. I'm gonna see if I can just buy a bit. I've got the fucking screwdrivers. I've got all the tools I need. I just don't have a fucking battery. So probably just look online and buy a battery and do it myself. I don't know. Also, why I have a question.

Why isn't the genius bar taking appointments because it's COVID? I assume stores are still open to an extent with some past. I think that's the reason why I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.

I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it., I don't know. Also, why I have a question, why isn't the Genius Bar taking appointments because it's COVID? I assume stores are still open to an extent with some capacity. If I remember right, I think the Genius Bar at Barton Creek Mall was taking appointments but the one the domain wasn't. But I didn't want to go to Barton Creek Mall because it's indoors. The domain at least is outdoors.

Right. Because I could be outside and it's not as bad. It was like, I'm not going to go into Barton Creek Mall. It's close. The place I ended up going to go into Parton Creek Mall. It's close. The place I ended up going was like an outdoor mall area too. Or it's outside and you just walk into the store. Yeah, that's a good idea. I should have known something was fucked up with that place.

Because as soon as I got to the door, they were like four homemade printed signs on the door. They were like, I'm going to COVID, we can't let your pets into the store anymore. I was like, what did they need four signs? I think all over the hotel work. Do you think that advertisement you saw weeks ago about feeling the duality was actually for that Apple Care store that you went to Barbara? There are more of those signs now. What?

There are, there are, on top of field duality now, there's never looked better. Um, how was the other, I've seen, I saw three more. I saw never looked better. I've seen I saw three more. I saw never looked better. Feel amazing. Fuck I can't remember what the other one says, but they're spreading. They all have the same they all have the same phone number. So is this like the next, are you like living a live episode of Redweb? What's going on here? Like there's the side. Yeah, you should explain it to Cole. If you drive around, you may have seen these signs around Austin, where it's like a white sign and in black, there's just like someone wrote with a marker. One of the scientists feel, I guess it says feel the quality.

Maybe it's this field of duality. I don't know. There's another one that says, it's like a cute without the little line. It kind of looks like a D. It's weird. Never felt better or looks amazing. And all they have is a phone number. That's it.

So no business name. No, nothing. And I called a phone number. That's it. No business name. No nothing. And I called it. You call it. I called it and the guy who answered sounded really mad. So I got really scared and hung up. I don't know what the deal is, but the signs are spreading. If you drive around, keep an eye out on phone polls.

I'm sure you'll see. OK, never felt better. What do you want? That's a duality. That's a little bit. Yeah. What do you want? Just wanted someone to be a little bit. That's the duality. That's the duality. What was your technical? Kind of simple.

I had to upgrade my PC due to work from home situations. I am an editor for animation. And so we have to now edit everything from home. And so I had to upgrade my hard drive. I saw there was something that was like PCIe, M2, little like stick drives, because they were supposed to have like the best or memory between.

Yeah, and VAME ones. And so I bought it, installed it, I was like, you know, I want that to now be my C drive. And this was like a very beginning of quarantine. And so I went and found some programs, found some YouTube videos, like here's how you can copy over your C drive you have now over to the new C drive, whatever you want new news to be. So I did that, ran some tests, everything was working fine. And I was like, okay, you know what? Now I have a new old hard drive that I can use,

like I do a SSD that I can now use as like for games or something. So I went and formatted the old C drive restarted the computer and it blue screened. I was like, no, no, and it was like, yeah, we can't find your assistants file. So I hit will search again and it goes, okay, we found it. That was good. That's good. And from there on out like every so often it would pop up and be like, oh, hey, we can't fight it again. Where's it? Where'd you put it? Where'd you put it? And hit search again and go, okay, we're good, we're't fight it again. Where did you put it? Where did you put it in a hit search again and go? Okay, we're good. We're good. I never see search again work by the way.

I can't always look to work seriously. Well, it's weird though, because it's a computer, right? It's just ones as zeroes. What was it doing the first time? I don't know. Well, so then like two weekends ago, I went, I like was going to play something online or something. And so I restarted my computer before hopping on and went downstairs to get a drink. As I came back, I saw that my computer was updating. I'm like, okay, I haven't found whatever. It restarted and went to blue screen.

It was like, hey, we can't find it again. I'm like, we've been through this. We've been through this. We've been through this. And it goes, no, we can't find it. I was like, oh, or? Enter. Can't find it.

No, we can't find it. I was like, Oh, or... Enter, can't find it. No, can we hate about it? So, essentially what happened is it updated the wrong location. And then it wouldn't search the new location. So I had to spend like the past week reinstalling and uploading everything. Oh, what a pain in the ass. Cause I couldn't, I couldn't repair the drive either.. I couldn't repair the drive either. I couldn't repair the window system.

In chat, Jelly Beano won gives a good suggestion for you, Cole. Jelly Beano won says, just try downloading more hard drive space. I never thought of that. Jelly Beano download space. I'm going to do that now. We we never had a problem again. Thank you. Give me a chuckle I had some great technology this weekend. I was super happy with I Ordered myself finally some some new lights and stuff like that because I've been using Work gave us like actual professional equipment to film things like Gredgnight and some other shows

we were working on at home. And I've been using those for the podcast ever since and because they're so big and bulky, they took up the majority of space in my office and my desk was a mess and just like covering wires and equipment. So I finally got myself this El Gato ring light that has a camera mount on it.

So I was able to set that up and like you connected to this app on your computer so you don't have to like physically turn it off and on. You connected to a stream deck. It's awesome. I'm super excited. And everything installed great. Didn't have any tech issues. Didn't order anything wrong. It was awesome. Is that what you're using now? Yes, this is what I'm using right now. If you go close, does it put the little ring in your eye? this is what I'm using right now. Knock on, so if you go close, does it put the little ring in your eye? I can kind of see it right now.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, look at that. Whoa. That's cool. My camera's not on auto focus, because I'm seeing if that helps the battery not die. It's porcelain.

Or overheat rather not on battery. I also keep mine on manual focus. I feel like the auto focus on these cameras twitches out a little too much. Yeah, it does. Yeah, it wants to kind of keep going. Yeah, it's like always trying to gain focus on something, even though the frame's not really changing.

So I just keep mine on manual, which 99% of the time is great, except I had to record an end bump for a YouTube video earlier. And on the small screen, it looked fine, but when I recorded it and then replayed it percent of the time is great, except I had to record an end bump for a YouTube video earlier. And on the small screen, it looked fine when I recorded it and then replayed it before sending it off. I was like, everything's out of focus in this shot.

Oh no. I had to redo it. Oh. Little camera, you lied to me. Little screen. Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm still, yeah, but you know, who knows what camera is doing. Is your camera flickering out again? What's going on?

I just paused. The auto focus on this little Sony that I use is really good. It's usually quite fast if the thing is big enough like get set immediately. Oh wow. But you know, missing half my frames. So who does? I, one of these days, I keep meaning to do this, but I forget. I want to post on social media, like, the view from my desk, right?

