Speaker 1: 0:12

and we are live cool, all right, uh. Thank you and welcome to another episode of carolina taco podcast. I am afro and I am here with my co-host lexi oh shit, yeah, like I said, uh, welcome back, and sorry, I'm just getting some links together so we can get this going. Do, do, do, do. Give me one moment now that we're live somebody wants to start doing live shows.

Speaker 1: 0:48

Every time we record it's just easier for me to just do this, so don't forget on YouTube. That is all. Easier for me to just do this, so I don't forget on YouTube. That is all, because sometimes I do forget about that shit and it just happens like that. Alright and all right and okay. Um, like I said, welcome back. I can hear myself.

Speaker 2: 1:32

This is bad, okay all right, could you have the tab open?

Speaker 1: 1:36

Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:40

So welcome back to the Carolina Taco Podcast. Like I said, we've been gone for a minute. Had some technical difficulties.

Speaker 2: 1:48

It was All right, I'll be the blame of it Whatever. My PC wouldn't post last week when it came time to record and fix that, and then Friday it crapped up on me. Windows wouldn't load at all, so I had to wipe my PC.

Speaker 1: 2:03

So yeah, I did the same thing I did the exact same thing. Just reinstalled Windows 11 and just said fuck it, let's just see what happens.

Speaker 1: 2:13

It's running smoother, but I also have to take into consideration that I have a old computer. There's some things that I need to uh change. So, yeah, um, but, like I said, welcome back and, uh, you guys know how we start these off. Kind of, just see what we've been up to since we last talked. Kind of have a lot of stuff to talk about. So, lexi, what have you been up to Since we last?

Speaker 2: 2:49

talked. Well, besides having to wipe my PC not very much uh, still like house shopping and trying to decide on what the fuck I want. Do I want a custom built home? Do I want a brand new home? It's a lot to consider. Don't do this kid, it's stressful as fuck. Um, besides that I've been playing about I actually like that game. It definitely gives me Oblivion vibes.

Speaker 1: 3:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 3:20

Uh, really heavy. I didn't know that it was done by Obsidian, but it is Really.

Speaker 1: 3:26

Um it is yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2: 3:28

Uh, so yeah, I'm not that very far into it. I do like it, though, but I would not pay full, like the full price for it. I just got lucky to have game pass. I got it for the standard copy for free and, like, I just paid for the upgrade, which is like 22 bucks. So like, yeah, I would do that. Um, and then monster hunter is coming out this week I so that's good, I probably will play that a little bit. I'm not that big of a Monster Hunter fan, but some of my friends play, so I'll probably be playing with them for a bit.

Speaker 1: 4:03

I know some people that are like diehards yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:06

I guess very much diehards Like taking off work to go to play this game and that's pretty much it. Lately I haven't really done much else.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Have you um kind of uh when it comes to like the house stuff? Are you uh kind of suading more to one side? Like is one like? Are you moving kind of to one side more each week and each time you?

Speaker 2: 4:37

no, like it's like. So I know I want a brand new home, like I don't want to live in a house that anybody else has lived in. That's that because I a lot and so I don't want to. I I don't know. I think the custom built route for me is going to be a lot and I don't want to deal with all that. But then again, like I'm looking at houses around here and like we like where I live, it's like an area that's growing expansionally, like everybody's moving here, so like there's housing developments everywhere.

Speaker 2: 5:18

But y'all are like cookie cutter and I don't necessarily want a cookie cutter home. If it's gonna be my forever home, I want something that's like special towards me. And then a lot of these places that I've been looking at, they don't do like upgrades. So like I think for me what I want, or what I would like to see, is a place that lets me do my own upgrade. So like, oh, if I want dual burners, I can get dual burners. If I want black faucets and black cabinets, I can get black faucets and black cabinets, like stuff like that. Um, yeah, I can do it after I get the home, but I don't want to do that after we get the home. I want to get the home, have it all done and just enjoy the rest of my life in this home, because you, I don't want to do that. After I get the home, I want to get the home, have it all done and just enjoy the rest of my life in this home, because it's supposed to be forever home.

Speaker 1: 6:00

I understand that. I definitely understand that for sure. Okay, that's what's up. That's cool, that's cool. I've been up to much just on the job thing, as always applying to jobs really haven't been getting much feedback applying to a lot of apprenticeships and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 6:29

I'm not even gonna hold y'all. It's tough as fuck out there. I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck's. It's tough as fuck out there. I don't give a fuck it, I don't give a fuck. Anyway, I say it's tough out there. It really is, and I think we kind of talked about this in the last episode. But more layoffs are coming, more people are getting let go, job market's just getting more saturated and you know it's um, it's a, it's a fucking rat race. Like you, you just gotta, you know, keep going. Like you put, yeah, you put in, you put in the work, but we talked about this before you put in the work. But also sometimes it is that luck of the draw. Like you just happen to get that email and it's just like, okay, you make it through the interview and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: 7:17

Um, yeah, this is rough out there.

