Serious Business

  • Would You Take Pills to Make You Smarter? | Serious Business

    Some fancy new pills have been making mice smarter in tests. Would you take a pill that makes you smarter? Check out what we think. Also, would you replace politicians with a personalized AI representative?

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  • It’s Always Robots | Serious Business

    This week we look at several new ways that robots are going to take your jobs. In fact, robots are going to take the jobs from the ones who already took your jobs! Also, we look at the new Odroid-N2 hobby board that should be quite a bit more powerful than the Raspberry Pi, and we discuss medical psychedelic drugs. As for gaming, we cover Bloodlines 2, Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, and several more. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ Links from the show: Logan on Twitter: “. @ctbonnell cranking out some monster concepts for this thing we are doing… Imagine running from a mob of these things.… t.co/YV3IyUx4fQ” Intel gets ready to go live with servers with 12TB Optane – Blocks and Files This Raspberry Pi rival is on sale now: $63 Odroid-N2 promises more speed, USB 3.0, Android 9, 4K video – TechRepublic Twitter: Trump tweets that violate its rules could be labeled – CNN Male Birth Control Pill Passes Human Safety Tests | Technology Networks Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Project Skyborg Could Put Air Force AI …

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  • Blood for the Blood God (We’ll fix the audio) | Serious Business

    Special thanks to Lenovo and Intel for hooking us up with the new streaming PC.  We still have some kinks to work out, but it’s awesome.  In the meantime, enjoy the worst audio ever.   Thanks to @lenovo and @Intel. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/teksyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Steam: steamcommunity.com/groups/OfficialCritTV/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/midnightdojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Want to know what we use to make these videos? Check out our Kit: kit.com/TekSyndicate For marketing (sponsorship opportunities) inquiries email [email protected] Ask us LITERALLY ANYTHING: [email protected] Follow the team: Logan: twitter.com/Logan_RTW Pistol: twitter.com/pistolsteph Justin: twitter.com/DatAwesomeRobot

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  • Steam Fanboys Are Out of Control | Serious Business

    This week Logan talks about the Epic store drama and the Steam fanboys who need a history lesson. Gotta love that DRM.

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  • BANNED from CES!!1! | Serious Business

    Talkin’ bout sex, robots, sex robots, machetes, sex robot machetes and more RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!1!     Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ Link to articles: bit.ly/2SXi6Di —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialCritTV/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Steam: steamcommunity.com/groups/OfficialCritTV/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Want to know what we use to make these videos? Check out our Kit: kit.com/TekSyndicate For marketing (sponsorship opportunities) inquiries email [email protected] Ask us LITERALLY ANYTHING: [email protected] Follow the team: Logan: twitter.com/Logan_RTW Pistol: twitter.com/pistolsteph Justin: twitter.com/DatAwesomeRobot

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  • Serious Business | 2019: A Space Odyssey

    China makes it to the dark side of the moon. Skeletor reads angry Amazon comments and Logan sings a song about Fenek.   Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330ish PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Get your own Loot Crate: bit.ly/2LTaTBg Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  AMD Ryzen 9 3800X “Matisse” listed with 16 cores and 125W TDP – VideoCardz.com  Samsung’s New 2019 Monitors Are Designed for Modern Workspaces and Next Generation Gaming – Samsung Global Newsroom  Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech | Science | AAAS  China Moon mission lands Chang’e-4 spacecraft on far side – BBC News  China’s Chang’e-4 Is About to Land Living Eggs on the Far Side of the Moon | Inverse  Strange Music At Far Side Of Moon | NASA’S UNEXPLAINED FILES S3 – YouTube  London Medieval Murder Map — Violence Research Centre  Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel  In 2019, The State Of Activision-Blizzard Is Not Strong  Save Edit Mods and Video Game Key Resellers Are Now Illegal in Japan | USgamer  Japan bans key resale and save editors | Rock Paper Shotgun  Bowsette Won’t …

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  • Serious Business | China, Robots, and How I Learned to Start Loving the Bomb

