Welcome to We Are Technology’s

User friendly.

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2.0 with host Bill Sikkens,

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technology architect.

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And this is user friendly 2.0 as always

I am your host milliseconds.

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Joining me my co-host Bill and Gretchen,

welcome to This Week show love.

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There

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I got to ask the question

that's on everybody's mind.

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Probably not, but on my mind.

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How is your Halloween?

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And pretty well,

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it was busy.

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Lots of, kids, but I didn't

answer the door because I took the cheater

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method and put them all out there

and let the camera watch them.

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Did they steal your ball? No.

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I've never had someone steal the ball

or the or the bag.

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I've put a bag out before.

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And I usually give instructions,

you know.

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Happy Halloween, please take one.

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You know.

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So the neighbor here,

the reason I bring it up, the neighbor

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by where I lived in that she is elderly,

didn't want to answer the door.

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Came out next morning to find the candy,

the bowl and the table

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that was sitting on her. Gone.

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Really? She's.

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They took the table.

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They took the table.

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And she's just like, okay, whatever.

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But, okay.

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Outside of that,

we're now through Halloween

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to start the time

to start thinking about Thanksgiving.

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If you can believe it, we're

going to be covering some stuff, including

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kitchen gadgets, for Thanksgiving here

in a couple of weeks.

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And you know, from that.

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And it's amazing to see all the new stuff

that's out there.

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I would say about 90% of

it is kind of kitsch.

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You want to avoid it, but there are some

cool things we'll be getting into that.

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But this week, after the news, we're going

to be taking on Android versus iPhone.

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Which one is better?

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And I can hear people

typing the comments now.

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And the man,

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what I

talk about a little later in the show.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Let's go ahead and get through our news.

What do we have this week.

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All right.

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Coming to you now from steam malware.

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So explain this to me I want that game.

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You know.

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Are you destroying the malware

with the game.

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That'd be cool.

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Yeah. That would be.

That would probably be okay.

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You know.

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But it's interesting to see this

because it's

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kind of they're bad

guys are trying these things everywhere.

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And they put up a game on steam.

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Obviously,

that's what you would do there.

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And we it it's actually windows malware.

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So, you know, the idea of this happening,

I can't say it comes to me

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as a shock, mainly because,

I think it's more into

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what I would have to say

is that just this hasn't happened before.

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The scheme, the way it's set up is indie

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publishers are really anyone

but any publishers mainly publish games.

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You know, it's a really cool site.

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And anybody that's a gamer that does

video games probably heard of it.

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If not use it.

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And from that standpoint,

it's a good resource to have.

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But it is also known

that the duration of the software

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going up there

wasn't necessarily looked at that closely.

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So a hacker decided to exploit this

and threw up

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some software that was malware for windows

and got a number of downloads.

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And then before it got caught,

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they've added it to Windows Defender

and it's now to block it as has steam.

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But there's something to think about,

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you know,

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and especially on windows computers

because that's where most of the malware

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is pointed.

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It does exist for Apple and, you know,

Android, iPhone and all that too.

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But the primarily you see it on windows.

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And one thing that you can do, especially

if you're getting software from a site

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that, is even known, like steam,

or certainly one that's not so

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well known, is there's a way to set up

a sandbox in your windows environment

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and then run it there, see if it's okay,

but it's blocked from everything else,

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and that kind of thing

is probably a good idea.

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It's an extra step,

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but certainly can save you a lot of hassle

of having to reload or the encryption

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computer or something

when, you get malware and now you can't

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get access to your stuff,

you know, you are going to get a question,

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how do I find a sandbox

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location on my computer from you?

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Well, it could, but I bet you

some of the, listeners are going.

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What?

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I tell you what,

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I think you're absolutely accurate

in that, And I think it's a valid thing.

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No. Anticipate.

So let's do this next week.

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We're going to be doing our full Q&A.

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Let's make sure

we have that question in the queue.

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All right.

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New Robert Downey Junior Doctor Doom suit

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HD photos reveal two exciting details.

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Yes, I think the suit is cool.

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If you haven't seen a picture of this,

check it out.

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It's it's, somebody really did a nice job

on the costume.

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And one of the concerns, you know,

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Robert Downey Junior,

of course, played Iron Man,

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and he's coming back into the same

universe as a different character.

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But from looking at this

in the way that they're doing it,

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I think, I think it's going to work.

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And then the other thing

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is, is the, two interesting things

that you're talking about.

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There are the logos on his suit.

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One is Thor's hammer,

and the other one is Captain America.

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So it's just kind of a shout out to that,

too, which is which is a cool thing.

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And, you know,

to see how that all ties together.

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But I just I really have to say,

I like the way they get to see suit.

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It just looks cool.

I wouldn't mind to see like that.

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Just to wear to work,

I've got to see it then.

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Yeah?

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Yeah.

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All right.

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NASA's supersonic jet finally takes off

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for its first super fast,

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super quiet flight.

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Yeah. So it's interesting.

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Some may remember the Concorde,

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which was, supersonic jet that did

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passenger service was taken out of use

just mainly because of maintenance costs

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and that type of thing.

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But, the idea of a supersonic aircraft

is really nothing new.

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But what's cool about this one

is there's no sonic boom after quiet on,

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so it's able to enter the, or,

bypass the sound barrier

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and not have the big bang that you hear.

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So just for the record, that's 767mph,

give or take, when you hit that.

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So, again, interesting technology.

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You know, the one thing

I have to ask about this kind of stuff

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is are they planning to bring back

supersonic aviation?

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It wasn't that it was unsafe.

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It was just the maintenance

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of these type of planes and stuff

made it not worthwhile to compete.

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But it'd be kind of fun

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if you could fly to, you know,

to Europe in an hour or something.

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A little longer than

the app itself. Yeah. Yeah,

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I thought that was usually, Sorry.

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I thought there were other reasons

why the, the supersonic plane went away.

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Yeah.

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There are,

and if we had more time, we dig into it.

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But the main thing was actually the cost.

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I'm sorry, Bill, I that's okay.

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NASA's Voyager spacecraft finds a blazing

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wall of fire

at the edge of the solar system.

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Oh, I don't get why this is unusual.

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It makes sense that we'd have a firewall.

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We do for everything else.

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I keep thinking bad guys breaches,

you know?

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Yeah, that's the other thing that me.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And so this is kind of interesting.

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So NASA's Voyager

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one and two have gone out further

than any other human made object.

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They're both out in interstellar

space now,

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and they're both still operating

and beaming back information.

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And this wall of fire

is kind of interesting because

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technically, it's

tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin.

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And just

I thought, you know, that's very hot.

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But the

question that comes out of all of this

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is, well, if Voyager's going through that,

wouldn't it burn up the spacecraft?

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And the answer is no, because

of the amount of space that's out there.

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All the molecules are excited

to that temperature.

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It's not dense enough to actually damage

the spacecraft with the heat that exists.

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And it's an interesting way

to look at the physics behind it.

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But beyond it begins

what they call true interstellar space.

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It's almost there.

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And,

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you know,

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maybe

we can get a hold of the Roswell Grays

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and see if they can

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put a new battery on them so that they can

transmit a little bit longer.

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You mean the Voyagers?

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Yeah, that'd be great.

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Yeah. Why not? All right.

