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海外TECH	Engadget	Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9 reviews and Gamescom 2024	https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/engadget-podcast-pixel-9-reviews-and-gamescom-2024-113003049.html?src=rss	This week Devindra and Cherlynn dive into Engadget s reviews on Google s Pixel and Pro phones Are they really a step up from last year s devices And how do they compare to Samsung s latest Also we chat about a few stories from Gamescom including Microsoft s Indiana Jones game heading to the PS as well as the wild launch of Black Myth Wukong Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice If you ve got suggestions or topics you d like covered on the show be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments And be sure to check out our other podcast Engadget News TopicsGoogle approaches smartphone perfection with the Pixel and Pixel Pro Gamescom highlights Indiana Jones AI NPCs and Black Myth Wukong xMEMS mm ultrasonic fan on a chip breakthrough could enable super thin devices San Francisco city attorney takes aim at AI deepfake pornography Chik Fil A wants to start a streaming service Yes you read that correctly British Billionaire Mike Lynch founder of tech firm Autonomy found dead in the wreckage of his yacht Pop culture picks Subscribe iTunesSpotifyPocket CastsStitcherGoogle PodcastsLivestreamCredits nbsp Hosts Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn LowProducer Ben Ellman Music Dale North and Terrence O BrienTranscriptDevindra What s up Internet and welcome back to the Engadget Podcast I m Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar Cherlynn I m Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low Devindra This week we ve got reviews for the Pixel and Pro and XLs and all the various Pixel models except for the Fold that s not out yet So that s very sad That s gonna be a couple weeks away And we ve also got some news from Gamescom which is I guess still happening But most of the major news has already happened from the opening night and some followup events And yeah got some weekly news as well As always folks if you re enjoying the show please be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or your podcatcher of choice leave us a review on iTunes and drop us an email at podcastengadget com and join us Thursdays typically around three AM Eastern on our YouTube channel where we live stream the show and you can talk to us We ll show off some gadgets I know Sherilyn has something she wants to show off soon during our Q and A s and it s fun time We ve also got a good group of people here So join us We ve got the pixel phones now Sherilyn I m sure you ve been like in editing hell for the past week Can you broadly tell us so how do we feel about the let s focus on the pixel nine right now How do we feel about the pixel nine Cherlynn The pixel nine I wasn t expecting it to get a super high score but Sam who reviewed the pixel nine for us seems really impressed I mean like Sam likesDevindra it Sam Rutherford Sam RutherfordCherlynn is our like Android main person And he is also our foldables person So so having him review like the most standard pixel nine I was just like it s a he s going to be bored Right I was like this man s used to his big foldable screens but Sam really enjoyed the pixel nine and like to contextualize it for everyone I went from reading Matt s review first of the pixel nine pro and pro XL So Matt Smith our UK bureau chief I went from editing him and then going on to Sam whose review went up the next day And again you you read the pro review you re like of course it s good Of course everyone liked the pro Meta scored the proDevindra very very high That is surprising Well Cherlynn let s get to that I wanted to talk about that But you I mean you asked to start with the nine So we ll start with the nine the basic baby Well if you ifDevindra you feel more interested in the pro you can start there It s up to you Cherlynn We can I ve just started talking about the nine Let s finish this thought So so after I went from Matt to Sam I wasn t expecting I was expecting like I wish this was the pro you know kind of that vibe I didn t get that I actually got Sam going At the end he said truly if you don t need the Gemini advanced AI if you don t need like a telephoto like a dedicated telephoto camera you may even be very happy with the Pixel which is again what we always differentiate between the pro and the regular flagships Is that it s theDevindra iPhone and iPhone pro situation too right Exactly It s theCherlynn same situation now So I think it used to be though in previous years that because there was never a smaller pixel pro it was always like a larger pixel pro is always a larger phone We had more reason to recommend The nine because of size but now it s no even if there s like an alternative size in the premium like premium top end like sort of a variant we still are like the nines pretty freaking good So I was just surprised by that Now Back to your point the more interesting review in my opinion is the the the fact that Matt decided to award the Pixel Pro and Pro XL respectively like really high scores for any I think even any Android handset ever for us and is where we landed with the Pro and Pro XL respectively And again to contextualize and give you all like a little bit of behind the scenes He candidly he scored them a little bit higher at first And I was like Whoa We reDevindra not going to have a out of math Yeah I just wasCherlynn like I think we might need to tamper this a little bit I feel like we re very excited but we need to give ourselves some Some a a little bit of wiggle room like what are they they re not perfect right So I think we tweaked and in the tweaking we tweaked the original scores for both devices both went down a little bit I think if you look at our score for last year s pixel Pro It was and again This is like way too in the weeds and both Matt and I will be like we hate Arguing over one or two points but here s the reasoning for last year s And usually we re like this is just as good if not better So maybe we ll go to or but then we brought the pixel nine pro Excel down a point and that is in part because Matt still wanted to have a big enough gap between the nine pro and the nine pro XL And so just was good Wasn t giving us a lot of room And then the other reason is that the nine pro XL actually even though it has is the same size is screen is inch bigger this year which like doesn t sound like much when you re talking about a frame that s still the same size but the screen for Matt who boldly claimed he had larger than average hands or average or whatever not too small hands I don t know what he s telling us there but he was all like It was already hard Be humble brag Devindra Thank you Matt Cherlynn Yeah it was a very humble brag but even for Matt it was like hard to reach the corners And so with that we were like alright it s worth like saying it is unwieldy It is a more expensive phone than last year These AI features don t do enough for us to be like yeah it s worth that that you know keeping it same score sort of situation yet so We brought it down a point but that s not a bad thing because why The Pro holy crap we it s arguably one of our highest scored phones around So obviously you ve read these reviews Davindra were you shocked at the scores we gave Devindra I m really I was shocked at the score of the Pro The XL you know being a little more unwieldy I was not surprised there but It does seem I don t know I was talking about this with Sam a little bit too around his review It is funny to see Google s journey on like the way it s thinking of Android phones right Cause they launched with Let s go back in history right They launched with the HTC G right And some of the like early Motorola s like stuff from third parties Then third party started making a lot of garbage and putting a lot of stuff into Android software So Google was like okay okay hold up Let s have these Nexus phones which are just pure Android which run all our stuff and doesn t have any of your third party garbage And at that point That never that was never a big seller right That was for the fans the super fans the people online the super nerds Pixel was their attempt to be like okay let s