Idle Thumbs 256: The First Great Brand War

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It is 2017. The stench of scorched mozzarella stings your nostrils. Brand warfare has emerged as the dominant vector of economic and military conflict. A delivery bot rolls your way, and you frantically dig a receipt out of your pocket, showing a recent order for a medium half-sausage, half-pepperoni. Too late, you realize your mistake: this is a Taco Bell bot. "Okay, I will destroy humans," it offers cheerfully, then everything goes black.

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0:00.0	Markos?
0:03.0	Markos?
0:04.0	Markos?
0:05.0	Markos emails from Idle Thums.
0:07.0	Your host.
0:08.0	Marco Rubio.
0:10.0	Our host, Marco Rubio, our host, Marco not Marco Rubio, but we record it in the Emoryville Rubio's. It's March 30th, 2016.
0:29.0	It's March 30th, 2016.
0:31.0	This is Idle Thums 256. I'm Chris Remo. I'm Nick Brecken. I'm Jake Rodkin.
0:36.0	I'm Jake Rodkin. Chris I saw you savor that power of two episode.
0:39.0	I just realized. Yeah, it's two to the eighth.
0:45.0	We all know, a lot of programmers in this room, I was like, oh, yeah, this
0:47.1	number, that means something.
0:48.1	Yeah, I was like on the dimension of this episode
0:49.7	will compress down into a nice d-dX-T texture.
0:53.0	Wow, I didn't even, that's too deep a pole for me.
0:56.0	Yeah, that's...
0:57.0	Oh, I...
0:58.0	What?
0:59.0	You don't have to make your textures as power of two squares?
1:02.0	So they render quicker on hardware hardware I don't know that I'm aware of that but I don't know what a
1:05.9	DXT texture is it's a computer game file all right yeah anyway
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