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Okay.

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What else do we have? All right.

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Amazon doesn't want eyes

shopping on its side.

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At least that's what comet says.

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And comet is apparently not a dog.

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Oh, it's an

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AI that, is not allowed

to evidently shop on Amazon site.

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So company called

perplexity has created the AI comet,

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and the idea of this

is that this AI is an assistant.

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Then you can say, comet, order me

whatever off Amazon, right?

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And it will go out there and do it.

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Well, Amazon's having problems

with this saying that, well they don't

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get the right kind of feedback

and they can't do the reviews.

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The real reason in my opinion,

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is that if you bypass Amazon's

what they call user experience, you're

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bypassing all of their ads, promotions

and everything else.

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The AI doesn't care about all that.

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It's just, you know, go and order

what you want.

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So they issued a cease and desist

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order to stop this from happening.

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That is still pending, but

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Amazon blocked

comet by a change to their software.

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And now perplexity has upgraded

comet to be able to get around the block.

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So, so what is Alexa think of all of this?

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Because wasn't

she being asked to shop for people?

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Oh yeah, I still does.

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But the thing of it is, is again,

you're looking at an

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AI that's employed by

and I'll use those terms Amazon.

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Wherever you want to go with that.

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But the thing of it is, is that

there is a difference there because Amazon

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considers that they have control over one

but not the other.

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And I think probably there is some truth

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to not being able to look up comparables

and that kind of a thing.

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But at the end of the day, it's

another example of

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this is the fire TV stick,

which is Amazon's smart TV adapter.

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Very good.

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Product.

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I like it, but they blocked out

another number of applications

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that changed the way that it would boot

up, is

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they wanted their commercials

to be on the top of the screen.

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In the front,

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something changes the user experience

that's not allowed on the platform.

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I think this is a similar idea.

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So okay.

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So that being said, I'm going

to throw this question out here and ask

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you Android or Apple, which one is better.

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So where this topic

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idea comes from is we get your questions.

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And a lot of the ones that come in

is that, you know, to what extent

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that maybe in one way or the other,

does this one

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do one thing better, another better.

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But the interesting thing about

this is something that has really existed

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as long as computers have, is

there seems to be this almost religion

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between people that like one or the other

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and you saw that back with the Macintosh,

windows days,

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you know, and way back in the day, Atari

and Commodore, all this kind of stuff

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seems to have continued to exist

now here in 2025,

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whether you're on a macintosh or a PC,

the files are interchangeable.

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You know, that didn't used to be the case.

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I mean, there was a time that you created

a file on your computer,

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you needed to share it with somebody,

and they didn't have the same system,

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or even the maybe the same make or not

the same model of the system.

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They couldn't read your

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your disk and there were no flash drives

or anything at that point.

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So the other way was to transmit it

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over a 1200 board modem,

which was very painful.

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So in 2025,

we are in a very different situation

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where your files, if you work in word

as for example, on the Mac, no,

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but on the PC that I had no idea.

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I didn't know they fix this.

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It's been so long since I've been involved

with that kind of graphics and stuff.

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So yeah, it's it's I'm glad that they have

because it was in the modern era.

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That wouldn't work, I don't think. Anyway.

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Yeah, I'm old, you know, my Photoshop

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doesn't open on your Photoshop

because I'm on Windows and you're on,

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you know, Mac OS,

whatever the case may be.

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Yeah. But, yeah.

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And, you know, just as a little aside

on that, back in the 90s,

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there were actually hardware devices

that were made

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that would go in your computer

that would emulate the other one, mainly

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emulating winter

in those days, dos on a mac,

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so that you can read the files

in that way.

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And this, this hardware

was like 1800, 19, $90 to buy.

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And, you also had that for the Amiga

computer, which was out at the time.

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You know, some of these old names

I haven't thought of in a while.

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And, you know, Safari and,

that's where all of that comes from.

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And before we circle back to the phone,

just, you know, comparison here,

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I just want to remind you, don't

copy that floppy.

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All right, back out of the retro stuff

you have Android and you have iOS.

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You used to have the Windows Mobile,

which has largely fallen behind the waist.

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I don't even think

the system still exists for it out there.

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So those are the two kinds of things

you're going to get.

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And the question comes out

and it is a legitimate question.

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Is one or the other better.

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And to

look at that you really need to consider

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what you're dealing with

and what you want.

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So to explain it a little bit,

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you have two very different methods

of building a computer.

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And a smartphone is a computer

that does the same thing

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sometimes

more than than your laptop and whatnot.

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And at the end of the day, you have one

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philosophy from Apple,

which is very close source.

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So you get in there

and you have less applications.

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It's much harder

to get your application onto the platform.

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That kind of a thing.

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It has to be reviewed and whatnot.

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But what that does end up doing

is there's less of a chance of getting

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crappy applications or malware or

that kind of thing because it is juried.

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And then the other thing

that Apple has with

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that is because they're the manufacturer

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of not only the software,

but the hardware.

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All iPhones are made by Apple.

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You have an environment

where you know it is going to work.

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Now everything is very

I don't want to say basic,

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but kind of corporate, almost gray color,

that kind of a thing.

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You can customize.

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But out of the box,

that's what you're looking at.

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So if you want something

that you're going to just grab

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and don't mind spending a lot of money

for it, and it just works,

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that might be the type of thing.

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Now, the other side of

this is Android, which I wouldn't say

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is 180 degrees different because they do

jury applications and stuff, but

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it's much easier to get on the Play Store

and that type of thing if, in fact,

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the philosophy is if they find it

objectionable later, they'll take it off.

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But as long as your app meets

the requirements and gets through there,

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I probably will get on the market.

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The other thing of it

is, is on the Android side of it, there's

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many, many, many different manufacturers

that can build the phones.

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And the history of it's different too,

because in 2007, when the iPhone came out,

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iOS was built specifically

for that purpose to run the phone.

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Android was originally an operating system

for digital cameras.

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It wasn't created by Google either.

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It was bought by and later on

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and then used for the operating system

or the Android phones that we have now.

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So it didn't start out as a phone

operating system.

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And the other side of it is since Google

doesn't have control of the hardware

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ecosystem, it's kind of like windows for

all the different versions of the pieces

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that are out there.

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You have to have something

that's going to work universally,

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universally,

or as close to it as you can get.

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And there are inconsistencies,

mainly because the updates

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are usually done by the manufacturer.

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So if you get a Samsung phone, you're

going to have a different update roll out.

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And if you have a pixel or something else.

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So at the end of the day, you have that.

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However, since there's more competition,

the prices of phones are lower.

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You can get a good quality product for not

as much as you would pay for an iPhone,

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and you have a lot more access

to being able to look at different things

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in different places.

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And at the point of this recording,

there's some talk about them

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wanting to change it.

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I don't know if they will be inside,

load out,

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back and back in my day,

that was called installing software.

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You know, where it does doesn't

necessarily come out of

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come out of the market.

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So trying to make a decision on which one

is better, I don't think one is better.

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I think it's more purpose driven

and what you need it to be

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and what you want and what you can afford

and that type of thing.

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Now, I think all of us are Android,

I know I am a Bill Rection

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you guys use Android or iPhone or Android?

