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The Death of Ad Blockers & Meta’s AI Resurrection

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About this Episode

Welcome to another high-octane adventure into Geekdom! In Episode 459, host Steve "Megatron" Phillips is joined by TFG1Mike to tackle a week filled with massive industry shifts and somber goodbyes. We start by honoring the legacies of several legends, including Robert Duvall, and James Van Der Beek, as we reflect on their impact on entertainment and culture.

The tech world is on fire this week as we discuss YouTube’s latest war on ad blockers—new hurdles have arrived, and the workarounds are disappearing fast. Plus, we look into the recent massive YouTube outage that left over a quarter-million users in the dark. In a move straight out of science fiction, Meta is "raising the dead" with new AI developments, while Cartoon Network finds a surprising new home on Tubi. Finally, we vent some frustration over the "subscription-pocalypse" affecting everything from Instagram video quality to the very PCs we buy—remember when Microsoft Word just came with the computer?

What you’ll get out of this episode:

  • The latest updates on YouTube’s aggressive stance against ad-blocking software.
  • A deep dive into the ethics and technology behind Meta’s AI "resurrection" projects.
  • Nostalgic and critical commentary on the shift from physical ownership to "PC subscriptions."
  • A rundown of why Cartoon Network on Tubi is a win for animation fans.

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the name. Hello, and welcome to Altered Geek.

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I'm your host, Steve Megatron. And joining me

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on this adventure in two... The geekdom and craziness

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therein is TFG1 Mike. You ain't lying. Jesus.

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I ain't lying. Um, so yeah, uh, it's been, it's

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been a crazy, um, week or two. Uh, yeah, there's,

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there's one, one ceiling in this whole thing

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here. Uh, this episode, the rest of it, it's

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like WTF. yeah like pretty bad like yeah pretty

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much so i think it's only appropriate to start

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off with the the sad stuff go to the wtf like

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why moment commentary and then go to uh animation

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side of Yeah. So. Oh, boy. So we've had a lot

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of celebrities pass away here recently. And the

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three or more. Can I count it after? Apparently

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at almost midnight. And I can't. Five that I'm

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going to highlight. Robert Duvall, James Van

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Der Beek, Brad Arnold, Jesse Jackson, and Scott

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Adams. We will go over these really quickly individually.

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And looking forth like we always do. Only because

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he's the first on my screen right now. Brad Arnold

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was the lead singer and longest. tenured founding

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member of the hard rock band three doors down

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i actually got to see three doors down in the

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year 2003 back in little kentucky i've seen them

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too yeah oh cool awesome yeah i saw them uh was

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it i think it was 2005 or 2006 i saw them i think

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they were playing with either nickelback or yeah

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that's yeah they played with nickelback right

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they they played before yeah usually they were

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headlining for nickelback in in those days uh

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that was right it was too much that would probably

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be the all the right reasons tour for nickelback

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because that was that album cycle yep uh when

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i saw them they were doing um they were They

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were the headliners in 2003. So the reason why

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they were is because they were doing whichever

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album cycle for them for Three Doors Down. And

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Twelve Stones, along with Theory of a Dead Man,

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were their openers. And I had known the lead

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singer and the drummer of Twelve Stones because

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they had been. in miss i was there around that

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time etc etc etc so when i got back up to louisville

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and i knew that they were going to be playing

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at this place and i was like oh awesome cool

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so i had gone out and i had seen them and just

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genuinely awesome dude very very cool uh it's

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sucks just absolutely sucks he had been fighting

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cancer i believe which just really f cancer so

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brad recently passed away uh and then we had

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and we had wish they would organize these better

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i was looking for there we go so scott adams

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was the cartoonist and dilbert creator scott

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adams died on january 13th um that's why i wanted

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to bring him up really quick uh have you ever

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read the comic strip dilbert yeah it's been a

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long time yeah no it's fine it's been a long

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time but you've read it in the past yeah so it's

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that guy uh and just absolutely love dilbert

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when i've read it before and just man just Yeah.

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And then recently, just without having to look

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at NIMDB or any of this other stuff, Jesse Jackson

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was a civil rights leader and all that, so he

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will be missed. So that sucks, absolutely. And

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then Robert Duvall. Oh, man, Robert Duvall. I

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can think of things off the top of my head. Days

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of Thunder, Phenomenon, and Gone in 60 Seconds.

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Days of Thunder, he played Harry Hogg. Phenomenon,

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he played the old Doc. Gone in 60 seconds, he

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played Otto. Otto Halliwell. I didn't realize

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at the time when the news came out of Robert's

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passing that he was 95. So I guess the man lived

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a full life, but we always hate, like, anytime

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we've always, in the last 17, 16, 17 years we've

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been doing this podcast network thing, anytime

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we see any of these celebrity deaths, It's like,

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God, we got to talk about this. We got to go

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through their filmography. We got to remember

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them. And then we look at like either what they

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died of or how old they were when they died.

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And we're like, he was that young or he was that

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old. I didn't realize he was that old. Ball was

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one of those for me where it was like, he was

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95. He didn't look 95. Any thoughts on any of

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these before I move on to the final? No, I mean,

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it it just. Some of them, some of the midgets

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in general, like just seeing it. Yeah. It just

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it's just showing that we're aging faster. Yeah,

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pretty much, unfortunately. Unfortunately, unfortunately.

