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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

312: The Original Tree Puncher

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8521 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Online game design veteran Raph Koster recently posted a new piece about how he thinks about game design, which got us talking about the history of online multiplayer, so then we figured, why not talk about that subject in a (slightly) more comprehensive way on this podcast? So that's what we did this week, dipping into topics like pre-TCP/IP network gaming, the early video game consoles' various half-baked online solutions, how Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies were both way ahead of their time, how much the infrastructure has evolved for facilitating multiplayer -- and how expected it is as a feature these days -- and plenty more.

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0:00.0

Okay, I have a problem.

0:04.6

Go on.

0:06.1

That's vague and broad, but hey, we're here to tackle problems.

0:09.7

So in the olden times, consoles were things that lived in the cabinet under my TV.

0:15.1

And then I would, you know, when I wasn't using the console, I would close the door.

0:18.2

When I used the console, I'd open the door, right?

0:20.2

Yeah.

0:20.5

So nice and out of the way and you don't have to look at them, which I like.

0:23.5

But now, in the modern context, I have all these docks attached to my TV. I have one for the steam deck, and I have one for the switch, and I have one for the switch two, because we are a mixed mode, switch one and switch two family wait hang on most important question where is your

0:39.4

animal crossing island we all have our own we got multiple switches because everybody wanted to

0:44.4

make their own animal crossing island right okay this is what we this is look this is what we

0:49.2

did with our Biden bonus in 2021 or whatever that was one way to tackle it sure yeah so, sure. Yeah. So, okay, so here's the problem, though. Well, okay, one of them is easy because Gina doesn't ever use the switch on the TV. So her doc is just the places that she's places she plugs in her switch to charge, right? So she's a handheld only. Yeah, real quick to define the problem. You need, you need vertical lifting space. Is that correct? I need vertical lifting space, but ideally I want something I don't have to look at. But also, I do like playing games on the TV. So I want to be able to use it attached to the TV occasionally. Sure. My instinct is to say, I'll just put the docks behind the TV. But then you have to like, nope, contort your spine in a curve around the TV to get to the dock. Yeah. And also the TV is too close to the wall. This doesn't work. So what do people do? Like I have a Steam Deck dock and a Switch 2 dock. The Switch 1 dock's going to go away because the kiddo and I are both Switch 2ed up now. And like, wait, you have two Switch 2s? Yeah. Man. Well, you have two switch twos to my zero? I mean, look, I'm a professional game, games person. Oh, okay. What's that like? Up and down. It doesn't pay great. My girlfriend literally just got back from Costco like two hours ago. Yeah. Send me a photo of like stacks and stacks of Switch 2 at Costco. She wants

2:02.0

a Switch 2 clearly. I should have had her just pick one up. Look, here's the thing. That Animal

2:06.5

Crossing update's coming. That's true. Yeah. We're, there's now jockeying going on in the house because

2:12.0

right now my daughter's island is on her switch light still. And my wife's island is on her switch OLED. and my wife's island is on her switch

2:19.1

OLED.

2:20.0

Okay.

2:20.4

And my island is on my original switch.

2:22.3

So there's two available slots for new islands right now.

2:26.7

Okay.

2:27.3

And even though they've given like the Resetti powers to get rid of the flower problem

2:32.3

that plagues every island that hasn't been touched in three years exists now as of january it's still a problem like i like everybody wants

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