Overview

We geek it up with movies and games. Stephen is getting the big Cryptozoic DC Deckbuilder that happened. Tons of great gameplay.

We talk about how kickstarter has changed gaming and geekdom. In a good way, mostly.

We cover some old silent movies like Phantom Carriage and the modern bands that have provided soundtracks.

Alan tells us about a new miracle drug that helps regulate blood sugar and also lose weight.

We talk about:

* VPN

* Kickstarter

* silent movies

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YouTube

Transcript

Stephen: Yeah, and we’ve talked about VPNs, how great they are for security, how they help out with, but there’s a lot of things they really break , exactly. So that’s why I figured I would take that out of the stream here you and I talking and whatever else.

Alan: It’s I’ll turn. What I have to do is remember of course, to turn it back on before, Hey, let’s go online banking and investing, that’s right. I really have a, I don’t know how much I really needed it at home because I have my firewall in place. I have a whole, the usual cascade of important things to make sure that I’m not exposed to the world.

Where I really need it, of course, is mostly when I’m on my phone or on the laptop when I’m out of town in a, an unsecured wifi connection and all that kind of stuff. And so I’ll get better about maybe not worrying about it as much as at. , biggest things besides this thing, maybe it really will be that zen cast will be improved.

I’ve noticed that for all kinds of streaming services they’re already very suspicious about, Hey, are you coming in from the wrong zone and you really shouldn’t be able to see this content? And when, what, whatever the I use express vpn, whatever they have as their servers around the place.

Usually when I’m here in Cleveland, there’s nothing super close to Cleveland. So I connect via New Jersey, Washington, dc, New York, and who knows what, that’s still in the United States, so you’d think I’d still be in, I’ll be like zone three or whatever else it might be. But anything where they can’t identify an i an IP address that looks like it’s connected to an at and t server or something like that, they, I think have some suspicions in place.

Yeah. And so often when I use Google to search things now, , it throws up a verify. One of the little captures where I have to say, show me all the staircases or whatever like that’s their way of saying whatever I look like to them, it’s suspicious.

Stephen: And that’s a super good point, , because VPNs are getting pushed a bit more and we’ve talked about ’em.

And like you said, if you’re doing things like banking or online transactions, it’s not bad to have. But it video especially is very affected by it, because what’s happening is it goes to your router and it goes to a server in Cleveland, and then instead of where your Netflix or Zencaster, it then goes to New Jersey and then it goes to so you’re adding jumps and hops to it?

Alan: Yes. And that’s the kinda stuff that I don’t know.