screw it Let s just go iPhone And I feel like nine generations in they finally done it The camera bar has been chopped up The design looks a little spiffier I m not too surprised I do feel like it seems like Google knocked this one out So I was shocked by the score number but yeah I feel like Google it s been a long road for Google to get to this point to make like the ideal Android phone I d say Cherlynn It has And I I mean I don t know if I would call it the ideal Android phone even if I think it is It s a very significantly improved device over let s say the earlier pixels even though it feels like over the pixel eight which I also have here right And for those of you on the stream I m holding up side by side so you can kind of look right The design felt nice on the pixel eight pro you know the colors you know Google s always nailed the color combo It feels very different this time I think you ve seen all our reviews I just mentioned this independently Matt Smith in the UK and Sam in New Jersey were both all this feels like an iPhone Matt almost picked it up and was like this feels like the iPhone And it looks like an iPhone and that s not a bad thing right Because they still have enough of a distinction like the camera bar is different enough there s the G logo I guess Is that a that s a that s a good thing in the sense that it feels premium It feels solid It feels like a good real phone And I m sure there are people who won t be happy about that They re like you know don t keep copying Apple phones are so boring now They re all the same because don t forget the Samsung S series Also feel like iPhones I ve got a Samsung S in the hand as well And it s they ve all become more or less the same And whether it s a good or bad thing is really up to you to decide But for Google though the design It s a huge step up right Like they don t feel the need to differentiate They don t feel the need to do these like incredibly like slimmy curvy sides anymore to achieve a slider slightly thinner profile It s it feels very grown up And I wrote a blurb for our best smartphones guy about the Pixel Pro saying that this feels like a grown up phone and to Matt s point in his review a showcase for Gemini AI And I think that that s what these phones are all about Pixel phones have always been about the camera but like these are like camera plus you know Devindra Are we liking the AI features And we should also differentiate between the local stuff which you don t have to pay for and then there s the fancier stuff which comes free with the pro devices for a year but you will have to pay for that eventually at least bucks a month Is the AI stuff any good Cherlynn I mean the capability and the like actual good of it Like The the the how well it works Right Seems like pretty good I mean add me everyone s been having fun with again independently both Sam and Matt were like we use add me to clone ourselves In the and add me to be clear is the feature on the camera where you can have You know you re taking a group shot and then you can hand someone takes a photo first and then hand the phone off to someone else And then you the photographer can go and take your place in the picture And the phone will give some AI guide AR guidance to show you where to you know frame up the shot and to make your make you in the picture So that seemed impressive enough and fun enough that they both were like playing around with it Because it s only been what like a week since these phones were launched It s a not enough time to say how much we ll use this in the real world Things like the pixel screenshots app I think there are problems here and there where Sam enjoyed it Sam really found it useful Matt had issues with it Like he points out that like you can t Automatically back up your entire Google photos history on setup So it d be like you will go to you will have to manually import pictures one by one And it s just not yeah I mean not there s nothing wrong with like manually importing pictures and this is a huge privacy thing because some people s yeah Devindra it s definitely a privacy thing Cherlynn Yeah It s like Google photos My mine is like so many years in history and I don t want to give it access to everything at once So anyway there s also the pixel studio app which I think both of Sam and Matt liked because it was fun but both of them were also like eh I think this is more of a criticism of image generators like that in general where like you feed mid journey a prompt and it comes up how much are you going to use this We re not really gonna do that all day It s not That much useful So those are the main AI features I mean the rest of the stuff like your typical Gmail summary things or like your even Apple intelligence is trying to do some of these things I I didn t get a real big sense that they were that like crazy good I mean Sam mentioned call notes in his piece but I think none of us have really put it to through the ringer through like really difficult calls to see if it works that way Through all those situations as well So Devindra and that s the thing that will summarize your call and give you notes like the thing in text That s cool Yeah ACherlynn transcript and a summary which is cool I think Yeah Devindra Okay cool So but I mean overall I guess any surprises any any surprising highlights from the Israelin or any like surprising disappointments Cherlynn Zoom enhance on videos is a weird like it take it took them one year to actually bring it out to a device Ben Yes Cherlynn And then the the fact that it s not on the nine you have to have a nine pro to use it was what Sam pointed out in the night which is you know I would expect that from Sam right Who s used to reviewing pro phones And then for Matt I think he but they both pointed out in low light Google s cameras still far and away better than the competition They both meticulously put it through his paces in the camera front I think we all really enjoy camera testing and it still came up tops right Google still came up tops on camera And Matt our review almost didn t get up on time because he had to run the battery test for the Pixel Pro XL Well the Pro arrived a little later than the Pro XL did so he didn t have as much time but also the Pro ran for so long It lasted hours on our battery test That s a lot I mean the Pro XL got hours thereabouts Wait that s already longer The hour mark is longer than our next closest number which is the OnePlus I believe So all around just incredibly impressive phones I m surprised And I think that that s what s surprising right We re like whoa these are good Devindra What These are good Well there were a lot of shocks early on It s these are stylish These seem capable and good I know I think that s going to be a big compelling factor for a lot of people Shirley I m like Google for a long time has been like we re making phones for nerds and for people who don t care as much about Samsung bling and whatever And now it s just no Google s no we re just we re just going to do the same thing We re going to do iPhone type stuff How does this compare to the current Samsung stuff Cherlynn Cherlynn I mean I think Google has the upper hand in AI for sure and cameras so I think that s what I was seeing across the board that like the S s cameras were good but in some situations not as good although one in one occasion like Samsung did better on the Pro XL or something and then I want to address some of the questions in the chat really quickly so MiniMeA asks if we will be comparing the Google AI versus the Apple AI Obviously we can t right now because the Apple intelligence stuff isn t out We could compare Samsung s to your point of interest Samsung s Galaxy AI to Google s Gemini AI but like I said it s just Different applications different things like Samsung s AI Galaxy AI feature in the Z Flip and the Z Fold which are its latest to feature like new Galaxy AI features came with you can draw onto a picture and it ll add a cat you know Yeah That sort of thing to me is really fun but the actual use of it IDK right Meanwhile Google s got no equivalent feature It s got auto frame and reimagine and it s got like pixel studio And so there s no easy way to do an apples to apples comparison But I also want to address that CUD or CUT who is a familiar name from our chat says that whole add