way to start the stream oh man I say hi and then I how's it going everyone I'm obviously Nathan Robid Jansen Nintendo Prime you guys know the drill at this point if you're watching this channel of the stream or if it's the first time you've ever seen my channel of streams videos welcome we got you know we always start off our streams or I try to by saying hi to people in the chat it's hard to say hi to everyone and on some streams but I think it'll be a little easier today in the chat right now we got Christopher Lockhart Han Solo username password sweet life of Dio Brando the wet one Brian C is here as well hi I'm Henry and I'm sure others that might pop in along the way we got link gaming here as well so I'll try to show people out as we go we'll see there's some things I want to address this morning morning picked me up bang oh my gosh it's like a miracle in a can having candy apple crisp never had the flavor before is what it is we got Joy C Johnson here Bryson the EV is here so I want to address we're gonna stop by I was talking about some cyberpunk 2077 and no folks I haven't played the game yet I'm not avoiding the game it's just a cash money situation I knew at the time when I bought Phoenix Rising Immortals Phoenix Rising that I either was going to be buying Immortals Phoenix Rising or cyberpunk I couldn't afford both this month that's just the way it is I have other obligations it's the holidays other things I need to spend my money on so I knew that I could only get a single game this month and I chose Immortals because I am impatient and can't wait so it is what it is I actually don't regret my purchase at all I really enjoy Immortals Phoenix Rising I bought the switch version it's all good but yeah I am going to get cyberpunk 2077 as soon as I can afford to which will be sometime in January or February so yeah well we'll dive into impressions and live streams and all that jazz about that game specifically over on Twitch where we'll be live streaming the game but we'll do you know secondhand videos here about it months later especially after major patches land here but what I want to talk about is why I haven't really been talking about this game now you might think well you're a Nintendo Prime why would you talk about it well because I talk about other games as well and this is one of the largest releases of the year maybe one of the largest releases of the last generation of systems and obviously one of the biggest for the new generation of systems which is a very short-lived generation so far unless you consider that switch is technically based on Nintendo's release schedule part of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X generation maybe I'll make a video on that sometime where I just repeat the same points for 10 minutes because I don't know what else to do but that's why the video hasn't come to an end to existence because it's like a 30 second video but I think that cyber point 2077 is probably one of the best games of this of the of this generation of last gen of current gen of just gaming in general you know it has a 90 plus on Metacritic or 91 or whatever it is that's great I think there is a point to Metacritic grannies I think there's a point to reviews and review scores but I also think that there's a point you know that you kind of reach a point before a game comes out before reviews even land if you know if you're interested in a game or not and if you're not interested in cyber point 2077 no review or score is going to make you interested so reviews have a purpose they grant greater insight if there's something you were hoping to see or if you wanted to wait and see you know you wanted to know if the game was super buggy at launch that's something that you know might make you want to wait to purchase the game or spend money on it later when maybe it goes down in price okay fine I think there is a purpose to reviews for sales reasons and Metacritic ratings I'm not one of those people that's anti Metacritic and thinks it's like the devil I think the way that video game companies you utilize it is cyber point 2077's original bonuses were built around having a 90 plus Metacritic rating they have since backed on that but a lot of companies based bonuses on Metacritic ratings which I think is just a ridiculous thing to base bonuses on because that means that game could sell 80 million copies but because they got an 89 on Metacritic instead of a 90 nobody got bonuses except for obviously the top execs that is bullshit so should be based on game sales and success rather than based on ratings but that's just my opinion obviously feel free to disagree but Johnny Silverhands here so when we're talking about cyber point 2077 there a huge reason I've been avoiding talking about the game that much beyond I mentioned a brief little thing like at the end of a video about sales where it's selling extremely well no surprise and then obviously I talked about crunch in the past is because since those crunch videos I was very vehemently against crunch I was very vehemently you know chastising CD project red and I have since had my eyes opened a little bit on that along with other issues I think on the internet sometimes we could fall down rabbit holes and when you go down certain rabbit holes it's really hard to dig out and see other perspectives and see other sides of things as an example you might not even be aware but apparently there's this big controversy around transphobia in cyber point 2077 and we'll get into that in a little bit but first I'm gonna focus on the crunch aspect and I was opened up I was opened up to alternative perspectives on crunch because a certain member who wanted to be unnamed sent me a video they sent me a video that just went up yesterday by David Jaff for those who don't know who David Jaff is he has worked on the twisted metal series and he has been a director for the God of War series so he has been in the triple A industry for 20 plus years and I warn you he's pretty crass and pretty blunt in the video it's on his own YouTube channel which has hardly any subscriber 16,000 subs you know for someone who's so you know important in the industry he's obviously not you know focusing his life on YouTube but he decided to speak out on video game crunch in the title of his video if I I'll link it in the chat right now the title of his video is called video game crunch all gamers fault so he's basically blaming gamers for video game crunch existing and we all know that obviously you know if you buy the game you support crunch but it's it's not just about buying the game it's what we're demanding of triple A games so he basically goes on to say that all great things are haven't made with crunch if you think about it over the years you know when iPhone was invented you think that happened without crunch when PCs were invented you think that happened you think the Industrial Revolution happened without people working hundreds and hundreds of hours of overtime every like major advancement in society has happened through the use of either slave labor or treating people like slave labor even if they're compensated well it's just come through people working excessive amount of hours forced or unforced that's just the way society has always advanced and this is because a majority of the world works in a capitalist mindset meaning that all we care about is amassing wealth and through greed holding on to our wealth as much as possible right that is how a majority of the world works and that is what drives you know forced overtime and crunch and and slave labor it's all driven by greed capitalism grabbing wealth and being afraid of letting it go because we're all afraid to live a life with no money we're all afraid of what happens if we live paycheck to paycheck and we lose our job some of us have experienced that not a good feeling some of us go homeless live on the streets and never get out of that rut even so this is something that we all fear so once you start to make money you have a fear of what happens if I stop making that kind of money so then you'll work the crunch you'll do whatever it needs to do to keep amassing wealth even if it ends up being something where you lose your wife right she leaves you or something it sucks no one should have to work so many hours that they're going to lose their family but it's also a choice you make you can make a different choice work a lesser job in it just go to a company and be their computer their computer guy nine to five and some cubicle somewhere or you just are answering people's tech questions about why they can't access their damn Gmail accounts even though their Gmail accounts aren't even located on Google servers they might be located on the local server and all they really need to do is just turn it on and off again close their browser you know completely crows chrome down reopen look it all works again clear their cash look at all works you these simplistic things that you don't really you didn't really go to college for a degree to do your degree will help you get these cheaper nine-to-five jobs that give you all that freedom give you your vacation time when you want to take your vacation time give you that nine-to-five we barely ever have to work overtime and you can have all that time but it ends up being a choice that you make he says most game developers when you get into AAA development already know what they're getting into before they take the job but you he said it's impossible to be hired by CD Project Red and be hired by Naughty Dog and not be at least aware from somebody somewhere if not when you get hired other employees will tell you that there is going to be a ton of crunch that you're going to be working a ton of overtime and if it's not for you leave and they don't now some do and I've talked about how oh yeah there's lots of employees that do leave but then they just leave and go to other companies that do the same thing it's interesting because not because I think that overtime and forced overtime is okay but I think it's something that we as a community don't fully understand because we don't always live into it I've been told as a software developer which I am I'm literally in college as a software developer I've been told by my peers I've been told by my teachers I've been told that job fairs I've been told that code camps that guess what don't be a software developer if you don't like overtime it doesn't matter where you are it does the people always say oh if you're a software developer you don't have to work in the video game industry if you don't like crunch you can't be a software developer if you don't like crunch if you're actually going to actively be writing code and being a developer or a problem solver or whatever you end up being in the industry you're going to be working overtime you're going to be working a lot of overtime you're going to lose weekends you're going to lose holidays it happens now you might be able to rise up to a certain point where you get to senior level or beyond and then at that point you'll be able to take some time off when you want to take time off you know my dad is an example he's a CTO of a company he's like the top you can go but you know just a ring below CEO even he has to work long hours some weeks other weeks he could take like the whole week off and it's great and he for the most part take holidays off and write his own hours but there's some weeks that he's going to be working 100 hour weeks even at that high position but he does have more flexibility because of what he's worked himself up to but everyone below him oh absolutely they're working OT they're working crunch that's just part of the industry you know David Gerard or Dylan Gerard in the chat says hey i'm a software developer it doesn't always happen but i've had to work after hours or weekends in the past it sucks when it comes to the territory that's what they say you can find jobs that aren't as bad about it because you're mostly just maintaining software right so like if you work on a large team at say like minards right i don't know if you guys know what that is it's a a retail that i'm not sure if it's national or not anyway let's say walmart right you let's use walmart because walmart's everywhere so say