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Altered geek From Star Wars to Star Trek, comics

to tech Hello and welcome to Altered Geek, I'm

your host Steve and see Phillips or Steve Megatron

if that's your preference Yeah, I recently had

a interesting conversation on Twitter Just to

kind of preface this Between somebody more or

less when I was asking, you know, what would

you do if you had a geeky name. And I was kind

of going, you know, for a time I thought about

kind of dropping the moniker Steve Megatron despite

my having used it since 2007. And going for a

more professional, you know, use my real name

type thing. But it's stuck. I mean, I've had

it for over ten years and, you know, I am The

Altered Geek now, like in 2013 I kind of scared

you dumbing myself, you know, The Altered Geek,

but that's more of an overarching title, the

whole Steve Megatron thing, kind of. Funny enough,

when I go to conventions, I have people saying,

Almighty Megatron, and you know, things like

that, or... Hey, it's Steve Megatron, and I'm

like, who are you people? It's kind of funny

when you're trying to put face to name at conventions.

I mean, this hasn't happened in a while, but

it's really funny when somebody puts either the

voice or... I even had it happen in college about

a year or two ago. I was kind of saying that

I was co -owner of Keycast Radio and... I would

record on various podcasts and they're like,

I've heard you before. They're like, it's awesome

to meet you, blah, blah, blah. I was kind of

taken aback and I was like, well, thank you,

nice to meet you too. It's kind of funny. So

I said that despite it all that I've been influenced

by the media since I was about five years old.

I recently saw something come up on my Facebook

about how the seeds of the future lie buried

in the past and that phrase couldn't be more

true. I always dreamed of working in radio. I

always wanted to work in radio. I always wanted

to do voiceover. Granted, I'm not actually officially

on the air unless you consider podcasts a on

the air form. I consider it... Pre -recorded

radio type stuff like I it would be nice to be

on the actual radio. I'm not gonna lie Hosting

hosting something similar to this or this exact

show. I I would be down for that as well but

I'm I'm definitely Doing what I was doing as

a kid and I used to run around with this I don't

know about ten inch long Cassette player recorder,

Walkman, tape deck type thing. I would record

myself playing like I was doing my own radio

show. I would read, I would do voices, I would

do a variety of things like that. Then it's funny

that coming back to 2005 of doing the fan dubs

and then 2007 starting podcasting, I've been

essentially doing what I did as a kid, only I

really enjoy it. So it's kind of entertaining

that kind of all roads are kind of, you know,

seeds of the future lie buried in the past, so

that Beast Machines phrase kind of holds true.

And then, of course, like I said, the Steve Megatron

thing. I used to be Optimus II Primal, because

that was just dumb. That was my initial online

persona. And then I became Optimus Flash because

it just sounded better and then I became Ultimus

Prime in a sense But then I quickly changed into

Megatron and then Steve Megatron and so it's

kind of been one of those things that followed

me Although when I used to play Half -Life and

Counter -Strike online or at LAN parties with

My skill center thing for high school I used

to be I would alternate between two names. I

would be treeops and avatar, and I still use

both of them to some extent today. Treeops is

like tripod, but it's tryops. So I used that

moniker. Usually I used avatar to get people

used to me, and then I would switch to tryops

to... Basically take them all out. I would take

out all the teachers. I'd take out everybody

I just changed my name before I'd go back in

the game and it was awesome because people were

like who is this guy? And yeah, so anyways I

took on the persona of Steve Megatron and it's

kind of stuck and I thought about I've been kind

of toying with it for the last year of getting

rid of that name and then just going solely with

my name and Somebody that I follow on Twitter

and that follows me as another fellow comic book

geek movie nerd actually write stuff for the

batman universe dot net he he says if you have

a sweet handle like Steve Megatron you keep that

handle it's the max powers principle and I was

like yeah thanks you know it's it's just kinda

crazy you know that I'm being told to essentially

keep it because it's awesome and it's it's just

it's Kind of cool that I'm known as that. I've

kind of learned to accept it, and that's kind

of the funny thing. This episode I'm going to

preface it with. It's going to have a little

bit of news, but it's going to be a lot of basically

unbinding and unwinding. It's going to be more

of a down -to -earth episode this week just because

we're doing the topical stuff, myself and Mike

Powers, which I hope everybody's enjoying. I've...