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Yeah, we're all going to go. Yep, we're going

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to die. Did you really have to say it in the

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video? Really? You had to say it in the video

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game, you asshat. But yeah, it's just not. And

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then the last one was James Van Der Beek, who

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passed on... When did he pass? He passed on...

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If I can find him now... Recently. There we go.

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Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek passed

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on February 11th, so two days after my birthday.

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um battle with oh god here we go again between

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brad arnold and james vanderbeek they were both

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fighting a each a different type of cancer so

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i say again f cancer and i mean james vanderbeek

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that dude you know whether it was dawson's creek

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or whether it was the movies he starred in whatever

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it was However you knew him, he's something you

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saw him in. It didn't matter what it was. It

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really didn't. I mean, he was on Robot Chicken

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for various voices. He was in Criminal Minds.

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This is after Dawson's Creek. Because Dawson's

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Creek ran from 98 to 2003. He was in Robot Chicken

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in 2006. He was on One Tree Hill for four episodes.

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I didn't even know that. He was in Law and Order

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Criminal Intent for an episode. No clue of that.

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And his films, for me, very easy. Very, very

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easy. Uh, varsity blues, J and silent Bob strike

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back and J and silent Bob reboot. So yeah, very,

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he will be missed. They will all be missed. Uh,

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it just stinks. Just absolutely stinks. Sadly.

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Yep. And we're not even that far into 2026. that's

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what i was like wait a minute how dare you like

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how dare you take we're not even two months in

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and all the death toll is up there like yikes

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all right what's next so so moving on a little

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bit uh because i'm going to save the uh highlight

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for the end uh since we're on the topic of the

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deceased uh yeah yeah and i'll probably insert

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some of these clips in the episode for reference

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like at the end or at least a link or something

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i don't know i there's there's a tech guy on

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on youtube that i pay attention to and he talks

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about different technology and stuff and the

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fact Facebook has patented an AI that lets you

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keep posting from beyond the grave saying dead

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isn't the end no thank you dead is the end so

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it's solely based on training AI to post as if

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your loved one is still among you and no don't

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stop my thoughts my my thought is if i've stopped

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posting delete my account exactly yeah it's like

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i get it like they've been they've all been training

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on i mean they're not going to get squat for

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me because right i don't ever post on but Yeah,

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they're saying that the language model may be

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used for simulating the user when the user is

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absent from social networking system for when

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the user takes a long break. The user is deceased.

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Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. So remember

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live free or die hard? Yeah. Remember that delete

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key? Remember that delete key command? And when

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he hits... delete key or explode that's what

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uh -huh that that that's what needs to happen

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when i die whoever hits the delete key as long

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as it's safe for them to do so as long as it

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doesn't explode in their face that's what my

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computer needs to do whatever universal delete

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key there is for my computer to blow up and information

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go bye -bye that's what needs to happen like

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no don't and stop this is stupid as hell like

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uh -uh nope not gonna happen yeah my mom's my

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mom's been gone for 11 years now i think whenever

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2015 was this is 20 26. Yeah. So 11 years, my

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mom was never like, I tried to get my mom onto

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Facebook. She couldn't figure it out. And she

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got frustrated and deleted her account and she

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never wanted to be back on it again. But if she

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had kept up with it and whatever else and learned

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it and whatever, and she had died in what she

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did die in 2015, we're 11 years later. And yeah,

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no, I don't need my mom. oh wow god this is no

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this is bad bad zuck bad zuck i thought you said

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something else for a minute there bad zuck bad

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zuck with a z zuck yes i mean it's close i mean

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they mean the same thing but it's close So, yeah,

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there's that. And then we're I've been watching

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a lot of YouTube shorts and. Yeah. So. Yeah,

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they there's there's also a couple other ones

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that that you and I were kind of going over and

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there's the one where it's like, oh, you can

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now rent a PS5. Yeah. You pay a subscription

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service. You don't even own the desk. You just

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and then they they give you 100 megabyte download

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file for the game and then they stream the graphics

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to you. No, it's like, no, give me a completed

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game. And then we go from there. If I could afford

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number one. For me, and I've said this on many

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of the other podcasts, whether it's this show

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or other podcasts that we do, besides cost, the

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biggest stopping point for me owning a PS5 or

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an Xbox dumbass number gold disc, whatever, XSXX

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or XXX or quadruple 17X, whatever. controllers

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i can't do one -handed gaming with their controllers

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i just can't that's my biggest stopping point

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to owning a console this day to this day today

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outside of cost now if they made a controller

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similar to ps2 or something like that i the only

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thing stopping me would be cost now if that was

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the case And then cost was no longer an issue.

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I would want to own it outright. Let me buy the

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damn thing. Let me own it. Well, it's this. This

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is one of those things that I've had fun with.