Like everyone's used to seeing this frame and they know like the poster and everything behind me, but they don't see the nightmare of technology that I stare at in this direction. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely a semester. The amount of lights that are back here to make it look like you can actually see my face.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, because like without this light and like, I don't know, I can't, it would just be like this. Let's see. And like my light is like fully on and everything. You look like so much more light for these. You look like the girl from the ring Your your care over yourself. Yeah See mine looks one day

You're that's nice. That's nice. That's clean. I like your lights like those little wall lights behind you That's cool. Yeah, I was sick of I had that light The kept overheating because everything overheats when you try and use it apparently So you need the wall a light and it's a lot easier and it's not like on my desk pissing me off It's very smart. Yeah, the thing I like about this light is it it mounts onto your desk So it doesn't I had like a tripod holding my camera which took up a fucking ton of space I had like a light over here that was bouncing on the wall to reflect on my face. So it was a whole mishmashers setup. Oh, cold's gone. I was like, I wonder what it is like when I turn mine off. Very.

Oh, spooky. Yeah. It's like fastophobia. Oh, what do you want? Adult. Are you close? Child. I haven't played fast infobia yet. I really want to play with Michael for a play pal, so something. I'd be really good. Yeah, especially if you do unlike the proximity chat,

and you're only communicating through the game. Yeah, that's the way to do it, right? Yeah, absolutely. Because like while you that's the way to do it, right? For maximum entertainment. Yeah, absolutely. Because while you're trying to talk to your friend, you're also pissing off the ghosts. So it's like, oh. Well, it's just funny when you get too far from each other.

And then you, like, if one person forgets to use the radio, and you just hear like in the background, like, yeah, I'm gonna go on this, we're gonna just kind of be like, and you're like, use the radio. Or you're just here like, oh. Or you're like, little movie. Oh. Yeah, this kind of like muffled screams.

Yeah. Is it scary or is it just like funny? It's scary. It's pretty scary. It's scary. I think the audio is the scariest part. Because like it has some pretty spooky sound effects and that's like the bigger jump scares

are the audio sound effects. Gavin, you know what's funny? I'm not gonna spoil a little bit of this, but it was still fun. But we were playing Guest Who, so for people watching who don't know, we do like a series in hard mode called Guest Who where we use Ruchy staff members

and could only ask non-physical descriptive questions about people. And one of the questions that came up today was, would this person enjoy or like willingly go see a horror film? Like do they like horror films? And I was like, oh, absolutely not. Thinking of you, Gavin.

And they were like taking people off the board and they were like, just Gavin like horror stuff? Maybe, I don't know. And I was like, are you fucking kidding me? Like, have you seen anything with Gavin in it? He hates that. Although I don't know if he was like are you fucking kidding me? Like, have you seen anything with Gavin in it? He hates that shit. Although I don't know if he like horror movies versus games. I feel like I just don't enjoy, I don't dislike them.

Like I liked, I watched all of Haunted of Hill House and Blind Manor. I thought that was really good. For sure. It's not like really scary though. It's not like, I don't know, what's really scary like poltergeist or something. I just rewatch that on Halloween the other day. That's a good movie. PG, you want to see something really scary. Watch the social dilemma. That is an actual form. Oh, I hear you're talking about us, that's to us. That's like about how social media is destroying all of our minds and controlling how we think.

Yeah, and the division too, it's causing in society and different cultures and political standings and everything like that. It's just, it's at a very dangerous point and it's only going to get worse because I don't want to get into it too much, but you should watch the movie. Maybe like a couple days from now, like not today, not tomorrow, don't watch it anytime soon. All the stuff is going on because it's going to fucking freak you out. What do they call it a survey with capitalism? Yeah, it's essentially how like these social media platforms and the internet in general

is adapting and learning more and more and how to keep you engaged and keep you on your screen, but also how fake news spreads something I think it was like something's like five times faster than the truth, because fake news stories tend to be more shareable because they tend to invoke a certain emotion or reaction. So they spread a lot faster and a lot to more people. I feel compelled to mention that I mentioned the social dilemma and ad read I did for this episode of the podcast but Barbara doesn't know that. She brought that up on her own organically. Oh, that's funny.

The little tie. Barbara doesn't see the ad copy for the ad. So she didn't know that. I get that. So I don't want any like conspiracy like. Yes, I do. Like they're they're talking about it to set it up. What else did you talk about?

Why are we going to tell you? Oh. Well, that's like, that's been crazy to see that and also how algorithms and stuff are shaping what you watch and how you watch it. Like, even during, especially now, during all the work from home stuff, I pretty much always have YouTube open. And how fast the algorithm changes to like, oh, you're watching

a lot of this stuff. Okay. Now, all of your recommended is that one thing. Yeah. And like two days later, I can watch something else. And it all of a sudden is like, it's now all wrestling videos. Okay. It's now the V2 version.

It's now the same book. The YouTube algorithm will serve me such specific stuff that is very relevant to me. And it frightens me. But at the same time, I'm like, I'm Kind of okay with that because it's like I really want to see these videos Yeah, it makes it more useful. Yes, I always find it weird when if I find a new channel and I did a select where it's like Find a new channel be like I love that video and then there's so many other good videos You're not just watching that channel a ton. Yeah, and sometimes the algorithm will auto play Into another video from that channel like you finish one. I'll just play another one and I'll just keep doing that channel a ton. Yeah. And sometimes the algorithm will auto play into another video

from that channel. Like you finish one, it'll just play another one, and it'll just keep doing that for a while. But I found another channel, which is like, I guess slightly more offensive, like there's way more swearing and it and stuff. And every time I finish a video on that channel, it auto plays to a different channel. And I'm like, the algorithm is, I guess, possibly this is in the demonetization area of YouTube where it's like, they don't wanna auto play another video from that channel. And I'm constantly like, damn you,

like just play the next and I'm like, I'm like, I'm gonna go back and it never, it never freaking does it. And it's like, because YouTube is in such control, I guess without even, like, I'm sure the person who runs that channel doesn't know that that happens because how often do you watch your own videos on YouTube, right? Yeah I just change you all the time and it's a yes, it's so hard to keep track of because YouTube also gets her if you're watching

Demons the demonetized videos. I guess YouTube doesn't want to show you a bunch of videos without ads in a row Yeah, the point of operating for them, right? Yeah, then they just lose money on it. This episode of the RCT podcast brought to you by ExpressVPN. I love a good documentary. You know that. I talk about documentaries all the time. If you haven't seen it, I recommend you check out the social dilemma.

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I saw, I wasn't planning on talking about this. I'm just going to bring this about the top of my head, but I want to say Facebook saw decline in user activity in the United States and Canada in their last quarterly report. I don't know if anybody else saw that. I want to say that. I hope so. Yeah, quite a bit. It's honestly like Facebook is one of those troubling platforms out there. I deleted the top spreader misinformation. Yeah. Facebook, the first for the first time ever usage of Facebook went down. It was a decline usage from 67% of Americans, age 12 and older to 62% of that same audience.

I deleted my Facebook account last year and I would encourage other people to do the same. If you, if you, if you can't. I know some people are really attached to that platform. I am not a friend. Yeah, it's also a way people still keep in touch with people and yeah, it's easy for me because I hate people. So I don't want them finding me or talking to me anyway. It's still like my only link to some of my English friends though. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't. I use it ever. I just like to be able to reach out if I need to about something, I guess. It's like the most accessible messaging app.

Like I have a ton of like other apps that I want people to use, but it's like, no, that's, it's not Facebook. I already have Facebook. Yeah. There's a lot of people in chat saying I can turn off auto play. Yeah, I know.