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Android? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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I think it's because, for me,

Android was, well,

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because I worked with Apple and not Apple,

but, windows applications or softwares

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when I was doing geological drafting

and AutoCAD and all that stuff.

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Did windows.

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It wasn't, on Apple products.

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Apple

was like some of the more artistic stuff,

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and it was almost like

they had two different professions

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or, mind thinking to go with.

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And and then as time has gone

on, both both sides have broadened.

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And I think that's been

better. What do you think?

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I would agree with you 100% on that.

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And having, you know, the alternative

one drives the other.

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So one gets innovation.

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You see it on the other side

that very much

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there's a part of that kind of thing.

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If you just had one product out there,

it would not be in all likelihood

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is advances. We see our phones are today.

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I'm going to throw this other question

at you, Bill,

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because this is a question

that comes in from a lot of our listeners.

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If you were given

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an opportunity to have comparable phones

to like, say, a Samsung Galaxy versus

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an iPhone, whatever the newest

version of it is, and they were free.

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Would you choose Apple at that point

based on the price,

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or would you stick with Android?

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I personally would

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stick with Android,

because I'm a customizer

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and I've had an iPhone before,

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for work thing, and I've had an iPad.

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They're not as customizable

is, say, an Android phone,

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and I'm a heavy customizer to,

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you know, what I want

and how I want it to work.

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And different ways like that.

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Some of the things that you see

on Android,

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like if you want your phone

to look differently,

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you can download a theme

and it'll change it.

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That kind of stuff is still

I think, what you're talking about,

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where you can really customize

if you want, you can sit down,

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make your own icons, make your own layout,

all that kind of stuff.

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And that is, definitely a big thing

where you'll see

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that many programmers,

many people that create technology,

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agree 100% with what you just said

on making that choice.

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And the funny thing about it

is, is because from a business standpoint,

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Apple is probably a better idea

because your business,

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like your department, has one

set of hardware they're maintaining,

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you know, support for

on that kind of a thing, which on Apple,

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credit is generally

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a lot easier

to get to then Android support

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if you need it to do that,

you can go online,

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get a lot of answers to things

and that type of stuff.

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But at the end of the day,

things like AppleCare and a phone number

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you can call might exist through a vendor

like Samsung or something.

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But as far as the operating system itself

goes,

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there isn't exactly that kind of ecosystem

for help, you know?

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So your businesses are going to look at,

hey, this is much easier to support.

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Well, not only that,

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but it is because it is a closed system

and it is less customizable.

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You know, you're going to be dealing with

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pretty much one system

and one setup and one

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your employees are not going to be able to

mess with it too much.

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Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah,

it depends on the employee, I suppose.

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But yeah, it's, definitely.

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You know, that would be the case

and I know it

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from even the windows side of things.

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Back before I really started coding

for many years, I did hardware support,

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and I had a, couple of clients that were,

you know, bigger, like fortune

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500 stuff like Wells Fargo Bank

was one of them, more or less at the time.

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And, and stuff.

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And what you would see is an environment

in these places where, yeah,

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it was on windows, but they made sure

that all of the hardware was the same.

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I mean, as much as possible.

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So it's like that same idea.

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They're only having to support one thing.

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And at the time,

from a business standpoint, for a computer

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operating system,

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you had Active Directory or Windows Server

or you had Novell NetWare.

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If you want to go back a little bit more

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and all of that and then on the Apple

side, you had Apple talk,

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but they didn't really get the networking

thing done for a number of years

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after they did on the PC, to an extent

that it was, you know, stable and usable

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and something that you would see

in a business environment.

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Apple Park Works.

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It just didn't have the adoption

that you saw on the Ethernet side.

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Now everything uses Ethernet.

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But again, so you're absolutely right.

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What you're saying is that, the Windows

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Android environment is more flexible,

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and a little more prone

to having bad things happen.

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But, the apple side is less

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flexible and stiff, and they have

less of the bad things happen.

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But there's there's

there isn't that creative

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openness that you get with the other side.

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So it kind of evens out.

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You get some good things on one side

or into bad things, and it evens out.

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It just depends

on what's important to you.

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Yeah,

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I think that's a good way to sum it up.

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I really do, because that kind of a thing

is what you're looking at from

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one to the other, where again, it begs

the question, is one better?

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I don't think so.

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No, I think the use like environments

what you should use.

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But it's, it's they both work.

They both do the job.

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You know, you get on the internet,

you can download apps.

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I think you can still make phone calls.

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So, you know, it's.

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Now. But you've been in all seriousness

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and the thing new videos is most

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platforms, the two platforms you offer,

most of the bigger apps, you know,

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you zoom on mobile, you have discord on

both them, that kind of thing.

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But there are some differences

and there are some things

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that are only available on one,

but not on the other.

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And the other thing that I find

interesting, too, about all of this is

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when you dig in a little bit deeper,

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it seems like there's always a premium

when you deal with Apple products.

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Not only does hardware cost more,

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but even getting a programmer

to write code for it.

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If you're an average programmer today,

what makes for $185 an hour writing code?

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There's going to be a premium

on top of that.

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If they're doing Apple most of the time,

and it's because of having

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to deal with the process

of going through and and doing stuff.

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You can't even really test

a lot of these things on real hardware

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without having the developers

get information

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and all that kind of stuff,

whereas on Android

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you just sideload it to the phone

and you try it.

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There's virtual environments for both,

and a lot of programmers will use that.

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But you do get to a point

where you need to deal with real world

473

00:23:13,892 --> 00:23:15,494

hardware in that pipeline

to see what works.

474

00:23:15,494 --> 00:23:19,564

So at the end of the day, that means

that your software also costs more money.

475

00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:24,403

So again, it looks at the perspective.

476

00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:28,039

And it really has switched

because in the past it was always windows.

477

00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:29,441

That was more for business.

478

00:23:29,441 --> 00:23:31,777

And now it's becoming the other way.

479

00:23:31,777 --> 00:23:33,011

Both do well.

480

00:23:33,011 --> 00:23:34,312

And in windows it's hardly

481

00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:37,015

out of the running

or anything like that, or even close.

482

00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:39,451

It's still very much

the majority operating system

483

00:23:39,451 --> 00:23:42,154

that used, you know, out there.

484

00:23:42,154 --> 00:23:45,490

But it is interesting to see

how these things evolve and where it goes

485

00:23:45,490 --> 00:23:48,427

and what some of the real reasons are,

why on things are different.

486

00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:50,195

So let us know what you think.

487

00:23:50,195 --> 00:23:51,029

Send us your comments.

488

00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:53,231

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489

00:23:53,231 --> 00:23:54,533

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490

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You see here he's from the future.

491

00:23:57,602 --> 00:24:00,705

He's gonna really be computer

492

00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:04,409

and he uses it, uses it every day

493

00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:07,913

and he uses it in every way.

494

00:24:08,346 --> 00:24:13,485

I see it before, you know, I'm

not that sure because he used to be.

495

00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:14,686

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496

00:24:14,686 --> 00:24:17,756

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498

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Let us know what you think.

499

00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:27,499

And on the idea of review, we are going

to go to the vault game store.

500

00:24:27,499 --> 00:24:29,734

What? And talk Borderlands four.

501

00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:31,670

Welcome back to the vault.

My name is James.