me feature Is this something that people want Because it s a bit weird if it becomes the norm people would just be adding in all their friends and family and photos when they were never there Might as well add your cat and dog while you re at it I don t think you can after the fact add people FYI So for add me it s like you re holding up the phone And then for example I ve had family visiting this past couple weeks or so And if I m sounding ragged that s why And we ve been taking like family pictures right So it s four of us And we try not to bother people So we don t ask them Stranges also you don t always feel safe right when you re on the street and like standing in front of a museum and take a of us please Who s to say they won t just run So I could have my cousin you know hold up the phone and take the initial picture while I pose with his mom and dad And then he comes into the picture I hold up the phone and he go I think if there are a lot of Specific use cases where it ll be helpful And I don t think you can add a cat and dog in because you ll never get the cat and dog to stay in the place they need them to So CD cut I am sorry but I don t think you can And I think I would I could see some use for this add me feature Devindra I m sure people will figure out ways to hack it but it does seem from the demos they did Like it creates like an AR situation of where you are right now Yeah If you break that Environment like where it is I don t think you can actually even stitch something into that I think the bigger issue is just it is weird to have some features locked into just Google s phones when Google is both you know a company making phones but also the company providing the software to everybody else This is very much like Inter Explorer on windows you know or Apple locking down some features just to its devices Like it feels if this goes on People can chat Monopoly or something going on here Do you feel weird about that Trillian Like some of these just being on Google stuff for so far Cherlynn I I don t know that they re going to always be that way I think that like for some things because Gemini Advanced is something that you can apply for and get with any other Like phone right Like you can apply for and so some of these features might come out to a future android phones or other branded Android phones and then with pixel there have been a few things that have been locked into pixel for a very long time like pixel ui things pixels call screening pixels like general like call assistance things have been very pixel phone centric and I feel like that s because it s been Built so deeply into the U S as opposed to it s an app right The pixel screenshots at pixel recorder Those things have eventually opened up to some other maybe Samsung maybe I don t even think there s other Android players really but yeah but Samsung right And they work closely enough with Samsung to be like eventually maybe right Circle to search is a feature that launched first on Samsung even though it was a Google feature So I feel like it s not necessarily super locked in And even if it were To answer that part of your question I don t know if that is such a huge deal I think maybe Google does need to keep some of this for itself right Like we we know that Android is supposed to be like the most open ecosystem It s supposed to be like welcoming and like whatever but Google at this point needs to be able to play the game the way Samsung Apple Especially Apple Does it Does it though Devindra It s it s inherently unfair to be both the software vendor doing it and also be like oh also hey partners we re also going to directly compete with you in hardware and also keep features to ourselves that you can never touch Like that that is where anti competitive stuff like starts to arise I guess yeah ICherlynn mean I think Google has its feet and toes in so many things that like it s anti competitive in a lot of other areas But I think on the pixel front like it s generally been trying to bring pixel first or pixel only features to more devices But then you know when you said the whole like Oh you re talking about the software and the hardware I was like at first really readying to reply being like Apple does that But then you were saying that it s not fair because Google competes with its own customers So I get that I don t know I don t know that I don t know how they re going about it really Devindra The US government has declared them a monopoly Yep Right Or at least the US judge has Anti trust Anti trust So search there They are a search monopoly Android is such a open ecosystem that everybody supports I just feel like Google is going to start to be worried about this because we already talked about the potential repercussions from the search monopoly thing like could could be like Hey maybe you should split up a little bit Maybe we should take out some of these parts of Google and make them separate companies I wonder if The company itself is a little afraid of that because it s not just Oh we re going to slap a five or million fine on you which is like the money Google you know that it s in their couch cushions It s like more serious things could happen Cherlynn Can I quickly go back to the chat for specific to pixel questions to the pixel nine I mean so has Sam Maybe Sam in an alternate timeline is would love to hear about the heat management of the Tensor four And this is something that did come up in our pixel nine Pro review So Matt noticed that the Tensor G four actually runs a lot cooler than older pixel phone So sorry It s very weird to be like the Tenser G four runs cooler than the Pixel eight Pro because like where else is the Tenser G three The Tenser G three gonna be obviously the Pixel eight Pro But I think it s important to focus on the phone than just the chip because even though the chip does supposedly run cooler it s also the fact that like to depro s point in the chat Pixel series has a better like thermal dissipation system so like it s a lot cooler I did notice that yes the Pixel Pro that I was using would run really hot I haven t I think pushed the Pro XL enough to feel like it would in you know You know that circumstance otherwise be hot but I ve never felt it run hot Right So like to that point it certainly seems to run cooler And Matt definitely pushed it harder in his review and was like it was cooler So has Sam I hope that answers your question And I mean But I think the fact that the phone s a little bit thicker of a of a profile is partly because it needed to build in some sort of like better cooling system Gotcha Devindra Gotcha Okay Well any other thoughts on these things I would want to point people to our reviews go check them out on the site Cherlynn Go check out our site Pixel Pro reviews been up since yesterday and our Pixel reviews up today The on sale date for that series of phones is up today And then we have so many other Pixel devices coming in Send me your questions about them I m like What do you want to know most about the Pro Full the Pixel Watch and the Pixel Buds Pro Last week also on Saturday I did a quick Engadget review recap and I will be doing one of these for the Pixel all the Pixel products at some point So again I really want to know your thoughts on the upcoming devices before we review them so that I can go into them looking for those questions So send them our way podcast engadget com You can always email me C H E R at Engadget com as well Devindra Let s move on to some news from Gamescom which is happening right now in Cologne Germany We are not there in person I believe but we re covering a lot of news from the event And some highlights here and joining us for this discussion is our podcast producer Ben Ellman Hey Ben Ben Cause when we re talking about video games it s Ben time Devindra It s Ben time And we don t we don t want to break Sherilyn s brain with some of this game stuff because I m sure Sherilyn does not care about the Indiana Jones game coming to Xbox I don t know Do you Sherilyn Cherlynn I have heard that young Indiana Jones Devindra What Cherlynn Who who who was the actor Shit YouBen mean Shia LaBeouf You mean River Phoenix No no no no Cherlynn Young what s his face Young crap This older man Devindra Okay this is why young Harrison Ford Cherlynn Harrison Ford Young Harrison Ford This is why