you get hired as a software developer at walmart all right most of what you're going to be doing in that position is maintaining already existing applications you're not going to be writing too many they already have mobile apps they already have web apps they already have a web store you're most of what you're doing is going to be maintaining problem solving error checking um all that jazz uh you're not going to be talking to customers or any of that stuff you're just going to be dealing with things that already exist and chances are you're probably not really going to be working overtime because they have a a team of hundreds of developers that they just keep available 24 7 for all these issues and you know you end up being able to work in a cozy 9 to 5 for the most part doing stuff like that but it's also not a job that has really any advancement you're just you get hired the job is what it is you're never going to move beyond your position and you just accept it again it's like another low level it job you're just if you choose that for that kind of work you are fine but there are people that want to make more money they want to buy their yachts right they want to have a cabin out in the woods they want to be able to take lavish vacations to hawaii or whatever the case might be you know every year or every other year or so they want to be able to enjoy some of the finer things in life it requires you taking on jobs that are likely going to have um are likely going to have overtime likely going to have um and this isn't just to software development by the way but this is just what i'm saying in terms of crunch with with developers and games that it's kind of part of the territory and you are warned about this at least i'm being warned about it in college that hey you want to advance you want to make the good money you're going to be working a ton of hours at some point maybe not right away out the gate maybe it will be right away out the gate you know maybe it's just a seasonal overtime thing whatever the case might be your chances are you're going to be working that uh and because of java jav having 20 years of experience and me having very limited experience in software development um it really opens your eyes a little bit you know i encourage you guys to go watch the video uh again i'll i'll relink it in the chat uh it's it's a nice short system video he does drop a couple square words in there uh but basically it's capitalism's fault and we're all part of the capitalism machine and as such you can either be someone who fence you basically you can't fence it on this you're either someone who is all against overtime and against this crunch stuff and you absolutely should stop buying the game stop supporting the games and start you know trying to get certain politicians in power to do something about it differently or just enjoy the the byproducts of all this stuff be critical of some of the issues with it whether it's bugs you know which cyberpoint 2077 does have a lot of bugs uh be critical of that stuff when you're reviewing it or all that jazz but like basically don't try to have your cake and eat it to where you're going to bitch about crunch but then make money off the game by reviewing it like just don't do that you know you're basically just supporting the crunch culture while bitching about the crunch culture it doesn't make any sense he doesn't point out to youtubers very often for this but he just pointed like a taku and polygon which we all know we'll call the we'll call the kettle black and then actually be the kettle at the same time and he also says it's funny too because you'll you'll hear you'll see all that's like a taku bitch about crunch but then uh you don't see them bitching about the fact that they crunched their own employees every e3 where where where are the complaints from the employees you know i'm sure they're just working standard nine to fives during e3 right they're not possibly waking up at three in the morning uh and then not being able to go to bed until midnight the next night because they were literally working from three in the morning until then as media playing games doing interviews waiting in lines all that jazz they're totally not doing like crunch doesn't happen in other industries over time isn't a thing that exists beyond software development of course it is and they don't bitch about that because people know what they're getting into if you get a game journalism job you know during e3 you're working crazy hours you know it just like software developers know if you work at a triple a studio you are getting crunched some studios are worse than others but you're going to be getting crunched and you know it don't like it yeah you can go work a different profession or you can go get a lower ring job somewhere else where you're just going to do basic it and not have to deal with much of that bullshit you're also not going to be making much money either so i'm not saying the companies are perfect i know philip brings up they could also stop giving a crap about quarterly earnings and just worry about yearly earnings like normal people then they would just release a game when it's ready it's not let me put it this way philip because obviously i'm taking this as your your way of saying oh they could just wait forever to make the game this is about yearly earnings it so happens that there's a certain quarter of the year that most of the company's yearly earnings come in hello consumerism they make a consumer product consumer products are primarily bought during the third quarter or fourth quarter here in the us third quarter for japanese companies so it just so happens that you know most consumer goods are bought during a certain period so if you're in a field of making a consumer good that's the quarter that matters the most so you could talk about how you know don't worry about quarterly earnings just worry worry about yearly earnings but let's say you're a company that's sinking 100 million a year into game development every year that game doesn't release is a sunk cost year so you can look at it as just care about yearly earnings okay well negative 100 million this year okay negative 100 million next year negative 100 million the year after that what at what point do we just release the game like you're you're you're looking at this as oh because the company's doing okay okay yeah the company the company's doing okay because it's relying on the backdrop of like witcher sales or something but witcher sales are dwindling witcher sales aren't aren't making up for it is the company in the red every year no but is the company in the massively in the green either no because they have a sunk cost with this massive game being made this is this is every this isn't just cyberpunk by the way this is like every triple a developer you're like just worry just worry about you know no they have other things to worry about okay like not having a game be in development hell for 10 years not having you know a billion dollar game so we need to be more understanding I suppose of the industry itself and if you want it to change there's two things to do bitching on the internet's not going to get it done just David Jeff makes it very clear bitching on the internet solves nothing it makes you feel good it makes you able to pat yourself on the back because you bitched but it doesn't actually change anything you want to change that culture don't buy the games get the people in charge of politics that can change the way our system currently works not unionizing because unionizing is going to lead to jobs going overseas David Jeff talks about that everyone says just unionize ask other industries that have dealt with unionization it just leads the loss of jobs in the industry in america it just makes them go to other countries to get to get cheaper labor it doesn't deal with actually fixing things here it just makes companies go find another way to get it done for even cheaper than probably what they're already paying here and then once they realize they could get it done cheaper elsewhere they just don't come back they just keep outsourcing because they can because in other countries that cheaper labor the money might be worth more there so that cheaper labor to them in those countries is actually a lot of money so that's why unionizing isn't like the the answer to everything at all times and he and he points us out because he's like I've been in the industry 20 years come at me with facts don't come at me with idea ideological ideas of what you think will solve the problem without presenting any evidence of that of that actually working Philip says I'm not saying that they could take forever well yes the main earning is by march but if you hear the meeting uh or quarter it is they always focus on what's being done well that's that's normal Philip like you can't just check in on a game once per year investors want to know where their money is going all year long and so a good time to check in is every quarter that's just normal business like if I if I buy let's say I buy I don't know 50 million dollars I'm an investor I have a lot of money right I won the lottery and I put 50 million dollars into CD project red buying a 50 million dollars with the stock a lot of stock I'm gonna want to know every quarter where the hell my money's going how's it being spent what is becoming of my investment in your company I'm gonna want to know I don't want to invest 50 million dollars and only hear one yearly report I want to know every quarter along the way what's going on I want to see the expense sheet I want to know where the money's going I want to know when I can expect to return on my money we're looking at this as consumers and not looking at this as hey an investor has a shitload of money invested in this they want to know what the fuck is happening with their money we can't just sit back and get mad at the investors all the time because they want to know where the hell their money is going you would too if you were them if you took a huge chunk of money and put it into a company you want to know what the fuck is going on too you don't want to sit there and oh yep I'll hear in a year that all my money's gone and my share is now worth five cents when I bought it at freaking five hundred dollars a share like you don't want to hear that you want to know what's happening along the way so that's completely normal that there's a focus on quarterly earning reports that's that's at every company literally every company is like that the reason you don't hear about it at like you work at mcdonald's is because you or your job flipping burgers which I'm not trying to insult mcdonald's workers I work there in my mid 20s for like three years it's it's whatever do what you gotta do to pay the jobs till they pay the bills no problem there's lifers at mcdonald's no problem with that if that's what you're happy doing but you're not going to be worrying about quarterly reports you don't even worry about yearly reports at those positions because they don't really affect you you just get paid x amount of money per hour you request a raise every year you either get the raise or you don't get the raise and you move on with your day so it's just and by the way waffles 115 you know so the game doesn't even let that go graphic wise I thought it would look better so how long they took that you're kind of disappointed about it have you seen it on pc have you seen pc ultra footage of this game the lighting engine even without ray tracing on is so impressive in this game you would swear it has ray tracing on at all times even without ray tracing and to understand how complicated lighting systems can be that lighting system alone is one of the most impressive lighting systems ever seen in a game this side of ray tracing and even ray tracing adding ray tracing turning it on in the game you can hardly notice the difference in most situations there's a few that you can kind of see some indoor scenes with candles in particular but the lighting is insane the visuals are absolutely insane heck did you know that there is so many different character walking animations in here that the world can actually feel like you're like out in the middle of new york sometimes