502

00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:32,737

I'll be your host today.

503

00:24:32,737 --> 00:24:35,740

And today

we're going to talk about a new game.

504

00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:39,611

Just came out a little bit ago,

Borderlands four.

505

00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:45,350

Borderlands four is a RPG looter shooter,

which means you're running around

506

00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:48,086

trying to collect the best gear

you can, taking out enemies,

507

00:24:48,086 --> 00:24:51,089

but there's still a fair amount of story

element to it.

508

00:24:51,256 --> 00:24:53,792

It can be a really fun game to play.

509

00:24:53,792 --> 00:24:56,928

Was released on September 11th, 2025.

510

00:24:56,928 --> 00:25:00,799

It was released on PlayStation, Xbox

and computer.

511

00:25:01,299 --> 00:25:06,104

There was some issues on day of release

with computer release.

512

00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:08,139

It was crashing, stuttering.

513

00:25:08,139 --> 00:25:10,141

It was using way more resources

514

00:25:10,141 --> 00:25:13,144

than it was originally said

that it was supposed to.

515

00:25:13,245 --> 00:25:15,280

They've released several patches for it.

516

00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,883

Not all of them

have been the most successful.

517

00:25:17,883 --> 00:25:21,753

I was playing it on Xbox

and had very few problems with it.

518

00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:25,824

It is also a cross-play enabled game.

519

00:25:25,824 --> 00:25:29,561

What that means is

if one of you is playing on PC,

520

00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:33,832

another person is playing on Xbox,

another person's playing on PlayStation.

521

00:25:34,299 --> 00:25:38,103

You can still all line up and play,

on the same game.

522

00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:42,073

One of the neat parts about it is

it is for player,

523

00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:45,610

starts out right now

with four different Vault Hunters,

524

00:25:45,610 --> 00:25:48,613

but you can have multiples

of the same vault Hunter and a game

525

00:25:49,581 --> 00:25:52,584

vault hunters just kind of match up

with your individual style.

526

00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:56,154

So again, that's a lot of fun.

527

00:25:56,154 --> 00:26:00,625

I've only put in about 60 hours

on this game between me

528

00:26:00,625 --> 00:26:02,561

and some of my friends.

529

00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:04,729

We're at about 50% completion.

530

00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:08,600

But mind you,

I tend to put a lot of time into finding

531

00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,037

everything I can in a game

and a lot of time into leveling.

532

00:26:12,837 --> 00:26:16,575

One thing that is kind of interesting with

this one is it does scale with levels,

533

00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:20,579

so you never quite reach

that feeling of having godlike power.

534

00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,247

Instead, what you get to is a point

535

00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:25,283

where you start to learn behaviors,

some tactics of the enemies.

536

00:26:25,717 --> 00:26:27,452

Then you'll have jumps and weapons.

537

00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:31,790

So as they get better and better,

you'll also find a lot better options.

538

00:26:33,391 --> 00:26:35,193

It is an open world game.

539

00:26:35,193 --> 00:26:40,065

Unlike previous installments of the

Borderlands series, there was Borderlands.

540

00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:44,402

Borderlands three sequel, Borderlands

two, Borderlands three.

541

00:26:45,136 --> 00:26:48,139

Those were all pretty straightforward,

542

00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:51,876

by way of storyline,

where you started out, the storyline

543

00:26:51,876 --> 00:26:55,313

you played through, all new levels

opened up depending on where you were

544

00:26:55,313 --> 00:26:59,117

at in the game, and you just kind of

went from A to B to C,

545

00:27:00,385 --> 00:27:01,586

they were a lot of fun.

546

00:27:01,586 --> 00:27:06,191

I played hundreds of hours

across all of these installments.

547

00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,561

This one, as I said before, I'm 60 hours

548

00:27:09,561 --> 00:27:13,498

in, I'm halfway completed

and the world is huge.

549

00:27:14,165 --> 00:27:17,168

It's a big open expanse.

550

00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:21,039

The storyline is not quite as potent

in this one.

551

00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:23,575

It's not quite as story driven.

552

00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:25,710

The storyline is still there,

it's still fun.

553

00:27:25,710 --> 00:27:30,982

There's still a lot of very intriguing

characters and, areas to play in.

554

00:27:31,783 --> 00:27:36,087

It's just they opened it up into

that exploration a lot more.

555

00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:39,991

Some really good

things, some kind of bad things about it.

556

00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:43,895

I really enjoy the fact

that I'm not locked in to run down

557

00:27:43,895 --> 00:27:46,898

this hallway for the 37th time.

558

00:27:47,766 --> 00:27:50,101

It opens it up a lot more than that.

559

00:27:50,101 --> 00:27:52,637

It's also a pretty seamless integration.

560

00:27:52,637 --> 00:27:56,041

You have three main areas in the game,

561

00:27:56,541 --> 00:28:00,278

and then a couple of of

think of them as sub dungeons.

562

00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:05,250

So as I'm playing through the game,

I have this huge map

563

00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:06,451

that I can run around with.

564

00:28:06,451 --> 00:28:07,819

I don't have any load screens.

565

00:28:07,819 --> 00:28:10,321

I don't have to worry about any of that.

566

00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:12,991

Where the enemies are changes

567

00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:16,561

a little bit, where

what enemies you're running across change.

568

00:28:16,561 --> 00:28:19,798

You have drop ins from the time

Keepers forces.

569

00:28:19,798 --> 00:28:25,270

Who's kind of the antagonist of the game

you have, bandits, of course.

570

00:28:25,270 --> 00:28:26,037

Rippers.

571

00:28:26,037 --> 00:28:30,241

You have Big Buffalo

looking things called the Wild Warriors.

572

00:28:30,742 --> 00:28:34,345

You have a wide variety of enemies

that you're going to be going up against,

573

00:28:34,813 --> 00:28:37,982

and you can run across

most of them in just about any area.

574

00:28:39,851 --> 00:28:42,654

It's set on Kairos, so it's a new planet.

575

00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:46,057

One of the neat parts about what they did

is you have those three main

576

00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:49,561

regions, each of them has a little bit

of a different feel,

577

00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:53,898

so one of them is more of the dusty

desert expanse.

578

00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:57,035

You have another one that is, kind

579

00:28:57,035 --> 00:29:00,038

of a lush jungle forest.

580

00:29:00,205 --> 00:29:03,241

And then the last one

is kind of snowy mountains.

581

00:29:04,976 --> 00:29:09,314

They feel different

when you load into one of them.

582

00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:13,184

You can tell, oh, I'm in this area

or the other area.

583

00:29:14,185 --> 00:29:15,987

It's really kind of nice.

584

00:29:15,987 --> 00:29:18,990

It's, it's a refreshing take on it.

585

00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:22,193

The first game,

everything was pretty much desert.

586

00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:26,131

The antagonist,

587

00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:29,868

the Time keeper is fun.

588

00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,905

A little bit lacking for me. I'm.

589

00:29:33,905 --> 00:29:37,909

I yearn for the days of handsome

Jack in Borderlands two.

590

00:29:38,476 --> 00:29:41,746

The Time Keeper, with the storyline

591

00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:46,417

being a little more open,

doesn't quite have the same pop

592

00:29:46,417 --> 00:29:50,355

as in some of the other ones,

because he's not as integral to the story.