I don't want to. That's not what I want. I want it on. Like I, I, I think I want auto play. Yeah, I know. I don't want to. I want it on like I get. Hey, Gavin, I think I want to fall asleep too, and I want it to keep playing. And I don't get it. I think we should teach you how to use YouTube because I don't know. Gavin, why you're at it? You could make custom playlists. What are you doing, man? Yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. Just build your own. Yeah. Build a head of time. And did you know, like, you could also change the size of like the screen of the video

that you're watching. So you can like make it smaller and full. You can make it full screen. You can make it the full size. If it's too loud, you can turn the volume down. Like they got everything, man. Look at the work. Well, you can change the volume. Yeah. You have to blow your dreams. Speaking of watching content online, we have an extra life coming up in a couple of weeks ago.

I feel like we need to mention that. That's the weekend of November 14th. I believe it's what we're doing. Extra life. Yes, the 14th. And actually, so the 7th is when the community stream is and I think it's when a lot of other people start participating in extra life. But then like the whole week leading up to the 14th we're going to be raising

money for extra life. So anytime we're live on our TV, we're going to be live like normal during the week. We're going to be raising money. So if you guys tune in, we're going to be talking about it. But then on the 14th is the official Rooster Teeth one which goes from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the 14th. So it's going to be really fun. There's some cool stuff we found out is happening. Chad gave us a rundown of some of the things that are in the works and it sounds cool. Sounds fun. We do the best we can to entertain everyone and to help raise money for the kids as always. For the kids. Yeah, we'll be even stuff that's not during like Barb said,'ll have stuff other programs and

Leading up to the actual stream and I think we're trying to plan other Events during that week hopefully to help hype up the actual 12-hour event. Oh, yeah, and on the seventh too I know it's a kick-and-off extra life at the community stream It's also Ruby volume eights premiere on the seven so that's cool So soon, I know we get five days away. Yeah Ruby volumates premiere on the 7th so much. Cool. Exciting. That's so soon. I know we get five days away. Yeah. They're doing well. They're pretty.

They have a bunch of episodes in the can already. So I feel like it's coming out at the perfect time. I think we're going to need some Ruby. Suey. Do some Ruby on the world, please. Yeah, I need to escape reality for just one. I had to think, I realized there's something else I could complain about while I'm on this subject, bad tech and YouTube and shit.

Let's do it. While we were on this subject. While we were before, you know, we talked about nice Ruby thing. It's been about over 600 episodes of tech complaining, so why don't I break the streak? It's always on on topic. I was filming a Pimble machine recently and I had to move it. So I bought a like a hydraulic, I don't know what the name is, like a table lift thing, you sort of like foot pump and it like

brings up a table. Sure. And if you can hold a ton, which is the the Pimble machine was like 450 pounds. It can literally hold a ton, like 2000 pounds. Yeah, I think that's what he meant. I don't think he was using it as like, oh, it's a ton, it's a ton of stuff. Oh, that's how it's clarifying. Yeah. A ton or half a ton, either way, it was well beyond how much the Pimble machine weighs.

Like, so I got out of the box. First problem, it arrived on a pallet because the actual lift is very heavy too. But do you need a lift to lift the lift? I could have done with one. I just dragged it on a pallet. So I got it off and I got it on sale. I was like, sweat in my tits off. And I opened

the box and about 900 ball bearings just spilled out of the box. And I was like, what on earth? And I was like, looking in the manual and I was like, nothing in this thing has ball bearings. It's full of ball bearings. Like, tiny little things. They went all over the place. Two of the wheels of the lift thing were like sideways and bent. Oh my god. And I was like, you guys are simply- Were they just the pinballs? No, this is the lift.

This is the thing that I bought to lift the pinball machines. Was it the mirroring wheel? Oh! No. I was like, are you sure you were just pinballs? No, pinballs are like this big big these were like tiny little like Shit went all over the floor So I just got like a busted bent

Table lift dolly thing that I can't move like even on wheels. I'm pulling it. It's like going like So I emailed the company I was like you've sent me not only a broken thing, you also sent me a load of all bearings. I've got clean up now. You said to chorex. Yeah. And they're like, oh, you're gonna have to, we don't do like returns in the pick up sense. You're gonna have to just take that to us, a store, the one in the nearest store. It's a carry that to us. I was like, I can't imagine that. I'm like, an Uber in the middle of a pandemic and lugging a 200 pound dolly lift thing into this person.

I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know what the God down going to do. You can rent one of those trucks from Home Depot or something. I guess I don't know, dude, that's fucked up. Wait, wait, are you going to return it? Sorry, I missed what you said you're gonna do with it. Yeah, they want me to return it and they'll send a new one. They won't just, they've basically delivered me heavy trash is what they've done. I've spent $200 plus dollars on heavy trash. Bullshit. It's just, I knew when I was buying it I was like this thing is going to be so

heavy if it's not in like good condition I'm going to be stuck with this thing and I'll ask you must have a friend with a truck who could help you. I'm sure there's someone. I'm sure I'll figure it out. Okay a lot of people in the chat guessing what the bull bit. I'm telling you it was so it was so many bullbags you could fill a bucket Honestly, not from the thing Get a bucket and a mop When you want a ball that's a ball ring Pinball machine so we just say you're much balls If you need an extra we don't know if there's

I should just throw them in the machine That's what I'm talking about Speaking of that to be the most insane multiple ever Speaking of trucks, I saw something that I thought was kind of interesting the other day I was driving around you know like I say that's why I do to kill time now since we can't go anywhere really or do much I drive around a lot and I'm sure you all have probably seen them before but like those I'm sure you all have probably seen them before, but those really small cars that are imported from Japan, around the studio, I used to see this cargo van or these trucks that were

really small, imported from Japan. Apparently it's a class of car that they have, I think it's called a K-car. It's the smallest automobile that can legally drive on a highway in Japan. And like I started really getting interested in these. I've been reading a lot about them lately. And they're just like normal cars, but small and there's one I think if you want to look it up for yourself, it's called a Suzuki Mighty Boy. It's like a Japanese El Camino. Well that's like a Japanese El Camino. Well, that's like a K-Car van right there. That's like a generic. It's like a regular car, but small.

But if you look up like a Suzuki Mighty Boy, it's like a tiny toy truck. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.

I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love like that, like it would just tip it. That's like the Japanese El Camino. Yeah, Japanese El Camino. No, it surely just like go up on shoes.

Yeah. And I was reading, I was reading articles about these pay cars. And there's like this one geloptic article that's like, K-cars are horrible, they're not really practical. Sure, they say you can put four people in them, but then you can't haul any cargo. It's like, well, I doubt anyone buys a car like that. Here in the United States, I don't know,

if I buy a car like that and tries to practically use it and put four people in cargo into it. It's obviously like, it looks like a little toy. Yeah, there it is. There's a little mighty boy. It looks like it got cut off like the rest of the truck. I feel like if I got into that, I'd be like that really tall guy in the Simpsons

who gets into the car that Nelson laughs at. Like, why am I to be made the subject of fun? All people need to drive automobiles too. Genius. It's like it makes sense, I guess, thinking about like in Japan, just with like, I have, like last time I was there, I was seeing somebody carry groceries on there and was like, oh yeah, people have to transfer stuff.

What if you buy like a table? How do you get that? Yeah. And like, especially with how hard it is to get a license and car over there, because you have to like have a designated spot by the government that you can park it before you even let you buy a car.