During the the past week and a half. I've been

putting out different Things to kind of promote

the show to promote other things and I've I've

done the The the whole thing with Pre scheduling

comments and questions on Facebook, which has

been interesting because I've not been one for

those things, but it's kind of helped out because

during the the New Year's week between Christmas

and New Year's and then New Year's weekend, I

put out some varying questions so that I could

have kind of a nice little grab bag in this episode.

Plus, I've kind of been safeguarding, collecting

all the Facebook, Twitter, and website comments

specifically for this episode because I wanted

to kind of have a more, like I said, down -to

-earth episode that's just kind of not Primarily

news focused. Yes, there's a lot of geeky news

out there, you know depending on your your take

and then of course we're getting on the the Final

week before shows start returning like this next

week Star Trek Discovery will be back which I'll

be doing future and perfect for again So that'll

that'll be out. I'll also be doing all things

transformers again which I just started again

last week and Legends will come back at some

point. That one's not really my highest priority

at the moment. This show is my top priority with

All Things Transformers and Future Perfect being

tied for second. So yeah, I've been having fun

with podcasting again and it's... Between the

the whole name conversation just having conversations

in general which I think that's something that

I've kind of gotten away with or away from for

some time I'm not entirely sure why I think it

was just I I was having a pity party to myself

and Just because the stress of the holidays I

had multiple flights that I had to take over

the past two months and It's just been kind of

a roller coaster the last two months and so like

I've just been on high high stress levels between

everything going on plus there's some huge things

coming to Geekcast Radio this year, which will

be having a GCRN episode kind of divulging it.

Optimus Solo has been working on a history project

of sorts for Geekcast Radio for the past several

years and it's finally going to make its debut

and It will be in a GeekCast radio episode. So

that's kind of what we've been teasing a little

bit there and In my eyes, I've I'm very curious

in seeing what he has to offer in this I know

that he's been going through the entire catalog

of GeekCast radio content to get an entire count

of how many episodes everybody's been on, certain

types of episodes, review shows. He's gone through

the archives of review shows, of everything,

and I've been digging in the archives, which

I should preface with the archives of GeekCast

Radio content will be eventually returning this

year to the website. So like the Beast Unleashed

and... TFG1 podcast, the transformation animation,

a lot of the other podcasts, and I know this

stuff could be in GeekCast Radio, and I'm just

kind of giving a brief overview here, but it'll

be nice because people will be able to listen

to it again, but it'll go to our, instead of

our backend file system that we used to store

everything on up until 2005, and even up to the

last year and a half. We've been going to exclusively

the blog talk radio linkage, which has been beneficial

because not only do we get to monetize and try

to basically make this pay for itself. I would

love to make more off of it, but it's not like

the highest priority. I want to have quality

content and if the money comes, it comes, but

I also want the best. on demand resources for

it, should have a lot more. Once iTunes gets

off their rears, a lot more analytics on knowing

what exactly people are listening to and how

long and everything else for the iTunes content.

Which, speaking of consumption of the podcast,

I posed the question, of how do you consume the

podcast and from where? And the reason I asked

this was because I had an issue on the day that

we released the Disney and Fox possibilities

in their future streaming service. Two things

were I had mis -scheduled something wrong around

this time. And what had happened is the blog

talk radio the way that it creates the episodes,

it puts the date in them. So if I say I'm going

to change the episode from the fourth to the

second, it still has the fourth in the URL, so

it doesn't work. That actually happened. The

other thing is I was going to stop posting this

on ThisWeekInGeek .com. The reason why I was

going to do that is because one, I've been in

the background, I don't know if anybody's listened

to Mike the Birdman Dodd, he did have a quick

recap episode of things to come and Alex over

there on This Week in Geek is going to be taking

over. I have been the webmaster for the website

for the past three years and I inherited a mess.