593

00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:54,025

He's still there,

the storyline is still there.

594

00:29:54,025 --> 00:29:57,061

It's just a little less immersive.

595

00:29:58,763 --> 00:30:01,766

The Time Keeper is pretty much a.

596

00:30:03,501 --> 00:30:06,070

God, for lack of a better term.

597

00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:09,641

He is, extremely powerful

being on the planet Kairos.

598

00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:14,479

He was in control for a very long time.

599

00:30:14,946 --> 00:30:17,816

And then,

600

00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:19,851

a new moon broke its way

601

00:30:19,851 --> 00:30:23,254

into the planet,

and things started to change.

602

00:30:23,922 --> 00:30:27,091

And you're a vault hunter

that wakes up on Kairos

603

00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:30,862

and is trying to find the vault.

604

00:30:30,929 --> 00:30:34,632

And I don't want to ruin the story

for you, but through story play,

605

00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:38,903

kind of learned a little bit more

about it.

606

00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:42,607

As I mentioned in the beginning,

it is still a litter shooter.

607

00:30:42,941 --> 00:30:45,944

For those of you who aren't familiar

with it, that means that

608

00:30:47,178 --> 00:30:50,181

as you fight, enemies will drop weapons.

609

00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:52,217

You pick up the weapons,

610

00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:57,655

and, continue on your adventure.

611

00:30:57,655 --> 00:31:00,892

But the weapons are huge.

612

00:31:00,892 --> 00:31:05,063

In this game,

there are millions of combinations.

613

00:31:05,063 --> 00:31:09,534

You have various different,

manufacturers of land off

614

00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:13,938

are known for medium power, but super high

magazine rates and high rate of fire.

615

00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:17,342

You have Molly one that do

most of your status effects.

616

00:31:17,342 --> 00:31:18,977

You have Jacob's.

617

00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:21,012

Their guns are made out of freaking wood.

618

00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:23,581

Was a lion out of the first one?

619

00:31:23,581 --> 00:31:26,818

They are known for extremely high power,

very small magazines

620

00:31:26,818 --> 00:31:29,821

and and,

621

00:31:29,954 --> 00:31:31,823

depending on what your gameplay is.

622

00:31:31,823 --> 00:31:34,792

So it's really what kind of weapon

you're going to look at using.

623

00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,597

Some people really like that faster

rate of fire,

624

00:31:39,597 --> 00:31:43,167

some like some really high accuracy

where you only have to shoot at once.

625

00:31:43,167 --> 00:31:45,503

It depends on who you're playing with.

626

00:31:45,503 --> 00:31:49,474

Depending on what you like is going

to depend on how you balance it off.

627

00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:54,178

My personal style, I use a lot of Mulligan

because I really like elemental effects,

628

00:31:54,712 --> 00:31:57,215

but I still carry that Jacob sniper rifle

because

629

00:31:57,215 --> 00:32:00,418

when I need to shoot him from a distance,

I only want to have to shoot him once.

630

00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:04,322

So this one has a few less

631

00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:07,292

gun manufacturers for the base guns.

632

00:32:08,259 --> 00:32:11,262

But one of the things that it does, it's

a lot of fun,

633

00:32:11,963 --> 00:32:15,633

is you have substitution parts.

634

00:32:16,534 --> 00:32:19,938

So I may pick up a Jacob sniper rifle,

635

00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:23,841

but it has a Molly one aftermarket on it

that allows me

636

00:32:23,841 --> 00:32:27,679

to shoot it with an elemental effect

or torque.

637

00:32:27,679 --> 00:32:31,182

As the explosive weapons,

I may pick up a torque weapon

638

00:32:31,649 --> 00:32:36,487

that has the Hyperion Force field

when I came down the site,

639

00:32:37,021 --> 00:32:39,991

so you really get to cross around

between them.

640

00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:46,164

One of the really neat parts, and I will

admit I have not gotten up to this yet,

641

00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:50,168

but it was something that has been teased

about in every installment of this game

642

00:32:51,436 --> 00:32:55,139

is the fact

that one of the things they wanted to do

643

00:32:55,773 --> 00:32:58,776

was have modifiable guns.

644

00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:02,146

So if I find that perfect weapon,

645

00:33:02,246 --> 00:33:05,283

high fire rate, beautiful power stat,

646

00:33:05,883 --> 00:33:09,620

whatever it may be, but it doesn't have

the magazine I'm looking for,

647

00:33:10,588 --> 00:33:10,888

I can

648

00:33:10,888 --> 00:33:13,891

find a gun that has a better magazine

and put it in.

649

00:33:14,792 --> 00:33:18,863

Well, this isn't quite that open,

but you are supposed to be able

650

00:33:18,863 --> 00:33:22,467

to take these modified hearts

651

00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:26,004

and switch them between guns.

652

00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:28,973

It will destroy the original gun,

653

00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:32,043

but you get that piece

and you can put it onto the second one.

654

00:33:33,711 --> 00:33:37,115

This is seeing some fruition in this game.

655

00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:41,319

It's supposed to really open up

being able to mix and match

656

00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:44,655

and really build the arsenal to your,

657

00:33:46,124 --> 00:33:49,427

really develop it to your gameplay style.

658

00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:53,765

One of the other fun

parts is the enemies are fast,

659

00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:56,601

so you run across a lot of these

660

00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:59,504

that they're a little bit plodding

or they're the same every time.

661

00:33:59,504 --> 00:34:01,239

So you know exactly what you're doing.

662

00:34:02,273 --> 00:34:05,343

They do a lot of interesting things

with this one,

663

00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:09,247

where the enemies have special abilities,

they will have different weapons,

664

00:34:09,247 --> 00:34:12,417

they will have

all of these different components

665

00:34:13,151 --> 00:34:16,954

that make every fight seem

like its own challenge.

666

00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:20,858

And there's also a lot more badasses,

667

00:34:20,858 --> 00:34:23,761

badasses, kind of that next tier enemies.

668

00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:27,231

So it's a grunt who's just a lot better

669

00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:30,234

with more health

and does more damage, or it's,

670

00:34:31,269 --> 00:34:34,205

Ripper that does the same thing.

671

00:34:34,205 --> 00:34:36,641

They just make the game

a little bit more interesting.

672

00:34:36,641 --> 00:34:39,343

They always have special abilities,

and in this case,

673

00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:44,682

some of those get really wild to the point

where I have an enemy that's normally

674

00:34:44,682 --> 00:34:48,920

susceptible to fire damage,

and they'll have an elemental eater.

675

00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,923

So if I shoot them with fire damage,

it heals up.

676

00:34:52,223 --> 00:34:54,859

So then you have to change tactics

a little bit.

677

00:34:54,859 --> 00:34:58,062

Make sure that you're using the right

weapons for the right combat.

678

00:35:00,698 --> 00:35:02,233

It really adds that element

679

00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:05,570

of tactics to the game,

which I feel is a lot of fun.

680

00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:10,341

And again, there are just so many weapons.

681

00:35:11,476 --> 00:35:14,479

You may find the same gun

682

00:35:14,712 --> 00:35:17,982

eight times, and every time

it looks a little bit different

683

00:35:17,982 --> 00:35:20,985

and it feels a little bit different,

and the stats are a little bit different,

684

00:35:21,652 --> 00:35:24,655

even though some of the main

core parts of the same

685

00:35:25,022 --> 00:35:28,259

and they're all beautiful

when you're looking down them.