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The. For instance, as I mentioned off air, I

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was trying out, you know, Overwatch. as a game

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which is blizzard and yeah pretty much every

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over the last like i don't know 10 15 years has

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more or less you to be connected to the internet

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to play it and i have a real problem with that

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for multiple reasons for one you can't get any

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of the high moon studio transformer games anymore

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yeah at all online like unless you're buying

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a used disc somewhere for a game console like

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the pc edition you can't get it i have it you

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can't get it um that's all i'm going to go into

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there um they also it's impossible to get unreal

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tournament it's on literally like epic games

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literally does not have the game like it's their

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game yeah or the unreal engine you know they

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they tried to remake the game in 2017 with like

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an alpha copy and it moved faster than any first

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person shooter that's out it was literally unreal

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how fast this thing moved like If you thought

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you were getting a panic attack from movement

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in any of the modern games, this one would make

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you like this. Like if you took it, you downed

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like a bunch of monster energy drinks and like

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a two liter of Mountain Dew and a Red Bull. And

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then you smoked crack. Like. I'm just trying

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to make this as, like, vivid as possible. Like,

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this game moves so fast that your hands would

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hurt. And, like, you'd have a panic attack between

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rounds. Like, I kid you not. Like, I played it,

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and I was really good at it. And bad at it. But

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the point was, I could... The game just basically

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unleashed the beast in you. Well, yeah, and then

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I was playing Overwatch, and I'm like, man, they

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move so slow. I'm like, they're so clunky. Like,

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there's Nash. There's no, like, I'm like, come

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on, man. Like, yeah, you have a special move

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you can use twice to, like, kind of speed run

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or speed jump or something. Yeah. Almost like

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the speed dash type thing, but it's, like, timed

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out, so you can only use it so often. And I'm

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like, this is lame. I'm like, I remember being

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able to just like run in games. They don't let

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you run. And no, like I could play Battlefield

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and run. So it's I was just like, what is this?

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Like you can run in Fortnite. Yeah. But it moves

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fast, but it's also like a bunch of extra mechanics

00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:09.119
that I'm like, I'm not interested in that. And

00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:10.579
then I was like, well, I'm going to try Overwatch

00:20:10.579 --> 00:20:14.740
and see how this works. And. I was like, it does

00:20:14.740 --> 00:20:19.559
move pretty slow. I'm decent at it. But again,

00:20:19.660 --> 00:20:22.539
it's like I would much rather play Unreal Tournament.

00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:27.200
And I have the discs like I have Unreal Tournament

00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.859
2004. I have the original Unreal Tournament and

00:20:30.859 --> 00:20:35.519
I have Unreal Tournament three. All of which

00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.980
I bought the games to and. Right. Again. you

00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:42.200
cannot get it you cannot get it on steam you

00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:44.240
cannot get it on anything like a few years ago

00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.039
they had it on steam but all of the like it's

00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:49.200
completely disappeared from the face of the internet

00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.880
like you cannot get it and so the only way you

00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.359
could logistically get it at this point is illegally

00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.440
and unless you happen to come across a used disc

00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.420
somewhere or you had a console that had it and

00:21:05.859 --> 00:21:08.500
So this is this is again, this will come into

00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:13.259
play later, too, but. That's why it's better

00:21:13.259 --> 00:21:18.119
to own the stuff. Yep. Rather than depending

00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:20.980
on these services that will, you know, I give

00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:23.140
it, I take it away. You will own nothing and

00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:27.920
be happy about it. Yep. Kind of like the the

00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:35.119
other. Clip from. From Instagram about, you know.

00:21:35.529 --> 00:21:37.509
where we have to have a subscription for everything

00:21:37.509 --> 00:21:40.789
you know have it for the computer have it for

00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:42.630
microsoft have it you know you have to have a

00:21:42.630 --> 00:21:45.309
microsoft to use microsoft windows now you have

00:21:45.309 --> 00:21:47.349
to have a subscription to use word you have to

00:21:47.349 --> 00:21:50.029
have a subscription to use you know literally

00:21:50.029 --> 00:21:54.950
everything it's like and then they and you know

00:21:54.950 --> 00:21:56.849
and then microsoft of course is bundling like

00:21:56.849 --> 00:22:01.950
copilot like it's like don't you need your ai

00:22:01.950 --> 00:22:06.420
drug dealer no like it's like dude i don't need

00:22:06.420 --> 00:22:10.259
ai and notepad it's like i literally didn't ask

00:22:10.259 --> 00:22:15.279
for they they completely redid notepad so it's

00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:20.720
got tabs now it will it it tells you off oh it

00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.980
gets better uh it's got spell checking it now

00:22:23.980 --> 00:22:27.920
which i'm like okay whatever that's fine yeah

00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:31.259
they've got the little microsoft cog thing so

00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:33.759
you can change the theme you can you know you

00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.660
can open a new tab you can have when notepad

00:22:38.660 --> 00:22:40.859
starts continue previous session or start new

00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:43.119
session discard changes you can have it open

00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:45.759
recent files you can have a spell check and autocorrect

00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.859
you can also have copilot turned on which they

00:22:49.859 --> 00:22:53.680
found out that people were able to use copilot

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:58.660
to exploit parts of windows Because most of it's,

00:22:58.660 --> 00:23:03.460
you know, written with Copilot. I used a power

00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:06.119
plug in like a PowerShell plug in to essentially

00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:12.319
neuter. Windows of all AI capabilities. Unless

00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:17.140
I specifically put them on my computer. Oh, wow.

