hey folks this is rhykker with a gaming news wrap-up video where we discuss the
happenings of the week feel free to check out last week's episode and make
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this week's topics include the big intel fiasco an update to last week's Apple
story a swatting incident that resulted in an innocent man dying a horror game
from a few years ago becoming a movie followed by our Diablo coverage and then
our overwatch coverage I'll put timestamps in the video description
below if you want to skip ahead to different topics now starting with the
intel story this is something that affects most of us your computer is
basically either running an Intel processor or an AMD processor and for a
while now Intel us had by far the majority of the market share but that
might change after this a serious design flaw in Intel chips has recently come to
light and this affects millions of computers that have come out within the
last decade Intel said in a statement based on analysis to date many types of
computing devices with many different vendors processors and operating systems
are susceptible to these exploits basically this flaw creates a security
vulnerability and optimistically this vulnerability could be leveraged by
malware and hackers to more easily exploit other security bugs but in the
worst case scenario this could be exploited to steal all your passwords
and this isn't just a hypothetical threat because ever since it came to
light some coders have gone to work on producing proof of concept programs to
show how this could actually be exploited this is a huge screw-up from
Intel that is leaving Microsoft scrambling to update their operating
system to fix this there currently exists a beta version of the Windows
patch if you want to go update immediately otherwise this will be
pushed to you pretty soon and I do encourage you please do keep your
systems up to date unless you're a very advanced computer user and you know
exactly what you're doing keep your computer updated a lot of malware a lot
of hacking all of this relies on using an updated software that still has
security vulnerabilities so you can save yourself a lot of headaches resolve a
lot of computer trouble just by keeping your system up-to-date now good news if
you're running AMD CPU AMD is not vulnerable to this
exploit now the story doesn't end there the fix that is coming out comes at a
performance cost without getting anywhere near technical the reason that
this exploit exists is because there's something using what is sort of a
shortcut in passing data along so the fix is to remove this shortcut which
thus slows down performance and according to BBC comm quote experts have
said that the fix could slow down the performance of computers by up to 30%
but Intel played this down saying that quote for the average user performance
impacts should not be significant and will be mitigated over time end quote
end quote according to the registered CEO UK the fixes to this exploit will
see a performance hit of 5 to 30% depending on what task the computer is
doing and what model the processor is for instance more recent Intel chips
will cope a lot better but the good news is that game performance shouldn't be
impacted too much here we've got early reports from beta users who are doing
benchmarks and finding there are negligible performance differences on
both new and old CPUs when it comes to gaming but these reports also suggest
that virtual machines are likely to see the biggest performance impact up to 30%
some benchmarks are reporting for the newest CPUs about a 2 to 4 percent
performance drop and for older CPUs like the 4690k we're seeing a range of about
a 1.5 to 13% drop with about an average of 5% drop so the performance drop is
certainly there but it's not nearly as dramatic as the original 30 percent
prediction so the bottom line is that this won't really affect most users this
is still a terrible thing that happened but it will be worse to have all your
passwords stole and then to get 5% for your FPS in your games now I wish the
story ended there but it actually doesn't because it seems that Intel knew
about the security vulnerability as of June when Google told them about it and
a little bit more than a month ago the CEO of Intel Brian krzanich
sold off 24 million dollars worth of Intel stock and he actually sold off as
much of the stock as he legally could as he contractually could because his
employee agreement states that he must maintain at
X amount of stock now no surprise after this security vulnerability became
public Intel stock dropped in price but Intel claims that the stock sell was
unrelated to the vulnerability that they had already been planning to sell the
stock but the stock sale plan was only put in place in October which was still
months after they knew about the security vulnerability so basically what
we're seeing here is something that looks an awful lot like insider trading
that is trading stock acting on knowledge that is not available to the
public ie he knew that Intel stock would
plummet once the security vulnerability would go live so he's selling off the
stock now while it's still high insider trading is illegal and Intel is trying
to claim no it wasn't insider trading this was planned this was all that's all
part of the plan now to further dig down the conspiracy rabbit hole here we
actually have a theory from reddit user bard Finn who claims that there's no way
that Intel didn't already know about this exploit from years ago if this is
something that has affected Intel computers for at least the past decade
decade and a half that given the the billions of computer reports they must
have gotten that all the crash logs someone must have noticed something at
some point he then points out that Intel's largest customer is actually the
US intelligence community and he believes that they wanted to ensure that
this vulnerability remained in Intel computers which is the vast majority of
computers around the world presumably so the NSA could spy on people he further
points out that the last time a major CEO in the tech sector refused to play
ball with US intelligence things didn't go so well we're talking
about Joseph nachio who was a CEO of Qwest Communications International who
ended up being convicted of 19 counts of insider trading and Nacho's defense team
claims that these charges were filed by the US government in retaliation of his