686

00:35:28,259 --> 00:35:29,026

It's not that,

687

00:35:29,026 --> 00:35:33,331

oh, I found a rifle in every type of rifle

that I find is that same way.

688

00:35:34,165 --> 00:35:38,402

I may find 20 different shotguns,

and each of them

689

00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:41,372

is going to look a little bit different

and a little bit unique.

690

00:35:41,672 --> 00:35:43,508

And that holds through with gameplay.

691

00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:46,544

As I'm aiming down the sights,

the scope is going to be different.

692

00:35:46,577 --> 00:35:50,448

The reflex sight is a little bit

different, or the gun just looks

693

00:35:50,448 --> 00:35:53,751

a little bit different,

which is really a neat component to it.

694

00:35:56,254 --> 00:35:57,255

Quick note on that.

695

00:35:57,255 --> 00:36:00,057

You can also scan weapons.

696

00:36:00,057 --> 00:36:03,394

What I mean by that is there's

a customization page where you can go in

697

00:36:03,394 --> 00:36:06,898

and you can actually give your weapons

paint job.

698

00:36:06,898 --> 00:36:10,334

So if you have that special sniper rifle

that you want to make hot

699

00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:13,471

pink in and yellow, go for it.

700

00:36:13,471 --> 00:36:16,674

Make it hot pink and yellow

and see what you can do for fun with it.

701

00:36:19,710 --> 00:36:22,713

There's also class mods and enhancements.

702

00:36:23,047 --> 00:36:27,385

So in Borderlands three

you had artifacts and class mods.

703

00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:30,421

Class mods have been pretty much a staple

since the beginning.

704

00:36:31,222 --> 00:36:34,225

One of the really cool parts about this,

as you get

705

00:36:34,792 --> 00:36:37,795

for the enhancements,

you get them from a manufacturer.

706

00:36:39,063 --> 00:36:41,532

So you, let's say Malawian.

707

00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:45,303

You get a really useful ability

from Halo one.

708

00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:49,974

One of the ones that I got was

if I kill an enemy with elemental damage,

709

00:36:50,141 --> 00:36:53,611

they explode and cause elemental effects

on enemies around them.

710

00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:57,782

That can be a game changer when you're

running across hordes of enemies,

711

00:36:59,483 --> 00:36:59,884

and then

712

00:36:59,884 --> 00:37:03,020

it will give you a couple

of additional bonuses.

713

00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:07,758

It may make your pistol stronger,

or it may make your life better,

714

00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:11,229

or it may make,

your magazine size larger.

715

00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:15,266

All of these things,

and you'll get anywhere from 1

716

00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:18,269

to 3 of these special abilities.

717

00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:21,939

How you utilize those can really change

718

00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:25,076

the power level of your character

and make it a lot more fun.

719

00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:28,713

One that I did, I play as raw for the,

720

00:37:29,647 --> 00:37:32,850

he's got twin

cannons on his back that he uses.

721

00:37:32,850 --> 00:37:34,952

He has an exoskeleton

722

00:37:34,952 --> 00:37:36,354

and one of the really neat parts.

723

00:37:36,354 --> 00:37:40,358

He has an ability that the more times

I shoot someone, the more bonus damage

724

00:37:40,358 --> 00:37:41,692

I do.

725

00:37:41,692 --> 00:37:44,662

So I'm looking for that

really high rate of fire.

726

00:37:44,662 --> 00:37:47,298

I'm looking for a really high

magazine capacity.

727

00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:48,633

So that's what I mean. That

728

00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,736

means that when I'm dealing out damage,

729

00:37:51,736 --> 00:37:56,140

my bonus damage is going through the roof

very quickly and on a lot of enemies.

730

00:37:56,507 --> 00:38:00,244

And I can sustain that damage

without having to reload, which resets it.

731

00:38:01,512 --> 00:38:04,315

So you have this kind of thing

that you can really look at

732

00:38:04,315 --> 00:38:07,318

and really play with.

733

00:38:07,385 --> 00:38:09,720

One thing that I did want to mention again

is that it

734

00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:12,957

is almost too big an open world

for some of this.

735

00:38:13,491 --> 00:38:16,193

You can get kind of lost

running around in the world

736

00:38:16,193 --> 00:38:20,665

trying to find that perfect gun, or trying

to find that perfect fight, or trying

737

00:38:20,665 --> 00:38:23,668

to find all the little sidequests

and things like that.

738

00:38:25,036 --> 00:38:28,172

So really is a lot of fun,

really immersive.

739

00:38:28,172 --> 00:38:29,774

It's the type of game that I turned on.

740

00:38:29,774 --> 00:38:31,575

I'm like,

oh, I've got 20 minutes to play it

741

00:38:31,575 --> 00:38:34,712

before bed, and all of a sudden

I'm two hours late to go to bed.

742

00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:36,414

But if you're

743

00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:39,417

really story driven,

you kind of have to keep on track

744

00:38:39,417 --> 00:38:42,420

for going through

just what you want to look at.

745

00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:45,189

By way of some of the details,

746

00:38:45,189 --> 00:38:48,192

not super linked in the gameplay,

747

00:38:48,392 --> 00:38:51,996

the soundtrack is is really quite fun,

748

00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:56,701

and one of the things that I like about it

is it's not.

749

00:38:58,502 --> 00:39:01,472

It doesn't super jump out at you,

it doesn't

750

00:39:01,472 --> 00:39:06,010

overrun combat,

it doesn't really captivate you.

751

00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:09,780

But it is good for channeling

the gameplay itself.

752

00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:13,718

When you get into combat,

you feel your pulse go up

753

00:39:13,718 --> 00:39:16,287

and then the soundtrack changes

a little better.

754

00:39:16,287 --> 00:39:21,192

The exploration has some really nice kind

of soothing music to go along with it.

755

00:39:21,992 --> 00:39:25,863

It really is an, excellently

well done soundtrack.

756

00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:28,999

The graphics are all pretty good.

757

00:39:28,999 --> 00:39:31,969

I as I said before,

I played on Xbox One Xbox.

758

00:39:31,969 --> 00:39:34,372

The graphics were nice. They were smooth.

759

00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:38,376

They still have

that Borderlands esthetic,

760

00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:43,914

but you can tell that it's a cartoon,

but the movement in it is really good.

761

00:39:46,183 --> 00:39:47,752

The scenery looks lovely.

762

00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:51,489

You can actually go swimming in this one,

which is a bit of a change.

763

00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:54,492

So the water dynamics

are a little bit different.

764

00:39:56,761 --> 00:39:57,228

All right.

765

00:39:57,228 --> 00:40:01,232

One thing that I did want to throw out

that I feel does need to be touched on

766

00:40:02,066 --> 00:40:05,703

the first game was pretty ribald

767

00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:08,839

and, pretty graphic.

768

00:40:08,839 --> 00:40:12,076

And then they kind of toned it down

for the next couple of them.

769

00:40:12,543 --> 00:40:14,979

I still definitely some innuendo.