Speaker 2: 7:20

Like I have a friend of mine that I like been working with, like they're trying to break into tech and so, like I updated a resume like two or three weeks ago, um, like two or three weeks ago, um, like they're starting to get like those no emails and I had to tell them, like you're not going to get a hit on everyone, like sometimes it's going to be automatic, like no, like we're gonna keep going because, like it only takes one yes, so keep going until you get that yes, and I know it's all right out there right now. Um, and then on the flip point of that, like this whole, we're not gonna talk politics but like let's kind of hit close to home. But like those federal workers, they're going through it, they're going through it hard. Um, a friend of mine, their, their mom, is like going through it right now.

Speaker 2: 8:16

Like you know, they don't know they don't have a job or not, because they're a remote worker. They're pushing everybody back into the office and then that mile range is like 50 to 70 miles away from where they you know where they're supposed to be. And then they've been doing this whole, like you know, trying to do buyouts and shit, and it's just been crazy, like right now. It's just such a crazy time. It's tough and yeah, it's crazy and I don't see it getting much better anytime soon nope, it's just uh, it's, it's, it's man, look, I uh jesus there.

Speaker 1: 9:02

There are uh some days where it's just so mundane and tedious because you're feeling out the same shit all the time, and then you get some companies that ask you stupid fucking questions like why do you want to work for this company? Why do you want this position? Why do you think I want this position? Because I got no fucking job. But you know, you can't say that shit.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Why you can't say that, yeah, because that's not what they want to hear. So you got to give them bs and and the funny thing is they know it's bs and it's like companies really don't give a fuck man. They don't, they don't, they. I've seen shit. The post that I sent you this can kind of segue into one of the topics, but there was a screenshot that I sent to Lexi, kind of it was a A post on LinkedIn and on this post I'll probably, if I make a clip out of this, I'll probably uh put it in there.

Speaker 1: 10:18

But this, this uh, let me see if I can find this thing here. It is this uh post here says $2,000 finders fee. Yes, I am serious. Recruiters, hiring managers, network connections Listen up. I'm offering two thousand dollars out of my first paycheck to the person who refers me to the job I accept. No gimmicks, no fine print, just a straight up reward for helping me land the right opportunity. I know this might ruffle some feathers, but let's be real. Recruiting is about finding great talent and I'm putting my money where my mouth is. What?

Speaker 2: 11:02

What I feel like. I don't want that to become a trend. I do not want that to become a trend. Why do I have to pay somebody to give me a job?

Speaker 1: 11:11

Right.

Speaker 2: 11:16

I know there's headhunters. I get that For six-figure jobs cool, but for normal people no.

Speaker 1: 11:22

Basically, he's saying if I get the job, I'll give you two grand. If I get the job, I'll give you two grand. That has to break some type of code of ethics. It has to.

Speaker 2: 11:37

I mean depending on how late, because you know a lot of jobs have referrals, like hey, you can refer somebody to work at this job and they pay you to refer people.

Speaker 1: 11:48

That's crazy.

Speaker 2: 11:50

So I mean, I feel like it's teeter-tottering on some kind of line. I don, I feel like it's like teeter-tottering on some kind of line. I don't feel like it's crossing completely that line.

Speaker 1: 12:01

yet I saw that and I said, nah, this cannot be real If this is real we are going down a crazy road right now.

Speaker 1: 12:18

We are going down a crazy road right now, like if the future gets to this, this is. And the thing is, I have nothing against recruiters, recruiters do their job and stuff like that but I remember there was a time where, well, they can't do this now. But I, there was a recruiter, I applied to a position for a job and the recruiter got back to me and said hey, you're not qualified for this job but, we got this job within the company.

Speaker 1: 12:43

Do you want to go for it? I'll send you over the job description. I was like hell, yeah, and that, honestly, that that's a great recruiter, right? Shitty recruiters to me are the ones that you get the interview and then they say, oh yeah, everything's going to be good. Well, you know, send this off to the hiring manager, see what he says, and I will get back to you by like next week, and you don't hear shit, you hear nothing. You hear nothing at all. Yeah, week, and you don't hear shit.

Speaker 2: 13:16

You hear nothing. You hear nothing at all.

Speaker 1: 13:18

Yeah, nothing, you don't hear shit, and it's not anything against them or anything like that, but it's just, come on, man, how companies want people to give two weeks notice for common courtesy. It should be some type of common courtesy, right, because especially if, let's say, you, I've seen people post on LinkedIn about they get the job and you go through not get the job, but while you're going through these interviews, you get the interview and you're going through this process. You go through this take home assessment, you're taking these personality tests to see how you will work in a team, and all that crap and all that bullshit. And then, when you apply the jobs, you get these questions ahead of time so they can weed out a lot of other shit, so they don't have to get you an interview. They ask you the questions there so they can just cut you out immediately.

Speaker 1: 14:19

And now, the way that resumes are made now, because so many companies are using AI to filter out the interviews, you kind of have to make it. So I'm not saying you have to, but in order for you to get caught by these keywords, the best thing you can do is make these words bold so it picks up these keywords and it's just like oh, I see that, see that, see that and see that, okay, this person, let's say you have to meet like, let's say something you're able to put in and like oh yeah, this person has to meet like 10 of these like keywords that we're looking for to get past this enter to this first interview. You ain't hitting that, you got. You say you got like 10, you got seven of them, things. So I don't know, some recruiters are really good and they look at the resume and they're like okay, I see, I see potential, let's see what we can do with this person. Some recruiters are like, alright, put it in the system. No, no, no, no, oh, we got a match, you know it's um.