00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:25.210
So like I know notepad no longer has AI. Most

00:23:25.210 --> 00:23:27.289
of my computer does not because it also runs.

00:23:27.950 --> 00:23:30.849
But yeah, this this video was was nuts because

00:23:30.849 --> 00:23:33.549
it's like this. This chick was talking about,

00:23:33.589 --> 00:23:37.470
you know, the fact that. Yeah. You know, they're

00:23:37.470 --> 00:23:40.930
essentially forcing you. They're forcing you

00:23:40.930 --> 00:23:43.549
to pay for something that used to be for free.

00:23:43.630 --> 00:23:48.289
Like, OK, it wasn't technically free. I'm trying

00:23:48.289 --> 00:23:52.069
to think. OK, the last time I remember, this

00:23:52.069 --> 00:23:56.480
is how I'll frame this. The last time I remember

00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:01.200
something that I needed to buy to install on

00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:03.960
my computer that was software that I had to buy

00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:08.660
that I could own was Microsoft Office Suite 2007.

00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:14.960
Microsoft Word 2007. I still have the disk with

00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.109
the key. The CD and everything in my closet,

00:24:18.210 --> 00:24:22.430
Microsoft Word 2007. That's the last time I remember

00:24:22.430 --> 00:24:26.210
software I had to actually buy to install on

00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:35.210
my computer. Okay. So when, like, yeah, I just

00:24:35.210 --> 00:24:38.450
want to be able to buy that and install it. I

00:24:38.450 --> 00:24:41.150
don't want to have to pay. Why should I pay you?

00:24:42.150 --> 00:24:47.829
Like, that's a. costs that i put into my budget

00:24:47.829 --> 00:24:52.390
for my computer versus having to pay microsoft

00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:58.029
9 .99 a month or a hundred dollars a year or

00:24:58.029 --> 00:25:00.970
whatever it is for the rest of my life and the

00:25:00.970 --> 00:25:03.369
rest of my life at this point let's just be optimistic

00:25:03.369 --> 00:25:07.329
let's say i'm 46 now let's say i have another

00:25:07.329 --> 00:25:12.579
good 40 years left so 86 just Off the top of

00:25:12.579 --> 00:25:15.799
my head, maybe. I don't know. I'm just saying,

00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.420
folks, I really don't want to be spending. I

00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:21.160
really don't want to be paying Microsoft a hundred

00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:24.920
bucks a year for the next four. Really? Seriously?

00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:30.119
Like, let me buy something once or let me buy

00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:32.880
a lifetime license. What happened to that kind

00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:38.160
of stuff online for downloadable content? Like

00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:45.789
we used to be able to buy that. I'm going to

00:25:45.789 --> 00:25:49.430
start cursing again and I don't want to. Yeah.

00:25:49.549 --> 00:25:53.950
The stuff's just infuriating. They nickel and

00:25:53.950 --> 00:25:55.930
dime you to death and it's going to kill us.

00:25:56.269 --> 00:26:00.369
The software stuff is going to kill us financially.

00:26:01.710 --> 00:26:11.670
It just is. Nope. I agree with you. annoying

00:26:11.670 --> 00:26:18.549
so then yes there's there's also the other the

00:26:18.549 --> 00:26:24.690
other one about ign which you sent me yes that's

00:26:24.690 --> 00:26:30.150
yeah like yeah i know how she feels we went to

00:26:30.150 --> 00:26:33.609
war with them 15 years ago technically we're

00:26:33.609 --> 00:26:38.579
still at war no no all right no We we defeated

00:26:38.579 --> 00:26:41.859
them 15 years ago. I know. And we keep showing

00:26:41.859 --> 00:26:49.740
them. That's right. So, yeah, I yeah, they essentially

00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:55.779
was talking about. They're they'll give crappy

00:26:55.779 --> 00:26:59.180
reviews to games they didn't even play. Yeah,

00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:07.069
so. Entertainment, entertainment. Idiot Gaming

00:27:07.069 --> 00:27:12.849
Network is what it should stand for. Yeah. So

00:27:12.849 --> 00:27:16.150
I threw a pot shot in the same comment. Because,

00:27:16.150 --> 00:27:22.650
you know, Steve is feeling petty. Yes. That's

00:27:22.650 --> 00:27:26.849
why in 2011 I was like, that's why in 2011 we

00:27:26.849 --> 00:27:28.970
started our top 100 animated series countdown

00:27:28.970 --> 00:27:31.589
to combat the crappy one from IGN. We're doing

00:27:31.589 --> 00:27:33.789
ours again because all they did was a facelift

00:27:33.789 --> 00:27:42.230
of the original pages. Yep. So, yeah. Yep, yep,

00:27:42.230 --> 00:27:46.029
yep. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, folks, you want to

00:27:46.029 --> 00:27:52.390
hear me go to war with people, just listen to

00:27:52.390 --> 00:27:57.130
all things Transformers, because in that episode

00:27:57.130 --> 00:28:00.950
recently, I talked about my war in a Facebook

00:28:00.950 --> 00:28:06.329
group that I'm not even a part of. Where I have

00:28:06.329 --> 00:28:11.990
to explain how USB and power works as a backup

00:28:11.990 --> 00:28:19.730
to batteries to somebody. Matrix of Leadership

00:28:19.730 --> 00:28:24.369
coming July. At least if you pre -order on Amazon.