770

00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:18,516

Still some I mean, you're

you're running around shooting people,

771

00:40:18,516 --> 00:40:22,720

so it's not completely grab,

violence free.

772

00:40:23,721 --> 00:40:26,490

This one has a lot more graphic violence

773

00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:29,493

and is much coarser on the language.

774

00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,763

The reason I want to mention that

it doesn't bother me necessarily,

775

00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:34,832

but it does

let me know that if I'm watching it

776

00:40:34,832 --> 00:40:38,436

with a small child in the room,

we need to be aware of that so that we can

777

00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:41,672

make that judgment on if that's something

we want to expose them to

778

00:40:42,339 --> 00:40:45,709

instead of shooting somebody

and they fall down you in this one,

779

00:40:45,709 --> 00:40:50,948

you get things like spray on the wall or

limbs get blown off and things like that.

780

00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:52,850

So it can be a little more over the top.

781

00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:55,820

And again,

that language can be a little more,

782

00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:58,689

coarse than,

than some of the previous installments.

783

00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:01,258

So all

784

00:41:01,258 --> 00:41:04,361

in all, I really have enjoyed this game.

785

00:41:04,361 --> 00:41:08,232

For me to be able to devote 60 hours

and only be halfway through for me,

786

00:41:08,232 --> 00:41:11,235

definitely

make sure that that game has worthwhile.

787

00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:14,472

I've been a huge fan of the,

788

00:41:14,939 --> 00:41:18,075

series as well as the genre

since it came out.

789

00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:21,745

I remember waiting in a GameStop store

790

00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:25,716

at midnight to get the first one

when it first released,

791

00:41:25,916 --> 00:41:28,752

because I was that much looking forward

to it, and

792

00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:31,755

I have kept that same enthusiasm

all the way through.

793

00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:35,059

If you look on some of the rating sites,

you're going to see it

794

00:41:35,059 --> 00:41:38,062

rated anywhere from a low to a high eight.

795

00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:40,898

For me, I'm

going to give it nine out of ten hammers.

796

00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:45,202

My way of things

that I've played in the last year or so.

797

00:41:46,136 --> 00:41:49,507

This has been one of the best experiences

I've had.

798

00:41:50,307 --> 00:41:53,444

Again, it does have a couple of slots

going on it.

799

00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:57,114

It does have some things that I wish

might have been a little bit different,

800

00:41:57,114 --> 00:42:00,284

but at the same time,

the positives really make up for that.

801

00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:01,652

Well, I

802

00:42:01,652 --> 00:42:05,122

really hope that people have fun

playing this game as much as I did.

803

00:42:05,456 --> 00:42:08,359

If you have any questions or comments,

please feel free

804

00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,362

to drop them on our website.

805

00:42:11,729 --> 00:42:14,231

The vault

806

00:42:14,231 --> 00:42:17,735

dot show, so feel free to come on,

drop your comments.

807

00:42:17,735 --> 00:42:21,572

I love to read them and I will do my best

to address some here in the near future.

808

00:42:22,172 --> 00:42:25,276

Well, thank you everyone for your time

and I hope to talk to you again

809

00:42:25,276 --> 00:42:28,279

soon and bye.

810

00:42:28,379 --> 00:42:29,513

So you've heard what James thinks.

811

00:42:29,513 --> 00:42:30,581

Let us know what you think.

812

00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:31,782

Do you like Borderlands?

813

00:42:31,782 --> 00:42:34,752

Were you agree with this review? Disagree?

814

00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:36,754

User friendly and let us know.

815

00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:40,024

And speaking of reviews of fans,

let's switch gears a little bit

816

00:42:40,658 --> 00:42:42,726

and talk about Snafu.

817

00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:43,761

Well, I'm going to throw this to you

818

00:42:43,761 --> 00:42:44,395

if you can tell us what

819

00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:48,566

Snafu is for anybody that doesn't know

and what you're feeling was on a ten, that

820

00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:50,367

well, as we've

821

00:42:50,367 --> 00:42:54,538

covered previous years, it's Sierra Nevada

Anime Fans United convention,

822

00:42:55,339 --> 00:42:58,008

and it's held at the Reno Sparks

Convention Center.

823

00:42:58,008 --> 00:43:01,679

And this is, another year that happened,

824

00:43:01,712 --> 00:43:04,715

over Halloween weekend

825

00:43:05,282 --> 00:43:09,253

is a three day event,

and it just had a lot of fun.

826

00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,221

There.

827

00:43:11,221 --> 00:43:11,922

Lots of guests.

828

00:43:11,922 --> 00:43:15,492

That's like, I know the it's

usually Halloween though, isn't it?

829

00:43:15,893 --> 00:43:18,062

Yeah, it has been for a couple of years.

830

00:43:18,062 --> 00:43:20,631

I remember it's been a number of years

since I've been to it.

831

00:43:20,631 --> 00:43:22,900

But, what's the case? Like you said,

it was a lot of fun.

832

00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:24,602

What do you think?

833

00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:25,736

I really enjoyed it.

834

00:43:25,736 --> 00:43:29,907

I spent a lot of time in tabletop gaming,

which was one of the things

835

00:43:29,907 --> 00:43:34,979

they had available, playing some Dungeons

and Dragons and the new Final four,

836

00:43:34,979 --> 00:43:40,317

you know, Final Fantasy 14 tabletop RPG,

which was quite a lot of fun.

837

00:43:42,152 --> 00:43:43,220

I've never even heard of that.

838

00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:44,088

That sounds amazing.

839

00:43:44,088 --> 00:43:45,322

Oh, yeah.

840

00:43:45,322 --> 00:43:48,325

Yeah,

I hadn't either slipped under my radar.

841

00:43:49,927 --> 00:43:53,030

They had called a few little,

and they had some other things.

842

00:43:53,030 --> 00:43:57,301

But, you know, gaming isn't the,

the forefront to snafu.

843

00:43:57,301 --> 00:44:00,871

It's the anime,

which they have plenty of different panels

844

00:44:00,871 --> 00:44:06,477

and guests, voice actors, cosplayers,

and just a lot of fun.

845

00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:10,014

Even on main stage, having various games,

like they had one that was named

846

00:44:10,014 --> 00:44:13,017

that Pokemon.

847

00:44:14,418 --> 00:44:17,321

Let me ask you a question about this,

because there's been some feedback

848

00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:20,691

that we've seen here on the show

and other places that this convention

849

00:44:20,691 --> 00:44:22,693

was getting a little,

let's say, long in the teeth.

850

00:44:22,693 --> 00:44:24,995

You think that there's still looking good?

851

00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:27,398

Are they fresh or is it getting stale?

852

00:44:27,398 --> 00:44:29,933

I think they had a rough

patch last year especially.

853

00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:34,338

I think they are getting better.

854

00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:37,341

They're under new management

and I think they are

855

00:44:38,142 --> 00:44:41,245

finding themselves to be

where they need to be in this community.

856

00:44:42,246 --> 00:44:45,215

It is a small convention,

you know, it's not the smallest convention

857

00:44:45,215 --> 00:44:48,686

I went to, which was at an American Legion

hall, and it was about

858

00:44:48,919 --> 00:44:51,922

ten vendors.

859

00:44:51,955 --> 00:44:53,691

Wow. Oh, yeah.

