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High Ping Basterds

High Ping Basterds

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“We, to tell the actual absolute truth, don’t live in society, actually.”


In the history of humans, for the first time after the glorious 18th Century have we had The 21st Century. If one strains their ears, one can gather echoes traveling back to us from a dismal future, hankering for the nostalgic and innocent and simpler times of The 21st Century.


The 21st Century where we actually don’t live in a society. We live more in tubes, in simulations, in hypotheticals and in conspiracies. We live in line graphs, in word vomits, in feeds and filters, in videos and in games, and in video games.


The Basterds navigate this terrain of solipsistic confabulations.


“Two weeks to two minutes” Exclaimed Cyrus West Field—an American entrepreneur and financier, pointedly not an inventor, actually—when the telegraph line laid across Atlantic finally worked in 1866. Now in place of these obsolete thick copper cable lay nets upon nets of fiber optics where we sail daily. And the echo of our future sounds across these nets of our present and of our past, where we are constructing a singular Transatlantic tunnel, dug under the pioneer ocean for us to live in, when the whole world itself shall drown under the weight of our present and of our past.


The Basterds navigate these uncertain terrain.



Release Schedule: New Episodes Every Tuesdays

Language: English

Category: Video Game Commentary, News Reviews, Criticisms

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High Ping Basterds Politics & Government Science Fiction
Episodes
  • 94 Sony Removes AI Slop, Rockstar Gets Fined Minimally, EPIC laysoff, US Patent Revokes Nintendo Applications

    94 Sony Removes AI Slop, Rockstar Gets Fined Minimally, EPIC laysoff, US Patent Revokes Nintendo Applications
    Apr 10 2026
    On our 94th episode, we talked about the following subject:
    • Sony Removes Over 1,000 Low-Quality Games From PlayStation Store
    • Rockstar Games Illegally Underpaid Staff at GTA 6 Studio, UK Government Confirms - RockstarINTEL
    • Fortnite Maker Epic Games Cuts About 1,000 Jobs Across Company - Bloomberg
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ItsAllAboutGames/s/8yWuU0pMFX
    • US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC
    • Disney could be interested in buying Fortnite maker Epic Games, but not everyone's on board with the idea | Eurogamer.net
    • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Dev Is Reportedly Developing The $100 Million Lord Of The Rings Game

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 93. Sony shuts Bluepoint, Xbox New Head, PEGI Changes, Valve v NYC, EA Layoffs

    93. Sony shuts Bluepoint, Xbox New Head, PEGI Changes, Valve v NYC, EA Layoffs
    Mar 14 2026
    On our 93rd episode, we talked about the following topics:
    • Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint
    • Former Xbox President's direction reportedly "offended" employees
    • Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week | New Scientist
    • Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe and it's probably not good news for EA Sports FC | Eurogamer.net
    • EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN
    • Valve argues loot boxes "widely used, not just in video games but in the tangible world" as it expresses 'disappointment' over New York state lawsuit | Eurogamer.net

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 92 DRAM, BG3 Adaptation, Iron Lung

    92 DRAM, BG3 Adaptation, Iron Lung
    Feb 13 2026
    On our 92nd episode, we discussed the following topics:
    • DRAM prices expected to nearly double in Q1 • The Register
    • Baldur's Gate is getting an HBO TV series set after Baldur's Gate 3 | TechSpot
    • MindsEye Boss Legally Threatens YouTuber After Epstein Video
    • Indie game film adaptation Iron Lung earns $21.5 million on opening weekend | GamesIndustry.biz
    • Arc Raiders Dev Says It's Being Hit By Coordinated DDoS Attacks - GameSpot
    • Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO | IBTimes UK

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    53 mins
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