I just Found it kind of funny as a pretty vivid gamer, when he said ”i use this program called steam”. Just sounds kind of funny. Of course i Would say the same thing If i talked to someone very unfamiliar with games. But it just sound funny cause its sort of like saying ”Oh, i use this site called Facebook to chat with my friends from time to time”.
backblaze sure seems cool. it's just a shame that my country has some of the worst internet infrastructure in the developed world and trying to upload my terabyte backup drive would take almost a month, assuming i called up my internet company and asked them to switch the up and down lines and nobody in the household downloaded anything in all that time. Looks like it's tape drives for me.
Rip yea I assume you living somewhere like aus I have the same issues due to infrastructure not being available. Unrelated but curious, ur name does that incite fear into ur enemies? It seems quite overwhelming :P. Also do you play overwatch or something I swear I've seen this username around on some gaming platform on pc.....? It can't be that common right?
BTW Brady, if you don't happen to come from a country that has visa free travel to Australia the system there is no better than India. One of the questions is "Have you *ever* been granted a visa to visit *any other country*"! Not just the lat 10 years but for your entire life! If you're someone who needs a visa for Australia you probably need one for most places so this ends up being a long list, of course they ten only give you 500 words to describe all your previous visas...
You know what the worst thing about popcorn is? You don't even have to smell it, or be thinking about it, you just need someone to say it. Someone just mentions popcorn and *steps into pantry* the next thing you know *sticks bag in microwave* you've already got a bowl ready and you're eating it. *looks down* Crap.
I play a game called spintires while watching these podcasts. It's basically "Euro truck simulator: soviet bloc edition", and brady's comment at the end genuinely left me stumped as to why i play it when it simulates something that somebody else probably hates doing as a job.
I think the reason why games stop being interesting in an instant is a moment of semi-conscious realization. Once you solve enough of the mysteries of the system, the system becomes clear, the illusion of communication breaks, and no surprise remains. The question is solved. And so it is revealed that the process was repetitive all allong, and it will be repetitive from now on.
Omg this is the first time that I've seen a new hello internet episode on my youtube feed before i've seen it in my podcasts app. Can't believe youtube finally caught up!
Omigosh - Myst was probably the 3rd or 4th computer game I ever played. The first one was ski-free, then solitaire, then Riven (because my dad was playing), and then Myst. Such nostalgia!!
I like RU-vid being caught up with iTunes. It means I can give Grey and Brady RU-vid red pennies and in-podcast ad revenue, which is about all a nerd without any money of her own for patreon or merch can do to support these two awesome dudes.
The episode in which Grey shows he has not heard of dietary fibre and Brady forgets that not all popcorn is popped using air and that oily popcorn is very unhealthy.
never have I ever felt some one else had the exact same reaction to their first computer as I did. until I heard grey talk about his first reaction. it was like the exact same everything.
as someone who is part of pointless bureaucracy. once every two or three years someone does indeed come and look through all the paperwork just to give you a fine for the one or two you're missing
I think I can one-up you on the English story: I had to take an exam proving competence in English... in order to study in the Netherlands. And I had to pay something like €50 for it.
That Donkey Kong skill is probably why you liked playing it. Pattern recognition and stuff is what makes playing video games fun. Your brain learns and that gives you pleasure. Maybe you even went into Math because of this, and since you kept practicing similar skills now it was very easy. So you are looking for new skills to learn otherwise it's boring. You should REALLY try VR with the vive and room scale. It's potentially great for exercise as well, a game like hover junker where you duck and shoot or something like audioshield where you move to music are amazing and probably a great cardio workout. The future gamer will be fit and trim :) BTW World Of Warcraft was at one time mentioned as something a bit like the golf for new business elite.
I can relate to that dumb language test Grey. I've lived in France for a long time and did my school there, but have a german passport. When applying for entry into university there, I would've had to pass a test proving I could speak german BECAUSE I'm a german national. Because of EU laws, a french doing the same application wouldnt need that test. The reason I got to skip it was a foreign language mark I had from my french school, which I know was completely worthless to evaluate my actual skill. On my return to France a few years later to continue studying at a french university, I went through the hilarious process where EVERY student has to now pass a french exam, no matter your grades in school. So yep, every french student has to pass an exam in french to enter uni. (this second thing isnt entirely due to horrendous bureaucracy, but nvm the details, still odd and silly).