I'm not trying to throw them under the bus, it's

just there's been a lot of hands over on that

site, and the website was a mess. I also had

to move it from Snowball's server to Birdman's

server, and that was a lot of fun as well, trying

to get that colossal nightmare of organization

or misorganization of files in the backend. WordPress

was not the issue, it was the files. Because

of that, I've already started a blog talk radio

login where I've imported their entire catalog

into the back end. I didn't realize that iTunes

at some point, because the website was only putting

10 episodes on Twig, I am getting back to the

consumption of the podcast. It was limited to

like 10 episodes and so I boosted that so it

plays like 100 now on iTunes. But anyways, the

episodes themselves, as far as Twig is going

to, in the future change, I'm working with their

team to make the transition so that I am no longer

responsible for any of Twig. I have a lot of

other things on my plate and that's just not

one that I want to tackle. Plus, Being it's been

around longer than Geekcast Radio, I felt that

they should be managing their own content. I

feel that it should be a Canadian run website

and not run by... Because the whole premise was

it was started by Canadians, run by Canadians,

and then we were just kind of there. We were

kind of guesting and helping, not necessarily

running. And we have Geekcast Radio, which I

consider both of them to be partner, like sister

sites of each other. And so... My dilemma is

that we're coming up with our own changes to

boost Twig and boost Gatecast Radio at the same

time, to grow them stronger, to build out their

libraries, to kind of cut the fat of the old

stuff, and kind of start anew, in a sense. That's,

again, kind of playing to the Seeds of the Future

by Live Variant in the past, or Transform and

Transcend is the other part of it, which is another

Beast Machine part of that quote. So, I was going

to pull this podcast. Point being, all of the

GeekCast Radio podcasts, the only ones that should

be theoretically over there and on GeekCast Radio

are Future Imperfect, Mayhem Mikes, and The Cyber

Dragon Ball. Those are really the only crossover

shows that should be on both networks. And that's

because the Cyber Dragon Ball is a thing, granted

it only had one episode between myself and Birdman

Dodd. There's another episode, another show,

they may have mics, which is Ryan, Dodd, and

Blanchard. So that's a given that that'll be

on both. And then... Future Imperfect originally

started out with Dodd and myself. It was my name

creation for it. He approached me for it. And

because we haven't had consistent content on

it, I decided to take the wheels and run with

it. So you're going to see a lot more episodes

of that, like I said, but that's on its own feed

now. So you can actually subscribe to it on iTunes

under Future Imperfect. It will be under the

main Twig feed, but it won't be It'll be its

own podcast. It's still going to link to the

blog talk radio RSS feed. So, that being said,

Altered Geek, I was going to pull from there,

but I didn't realize that people still listen

to the podcast through This Week in Geek. I wasn't

sure because no one has ever commented on...