refusal to give customer data to the NSA but what do you folks think about this
crazy story do you believe this is some kind of NSA conspiracy do you believe
Intel was just somehow really incompetent do you believe the Intel CEO
was selling off the stock in anticipation of the plummet sound off in
the comments all right we're now just in a quickly
updated story that we brought up last week about Apple deliberately slowing
down older iPhones Apple issued an apology and is quote reducing the price
of an out of warranty iPhone battery replacement by fifty dollars from
seventy five dollars down to twenty five dollars for anyone with an iPhone 6 or
later whose battery needs to be replaced and they're doing this worldwide until
December 2018 now here's the thing what constitutes a battery that needs to be
replaced we have reports of people who have experienced slowdowns have gone to
try to get their battery replaced Apple tests it and says hmm eighty-five
percent health can't replace the battery it seems their threshold is eighty
percent battery life but the slowdowns are being experienced above 80 percent
we have reports from people who had battery health too high to be replaced
by Apple still managing to somehow get their battery replaced reporting that
they saw an improvement in performance if you're an Apple user what's been your
experience with all this is Apple winning back any points for offering
these reduced cost replacement batteries sound off in the comments alright on to
now a story that I I hate that this is a story that happened we had to call of
duty players who got into an argument over a two-dollar wager these imbeciles
start threatening to swat each other and if you don't know what swatting is
thankfully it's a little less prevalent than it was a couple years ago but
swatting is when you basically call in the police to someone's house so that a
SWAT team shows up in full tactical gear prepared for a situation in which
they're expecting a gunman or some kind of serious dangerous threat that
requires heavy weapons so one of these two idiots actually goes through with
the SWAT threat and the SWAT team shows up because they have to take threats
seriously there's no over the phone lie detector
to discern a real threat from a fake threat and the police assume that most
people aren't freaking morons who call in fake threats so we have police
officers who in this case are expecting a homicide and hostage situation show up
at a house again just just doing their job a 28 year old man answers the door
his name is Andrew Finch and it's not exactly clear what happens now
but one of the police officers discharges his weapon Andrew Finch is
taken to hospital where he is announced dead so which of these two call of duty
players was Andrew Finch as it turns out neither of them the idiot who called the
police got the address wrong so this is a completely innocent man who had
nothing to do with this situation who is murdered due to stupidity now the idiot
who called him the threat has been arrested but it's not clear what he's
been charged with he's 25 years old so this isn't just boys will be boys and he
has a history of swatting people and before his arrest he was actually
interviewed on YouTube where he showed quote a lack of remorse for what
happened and he said he doesn't believe he should be charged with murder as he
didn't pull the trigger now I don't want to discuss whether the police should be
condemned or not for shooting Andrew Finch obviously they made a terrible
terrible mistake that cost a man his life and that should have never happened
but the full responsibility in my opinion Falls to the idiot who knowingly
called in a fake police threat just just the fact that swatting exists and that
it's something associated with gaming culture just it disgusts me in the best
case scenario swatting uses up police resources and police time time and
resources that could have been spent preventing real crimes in the worst case
scenarios swatting terrorizes victims family roommates living with the victims
neighbors results in the destruction of property from forced entry
possibly losses pets who flee the house and as we've unfortunately seen can
result in death there's nothing funny about swatting and I believe there
should be no forgiving and is zero tolerance towards an act of deliberate
deception towards the police with the intent of sending storm troopers to raid
someone's house and hold them at gunpoint
I hope this idiot and everyone who perpetrates a swatting goes to prison
the only way to stop swatting from existing anymore
is for swatters to get caught and locked away for years
on to lighter news an official movie poster for Slender Man has been revealed
you remember Slender Man right that creepypasta meme from years ago
Slender Man first appeared almost a decade ago in 2009 and a popular video
game came out in 2012 with its sequel coming out in 2013 and basically no
one's cared about Slender Man since yet somehow in May of 2016 it was reported
that Sony Pictures has started development of the Slender Man film and
it's gonna release in May 28th 2018 it's a cool poster and I love the mythos of
Slender Man but you think this is a case of just being too late I'm certainly
curious about it but if you want to capitalize on the popularity of Slender
Man that window it's closed I think I'd still want to see the movie though how
about you folks do you still care at all about Slender Man is it to passe the
movie will likely be terrible but you know all right on to Diablo news the
darkening of Tristram event has started it kicked off January 1st with the
precursor event temporal cultists could be found throughout the game who drop
pages and if you accumulate all seven different pages you unlock a special
cosmetic portrait the portal to the Diablo 1 rift opened up on January 3rd
and the event will run throughout the month of January you can check out this
video here for a guide on how to get all the cosmetics available throughout this
event now with 2017 having come to a close we have one redditor to be ruined
that's that's his name who brought up an interesting discussion topic on the
Diablo 3 subreddit he posted something of a Diablo 3 Year in Review
highlighting all the things that we got in Diablo foo this year and asking what
do people expect to get for 2018 in 2017 we got the Diablo 1 anniversary event we
got the 64-bit client version of Diablo 3 which this is an engine overall this