00:28:25.250 --> 00:28:32.369
In July. Matrixes grow there. Yes, yes, yes.

00:28:32.730 --> 00:28:38.339
Yes, yes. So. Jumping into some more bullcrap.

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:46.319
We have YouTube having added hurdles for ad blockers.

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:50.579
Yes. With it being the largest video and entertainment

00:28:50.579 --> 00:28:54.680
platform in the world, it can be maddening if

00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:58.220
YouTube doesn't work the way it should. Something

00:28:58.220 --> 00:29:02.660
similar is happening now with scores of yawning.

00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.599
facing issues with the platform, and from what

00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:09.619
it looks like, this might be intentional. Over

00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:13.980
the past few days, the YouTube subreddit has

00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:19.559
been colored with several reports via whatever

00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:25.460
website that is, of YouTube blocking comments.

00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:30.920
Based on these reports, users see a message stating,

00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:34.279
Comments are turned off, which appears across

00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.319
a wide range of videos. This issue appears to

00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:44.059
be widespread as dozens corroborate facing it.

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:49.720
Furthermore, it appears beyond comments, as YouTube

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.339
has also been blocking video options for some

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:56.960
users. In addition to Reddit, some reports can

00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.599
be tracked across platforms such as Twitter.

00:30:01.210 --> 00:30:04.309
The issue may also affect YouTube premium users

00:30:04.309 --> 00:30:08.049
using ad blockers, which can be very frustrating.

00:30:10.049 --> 00:30:12.990
Based on users' comments, this appears to be

00:30:12.990 --> 00:30:16.329
YouTube's latest crusade against users skipping

00:30:16.329 --> 00:30:20.869
ads without paying as the common root cause in

00:30:20.869 --> 00:30:24.349
each of these cases is using ad blockers, in

00:30:24.349 --> 00:30:28.430
some cases people using browsers that come with

00:30:28.430 --> 00:30:34.690
built -in blockers. Such as Brave have also reported

00:30:34.690 --> 00:30:47.130
similar issues. Okay. Here's the thing. If. If

00:30:47.130 --> 00:30:55.589
I am paying for YouTube premium. I'm probably

00:30:55.589 --> 00:30:59.369
not using an ad blocker, at least not on the

00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:02.869
YouTube website. I actually currently have my

00:31:02.869 --> 00:31:07.369
ad blocker turned off on YouTube website because

00:31:07.369 --> 00:31:11.930
I am currently paying for YouTube premium, which

00:31:11.930 --> 00:31:14.890
is more than fine. Because again, as I've stated

00:31:14.890 --> 00:31:18.329
multiple times on this show and other shows,

00:31:18.630 --> 00:31:23.410
if I can pay for ad free programming, I will

00:31:23.410 --> 00:31:28.630
because that's my ultimate goal. Is to not have

00:31:28.630 --> 00:31:35.109
to watch ads. Kind of thing. I understand YouTube

00:31:35.109 --> 00:31:40.589
wants to combat the ad blockers. I understand

00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:46.650
that. I get that. But. Damn. How they're doing

00:31:46.650 --> 00:31:50.049
it is crazy. Because taking away the comments

00:31:50.049 --> 00:32:00.200
or. Not. Wow. That's weird. Well, and it's also

00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:05.960
entertaining, too, because. Brave is like constantly

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:15.500
put a needle on X. Like, oh, you're. They're

00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:20.200
like. Cute, you know, they're like, you can use

00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:29.240
this brave and get around it. Yeah. I, it's,

00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:34.259
it's entertaining to me. Yeah. It's, it's all

00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:41.119
crazy to me. I don't know. And yeah, it just,

00:32:41.339 --> 00:32:45.839
it's just crazy. And the funny thing is, uh,

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:50.740
this month, February was the first, and this

00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:53.480
is cool. This is the bringing this story up now

00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.970
is actually interesting to me because. I actually

00:32:58.970 --> 00:33:03.990
avoided YouTube on my computer and on my TV.

00:33:04.589 --> 00:33:08.910
For the last, before February, January, and December,

00:33:09.150 --> 00:33:14.490
I didn't have YouTube Premium. So you know what?

00:33:14.569 --> 00:33:17.789
I avoided watching it on my computer and my TV

00:33:17.789 --> 00:33:23.390
because I knew my computer had the ad blockers.

