Snapchatting to the Oldies

Hello. Welcome to Daily ish for Tuesday, February 9. It's, minus two degrees, feels like minus nine, but this is the weather podcast. My parents just got back from, Mexico today, brought some more warm weather with them, hopefully, which is a thing we say to each other and everybody said to us when we caught back. Obviously, it's not true because you can't really bring weather with you.

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Thanks to supporters at Patreon, patreon.com/ichris, who support me each month with a couple bucks up to $20 up to $6,000 a month, whatever. Nobody actually is doing that, but, they could if they wanted to. And, you can too, patreon.com/ichris, where you can go to check that out. I've been I'm recording this episode now at 10:41PM at night, and, it's kinda interesting actually recording the episodes, this particular show anyways. I don't often, I do the YouTube show at night and leading up to it, I'm like, I don't feel like talking.

Like, it's fun. I'm not like it's not like it's gonna be death, think, but it's like, you know, you're just kinda tired at the end of the day and you feel like, I don't wanna do this. But then you actually get into it and it's really fun. Lots of fun friends, people who I do that show with. But, anyways, with this one, it's kind of interesting.

It actually gives me a little bit more to talk about because it's like, here's what I did today instead of in the morning with this show. I'm kinda like, what should I talk about? Because I haven't experienced anything yet today, especially when I'm doing it every day like I am. So at any rate, today was the day that Firewatch, a game for Mac, PlayStation four, and PC Windows came out, and it's a game partially developed by a Mac company called Panic Software who I follow and use a lot of their software for development and FTP stuff. Anyways, somehow they got connected with this game development company, so they're co publishing it or something.

I don't know how it all works. But anyways, the game is looks gorgeous and was really intrigued by it. It's kind of a story thing, and so I pre ordered it on Steam. And it was available today at, eleven or twelve or whatever. And so, for a lunch break, I just played through the first day, about half an hour or forty five minutes of the game.

And, it's beautiful artwork kinda styled to the game. It's set I'm just gonna read the bio because I don't know how to describe it. It's set in 1989, you're a guy named Henry who has retreated from your messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. Your supervisor, a woman named Delilah, I missed that part, is available to you at all times over a small handheld radio and is your only contact with the world you've left behind. Has So a pretty intense storyline that starts you off and it's kind of from the, what is that?

First person perspective where it's your point of view, the character's point of view, and you control or similar to what like a, you know, those the runaround shooting people kind of game is, except this is more like wandering around the wilderness and, in beautifully drawn scenery and following sort of a rough storyline, but you have control over how and where and when you go. And I I've already gotten lost in the forest being unable to read the map and the compass. So good start. So, I put the link in the show notes to the game and to the trailer and to the, store page on Steam. It's still on a 10 discount as of today anyways.

I don't know if that'll last. It was sort of a preorder discount. And so hoping to be able to play and, check out that game a bit more here in the maybe this weekend or something. And oh, and the other thing, I was trying to remember what else. Do I know there's something I had, and I forgot to make a note in in my topics here.

But, I was explaining, introducing Sue to what Snapchat is. Like, we're just kinda sitting on the couch, you know, doing the little zone out on our phone thing. I was like, k. Let's just I'm gonna show you this thing, because people, you know, they're talking about it. For some reason, it's come around again in the news.

It seems like it's popular again, sort of people trying to figure it out. There's a really interesting article, which I'll link to that, Jason Kotke over on kotke.org posts about how linked to anyways on BuzzFeed that how Snapchats are or how teens are using Snapchat these days and, just kinda putting it in context. And, I really appreciate what he sort of updated it with and how people are kinda like how this is you know, because teens are using Snapchat this way. It's gonna be the future, and this is what teens are like, or the future adults are like or whatever. But it's he summarizes it great where he says adults probably cannot and will not use Snapchat like this, like the teenagers.

We have different priorities. It's all about for the teens, it's all about social status, something 13 year olds carry very much about, perhaps more than anything. That app is my life is not an exaggeration or an overdramatization. But, anyways, I hear a lot of adults, old fuddy duddy types saying, I don't get it. I can't use it.

It's too weird. And it's not really that complicated. It's a little bit of a weird interface, but you gotta get over that. And it's kind of just actually in a way a pushback against the whole social media status thing in a way. And as much as I get like for the teen article or the article about the teens, it's definitely is a bit of priority or social status stuff.

But everything all the photos, everything you post, video photos, etcetera, are disposable and don't last, and there's no link back to the photo that you post earlier today or the the hilarious video you did. Once you see it, it's gone more or less and there isn't any sort of linking to it and popularity that comes as a result of it. It's kind of over the long term of, you know, telling a good story or posting lots of funny pictures or that kind of thing. Guess you might have some notoriety through it, but nobody can go to your Snapchat profile and just see all your pictures and stuff that you post is similar like on Instagram or or whatever. So I'm not saying it's like, changing anything really except that it is it feels a bit sort of post social media in a way where, your amount of followers is irrelevant because the followers don't see each other's comments and things like that.

There's no you you get sort of immediate feedback to the person you're talking to or, leaving a comment on on, chatting back to on their photo or the video, but there isn't like a communal kind of thing where you would then see someone else's comment that they sent back to you and that kind of stuff. So, we had fun with it because there's a lot of like goofy when you take a picture of yourself and add some funny filters and stuff to it, you know, sort of video VR kind of stuff that makes it look like you're wearing a hat or wearing sunglasses or changes your face and and that kind of stuff, and just having fun with it and being goofy. That's kind of why I thought it'd be fun for just within our family even to use it because I know our kids will get a huge kick out of just sending, like, these goofy photos of themselves with all this weird kinda, effects or whatever on top of the the photos or the videos and just making each other laugh. That's kinda what I think of it as, and that's how we're gonna use it.

So, I'll maybe put a link to my little Snapchatting, whatever it's called, URL profile. I occasionally post photos or videos of myself when I'm editing podcasting and stuff and doing some of the web stuff that I do and things like that. So if that's interesting to you, follow it. If not, if Snapchat is weird and then foreign and what you wanna just keep it that way, no big deal. You're not missing out on anything huge or great.

It's just kind of a little bit of silly fun. So I think that's it for this episode. I'm gonna go to bed, and hopefully our kids let us sleep all through the night. And, we'll be bright eyed and bushy tailed, which is a weird turn of phrase. Tomorrow, I got a lot of awesome topics suggested sent in, through our so the Patreon supporters have access if they want to a private Patreon only Slack channel.

It's kinda like a chat room. And, in there, there's a Daily channel in there. And Aaron, Goodwin host of the three guys three questions show here on Good Stuff, sent me a bunch of topic ideas which are great and will give me something to talk about in future episodes. So you can send in more, [email protected] if you want, or if you're a Patreon supporter, send me your email address that you want me to invite you to the Slack channel that we use for Patreon supporters. And, if not, you can also go support me on Patreon, then you can become a part of the Slack channel and do cool things like Aaron did to me topics.

So have a good night. Have a good morning. Have a good sleep. Something else, that's it, I think. Thanks for listening.

Have a good day. Bye.