Yeah, like you have to, okay, this is your home parking spot. This is your work parking spot. Wow. I think that's good. Me too. I was like that no stress trying to find parking at work and stuff like that or buy your house is designated. And they were telling, like I they were told

I was about like on a tour last time was there. And they were like, well, we've seen a massive drop in the youth wanting to buy cars. It's like, yeah, because you have to go through all of these processes when you can just ride the train and get their faster and better. Well, cheaper. Long story short, I'm buying one of the,

I want to buy one of these cars. Yes. Can you get them here? Yeah, they're actually pretty cheap. I saw some for, well, I mean, really, could cheap for a car. Car your Tesla. You can get them for like four or five thousand dollars used. Car your Tesla. Oh, no, I would definitely could cheap for a car. Car, you can get it for like $4,000 or $5,000 used.

Car, your Tesla. Oh, no, I would definitely need to keep that car. Damn it, that's a truck. Can you help me return a lift? We should order. We should get a little Suzuki Mighty Boy and film ourselves trying to put your hydraulic table into the back.

Yeah. Yeah. People in chat, someone in chat said it's pronounced key car. I'm not sure. It's K E I. So I don't know how to put that. Was that the smart cars?

Is that a smart cars work technically considered the same kind of car, the same kind of class got it. I really, I just, I want to go to Japan so bad. I've never been there. And it's just like, I know all three of you have been multiple times. I've ever been. Yeah. Absolutely best.

I love it. Just some like good systems in place over there. I know. It just seems like they have their shit together. So figure it out. Yeah. There's some drawbacks. One of my friends lives over there. He has to alert his apartment complex if he's going to be gone for two weeks.

Like he has to go and check with them to make sure it's okay for him to be gone for two weeks. Why would it not be okay? I don't know exactly. Like he didn't have any reason for it. It's like, Hey, I'm going to be like, they're like, Oh, you're, they found out like, are you going to be gone for more than two weeks? Okay, you got to let us know. It was like, we'll probably, we'll probably sign off and say, yes, but I was like,

why would they not? Like what would be the reason for them saying no? Also, what happens if you don't let them know? Do they notice that you don't come in and out? Maybe. That seems very weird. I mean, I guess if they find out, they'll probably find you, but weird. It's funny. We're talking about this because we also talked about the YouTube algorithm earlier because the algorithm over the weekend started serving me Japanese or Tokyo apartment tours. It's like someone's showing off their apartment that they live in for like $950 a month. It's because you've been watching videos of just like people walking streets and was it. Exactly. So no, they're learning.

I was like, oh, I'll watch this. I'm curious to see what the apartment look like. Where are people getting apartments for $950 in Tokyo? What the guy who whose video I watched said that most people came around and took you to my certain dear FBI agent. Thank you. What I know, I guess like I guess they try to keep it affordable so people can live in a one bedroom apartment by themselves. And it's not like it's huge. It's basically a kitchen, a bathroom, and a living room slash bedroom. You know, it's like a very small

studio. We stayed in something like that the last time we were there. And that like, that reminds me the last time I went with like Blaine, Miles, and Alana, the first Airbnb we scheduled got canceled on us because with the Olympics coming up, they actually went through and restructured how they were doing their apartments and Airbnb and you have to have a license to do Airbnb there now. Because essentially they were saying it's really bad for local business, Airbnb is because you'll get these companies that will just go by entire apartment buildings and turn all the rooms in there into airbievee rooms. Well, then you have usher bronies coming over and we're going to go and look up what's the

most popular restaurant, what's the most like the best thing for us to do because we're here for two weeks. We're going to go do the best things that we can find. That's not normally the mom pop place right below the apartment. And then when we're not there, what's it like, at least like a three day cleaning after we're done, so that's nobody living in a place for three days and they're not eating the local business. So that's really interesting.

I don't even would have considered that. They're like, we have to limit how many Airbnb's can be in this sector of the city. That makes sense, actually. Yeah. I would have never thought about that. I guess it's rare when you go somewhere so I guess elaborate that you wouldn't just eat the nearest place outside the front door. I totally did that. When me and Bethany went to Rome a couple of years ago, we were just hungry and so we're like, why don't we just walk out the door and see what we could find close by? Because also trying to figure out like transportation around the city when you don't know the language or anything about it is

is always a challenge. So we actually found like a couple of restaurants around it. So I think like for certain cities it's okay unless it's like a huge tourist destination where it's like oh the best places to eat in France or Paris. Still you would probably walk around for at least like five minutes though. You wouldn't really go like right under way. Because it depends. Yeah. This is like the night we got in when we're like we're starving. We need food.

So maybe that was a different situation. Did you all like pull out your phone to look like Yelp or anything? No, just pull it up before to look at like restaurants nearby and stuff like that. So if they were smart, they would just put, if companies do that and just buy up entire apartment complexes and turn them to Airbnb's. If they put them McDonald's below that, that would make it absolutely. Oh, hell yeah. What was below was the 7-11 was there.

So it's like, okay, that's every night we're going to get beer and snacks at 7-11. I heard the sandwiches at 7-11 in Japan are actually really amazing. And the Onigiri. Oh my God. Yeah, so good. Meg loves him. You get like the little little, the little, the little, the little, little before dinner.

Rice ball triangle thing. Yes. So good. A lunch every day. A lunch every day. And then if you're lucky, you get the Umay Bochi, the pickle plum in it.

Mm. That's your dessert. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry. It's really hard to get the hang of unwrapping the triangle. That makes it a whole pot. It's like a magician pulling from the sides.

Yeah, it's like, you tear this little thing and then it's like, and then you tease it. And then it's delicious. Yeah, that triangle, really crazy. I know. Well, when you're done, it's like, I will turn this into lunch. But um, rice ball company here in town. No, I haven't even heard of that. It's in that like a dinner,

quinoa, uh, 85 C. Oh, yeah, yeah, we're like nine, nine wrench and all that stuff is. Yeah, they had that, um, shaved ice place, uh, snowy snowy village. Yeah, uh, in there they have open a new restaurant. It's just like gourmet rice balls. It's so good. Oh, I've seen that place.

There's the Diso's right next to there, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Do they deliver? Yes, yes they do. Oh, and Dordash. Dordash, excellent. Well, I know what we're having later.

I had to think I was like, they're not a sponsor of this episode, right? Okay, yeah. Yeah. I think they were last week. So like talking about Tokyo, of course, makes me think about like the trains and how like, if you needed it is to walk around right, like you in Google Maps, you just put your destination, it'll tell you like, get on this train at this time, go so many stops and get off and it makes me wish that we had trains here in Austin. And

there's actually, if we're going to talk about elections, there's, it's on the ballot. Tomorrow, there's a proposition to see if Austin's going to get transit and trains and everything or not. And I saw, I was driving around earlier, actually the other day, I was driving around the other day. And I passed a sign. People are very divided on this train in Austin. There's a lot of disinformation, a lot of shocking. Yeah, a lot of people want it, a lot of people don't want it. But I saw a sign, and I've seen signs for both sides. I saw a sign, I should have my position.

I think we should get it. I voted for it. I hope everyone votes for it. Anyway, I saw a sign that said, no Trump, no train, vote no one proposition A. I was like, what the fuck does that have to do with the problem with the... All right.

You've got to do it with the local... I think they wanted to just declare their stances on all the different things they're voting on. All right, I four Trump against train. I guess Trump for train like there's kind of going to be like a Venn diagram that that craft the sir and what all the different positions. Man. That seems weird that you'd be

for the train. What to or I guess Trump against Trump. I don't know. That seems weird that you'd be for the train. What? I guess I guess train gets. I don't know. Yeah, speaking of, I'm sure we're going to talk about some point tonight. What do you guys think you're going to do tomorrow during all the news coming out? What do you guys have like plans? You are going to like ignore it.