Speaker 2: 15:27

I don't know. So like the last, like week. Linkedin people have been trying to contact me for like contract roles or whatever and like these are not good recruiters. Okay, so like first off, I have my thing, like I want remote work, like not like hybrid or whatever right, and so that's one thing. And then one of them like today I got one for a hyper position and it's for a bank around here and it's like a content, like basically a call center job okay, and I'm just like I haven't worked.

Speaker 2: 16:11

like if you look at my linkedin, like it's it's been years since I worked one right and then you're only paying 22. And if you look at my LinkedIn, like it's been years since I've worked one Right and then you're only paying $22,000.

Speaker 2: 16:22

And you can look at my LinkedIn to see all the certifications I have Mm-hmm, and all the certifications I have and you want to $22,000? $22,000? Like, like I was telling you, I was working with somebody, right, trying to break into tech, and we were on LinkedIn and we were just looking through roles, right, they had a role where they wanted somebody to have a master's degree like 7 or 8 years of experience for this one particular role, but you're only paying, like, at the max, $33 an hour for a master's degree.

Speaker 1: 17:03

Companies know that people are biting at anything and if they can bite at anything like we're gonna get you at your most bottom, like we're gonna get we are your most bottom, like we're gonna get we are this is gonna sound really graphic. We are going to fuck you because we know how desperate you are to get it, that you need a job so you can pay the shit that you need to pay for your mortgage. Whatever you gotta do, you got kids. You gotta take care of that and the only way that you can is with that green that's why I?

Speaker 1: 17:33

can't stand when people say money isn't everything.

Speaker 2: 17:37

Um, look it ain't everything, but it damn sure do a lot, so so I'd rather be crying in the back of like a Maserati than like a Ford okay, you know, it's just I don't know a Maserati than like a Ford. Okay, you know just that.

Speaker 1: 17:57

It's just, I don't know. Some people, companies know that they have the upper hand now and because of that it's like, alright, we're gonna charge. It's kind of like how companies ask you for like what you're like, how much you want to make. And I hate that question because you already have a set amount. And if I tell you what I wanted to make, no, if I tell you what I wanted to make, and I already know that the job isn't going to pay that, right, because if I tell you what I really want.

Speaker 1: 18:34

You're going to be like oh yeah, we can't do that.

Speaker 2: 18:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 18:41

I was sorry, we can't. You know, the limit on the range on this is between like 70 to like 90. So gotta apologize about that. And then it's just like, all right, it's just like a cut, you're already cut, so you can't do anything about it. And then you're just like, okay, stuck, so I don't know. This whole market is just uh, it's uh, it's shite, it's shite. It's not even shit, it's shite it sucks, it really sucks.

Speaker 1: 19:15

Um, I don't know, man, I don't even know, I don't even know what to say to shit like this, because I just I think it's gonna get worse. I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I like.

Speaker 2: 19:33

I agree it's to get worse before it gets better. I agree it's going to get worse before it gets better. I think a lot of things right now are just going to get worse. Yep.

Speaker 1: 19:45

It's going to get way worse before it gets better. And it's just, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know Anywho. Um, that's what happened to applying to jobs and just trying to make it, you know, trying to stay sane and not go fucking ape shit. Um, but there was something that came up today I wanted to ask you about. So your boy came out. He had a new album come out right A weekend. Yeah, yes, today I wanted to ask you about. So your boy came out, he had a new album come out right the weekend yeah yes when did it come out?

Speaker 1: 20:20

uh, last month in january, we talked about it on the podcast I thought we talked about the concert that you were going to, so we talked about the album uh, what about the album when you were not like the album? Did you? Did you actually enjoy it?

Speaker 2: 20:33

uh, yeah, it was a really good album if you had to.

Speaker 1: 20:39

So I watched somebody. Uh, I watched a youtube channel called dead and hip-hop and they reviewed it like today, and it was only two people, because a lot of people in that group don't like the weekend.

Speaker 2: 20:50

There's only two guys and one of the things that they said was that the album kind of brought back like some like the old weekend type shit all right, all right, here we go, because we talked about this and I, like I know we talked about this because there's a clip on our tiktok that is really popular, because I was talking about the weekend and the category that you should listen to him from first and start. So, anyway, like from first to finish, but like, yes, we talked about this, but, um, here we go again. Hi guys, I'm your resident weekend fan, like really big weekend okay. So like for for a lot of us, that started with him back in those mixtape days.

Speaker 2: 21:37

Yes, there is some semblance of like All Weeknd, but it's not like at the beginning where he was doing drugs very heavy and like getting past that weight. So this album is kind of more like how do I put this? Um, the best way to say it is like you ever know, like you're going through like kind of a little bit of a midlife crisis, yeah, and like you start doing shit that you used to do in your younger days and then you realize that you are now older and the shit that you were doing in your younger days you just cannot do anymore I, I dig what you're saying, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: 22:23

So it's kind of like that for me, so like and, and. Then it's kind of like his like all right, shit, I'm getting older, I can't be doing this shit forever, like you know what I'm trying to say. So, for instance, like there's a song in there called like Baptism by Fear or In Fear. So it's pretty much like he had a scenario where, like he was in the tub and like he could not move. He was like slowly, slowly, like drowning in the tub, and he could only move his toe and so he thought he was going to die while he was in this tub. So, like he, so he realized that like shit, okay, well, I can't drink drugs like this anymore. Shit, I really might overdose and die.