because you know no two people really walk the same it's insane the amount of work that's in cyberpunk it's not just about the visuals like in terms of the graphic fidelity of the game it's about the AI right it's about all the elements in the world I mean heck there are some neon signs that are like kind of like flashing like in real life when the neon's kind of going going out in the signs you know sometimes it's a purposeful effect but you know you got the like that's just the way the lighting bounces off that is just not how it works in other games because it's just so intensive to do it but cyberpunks doing it because they don't care and it's the design of the world of course um that's a big issue with the western stock market so shareholder system it's not just western it's capitalism it's capitalism it's not a western problem if you guys think this doesn't happen in japan let me let me tell you something nintendo is one of the worst crunch companies in the world and we never talk about it nintendo employees at kaito and nintendo japan regularly work 80 hour work weeks just normally they don't even call it crunch that's just what you work why why do we not talk about that here why do we not talk about that in the west why do we just think the east doesn't have these issues because it's ingrained in their society they're supposed to work that way we think 40 hour work week that's what you're supposed to do europe thinks 40 hours is too much you should only be working 25 to 30 japan nope work is a source of honor a source of pride you do it as much as possible period families understand it the workplaces understand it everyone understands it free times of luxury you should be working nintendo has insane crunch but they don't call it that because their employees are like master hero sakurai we all know how hard that guy works right not technically an official nintendo employee anymore even though he works on smash the guy is in the middle of a pandemic working from home you think from one iota he's working less hours now than he was when he was in studio when he's consistently delivering us new characters consistently in the middle of a pandemic pumping out new characters as if nothing has changed how do you think that's happening you think it's because he's working less hours because he's working at home or is it possible he's still pushing 80 hours a week and that's just him at the top imagine what the people underneath him are doing but it's not considered a problem in japan it's not considered a problem in the east because it's just expected you're supposed to work that now you could say you know as novus talks that's pretty effed up when you think about it but is it who are we to who are we to tell people how they should spend their life if you grow up in a culture where most of your life is is being told or your you grew up where you're expected for most of your life to be work and they're happy doing it who are we to tell them sorry you should work less because you'll have a better work life balance and more happiness when they grew up in a culture where happiness is work does Miyamoto look like he's unhappy does Aji Inoma and I'm just saying names that we know publicly because we're not going to know the developers but do they look unhappy does Mashihiro Sakurai look unhappy do these people look unhappy they don't even complain even when the Sakurai in an interview will bring up you know his wrist issues and hand issues like he's just bringing it up and passing during a conversation he's not bringing it up as a complaint that he wants to work less these people enjoy it who are we to tell them how to spend their life and how to enjoy but um you know if Phillip brings up that Japan uh doesn't allow their shareholders to push them around hell they wanted to make mario run have micro transactions to make mario jump higher and then tell them that f up and tando did not tell them that f up if you don't think Japanese companies pay attention to their shareholders and their desires you are wrong you're focusing on nintendo too much here's the thing a majority of nintendo is owned by nintendo nobody can tell nintendo what to do because nintendo owns a majority of their own shares there's only one family that has more shares in nintendo than nintendo themselves and that family is the founding family of nintendo so wow who would know the founding family of nintendo is typically gonna side with nintendo on any of these shareholder things and so when you have the founding family which owns a majority of shares and then you have nintendo which owns the second majority of shares and you combine their voting powers together no other investor can tell nintendo what to do because they don't have the power in the shareholder meetings to do so so don't think don't think that Japanese companies don't pay attention to their shareholders and try to deliver shareholders expectations they absolutely do you think konami is the way it is today because the shareholders didn't get a say absolutely not nintendo is just smarter they were smarter in how they bought how they control their own stock basically they did it in a way where they can't be bought out so no one can just buy nintendo and no one can tell nintendo what to do this was set up intentionally by the founding family of nintendo they set up nintendo in this way uh so no one else could do hostile takeovers and tell nintendo what to do nintendo is a very big outlier to most companies most companies do not own a majority of their own stock now their employees might enjoy own a majority of their own stock like if you look at things like woodmines i don't know if you guys know that it's a grocery store chain it's owned by the employees because you get stock as employees so basically the employees own a majority of woodmines there are situations like that but most of these big multi-billion-dollar businesses of course the shareholders get a say majority shareholders especially get a say it's just that nintendo's majority shareholders are themselves and then the family that founded them now if the family that founded them makes the demand of nintendo of course they're going to listen other shareholders yeah they'll give you your dividends you know they'll tell you when you're gonna get your dividends they'll do their financial meetings and they'll tell you how the company's doing even notice that all these financial briefs they do a recorder what do they do they tell you they give out a full spreadsheet of all of the financials because that's they have to do that that's like a requirement of being a publicly traded company you have to have your financials public now they don't have to show their tax return filings publicly but um joce johnson i still don't agree with consistent crunch but i do agree as gamers uh we can be a little greedy i think of developers gave us a few more updates and gamers were a little more patient we could find a middle ground and part of the problem too is gamers is that we demand more of our games than we ever have in the past the amount of time it takes to make the legend of zelda on nes versus the time it makes the make breath of the freaking wild it's astronomically different the size of the teams required are astronomically different we demand more of our games than we ever have in the past what do we think happens when we keep demanding more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more we just keep demanding more out of our triple a games oh we want madden as an example oh we want madden franchise mode and madden to make major advances every single year we want madden to to revolutionize like next year is the first true next gen madden game we want it to be freaking amazing but they have a year to make it how do you think they're going to pull that off how do you think that would happen if they pulled it off with insane crunch for hundreds if not thousands of employees the more we demand the more crunch there's going to be now this isn't everyone of course but it's true i think we can let's see it's true the expectations we put on triple a games are insanely high and i'm not saying they shouldn't be insanely high i'm not saying that we shouldn't be insanely critical but i'm saying that we need to understand the other side of being insanely critical and being insanely demanding of these games it supports crunch to do so because that's the only way the games are going to be made right you might say well they could just take extra years no they can't they can't just go to investors and say hey we need even more money because we need another five years they can't do that nintendo can sure because nintendo is just telling themselves that but other companies can't most companies aren't majority owned by themselves so they can't do that true in the west true in the east true everywhere bottom line is i don't like forced overtime in any profession but but when you talk to actual game developers when you talk to directors of course when you talk to people within the industry they know what this industry is and they for the most part don't really want it to change and why don't they want it to change because of the benefits they get of the job the great healthcare they get the great bonuses they get the pay they get plus they enjoy it some people legitimately just want to work those long hours at the end of the day it's only going to change if society changes and i'm not talking about us buying the games although that's part of the society it's about getting politicians in place david jaff really lays it out perfectly what has to happen we have to get politicians in place which we're never going to get enough of them that care about it in place but we need to get politicians in place that are going to pass policies that do something about this beyond that that isn't a unionization thing things like social work programs so he points out he has a developer buddy out in france right was working at a major company maybe it was ubi soft i think he even said he thinks it was ubi soft he was working at a major major company out in france he quit his job he just quit he was tired of the crunch so he quit well instead of quitting and just being boned french law requires that the parent company that you quit pays your full salary up to an extra year after you leave the company so for one whole year 12 months after you quit you weren't even laid off you quit your job you still get your full salary for an entire year paid out to you like you normally would over that year during that year his buddy crunched like a mofo on his own game at the end of that year he found someone who was willing to publish that game and now he's a relatively successful indie developer making his own hours and doing whatever he wants this happened because of a social work program in place in france that allowed people to quit their jobs that have this kind of ot still get paid enough time to figure out what's next kind of like a year-long severance package in a way forced by the government imagine that if you worked at all these companies in the united states ea um gearbox wherever whatever company you work for you know 343 whatever company 2k right doesn't matter rockstar whatever AAA company you're working at you had an option at any point to quit get paid for an entire year after quitting with no pressure to find a job in that year by the way it's just no strings attached that company has to pay your salary for the next year while you figure out what's next how much more independent games do you think the how much more efforts like i don't know the company that play tonic games that came came together make ukulele would happen how many people would be like hey look we're sick of this crunch environment how about all of us quit ea form our own studio while we're still getting paid and make a game but the programs don't exist for and you might think that kind of program shouldn't exist and that's fine i'm not here to tell you that kind of program it's just an example of a program that exists that promotes people's and a if you don't want to work in that kind of culture you can get out of it and have a year to figure your shit out to figure out what's next for you whether it's going back to