Are you going to like be glued to your television? What's your? I'm probably going to watch it all. I already luckily I already took care of my voting ahead of time, so I'm done. If you haven't, you can still go to Gamers.Vote to get information about what you need to do to vote on Tuesday. Hopefully you've taken care of it already, but if not, don't worry, you can still check it out for any last minute resources you may need to figure out where you need to go

vote or how to get all all done. Please check it out, Gamers.Vote. And if you go tomorrow, stay in line. If you're in line, before polls close, you technically have the right to stay there until you get to vote. So don't leave the line, no matter how much pressure you're getting. Stay in line. Yeah. Make a, make a plan right now. Like, start downloading videos onto your phones, start downloading podcasts. Bring a little chair. Yeah, make a fun for yourself. Yeah. Download a playlist on YouTube.

Yeah, you can make your own, yeah, you can do that on YouTube. You can download the playlist you made. What? What? And when you're in line, these buttons are the side of the phone, right? They make it go louder than that.

What? What? Like a remote. Yeah, people people chatter saying just watch you know the movie that should pass. That should give you a couple hours. But uh, yeah, while you're voting, if you

haven't voted yet, I'll probably be sitting on my couch. I guess during the day, you know, there's no results during the day. I'm not going to watch all the lead up. But I'm right. They're not going to tell me a thing groundbreaking at that point. I'll

probably wait till the evening. I'll probably have a normal day. I'll probably play video games and then maybe around 7pm or so settle in, start watching the news. I imagine I'll probably be watching it all night because obviously everyone's fixated on the whole presidential election. But like I said, we have a lot of important, smaller elections here that are relevant to our everyday life, like the proposition for trains here in Austin of this congressional seats and it seats like. I mean, not even that, there's also like city council, AISD board. So it's like there's a lot of local elections. I'm also really interested in invested in. So it's like I'm not, I'm obviously I'm going to watch a president. So I I'm gonna watch all this other big elections, but there's a lot of smaller things that are more relevant specifically to us that I'm very interested in that I'm gonna be watching all night long.

During the day, I'm gonna do as much as I can to distract myself. I think Jordan, Eric, Rich and I are gonna do the Holy Baseball. Oh, no. Just get outside. We try to think the most social distance sport. It's like this, this sports about being far away from each other and hitting each other. So socially distance. And you're outside.

It's just classic American sport. Yeah, for America. The classic American pastime. Yeah. And then come home and watch anime. Let's all learn to do. Nice. Yeah.

Solid plan. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm really gonna be watching it. You think you'll be watching it? I guess it depends. I just like, I don't know what I'm gonna do either. I think I might start watching a little later into the evening just because I don't want to be like, I'm sure people are gonna start watching earlier in the day and just continue to the night. But I doubt there's gonna be results until very, very late at night if any. So I think a couple of us are actually gonna stream some Among Us around seven o'clock central give or take just to kind of take our minds off of it because there's definitely gonna be no results at by that point in time. So it's like my as well just

distract yourself. Yeah, hopefully, hopefully chat's good. Hopefully chat is simple and chill and good people. Please, please just be kind. We're very nice. It's a good time. It's a bizarre time to be present and living in this country as a farmer. I'm also gonna make sure that I do nothing similar to what I did election night 26

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And I found a little Japanese fire truck. I put it in the discord chat if y'all want to see it. Look at that. Oh my God, it's so cute. Oh, it's so cute. I want it. You can buy that right now. You could buy that right now.

It's a four wheel drive. Shit, dude. It got some operation. It's siren and lights. It's $11,000. It's so cute. I want it But you anybody want to split my I try like lived could lift that up

It wouldn't be up to dragon anyway, but it'd be up to lift it up if you want to cosplay as firemen It's the perfect accessory. Oh show up to the con like yeah Stickered cars are really good. No, this is the classic. So do you want to have a bullet a fire truck for cosplay? No, with their cowards. Do it. That's awesome. Whoa. So cute. I never thought I would think a car was cute. Here we are. If you look through the link that Tyler said there's a ton of them. That was just like, that was like the fourth one down. I like the two notes Tyler said it's $11,000 and it has zero mileage.

Just to get this, just to get this. Just to get this. As soon as you drive it off a lot, the value to preach he hates, I don't know. Everyone in, everyone in chat loves this truck by the way, chat is going crazy. Yeah, how can they not? They're not monsters.

It's the cuteest little truck ever. It's the truck that could. Look at his little butt. Oh, look at that. They're fucking cool. That looks like what I imagine Gavin's lift looks like fully assembled. Just way less bull bearings. Yeah. That's what all the ball bearings were for.

To get it to look like that. I want to see one of those cars just drive by really fast. It just goes, it makes such a high-pensioner. It's so stinky. So wait, like it, so it's supposed to be street legal. You have to have like get those different classifications, right? Yeah. I wonder what it would be. I wonder, is that like, I think it's just normal.

What's the normal class C? I think it would just be like a normal class. Can you get normal class C if the steering's on the right side? Yeah, you can get them exempted. You can make them street legal here. And like I said, this all started because I saw not these obviously, but I saw similar cars driving around Austin like I'd seen them a couple of times and finally I was like, what are those? I want to look one up. They look really cool. Yeah.

I wonder what you have to, would the fire truck be class C? The fire truck, I don't know. Do you mind if I'm going to use the lights or the siren? A fire shows up with like reinforcements from Japan. I'm sure a fire show that you can't just rip the siren out of a fire truck and drive it as a civilian. Surely. You can do it with cop cars. Yeah, but a police car is kind of just a car, right? Yeah. It's just it's here. It's just a for some reason a black and white car. Yeah, very visible But a fire truck is always a always looks like a fire truck even if the lights are off

That's very true. Also, it's like get our gym in you bought a fire truck. Where would you park it? Because like Fire station's a garage You could park it anywhere the red curb doesn't stop you anymore. That's where it's supposed to park. I'm limited parking. I feel like having a fire truck in your driveway would be the best deterrent for any robbers or anybody trying to like break in your house. Why?

Is it going to sprayed? No, just because they're not going to go into a house that there's a fire truck there, like clearly there's an emergency of some sort. Shitty teens would. Shitty teens are definitely going to mess with that fire truck. Yeah, you know what? Or like I guess a cop car would be just as good. Well, this is a registry house and a fire truck pulls into the drive and turns all of

it's lights off. Well, they might think that there's firefighters inside looking around investigating something. Right. Yeah, I think people. I think the lights would be on still. I think they would just keep the lights on. We had, no, not necessarily. We had to call the fire department once at the Congress office.

And they showed up with no lights. They just came in and walked around for a bit. Do you think... Do you think other firefighters would mistake that as a place where a fire is? Like they're trying to go to the actual fire. They're like, yeah, let's truck. Let's take out the right one. Like what are these guys?

No, that we don't. Oh, man. So according in chat, according to myKa001, right drive and emergency vehicles are not illegal to own. Well, I knew they weren't illegal to own. I knew like, you can know it, but I thought you had to get like special license. Well, I want to find out.

Oh, fireman, FIFL, who I trust based on his name alone, says I literally know people who own fire trucks. That's crazy Did the hose isn't all that the water connection still work on it? I don't know Tyler just sent another one in chat here that has The hose is still on it. Whoa. Oh whoa See I would rob a house with that on it That's no deterrent is illegal to spray that if That's no deterrent. Is it illegal to spray that if it's a civilian vehicle now? Like, surely you can't just blast shit with a fire hose, Willie Daily. Well, the water isn't in there, right?