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.799
MIT obviously doesn't, and I just don't want

00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:32.680
to deal with ads. However, I was watching it

00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:36.180
on when I was watching streams from the chaos

00:33:36.180 --> 00:33:38.799
queen and all that crew and everything else,

00:33:38.819 --> 00:33:41.759
watching them do their gaming streaming and everything

00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:47.839
else. And man, let me tell you, I forgot what

00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:56.049
a wild, wild West. Oh. that pop their video but

00:33:56.049 --> 00:34:04.670
oh my god the wild wild west of two and how many

00:34:04.670 --> 00:34:10.710
ads youtube serves up to the free users whether

00:34:10.710 --> 00:34:16.909
they're skippable ads or not yikes i'm glad i

00:34:16.909 --> 00:34:24.590
pay for premium i to be honest i haven't seen

00:34:24.590 --> 00:34:28.250
ads in forever well i know and that's fine because

00:34:28.250 --> 00:34:31.929
you use i understand that but like i'm not putting

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:35.269
an ad blocker on my phone like i'm just not like

00:34:35.269 --> 00:34:39.449
i'm not doing on my phone but but that's my point

00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:41.250
though like i because i wasn't watching it on

00:34:41.250 --> 00:34:43.010
my computer and i wasn't watching it on my tv

00:34:43.010 --> 00:34:46.789
i was watching it on my phone like free youtube

00:34:46.789 --> 00:34:52.559
on my phone like just like if i didn't have an

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:55.079
ad blocker on my because the ad blocker on my

00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:58.800
computer is for every other friggin website it's

00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.559
for every news website that wants to pop up before

00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:06.219
i can see a news article it's it's for that kind

00:35:06.219 --> 00:35:09.619
of stuff it's not necessarily for youtube because

00:35:09.619 --> 00:35:11.739
as i already said i normally would pay youtube

00:35:11.739 --> 00:35:17.429
anyway but like yeah just Wow. It was, it was

00:35:17.429 --> 00:35:21.610
a crazy wild, wild West of advertisements. It

00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:26.289
was nuts. Um, but yeah, but, uh, but yeah, so

00:35:26.289 --> 00:35:29.690
YouTube is going to crack down on the ad blockers.

00:35:31.590 --> 00:35:33.829
It'll be interesting to see how well that goes

00:35:33.829 --> 00:35:38.769
with, with that front. Yep. I, I get entertained

00:35:38.769 --> 00:35:42.789
by it. So yeah, we all get entertained by it.

00:35:44.010 --> 00:35:48.809
And then the other day, February, well, this

00:35:48.809 --> 00:35:52.829
news story was posted February 18th, but as of

00:35:52.829 --> 00:35:56.210
this recording, February 17th, 2026, YouTube

00:35:56.210 --> 00:35:59.929
crashed hard. Like, you're going to talk about

00:35:59.929 --> 00:36:03.909
a hard, I hate this fucking phrase. YouTube had

00:36:03.909 --> 00:36:07.019
a hard crash out. YouTube says issue resolved

00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:09.760
after more than a quarter million users report

00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:13.219
problems accessing website and app, including

00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:17.199
me. YouTube has announced that all of its platforms

00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:19.880
are back to normal after more than a quarter

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.239
million users reported issues accessing the social

00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:26.179
media site. Is YouTube really a social media

00:36:26.179 --> 00:36:31.860
site? It's a video site. It's a video entertainment

00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:34.489
website. It's not a social media site. Whatever.

00:36:34.590 --> 00:36:38.449
Anyway, around 350 ,000 users reported issues

00:36:38.449 --> 00:36:41.889
accessing YouTube on Tuesday evening from 8 p

00:36:41.889 --> 00:36:48.889
.m. Eastern time. According to site down detector,

00:36:49.289 --> 00:36:52.869
most commonly reported problem was users saying

00:36:52.869 --> 00:36:56.110
they had issues using the YouTube app, which

00:36:56.110 --> 00:36:59.369
is true. I can verify this. The main page would

00:36:59.369 --> 00:37:05.130
not load my for you page. The subscription page

00:37:05.130 --> 00:37:08.349
thing would not load. My own YouTube channel

00:37:08.349 --> 00:37:13.329
page would not load. By around 10 p .m., YouTube

00:37:13.329 --> 00:37:16.269
confirmed the issue has been fixed across its

00:37:16.269 --> 00:37:18.929
platforms. The issue with our recommendation

00:37:18.929 --> 00:37:23.289
system has been resolved, and all of our platforms,

00:37:23.630 --> 00:37:27.610
the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, TV, etc.,

00:37:27.610 --> 00:37:30.670
are back to normal. They really are bearing with

00:37:30.670 --> 00:37:33.440
us while we sorted this out. A statement on the

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:37.860
YouTube help page reads, Before the fix was announced,

00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.780
YouTube said it was working to resolve a small

00:37:40.780 --> 00:37:43.619
number of reports that some people are unable

00:37:43.619 --> 00:37:47.719
to log into YouTube TV. This is related to the

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:50.179
broader issue across YouTube, and we are also

00:37:50.179 --> 00:37:53.579
working on a fix here, YouTube said. YouTube

00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:56.659
initially confirmed the outage in a post on Twitter.