school whether it's changing professions or whether it's taking a lower level job somewhere else or whatever the case might be working on your own projects is a year to figure out your your life to figure out what you want to do next without punishing you for deciding that you don't want to do forced overtime anymore and i don't know what you know there's there's more specifics to the law you know to what triggers it but you know you kind of get my point it's just an option we don't have anything like that in the united states closest we have is unemployment that you don't get if you quit if you quit your job you don't get unemployment you get unemployment if you get laid off and our unemployment pay pays a very state to state and if you're working a nice job making anywhere from 50 to 100 000 plus a year reality is unemployment per week is not going to cover what you would have made normally at your job so even though you and even unemployment you'll have these strict requirements for job searches and all that which is fine that's an unemployment program that's a you got fired program basically or you got laid off because the financial reasons program so like that's a different kind of social program versus hey i chose to quit my job uh john said how's my series x holding up for you everything's still working yeah dude i had no no problem since i took it apart you wouldn't even know i'm missing a screw uh and no problems with the liquid metal now this is just crunch i think i spent a long time talking about crunch here um get to some of the at replies here we got riley um riley fenstra saying everyone hides things saccharite could very well be struggling with the workload and just be hiding it just look at japan's home's population they refuse to ask for help um well he is struggling in in some health regard although he has he has said his health is doing better now but and he he did take some time off uh saccharite took some time off i was just like three years ago whatever saccharite took some time off because of his health and during that time off he he didn't even look at a computer apparently so he's he said this publicly himself so like they take time off nintendo gives you the the benefit of working at nintendo from what i mean and told from people that work there in japan is for all the hours you work everyone gets time off that you can take off whenever you want everyone gets holidays off outside of holidays outside of you know when you take your vacations you are expected to work really long hours that's kind of the like yep you work long hours but you can get vacation you can take time off you can this you can that so nintendo tends to treat their employees very well that's why most people they get hired at nintendo of japan are lifers they don't go anywhere because they get treated very well it's not as bad in the west where you might be forced to work those hours and you don't get holidays off and you can't take your vacation time when you want to take it if you get to take it at all while the games being developed philips says yes exactly this is a common thing in japan japanese company founders have safeguards in place to prevent them from losing control of their company not every company does that's not true of every company but it it's true of nintendo i think sony sony doesn't control a majority of their own shares but their two majority shareholders i think are intimately linked to sony and i don't think whatever vote against them but it's hard to know there's been major shifts as sony as well made because of the investors so it's it's hard to really understand that there's even investors at sony that are extremely concerned that they are reliant right now so heavily on the video game industry to stay afloat because without that insurance sony's in trouble um but they do have those and they're not in trouble right now so sony's kind of in a situation where it's trying to figure out how it can go back to diversifying revenue across everything uh they still make cameras they still do movies and stuff but you know they're not nearly as profitable as they once were so sony sony's kind of trying to figure out how to diversify nintendo tried to diversify with health products we haven't seen anything come of that yet um let's see here forced overtime dehumanizes people to machines in a way um it can it can i'm not going to sit here and and say the forced overtime doesn't kind of treat people like machines at times you know you're expecting especially like machines that could just be pushed harder and harder and still get really high in results when we know that working a certain amount of overtime over a certain amount of time eventually the quality of our work diminishes that's just what happens because we're humans and we're not machines and we wear out we wear out mentally we wear out physically we can't keep producing the same quality of work that we could you know at the it even say like say you work you know 16 hour shifts you're probably more productive at the beginning of your shift than you are at the end of your shift end of your shift you're so tired you're just trying to get through you're just looking at the clock you're waiting for to tick to the right hour and then you get the hell out if you can get out at all um but at the same point unless you signed up at a company that promised you there wouldn't be any crunch do research in your like i guess david jaff general message is like when you're looking at for a career research into your career before you go down your career path certain careers you're guaranteed to have overtime software developer which is what a lot of developers are in the video game industry they're that's why they're called developers they they're developing software they are writing lines of code they know they will be working forced overtime and being compensated for it at most companies there are some really really shitty companies out there that really crappy about how they pay people because of the contracts they could try to like force your overtime but not pay you more some of the salaries and some of the contracts you get really you get a really bad negotiated contract and you actually get forced to work like a hundred hour a week but you only get paid the same as you would if you were 20 hours that happens with salaries but sometimes the salaries only like 30 000 a year at that point you are being effed in the ass and you need to quit that job there are companies like that thankfully a majority of the major companies aren't like that anymore ea doesn't do that anymore ea now compensates and does bonuses and does a lot of great stuff for their employees people in general like working for ea i know we bitch about ea a lot rightfully so for some of their anti-consumer practices but they actually treat their employees really well like really really well they compensate them like we always talk about oh man the ceo is making how many hundreds of millions of dollars i'm like yeah but their employees are also making like oh yeah but the average employee i'm like yeah you're right the average employees only make an 80 000 a year they're fine they're making good money that's just their salaries doesn't include their bonuses doesn't include their health insurance benefits their gym memberships everything else they get as a perk for working there that's ea of course i just know this because i actually i know four developers at at at three different ea studios ea treats their employees like they're freaking royalty granted they have to work a lot but they're treated very well and cd project red for all intensive purposes also treats their employees pretty well doesn't mean that it doesn't suck when the year plus of crunch hits with AAA games which happens but they are at least treated really well um by the employee the the employee or the what has happened is ever since google you really have google to thank for the entry that the good treatment of employees so google is well known for how well they treat your employees when you're there um the rest pods the the free food and snacks and beverages that they just hey you work here you just get this for free you don't have to worry about breakfast lunch or dinner it's all free right here you're you're here working you get it for free you get great bonuses great hours wide open spaces parks you can walk in to kind of you know calm your mind all this right there on the google campus as they call it so like google started this this whole trend of when you come to work you might be expected to be here for a hell of a long time and work really really really hard but we're gonna try to make that experience as enjoyable as we can and a lot of these bigger AAA companies are starting to pick up on that we're starting to see less people shoving everyone into like my office space here you could probably fit you know if you push it you know a desk here a desk here i mean you could probably fit a dozen plus software developers in my office if i i get rid of some of the furniture rearrange things replace it with computer desks and stuff you could probably fit a dozen or so it'd be really cramped but you could fit probably a dozen developers in here but companies are starting to get away from that hurting everyone together into a room and starting to give employees a bit more space a bit more freedom a bit more downtime during their shifts more frequent breaks you know 10 15 minute breaks here and there whether it's to go have a smoke whether it's to just you know relax like companies are starting to take note that google has been getting more production out of their employees despite them working really long hours because they're allowed more frequent breaks and more relaxing environments but that's that is something that that is you know that's just now in like the last few years starting to permeate so i've been told into the AAA industry where they're starting to be like hey if we're going to keep requiring these long hours let's try to make the environment here more conductive to people being able to let their stress out relax and and you know do better not every company is like is there yet not even close but google set a really good standard for that to make work more enjoyable make it a better place you know that i'll i'll believe that work is finally hit that these these companies have finally hit google's level when we start to hear about daycares when they start to have onsite daycares that have the top tier care in the in the area that's offered to the employees for free that's when i'll know these companies have really hit google's level because that's what google does for their employees top tier onsite daycare even overnight daycare if you have to work an overnight with very comfortable beds and situations for the kids where it's like a slumber party it's awesome like yeah you don't want your kid to grow up there i'm just saying that like it's really cool that that's like a thing they offer and i'm really hoping that um you know AAA studios can get up to the point where hey look like you don't have to just leave the kids with your wife all the time take them to work see them on your breaks you know stuff like that when you can of course obviously school all that shit um let me see i would be gone and be able to create a real life in business not me my experience for any AAA game that's not nintendo has been in the gutter for ages now double a games are what AAA games should be the amount of money matches the super high quality so he brings this up as well david jaft to his credit brings it brings this up as well indie studios are crunching worse than anyone so say the double a industry which is basically indie studios okay you have five employees make a game they make that game in you know three four years or whatever it takes those three to five employees were working hundred dollar weeks every fucking week they chose to do it but they did it indie studios crunch horribly now there are some that don't right now one studio that's getting a lot of credit for what they've done is the studio that made hades so hades game you know game of the year material excellent indie game was made by 20 people and they touted that we have not had any crunch at