I hate online job applications where there's not a red asterisk next to middle name so I don't enter my middle name then when I go to the next page it stops me and asks if I have a middle name and when I say yes it asks me what my middle name is. Just put the asterisk there and I'll put it in.
I had trouble finding a download link for this one through the site, had to load the RSS feed and ctrl+F 59 just to find it. Normally there is a direct link. For anyone else with that problem it's traffic.libsyn.com/hellointernet/59.mp3
I was surprised when I found out I liked watching Starcraft tournaments because I have never liked watching American football or basketball and never understood why everyone else did
I think the question is or isn't that we have or don't have free will I think the real question is. how much free will do humans have? not everything a person does is driven by logical decision there is emotional decision and there are instinctual and then there are rational these can be further broken down. for example I was walking and need to cross the street I looked all 3 ways and I registered that there was no incoming cars, but cars that come from the street that are diagonal to where I am standing could cross I had looked, but it only took a 1-2 seconds for my body to completely paralyze the moment that it happened I didn't understand what was going on and the moment felt like eternity, but it only took a seconds to realize that a pick up truck was mm away from my nose and the ruck had not seen me at all. if my body didn't paralyze at that instant and I had taken that other step I would have ended up in front of that truck or at least had a crippled leg. free will to me is something we have a percentage of and there are many variable that control what we do how we do it. The reason ppl build kingdoms and empires is the same reason most ppl do what they do they want protection, strength, wealth when you have so many neighboring countries vying for resources they are bound to duke it out as Europeans have done for hundreds of years. ounce a kingdom is established it's just a bigger tribe like a sports team everyone in that kingdom will root for their team. humans do have freewill, but they also have presets that programmed into our DNA that makes us very predictable at times like a pre programmed computer.
I love how Grey was talking about the different Genres of video games. People tend to always place the tag as like grey was describing, COD or battlefield or whatever. I personally play a game called Europa Universalis. It's a "Grand Strategy" game that i would label as very "Un game" like. I guess people just love being Ignorant.
I was really enjoying the background until I noticed that it's just a 10 sec loop and never changes the same boxes pop up in the same places and go across the screen in the same way every time every 10 sec.... I'm very sad now :(
Brady, I don't think you understand how bad children are at video games. It's not really uncommon to play a "difficult" game from your childhood 10 years later and beat it with ease with no practice in between.
I'm very late to the discussion, but I'd say it should be pronounced "val-et-ing". "Valet" is a French word, so it doesn't naturally lend itself to an -ing suffix, but if you're gonna use the word, you either have to follow English rules or French rules. In English, you would pronounce the T, and in French a consonant surrounded by vowels will always be voiced. Yes, the T in valet is silent, but once you add a suffix, it becomes voiced. Either way, the T will be voiced. Btw, a good rule of thumb for French: never voice an unaccented letter at the end of a word.
I stopped playing games at 17, I still like games but I can't bring myself to play them, I get sorto bored or frustrated after 20 min and that's it. And I don't know whay that is, it isn't time thing and I don't think it is growing up ting, I just find it kinda mingles, jet I watch ''let's plays'' on youtube.
I don't think it was about resources, I think it was about vastly different opinions on Christianity that led to a technology arms race, add in the Renaissance, and they just had more motivations to win that other cultures didn't have. Meso-America didn't have die hard versions of the same religion that had to prove their version of that religion was right. China and India had different religions, and the few people that had the same religion weren't violently opposed to other people's version of their religion. Now the Christians were VERY heavily invested in their national version of who Jesus was backing. Resources? Nah. Motivation is key. Africa didn't have different versions of the same religion, fighting over who had it right. There was no arms race there. The idea that they HAD to be right was central to their belief in the afterlife. They were obsessive compulsive with forcing everyone else around them to admit it. Maybe it had to do with that religion and its strong desire to convert others to their cause. Maybe that is a reason why religions that aren't completely obsessed with conversion of foreigners will eventually die out. Survival of the most active? The most neutral religions will say nothing, the most vocal will slowly gain followers. Is that a prediction? More of an acknowledgement of history. It's a pity this is a dead thread. Nobody is going to read this.
