{"video_id":"Cj7F_2CiaPM","title":"Did Epic make a HUGE mistake?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":393,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":4.319,"text":"oh hello there what's that you'd like some tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.52,"end_s":10.4,"text":"okay oh i should i should give it to you right i should give to you some okay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.919,"end_s":13.84,"text":"right okay yeah um just a sec where's the tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.08,"end_s":18.8,"text":"ea has surprised no one with the addition of full screen ads that run","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.92,"end_s":24.08,"text":"during gameplay in ufc 4. a reddit post went viral this weekend showing an ad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.48,"end_s":26.16,"text":"for the boys on amazon prime the 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and the whole thing is kind of their fault anyways","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":109.52,"end_s":115.439,"text":"which it totally is to be fair well with his latest filing epic is making the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":113.68,"end_s":119.52,"text":"case that they are being harmed saying the number of daily active fortnite","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":117.04,"end_s":123.36,"text":"players on iOS has declined by over 60 percent since the game's removal and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":121.439,"end_s":127.119,"text":"that iOS players make up a third of the total fortnight player base meanwhile","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":125.52,"end_s":131.36,"text":"google has made a statement trying to differentiate epic's lawsuit against","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":129.119,"end_s":135.04,"text":"them from the one against apple claiming they do allow multiple app stores 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news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"oh hello there what's that you'd like some tech news okay oh i should i should give it to you right i should give to you some okay right okay yeah um just a sec where's the tech news ea has surprised no one with the addition of full screen ads that run during gameplay in ufc 4. a reddit post went viral this weekend showing an ad for the boys on amazon prime the boys popping up before and after replays during an in-game match this is particularly annoying because ea has apparently added the promos after the game's launch so players who thought they had paid 60 bucks for the privilege of not being advertised to in-game were proven to be fools ah happens to me all the time ea has responded to the backlash by apologizing for the ads removing them from the game and promising they won't do it again sure but it does make you ask the question is ea wrong to try and recoup some of their investment by selling ads in a game sony for example apparently makes more money from dlc and microtransactions than anything else partially thanks to the 30 cut that they take from all purchases on the playstation platform maybe if that cut was reduced developers like ea would have more income and they wouldn't feel the need to put in stupid ads like this like like other developers might feel that way ea would still do it speaking of people who want to cut down a 30 cut epic games yep they've now filed for a court order that would force apple to reinstate fortnite onto the app store while the two companies await a judgment on epic's lawsuit in case you've been living under a rock after epic broke the app store guidelines by adding a direct payment option to fortnight apple removed the game from the app store and later terminated epic's developer account but a judge didn't make apple reinstate the game saying the current situation doesn't actually harm epic and the whole thing is kind of their fault anyways which it totally is to be fair well with his latest filing epic is making the case that they are being harmed saying the number of daily active fortnite players on iOS has declined by over 60 percent since the game's removal and that iOS players make up a third of the total fortnight player base meanwhile google has made a statement trying to differentiate epic's lawsuit against them from the one against apple claiming they do allow multiple app stores and even the side loading of apps we'll have to see what happens when the apple case gets a hearing on september 28th hopefully dennis will still be able to keep buying his favorite fortnite dances on this iphone and the hype for NVIDIA's rtx 3000 series has reached a high now people are starting to ask wait a second were we victims of marketing NVIDIA said that the rtx 3080 is twice as fast as the rtx 2080 but leaked benchmarks indicate the card is only 168 faster than the 2080 super now yeah yeah i know it's the super not the vanilla 2080 and the benchmarks are compute oriented not gaming ones but listen there's still reason to be cautious a source from an unnamed manufacturer reportedly told cortex that AMD was prepping a 599 dollar card with performance between the 3070 and 3080. but might change that to 549 to undercut the rtx 3080 a similar strategy they employed with the rx 5000 series cards and then you got all these leaks concerning a rtx 3070 ti or 3070 super so all i'm saying is seems like there will be a bunch of developments in this whole next-gen GPU launch saga so just maybe just you know just so wait a bit you know just just see what happens is that too much is it too much to ask for some patience dennis and now for a word from Linus can't escape now it's time for the back quads brought to you by the ramphouse 61 watt usbc fast charger this isn't just your grandma's all-in-one charging solution it's a one for all you know kind of like the musketeers because you just need one charger for all your devices from macbooks to smart watches it uses gallium nitrate and power integration technology which keeps the charger cool adjusts power output and maximizes charging efficiency and it also allows RAM power to make this charger 48 smaller than the standard macbook pro charger for ultimate portability it can also charge the macbook pro up to 50 in just 30 minutes so use our offer code and the link below to get 35 off on amazon you want some quick bits now yeah yeah sure sure yeah yeah yeah i got i got you i got it microsoft has announced they're releasing the direct storage API which is the same framework used to develop the velocity architecture in the xbox series x allowing direct access to storage for reduced load time and more detailed game worlds between that and a recent leak pointing to a 599 price point for the series x oof it looks more and more like the real pro gamer move is to get on pc but hey hey hey i'm not judging you know there's so many flavors of doritos and mountain dew it's like it's enticing i get it the oculus quest or should i say facebook's oculus quest is being delisted from retail stores no doubt in preparation for the announcement launch of the standalone vr headset's successor will it even be called the oculus quest 2 or just the facebook quest too since oculus has basically been renamed to facebook reality Labs well tune in on september 16th for the press conference and we'll all be disappointed together china claims they've landed that mysterious reusable spacecraft the country launched last week no idea what it looks like but we do kind of know what the rocket that launched it looks like because a part of it fell to the earth extremely close to a populated village as seen NVIDIA posted on weibo and this isn't even the first time it's happened well you know these made in china rockets they're cheap you know but they get the job done what's a villager to you know we put a thing in the sky you can now emulate the nintendo switch on Android but you have to buy these weird sketchy controllers to do it the egg ns emulator claims it's made by people in the us but it's pretty clear it's not look if you want to check this out fine but also don't and hey it's 2020 and the world is going to hell so it's only appropriate to fight hordes of demons in doom by playing it on a pregnancy test yep programmer phone touring posted a different kind of test result on twitter if you're willing to make the modifications yourself playing on a 128 by 32 pixel monochrome display might be fun just don't pee on it and that's it for this one guys come back on wednesday for more tech news if that's if is that what is that what you is that is that why you why do you watch this show is it about is it the tech news"}