AlteredGeek on This Week in Geek. It's mostly

been on AlteredGeek .com, GeekcastRadio .com,

and Facebook and Twitter. I wasn't sure if anybody

was actually consuming it from there. Like I

said, the analytics don't exactly tell you anything

about that because they're just not there yet

on the services that we use. I wasn't sure what

was going on there. Anyways, I stopped posting

episodes to This Week in Geek for a minute there,

and Jennifer let me know that, you know, she

says, hi guys, I don't know if you're working

on the website or not, but I'm not seeing a spot

on Twig to play or download this podcast. On

the AlterGeek site, when I tried to download

it, there was no file found, which was, again,

the URL issue. And it won't play, but on the

RSS feed, I was able to download it and listen

to it there, which... Again, that's probably

the best method is to go to the RSS feed and

just subscribe to it there and just download

it that way. Again, it's kind of a cross promotion

between AlterGeek, GeekHast Radio, and This Week

in Geek. I'm going to keep it on This Week in

Geek as long as they want it to stay there, but

once they make their full transition, it may

or may not be there anymore. just depending on

what they want to do with the website. And that's

perfectly okay. But I'm giving everybody the

preemptive notice here that if it does disappear

from This Week in Geek, you can still get it

on alteredgeek .com and geekcastradio .com as

well as the RSS feed, iTunes, whatever. It's

all over the place, literally. You can get it

on Stitcher, you can get it on SoundCloud, you

can get it on... Speaker, you can get it on iHeartRadio,

iTunes, Google Play, there's a lot of different

places. Most of the GeekCast Radio library is

on everything, so you can pretty much find it

wherever you want to consume it. So, she did

let me know that she usually gets it from Twig,

and then I did re -import the past few episodes

onto Twig so that it's there. Again, things will

probably change, like I said. And it's kind of

good to know. And then Scanner51 lets me know

that he uses Stitcher for 95 % of the podcasts

and 4 % from Google Play and 1 % is using on

the websites, which is good to know because I

don't really get that analytics. So putting that

out there is kind of helpful. Brad lets me know

that he gets it from the Apple app iTunes. Like

I said, that's probably the best method plus

I get to see how long people listen or or I Get

the best like if you have Apple and you use iTunes

It's probably the best method because I'll get

the best analytics from it and the best notice

once Apple finally gets off their rear and puts

all of my podcasts under one account because

I currently don't have analytics for any of them

and they're slow to get back to people, like

terribly slow. I've been trying to get this done

for three months and it's just, I'm beating my

head against a wall. Jennifer says she uses the

app Podcast Addict or directly from the website.

So it's all good information to know as far as

the podcast is concerned. I wasn't entirely sure

where that was going, so. I'm going to take a

quick break here, come back on the other side

with all of the listener feedback on the past

several episodes since we've been doing all these

20 minute episodes. A little question to ponder

before we go to break is, what is your geeky

passion? What are you geeking out to right now?

Some of the other topics that may eventually

pop up on the podcast are discontinued products

were sat or gone. Cinematic disappointments,

10 geeky things you want to do before you die,

magazines as revived as podcasts, and like I

said, what's geeky to you? So if you have any

comments, questions, or suggestions on any of

those topics, let us know. And if you have any

suggestions for 20 -minute episodes between myself

and Powers or perhaps another guest of Geekcast

Radio or somewhere else, I would be definitely

open to hearing more of them. But until then,

I'll be right back on the other side of this

break. And we're back. So getting into the feedback,

these will be in a little out of order, but that's

just because of where they're posted. So going

to geekcastradio .com on the 20 minutes of SNES

Mini and links you can go for more games, which

was released... a couple days before Christmas.

TFG1Mike says, great stuff, guys. The SNES was

my system. Yes, my cousins had NES and I had

COF, or Sega Master System, but the SNES was

the one thing I wanted for Christmas in 1992.

Super Mario World, Zelda, F -Zero, Donkey Kong

Country, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4, Turtles

in Time and Mega Man X were all my favorite games.

Too bad TMNT wasn't on the mini. However, what

there is is impressive, most impressive. So I

have to agree, I mean, I love Mega Man X, I love

Turtles in Time, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario

World. If any of those games, like I haven't

looked at the game list recently, but if any

of those aren't on there, I would probably do

what Mike Powers did. putting them on my device,

if that was the case. I used to be a big emulator

player, but I also owned the systems at one point,

so it really wasn't that big of a deal at the

time. But yeah, I mean, it's been fun to kind

of reminisce on that with the whole system, and

I'm kind of glad that they have it. I do think

that the N64 Mini will be coming this year. But

again, we'll see. So going back to the 20 minutes

of Fox and and Disney and Fox possibilities in

their future and streaming service, which is

the day after Christmas Brad says I do want more

of the streaming service to offer downloadable

content like Netflix does I think that's brilliant

for someone on the road all the time. I have

to agree because If I had had like because when

I traveled to Chicago to Dallas for work, and

then when I went from Michigan to Chicago for

Mike's wedding, it would have been nice to have

had content downloaded to my device instead of

having to use up my internet, my data plan. I

have to agree, I would much rather do that as

a method of watching content over having to Try

and do it on The streaming service plus I don't

like buffering and like I said the airports like

Chicago both the airports at Chicago were Terrible

for Wi -Fi They were just atrocious Dallas was

awesome for their their airport Wi -Fi But both

the Chicago ones even Flint had better Wi -Fi.

I mean granted. I wasn't there very long, but

That's pretty bad one Flint, Michigan has better

Wi -Fi and set up at their mini airport compared

to Chicago's two big ones. But yeah, I definitely

would love to see more of that come into play

in the future. However, I don't know how they'll

do that without creating some way. Like I could

see if you had to log on for authentication purposes

to play it, which would be OK, but like streaming

it would just be terrible. And then. Brad also

says, while the new Disney channel might be the

largest library to stream, I wouldn't pay $50

for it. All the Disney films I like, I have on

DVD and have made digital copies of, I'm not

its target audience. I'm kind of in the same

boat, I mean, but at the same time, I've gotten

rid of 90 % of my DVD collection because one,

it takes up space, two, my kids, we don't really

let them watch a lot of stuff, especially more

modern television or films. So it's got to go

through a certain filter, and then there's certain

things that just terrify the crap out of my kids,

and so we don't even deal with it. We just got

rid of it all. So I wouldn't pay for it. I don't

know if I would actually get the Disney service,

but it would kind of depend. I mean, I know they've

got all of Fox's library, which is more of what

I'd be interested in than the Disney content.