all we did not crunch even one time that's what they claim i doubt any of those 20 employees would ever publicly say anything to go against that but they are publicly claiming anyways that we have not had any crunch and that's great that's awesome that's still not how a majority of indie games are made either like it's not just a triple a issue anything that people are passionate about they're going to spend an enormous amount of time doing it i'll give you another example youtubers i should know i tried to do youtube full time at one point let me tell you something when you commit to doing anything you're passionate about full time you ain't just working 40 hours a week when i was trying to do youtube full time my god 65 70 hour weeks minimum go ask any other youtuber that does it full time it's not just 40 hours a week if you're passionate and want to be successful at anything you're working lots of overtime that's just how it is ask anyone who's ever made it anywhere and been super successful at life if they've been able to do it without having to work overtime welcome to capitalism um all right that's enough about that man do we really have 182 people watching the stream oh the other thing i want to tell me cyberpunk um i'm gonna scroll down i'm just gonna kind of gloss over some uh some comments here um cori bone says does zeldin former pay you for a full year after they changed ownership i was put under a new contract when zeldin former was bought out so they didn't pay me for a full year to do nothing i worked there i was still editor-in-chief so the new owner paid me for a year to still be editor-in-chief it wasn't like a severance package or anything of that i was just a paid employee when that site was bought out um it's kind of too late for somebody to re-diversify all right uh microsoft is the one that started free food microsoft started that okay yeah i just know that google gets a lot of credit for it i was just i'm not i don't my in the industry this is just things i read in articles and stuff like that um the cubicle office set up is okay it still happens like uh what is it uh what's the one company minus um something education services they still put all their people in cubicles um in an office setting but it's not really that bad my dad used to work there it's it's not that bad i've been in there it's it's whatever you know a lot of call centers they still use cubicles call centers i have no reason to change from the cubicle environment you're just on the phone all day um let me see google's healthcare parents packages are insanely good oh yeah dude um i have heard so this is from a friend of someone who works at google but i've heard that their healthcare is insanely good like you could you could potentially like if you're if you're an employee that is making over 100k your uh healthcare package can include like lots of cosmetic surgery stuff like if i wanted to go instead of like working out to lose all this weight i could go and just have this all lipo doubt and a six pack put in on my healthcare program as long as i had a time off available for recovery their healthcare will cover it i wanted to pay a dime on a pocket like that's insane like i to me that shouldn't be covered but like i grew up with that that shouldn't even be part of health insurance right that's an optional cosmetic thing who cares that's how good their health care is they they they really take care of their employees even though they ask you to work in saying ours it's it's a really good precedent being set by these companies that all companies a lot of companies can afford to do what google's doing they just don't that's called reinvesting in your employees where you expect a lot from your employees but you give your employees a lot in return right that's like a more fair investment you're asking for 60 hour work weeks but in return you're delivering an unparalleled work environment with unparalleled you know benefits and it's up to you if it's worth it is the amount of hours you work worth it over you either spend more time at home or whatever you know the daycare thing is common in japan yeah that's it is very common to a lot of businesses offer daycare services some of them aren't i've heard some of them aren't the greatest but most of them are pretty good um what do i do uh full time instead of youtube i try not to talk about it much i'm i'm still not going to talk about it much if you watch some prior content you can kind of get a hint at what i do and i work from home that's why i can do youtube videos still during the day and do the stream in fact when i'm done with the stream i have to get to work then i have to do some college stuff it's gonna be a busy day um because i have a final due today in database uh database not a fan of database uh philips as well if a game is made by two people you can can you really call it crutch when they are their own bosses and they set their own goals and still crunch what is crunch crunch is just overtime it's another word for overtime what is overtime as defined in the united states overtime is any hours worked past what's considered a normal work week of 40 hours so if you work more than 40 hours you're working overtime and you're working crunch now you might not get paid overtime you might not get paid whatever especially when you own the business and you might be choosing to do it but philip i'm gonna throw this out there i know because i've done my research and i've talked to people i know me getting a degree in software development and going to become a software developer if i want to be successful i am going to work ot so think about it like this you're your own boss you set your own goals right which by the way most of these indie studios goals are set by the amount of money they got the goals are set we need to get this game out by this day or broke indie studios are even worse they have to rush games out even more because if they don't hit their deadline they are like just they're just boned they're out of money they lose their houses something about second third mortgages on their houses to pay for games it's insane don't act like it's like oh because of their own bosses it's different it's not they're working all those hours one there's a passion about it and two they have deadlines they have to hit or they're broke um but i know as a software developer i have to work overtime to get it to get ahead and i know it if i don't want to work that profession go do something else i can go be a doctor i could go be an electrician i could go do any other job that could pay me good money and not force overtime upon me but i know as a software developer it's going to be forced upon me so then why the hell do i choose software development because i enjoy it and some things are worth the sacrifices because you enjoy it so i know going into my profession i'm going to be working a lot of overtime it is what it is because i want to get ahead i don't want to just be stuck at some low level it job and again you can argue i shouldn't have to do that to get ahead that's a fair argument but capitalism until we stop living in a world that's driven by money is what it is uh joey cjohn says good point my writing takes up more time than my regular job love my job but it's a break from writing yeah see like people when they're passionate about something they don't care about working long hours but again it's a it's a tough situation like it's not exclusive to game development we focus on it because we're a video game channel but it's not exclusive um zooming on out of here later later cori um yeah the quality still ends up way better than most if not all modern a triple a games one that's a really subjective opinion philip two these indie games are being made like old school video games what i mean to say is there's not much to them let's let's take let me see let me take out um like take shovel night right why i'd be considered a great indie game do you honestly think it's difficult to make shovel night versus let's say cyberpunk is probably an extreme extreme comparison let's say um let's do something that's a more fair comparison super mario odyssey right at least it's a platforming game so do you think that shovel night takes the same amount of effort the same amount of work to make as a game like super mario odyssey both of them high quality games mean the answer is obviously no it takes a much larger team it takes a much more heavy a much heavier monetary investment by the parent company indie games are generally simplistic which is why there are so many gamers that don't treat indie games as being equal to triple a games because indie games are a lot more simplistic now there's outliers of course big outliers the original hellblade before it was bought by microsoft big outlier was still made by a team of like 60 people won't consider that your average indie studio and it was made by people with massive experiences making triple a games so literally 60 people who have a ton they don't know how to make a game not like a triple a game no there's a lot to them but they are forced more focused more on gameplay and actual art styles and some behind the scene graphic power see philip you are too stuck you are too stuck in the way of the consumer let me put it this way there is more work done and this is not an insult to any one in particular this is just the fact of the situation there's more work put in the breath of the wilds physics engine just the engine forget the rest of the game just the physics engine then there is in 95% of indie games and that's not a slight the indie games indie games are simplistic they're intentionally simplistic this isn't to say that they don't have effort put into it this isn't to say there's not original ideas but when you talk about focused more on gameplay and actual art style there's nothing indie games are doing from a gameplay perspective that hasn't already been done everything that are doing has been done in some form somewhere very few of them are offering truly new unique experiences and even the ones that do are just taking elements of other experiences and putting them together in a way we haven't seen before which is great but like we talk about actual art style you mean art styles that are simplistic that they're forced into because they can't afford to do anything else you don't think some of these indie studios if afforded the money wouldn't like to go more big budget with the art direction but they can't they can't afford to that's not a slight it's just they're simplistic sprite artwork is simplistic there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with enjoying i'm just the amount of effort it takes to create the entirety of the visual presentation of Hades versus a character modeler who's making like just one building in cyberpunk 2077 is completely different in terms of the amount of work it takes to do one versus the other it's not just about pushing graphic numbers developers don't give a shit about graphic numbers they don't care about 4k resolution they don't care about 1000 billion fps the game developers don't care about that they want it to play well they wanted to look nice they wanted to meet the marketing points but very few games hit those levels why don't games hit the 60 fps moniker more why don't they hit 100 why don't they hit true 4k they don't because that's not what the game developer themselves is focused on they're focused on detail they're focused on their preferred art direction and doing the best they can with it like when you talk about how you know better than the muddy looking models welcome to the world a lot of the art styles you're complaining about basically are the realistic art styles the realistic art styles of the world huge swaths of the world are just fucking brown if you go out not like out in nature like in a forest but just go out in like huge chunks of the world deserts grungy areas huge swaths of the world are just disgusting and brown everywhere that's the way the world actually is and so the art directions tend to if you're making that style of game tend to reflect that style of world cyberpunk its art direction is hyper realistic but also set within a kind of sci-fi-esque world that like you know combines