Ben is on this segment ThisDevindra is why Ben is helping us out Anyway I veCherlynn heard that young Harrison Ford is hot Anyway that s all That s all Go for it ItDevindra doesn t but it doesn t look like Harrison Ford It s it s a totally different ICherlynn know I m just saying that when I hear Indiana Jones I think okay So ShulmanDevindra is talking about the CG version of young Harrison Ford No I ve been sentCherlynn pictures of him on his heydayDevindra AI okay Well yes he was hot Yes but also in the most recent movie they use AI to de age him Yeah you get a glimpse of that that old hot Harrison Ford face anyway We re talking about the game here This game is one of the like rare exclusives that Microsoft has And there was a lot of talk about this thing This is Indiana Jones and the great circle It s coming from it s developed by Xbox subsidiary machine games I believe It this came as part of the the whole ZeniMax acquisition So when Microsoft bought id Software Arcane Bethesda machine games came alongside that And I believe there was a deal to get this game to Sony s eventually So here s what we learned is that this game is coming to Xbox and PC on December th It s coming to the PlayStation A couple of months later in spring and the nerds especially the Microsoft nerds the Xbox fans have gone a little crazy because they re like our exclusive What s happening now Do you have thoughts about this Trillian or Ben Ben This is Microsoft admitting that not very many people have Xboxes and they don t want this to just be a PC game Devindra Microsoft is a business and they like to sell games and unfortunately their hardware Has not done a good job of that So I think that s the basic thing here Does this feel odd to you Sherilyn Or is this just like weird fanboy inviting at this point Cherlynn I always think of it as strange fanboy infighting because I don t pay attention as much to this news Doesn t really matter to me Devindra It s funny like when you tune what are the gamers up to They re mad about Indiana Jones They re mad about this lady character starring in a game The gamers are not okay Yeah Cherlynn Every now and then there s this big Controversy in gaming right Oh well what trans characters sexism violence There s always kind of up you know like public outcry over a lot of these things I think I m more concerned when it s like when blizzard Activision and all they have all that stuff right Sexism at the workplace toxic environment like that sort of we ll talkDevindra about that soon Even more harm Yeah so we ll get to that Don t worry We ve got that So anyway Cherlynn I was looking forward to it Awesome Devindra There is news here Ben Okay So Devindra one of my big questions was you know as I was watching the trailer for this game and reading Jess s first look Devindra the game which looks sick as hell by the way I do think this game looks fantastic Ben Yeah So I was wondering okay with the Uncharted series and everything like why isn t this a third person game But then after watching the trailer I realized okay I think they want to make it really visceral There s a lot of hand to hand combat in this game They want to make it feel like the movies did The fight choreography in the Indiana Jones movies back then just fight choreography overall was okay It was fine Yeah And Indiana Jones was never known for huge martial arts maneuvers like Batman or anything Oh no he s known for shooting the guy swinging the sword Yeah exactly So you can t really have an Arkham Asylum you know third person style Indiana Jones game where Indy is like breaking a Nazi s back over his knee Devindra They they could have done some I I honestly prefer third person like angles like games too Cause I like to see my characters when I m running around but I think that mostly this comes from machine games right And machine games they did those the Wolfenstein the most recent like Wolfenstein games which are fantastic and good And also I did not really care to play like a modern Wolfenstein shooter but they did great stuff when it came to like environmental storytelling good writing They they did some interesting stuff with first person shooters So I think it s just a an interesting choice to do this I think the camera pans out sometimes So you do see the character and in cut scenes you see him too We ll we ll see how this goes Go read Jess s Jess Condit s hands on with this thing The title is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a Nazi slapping mechanic and gotta love it to see gotta love it Shout out to this game for doing that Also in Microsoft news there s a couple assistive tech things that they announced There s a new Xbox adaptive joystick which is a single stick type of thing which looks like honestly it looks a lot like a VR controller like something with the Oculus Headset or something but you can plug this into an existing xbox controller the adaptive controller and gives you a bunch of controls They can handle with just one hand let me see here There are also some d printable files for Adaptex thumbstick toppers so you can download these files They re free You have to get access to the d printer Talk to your local library because often they will have some of these devices But you can print out these things to get like better grips on your phone too for people who have trouble with with you know very typical gripping There s also this cool thing Let me see here in partnership with BitDo that Controller company There s the light S E G wireless controller which is a game pad with all the inputs on the top has low resistance buttons and Hall effect joysticks also has those like giant eight but do the super buttons that they put on their mechanical keyboards Just like a big ass button you can hit And I guess program things too So a lot of interesting options here too I m seeing CUD in the chatBen saying that it looks like a Wii nunchuck That is not wrong ItDevindra is not wrong but more specifically if Microsoft were to be like Hey maybe we should do a VR headset or something This kind of looks like what a VR control looks like maybe without the motion controls So that is cool Also also the all digital Xbox series X which we thought was kind of a joke when Microsoft announced it a couple of months ago you can pre order that now it s It s going to be coming to the U S on October th It s only cheaper than the disc version that disc version which by the way often goes on sale for sometimes even less So I m still a little baffled by this thing I m even more baffled by the special edition which has a two terabyte drive and the disk drive but it s I don t I don t know And we were just talkingBen about how Xbox is Only doing okay They re only doing soDevindra rather than lowering the prices to ship more boxes or I don t know man people like us We d rather sell more games through Sony than make our boxes cheaper So a really interesting calculation Microsoft is making there Did you ever decide on the next box Did you ever get the series S Cause we ve talked about that for a couple of years Cherlynn Never baby never get a PS five pro or whatever Devindra That was a good time to avoid that but I don t know more steam deck stuff for you or those PC handhelds I know you ve been playing around with yeah IBen think that actually the PC handhelds are probably the best option for CherlynnDevindra as they get smaller too because they re still big and yesCherlynn smaller is better They re a bit big and heavy right now I mean I played a lot with the I think I knew I mean I played a little bit with the steam duck And my switch is still a beautiful ornament You can Devindra you can honestly play most of the like good indie games right now on switch So you re not missing outCherlynn pretty old switch Got it like right before the pandemic So butDevindra you probably had the updated battery at least if that was better batteryCherlynn for sure I had that I mean I think I m interested in these games I like the handheld games but like my I don t know my habits have changed so much over the last few years it s oh I got into crocheting a lot and now I just sit around drawing Devindra You got into Vampire Survivors on your phone right And that made you a little crazy so I think you can do that on Switch Cherlynn I am a beast at vampire survivors I don t know what y all