But I guess we'll see. I mean the other nice

thing about Disney is you'd have Star Wars, too

So I mean you get a couple things going for it,

but I own all the Star Wars films so again. I'm

not I'm not entirely sure what I do in that boat.

I It's pretty giant Archive that Disney has just

entered themselves into I mean they already had

their own giant archive, but adding Fox to it.

That's just nuts I wouldn't pay $50. I can't

see anybody spending $50 a month for it though

So I guess we'll find out in the future. Maybe

we'll find out this year when They announced

more information on it since it's coming out

2019 Well, so I mentioned that obviously this

episode is going to have a bunch of feedback

so In very light on the news and topical pieces

because there's really not all that much that

came out this week and so Myself and Mike we

recorded two instead of three of our 20 minute

episodes, which will be out next week but Yeah,

Brad says enjoying the 20 minute single theme

shows makes it easier to leave feedback if it's

a topic I like totally agree with you there and

glad that this is a more digestible Way of doing

it and glad you're enjoying the podcast as a

whole plus the 20 minute episodes Then going

on from there, we have the benefits of trailers

and the failures that come from them. Jennifer

mentions that I don't go to a lot of movies anymore,

so I really like the trailers or brands to go

to it. Or if I am not sure of one I may read

some reviews and if it sounds decent I may go

on a cheap ticket day example The Dark Tower

since I love the series, but I wasn't in love

with the trailer I waited for the reviews and

they weren't the best so I'm just waiting to

rent the movie at the library or something That

I can kind of agree with like if it's something

that It looks questionable in the trailer or

if it's something that you know, you may be interested

in or in that scenario I definitely agree because

there's a lot of movies that I Look at the trailers

and I look at some of the the buzz surrounding

them and kind of make a judgment call on whether

I watch it as a rental or if I watch it as a

theater thing And primarily because I don't get

out much, or at least out to the theater, I watch

everything when it comes on streaming. I do have

a local family video rental place literally about

a quarter of a mile from my house. So it's quite

nice, honestly, to have that option. If I decide

to go in there, but I'm cheap too, so I don't

spend money on rentals We do have a red box as

well, which is literally right next door with

the Kroger grocery store, so it's Very easy to

to find something to watch that being said She

continues by saying, but sometimes when I get

movies from the library and I don't know what

to watch, I go to the foreign movie section and

just grab some movies that I have no clue who

the directors or actors are or even the brand,

but I'm just totally basing the pick by the descriptions

on the case, since at my library I can rent them

free or really cheap if brand new, so I'm not

wasting a lot of money if they're bad. but just

time. I admit I got some rotten eggs, but others

I just loved and wouldn't have known otherwise.

No, that's pretty much a good way to go into

it. If you're kind of just running in blind based

on the descriptions, that's a good thing. Myself

personally, I don't typically get into a lot

of foreign movies, so I never really look in

that section. I have opened up over the past

year or two more documentaries, more based off

true story stuff, more things that aren't necessarily

based on a franchise. So in that regard, I've

kind of branched out. But yeah, that's not really

a bad way to go about it when you come right

down to it. And then moving on to our 2018 predictions

episode that we did. which came out earlier this

week. Brad says some interesting predictions

for 2018. I can see all that happening. As for

Disney buying a toy company, I completely agree

with Michael. It's easier for them to just license

properties out. I do predict that there will

be no news on Tron 3, Ghostbusters 2, or Ace

Ventura 3. And please, no news of It 2, Jigsaw

2, or Pacific Rim 3. The originals are great.