the whole punk old school kind of stuff together with new school sci-fi technology and that's kind of the way that world in that art style is completely written and completely presented can you present that type of world in a different way with a different art style absolutely but that's not the that's not the direction that they went if that makes sense so as an example you say the art styles tend to look infinitely better than muddy looking model styles it looks like so basically taking yeah there's a lot of gray in cyberpunk as well because the world's meant to there's an overarching theme with cyberpunk but i don't want to get into that overarching theme until i play the game so i understand it better but but the point is that you cannot like those muddy looking textures and i'm just going to tell you what it looks like when a triple a gamer that plays exclusively triple games looks at an indie game you know what they see when they look at a majority of indie games not all of them but a majority of them you know like oh this looks better than the muddy you know what it says why do i want to play that old school looking shit is that fair no but is that how they really feel when they look at those games yeah it reminds them of games from the super nintendo which by the way fantastic system but people don't want to play that stuff anymore not at the same level not anymore but not at the same level that they want to play these triple a games last for this part two cyberpunk 2077 breath of the wild super mario odyssey pokemon you know even halo infinite when it comes out people want to swoop up and buy those games in the tens 20s 30s 40 plus million in sales gta 5 you know they want to swoop in and buy those games and insane numbers very few indie games are going to break a million in sales because customers look at those games and they go it's too simplistic for me i want something more complicated i want a 3d space you know think about how many indie games are not in a 3d space why are they not in a 3d space it's a lot more complicated to make a game in a 3d space than it is to make it in a 2d space this isn't about insulting indie games it's just literally easier to make an indie game than it is to make a triple a game this is like an undeniable fact you can prefer the art styles and think the the the triple a developer is a lazy or whatever the hell you want to think which by the way they're not lazy triple a developers are some of the least lazy people in the whole industry but getting to that in a different conversation now getting into the other parts of cyberpunk 2077 that have been stirring some controversy transphobia game is transphobic now i can't speak from personal experience i haven't played the game but i've seen the complaints i've seen the examples of the transphobia and then i've seen the counter arguments to the transphobia prime example of a great counter argument to the transphobia in the game is you can make your main character be trans male or female doesn't matter you can make a trans character as your playable character in the game it's one of the like maybe the only major triple a game in the entire world that lets you do that it's a pretty big feather in the we can't be transphobic when we let you be a trans character hat the reason that i am seeing people up in arms about transphobia in the game is because there are certain advertisements and depictions in the game that over sexualized trans people especially the genitalia areas right over sexualized it whether it's male or female it seems to be emphasized in this game however now that i've watched i'd say about four hours not a great sample but four hours of live streams of this game one thing i noticed one thing i noticed is everything is over sexualized in the game straight females straight males gay females gay males trans everything is over sexualized and everything has an emphasis on the private part areas for everything it's not just the trans thing everyone is over sexualized so in a way in my personal opinion as someone who is not trans i'm interested in trans people in terms of like dating them it's just not my cup of tea i'm sorry if people feel like that is transphobic to even say that it's a personal choice i'm just not into it it's fine if you don't care it's fine be who you want to be be the gender you want to be do what you need to do doesn't mean that i personally want to date someone who is that it's just a personal choice if you can't respect my personal choice then how can you if you can't respect my personal choice how can you expect me to respect your you know what you feel like you should be in life respect my choice i'll respect yours that's the way it is but everyone is sexualized in this game so in a way this game is more in my opinion as someone who's not trans but i've seen this opinion decided by actual trans people trans people are just being treated like everybody else i think the issue happening in this game why why some trans women and trans men are upset about about the game is because in today's society in this world we actually live in the only time we see trans people depicted is usually over sexualized whether it's in porn or whether it's in conversations around trans people there's always this focus on genitalia on do you have a dick do you have a vagina right there's this over emphasized point with trans people that like that's all they are they're boiling them down to genitalia that is a conversation that legitimately happens in the world we're in and i'm sure as a trans person it is super tiring to have your entire existence boiled down to a conversation around a private part i'm sure that absolutely sucks i'm sure the emphasis on it sucks i'm sure it feels degrading and is mentally exhausting i can just imagine if my entire existence when everyone talked to me about me that one they'd always talk about my gender and two they'd always ask me about my dick like that would suck if my entire existence as a human being was boiled down to what the hell is going on below the belt that would suck that would just suck so i understand the realities of the world that trans people are living in and how difficult it can be the way that they're always sexualized and we're not really looking at them as people as much as we're looking at them as sexual beings right which by the way obviously we over sexualized you know males and females and advertising and games and like we we all know that we sexualize things with with with people all the time whether you're gay straight or whatever but like the there's also conversations right now uh and advertisements and shows right now that go beyond all of that but when it comes to trans a lot of the focus in today's world is on what's going on below the belt whoops my alarm um so i gotta work meeting in 20 minutes uh so what's what's going on below the belt okay i get that so then what happens is they see a game like this which has advertisement and over the sexual sexualization of trans people and they go god damn it you're you're you're literally supporting the stereotype f this game piece of shit blah blah not realizing that in the context of the world and this is why context matters in the context of cyberpunk 2077 they're being treated like everybody else they're actually being treated as equals to everybody else who is also over sexualized in the game so then the complaint comes across as you're being you're complaining about in this world being treated the same as everyone else in this world you're over sexualized just like everyone else's which is what trans people always keep claiming they want they want to be accepted and treated like everybody else and in the world of cyberpunk they are treated like everybody else that's why you can make a trans character because you can be treated like everybody else you are treated like everybody else you don't have to like that treatment but then the complaint should just be you don't like the way that everyone's treated in this world and that's a that's a fine complaint to have the game isn't going to be there's a lot of nudity and nudity in the game there's a lot of over sexualization this isn't going to be for everyone and you can be against that that's fine be against games that that go down this route that's fine but i mean i've seen trans people defending the game left and right because they just think hey this is this we want to be treated as equals and this game is treating number one as equals you might not like that treatment but i think you know the complaints are just coming because of the way the world is today and how they treat them versus in this world where everyone is treated that way so uh there's other things you can complain about cyberpunk 20 so i've heard people talk about you know the way asians are depicted the way this and that i i don't know the only the only uh example i've seen throwing up on the asian thing is like a restaurant or like a restaurant it's like a little side place you can go to that serves asian food and um i don't know about you guys but like if i was making a game this is just i i can't you know i don't know the the experience of cd project red in my town we have three china or in my area it's not really just my town we have three china buffets we have hong kong is a restaurant we have um chopsticks and two other chinese slash asian slash japanese restaurants we also have a japanese uh place uh two japanese places in the mall for food every single one of them that i go to and i eat and this is in a small area this is even a city um all of them all the adults speak with an accent and speak with broken english at every single one now the children when they have teenagers working there they speak perfectly normal english you could tell they grew up in the us but the adults that work at these places all have broken english and accents because they weren't born and raised in the united states that's not a bad thing is it a stereotype absolutely but it's also one based in reality almost all stereotypes have a modicum of truth to them and so when like you encounter this asian person in the game and they're speaking in broken english with an asian accent and offering you asian foods what the hell did you expect it's like going to china town in new york and expecting them all this just speak like every other new yorker hey how's it going you want some pizza like they're not going to talk like that most of them did not grow up in the united states most of them are going to be speaking broken english that should be your expectation when you go to these places because that is what the real world experience of going to those places is like now that's not me saying that everyone's like that of course i just said the teenagers that people that grew up here you know they don't speak that way but we haven't come of age where those people are working at those restaurants and one thing i've discovered is that a lot of asian teens that i've seen growing into adults i grew i had well i had some in high school with me you know of age and descent they didn't want to work the jobs their parents did they're in business they're in finance they're working other career paths so we don't come across them in our everyday lives like we do say at a chinese restaurant a lot of these teens grow up not wanting to work in the restaurant industry so i don't know man like am i supposed to be upset that they're depicting you know an asian at an asian store at an asian shop like we experience them in real life i mean there's probably plenty of other you know asian npcs walking around in the world that don't really do anything that you can bump into and say hi to that don't talk that way they just don't have much else to say because they're just there to fill out the world but i i don't know man like i i i find it really really hard to like stick my flag in the ground on something like this when my experience in real real life tells me that's what i should be expecting i should expect that it would feel weird strangely to not have that happen no i wouldn't be like weirded out like oh yeah like that you know that's fake or something but it's like but that's my experience in real life when i go to these kind of restaurants i go to these kind