    AKA Free Range Machetes.   Another standard meeting where we talk about video games, Portland’s love of machetes, personal robots and whether or not we’d want one. Also when they’ll inevitably kill us by weaponizing pizza. Plus a fog machine for ambiance! Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330ish PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel  With First-Ever Landing on Moon’s Farside, China Enters “Luna Incognita” – Scientific American  Chinese schools enforce ‘smart uniforms’ with GPS tracking system to monitor students – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)  Estonia goes digital to end bureaucracy | CBC News  911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage | TechCrunch  Toyota Wants to Put a Robot in Every Home and Make It Your Pal  US hospitals to post the costs of medical services — Quartz  CJSCOPE 喜傑獅 – You design , We made !  Tim Sweeney on Twitter: “We’re working on a review system for the Epic Games store based on the existing one in the Unreal Engine marketplace. It will be opt-in by …

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  • Serious Business | Holidazed and Confused

    In case you were “doing something with your family” or “celebrating the holidays” or whatever, here’s another chance for you to check out the latest meeting. Hope you liked this vacation, cause it’s the last one you’re getting!   Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330ish PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  China built a tower that acts like ‘the world’s biggest air purifier’ – Business Insider  Implantable device aids weight loss – College of Engineering – University of Wisconsin-Madison  Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica  ‘Zuckerberg Must Resign Now’: Outrage After Report Shows Facebook Let Corporate Partners Read Users’ Private Messages  Fortnite Lawsuit: Alfonso Ribeiro Sues Game Creators For Allegedly Stealing ‘The Carlton Dance’  (7) MY SIDE OF THE STORY after 47 DMCA Copyright Strikes by Battlestate – Escape from Tarkov – YouTube  The Dark Crystal Netflix Series Cast, Images Revealed | Collider  (7) Hellboy (2019 Movie) Official Trailer “Smash Things” – David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane – YouTube  Johnny Depp’s rotting spirit has finally been exorcised from the …

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  • Serious Business | Gaming Awards & Getting Down with the Sickness

    Logan is sick, but that means you get to see Dusk footage. Plus, Fallout 76 is a dumpster fire inside a bigger dumpster fire, in a landfill that’s also on fire.   Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330ish PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Could Offer 16 Cores, 5.1GHz Turbo Clocks | Digital Trends  New Retail Data Shows AMD CPUs Outselling Intel 2:1 – ExtremeTech  Edge dies a death of a thousand cuts as Microsoft switches to Chromium | Ars Technica  Trump’s Cybersecurity Advisor Rudy Giuliani Thinks His Twitter Was Hacked Because Someone Took Advantage of His Typo – Motherboard  24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray – ABC News  Walmart will use hundreds of A.I. robot janitors to scrub store floors  Epic Pants | pants for your arms…  Amazon.com: fenek  Aston Martin will make old cars electric so they don’t get banned from cities – The Verge  ‘Awe-inspiring’ cave discovered in Canada’s wilderness – BBC News  Bethesda Mistakenly Doxed Fallout 76: Power Armor Edition Customers – One Angry Gamer  I …

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  • Serious Business | Stop Playing Pokemon

    This should really read “Stop Playing Pokemon, Justin. You Have Responsibilities That You’re Shirking So You Can Play with an Eevee. Get Your Shit Together” Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ Stan Lee, Marvel Comics’ Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stan-lee-dead-marvel-comics-real-life-superhero-was-95-721450 A T-Rex in a Chicago Museum Is Playing ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ on Twitter With Their Museum Friends comicbook.com/gaming/2018/11/15/dungeons-and-dragons-chicago-museums/ Nintendo wins $12m lawsuit against ROM sites run by a married couple www.pcgamesn.com/nintendo-pirate-roms Chinese Fusion Reactor Gets 6 Times Hotter Than the Sun www.extremetech.com/extreme/280684-chinese-fusion-reactor-gets-6-times-hotter-than-the-sun EA get the band back together for Command & Conquer and Red Alert remasters www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/14/command-and-conquer-remasters-confirmed/ ‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells implanted into patient with Parkinson’s disease www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07407-9 Study: High doses of CBD can act to reduce methamphetamine consumption in rodents www.psypost.org/2018/11/study-high-doses-of-cbd-can-act-to-reduce-methamphetamine-consumption-in-rodents-52602 SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE: REBELLION www.humblebundle.com/store/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion?hmb_source=receipt_page&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_full_width_tile_index_1 Fallout 76 – Nuclear Waste (Jimpressions) youtu.be/rR95GO0zMuY Why Fallout 76 Won’t Have A Battle Royale Mode gamerant.com/fallout-76-battle-royale/ Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021 www.technologyreview.com/s/612423/fords-self-driving-taxi-passengers-may-share-rides-with-packages-and-ads/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=add_this&utm_content=2018-11-16 Ikea has a plan to fix the pollution crisis in India’s cities www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/economy/ikea-india-air-pollution/index.html George RR …