It carries some. No, it doesn't. But there are some like, yeah, there are some trucks that could still water and like bouses and shit will have water in them. Yeah. You can, you can open up the fire hydrant anytime you want for the neighborhood kids to go out and play in. Firefighters are weird because like anyone could be a firefighter. Well, anyone could be anything cold.

What is that? What is that mean? Like my stepdad's a firefighter now. I'm so tough to be like. Is he a shitty person? He a firefighter. No, no, it's just like he was, he was just like a engineer. He was like worked for DLP and then he retired. He's like, I want to be a shitty person. He was just like a engineer. He was like, worked for DLP and then he retired.

He's like, I want to be a firefighter. So now he's like, a volunteer fire department. Well, name a job where that wouldn't be possible. I feel like doctor. Doctor, you can't be a volunteer doctor. Well, you could learn how to be a doctor and then become one. Oh, you mean like anybody could be one

like you don't have to go through specific training. Yeah. Or like, well, there's like, there's volunteer part of departments and then there's like, I guess non volunteer, I don't know professional. I'm just, I've definitely known people on cool for, for five fights where they have other jobs and then that shit will stop beeping and they'll throw down whatever they're holding and just run out the door. But then what makes you different than like a person who's full-time job as a fireman? Well, they live in the place. Yeah. Wait, the fireman live in the place?

Don't they? I mean, they do they like spend the whole they spend like yeah, shift there, right? And like do do like fire station shit when there's no fire shit happening As opposed to people who are just out and about and then to fires. Yeah, I just wanna know what makes the volunteer fireman different than the other non-volunteer firemen. I don't know. Like they don't get paid.

Do they always add it? They don't get paid. Yeah, volunteer, right? That's true. Okay. Do they not get paid? They're volunteers. Okay, guess.

There has to be like some kind of insurance though. Like if you're a volunteer fireman and you actually paid? What, what, they're volunteers. I guess. They asked me like some kind of insurance though, like if you're a volunteer fireman and you actually do something that hurts someone. I mean, they're not just some type of... I'm sure that they've signed something somewhere at some point, even if they volunteered. They're not just sprinting into a fire with their own kid.

They got their own axe, they're like, I'm ready. Where am I at? I just love, I just love the code of cold being like to anybody could be a firefighter Just say there when anyone off the street these days is not gonna be a fireman Gus even women I've been watching I've been watching the rings you met in Florida rings. I've been watching Lord of the Rings. Yeah. Yeah, yeah great movies Are you watching extended? No the regular I watch them HBO Max. Ooh There for our corporate overlords where H.M. I so much more I read I've read that soon there might be a 4k Free scan of the the film negatives. Yeah, well, maybe it's already happening. So I think I'm just gonna wait for that

Well, if it's on HBO Max, you can watch it now. It's already included. I did not realize how many of the memes, most of the memes come from the first movie. They're taking the Hobbits to Eisengart is. That's the second one. No, second one, yeah. No, that's close to the beginning. Like the simple walk is in the beginning,

my, my acts. You shall not pass. Is it the beginning? My, my acts? You shall not pass. Potatoes. So it's amazing how potato is the third, I think. Yeah, okay. There's the written like some movies are too popular because of and memes have like made them bad.

Like, for example, the matrix. If you watch the matrix with a bunch of people now, when he says, I know Kung Fu, it's like a comedy line. Like everyone laughs, but it's like, that used to be very funny. It's just because it's been a meme so much that now that's a shit part of the food. It used to be. Yes. All of the sudden he knows Kung Fu. Yeah. And now it's just like, what is the roots of ruined it? Yeah. But it also like gives it more rewatchability. And like, yeah.

Yeah. I get it. It keeps it in culture longer. Yeah. That's true. I would agree. The Matrix is such a great movie. We watched it recently actually.

Just for fun. Yeah, it's a good movie. It holds up. Mm-hmm. And there's not as much CG in it than that could have been like I'm impressed with what they did practically Even though I guess they couldn't do all of the the squidgy stuff and I Think the worst the worst shot in the original matrix is at the very end when Neo jumps in at Agent Smith And he like deforms his head and everything. Yeah. Oh, that looks really flat. It went to a lot of effort though, because he's going a lumpy and it's like going up

his skin and there's one bit where it goes up his eye. That's the worst part. But they made the effort to make it so that briefly you could see up his eyelid, which clearly wasn't really there. Yeah. And he was pretending to do it. So it's like, they've got some effort here. It doesn't look any good anymore, but it's a good effort.

Yeah. No, don't you know that was practical? You go weaving just an incredible actor. You wouldn't believe the physical. It doesn't help since it's a simulation. Like it's that there is a that is a line read in the matrix that takes me out of it every time. It is the most nitpicky thing in the entire movie.

But it's when cher is looking at the matrix and encoded and stuff and Neo walks up and he scares the bejesus out of him. And he's explaining to Neo that the image translator that they show earlier, like when they're in the training program, is like the image translator doesn't work on the whole matrix. You have to look at it, encoded.

But he says it like the image translator doesn't work on like the whole matrix. You have to look at it, encoded. But he says it like the image translator's work for the construct, but not for the matrix. But he puts the emphasis on four and not for construct, which totally changes what that line means. And it makes it not make any sense at all. So I watch it every time. I'm like, why'd they use that tape? You could even read it like that. Like, does he not understand the line? Yeah, you're right. I never thought about it until right now. And the thing is, is that everything else, everyone else is perfect.

Like the whole movie is like really good. I think like the Oracle is, I always look at the Oracle and think, if the actress playing the Oracle, I assume she didn't fully understand what she was saying, but you always trust her so much. Like she seems so much like she believes everything that she's saying. When in reality, I maybe she did, like maybe she was that good. It's just like such a good performance. It's just which is why that cipherline really stands out. It's like, huh? It's an employee that reports to the construct, don't you know? Yeah, the construct. Not the whole construct.

I got the criterion edition of Parasite last week when it came out. And of course, I watched the director's commentary. I think just about all the bonus footage at this point. But the director talks about there's that one scene in the movie where the families all hanging out on the couch and they're drinking and getting drunk and eating all the food and stuff. I don't know if you remember that, but it's like this like panning shot that goes back and forth and like all the different family members are talking. And the director talks about how it's the longest dialogue sequence in the movie. And that they did a couple of takes, of course. And on some takes, one actor had a great performance

on another actor might have had their best performance. So they actually see Jeep that shot and combined all the best performances. They chose Lucas did. Yeah, into one shot. So that in the transition between, that's where they would mask the... Oh, cool. So they would right mask the cool.

So they, they picked selects for everyone's best performance and then merged it into a new scene that didn't actually exist. God, that's so cool. It's interesting. I wonder how the actors feel about that. Like, because it means like everyone, the best work is in the take. Yeah.

He also said that, you know, it's a, it's a, it seems like a very straightforward no visual effects movie, but he said that I think total in that movie, he said there were either 997 or 988 shots in the entire movie, and of those 450 were VFX shots. I feel like, why didn't he just go for an even thousand? Like, and for once, finally, in those behind the scenes, I got to see what the house actually looks like with no CGI on it. And it is a one floor set in a field. What?

