Shades Of Brown

We try to stay objective about the DualSense controller and then take a quick bite of Quibi. Show Notes: 00:00:01 - DualSense 00:27:41 - Quibi PS5 Controller: Sony reveals the PlayStation 5 controller, the DualSense Quibi Quit trying to make Quibi happen Quibi Contact: Cristian Online Sadiq Online Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS

Apple does some gross stuff, Intel does some confusing stuff, and then we take another look at DOOM Eternal but in the worst way possible. Show Notes: 00:00:56 - Apple Giving Amazon Exception To IAP Rules 00:14:03 - Apple Bought Dark Sky 00:23:21 - 10th Gen Intel CPUs and New Nvidia GPUs for Mobile 00:38:37 - DOOM Eternal On Stadia Apple does some weird and questionable shit Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions A Tim Sweeney tweet about the matter RIP Dark Sky New Intel laptop CPUs and new NVIDIA laptop GPUs Intel’s 10th-generation H-series laptop CPUs break 5GHz It’s a “tock” year: New Nvidia laptop GPUs in 25 OEMs’ systems this month We talk more about DOOM Eternal DOOM Eternal on Stadia A test video Contact: Cristian Online Sadiq Online Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS

One of us has a secret thing for Doomslayer X Isabelle ships, we chat app discourse, and then the other one starts playing a Love Live! gacha game. Show Notes: 00:00:48 – Animal Crossing: New Horizons 00:14:51 – Doom Eternal 00:28:03 – Streaming Games On Discord 00:46:16 – Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS … Continue reading Episode 124: TTH — Time To Horny

New game console specs, new MacBooks and iPad’s, and us being blissfully ignorant of everything else. Show Notes: 00:01:53 – Xbox Series X 00:26:31 – PS5 00:45:50 – Macbook Air (2020) 00:55:26 – iPad Pro (2020) Game Consoles: Digital Foundry — Xbox Series X Complete Specs + Ray Tracing/Gears 5/Back-Compat/Quick Resume Demo Showcase! Digital Foundry … Continue reading Episode 123: you’re getting 3.2 superspeed and thats it

An iOS 14 build leaked, and we bring back Hot Tips™ to talk about working from home. Show Notes: 00:01:00 – iOS 14 Leaks 00:37:26 – Working From Home Hot Tips Apple Rumors: iOS 14 Rumor Roundup iOS 14 to include new homescreen list view option with Siri suggestions and more Leaked watchOS 7 code reveals … Continue reading Episode 122: The Teens Love A W.I.M.P. Interface

343 drops Halo CE for the Master Chief Collection, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo drops, publishers are dropping GeForce Now, and Sadiq finally drops his anti-Mac Pro agenda. *There are no chapters or metadata embedded in this weeks file due to a crashing bug with the software used to master the episode. Apologies about … Continue reading Episode 121: If We Grab Our Dongles, We Can Have A LAN Party

A story about file syncing gone wrong, an accidental cosplay of the environment*, Jeff from the Overwatch team invents a new game mode, plus Bungie had some news about Destiny. *That’s a STAR reference Show Notes: 00:00:38 – In Which We Complain About OS Integrity 00:38:19 – LG Has A New Phone But We Just … Continue reading Episode 120: We’re Strange Computer People

Google releases a new developer preview, everything that that folds and costs over 1k seems to break, and then we discuss how pro-capitalistic Animal Crossing is. Show Notes: 00:00:01 – Uhhh 00:02:15 – Android 11 Developer Preview 00:30:04 – Folding Phone Durability Drama 00:40:53 – Nintendo Switch Cloud Saves & Animal Crossing Android News: Google … Continue reading Episode 119: Revolt Against Tom Nook

Microsoft finally gives us more info on Windows 10X, we examine predatory coding schools, Sadiq finally pivots away from analog books, and Samsung goes full hypebeast at Samsung Unpacked 2020. Show Notes: 00:00:34 – Windows 10X 00:22:35 – Coding Bootcamps 00:42:19 – Sadiq Got An Ebook Reader! 00:52:58 – Samsung Unpacked Windows 10X: Windows 10X … Continue reading Episode 118: More Resolution To Smooth Out

The iPad announcement turns 10 so we take a chance to spend 40 minutes talking about the good old days of information density, subscriptions are tiring us out, and then we 1v1 Neil Young in the audiophile arena. Show Notes: 00:02:48 – iPad Announcement Turned 10 00:39:17 – Subscription Fatigue 01:08:14 – Let’s Laugh at … Continue reading Episode 117: Low Res Trash