is a huge deal we got the armory to save our builds we
got the crafting materials tab we got primal items we've got challenge
rifts we got the necromancer we got two new areas we've got a huge balanced
overhaul and I know some people feel like Diablo 3 gets nothing no love at
all but I mean when you stop to think about it the game actually got quite a
bit this year 2017 was good year for the game and yes yes I
know path of exile this and that too free expansions yada yada that's awesome
that's great but you're comparing two different business models here path of
exile profits more from new content and Diablo 3 does path of Exile was designed
to keep earning revenue based on releasing new content Diablo 3 wasn't
give in Diablo 3's business model I feel we got quite a bit this year now whether
that business model was an inferior choice to path of exiles business model
is another discussion entirely so all that said what are you expecting for
Diablo 3 in 2018 and our final Diablo topic here is actually about Diablo 2 R
editor mr. Griffin is reporting that ever since the latest ladder reset which
is like the launch of a new season in d3 he hasn't seen a single bot or any
evidence of bots he further says that people using map hacks are getting
banned on a regular basis now I remember back when I play Diablo 2
bahding and map hacking were rampant and I think that was the case throughout the
majority of Diablo twos life so this is very surprising to know that all of a
sudden Blizzard has implemented ways to put a stop to it is really acting to
prevent it I know today a lot of people complain about bahding in Diablo 3 but
botting had much more widespread repercussions in Diablo 2 bahding
controlled the entire economy so this is really interesting news and certainly a
hopeful sign for the chapel franchise in general on to overwatch news nerfs
inbound we've got word from principal designer
Jeff Goodman that nerfs are coming to the PTR the test server to
chunk rat and heavy nerfs to mercy junk rats concussion mine will now deal less
damage to targets further away from the explosion Center but has firm mercy oh
boy closer does not know what to do with mercy now Mercy's Valkyrie form no
longer makes resurrect instant it no longer grants a bonus charge of
resurrect the speed boost that guardian angel receives has been decreased by 50%
and the duration of al curry has been reduced from 20 to 15 seconds what are
your thoughts on these mercy changes does Blizzard just need to leave mercy
alone disposal need to revert mercy to what she was before all the tooling
started does bozer need to take mercy in a different direction is the problem
simply that no character should have a resurrect
ability let's hear your thoughts also this week we got a Happy New Year video
from the overwatch team we learned about a bunch of intentions and development
processes going on on the team for instance they're currently working away
on hero 27 and one thing that was emphasized is that what's more important
is that they get the hero fun and playable and ready for release
rather than focus on reaching some arbitrary release deadlines so while
heroes have been releasing on a regular pattern an almost predictable pattern so
far it's possible we may have to wait a little bit longer for the next hero we
learned that the new map Blizzard world will be releasing very soon
we learned that the new New Year event this time year of the dog
will be expanded upon relative to last year's New Year event the uprising event
will return and be expanded upon as well we learned that a ton of new content
will be added to a base loot box not just in these special event loot boxes
that all the Blizzard world skins will be added to base loot boxes they're so
nice and we learned that Blizzard really wants to work on telling and expanding
the lore and story of overwatch also in overwatch news season 8 of competitive
has started that is all little tidbit brought up by redditor lady lion a new
fara voice line seems to now be in effect in the game this was heard on the
map temple of Anubis Farah says peace be upon you Khalil
now Khalil was ferry's squad commander in her background lore comic he was
killed on the temple of Anubis now this voice line has apparently been
in the game for a very long time monste almost a year but this is the first time
that anyone has reported actually hearing it appear in game so was it just
a bug that it was never hurting game before or is there some specific reason
why Blizzard has suddenly turned it on we'll find out soon or possibly never
and we're gonna finish off overwatch news with just some cool stuff going on
in the world of overwatch starting with this fan-made map called Cairo
made by a Joseph Laurent a now he gave us a preview of this map a couple months
ago I believe we covered it in a video but now it is fully finished he says
that it took him about two months to finish we saw another map from him in
the past a map called favela and that took him two weeks to finish but it was
a smaller map and also he was able to work on that one
full time whereas this one he was busy with school stuff as well it's
exceptionally well made it looks like it could be a real overwatch map and good
news for mr. Lorent a year Jeff Kaplan himself commented saying
amazing work we'll be in touch do I smell a job offer on to our next
cool thing here we've got some fan art by Griego TD cough this his Jesus name
sounds like dick off this is soldier 76 in the Warcraft universe it is such an
amazing piece of artwork I love it I'd love to see this skin then we have this
art produced by extreme II ghost the overwatch crew as x-men we've got
Deadpool Reaper Cyclops 76 rogue onna apocalypse fist storm Farah tour purine
tracer Jubilee gambit Genji Nightcrawler Lucy Oh Symmetra mystique Jagger hard
beast Winston Jean Grey mercy and professors and yadda and many many more
do go check that out I'll have links in the description to all these things we
covered today and then lastly we've got by mr. volt triple 7 a mercy staff a
fully functional while ok sorry not fully functional but a semi functional
emergency staff it doesn't actually heal you but it has moving parts it has an
LED display that'll change the display from healing to damage boosting it's
just a really cool prop I'm sure some cosplayer out there would love to get
their hands on that and that's gonna wrap up our video for today do remember
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