Yeah. That's all the effects like more like skylines and yeah, like ground. Most of the trees like in that shot you see here, you can see that some of the trees are real. Most of the trees are fake because they said it was cheaper to to see G trees in than it was to plant real trees. God. I was like perfect use of CG, like totally unintrusive use of CG. Well, I know that the the place they live originally, that's all a practical set, the alley. Yes, that's a set.

Yeah. They built it like swimming pool, that's a set. Yeah. Yeah. They built it like swimming pool. They were like flooded. Yeah. That was a funny. We had a funny moment, Gus, when you had shown me the, the Blu-ray. And I was like, it's weird that it's not like a 4k movie. And I was like, I guess like maybe like 4k physical meat is not really taken off. I know it was really buying it. And then I looked it up. I was like, Oh, no, there is. There's a,K, you know, HD version. And you were like, God damn it. We're going to buy that. Here's support in the movie. You just wanted

to get all the versions. Support content that you like. Yeah, but it's really, it's really, really interesting. And you know, I really love that movie. So it was cool to watch, to watch all the behind the scenes and see. Like you talked about, Cole, you talked about how they built the semi basement, you know, as a set in the behind the scenes. Like you talked about, Cole, you talked about how they built the semi-basement as a set in the swimming pool. Yeah. They talked about how the part where they live, the semi-basement is at the deepest end of the pool

and everything else, it ramps up, like swimming pool. It gets more shallow. But they wanted the water level to be level throughout everything. And so it's like they had to use sandbags and like channeled the water to keep the water level. So it didn't appear like half the set was in deeper water than the other half of a set. Oh, yeah. Yes, like what a fucking pain in the ass.

Like, we have we built it in a pool. It's great. Oh, but the pool slanted. So now we have to like re-channel all the water to make it all look level. Yeah, it was. It paid off. It looks great. But yeah, it does. Look, literal cost.

So much. Dude, what's the movie's is such a nightmare. Like having just worked on sets where it just starts raining and how miserable you get at all the, you got a bag or the stuff to the point where it's starts raining and how miserable you get, you got a bag, all this stuff. To the point where it's like, when they want rain in a movie and they have rain machines or like flooding, it's like, everyone must be just so unhappy. What do you want?

Yeah. Especially if it's cold out too. It's also not like animation isn't any easier to do water. Like water still like, especially like standing bodies of water, like an ocean or something is like one of the artists just that motion. Just that much motion. Yeah. Like I also didn't know this, but like in a lot of TV and films, they like wet down sidewalks and streets to make them look like glycine. And you'll probably see a lot more now that you know that, but I only found that out on the set of laser team

pack in the day when they were like, hosing down all the streets around the set. I was like, what are they doing? Oh, they're wetting it for the scene. It's like, why? Was it supposed to have just rained? No, no. It just looks like more visually interesting.

Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. What else is hard to animate? reflects lie, it just looks like more visually interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating. What else is hard to animate? Hard to animate a cloth. Anything that has a lot of fluid motion is, especially in 3D is really hard to animate. What is it? Like, surely you could just run a simulation and then that's when you want to kind of do it, but you need people to like build those tools.

Right. Now, that's what's crazy about a lot of CG movies or animated stuff is that a lot of the time it's not just like using some software. It's like, all right, first we'll build the software. Yeah. First we'll come up with a way to do this one specific thing and then use it. And I feel like that's what. And then this is what ILM has done so much. And yeah, they went at becoming like, oh, we're come up with a way to do this one specific thing and then use it and I feel like that's what and then This is what ILM is done so much and yeah, they went at becoming like oh, we're gonna sell this technology to other studios

Like yeah, a lot of animation shoes will go that way with selling the tools to here's how you animate water better Here's I think if you even go and like remember It's really fun to watch Pixar and watch they'll always pick something to try new in a movie. And then like the next movie will be all about using that tool and there'll be another experimental thing in it. The movies are like sales pitches for other people to use this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if Lord of the Rings they develop massive, right? Like for all the crowds. Yeah. For like duplicating people and stuff. Yeah. I've tried to remember what the movie was before Monster Zinc, which everyone was before Monster Zinc. That was the one where they seemingly were trying to do

hair. Then they did Monster Zinc. I was going to say cars and I was like, it's probably some. Then they did Monster Zinc and it was like hair everywhere. Like, so he is covered in hair and it looks great in the movie, but that's like extremely, because it's like so much, so many little points of when rigging the skeleton it's so many little points of a potential movement and secondary motion that it takes a long time if you're not simulating it and then building the tools to simulate it correctly so it doesn't clip and look awful.

The one before Wuncher's Inc was Toy Story 2, by the way, that was the one that came out two years before. Did one character have hair in that? Toy Story 2 was like the prospector has was the one that came out two years before. One character have hair in that. Toy Story 2 is like the prospector has the beard and Jesse has the floppy hair. But it's like yarn hair. Also, go back and look at the humans hair in the first one compared to the humans hair in the second one. It's probably also a massive improvement. Toy Story 2 has that scene that I love because it's like kind of ASMR when the guys trying to restore that. Oh, yes. I have watched that. I've seen Toy Story 2 maybe like four

times. I've watched that scene like 50 times. So good. So good. And that's probably how a lot of people discovered they had ASMR or like it could get triggered for them. Yeah. Was that scene in particular? I didn't realize that I'm looking at the list of the Pixar releases. I didn't realize that Monsters Inc is one of the first Pixar films. It's like the top four. Toy Story was the first in 95, Bugs Life 98, Toy Story 299 in Monsters Inc 2001.

I didn't realize it was that old. That's crazy. Ooh, the other one was there was one right before Nemo and Nemo is where they did obviously like big focus on water and like the water looks good in it. I'll stick that on and applying sometimes. The one before Nemo is Monster Zinc. And that also have been a short, like sometimes they do that is with like the the shorts before the films. So maybe it was one like that. like sometimes they do that is with like the the shorts before the films.

So maybe like that was monsters. I'm sure I'll look. But it's funny talking about like you can interrupt me when you find the answers. I'm just vamping to feel space here. But it's funny. You talk about animation. I've been rewatching Ghost in the Shell standalone complex. And I haven't seen it probably in over 10 years at this point. And I remember at the time when I first watched me like, wow, it looks amazing.

It's so incredible. And now watching like, yeah, it's all right. It looks okay. He thinks it progressed so quickly and so much. It's like, it's tough to keep up with. It's for the birds. Oh, wait, hold on. Yeah, it's for the birds was before Monsters Inc.

Jerry's game. Oh, Jerry's game was so funny. I guess this is just. It's just the old guy playing chess against himself. Oh, okay. Right. These are just Disney picks are. Yeah. Call, if you watched any of the Cardo guys doing the react series to CG,

we have. We have. We're, I mean, we're trying to like find ideas and of, if there's anything like that that we could do. So I watched a few of those for research. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's so interesting. Yes, always cool.

Whatever people who know what they're doing have insight of like, oh, you see this. This is how this came to be. It's also interesting when they then take something that they've let, for example, the Tron light bikes. They recently recreated that because it's just dead easy to do simple shapes and animate them now. But when they were doing that back then,

they just had to type numbers. They had to like work it out on paper, type the coordinates, like type the coordinates of the camera, like type when the thing turned. And then they would just have to like wait for it to show up on film so they could project it and watch it to see have to like wait for it to show up on film to so they could project it and watch it to see if it worked. Like it is like, oh that's a nightmare.