Speaker 2: 23:13

And there's another song, like, where he says I can't fucking sing. That was literally a fucking thing. He was at a show. It like had to stop performing because he could not fucking sing, and for him that was like a big thing because like that's that's all he does, like that's what we know him for, it's for his singing. And if he can't do that, then what the fuck?

Speaker 1: 23:38

When he does his concert, does he do his old stuff or does he usually just? Do his new stuff.

Speaker 2: 23:43

No, so he does a little bit of everything that he's done. Most of the songs you will hear are from whatever album he's promoting at the time. So more likely when I go see him in August it'll be a lot of his Hurry Up Tomorrow songs, but he will play some of his older stuff. He always has a habit of playing Crew Love, though I don't know why he always plays that song, gotcha Gotcha.

Speaker 1: 24:07

Okay, alright, that's what's up. Alright, that was a quick one. Now this is going to be on me. I want to talk about Metal Gear Delta. So to this shit. Okay, so I think it says it's coming out in August.

Speaker 2: 24:30

I believe so yeah.

Speaker 1: 24:31

Yeah, august, I don't know the date. Anyway, let me preface this by saying that this isn't the first time that metal gear has basically kind of done this before, where they kind of updated the graphics on stuff. They did this with twin snakes for metal gear solid right, and they did this shit a long time ago where graphics were still like, for that time they look good, but it was still so. Um, with delta, I watched the. You know just the preview of it and what they added and stuff. That is some pretty cool stuff, like especially so I don't know what type of view it is, but is that first person, third person, but they made it so that you can actually see snake's whole body this time like, like way better, yeah, right, so I was like, okay, that's cool, dope. Um, graphics look good. You know they got a collector's edition. I'm not gonna get it just because I don't want to get it.

Speaker 1: 25:45

I'm gonna get the game just because it looks good right my thing is I hope they do this same thing to Metal Gear 2, sons of Liberty. That's what I hope they do it to, because Sons of Liberty looked good when it came out. But I hope they redo that one because I would like to see how they redo Raiden with everything that they have now. But it looks okay. I know people are gonna eat it up. Um, I don't know, man, I know it's just a big-ass money grab, that's all it is, it's disappointing.

Speaker 1: 26:28

It's really disappointing just because the last thing that Konami came out from Metal Gear was that zombie bullshit and that shit was bad. The last game Metal Gear game that they made that was actually good was Metal Gear Rising, and that shit was great. It was just fun to just go around and just like kill people with a sword and stuff and play as Raiden. Excuse me, just fun to just go around and just like kill people with a sword and stuff and play as Raiden.

Speaker 2: 26:59

Raiden, excuse me. Well, at least you're getting remakes. Like I'm a Fable fan, I just found out the other day they pushed it back to 2026. So we're never going to get a Fable game. They've been promising for like 10 plus years now. It's literally been that long. They're going to give you another table game, another table game and uh damn that shit.

Speaker 1: 27:22

Um, I I do you think that the remake I don't want to say culture, but it has to be culture because they're doing it so much. The remake culture is just like people not. Do you think people are doing that because just for the money grab, or do you think people are asking for this shit?

Speaker 2: 27:45

I don't know. So Fable actually is supposed to be a separate name. It's not a remake. So let's preface that before you guys be like. It's not a remake, okay, whatever. But let's preface that before you guys be late. It's not a remake, okay, whatever. Um, but like I in general, I think is it depends on the game, because there's some games that I won't remake.

Speaker 2: 28:04

I just won't remake like, for instance, like the first two fallouts would be a great game to remake, like now yeah and I know a lot of Fallout fans that would like it because, like when those two games came out, it was their 90s and like they were all PC only, so you were not getting much as time goes on, like you can play them now, but it's still a little dated. If they remade that, that would probably be amazing. We all want that. But in some cases some games are just cash grabs, for instance, the Sims.

Speaker 1: 28:51

They remade the Sims.

Speaker 2: 28:53

They remade the Sims 1 and 2. I did buy it because I'm a Sims fan, whatever, but they remade 1 and 2. Nobody was really out here being like man, I wish I could play Sims 1 and 2 because technically you can play Sims 1 and 2 on PC. It takes a little extra couple steps, but it works. You can play Sims 1 and 2 on PC. It takes a little extra couple steps but, like you know, it works. You can play it. But they knew that oh, just stick a Sims tag and a remake on it and they'll buy it all the way up. Like some games are just cash grabs. So like it just depends on, I would say, the game and the company. You know, all know, ea is nothing but cash grabs. Anyway, they don't get all the money they can.

Speaker 1: 29:43

Yeah, so it's like I don't play. No, I used to play sports games sports games back in the day, but it's kind of like the, the like. Sports games are kind of different, I guess, but like the Maddens and the 2Ks and shit like that, we talked about this maybe like last year and how, like, the people that play those games are getting just just just, I mean, they get fucked Big time and they buy it every, every year, every year. You know what, you know what games they should come back out with that like sports wise, uh, uh, shit. What's the? The football one where it was like more cartoony but you could, um, you were like. You were like when you tackle motherfuckers, you were like really tackling motherfuckers. I forgot the name of it anyway. Oh, it was the NFL Street, nfl Street and NBA Street. They need to come back out with those, cause those shits were fire. Ea Big, EA Big made those, so EA Big also made SSsx.