talking about I m a gamer Ben BorderlandsDevindra is coming which feels like a threat Gearbox and k games announced it s coming in which I think the impact of this announcement would have been maybe they were planning for the movie to go a little better Maybe they were being like oh yeah people are hyped for Borderlands right now Let s announce our next game no everybody hates the Borderlands movie I called it a disaster It is it s a huge mess So I don t know who s excited for this thing But hopefully it s better than Borderlands which I recall being a little disappointingBen In retrospect Could we have said that the Borderlands we knew that the Borderlands movie was not going to be that great when we saw that Kevin Hart was cast in it Devindra He s not the problem He s not the problem in that movie The problem is that you know the script is bad A lot of things are bad in that movie Ben So talking specifically about Borderlands I just wish that I had more of a squad to play it with because I have been playing I got those on sale as part of a kind of like buy the whole collection deal a couple of years ago And I was having a good time playing it by myself but I was like eh I feel like I need more people And like when I started playing this was a time Kind of like I had taken a sabbatical from like online kind of squad based games And now that I have been playing Helldivers so much I ve got like hours in on there God damn it Yeah Now I m thinking okay yeah I really want to find a squad of people to do other like squad based games with Devindra I mean you ve got a lot of options Sam You ve got all the all the other sorts of what Valorant And whatnot So I don t know There s so many squad based games right now This is I do wonder wouldn t the actual like evolution of Borderlands be like let s do a destiny type of thing where you re actually going on you know multiplayer missions and stuff with people I think cause you could do co op play and just dick around in Borderlands but it was never as robust as something like destiny So I don t know That could be the thing Did you see the story Ben and Cherlynn about the NVIDIA ACE virtual humans I got a lotBen to say about this but go on A lot toDevindra say These are these are so last year I believe NVIDIA showed off it s an avatar cloud engine technology Ace technology that s powering characters in some games So basically creating NPCs that will react to you the way like ChatGPT does so that they would speak if to you If you ask them a question or if you choose a certain prompt or something they could react to what you re saying or maybe react to your clothing but also their model will like look like it s talking properly They will have a semi AI conversation A lot of people were criticizing this as a way to be like so you this means you re not you don t need as many writers right This means you could just populate your games with this weird AI spouting avatars and not actually write dialogue for them or storylines or anything That s the controversy The news is that it s actually coming to a multiplayer mecha game called Mecha Break I ve not heard too much about this game but it is actually happening It s it s totally real What did you think about this news Ben Ben I watched the video where you know you re basically in kind of like a cyberpunk esque world and like you re going into a sushi shop and you re talking with the like sushi shop owner And I think it s cool that you can use your voice to interact with this AI character I think that that s a really cool feature cool like method of input and something that s probably going to pop up in a lot more games But when the character started talking it felt very wooden It felt like you were talking to a robot The voice didn t have very much color to it And hey I m a voice guy so Oh you can tell Really Yeah I really want that to feel more alive And so I was thinking how would we end up using this technology Because I think that it could be useful in some cases but definitely not as the main player character Definitely not As you know the next rung of NPCs Yeah these are like NPCs in weirdDevindra submissions off at the end of the map or something Yeah shouldBen probably like the most important you know five or so NPCs should probably still be written and acted But Where this could end up being really useful is if you have a big open world game I m thinking about like Assassin s Creed or something where you re like always Running through these like crowded marketplaces or something and you just hear people like yelling things That if you have a couple of people doing background editing Acting like lines and then the rest of it generated by NVIDIA ACE then that could be a good way of stretching your budget a little bit further and making the overall world feel a bit more alive Devindra Yeah Yeah You are absolutely right Ben That s I m sure what they re all thinking I hate that idea because especially like when I was playing the latest like Assassin s Creed game which is set way back in I don t know it s it s in the Middle East thousands of years ago and walking through the towns like walking through the villages and seeing the way they constructed it and seeing like people interact with dialogue that has been recorded by humans and written by humans Like it felt so alive I was kind of astounded by that And if you replace that ambience with with AI stuff you know like that s that to me will kill the realism of the game And I ll just feel like I m Oh I m just walking through the simulation right now I m not walking through ancient Baghdad or anything Right It s I feel like that ll kill it more So I m sure you all have thoughts podcasting gadget com Listen to what you think about this I m not a huge fan Not a huge fan of yeah I just hope itBen doesn t kill the art of the like little in joke kind of world building thing One of my favorites from Mass Effect was there was that one race of aliens that felt like it needed to or in order to communicate with other species it needed to preface the emotion that it was putting into its sentence It had to like Devindra yeah say it in words It s amazing I love it Ben Yeah Like when you re in an elevator or something there s a little ad for a all that alien species production of Hamlet or something So it s that s very funny and if we lost that I would feel like we re losing so much from I don t know quirky little world building things in video games Devindra Quirky little things I mean that s just good writing That s human ingenuity and creativity There is maybe something interesting that will happen with Hey emergent AI is avatars That is we love like game systems You see what people do with the just the systems in breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom or think back to far cry two where people are just like having a lot of fun with the rules and the mechanics of that world I m sure it s going to lead to some of that stuff I m just worried that Some of these companies will over rely on all of it Let s move on to Black Myth Wukong though which is a game that is totally killing it Cherlynn I feel like this may be up your alley too because this is a journey to the West game basically It s sort of like an adaptation I mean ICherlynn love the idea Is it a fighting game Do you like fight ItDevindra is very much it s like a Dark Souls game It s like God of War meets God of Dark Souls Okay but it isn t actually a Souls like game That s the thing It looks like a Souls like game but it isn t It has the mechanics It has the healing It has the crazy ass bosses What I m saying is it is very much God of War the sort of like adventuring around not as open as like the way Elden Ring was but very like in specific spaces It feels like Dark Souls It feels like actually playing early Dark Souls but also with the big ass bosses from Elden Ring and even God of War the newer games ended up doing a lot of that So that s what this game is Ben In trying to get myself up to speed on this game I was watching a lot of videos watching some streamers and stuff And the thing that I saw first from so many of the YouTube videos is saying that this isn t a Souls like game And then when I watched actual gameplay it showed you know big bosses like when you hit a boss or when you hit one of these like larger enemies all you re doing is