860

00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:56,794

It's even smaller than the Sands event.

861

00:44:57,127 --> 00:45:01,398

Yeah, that's the smaller than the sands of

it really was, although I got.

862

00:45:01,398 --> 00:45:01,999

Well.

863

00:45:01,999 --> 00:45:05,869

So, Sands is a casino in Reno, Nevada

that held a comic con

864

00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:08,672

that I think was one day, and it was like

in one of the convention rooms,

865

00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:10,140

although I still had fun going to.

866

00:45:10,140 --> 00:45:14,211

I enjoyed being there, but

it was definitely tiny and I was there.

867

00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:16,447

But, no.

868

00:45:16,447 --> 00:45:18,482

So it is.

869

00:45:18,482 --> 00:45:22,653

Is snafu still like,

kid or teenager friendly?

870

00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:26,657

Because it seemed like the times

that I had gone with Jeremy and I,

871

00:45:26,657 --> 00:45:30,094

we kind of noticed, like,

hey, we're the old people here, you know,

872

00:45:30,594 --> 00:45:34,298

very it's an all

all ages, family oriented event.

873

00:45:36,233 --> 00:45:38,402

And does it still run, like nonstop

874

00:45:38,402 --> 00:45:41,939

from start to finish now that they're

in the Reno Sparks Convention Center?

875

00:45:41,939 --> 00:45:44,708

They run until about 1030 at night.

876

00:45:44,708 --> 00:45:47,344

They used to run all 24 seven.

877

00:45:47,344 --> 00:45:51,081

But I decided that, about 10 to 10

878

00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:54,118

seems to be a good run time.

879

00:45:54,818 --> 00:45:57,621

I can say from a production standpoint,

that's probably better.

880

00:45:57,621 --> 00:45:58,622

I thought it was kind of cool.

881

00:45:58,622 --> 00:46:00,090

Although you can get up at three

in the morning

882

00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:03,060

and the convention was still open and on

and there were people there.

883

00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:07,197

But in those days it was at a casino

which is designed for 24 hour,

884

00:46:07,698 --> 00:46:08,999

you know, around the clock stuff.

885

00:46:08,999 --> 00:46:11,869

And I and I can see,

you know, the convention center different.

886

00:46:11,869 --> 00:46:17,207

But I still have the drawings that,

I volunteered, in my costume

887

00:46:17,541 --> 00:46:23,213

to be the, the subject of drawings,

because they had like, a little, area,

888

00:46:23,213 --> 00:46:27,651

I guess I don't I'm not really sure

whether you would call it a panel or,

889

00:46:27,651 --> 00:46:32,923

a special project, but,

anyways, you they,

890

00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:38,228

they had, everybody sitting in, like,

a horseshoe shape where the drivers

891

00:46:38,228 --> 00:46:42,299

would do their artwork

and I still have the pictures from that.

892

00:46:42,933 --> 00:46:45,302

So. Yeah, that was kind of fun.

893

00:46:45,302 --> 00:46:47,271

I guess they call that a workshop. Now.

894

00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:48,972

Okay.

895

00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:49,840

Okay. Yeah.

896

00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,109

I guess depends on where you go.

897

00:46:52,109 --> 00:46:53,844

So what is the difference, really,

898

00:46:53,844 --> 00:46:56,847

between an anime convention

and something like a comic con?

899

00:46:56,914 --> 00:46:58,549

I know there's some similarities,

900

00:46:58,549 --> 00:47:01,552

but the cosplayers

and so there's some big differences too.

901

00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:05,522

The focus is on anime,

you know, Japanese animation.

902

00:47:06,223 --> 00:47:08,892

Korean animation, Chinese animation.

903

00:47:08,892 --> 00:47:13,730

It's very much more focused on that

than, say,

904

00:47:14,264 --> 00:47:18,135

Marvel or DC or a lot of comic conventions

905

00:47:18,135 --> 00:47:21,138

now have a crossover

where they're adding anime and manga, but

906

00:47:22,339 --> 00:47:25,342

they are,

907

00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:28,512

very focused here

with an anime convention.

908

00:47:28,712 --> 00:47:31,181

So that's why they have a little

909

00:47:31,181 --> 00:47:34,184

different things like that

are very specific to that genre.

910

00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,689

Do they go to the extent of researching,

like the cosplayers and stuff

911

00:47:38,689 --> 00:47:42,993

to fit into that genre, or can you just go

show up in your costume,

912

00:47:42,993 --> 00:47:44,761

or would that matter?

913

00:47:44,761 --> 00:47:47,664

You can show up

and whatever they really don't,

914

00:47:47,664 --> 00:47:50,667

you know,

trying to troll that by any means.

915

00:47:50,667 --> 00:47:52,669

They do have requirements, you know.

916

00:47:52,669 --> 00:47:54,972

No showing too excessive skin

or things like that.

917

00:47:54,972 --> 00:47:56,106

So just family event,

918

00:47:57,074 --> 00:47:57,608

other

919

00:47:57,608 --> 00:48:00,878

events, you know, other conventions

have different rules, but

920

00:48:01,678 --> 00:48:04,681

that's one of the ones

that staff holds on family stuff

921

00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:08,085

and that stuff like that

totally makes sense.

922

00:48:08,085 --> 00:48:08,252

Yeah.

923

00:48:08,252 --> 00:48:10,187

The reason I ask is

we had a couple of questions

924

00:48:10,187 --> 00:48:12,723

coming in from one

that was held somewhere in the Midwest.

925

00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:13,991

I have to look and see what the name of.

926

00:48:13,991 --> 00:48:14,925

It wasn't earlier in the year,

927

00:48:14,925 --> 00:48:17,194

but they were actually turning cosplayers

away at the door.

928

00:48:17,194 --> 00:48:20,264

If you weren't dressed

in what they considered to be anime, and

929

00:48:20,264 --> 00:48:24,902

this was a huge, you know, push back

and really didn't sit well.

930

00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:26,870

And I kind of understand that.

931

00:48:26,870 --> 00:48:28,705

Yeah, you know, with people

that are paying guests

932

00:48:28,705 --> 00:48:30,707

and we're not going to let you in

because you're not dressed.

933

00:48:30,707 --> 00:48:32,609

Right. Well, I'm in my street clothes.

Well that's okay.

934

00:48:32,609 --> 00:48:32,910

You know.

935

00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:36,213

So, I was just curious

if that was something that was common to

936

00:48:36,213 --> 00:48:39,616

anime or just in this one convention

and nobody else does it, or,

937

00:48:39,650 --> 00:48:41,852

you know, must have

been to that one convention.

938

00:48:43,887 --> 00:48:44,855

Okay.

939

00:48:44,855 --> 00:48:48,358

Can you imagine showing up at a Comic-Con

and a like, a Star Wars thing

940

00:48:48,358 --> 00:48:52,496

and they wouldn't let you in the gate

because you didn't meet some requirements?

941

00:48:52,863 --> 00:48:54,398

I'd be annoyed.

942

00:48:54,398 --> 00:48:58,168

I'd be really annoyed because,

not to be arrogant,

943

00:48:58,168 --> 00:49:01,171

but a lot of my costumes

are pretty decent.

944

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Yeah, it's like, hey,

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at the end of the day, I'll tell you.

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