Speaker 1: 30:56

Uh, tricky and ssx, yep, so ea big was a great, great shit. Um, I think if they were to go that route with it, that would be amazing to come back out with those, because those just would would kill even I even take it further back if they made like the uh, like backyard football games you mean the little kid back there?

Speaker 2: 31:24

yeah, I need to play the one for best.

Speaker 1: 31:27

Yeah they came out, if they redid those shits and you can actually play those shits online, those would be fire. It's the same thing with the fighting games, right, fighting games like Tekken and all that stuff. I'm talking about Capcom versus Marvel and all that stuff. It's great to be able to play that on PC. Those are great to play. But you know, I think some of it comes down to originality, coming up with ideas, just to you know, just come up with shit like Assassin's Creed. Look man, y'all gonna have to basically do an Assassin's Creed for, like each era which they have been doing, like for real, for real.

Speaker 2: 32:18

There's so many of them now, though, yeah right, like they've done one with slaves.

Speaker 1: 32:24

They've done one in like Japan, or the new one is in Japan. You know it's, they've done so many and it's just like, know it's it, they, they've done so many and it's just like yo, it's like what's going on? Another thing this is going to be another topic. Did you see what happened with um rivals?

Speaker 2: 32:50

No, the whole team got cut. For what? They just let them go, they let them go and that game look, I played one time and I was like nah, this ain't for me but I haven't played it at all and everybody keeps asking you to play Raid Wars.

Speaker 1: 33:10

Play Raid Wars but people love it, like I. I like the concept and it looks good, like it looks really good, but it's like at the height. It's like at its peak right now. And I saw something that said, yeah, they got rid of the you know director and creator and stuff like that. I was like, nah, I can't be true. I was like this game is like at his like height right now. Why would you want to do that, who knows?

Speaker 2: 33:37

but, um, yeah, hold on, let's see what's the story about these layoffs. Wow, okay, yeah, they did. They let them go. That is crazy height of.

Speaker 1: 33:54

They're at their peak right now. People are playing that shit non-stop stop. So you know, that's wild to me, really wild. Um, and there was one more thing I was thinking about, but I can't think about that shit when it came to uh, I can't, even right now. It's not even like games that I'm like really looking forward to, not for me. I know you have some, but for me I don't really have a lot of games that I'm just like. You know what? Yeah, you know what game I've been waiting for for years now. What, goddamn, uh, what is it called? It's an, an MMO.

Speaker 2: 34:44

Ashes of Creation. Oh god, y'all never get that fucking game.

Speaker 1: 34:47

Yeah, we never get that shit, never get that game People have been waiting for that game, cause all I see are like Livestreams of them like Building it and doing like Testing, and they did the alpha and everything. And I look at that and I'm just like man, that looks really good, I wish I could play it and it's just like, yeah, no sorry guy. I'm just like damn man, that shit sucks.

Speaker 2: 35:19

You know one thing I want that I can't obtain a fucking 5090 to save my fucking life right now well, you shouldn't even do that no, it's terrible yeah, you knew that though I told you about this. It's really bad I told?

Speaker 1: 35:35

what did I tell you? People are savages they are.

Speaker 2: 35:41

I haven't been trying so hard because I need one. Like I'm literally having graphic card issues with this one, and so I'm like I need a 5090 and I cannot get one and I'm not getting a 5080, 5070, I don't want that one. A 5090, I want the weight, but no, they've been having issues with this launch anyways, like it's been. Like some of the cars have been catching on fire. They got ropes missing. It's too bad, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 36:17

I'm not surprised by any of this shit. I really not. You know what's crazy. I don't even remember. I don't maybe because we didn't like really give a fuck about it, but I don't remember. Was it this bad for the 4000 series?

Speaker 2: 36:33

I don't remember if it wasn't bad for the 4000 series to be, honest, because I didn't really care, because at that point I had my 3090 and I wasn't gonna show up like it made no sense at that point right, but so I find it.

Speaker 1: 36:45

You know what's also interesting? That I see more advertising and stuff for the 5000 series than I remember this correctly. Then the 4000 series, because I remember when the 3090s came out and it could just be, you know, cookie shit. That's just like, yeah, you looked at this, look at it again, again, again.

Speaker 2: 37:04

I don't know. So this launch is like what they call a paper thin launch, because there was really no stock of these cards when they had a release of anyways, especially the 90 and the 80. There's not that many, but the 70s oh, 70s is a little bit better. If you want one of those, you can get one of those a little bit quicker. But the higher end, and then the car that I have now, they don't even make a 5090 in it. Like they decided they're going to go for the mid tier route, so like I can't get a Strux car, so I will no longer have an all white build damn.

Speaker 1: 37:43

I was, um, I saw a clip of this these people on a podcast and this guy was saying that ps5 and xbox are the best uh, basically the best things to play video games on pc is not it because of you have to. He was like everybody that I know that has a pc, always says man, I gotta upgrade my pc to this, I gotta upgrade my pc to this, gotta do that right. And he was like my ps5, I gotta do shit, man, all I gotta do is what the fuck you do?