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  • Serious Business | Fallout 76 Clickbait Title

    WE GOT A SMOKE MACHINE! Some other stuff happened too, but there’s a smoke machine so… Fallout 76 blah blah blah SMOKE MACHINE! Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ikFenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenekFanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicatePatreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicateWebsite: teksyndicate.com/Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ WE GOT A SMOKE MACHINE! EVERYTHING ELSE IS IRRELEVANT!  Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft’s Skype Service, Study Finds | Fortune  Twitter co-founder: Showing how many followers you have wasn’t ‘healthy’ – Recode  Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech – Recode  PayPal is canceling accounts used by the Proud Boys and antifa groups – The Verge  Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype – Professional Troublemaker ®  Self-driving cars could function as moving brothels, academics predict  World’s first AI news anchor makes “his” China debut – Xinhua | English.news.cn  China Xinhua News on Twitter: “World’s first #AI news anchor debuts, jointly developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine company t.co/34tyZ4nwrg. t.co/2omcc5K9rB… t.co/h5afl0cf4X“  Oumuamua: Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical – CNN  (3) Top 10 Largest Cities by 2100 | The B1M – YouTube  The foldable phones are coming – The Verge  Forget …

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  • Serious Business | And the Case of the YouTube Dumpster Fire

    YouTube is an inescapable pit of despair and sadness. Once you are banished to the wasteland, there’s no coming back. Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Go get a LootCrate: www.lootcrate.com/Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ikFenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenekFanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicatePatreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicateWebsite: teksyndicate.com/Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  Phoenix Point Official Trailer – YouTube  Dirt Cheap Dungeons (@DCDungeons) | Twitter  Dirt Cheap Dungeons – Portable RPG Gaming Accessories by Cameron Freres — Kickstarter  Hackers Have Already Found A Way To Cheat In The ‘Fallout 76’ Beta  Total Chaos Gameplay – Decay video – Mod DB  Skyblivion – Environment Update Teaser – YouTube  Super Mario Odyssey is now FULLY PLAYABLE on Yuzu Emulator – YouTube  Epic Pants | pants for your arms…  Amazon.com: fenek  Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife populations, not ‘humanity’  $5bn project to map DNA of every animal, plant and fungus | Science | The Guardian  RTX 2080 Ti Owners Complain of Defects, Nvidia Responds (Update)  The Wandering Earth could be China’s breakout sci-fi blockbuster film – The Verge  2epiwkt9hjv11.jpg (JPEG Image, 1342 × 1790 pixels) – Scaled (49%)  Conversica, which uses AI to replicate sales agents, raises $31M, now valued around $300M | TechCrunch  EA imagines ‘a …

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  • Serious Business | Thursday Night Special

    It happened one Thursday… cause we went to CA on Friday. The Serious Business that almost wasn’t. 100% less sex robots than the last one, so take that however you want.  Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ikFenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenekFanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicatePatreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicateWebsite: teksyndicate.com/Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  y2ks5elltot11.jpg (JPEG Image, 3024 × 4032 pixels) – Scaled (21%)  Supercool brines on Mars may contain enough oxygen to support aerobic life | Ars Technica  Reigns: Game of Thrones review: a fun reflection on power and corruption – Polygon  New D&D art book delivers the history of the original role-playing game – Polygon  Star Trek animated series ordered from Rick and Morty writer | EW.com  French lawmaker proposes bill to outlaw mockery of accents | Reuters  A doctor borrowed $300K from a patient, then diagnosed her with dementia  A new Pokémon Go clone lets players collect Catholic saints instead of monsters – The Verge  Tim Cook data privacy speech: Apple CEO calls for comprehensive data laws in America – The Verge  Does LEGO count? (Album in comments) – Imgur  Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC in 2019, according to retailer  Fallout 76 power armor …

