The Nextlander Podcast 009: Kneading Biscuits in Your Brain
Added 2021-08-04 23:32:37 +0000 UTCThis week, we try to distract ourselves from the arrival of Alex's new cat long enough to consider The Ascent, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, Horizon Forbidden West's potential delay, the great PS5 SSD calamity, our current GOTY lists, Outer Wilds DLC and other new Annapurna announcements, the latest updates from the Activision Blizzard situation, and a lot more.
CHAPTERS
00:00:10 Intro
00:00:55 Show Rundown
00:02:12 Insomnia and Insomniac
00:04:31 Brad's brain is making biscuits
00:04:54 They DEFINITELY don't want your help and the blessing of not remembering
00:08:58 Dave Attell's ribald humor
00:10:19 The Featureless Sphere of Comedy
00:10:33 Alex Kitten Updates
00:11:41 The Ascent
00:11:59 Top Ten of the Year Gut Check
00:16:18 Back to The Ascent (XBO, XBox X|S, PC) - July 29, 2021
00:41:22 Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (PC and Mobile) - July 28, 2021
00:54:04 The Ramp (PC) - August 3, 2021
00:58:54 Starbase (PC) - Early Access
01:08:43 Break
01:08:48 News
01:09:09 Horizon Forbidden West is looking like it might be delayed
01:18:24 PlayStation 5 beta firmware and SSD expansion
01:36:48 Annapurna Showcase
01:37:01 Outer Wilds DLC - Echoes of the Eye (Sept 28th)
01:39:09 Games coming to other platforms
01:39:37 Storyteller (PC)
01:40:24 The Artful Escape (Xbox X|S, XBO, Steam, Gamepass) - Sept 9th
01:43:00 Neon White (Switch, Steam) - No Date
01:43:31 Solar Ash
01:43:43 Skin Deep (PC)
01:45:36 Stray - Early 2022
01:47:21 Partnership Announcements
01:48:57 Memoir Blue (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, PC, App Store, Gamepass) - No Date
01:50:03 Annapurna is publishing some great games
01:52:11 Activision Blizzard lawsuit updates
02:09:17 Wrapping up and thank yous
02:12:39 Mysterious Benefactor shoutouts
02:14:53 Stop putting all my information out there companies! Also, my best joke about companies putting my information out there.
02:16:36 The Nextlander content updates
02:17:55 BYE!
Comments
I have to say, Brad and Alex were vastly overstating how complicated the process of adding a compatible SSD to the PS5 is. I did it yesterday after getting into the beta and it's shockingly easy, much easier than upgrading a PS3 or PS4 hard drive. In both of those cases you are replacing the original drive so you have the problem of needing to either backup the data to a space USB drive or needing PS Plus to at least backup your saves. Then you also need a USB stick to download the firmware needed to reinstall the OS on the new hard drive after installing. You also have to deal with way more screws, since the 2.5" drives in those consoles are secured using a drive cage. By contrast on PS5 you just pop off the outer shell (which comes off way easier than you'd expect), unscrew the slot cover, insert your drive and secure it in place using the preexisting standoff and screw, close it back up and reboot. Since you're just adding storage all your games and data are still there. The new drive is quickly formatted and you're on your way. No multiple reboots to install firmware. No 12 hour data restore process. It's just done. Finding compatible drives is easy. There are good lists on Eurogamer or Reddit already, and three manufacturers were already advertising their drives as compatible the day the beta was released, and adding heatsinks to an SSD is cheap and easy, if needed. Pricing is also much better than you implied. I bought the XPG S70 2TB drive (rated for 7.4GB/s) for $350, but the price actually dropped to $309 on Amazon today. The popular compatible 1TB models from Gigabyte and Western Digital were selling for $199 before they sold out, and the prices spiked as third party sellers started trying to capitalize on the sudden demand from PS5 users. The 1TB model of the XPG drive I bought is only $159. The only problem with the XPG is the version being sold in most places uses a chunky heatsink too tall to fit, but it's easy to remove the top half of the cooler and replace it with a low profile heatsink that will fit for an extra $10. That's what I did. Others have just left the SSD slot cover off.
Brad Grenz
2021-08-07 06:43:02 +0000 UTCI donโt think Iโve ever had trouble reading game text on a TV.
Brad Haney
2021-08-06 21:29:54 +0000 UTCOh man World Games was a throwback. I remember my dad had pirated that wayyy back in the day and I would just load up the floppy disks and play it for hours... I want to say it was on an old Atari 1040ST
2021-08-05 19:37:06 +0000 UTCThis podcast is biscuits ๐คฃ also Insomniac with Dave Attel was great. Got to see him on tour when that was out... Damn near 20 years ago now.
Brad Boling
2021-08-05 15:34:17 +0000 UTCGreat content guys!
Henrik Brosveet
2021-08-05 09:13:16 +0000 UTCNew cat!
Max
2021-08-05 08:36:00 +0000 UTCI look forward to this all week!
2021-08-05 04:50:01 +0000 UTCI'll take a break from not watching the Olympics to listen to this
Zeus Laser
2021-08-05 01:51:00 +0000 UTCBetter by the week, fellas!
imprison bobby kotick
2021-08-05 01:23:42 +0000 UTCHeck yeah! ๐
Brad Boling
2021-08-05 00:00:05 +0000 UTC