Speaker 2: 38:24

do you have me not seeing? Okay?

Speaker 1: 38:26

common point get him there, you go get him, my twin.

Speaker 2: 38:30

All right, my twin has a ps5. He does not have pc or whatever. So if we game, it has to be games that are like either cross play or I have on my ps5, right? So this man has literally has the Vision, cod, I think, marvel Rivals and a few other games on his PS5. And his storage space is like always full yeah, always.

Speaker 2: 38:59

And I was like why haven't you upgraded your hard drive yet? And he was like huh. And I was like why haven't you upgraded your hard drive yet? And he was like huh, and I was like you know, you can upgrade the hard drive With the PS5, you can do either external or internal, but if you want it to be on the system itself, like you can load it and play it without having to transfer it each time, it needs to be an internal one. So I literally, sitting in the late day, I was like here, this is how you install it. Takes a couple minutes, not that hard, but here's how you install it. And like I ordered it for him and he was like he got it today. And he was like, oh, it works. Thank God Now I don't have to delete games back and forth just because I want to play something else.

Speaker 2: 39:46

So, yeah, that that's an upgrade that you have to make and, like previously, you can't say they're not, like prone to issues. They have their own issues, constantly have their own issues. I had a ps4 the play out of that one, but the uh, batman edition one. I literally went through three power supplies with it and I had to replace it each time and I had to. As 4, the Batman Edition one, I literally went through three power supplies with it and I had to replace it each time and I had to go in and fix it and do all that myself. So, case in point, the 360s they had the Red Ring of Death. Like each console has their own little issues where people were either asked out or they're having to, like diy it and fix it themselves. It's just, it's less than they would have to do on a con, like on a pc, but it still has to be done.

Speaker 2: 40:34

Yeah, in case and point, like, I guess we're gonna do the whole like pc versus console thing. But yes, we might have to do upgrades, but we really, and most of you, don't really have to do upgrades that often. It's just that, for instance, I don't have to, but I'm choosing to kind of have to because I have graphic card issues. But, like, if I kept my 30 I'd probably be good for, like, probably like another two, three, four years without having to necessarily upgrade. Like my games will still run. Now my this car came out what like 2020 or 21, so yeah, like.

Speaker 2: 41:14

And then think about playstation. Playstation already had the one that came out in 2020. Now we have this pro model in 20 what? 2024, 2025, when that came out. So like there's an upgrade there and some people go, oh, let me like buy this and be all fancy and shit and then think about the cost of that. That's like 700, 800 for the pro model. You know you can actually go buy a pc at that particular point and play all the games that you really want at that point.

Speaker 1: 41:47

I don't know I made my Switch years ago to PC. My cousin was the one that got me. I saw his PC and I was like I want one of these and that's what got me into wanting to build my own and go through the process and all that shit and I was like this is better.

Speaker 1: 42:15

So much to the point where I still had a Xbox and I traded in my Xbox so I can get my nintendo switch. Because I had the pc and I was like marcus, I mean, an xbox ain't nothing but a pc. Anyway, I can play all that shit on. Everything that I can play on xbox I can play on pc, so it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1: 42:41

So I, uh, I kind of just haven't needed the console anyway. And also, my other thing is with pc is that I can do a whole bunch more shit on this and play games at the same time, right? So you know I mean shit. And I got a steam deck too and I can do the same shit. I can stream from my steam deck my PC games and just do whatever I need to do. So you know, I mean, if you like the console shit, that's what's up, good for you. But you know, when they come out with a new one, it's going to come a time, a time, just like in pc, where your shit becomes outdated, exactly. It's no more. So it happens all the time. All the time it happens. So it's nothing major. You know what I mean. Um, yeah, I thought that was very interesting to see that. I was like all this shit, man, I don't think one is better than the other. Either you don't want to play on PC or you do.

Speaker 1: 43:52

You just gotta make that decision for yourself. You know what I mean. Yeah, there was one other thing I brought up to Lexi and I was like what are? Like? Uh, doesn't have to be five, but like the movie thing right?

Speaker 1: 44:12

I don't know if you came up with anything, but I got like two okay and basically it was like what are like, basically, movies that were kind of like underrated to us individually. You know that we've watched and I kind of I would say underrated, but also like when I kind of thought about stuff when I was younger and I watched it and I was like I don't like this shit, I don't get it. So one was james and the giant peach. Watching james and the giant peach as an adult love that fucking movie, it's a great.

Speaker 1: 44:58

James and the giant peach is a great movie it's so good, right, and I watch and also I like I like claymation and stop, and you know all that shit, because I like you know wes anderson does it with incredible mr fox and the isle of dogs and all that shit. I love that stuff, shit. I like wallace and gromit. You know what I mean. So you know I like all that shit. Um, so it was a great movie. And then the iron giant okay, go on the iron giant was something.

Speaker 1: 45:37

When I watched it when I was younger, I was like I don't like this shit. Maybe it just went over my head, maybe I was just too dumb. But now that I watch this shit now I'm like, damn, this shit was good, this shit was really good. Um, and my last one is probably Babe why Babe?