00:37:57.449 --> 00:37:59.690
If you're having trouble accessing YouTube right

00:37:59.690 --> 00:38:02.690
now, you're not alone. Earlier Tuesday, the video

00:38:02.690 --> 00:38:05.989
service homepage returned to an error message

00:38:05.989 --> 00:38:09.050
when an independent reporter tried to use it,

00:38:09.050 --> 00:38:12.110
though individual videos appear to still be loading

00:38:12.110 --> 00:38:17.869
and playing properly. The issues on YouTube quickly

00:38:17.869 --> 00:38:20.929
inspired jokes online. YouTube gaming creator

00:38:20.929 --> 00:38:25.329
Parrot Mode wrote on X. that YouTubers were now

00:38:25.329 --> 00:38:28.590
writing 45 -minute scripts about the great YouTube

00:38:28.590 --> 00:38:33.670
outage of 2026. Oh, Lord, here we go. But they

00:38:33.670 --> 00:38:37.650
didn't say what the actual issue was. Like, they

00:38:37.650 --> 00:38:40.510
just said the issue was resolved. Like, we had

00:38:40.510 --> 00:38:45.269
an outage, we fixed it. It would cause the actual

00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:50.010
outage. Like, YouTube isn't a cable company.

00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:54.679
YouTube can't cite a downed cable line or a cable

00:38:54.679 --> 00:39:00.860
line got cut or a bolt of lightning hit a YouTube

00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:06.320
poll or something. Like they could have said

00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.699
one of our servers exploded or something like

00:39:09.699 --> 00:39:13.699
one of our, our, I don't know. Am I looking for

00:39:13.699 --> 00:39:17.960
here? Well, our server farms exploded or something.

00:39:18.139 --> 00:39:20.360
I don't know, whatever. But anyway, it's fixed.

00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:23.320
It's back. But yeah, that was a crazy two hours.

00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:29.539
Was it crazy to like. On YouTube, like every

00:39:29.539 --> 00:39:31.880
feed was like, oh, my God, what am I going to

00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:34.559
do now? I'm like, go watch Netflix, go watch

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:39.719
HBO Max, go watch Disney Plus. Like there's other

00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:46.239
video services out there. No, people just started

00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:51.059
freaking out. Yeah, well, you know, YouTube's

00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:57.000
the new internet. Technically, YouTube's the

00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:05.099
old internet. It is. Yep. But yeah, that's all

00:40:05.099 --> 00:40:10.619
I got. Well, then there is Tubi. Oh, yeah, that's

00:40:10.619 --> 00:40:12.239
right. The Tubi story. I forgot about the Tubi

00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:20.059
story. Yep. Yep. So Tubi has recently collected

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all of Cartoon Network and their brother's programs

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and they'll be coming to their platform in March.

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So following the Looney Tunes success on Tubi,

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:40.159
they decided, hey, let's pick up everything else.

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:47.440
Since Warner Brothers hates cartoons. So they

00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.780
have Animaniacs coming, Powerpuff Girls, The

00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:53.099
Batman, Pinky and the Brain, Justice League,

00:40:53.420 --> 00:40:56.280
a lot of the Cartoon Network stuff, Brave and

00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:59.440
the Bold, Batman, The Mask, animated series.

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.039
Basically a lot of the stuff that's going to

00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:11.659
be in our top 100. Yep, pretty much. There's

00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:14.719
a ton of stuff like Beware of the Batman, Beetlejuice,

00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:18.079
Captain Planet, Cow and Chicken, Duck Dodgers,

00:41:18.219 --> 00:41:21.500
Dumb and Dumber, the animated series, Flintstones,

00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:24.480
Freakazoid, Hong Kong Phooey, Justice League

00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.000
Action. Now that's one that, no seriously, that's

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:31.460
one we need to spend a little bit of time on

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:34.579
really quick because having Justice League Action

00:41:34.579 --> 00:41:38.940
on Tubi, I don't think there's ever been a place.

00:41:39.910 --> 00:41:43.269
Ever in the history of streaming where Justice

00:41:43.269 --> 00:41:47.010
League action has been able to shine. It got

00:41:47.010 --> 00:41:53.889
its. It. Leases for Cartoon Network where it

00:41:53.889 --> 00:41:58.070
aired the proper season episodes and stuff, but

00:41:58.070 --> 00:42:00.710
it's never gotten a streaming home where you've

00:42:00.710 --> 00:42:03.909
been able to see all of the episodes. So that's

00:42:03.909 --> 00:42:07.289
a big deal to me. That's a very big deal. Having

00:42:07.289 --> 00:42:10.559
Justice League action. On Tubi. That's awesome.

00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:16.260
So they got that, a pup named Scooby -Doo. Mystery

00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:24.019
Incorporated. They've also got Ghost of Scooby

00:42:24.019 --> 00:42:28.980
-Doo, Heathcliff, New Adventures of Batman, Tiny

00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:34.199
Toons, Tom and Jerry, Top Cat, Yogi Bear, Wanky

00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:38.429
Races, all that stuff. there's there's a massive

00:42:38.429 --> 00:42:45.949
list more than what the cbr article has and it's

00:42:45.949 --> 00:42:52.150
i i'm super excited for this because one i watch

00:42:52.150 --> 00:42:55.690
well i i watch i watch a lot of stuff on 2b anyway

00:42:55.690 --> 00:43:03.630
yep 2b rocks so i'm super excited for this uh

00:43:03.630 --> 00:43:07.420
for this to come down the pipe There's so many

00:43:07.420 --> 00:43:12.159
old cartoons that desperately needed the time

00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:17.119
of day that we're getting finally. Absolutely.