Let's not franchise everything. Eh, I think that's

kind of... Hollywood's goal at this point is

to franchise everything. And I do see the merit

of Disney and the toy thing in me being wrong

there. However, I do think that we're going to

get it too. I know that they mentioned that in

2017, the tail end there. Jigsaw 2 is technically

still a continuation of the Saw franchise. So

it's technically Saw 8. And then it's not a reboot

per se it's it's more of a continuation because

it takes place ten years after the entire jigsaw

saga and The even though there's like some flashbacking

with the whole thing which takes place even before

which is really weird But I can see them kind

of continuing it, but I don't really know if

it has much legs to go on Pacific Rim 3 that'll

probably get greenlit as well. It's not really

surprising to me that they're going to franchise

everything because that's really all Hollywood's

got left in them as far as feature films while

TV is getting the benefit of the overload in

the theater. And that they can tell more cohesive

stories in television land. Like for instance,

I would rather see Tron become a television series.

Exclusive to and this is kind of a prediction

since you brought Tron up They may turn that

into a television series on their streaming service

because that may be a draw for them Being that

Disney owns it so that that could be a possibility

Which I would be totally down for if they could

get the original cast Or the people from legacy

to join on Ghostbusters 2 I sincerely doubt that's

gonna go anywhere because that film flopped and

then Ace Ventura 3 I don't think that they're

gonna well technically they had that if you had

Ace Ventura jr Which was technically the third

one. I know they're planning on rebooting it

though Which I'm not in favor for it all because

I loved the originals and in today's day I don't

think it would survive. It's kind of like that

whole thing with Police Academy Where they were

going to do an eighth film with the original

cast that were still alive and then it just kind

of Fell off the bandwagon. It was never heard

of again and then they were talking about rebooting

it and then you never heard about it again and

then Same thing kind of happened with Bill and

Ted 3 I or Beetlejuice 2 I don't think we'll

see any of those either or anything other than

what we've already seen news wise, I think it's

going to be more of the same. Yeah, we have an

idea for it, but you know, it's just getting

the whatever set up for it, and I don't think

that it'll end up happening. But yeah, there's

a lot that can happen in 2018, so I guess we'll

have to kind of wait and see. So I'm going to

come back on the other side of this with some

geeky news and some kind of conversation on some

cool tech gadgets. So we'll be back right after

this. And we're back. So on the tech side of

things, I just saw something on Windows Central

on social media. They have this kind of inventive

USB 3 .0 adapter, which is five bucks apparently,

to connect a SATA cable to USB. So essentially

you can take any internal drive, For instance,

if you have a solid state hard drive, you can

just plug it right in on this device and access

your SATA hard drives without ever having to

plug them on the inside of the machine, which

I think is actually kind of cool because I happen

to have an extra one and I would like to be able

to use it. Although my external hard drive is

much larger, I've got a terabyte external hard

drive and then I've got a two terabyte one as

well. I have a 120 gig SATA SSD drive and I have

an SSD in my computer but I would be able to

clone my drive easily by doing this. Not only

that, but if I needed to get something off a

particular drive that's not able to be plugged

in on a SATA port on the inside of the machine,

like one of my hard drives I have, it would allow

me to actually open it. So I think that that's

actually a really cool product to have. Not to

mention that, USB 3 .2 is supposedly able to

use the same cables as the existing USB Type

-C cable, which they're claiming are future -proof

because they're able to have this basically reversible

connector with the promise of up to 100 watts

of power and up to 10 gigabytes per second data

transfer speeds. So basically you can double

using the same cable. The USB 3 .0 promoter group

announced that it's preparing to release the

3 .2 specs as the USB -C cables were designed

to support multi -lane operation with USB 3 .1

generation 2 supporting up to 10 gigs using two

lanes, five gigs per lane. 3 .2 doubles that

so you can use You can have allowing up to 10

gigabytes data rates per lane and giving a total

of 20 gigs or two gigabytes per second transfer

speeds, which would be awesome because most of

my, which sucks because my computer doesn't have

the USB -C port in it. So I'd have to get an

adapter if I was going to do that or a SATA or

a PCI Express slot for the inside of my machine

to be able to do this Because my motherboard

is slightly old at this point It's functional.