of shops in china town in new york which i have been to twice like that's what the experience is like like i don't not all asians are that way not all you know people who come from mexico and spain speak you know broken spanglish when they're trying to speak english it's not true it's just it happens it doesn't have to be insulting like why why why is it insulting to depict something that actually happens in the real world that's what i don't understand why is it insulting why because there's some people that that make jokes about it sometimes you know there's people that that maybe that that maybe go like oh yeah oh yeah chuncha chunk like okay yeah that's a dick ass move especially when you're doing it trying to insult them but that's just immature people and you'll come to learn in life that like the more immature people are especially as adults the more you can just kind of ignore them they're not really worth being upset about you know immature people and act in that way aren't worth your time and aren't worth your concern you're not going to change them it's an issue we have with our daughter's biological dad so i have three kids two boys and a daughter our daughter's the oldest her birthdays this week whoo she turns 10 years old um i've been her i've been raising her for like nine and a half years it's the most of the life um but her biological dad he works hard um definitely works hard he works a lot of hours speaking of overtime i mean the guy works like 60 65 hour weeks so he works hard works a lot of forced overtime he's worked his way up the chain he went to college graduated with a business degree he's worked up his chain um he's making decent money not like great money i wouldn't say great but for the profession he's in he's making pretty good money that's good but outside of work he's very immature he talks to all of my kids like they're babies he acts like um how to how to describe it if i didn't know him and i met him i would think he's one of the stupidest people i've ever met because of how he acts he acts like a belligerent drunk without being drunk that's the best way to describe it he is a prime example of someone that i would describe as immature and if it wasn't for the impact he has on my daughter i wouldn't give a shit but i have to give a shit because of the impact he has on my daughter a lot of her her behavior issues are in part not not just because of him but in part because of how he behaves around her so in general when you meet people like that in life you'll quickly realize they're just not worth paying attention to as you get older when you're a kid when you're a teenager all of us are immature and act and do stupid things but as you mature and get older and start to realize yeah maybe that wasn't okay maybe when i when i used to you know go no no sue for you doing that quote from uh Seinfeld right you started to kind of realize yeah okay maybe like it's a meme it's certainly a meme because of the show but yeah i can kind of see why some people might get insulted by the accent and stuff like that like yeah okay maybe it's not quite as funny as it seemed at the time in the 90s like you you grow up and you you know gain maturity and we all can still be immature about something let me just be honest but it's not fun being a mature adult all the time i say this like it's not fun you we need to let loose we need to shoot the shit sometimes bullshit around you know be amazing fucking motherfuckers sometimes go out have some drinks let loose like we all need to have a certain level of immaturity in the right settings so we can have a little bit more enjoyment out of life just being super serious all the time sucks like some people i guess enjoy it but i i don't enjoy being super serious all the time but that comes also you know with an understanding of setting understanding of place understanding of crowd you know like if i'm going to tell a joke that i know would be offensive to some people but i know there's a certain group of my friends that are going to be okay with it maybe in certain settings i might crack that joke but i won't normally because i don't want to actually offend anyone and in that instance i'm not offending anyone but that's because it's the right time right place right people so um philips says it's all about a certain group of people who live in a magical bubble who think the world should be uh and what their world is is in their isolated bubble i mean a lot of people think that way gotta take care of our possibly damaged inner child kind of joy kind of joy so you got you got you all of us had that little inner yeah gotta let it out sometimes but right setting right place i i don't know i i think it's okay to have fun in life like when i'm going on my cruise like i'm going on a cruise next year first real vacation i've been on in like a decade since i had children haven't really been on a real vacation um like haven't left the state haven't done anything but camping um i'm going to be uh me and my fiance are going on a cruise next year at end of july so if you notice for like one week at the end of july next year that you know there's only like four videos that week they're probably videos i i made i had the time and scheduled out to go up i planned to have one up for every day but probably won't you don't see me commenting or live streaming it's because i'm going on a cruise i'm taking a real vacation it might kill my channel i have no idea um but when i'm on that on that on that vacation on that cruise yeah i'll probably let loose a little bit because it's just me it's just me and my my my woman shooting the shit having a good time relaxing getting massages going on beaches swimming with dolphins having some drinks at the nightclub on on the cruise like we're just having a good time with each other so you know i'll probably be letting loose a little bit there will i hold myself in at times depending on who i notice is around us of course i'm gonna try to be sensitive with the people around us but yeah it's it is what it is so i've been avoiding talking about cyberpunk 2077 on the channel because i've just been kind of worried about these certain facets of the internet uh whether it's the crunch whether it's the the transphobia or or whatever people want to want to claim about the game um i think i'm done worrying about that stuff for any game moving forward i think the focus of my channel and this is right into the future of nintendo prime my focus on this channel is going to be about the enjoyment of games it doesn't mean i won't be critical when i feel like i need to be a critical of a game company critical of a game i will be but i'm gonna start to avoid the criticisms that involve social issues unless that social issue directly affects me in a way um and you might say that's wrong that you know i should be a champion for social issues and there's a lot of channels to do you know jim sterling is a champion for social issues out there there's other channels that will do that i i don't really feel like making this channel that i don't think it's great for my mental health to worry about it i think i just want to make the content i want to make when i want to make it um and social issues just don't shouldn't be a deterrent to me to cover a game now if i if i review you know or or give impressions of 7.2077 someday and i'm talking about the bugs and all that sure and if there's something that happens in the game that does bother me maybe i'll talk about it but i'm a pretty easy going guy it's pretty hard to offend me it's pretty hard to um make me feel uneasy i mean heck i'm i'm literally watching you know like the final season of Hannibal the old that old Hannibal show from like 2013 um i'm in the final season of that it's about a serial killer you know who eats people like it's pretty hard to offend me it's pretty hard to um upset me about things so yeah uh novice talk says really ridiculous that a game that took 10 years is still really buggy honestly the fact that took 10 years is probably why there's so many bugs if you know anything about actual games and game making the longer the games in development the more bugs there's going to be not less so how triple a game development works in a nutshell everyone's not working on the same source file at the same time there's pods so yeah this is your design team this is your physics team this is your ai team this is your what team and they all make they're all working on their individual aspects of the game and then they throw those aspects together and when they're thrown together is when the bugs happen individually on their own they were probably bug free the physics engine when they're working on that in cyberpunk the team that works on that was probably completely bug free but then when it interacts with another part of the game suddenly there's bugs and there's a lot of them like the amount of bugs we're seeing now is probably a minuscule amount of bugs compared to the amount of bugs that that were in the game a year ago and you say well leave it cooking even longer sure and as they cook longer they decide oh we want to add more content we want to add more this we want to add more that because people are going to expect more of it because it's it because it's cooking longer which gives us more bugs like it's i'm not excusing the bugs i'm just understanding from a developer perspective why they exist all of us would like to be bug free and if we wait a few months it's probably going to be mostly bug free i think by the end of march i think in general we can expect the game to be mostly bug free you know the foxes ever went 2077 had every reason to succeed and no excuse to fail but was still a disappointment but it didn't fail it did succeed early indications are the game sold over 20 million copies during launch week that's a success they made back development and marketing costs in a single day that's a success that is a big success now are there issues absolutely and if you play on pc there's less issues apparently so the pc version even if on lower settings or higher setting for some reason the pc version has less has less issues um dark charges us eight years for a 20 to 40 hour game here comes here comes in that silly gamer expectation thing we expect more but then don't want to deal with the consequences of expecting more the game is much longer than 20 to 40 hours if you want to actually explore the world and do side quests there's like a 300 hour game here if you want to do everything that's in the game but if you just want to beat the story sure 20 to 40 hours like when you talk about you know eight years to rip up day of sex you want to complete you want to just complete the story in any game you could break it down to 10 20 15 30 hours if all you're focused on is just i want to see the start of the game and i want to see the end of the game you could rush through in any of those games and get them done in a in a small amount of time but if you actually it's an open world rpg there are hundreds of hours of side quests and things to do in this game like hundreds of hours of side quests i don't know what you expect it so it's like every other rpg you can rush from the beginning of skyrim to the end of skyrim in 20 30 40 hours but you're not you're going to do side quests platform models are are offering refunds especially sony of all companies is hard to call it well one sony to clarify sony offers refunds for every game under a certain time period what's different in this one is they're doing a special case digital refund because of faults like that's the wording is false with the game um yes i'm not defending that the game has issues it absolutely was not ready to go note at least at least on console maybe they could have did a pc launch first the pc bugs are very minimal totally expected to have a few bugs in a world like this the pc version looks like it's ready to go it looks like in my opinion that pc was the lead platform nothing wrong with that by the way pc can be the lead platform pc is one of the most viable gaming platforms in the world so it looks to me like pc was the lead platform everything else was ported the series x version seems to run best of all the console versions not a surprise there it is