We get extremely crypto and politics heavy this week and then immediately swerve out of that into Overwatch. Show Notes: 00:00:12 – Apple Vs The FBI, Again 00:43:26 – Overwatch League Now Youtube Exclusive Apple, iCloud and Encrypted iPhones Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help Exclusive: Apple dropped … Continue reading Episode 116: Comparing Crypto

We talk about unions in games, congressional hearings on abuse of market power in tech, and then turnstyle into Quibi. Show Notes: 00:11:17 – Cyberpunk 2077 Delay 00:11:24 – Games Unions 00:26:35 – Congressional Hearings on Big Tech 00:46:53 – QUIBI Games: Cyberpunk 2077 still needs crunch time to complete, CEO says Game dev union … Continue reading Episode 115: Gamers Don’t Care About Crunch

This week was CES, you know it, we know it, let’s get uncomfortably close to branded experiences and try and make it out ok. Show Notes: 00:00:39 – CPUs 00:19:49 – Gaming 00:29:16 – PCs 00:55:01 – New Bluetooth Standard Update 01:02:20 – TVs 01:09:30 – Vaporware CPUs: AMD’s third shoe finally drops at CES … Continue reading Episode 114: Give Thunderbolt 3 To The Children

Continuing our apparent pivot into a games podcast, we talk about games of the decade and then pivot back to tech to make fun of failed products. Show Notes: 00:00:39 – Sadiq’s Games Of The Decade 00:43:54 – Cristian’s Games Of The Decade 01:25:35 – Talking Trash About Failed Tech Products Of The Decade Games … Continue reading Episode 113: 2009-2019

It’s list week! So we arbitrarily rank music and video games released in 2019. Show Notes: 00:00:04 – An Aside On Opus 00:09:22 – Cristian’s Top Albums 00:31:40 – Sadiq’s Top Albums 00:49:54 – Sadiq’s GOTY’s 01:07:39 – Cristian’s GOTY’s Our albums of the year Cristian’s albums of the year: IGOR – Tyler, The Creator … Continue reading Episode 112: A Nice Sounding Burning Piano

Halo Reach is a 10 year old game that by virtue of just existing has a better business model and set of content than any FPS game released this year, we talk about it for an hour. Show Notes: Halo Reach: Digital Foundry – Halo Reach PC/Xbox One Review: It’s Good – But There Are … Continue reading Episode 111: Into The Reach

Sadiq and Cristian talk about having to reinstall software, super low level software, encrypted network software, and then video game streaming software. Show Notes: 00:00:05 – eGPU Follow Up 00:16:09 – Google’s Attempts To Mainline Android Kernel Support 00:25:48 – DNS, DOH, and DOT 00:44:15 – Google Stadia: Officially Launched eGPU Follow Up: Izotope RX … Continue reading Episode 110: Hackers 2: Own The Information

Sadiq and Cristian talk about space capitalism video games, Apple finally fixing their keyboards, and take advantage of a boring Windows 10 update to Go90* about eGPUs. *Go90 is a registered trademark of Verizon LLC, used without permission Show Notes: 00:00:17 – The Outer World (Spoilers) 00:25:22 – The Outer Worlds (Not Spoilers) 00:32:25 – … Continue reading Episode 109: 2020 Let’s Get You On Funkwhale

Sadiq and Cristian talk about AirPods, take a big detour into audiophile land, laugh at WearOS, and ThinQ about BlizzCon. Show Notes: 00:00:34 – Notifications on iOS 00:05:42 – AirPods Pro 00:25:06 – Google Buys Fitbit 00:32:41 – BlizzCon (Part 1, Politics Discourse) 00:46:45 – BlizzCon (Part 2, Games Talk) Airpods Pro: Apple announces AirPods … Continue reading Episode 108: Moral High Ground

Sadiq and Cristian talk about the latest Google hardware products while making fun of Blizzard and exploring Sadiq’s deep hatred for WiFi. Show Notes: 00:01:12 – Pixel 4 00:17:35 – Pixelbook Go 00:28:27 – Pixel Buds 00:33:36 – Nest Hardware 00:45:03 – Stadia 00:58:22 – RIP Daydream and Clips Google October Event Pixel 4: Google … Continue reading Episode 107: I’m glad I don’t own any of these things, because I don’t trust these fuckers