So why replace it? I'll wait until another year

or two before I upgrade my computer A lot of

it's still usable to some degree I can upgrade

more but it's it's at this point. My machine

is like five years out of date if not more so

The point is you'll be able to use this existing

super speed USB for more transfer data rates

and in faster speeds which I think is much needed

in this day and age where we have terabyte hard

drives and the need to back things up not only

in the cloud but on another physical platform

and I've never trusted Physical media or digital

media in any case. I always keep doubles and

triples of stuff because I can't trust it and

So yeah, I have Flash drives that have gone bad

on me With data I've had CDs that I've burned

in the past that have gone bad on me or sections

of it have gone bad I've had DVDs that I Own

that I cloned and I've had those go bad on me

depending on how old they were it's kind of interesting

the stuff that goes bad and then how long it

takes and then the need to back it up on a newer

piece of equipment and so time is everything

when you're trying to do that I know when I'm

backing up my computer it's a royal pain trying

to go from hard drive to external so I don't

know, there's a lot of stuff changing. Speaking

of changing, there's actually a new, it's a new

wireless standard. We're coming on the cusp of

this new, it's 802 .11ax. And it's supposed to

be coming this year from Intel, yes, Intel, the

same company that had the chip error. which apparently

it's a patch that you have to do, software patch

to fix whatever the issue is with the chipset,

but not delving into it any further. The 802

.11ax basically is going to give more... to the

chipsets, more ability for 2x2 and 4x4 home routers

and gateways for cable. So like cable, DSL, fiber,

and other consumer retail devices. So it's going

to be the next generation of the Wi -Fi obviously.

Because they're sticking with that 802 .11 blah

blah blah blah insert your letter here I remember

back when it was like G was the big thing like

I don't remember B because I didn't have Wi -Fi

before that but I had G and then they had N and

Then it was AC which my current router is an

AC My previous one was an N Which they all work

about the same. It doesn't really make a difference

in my household Other than you can do the dual

band on the AC one. So anyways, they're saying

the importance of the new AX standard is its

associated chipsets is amplified by the fact

that the home router gateway will become the

digital front door into people's homes. So they're

saying that previously people had a separate

phone television and internet device slash services,

but are now converging through IP services. TV

streaming services like Netflix and cable because

so many different types of communications and

smart home capabilities will also be managed

by the home gateway or Wi -Fi network. It is

becoming an increasingly important device in

the home for everyone to have. And so they're

saying it's basically a refresher of the AC such

as the ability to serve multiple users simultaneously,

the MIMO standard and the implementation of the

off. uh dma so it's it's kind of borrowing from

the the waveforms from the cell world and uh

um it's promising to improve upload speeds over

wi -fi as well because that's been horrible that's

always been horrible um you never actually utilize

what you pay for which is kind of funny with

i think that what they offer you and what your

routers and whatnot can handle are two different

spectrums. So anyways, it's designed to deal

with the extremely dense network conditions that

most users have with many wireless devices connected

to the same Wi -Fi network at the same time.

It'll be able to operate in both 2 .4G and 5

.8G bands of unlicensed spectrum and improve

both the bandwidth and coverage, something that

the AC couldn't do, which I can... totally relate

to because if I go out my backyard or on one

the very far side of my house because my my routers

set up in my Living room which is on the other

side of my office It's on one completely side

of the house. And then if you go to the other

side, you're the Wi -Fi drops out Or if you're

in the backyard it's kind of touch -and -go so

yeah, I definitely can relate to that and then

one of the spectrums I think the 5G is hit or

miss, whether it works right on the AC, it's

kind of crazy. But yeah, so they're saying that

the final standard will be due next year, but

Intel's new chips will be draft 2 .0 compliant,

which will enable them to comply with the final

standards on their chipsets. Yeah, this is some

big news in Wi -Fi. Especially with AC having

a short shelf life and didn't get as much adoption

with it. AX may be the way to go for people that

are still on the end bandwidth and looking for

a better standard that will have significant

leaps and bounds differences from what they were

used to. So we'll see something I'm sure at CES

on AX among other things and VR and AI and all

this other tech. So it's going to be kind of

a win -win when this stuff comes out. So moving

on. Some interesting news came out earlier today

actually there's there's going to be a new revival

at Hulu with a two season order and It's a combination

between Amblin television Warner Brothers animation,

and they're gonna revive the Steven Spielberg

executively produced program Animaniacs Yeah,

it's gonna be back with WB Hulu Warner Brothers

animation and Amblin television reviving the

award -winning animated series with a two season

straights the series order at Hulu Probably has

something to do with the fact that everyone still

loves it. There's educational elements and the

fact that Most the cast still does a lot of these

stuff whether it be on alpha or on What is it?