chip damage And like the fights are pretty long which makes me feel like it is kind of more Souls like than not IDevindra don tBen understand Devindra It is more Souls like than it isn t I think some people are being weird and precious because gamers are weird But no you have to walk around and light like lanterns And this is where you respond When you die The big thing is you don t lose all your stuff You don t lose all your experience in your items when you die So you can just go back and keep hammering at a boss which is something you cannot do in souls game very easily I guess it s more like when you re exploring somewhere and you die from some stupid enemy and you lose like a lot of good experience That s the stuff that breaks my heart That just doesn t happen in this game You can explore and do whatever Anyway the news is that it was released this week and it broke Steam s concurrent single player record launch within hours of its launch So that is an insane thing for for it to happen I think the numbers we saw Ben Not so much of an asterisk though the concurrent players so many of them were in China This isCherlynn people being reallyBen enthusiastic Ask Nick about it in China and then a small minority of people single digit percentage of people in the US were playing this game Cherlynn What s up and they were all Chinese toChinese people in Asia in America No I I mean I I m not surprised by the numbers I think the Wukong title is interesting Like I wanted to ask you about you know cause y all both delve into the similarities to dark souls and talk about the mechanics a lot and the like components of the story but I m like are the story characters I like from grow growing up Are they there You know are does the monkey king fall in love with the spider demon Does like the sea I I ve bring around get tighter I ve I know So that s that s what I would be curious to see if they ve like faithfully adapted the sort of story Things that me and I m sure those concurrent streamers who are hugely Chinese are looking for that s the sort of like vibe we re looking for MaybeDevindra you you plays the monkey king so I ll give you that You got the staff you got the the cloud He flies on What is funny though is that I started watching OG Dragon Ball with my daughter and she s very much into original Dragon Ball I m like look Monkey King there s the staff there s this clown he s here Tail So here s my thing too Cherlynn There have been a lot of not that I m not talking about specifically Dragon Ball but there have been like a lot of other adaptations maybe even western adaptations of the Monkey King story that don t feel as faithful I remember Monkey King appearing somewhere as a playable character or like in some other smaller movie type thing as a baddie or something right And I m just like that s not what the Monkey King story is It s a story about redemption It sDevindra about redemption yeah And the wily monkey Anyway I just want to point out that that crazy numbers from the game what we were seeing is percent of the players were in China So U S was inCherlynn America What a nice coincidence We love the number Yeah Devindra I was wonderingBen about that Very lucky How is it that it was Very lucky That just seems like the books were cooked up We gamedCherlynn it y all That s all Ben Let s be clear I am not accusing them of cooking the books on this but it just seems like aDevindra really interesting coincidence Well let me put the context down here So this is essentially China s first triple A game The first game that is on the level of something like God of War So yeah I m pretty sure if if the government wasCherlynn probably well adapted Yeah Devindra If also but if the government was like we really gotta get the numbers on this game like whatCherlynn can we just turn on everyone s gaming consoles thoseDevindra consoles that are turned off because of gaming lockdown time you know the government s yes please please All you got all get free copies of the game I don t know No no we don t know If they do that they were like Cherlynn we re good We re done Devindra I think A lot of people in China definitely want to play this game I m playing through it right now A couple of things worth mentioning because the developer game science was like in the news too because apparently There was a document that went out to some streamers or not streamers but people who were got the firstBen look at the game or something Devindra The people who were covering the game mainly in China but apparently this went out to other countries like a couple of other European countries too there was a list of forbidden subjects in their review agreement which include do not mention politics Do not mention Feminist propaganda Do not mention COVID or China s video game industry policies the stuff we re talking about right now and other content that instigates negative discourse also believe like violence was one thing even though this is a game about the monkey king like bashing giant gods in in their heads with his stick Just kind of funny There is that whole thing Game science did not respond to an email I m looking at the New York times reporting here But this is not too surprising Right Cause we we deal with all sorts of limitations when it comes to when we cover games it s mainly just like it s embargo Hey please don t spoil all the storylines It s just like a an agreement to not spoil all the big surprises in the game please An embargo is okay everyone is going to try to Publish it this time or sometime after that s like the general agreement We ll go to but certainly not content of our reviews Not like avoiding certain topics yeah Ben also the leader of game science has I don t know He s just a poster like imagine This most whacked out stuff that Elon Musk has been posting about recently This comes back to the idea of are gamers okay Gamers are notDevindra okay I don t evenBen want to mention it It s just kind of nasty fratty culture You know in a Chinese design studio Which makes me think oh man are all gamers the same That s kind of sad I think a lot it sDevindra in it s in Especially if you use it mostly consists of dudes and industry that is very dude heavy like unfortunately it leans to that There is a great reporting over at IGN last year It s called how black myth Wukong developers history of sexism is complicating its journey to the West Written by Rebecca Valentine and Kihun Chan This is a good piece Worth worth reading because yeah essentially the culture of the studio does not seem great It seems very very fratty very much like a boys club I will tell you all this I m hours into this game and now I do feel guilty about like playing it because I did not realize how fully shitty they were Yeah But Not a single woman hours of me playing this game talking to other creatures talking to gods talking to you know other people I m fighting or people like living on the mountain not a single female character So Laura question for sure Cherlynn I m sure that s what you re about to ask Ben which is let me just tell you the story itself is heavily male dominant right It the story of the journey to the West is this monkey King this monk and like his three disciples including the monkey King So there s a pig boyBen and Cherlynn Tang San Zhang is the monk And then he has Dude with the burly facial hair that s one of his disciples And then the Monkey King is like the second disciple right Or the third And along the way they go all the way to the west to retrieve something I forget what The key the key point of the whole entire story and I forget But Along the way they encounter demons and you know things that are meant to like they want to eat the monk s flesh Basically because it will give them immortality or something and they re demons and they re lesser beings in the lore right so two of the demons that they encounter or three the spider demon and The nine tailed fox or the fox demon or whatever These are both women I haven t encountered these charactersDevindra yet so I don t know SoCherlynn probably you have encountered them because they might be like bigger like enemies to fight But I also will point out that in the historic telling of the story that these two are known to seduce the the monkey king and the the monk their attempt to and it s very sexualized that way