Speaker 1: 46:03

Babe is a good movie. You know what's crazy. I remember babe too, like big one was cool. I remember babe two more because of the monkeys and if I'm not mistaken, I remember, I remember that, uh, he went to the city, I think he he was in the city or some shit, and just remember the monkeys Just two, but that was a good movie. Also, babe was good. I like Babe. I have a couple more, but I like Little Miss Sunshine.

Speaker 2: 46:42

Whoa, hold up, that's mine. Hold up. Wait a minute, that is mine, okay.

Speaker 1: 46:46

That movie is fucking underrated.

Speaker 2: 46:49

It's such an underrated movie. That movie is so good. I've watched that movie. That's where I've come from for the longest. I've seen that movie so many times, but that movie is so underrated.

Speaker 1: 47:03

I have one favorite part in that movie what's your favorite part? My favorite part is when, uh, steve corral, they're in the van going to the place and the brother and the sister's like can you see this? Like, what color is this? So steve corral is like it's green. You can't see that color. And he looked, he was writing shit cause he went, he went mute, yeah.

Speaker 2: 47:32

And Steve Carell was like you really can't see it and he was like oh man, he was like Dwayne.

Speaker 1: 47:40

He was like you can't be a pilot and be color blind. And he started going into the back of the seat. And he was like Dwayne. He was like you can't be a pilot and be colorblind. And he started going and she's in the back of the seat and says stop the car, stop the car. He gets out, stop the car.

Speaker 2: 47:56

He said, oh my God he did. He was like the biggest like fuck ever. Oh my God, I remember that scene. No, like that movie is so underrated, but like like okay, this is like an early 2000s movie, so this is around the time we have like the little cutesy like teen movies and all that so this was like around the time when juno sc Scott Pilgrim and anything super bad, all that shit Sorry.

Speaker 2: 48:28

But like this movie. This movie is like you ever got that dysfunctional family, like tell them that by tick, that's how dysfunctional they were. Okay, dysfunctional they were okay and like I think for me it just kind of shows that like, not everybody like like you know how we like tv and movies it always tries to portray that like families are perfect yeah and this movie's like. No, he's not perfect at any stretch of the imagination, oh my god when Grandpa died, I cried, I cried the heart.

Speaker 1: 49:08

I was like oh my god, that Grandpa that movie was great, that shit was good, that shit was so good.

Speaker 2: 49:18

I gotta find a word for streaming. I gotta watch this.

Speaker 1: 49:21

Another one of mine that's underrated. It's a Spike Lee movie, but it's streaming. I gotta watch this. Another one of mine that's underrated.

Speaker 1: 49:25

It's a spike lee movie but, it's a movie that I like because of the music, but it was um mo better blues, mo better blues is a great movie to me. Like Like it's out of his catalog. A lot of people probably won't even put it up there, but Denzel Washington, wesley Snipes, killed that shit. I mean his sister, spike Lee's sister, was in it and all that shit. It was a great movie and the music was Amazing. The music was great in that movie. Um, and then my one of my favorite movies is napoleon dynamite, because, oh my god, because first of all he danced to jamiroquai at the end. Fire and just the movie in general is just the most dry humor ever and I love it, I love it all yeah, it's fucking amazing, it's great I love that movie like.

Speaker 2: 50:33

I even had in my room in high school. I had the poster up in my room and like this is a really good movie. Even my mom liked it, so like.

Speaker 1: 50:46

I, um, I had a shirt that I bought from like Kohl's or something, maybe Spencer's maybe and it said it was brown. I remember this shirt really well. It was brown and it had yellow wording and it said are you gonna eat your ties? And I love that shirt, I fucking love that shirt. And it was just. I love that shirt, yeah. But those were, um, that little miss sunshine shit. Though. That one I don't. I don't think a lot of people I mean I know people probably know about it, but I don't think a lot of people understand. Mean, I know people probably know about it, but I don't think a lot of people understand. Like, how good that movie. That shit goes under the radar to me because I mean, jesus Christ, that shit was good that shit was good.

Speaker 2: 51:40

I think one of mine. No, you said what? I think one of mine's, no one of mine's is american beauty I never saw that never okay, you have to watch it, but um, it's really underrated. It was a really good movie who was in it.

Speaker 2: 51:59

Uh, it's, it didn't age well. It does not age well today at all. Like if people watch it today, they'll be trying to cancel the whole entire movie. It's pretty much about this dad who is going through a midlife crisis, right, and his daughter has a friend that you know, the high school girl that likes to flirt with everybody. She's like that. Her dad gets this fixation on her, um, and like yeah, and then we have this guy that moves in next door who's trying to go with like the daughter and like his whole family, like military and like it. It's just a and like it's just a lot, but it's like a really good movie. I guess I have a thing for dysfunctional families because it was a really dysfunctional family, but it kind of puts me. I don't know if you've ever seen like Ozark the show. Okay, it's kind of like that kind of family, yeah don't even start on Ozark, I haven't.

Speaker 1: 53:04

I love that show so I always hated what's her name?