technically technologically the most powerful system so it probably has the least amount of issues from a tech perspective playstation 5 version is pretty good they have more bugs than pc both versions have more bugs than pc but let's be honest most of you guys don't own a playstation 5 or an xbox series x anyways so most of you guys are going to play this and most are only on a viable gaming pc so most of you guys are going to be playing on playstation 4 and xbox one and absolutely the playstation 4 and xbox one versions are a travesty they're horrible now review like when you look at the user reviews that's what's funny there when you look at the user reviews versus like people are like you know bombing this game because of how it's running on playstation 4 and xbox one people have to remember the media reviews did not review this game on a playstation 4 or xbox one they reviewed it on a pc they reviewed it on a series x or they reviewed it on the playstation 5 because they have access to those that's what the game was reviewed on none of these reviewers reviewed the game on a playstation 4 or an xbox one so when you look at how can this game have a 91 it's because it was reviewed on the platforms that it actually plays decently on it wasn't reviewed on the og systems that you guys actually have access to is that right i don't know i don't think there's no right or wrong there because there are people who do own xboxes like myself and playstation 5s but in gaming pcs it's kind of a it's kind of a you could tell at some point during development they stopped caring about xbox one and playstation 4 focused on pc down ported to series x uh and playstation 5 and xbox one and playstation 4 all at the same time and it just happened to run okay on the next gen ones so they just kind of didn't do much with it and now it's all fucked up on playstation 4 and xbox one hence why they can fix it like they they even noted in their update today they said hey we're gonna fix the issues we're gonna fix the issues in cyberpunk but but ah shit okay i got a couple minutes um they're gonna fix the issues but it's going to be a few months it lets you know that they pretty much didn't really work on the issues in the first place they saw how it ran on playstation 5 and xbox series x and said that's good enough let's launch that's good enough let's launch yeah that the brian said i've had very few issues because because there there isn't there like um pc is the best version least amount of problems series x has the second least amount of problems playstation 5 has a couple extra a couple glitches not that big a deal thank you brian see knock you out thank you for the the super chat appreciate it keeping keeping the super chat streak alive but yeah the playstation 4 and xbox one version clearly never got optimized and they're gonna have to fix it then they are gonna fix it but they promise in their fix it's not going to visually look better if you're trying to make the if you want the game to visually look like it did in the previews buy a gaming pc a series x or a playstation 5 you're not going to get that visual experience on xbox one and and whatever so like when i hear people say oh cyberpunk doesn't even look that good what are you playing it on oh you're playing it on a playstation 4 or an xbox one yeah it doesn't look good on those platforms it's never going to look good on those platforms the game's too ambitious the game is the proving ground why we need next gen it's too ambitious for those platforms this game is a a technological feat beyond red dib redemption 2 technological feat beyond anything else that has happened on these platforms now you can be like but the the series x and the playstation 5 they don't have next gen versions of the game they're just using backwards compatibility mode okay that's fine they still look way better on those platforms than they do on the og ones so take from that what you will backwards compatibility mode or not however they got it running on the system it runs better than it does on the other platforms and if you want the best of the best gaming pc gaming pc is the way to go usually for the best of the best of anything to be completely honest but especially this game where it looks like pc was the lead platform anyways i gotta go on um i got uh they're not gonna cancel last gen version enough people are gonna be okay with the way that i've seen people say that they're legitimately still enjoy it on playstation 4 and xbox one so they're not gonna recall it they're gonna patch it and just leave it at that it's still gonna sell incredibly well and it's still gonna be considered one of the best games of all time uh over the course of the next year as it gets patched and we get dlc and all that um that you guys were tuning in yeah it's got frame rate issues too got huge frame rate issues on on the old gen from what i've seen from what i've seen i don't know the full story can't talk from personal experience just videos i've seen yeah they put out they put out a statement and in the statement they pretty much said it's not gonna look visually better really but we're gonna do our best to like fix the bugs and make it run better but it's not going to visually look better thank you uh alex sander gentsy notores for subscribing also to whatever that really odd character one that's probably a different language i can't read for subscribing 12 minutes ago and personality disorder who has subscribed an hour ago thank you so much for all of you guys as subscriptions um thank you for the three dollar super chat as well you guys are awesome way more people turn it off for the stream than i expected but yeah i i if you guys want to see me stream cyber point 2077 be sure to follow me on twitch at twitch.tv slash nintendo prime tv the moment i get it for my series x i will be streaming it over on that channel i want to get a lot more game streams starting this week after today i got finals today i'm going to be doing more game streams the rest of this week though uh we will be playing some madden 21 maybe some nba 2k 21 we'll be playing some uh mortals phoenix rising we'll do a probably mario kardate deluxe tournament at some point uh we're going to have a lot of fun playing across multiple platforms that heck maybe i'll even re-up my uh world of warcraft subscription at some point we'll play a little we'll go level and play some world of warcraft shadowlands together because why not i play a wide swath of games on a wide variety of platforms so why not use my twitch channel to enjoy them all hopefully i catch you guys all over there and cyber point 2077 whenever i get a copy all right catch you guys later peace


I think the first time we met each other was around 20 years ago when you were still the chief of staff of then Senator Joe Biden, but you started your career as a lawyer. How come that most of your professional life you have devoted to the security and foreign policy of your country, the United States of America? Well, you know, Rob, I had the great experience of having been born in New York, drawing up actually outside of the United States from age 9 to 18 in Paris, in France. And when you have that experience, you learn to see your own country from and through the eyes of others. And you wind up spending a lot of time defending your country, but also thinking about it. It's great strengths as well as it's weaknesses. And I think that instilled in me a great interest in foreign policy and diplomacy and in thinking about how peoples from different nationalities, cultures, backgrounds can get along. And while I did do a number of different things, ultimately I wound up in government working on foreign policy. And I've done that until leaving the Obama administration for the last 25 years. Starting out with Bill Clinton, working then in the White House for him, going on to the United States Senate for the Foreign Relations Committee that Joe Biden was then the chairman of, and then finally the last eight years working for President Obama in one capacity or another. You know, we're all the product to some extent of our own stories, our own narratives, our own family histories. And in my case, I had many immediate relatives who were recent immigrants to the United States or even refugees. My father's father, my grandfather came here at the turn of the last century fleeing pogroms in Russia. He was welcomed into the United States and built a life and contributed. My stepmother fled communism in Hungary literally in the middle of the night as a young girl getting on a train with her mother, a sham marriage that allowed her to come to the United States, be welcomed by the United States, build a life here and contribute. And then finally my stepfather who passed away a year or so ago. He was one of 900 children in his hometown school in Bialystok, Poland, but the only one to survive. And he spent the war in all of the unfortunately infamous concentration camps, Dachau, Maidanek, Auschwitz, and at the very end of the war he was on a death march from one of the camps and he made a run for it in the Bavarian Forest and he made it to the woods and he hid out in the woods for a couple of days. And then he heard a rumbling sound and he looked out and instead of seeing the dreaded swastika he saw a five pointed white star and he ran for the white star on a tank and the hatch of the tank opened and an African American GI looked down at him and he got down on his knees and he said the only three words in English that he knew that his mother had taught him before the war, God bless America. And the GI picked him up, lifted him into the tank, into the United States in effect and into freedom. That's the country that I know. That's the country that I grew up learning about. That's the country that I hope will remain at the forefront of freedom and hope for people around the world in this 21st century. Why is freedom not self-evident? I think in a sense it is self-evident to the extent that it is perhaps the highest aspiration of human beings everywhere but it's not self-evident in its realization because we're dealing with human beings and because we're dealing with other elements of human nature that sometimes make freedom on a personal level or even at a national level challenging to achieve and so it's dealing with all of those different human elements to get to a place where that value, that is a universal value, not a Western value, not an American value, where that value is able to come to the fore but ultimately we're dealing with human nature and it's different manifestations. Europe remains the partner of first resort for the United States. Wherever we have a challenge around the world our reflex is to look first to Europe, sometimes to countries in their individual capacity, sometimes to the European Union as a collective and most Americans continue to believe in the European construction project. I think part of the challenge has been that the further and further we get away from the reasons that the EU came into being in the first place, the easier it is to forget and not to give place value in that and so when one is familiar even in the slightest with the history of Europe as well as the United States in the 20th century you're reminded why the EU is such an important project to begin with but generations today are far removed from that so I think we have to remind ourselves of what brought this project about in the first place but then like anything it's not just about defending something it's about amending it as necessary to better reflect the times to make it effective to make sure that it's working for more people and right now the divide that we see in the world increasingly especially in the United States and Europe is not between left and right or conservative or in our case Republican and Democrat it's between those who believe that faced with these incredible forces of change our best bet is to remain open connected and to try to shape them to our advantage and those who believe that the best answer is to protect ourselves and be defensive it's between the difference between those who would build a wall and those who would continue to build bridges that's the divide that's the debate that's what we have to reckon with