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Welcome to Episode 29. Luke and Conor start out watching the Live FFXIV online fan festival trailer… well it was live when we were recording this! We also talk about the Apple Arcade Game Fantasian which was made by the creators of Final Fantasy, so kinda cool!

----- Show Notes -----

FFxiv fan fest going on rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXrP6tT9wbY

Fantasian - Pretty good - the music is rad - the battle is rad - maps rad - overall rad - Also pretty good

You try newegg shuffle?

Apex new season - bugged  launch / new legend / new weapon (op of course)

Rambo and die hard characters on warzone, lulz

Resident Evil Village is out, woop

Dragon quest 35th ani - announcement later this month also sega is going to make future yakuza game turn based and going to do global released of atlus games woop

Redittor kills every npc and living thing in skyrim,

This week on Dear Downloads, Luke and Conor talk about goofy hardware that we've bought for consoles and what the f is blockchain gaming?

Q: have you ever read the fountainhead?

Recent News:

In The Rays of Light Launch Trailer, new game… looks pretty cool!

https://youtu.be/r688icDZLsg

PlayStation and Discord!

https://twitter.com/playstation/status/1389267179095293955?s=21

Oof Bill Gates Divorce, any insider knowledge from your neck of the woods? What’s the mood like? Is the PNW heartbroken?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/03/tech/bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce/index.html

Games?

Topic? Have you ever bought any goofy accessories?

What is blockchain? Recording info

https://www.euromoney.com/learning/blockchain-explained/what-is-blockchain

Ubisoft And Tezos?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gamesindustry.biz/amp/2021-04-20-ubisoft-joins-tezos-blockchain-ecosystem

Bitkraft and gaming. $400m partnership develop the games on block chain

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/news/400m-gaming-vc-fund-bitkraft-teams-up-with-delphi-on-blockchain-gaming/amp

Enjin Coin? Idea of ownership? Atari Blockchain bringing Atari IP to NFT space.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/atari-creates-new-blockchain-division-amid-leadership-shuffle/amp

I’m interested in using block chain to create a community server… iLAN no idea might exist but that’s dope.

Welcome to Episode 21. Conor and Luke Discuss Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee. We have been playing it all month and are excited to tell you our thoughts on it. We also share some news about PS5 system update, Nier getting updated on steam, The Last of Us Remastereded / Remakeded, Netflix and Sony partnership, Nintendo Indies and GPU supply shortages. Plus we choose our next game to play of the month… Fantasian!

News:

First ps5 system update - https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/13/ps5-april-update-brings-new-storage-options-and-social-features/

Nier steam update finally - https://twitter.com/NieRGame/status/1381925380622192642?s=20

The Last of Us Remastereded 7/ Visual Arts Service Group/ Bend Studios (working on new ip not LoU) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/sony-s-obsession-with-blockbusters-is-stirring-unrest-within-playstation-empire

Netflix bought all Sony IPs?

https://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2021/0408

Gundum on netflix

Nintendo indies  https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-indie-world-showcase-all-the-games-and-trailers/1100-6490128/

Need a GPU? Wait til 2022 maybe they'll have one…

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/78011/yeah-you-might-be-waiting-until-2022-to-get-new-nvidia-or-amd-gpu/index.html

NEXT game is Fantasian

Magikarp? Haha

How can a water type Pokémon get burned

----- Recent News -----

Ps plus games https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/31/playstation-plus-games-for-april-days-gone-oddworld-soulstorm-and-zombie-army-4-dead-war/

Nintendo killed Mario https://twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1377304695153246211?s=21

Out now! https://www.gematsu.com/2021/04/fantasian-part-one-now-available

A fucking brass PS5

https://youtu.be/VRo-lnBKhLo

RE village free stadia https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-Community-Blog/Resident-Evil-7-comes-to-Stadia-Pro-Resident-Evil-Village-comes/ba-p/56478

Possible News Tip from iAteAllTheBacon… Microsoft may purchase Discord -OR- it may just go public… here come ads and user data history… LR- saw this story, not really worried MS has been pretty consumer friendly if it was google that would be another story

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b?s=09

vita , ps3, psp stores are dead - https://www.polygon.com/22356858/playstation-store-shut-down-ps3-ps-vita-psp-date-redownload-purchases?utm_campaign=polygon&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Cyberpunk 1.2 patch, also out - notes holy jeez - tldr https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/37801/patch-1-2-list-of-changes

New season of rick and morty - https://www.polygon.com/2021/3/30/22358231/rick-and-morty-season-5-trailer-premiere-date

Kojima talking to MS?

----- Show Notes -----

Upcoming Games for April 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gameinformer.com/2021%3famp

Have you seen this game? Death loop PS5 + PC… looks sick.

https://youtu.be/mc2hz3LJhTY

features that changed video games (gameranx)

-Halo 2 gun weapon select (Goldeneye) Regen Shield or health

-Quick Time Events QTEs shenmu 1999, prompt to hit a button in a cut scene.