Nerdist and then you've got the podcast with

with Rob Paulson and his multitude of friends

from the voiceover industry. So anyways, under

the deal, the streamer has gotten the library

rights to Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Pinky,

Elmira, and the Brain, and the complete Tiny

Toon Adventures collection. So all those episodes

are available to stream now. with the new Animaniacs

set to begin rolling out in 2020 in what Hulu

is building as its first original series made

specifically for families. This is really awesome.

This whole deal right here. Not only do you get

a brand new series that continues the original

one, but you get all of the previous ones that

Spielberg's been associated with. I kind of wish

Freakazoid would be on there as well. among some

others, but I'm definitely happy to see that

these characters will be returning. So you get

Pinky in the brain, Yakko, Wacko, and Dot, and

I'm sure you'll see Slappy and a lot of the other

characters return. So this is really good information

and really good news, honestly. This will...

probably help propel Hulu a little bit more in

the direction that Netflix has been doing with

a lot of the kids animation, so we could eventually

see revivals of other series joining that lineup.

It's kind of interesting though that WB is putting

it on Hulu instead of their streaming service,

but I guess they're trying to do it on Hulu because

they own a stake in it or... Just because it's

kind of a mutual ground and there's a lot of

foot traffic on it and they can do it now as

opposed to later But Hulu's kid -focused library

also includes Teen Titans Go, Curious George,

Powerpuff Girls Adventure Time TMNT So yeah,

it's funny Spielberg's happy and proud that Animaniacs

will have a home at Hulu and He's looking to

Looking forward to the revival. It's only a matter

of time before we see some of the other shows

come back From the 90s because it seems like

everything from the 80s and 90s It was a TV show

or an animated series is starting to make a comeback

nowadays So I may I may have another prediction

episode on the full the full show anyway Of animated

series that may return Since they're just kind

of randomly pulling from all over Netflix and

Hulu are now at this point So there's the possibility

we could see more return. And even in this article,

they say that reboots and revivals continue to

remain in high demand as broadcasters and streaming

platforms alike look for proven titles with an

ability to cut through a crowded landscape that

is approaching 500 scripted originals. Key to

the reboots is having the original producers

involved, which is the case with Spielberg, Warner

Brothers Animation, and Amblin for Animaniacs.

I totally agree. If you don't have the original

people, producers, and... groups involved it's

just it's it's gonna pale by comparison to the

original and and i think that this is a slam

dunk for hulu at this point uh as well as the

fans as well as the fans um so this little bit

of news i couldn't help but pass up apparently

jeff johns will continue to help the new uh help

steer the new dc films uh president that just

took over. I guess that Walter Hamada will step

in to replace John Berg and Jeff Johns becoming

head of Warner Brothers Pictures DC Films. However,

it now sounds like Hamada and Johns will actually

be co -heads of DC Films, with Hamada taking

on the title of president of DC -based film production.

which is kind of funny because Johns and Berg

were placed in charge of the DC films in 2016,

but after Batman v Superman and then they had

the Western performance of Justice League and

So Berg stepped down and so now There I don't

even have a clue but They're saying that they're

working well together, Johns and Hamada, on some

things, and they're specifically going over Shazam

at this point, and Aquaman, but I don't really

know what to think about this, more so because

I think that... DC and Warner Brothers just don't

have a clue what they're doing and the fact that

Jeff Johns The fact that they have so much intervention

in what the directors are trying to do like I

understand that they they need there's there's

certain key points that they need to keep for

these characters, but the same token they need

to Leave these directors alone to kind of do

what they're gonna do and not tread on nostalgia.

And yes, there's certain elements of the characters

that need to stay kind of cemented, but there's

no reason that they need to kind of go in this

direction. I honestly don't see how it's going

to help either way because Warner Brothers has

been their own worst enemy in this entire universe.

Yes, they push the envelope, which is better

than Marvel by following the same formulaic experience

that they've been doing, but I don't know. I

don't think this is going to make that big of

a difference in the grand scheme of things, but

I guess we'll find out. So, anyway, I think that

about rounds this episode out of Altered Geek

this week, and I'll have more stuff next week

and hopefully some more news. So, until next

time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered

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