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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

79: A Subsidiary of Starko Industries

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

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

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What the heck is going on with modern video game controllers? That's the question we're trying to address this week, with Joy Con and DualSense analog stick drift, unresponsive Xbox face buttons, do-it-yourself repair, advanced soldering techniques, class action lawsuits and other subjects all weighing on our minds. Is there any end in sight? 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

Look, man, I've been up until like three or four o'clock in the morning for the most of this week.

0:05.5

Yeah, what is up with that?

0:07.7

This is game called Eco.

0:11.0

It did not echo with the dolphin.

0:12.8

It's eco.

0:13.1

It's, it looks like Minecraft.

0:15.8

You do voxily cubes and then you build stuff with them.

0:19.8

But it's like a, it's not an MMO because it's not like, it's not massive, but it's a persistent world.

0:25.6

And you can have like 50 or 60 people in the server.

0:28.6

And it started life as a educational program to teach middle school kids, like how many, how much labor goes into everything from like a hamburger

0:40.2

up to their phones?

0:42.2

It's a noble goal.

0:43.6

Oh, dude, it's so, it's so cool.

0:45.8

So like you choose professions and then you have to tech up the tree, this tech tree.

0:51.1

And the tech tree is massive and it's really, really interconnected.

0:55.0

So everybody on the server has to be trading and working with each other constantly.

0:58.4

So, like, if you're a potter, you have to be buying a mortar from the masonry people.

1:05.9

And if you're a steel smelter, you have to get miners to work for you.

1:09.4

And if you're a smith, you have to buy the ore from the smelters.

1:12.8

And it's and and there are two to lose conditions and one win condition.

1:21.2

So there's a meteor.

1:22.6

Oh.

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