The State Of Gaming Is Terrible - WAN Show July 8, 2022

The WAN Show

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wandshow, we have a fantastic show lined up for you guys today with hot topics including
0:08.9	Ubisoft Ubisoft they went so long without us having anything too negative to say about them
0:16.0	Oh enough teaphing. Oh, okay. That was pretty bad. Well anyway, it's even worse this week
0:20.8	They're decommissioning online services for a number of their old games with no alternatives to be seen
0:28.0	We'll be talking about that alongside just I mean, I guess just the state of gaming in general
0:33.6	You can't talk about games getting decommissioned without also talking about how much it costs to pay for these
0:40.7	gaming experiences that are so so fleeting
0:45.4	in other news
0:47.6	An M.2 MacBook Pro tear down confirms it is basically an M1 did I say M.2 you did and M2 MacBook Pro tear down confirms
0:57.2	It's basically an M1
0:59.2	except
1:00.7	You if you wanted to oh, I don't know just reuse that chassis and change the logic board. So we'll be talking a little bit more about that later
1:10.3	YouTube is just randomly deciding that definitely adult content is actually for kids and it's flagging it for kids and it's giving it to kids
1:18.7	So that's bad also in video is unable to back out of TSMC orders because actually yes
1:26.6	Your sales numbers were inflated by mining. Yes, they were
1:31.1	Yes, they were oh, and I'm gonna have an update on the whole YouTube spam comment situation
1:37.6	I have I have been personally contacted by more than one YouTube employee about my comments from last week
1:44.9	So we'll be chatting about that as well interesting
1:56.4	oh
2:07.6	Why don't we jump right into our first
2:10.4	Topic this was actually flagged for me by a viewer unfortunately
2:14.7	I'm sorry
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