-Starcraft basically ushered in esports

-Resident Evil 4 popularized third person shooter w ADS

-super combo in super street fighter 2

-Quake first FPS online? What about Doom?

-CoD Modern warfare load oats / perks / kill streaks / progression (world at war)

-Metal Gear Solid - fully dense cinematic cutscenes and storytelling

-GTA3 3D open world sandbox

-super Mario 64 3D plat former

My picks:

-portal for making a game that made you think different

-TLOU + MGS for creative story telling

-Skyrim for creating a huge world I just couldn’t leave and still think about.

Welcome to episode 25. Luke and Conor are joined by Kevin AKA LoL_Glitnir to talk about DMCA and Copyright issues and set the stage for why it exists. This could be a very enlightening conversation if you are looking to understand DMCA and copyright.

If you want to find Kevin on twitch, link is below:

https://www.twitch.tv/lol_glitnir

If you want to find Dear Downloads on twitter, link is below:

https://twitter.com/deardownloads

----- Recent News -----

Yup it’s getting a remake! Mighty Ducks OG cast. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/original-mighty-ducks-actors-coming-202221426.html

Starcraft Tournament prizes meme Prizes: 1st $500, 2nd $250,  3rd $150, 4th $100, 5th - 8th 25 BitCoins

----- Show Notes -----

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.

1976 Copyright Act - extended federal copyright protection to all works, both published and unpublished, once they are fixed in a tangible form.

**Fair use under US copyright law. Section 107. fair use - identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

1998 DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 (keyword dissemination) -  It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works.

**dissemination: the action or fact of spreading something, especially information, widely.

**Safe harbour: protects sites that allow users to upload and share content with others, but site must comply with DMCA notice and take down procedure

questions / thoughts

*apparently stores even need a PPL and PRS to play music? wuhhh

*what is the process to register copyright in us? Not required in us BUT required to file suit.

*My opinion on DMCA + concerts / president (elect) biden speech

*is a “content creators” work considered copyright material… radio and television broadcasts are eligible, why not creators?

*thoughts on fair use as far as music or even a movie on a stream?

*what about in-game music or in-game copyright materials?

*solutions? Yes, tons of copyright free music providers, Harris Heller is huge by streamers, i followed along and have a small lofi beats spotify playlist

YouTube “checks” feature for upload just rolled into effect on my channel, kinda funny…

Welcome to Episode 24 of Dear Downloads. Today Luke and Conor talk about the new Game Pass update and all it has, and SOny’s response for free 10 games! We also kinda touch on what games we are looking forward to in the future and how insane the prices of hardware are right now...

----- Show Notes -----

What games have you been playing - what are you looking forward too? Resident Evil + Kena | Nier and FF7…

Final fantasy 7 on switch...

Game pass looks bonkers - https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/16/coming-soon-xbox-game-pass-march-2021-wave-2/?ocid=XGP_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Photo_lrn_3.16.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/17/ea-play-coming-to-pc-for-xbox-game-pass/

Sony response - https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/17/play-at-home-2021-update-10-free-games-to-download-this-spring/

More ffvii lol - https://twitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1372211921034694664?s=20

Free square enix games - https://twitter.com/SquareEnix/status/1372242764084117508?s=20

Also square enix presents

Forspoken looks pretty sweet -

Do you ever cheat in games?

Game of the month is pokemon - to be talked about on 4.12 release!

Can't wait for nier: R

Emulators: isn’t that what Luna and status are? Cloud emulators running games to play wherever.

Mining Bitcoin lulz

Hardware insane costs / buying hardware / availability… I’m looking for an RX 5600 or 5600xt

Buying a pre built 2060 and my 1660 could sell for over 3x of what I bought it for in July.

Synth wave musics / nostalgia music / phx trip emissions irl shit

Yup it’s getting a remake! Mighty Ducks OG cast. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/original-mighty-ducks-actors-coming-202221426.html

Welcome to Episode 23. Luke and Conor talk about Black Mesa. in the world of large party remakes, we played and go into (some) depth with us playing the fan remade and revamped Half Life: Black Mesa. We also nerd out on Fantsaian the new RPG by Final Fantasy creator and really geek out on the dioramas and how exciting it looks. We even invent a similar method and game creation for architecture student models!

Recent News:

David Hayder Voicing Snake in MGS V youtube video… kinda cool, 8 months old…

Amazon Luna? Like statia? Kinda like a firestick but gaming? I requested access…

I joined the bitcoin world

Fantasian looks sweet - https://apps.apple.com/app/fantasian/id1517339045?ign-itsct=fantasian&ign-itscg=30800

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9guC7V_Cvdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH1ziPWeXMQ

All of the areas are like models lol

Im just impressed with processing now and graphics… insane for mobile… holy shit those dioramas

Microsoft Mesh? What the Avengers?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CC13DcdAY_s&feature=youtu.be

Playstation “essential Picks” on dashboard… you see this on yours? Its the store’s featured section...