And also it into like slang I wouldn t say slang but like the vernacular where in Mandarin the words spider demon or fox demon mean women who are like I don t want to use the S word but you know what I mean Like they re a little promiscuous or they re a little More out there right So you re saying like the story itself isDevindra like inherently sexist too Yes Yeah I am not surprised Not at all surprised But it does seem like the game is reflecting that Listen I think a modern developer could be like well screw that right Like we could we could change things up because we are retelling the story Could be Cherlynn It would have been so cool Devindra Would it be so cool But it isCherlynn also China Devindra It is also China Where like youCherlynn mentioned those stipulations and in media and in entertainment they re very careful about the messaging which is why I was like nodding along when you said those things that they ve stipulated because it tracks Devindra It tracks Anyway game is okay so far Like I m I m enjoying at least but it does suck that this company has a history of this I feel like this is like something if they cared if they cared at all Just the thing they could have noted but no it doesn t seem like they re they care at all Also rewatching original Dragon Ball you learn pretty much like Bulma is the goat but nothing would happen in Goku s story without Bulma So shout out to Bulma My daughter Sophia loves Bulma She s Bulma has all these like capsules She s got all these vehicles She s cool Bulma is super cool Shout out to Bulma Okay So that s Gamescom Go take a look at all of our coverage from that event And and if you re playing Black Myth Wukong let me know what you think Let s move on to some other news real quick A couple of things I wanted to shout out I wrote up something that is so deeply nerdy but I m very proud that we put it on the site because this is this isn t gadget Okay X mems the company that Billy Steele has written about which has produced solid state solid state drivers for earbuds and things like that So not like traditional speakers with the coil and the magnet all that stuff solid state silicon that can that can work as your earbud driver This company He has used that same technology to produce a one millimeter tall fan on a chip So this is one millimeter tall essentially a chip that can work as a fan It s using ultrasonics to move air around within it SoBen that s really interesting It s really cool Cherlynn Crazy So theBen whole idea is I was wondering like where are the moving parts Where are the fan blade Really really tiny ultrasonics Devindra Ben ultrasonics So anyway this company and they re using MEMS technology which is micro electromechanical systems technology That is essentially like really really really small machinery but in this case with no moving parts but essentially like you could put one or two or a couple of these fans inside a future smartphone inside a tablet inside a device like the Mac book air M two which died on me at Apple s campus because I was working in the sun and that computer has no fan So when you have no fan You re the heat from all your work is just kind of trapped in there So I just think this is really cool This is something that could end up being in devices in the future Could really change the way like ultra thin devices are made If the rumors about Apple wanting to do that crazy ultra thin iPhone are true like maybe we ve got to get some airflow in that And I just think that idea Is is just think it s neat What do you guys what do you guys think Ben I really hope that this doesn t drive dogs crazy Devindra It sBen they say it s silent but yeah Ultrasonic yeah So it has to be like way outside of the hearing range of any creature hopefully Devindra It could Cherlynn thoughts Cherlynn I mean I think the technology the idea itself is really cool I think Fan on a chip like just that alone Like we were all like Devon you got to look at this one And then you were like yeah it s just I think we all nerded out like a group as a group nerded out about this GoodDevindra nerd stuff Do you want to point out there is like a competing product for I hate saying it out loud for they are producing the air jets mini which I believe the verge and other sites have have covered and forest thing is millimeters to millimeters thick So you know A couple couple millimeters taller and it also looks like a bigger package in this thing Like the thing about XMEMS technology it looks like a tiny little chip so it could easily go inside your iPhone where there s this little space on real estate It s the sort of thing you could put it right on the GPU right on the APU Looks cool could change the way our devices are designed So check out my coverage of the XMEMS chip We wrote a story in San Francisco Real quick is aiming to take down AI undressing websites and a new lawsuit This is just good news because the fact that there is a prevalence of these apps both on the web and an app source is absolutely disgusting And we are like fully unequipped to deal with them right now So it s it s a good thing Hopefully we see more of this on a federal level too not just a San Francisco And something I wanted to ask Cherlynnn because we saw this news drop Chick fil A The chicken sandwich place is launching a streaming service for reality TV and tone programming What do you think of Chick fil A s streaming service Cherlynn Okay first of all Devindra you should haveCherlynn paid better attention to our show notes Yes you should Or not Ben No that s actually no that s actually great Yeah That s really funny that you weren t aware of this because now we re getting your real reaction Yeah Devindra what are your first impressions on this news What This is weird Ben Why What areCherlynn they going to show me It feels to me like theseBen executives are like channeling an idea like they they took out a Ouija board but instead of communicating with spirits they re communicating with the spirit of and they re like okay what is the best business logic for growing our National company Let s just do a streaming service because streaming services are really hot right No dude they re all consolidating because Piper has asked to be paid in terms of streamingCherlynn There s a paradise in the chest Are the cows the pigs Producers cut a CD is like chicken dating show I m sorry if this is the actual content we re expecting Hell yes I mean Ben has like puppy football Like we we have a lot of love Island It could be love pasture Cherlynn Listen listen if they do like chicken farm content and then they slaughter the chickens and fry them I think that is kind of concerning but I will also say that have they have y all seen the KFC like Hallmark movie Devindra I ve not seen it I know it exists Cherlynn Oh my god where Mario Lopez plays Colonel Sanders and then he falls in love with a woman I think maybe thatDevindra was their inspiration We gotta we gotta out chicken KFC We gotta we gotta do something here It was so good Cherlynn I m sorry if I ve gone ultrasonic I m feeling pitched I think Chick fil ADevindra is flying too close to the sun I think that s what it is They are doing really well It s got all this money You can do all this stuff Also Ben Chick fil A is notorious for you know did a cow write this sign It s like E E T more chicken Yeah Like all spelled wrong It s quite funny So I can only imagine what the closed captions would look like Oh man But also Devindra Chick fil A is notoriously a a very religious religiously leading company Yes that s what I was thinking too Again the Hallmark movie may actuallyBen be a good Cherlynn Maybe Ben Yeah No that s what I was thinking about It could be kind of like Hallmark or it could be like what if we had our own Hallmark Yeah Yeah Cherlynn Right But what if they bought farmers only which I don t know if y all know is like a farmer s only dating website Devindra Yeah Cherlynn And then they were like chicken farmers only And then they put them on a show Devindra Okay So we had funny news How about some WTF news Because this is a crazy story and I m just bringing it up because it is fricking wild It s also basically the plot of industry season three British billionaire Mike Lynch was recently found dead after his yacht sank several days ago or it may have been a week ago at this