85: Hey, They've Got That Baseball

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Six-ish months since launch, the next-gen consoles are now officially current-gen, so we thought it was time for a check-in on the state of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X platforms. How has the user experience matured so far? What system software issues are still lingering? When will games start shipping at 30Hz? Will they ever be easy to actually buy? These questions and more, discussed! 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	When I was a kid and learned about Apollo, the Apollo missions, I always thought that like the crap job was the guy who was in the command module and had to watch his two friends go down to the moon and then didn't get to go to the moon.
0:10.7	He didn't get to go to the moon.
0:11.9	That's all that's all there is to say.
0:13.4	He did not get to.
0:14.3	He went to the moon, but't go down on the moon and like how incredibly dangerous and how close each of those landings was.
0:29.5	Like, and that is the scariest.
0:31.2	I think that might be the single scariest job in the space program, right?
0:35.2	Which one?
0:35.9	The piloting of the command module or the
0:37.7	Michael Collins job?
0:38.7	No.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.4	The command module job.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:40.8	Like if you, you, you, you close the hatch.
0:45.9	The lem departs.
0:47.3	It goes down for the landing.
0:49.3	It doesn't work out.
0:51.9	You know, your best case is that you've got five days in the capsule on the way back by yourself.
0:58.2	Oh, my God.
0:58.8	I never thought about that.
1:00.3	Right?
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