YouTube comment from Risal Risal 

Sony x900h update is here? You install it? LR - already installed it no issues thus far, haven't had audio go out in a while, still no vrr

HALF LIFE NOTES:

Black Mesa is a first-person shooter game developed and published by Crowbar Collective. It is a third-party remake of Half-Life (1998) made in the Source game engine. Originally published as a free mod in September 2012, Black Mesa was approved by Half-Life developers Valve for a commercial release; the first commercial version was published as an early-access version in May 2015, followed by a full release in March 2020 for Windows and Linux.

22 years later jeese

Crowbar Collective plans a “Definitive Edition” update with additional gameplay tweaks and improvements to the modding workshop, and it wants to hold community events for people who are interested in working with Valve’s Source engine.

The computer monitors in game are old tube monitors, lols… some are blue screen and some with like windows 95 outlook open. Haha

Do calcs on white board mean shit?

Throw a guy TP LOLS

Only 3 Npc docs?

I like how the camera jolts to side when you strafe left / right!

It doesn’t run that smooth maybe my pc?

Welcome to Episode 22. Luke and Conor have a new guest iAteAllTheBacon (Trey). We talk about owning a ps5 and his favorite ps exclusive games and what moved him from xbox 360 to now a Playstation Player… a Playstationer? Anyways, we talk about Apex Legends a Bit. And despite having the MOST technical issues happening throughout the recording, i think we were able to make it sound seamless!

You can Find iAteAllTheBacon here:

https://linktr.ee/iAteAllTheBacon

Check Out his sponsor, game cloth!

https://www.gamecloth.online/

----- Show Notes -----

Recent News!

Trying to get ps5 on Walmart story!

Questions for guest:

What’s the story behind your gamer tag?

How do you feel about the current state of Apex Legends?

Who do you usually run as main on Apex?

So your a PS5 owner! What is game changing or hugely different from PS4 to ps5?

What has been your favorite ps game?

What are you looking forward to?

----- thank you ------

If you have any questions or any thoughts for a new episode topic or game/tech related things we can talk about… you can write us on twitter https://Twitter.com/deardownloads thank you all for listening and we will see you next week, buh bye…

Welcome to Episode 21 of Dear Downloads. Luke and Conor talk about how we create, release, and distribute our podcast. Plus we go over the gear, tech, and lessons we learned when starting this podcast, and how anyone can get a few things together then start making their own podcast or video podcast. We are excited to share all this info and our gear that we use to make this show possible.

Show Topic:

Elgato Wave 3

https://amzn.to/3kxZwjA

Shure sm58

https://amzn.to/3uEwJ1t

XLR to USB interface if usings XLR mics…

Presonus Audiobox USB96

https://amzn.to/37YJCtA

Other mics I bought:

Rode PODmic fail

Shure sm7b

Rode NTG1

Other mics that I'm looking to test out (Maono Au A04 + ATR 2100x)

Camera’s:

Logitech c920x

https://amzn.to/2Mx8jph

Logitech c615

Canon Rebel T3i w/ EOS webcam utility

Cheap webcam emeet

Must have software:

OBS Project (Open Broadcaster Software)

https://obsproject.com/

Davinci Resolve

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

*This video is NOT sponsored. Some product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something I'll receive a small commission.

Welcome to Episode 20 of Dear Downloads. Luke and Conor talk about the Playstation State of Play announcements, All the New Final Fantasy 7 games that are being spit out like; FF7 Remake Intergrade (ps4 + ps5 remake expansion featuring yuffie), FF7 Ever Crisis (mobile retelling of entire FF7 games), FF7 First Soldier (mobile battle royal), FF7 Remake as free ps plus download, and FF7 soundtrack released everywhere. Also tons of New Game announcements, like Pokemon Legends Arceus, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl on switch, PS5 VR? And the new PS Plus Games...

Playstation state of play thursday

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Yuffie episode 6.10.2021 

Final fantasy 7 ever crisis - retelling of ffvii compilation

Final fantasy 7 first soldier - battle royal prequel 

Also remake sound track out on streaming services 2.26

POKEMEN!  

Pokémon Legends Arceus spring 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFW2JnwQdrg

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl  fall 2021

PS   VR ps5 - coming next year? 

GT7 delayed 

Free Play at home - ratchet and clank 

Halo TV show in production

Twisted metal TV

Anthem die twice 

Phil Spencer background, Ludens, nintendo switch, etc ms to buy? https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1364259070094446595?s=20

PS+ games for March -

•Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4)*

•Remnant: From the Ashes (PS4)

•Maquette (PS5)

•Farpoint (PSVR)

HP buys HyperX 

I'm playing too many  games at once !!!! P5 S, ghost of T, Control, black mesa, god of war,  demon's souls, hitman, cyberpunk OmG