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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

74: Mining for Computronium

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Google's "pivot" away from first-party Stadia development seemed like a good cue to spend an episode not only pondering the future of the company's game-streaming service--including third-party applications for Stadia's technology stack, and what all those server racks might be good for--and also going through the company's many, many dearly departed products. Anyone remember Google Pie? Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, 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

I spent this afternoon building Dyson spheres.

0:02.3

What?

0:02.9

You can't do that by yourself.

0:04.3

You need at least like three other people to absorb all the radiation emitted by a star.

0:09.7

Look, phase one, build a giant mecca.

0:12.7

Phase two, build a bunch of factories that build the parts of other stuff.

0:17.5

Phase three, question mark.

0:19.2

Phase four, absorb all the energy of the sun.

0:22.5

Profit and whatever the energy absorption version of profit is. Look, Mr. Burns built the shade

0:27.5

over Springfield. That worked out well for him. I don't know if ever saw the end of that episode,

0:31.1

but I feel like it's a good strategy. That game. Never really saw you as an industrial

0:36.4

magnate before, but I guess you know people pivot

0:38.8

careers all the time I is there is there something broken about my psyche that makes those kind

0:44.8

of factory slash world devourer games so compelling to me I was not so I sat in on a video

0:50.7

and watch finney play that game yeah this week and I I don't know why it didn't occur to me,

0:54.5

but I was not ready for the world devouring aspect of that game. It's just like, to me,

0:58.4

it was just a very positive, like, you know, it was an additive like, oh, let's build this thing.

1:02.8

It did the part where you have to basically strip mine an entire solar system in order to do that.

1:07.6

Multiple solar systems. It kind of escaped to me that you essentially, like you really would have to just eradicate

1:13.3

every planet in the system to even come close to doing something like that.

1:16.3

I don't think there's enough.

1:17.3

I think the, hmm, this is hazy memory, but I believe that there's not enough mass in the

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