00:43:17.619 --> 00:43:20.880
Yeah, I know. Tubi rocks. Tubi's amazing. And

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.179
it's free. Even with the ads that they have,

00:43:24.300 --> 00:43:27.320
it's still free. Like, I don't mind watching

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.579
ads on Tubi. Like, would I love to be able to

00:43:30.579 --> 00:43:34.019
pay for Tubi? Yes. But because they don't offer

00:43:34.019 --> 00:43:41.349
that at all. Like, okay, sure. Fine. Great. Awesome.

00:43:41.929 --> 00:43:44.670
You know, so cool. Like I don't mind throwing

00:43:44.670 --> 00:43:49.329
to be up on my 55 inch flat screen TV. Like I've

00:43:49.329 --> 00:43:53.130
done that several times. Uh, and just awesome.

00:43:53.429 --> 00:43:56.289
So cool. Can't wait for all that stuff to get

00:43:56.289 --> 00:43:59.630
added March 1st and, and further on down the

00:43:59.630 --> 00:44:05.789
line. So fun. So awesome. Before we go, since

00:44:05.789 --> 00:44:08.070
most of this, since a good majority of this stuff

00:44:08.070 --> 00:44:11.730
is Warner Brothers stuff and whatever else. I

00:44:11.730 --> 00:44:19.369
am so sick of Warner Brothers. Paramount. Whatever.

00:44:21.769 --> 00:44:24.949
Somebody make a mother flipping deal already

00:44:24.949 --> 00:44:28.130
and just be done with it. I don't care who gets

00:44:28.130 --> 00:44:31.170
it. I don't care where it goes. It could be.

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.860
charlie the tuna from chicken of the sea that

00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:39.239
buys freaking paramount at this point somebody

00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.860
just make a deal behind closed doors don't tell

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:48.860
us until deal is freaking done every day yeah

00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:52.699
just do it exactly just like nike just do it

00:44:52.699 --> 00:44:57.900
hell sign parent really serious give them a couple

00:44:57.900 --> 00:45:01.199
of paramount nike jordans or something and just

00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:04.000
Have the shoe company buy the streaming company

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.480
or something. Like, seriously, just get it done

00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:11.980
already and do it. Just do it. Just do it. Like,

00:45:11.980 --> 00:45:16.760
seriously, stop posting about this thing. Let

00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:21.260
them freaking do it already. Like, there are

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:23.559
two complaints I have about two different social

00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:27.030
media platforms right now. Number one is Instagram,

00:45:27.250 --> 00:45:29.630
and number one is that every time I open Instagram,

00:45:30.010 --> 00:45:35.230
the first thing I see is advertisements. I don't

00:45:35.230 --> 00:45:39.010
mind advertisements on Instagram. I know that's

00:45:39.010 --> 00:45:41.349
the thing. That's what's going to happen. But

00:45:41.349 --> 00:45:44.530
does the first post I see have to be an advertisement?

00:45:45.190 --> 00:45:49.110
Really? The first post? Couldn't the first post

00:45:49.110 --> 00:45:50.929
be something that you've posted or something

00:45:50.929 --> 00:45:53.150
that Geekcast Radio has posted or something that...

00:45:53.530 --> 00:45:56.670
Anyone else that I follow post. And then like

00:45:56.670 --> 00:45:59.429
the next post being add that, like when I scroll

00:45:59.429 --> 00:46:03.090
down, that's the one complaint. The other complaint

00:46:03.090 --> 00:46:08.590
is X because every time I open X, the first post

00:46:08.590 --> 00:46:14.730
I see is, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, discussing

00:46:14.730 --> 00:46:19.360
film, but it's you. It's your fault because it's

00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:23.119
you posting constant news about this stupid freaking

00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:27.340
news story. Because apparently you need more

00:46:27.340 --> 00:46:31.480
views on your Twitter profile. Warner Brothers,

00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.579
Paramount, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Netflix,

00:46:36.179 --> 00:46:40.400
this, that, and the other thing, everything else.

00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:43.989
It's like they won't let this story die. Like,

00:46:44.010 --> 00:46:47.449
is there really that much new news about this

00:46:47.449 --> 00:46:51.590
thing? Like, don't like, I feel like this has

00:46:51.590 --> 00:46:54.030
turned into a revenge of the freaking fallen.

00:46:54.570 --> 00:46:57.650
It's transformers revenge of the fallen filming

00:46:57.650 --> 00:47:01.750
location stories at this point. No, don't stop.

00:47:01.989 --> 00:47:04.449
Knock it off. Okay. I'll get off my soapbox now.

00:47:05.730 --> 00:47:11.889
So yeah, that's hopefully we have a resolution

00:47:11.889 --> 00:47:17.760
to that soon. but yeah anyway figure out which

00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:23.820
new app we have to subscribe to no kidding you

00:47:23.820 --> 00:47:29.440
know it's true yeah so anyways guys thank you

00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:31.940
as always for listening to altered geek we've

00:47:31.940 --> 00:47:35.119
been steve megatron and tf2 and mike and of course

00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.500
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00:47:38.500 --> 00:47:41.610
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00:47:41.610 --> 00:47:44.349
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