Like if you messed up a number. Yeah. Cheese. Yeah. Like, nothing. Everything's just gone the wrong way. It's like, no, can you mess up a number early on? Nothing after that's going to work. Surely. Well, I think about like playing Minecraft, I constantly mess up the Z and Y coordinate. I don't like if I did that on a motion, like a Disney motion production. Oh my God. Years ago when we were still down at Ralph Oblinato, we had Richard Garriott as a guest on the podcast.

And he made, you know, a lot of really influential video games including the Ultima series years ago. And he brought with him his notebooks that he used to help make those games way back in the day. And one of them was just filled with math. And it's like, yeah, that's how we used to have to make video games. It's like, I would just do all the math by hand. It was like, it wasn't like done on a computer. It was just like a pen and paper. It's like, yeah, I just had to do all the math to figure out like the vectors and the way all the graphics should look. And then you just put it all into the computer.

It's like, what the fuck? How do you even start to do that? And then that goes back to the tools. People just make tools, they make a game and then sell the toolkit to another company. And that's like unreal is, right? Yeah, like this, like engines and licensing and all of that stuff.

It just comes down to like individuals is so important for the work they did so long ago. It's like stuff was built off like one single person's crazy pioneer work and now it's just like the norm. But it's like it's so important to like look back and remember those people. That one match. You have all these games because of that one

match journal. Yeah, it's crazy. We just take it for granted with what we have access to. Like the fact that I'm able to just, there's like, shits out YouTube videos, not that I, you know, don't spend time on them and like work hard on them. But it's like all the tools that I use to do that is so taken for granted. And like to the point where I'm annoyed,

if my computer like takes too long to boot up. I'm like, damn this. It's like, I would have to do it. Get me now. It's also messing with chemicals on film back in the day. It's also cool now because we kind of get to also experience that like developing tools and getting to use new tools right as they come out. So you get to appreciate one day it took you something something took you this much time. The next day it takes a fraction.

We are in animation. We developed a technology that was essentially for editors that we used to have to go and manually update each shot. So the animated animated would kick it out. We would then import it, line it up with where the previous one was, figure out what frames were used or not, and then place it in. Well, now we have a tool that you press a button and what you used to take eight hours of work

now takes three minutes at most. Oh, shit. At what point does humanity go, you know what, that's good enough. We can stop. It's like, it's in our nature, right? It's always to like try to do more.

It's like that's the thing. Like encoding time for videos always stays the same because you can always do more now. Like now that you, things are done quicker. It's like, oh, now you can spend more time doing visual effects in there or do a 4K footage. You set a 1080 footage. It's like you find more stuff to cram into there

to fill the same amount of time. Yeah, now instead of eight hours of updating, you get eight hours of timing, like timing passes, to where that time can be used more efficiently, and then eventually we'll get something. It's like, okay, we can, well, I don't know if timing, that's more creative, but there's technology that can probably figure it out.

Yeah, as time, like since I started my channel, as time has gone on, it's like been 10 years now, I'm not, I can't do it, like even with all the improvements in technology, I can't do it, like even with all the improvements in technology, I can't do anything really any faster because I keep updating all the stuff that I use. Like instead of HD now, it's all like 4K and 8K. It's like, it feels like it did in 2010, even though I'm able to produce like better way, better looking stuff that wouldn't have worked by then.

But it just feels like you're just on a flat when really it's just going way up. Yeah. Like, I think about lately, you know, we're talking about all this. I think about, I don't know if you'll see it, but Tesla started releasing beta versions of their full self-drive software for cars. And I don't know if you've seen like the cars that have done demonstrations with it, but looking at the display in the car as it sees the world around it and is like mapping vehicles and signs and lights and all the decision making. It's like a very rudimentary like algorithm passes on all the possibilities it can take. It's like a car is fucking doing that in real time while

driving down the road. It's like that is insane. I wonder for a game to the point where your car algorithm is going to be the same as your YouTube algorithm. I want to drive this way. No, that way is dangerous. You don't want to drive that way. I'll drive you. It's like, no, I want to go this way.

There's a 7-11. I want to go to. No, no, no. We're going to take this way. It's absolutely. No, go, go. There's absolutely going to be a time in our future where a car kidnapped someone right?

Like that is going to happen. Well, I think what you might see is like someone hacking a car with someone in it right and like kidnapping them and taking them or the AI and that could be a serious thing though. Like along the lines of what Cole was saying about how when all of the apartments become Airbnb's no one uses nearby restaurants, They could be just like one update, push to all self-driving cars that cause it to always go a different route. That takes all of the business away from restaurants

in the old route. So like, if the algorithm that currently affects like how people see our content, like we deal with social media and like video platforms, that the algorithm issue will spread to almost every area of our life where it's like, you have a thriving business, but then all of the cars update and now no one finds it.

But now that's what McDonald's sponsor's Tesla. And it's like, they give him money to say, like, yeah, drive from my McDonald's. But yeah, they make like a big, like, simple on the map. Yeah, like, bribing all the mapping companies to be like, hey, why don't you send everyone two minutes extra, but right by our restaurant. That's's it get 30 minutes of free charging if you go and order fries and McDonald's or like

Yeah, that's what I thought would always be I'm gonna have to order McDonald's Not good. We had this last week. Oh, no Say it now in the moon Google Glass like I thought about the possibility of like, oh you would have custom advertisements to you Like a billboard could just be a blank billboard, but then we have Google Glass. Like I thought about the possibility of like, oh, you would have custom advertisements to you like a billboard could just be a blank billboard, but then we have Google Glass on it's yeah, the graphics card you looked at online. It's there. It's the walk past an Apple store and the Google Glass like dims the air of your vision. So you don't see it. No, nothing's there. Nothing's there. That's nothing. I heard nothing to See here, children. That already kind of exists.

Like, I have a personal American Express card and sometimes like if I'm driving around and let's say it's like dinner time, I'll get a push notification from my American Express app that's be like, Hey, it's a dinner time. There's a panarin nearby. You can redeem an offer for 10% off of your food right now. It's like, what? See, it's invading. It's all started. I have a chase card and it's like, Hey, if you use door dash, you don't got to pay the fee. So you can use Uber Eats. You can use all the other ones. They're all in coats.

All these things. Maybe I'm going to play. Oh, is that what the tracking? Yeah. Yeah. That's like a, all the difference. It looks like a military missile program. Target tracking. D D D D. like iron like won't be an Ironman's hood. What's interesting is also it's like, the way that it's processing it is, it has two different processing computers on board.

And they both process the image at the same time in real time, and then they confer. And if they agree on the route, the car executes it. If they disagree, then they have to go to conflict resolution. It's like, so you have to have two independent computer systems agreeing on the decision before it commits to the decision. That'll be like, Tron 3, where you'll see the programs, like a conference table arguing about.

That's actually Tias Brae from a puddle. It's not rain, so shove it up your ass. Well, as you can see here, this shows that actually is a puddle, it's not rain. So shove it up your ass. Well, as you can see here, this shows that it actually is a puddle. You can't cover up your ass. And then they play in some like, gnarly, high-light game and try and kill each other. Yeah.

And that's how you decide which direction you turn. I want to, like, go back to that image. I wonder, like, if I just changed one number, like, what that would do, if I just, like, edited one of those numbers. All right, well, we got to go ahead and talk to this podcast. We're all getting hungry. Barbara's going to order food. We're going to find out if you are a first member and you watch the post show, you'll find out what Barbara finally decides on for dinner.

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