Speaker 1: 53:24

wendy oh, you're talking about the wife yeah, always hated wendy, right, she's a great actress, great actress, but she usually plays the same characters and everything that she plays literally the same shit, right, and I like the son I thought the son was dope, really smart, really intelligent, all that shit Right. And Marty, I don't know man it was it was weird, like the brother, like the, the brother of Ruth, was dating the old looking woman who looked like a skeleton or the crypt keeper, yeah, and it was just, it was just weird. It was just really weird. It was a good show, but it was just like, oh my gosh, we gotta talk about that in another episode though, because that's a lot. I watched that whole yeah, in 2020, 2023.

Speaker 1: 54:32

I watched it the whole thing, yeah, and I was like okay, okay and um, so I gotta bring up one more thing. You said there was a person I should cosplay as. Who was that person again?

Speaker 2: 54:50

I wasn't even doing my list of movies, sir, but thank you, we'll go ahead and like, proceed on. And I told you, it just came.

Speaker 1: 54:57

It just came into my head because you sent it to me that message, and you were like, yeah, you should cosplay as him. It's pretty easy.

Speaker 2: 55:07

I didn't say it like that. I just said you should cosplay as him. You have his personality, that's all I said. Anyways, I think Afro should cosplay as Sokomoto from Sokomotorin's on Netflix. If you haven't watched it, definitely watch it. Speaking of, I need to watch it. Um, street enough. I need to watch it because I'm an episode behind, because no one already came out. But yeah, um little rundown of it. It's basically this guy used to be a hitman. He quit being a hitman to run his little grocery like well, not a grocery store, but I could be in store with his wife and their little daughter and basically he has old colleagues from when he used to be a hitman that are trying to kill him because there's a bounty on his head, and some of those like colleagues are now working at the store. So it's a really good, feel good anime. I don't usually like those. This one's really cute, so yeah.

Speaker 1: 56:03

Just wish it wasn't on Netflix. Wish it was on Control or something. Jesus, what's?

Speaker 2: 56:08

wrong with it being on Netflix.

Speaker 1: 56:09

Oh nothing, nothing at all. I mean it's cool, but um sorry, friends, we're off to get a list. What else did you have on your list?

Speaker 2: 56:18

Um.

Speaker 1: 56:18

American Beauty.

Speaker 2: 56:22

American Psycho. What the fuck, what what? I have seen that okay it's one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 1: 56:34

I haven't seen it.

Speaker 2: 56:37

yeah, that's why I like Killer Queen from Stretcher of Bizarre Adventures. Her stand user is named Kira, who is based off Killer Queen from Church Road Bazaar Adventures. Her stand user is named Kira, who is based off Patrick Bateman. Anyway, if you haven't seen American Psycho, it's a really good movie, but pretty much it's basically about Americans, the whole Wall Street. It's basically about Americans, like like the whole Wall Street culture of like I gotta one you up or whatever. But let's turn it and make it into like a horror, like serial killer story, um, anything about like narcissistic serial killer tendencies, yeah, um, but it's really underrated. It's a really good movie. The sequels though. The sequels are ass. Do not waste your time watching those. That's a cool laugh they are. They're very much bad.

Speaker 2: 57:36

And then I think my last one is my favorite movie of all time. I have seen this like a thousand and one fucking times. If you know, you know. If not, it is fight club.

Speaker 1: 57:49

Um really I didn't know that very underrated.

Speaker 2: 57:53

Yeah, oh, it's one of my favorites like right, okay. So when's the last time you seen a movie that deals with like not necessarily like, oh, you know, we're men, we fight, yada, yada, yada, but it was more like about him being like having basically split personality. You know, like him having this like mental battle in his head of him trying to be like, um, like this typical person, like man in america yeah and like basically is the best way to put it.

Speaker 2: 58:37

It's like he was a beta male but he wanted to be an alpha male and just like the whole dynamic around the two of them fighting together and like also trying to bring that. You know, the world is very like. I just love it. I don't know, I just love it, but I love Edward Norton, I love Brad Pitt, so it's probably why I love the movie so much. But also there's like a whole entire like graphic novel behind it after the whole shit happened. You can definitely read those. It's also a book too, okay.

Speaker 1: 59:12

I didn't know that. Damn, I'm surprised by that. I was not expecting that. Not Fight Club, I was not expecting that at all. Damn. We definitely have different tastes in movies. I know I'm talking about James and the Giant fucking Peach and you're just like American Psycho.

Speaker 2: 59:31

Yes, oh shit, that's funny and then it looks like I will watch James and the Giant Peach and you will watch American Psycho. You know perspective.

Speaker 1: 59:46

That would be very wrong I, uh, I was, I was sitting there thinking about that. I was like what? Are movies that like, just like something that I watch, like that I would watch all the time and I'm, I would sit there and be like I know a lot of people are watching this shit. Not like that. You know what I mean. And I've always thought that Little Miss Sunshine was definitely one of those movies where oh, it definitely is one of those movies yeah, and you know you could go with like a Juno or a Superbad or kind of just anything around that time frame.

Speaker 1: 1:00:25

It was just a certain I don't know. It was a certain shit about it, like I don't know how to explain it, but anyway, um yeah, do you have anything else?

Speaker 2: 1:00:43

now I'm about to go watch Napoleon Dynamite, so let's wrap this up thank you for joining us for another episode of the Carolina Otaku podcast.

Speaker 1: 1:00:54

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Speaker 2: 1:01:17

Bye.