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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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Episodes
  • 104 Activision Cheat Hunter, GTA 6 Netflix Hit, Valve Data Leak, Game Pass Changes, Youtube Rules Update

    104 Activision Cheat Hunter, GTA 6 Netflix Hit, Valve Data Leak, Game Pass Changes, Youtube Rules Update
    Sep 10 2026
    • Activision Just Served A Notorious Call Of Duty Cheat Maker
    • ‘GTA 6’ Hits No. 1 On Netflix And Catapults Streamer’s Web Viewership 125%
    • 12 TB of Valve Data Leaked, Possibly Including Half-Life 2 Episode 3
    • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
    • Microsoft announces big changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, switches to monthly hour limits
    • YouTube updates gaming violence monetization rules ahead of GTA 6 launch - Dexerto

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 103 RAMpocolypse, Star Citizen, Mattel, Twitch AI

    103 RAMpocolypse, Star Citizen, Mattel, Twitch AI
    Aug 27 2026
    • Memory capacity for all of 2027 has reportedly been booked and sold, with no more DRAM or HBM available
    • US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers
    • Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players
    • Barbie and Hot Wheels owner Mattel launches Mattel Game Studios
    • Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out
    • "I'm sure you're going to watch it because everyone is" - GTA 6 premiering on Netflix represents Rockstar "trying new things", says Take-Two boss | Eurogamer.net
    • GTA 6 gameplay and map leaked ahead of Netflix Extended Look - Dexerto

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 102 GTA6 Leaker, Microsoft Layoffs, Steam Economy

    102 GTA6 Leaker, Microsoft Layoffs, Steam Economy
    Aug 26 2026
    • GTA 6 Leaker Threatens To Give Build to 'Millions of Gamers Around the Globe' - Insider Gaming
    • We didn't have layoffs before, and now all of a sudden we have yearly layoffs': Bethesda artist says 'something has changed' under Microsoft | PC Gamer
    • The Witcher 4 Confirmed for 2028 Release in Official CD Projekt Gamescom 2026 Announcement
    • Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content - Engadget
    • Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything | GamesRadar+
    • Take-Two's legal action to find GTA 6 leaker begins, as it subpoenas Microsoft and Discord for any data "sufficient to identify the users person"

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    1 hr and 8 mins
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