296: The Slopposite

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What better way to beat the summer heat than with another stack of cold opens for your listening micro-pleasure? This time around we delve into such short topics as etiquette at the EV charging station, why kids hate charging their phones, how to dispose of (or maybe just use) slightly-too-old gasoline, the everlasting value of the office crap table, how procedural generation is weighted in game content, why more products should be like the modern glue stick, and more.Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Brad, I'm 10 years into working from home this year.
0:03.0	Really?
0:04.1	Yeah, because I started when I left tested in 2015.
0:06.3	Of course.
0:06.7	2025.
0:07.7	Like, foo, you were the original self-employed, start a company and work from home guy.
0:12.7	I invented this.
0:14.6	Nobody ever worked from home before 2015.
0:16.7	That's right.
0:17.4	Nope.
0:17.6	Only shiftless layabouts and people who are stealing time from the company.
0:22.6	But like, so I've been going back into the office for the last year or so a couple days a week to help with PC World. And it's nice being back in the office. And I realized like, okay, it's nice to have like an idea of what your co-workers' threedimensional faces look like. Yes. I worked with some people at Strait Bombay that I talked to for hours every day that I don't think I would recognize if I cross them on the street because they were camera off people. Oh, wow. Yeah. As a rule? Almost all the time. Man. Okay. And then even even in like a one-on-one situation?
0:56.4	Sometimes it turned on a one-on-one.
0:57.7	But often it was just like, because often you'd be sharing your screen.
1:01.1	So it's like the thing you're looking at is a screen, not the other person.
1:03.8	Sure.
1:05.7	But like more than the three-dimensional representations co-workers faces and like going to lunch
1:11.5	with people and talking at the water cooler or whatever. I miss the crap table. The crap table.
1:18.2	Did you have a crap table at GameSpot? Like, you know, it's like the table where people bring their
1:23.6	crap that's too good to throw away, but not so good that you want to keep it. I think you could argue that maybe the entire office was at the crap table. I didn't want to say that. There was a pile kind of over by the giant bomb pit at the last, back at the end of the CBSI days. Sure. Yes. There were so much stuff coming into that office that I think it was basically a kind of a crap office if you get my meaning. Because like that's the problem, like the problem doing these kinds of jobs where people
1:47.4	where like everything you get is not something you have to spend money on.
1:51.0	Like people send us stuff because they want us to cover it.
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