point I m mentioning this Because this guy is involved in a lot of shady stuff Like back when I was covering HP stuff he was the CEO of autonomy and HP bought that for billion and not too long after HP was like Oh crap we made a huge mistake billion right down Just for buying autonomy He and his former VP of finance were basically I believe San Francisco was charging them for a while They were recently acquitted in June on he was acquitted on counts of fraud This is a guy was just a bonkers bonkers life So he disappeared from his boat now proven to be dead We think oh this is a kind of a weird story right His former VP of finance Stephen Chamberlain Died mysteriously this week after being hit by a car Cherlynn Extremely mysterious Extremely Devindra Extremely like bank who s very pissed off about the billions of dollars that they probably lost because of your deal or your business practices Extremely Oh you just we re going to make you go bye bye now Anyway that is purely conjecture purely conspiracy theory Ben Yeah Remember that episode of breaking bad where they coordinated a hit On five different possible witnesses in different prisons all in the same five minutes Devindra Yeah I mean it s just it is wild There are some things that happen in real life that is totally freaky I don t know there are reports about what like ExxonMobil does to reporters Like when they co cover oil fields or stuff somewhere Reporters have said my hotel reservation was cancelled Things are just really weird like weird shit that these companies have the power to do folks Like we see stories about the mobs and stuff but don t forget who has all the money and all the power Just dropping that weird story right there Anyway watch Industry if you want another angle or another type of story like this Cherlynn again you should watch that show I think you d enjoy it Cherlynn I just want to point out that Davindra I I you know me I like to re watch Schitt s Creek until the day I die before I like even start a new show so Devindra Well it s more you want some nice drama nice steamy drama in your life When I doCherlynn want some nice Non science fiction drama non science fiction dramaDevindra with like human characters who have flaws who are very ambitious Like I think you would doesCherlynn it sound like this Mm Hmm other show This succession It sDevindra very in fact I wrote a whole piece about that Sherly So you should go you should go read that review I know Flying Lotus The artist one of my favorite artists has confirmed that he composed two Apple ringtones Daybreak and Chalet which have been on iPhones since So I m just that s cool It s cool to me Is it cool to you Ben Must veBen been a nice bag Must ve been a really nice bag And this is also has a podcast connection because the podcast Hertz which is a podcast all about sound design So they were doing a little series called The Sound of Apple and they talked about it And so now Flying Lotus was like okay I didn t just ghost produce these I can say yes I produced these two ringtones and I ll drop these two ringtones in on the audio version So here s Daybreak And here s Chalet Devindra I I ve switched back to daybreak but they have the same layers and vibes of flying Lotus s stuff So I m like okay we should have sure Probably told that this is the rumors about Michael Jackson working on the Sonic three soundtrack This is like that level of geek and artistry kind of combining which I don t think was ever fully confirmed Like maybe he did some consulting or something but that soundtrack did slap So there s that Let s move on to some pop culture pics for the week What do you got Show one Cherlynn So I when I thought I had pop culture pics this week I realized I might ve already shared it with the the this podcast but no but but but but but just reminder that I still watch scary interesting till I die because it s hilarious I mean hilariously morbid it s just hilarious that I listened to those stories If people getting stuck in caves and underwater diving accidents Why would you do this to yourself Okay Because I enjoy it somehow But so I think I have mentioned this right on the podcast I think Ben or Dove you might remember scary interesting cave exploring gone wrong Anyway So instead of that sort of pop culture pick I m going to give y all a different one which is I recently discovered because it s surfaced on my app YouTube has these games Now have y all have y all seen these I don t know Maybe I m awareDevindra that they re game Cherlynn Yeah So it s not like new information It s not brand new information as Phoebe buffet would say but I just started playing some of them and they re quite hilariously not great and but also somewhat addictive in classic me Classic Sherline Devindra Yes Classic air The game included on the airplane TV Sherline Yes Yeah Cherlynn Okay There is a there is a a game that I ve been playing on YouTube games called a Phone Case Designer Devindra Okay yeah Cherlynn that s my recommendation Devindra Thank you for that Cherlynn Actually Ben do you want to shout anything out Cuz I got a I need to run to the bathroom Yeah I think so Okay go for it Yeah yeah Ben I get to do a producer pick that s cool Okay so a couple of years ago there was a book that came out called uncanny valley by Anna Weiner or Weiner I think it might be Weiner and it s generally like a A Story that I am very familiar with which is like this is a non fiction book It s about a woman s experience going from the publishing world to working in startups in the early s She started out working for this like big data company when big data was first rising and then moved over to github and Is just talking about her personal experience with the weird culture of the bay area during that time Because in that time of the early to mid s was when like the population of the Bay Area especially like San Francisco Oakland area was really Turning over There were a lot of people a lot of young professionals coming from all over the country to work at these startups making a lot of money like talking about doing ayahuasca trips and how even when they re tripping they re thinking about like BB business solutions It s strange It s not something that I wasn t already aware of but it was it s just fun to Listen to I m listening to the audiobook Cherlynn Yeah I mean that s why we all do the pop culture picks from different people because different people have different tastes and you have your taste and I love to play silly little YouTube games So there you go Simon B in the chat says YouTube games are too addicting So I feel like I feel supported Where were you back in the Facebook gamesDevindra era Sherilyn Were you deep in FarmvilleCherlynn or not Yeah PVZ No I didn t play Farmville even though I think I could have And I think a lot of people in my circles did play them It feelsBen Okay Okay So Dev do you have a pick Yeah I llDevindra do real real quick I do want to shout out that one of the greatest TV shows ever made which has been inaccessible for a long time Homicide Life on the Street One of the best cop shows ever made is it s now wire before the wire wire before the wire based on david simon s book with a lot of people who went on to produce other tv shows like bosh it is now streaming on peacock It s an incredible show starring the late great andre brauer so You miss Andre Brower from Brooklyn Nine Nine A lot of great actors like characters that were established in Homicide went on to Law and Order and other things So it s a fantastic show You should check it out Especially the first few seasons It s streaming right now I have the DVD set which was great It s just on sale but I don t I m still happy to have that because I feel like the digital version can go any any time you get to buy the things you love So that s what I ve got for this week Cherlynn Well that s it for the episode this week everyone Thank you as always for tuning in Our theme music is by game composer Dale North Our outro music is by our former managing editor Terrence O Brien The podcast is produced by Ben Elman You can find Dev or Davindra online atDevindra And Devindra on Twitter Blue Sky Mastodon the usual places And I chat about movies and TV at the Filmcast thefilmcast com Cherlynn If you want to hit me up I am 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