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  • Serious Business: Halloween Movies & Sex Robots

    Important meeting topic: Best Halloween movies, and the more important topic: Would BDSM sex robots break Asimov’s Law of robotics? I’m asking for a friend… Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ikFenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenekFanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicatePatreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicateWebsite: teksyndicate.com/Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  Discord has changed their Terms of Service.md · GitHub  Epic Pants | pants for your arms…  Facebook TV Box with Camera Sounds Like a Privacy Nightmare  Memes may contribute to teenage obesity – CNN  Written evidence – Loughborough University – 87284.pdf  Stephen Hawking: Humans need to leave Earth or be annihilated – Business Insider  By suing U.S. government over climate change, young people ‘take some of that control into our own hands’ | CBC Radio  Manufacturers adopt robots that help human workers, not replace them. For now  Whitest Kids U’Know – Sex Robot – YouTube  Would ‘Deviant’ Sex Robots Violate Asimov’s Law of Robotics?  Brain-to-Brain Communication is Coming! – YouTube  Adobe demos a video editing tool to magically isolate moving objects  Paul Allen’s death leaves many questions around what’s likely the largest estate in Washington history | The Seattle Times  Beetlejuice (1988) – IMDb  Dead Alive (1992) – IMDb …

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  • Serious Business | Drunk Birds | 11

    Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Game Deals: teksyndicate.com/gamedeals Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksynd… Patreon: www.patreon.com/midnightdojo Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/  Epic Pants | pants for your arms…  GOG.com  Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition on GOG.com  Soldier of Fortune 1 – Platinum Edition – Gameplay [HD] – YouTube  Windows 10’s Game Mode will now block Windows Update interruptions | On MSFT  Advisor to Google’s Smart City in Toronto Resigns Over Data Concerns – Motherboard  VR Exercise Study: Virtual Reality Boosts Performance and Reduces Pain | Inverse  The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy – Motherboard  $4000 3D-Printed House Could Provide Shelter To The World’s Homeless  Drunk birds are causing havoc in a Minnesota town. Police say they’ll sober up soon. – SFGate  Cruise Ship Refunds Passengers After 1,300 Men Took Over and Turned It Into a Giant Burlesque Show  With the current Witcher author debacle can we just appreciate Mike Pondsmith? He didn’t just share his IP but even chose to work alongside CDPR giving them advice and help them work on the game, even showing up at E3 for the reveal which was just awesome! : …

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  • Serious Business | Curse of the Wereladoo | 010

    Another no nonsense meeting.  So there is a 0% chance that there are any obese dragons, wereladoos, Bowsette, or Undead Fire Lake Men at this meeting.   Broadcasted live on Twitch Fridays at 330PM PST — Watch live at www.twitch.tv/beergamesbeer Get a Loot Crate that doesn’t piss off the gaming community: www.lootcrate.com Epic Pants | pants for your arms… Geek Subscription Box for Gamers & Nerds | Loot Crate Win a Free Month of Loot Crate Bones Reveal The Brontosaurus Had An Older, Massive Cousin In South Africa : NPR Pornhub: Bowsette searches went from zero to 500,000 in 3 days | VentureBeat American Truck Simulator goes to Oregon next week Seven upcoming PC games are timed exclusives on Discord Playnite – video game library manager Fortnite’s boob physics are an ’embarrassing and unintended’ mistake, will be fixed | PC Gamer The browser that puts you in control | Vivaldi AMID EVIL – Episode 5 – The Forges – YouTube Would You Welcome A Robot Boss? This Study Thinks So Ambrosia: ‘Young blood’ transfusions launching first clinic – Business Insider Dying Light’s ‘Bad Blood’ Battle Royale Spin-Off is Basically Already Dead on Steam 1994’s ‘Doom II’ Now Has a Battle Royale …

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