We Got This Episode Before GTA 6 (Premium E288)
There is no bigger franchise in the video game business than Grand Theft Auto by Rockstar Games. So naturally, fans of open-world criminal mayhem descend into wild dot-connecting in the years before each hotly-anticipated release.
The next installment, GTA 6, has been delayed and is now slated for release on May 26th of 2026. This is despite many assurances from Rockstar that everything was on track for the game to come out in 2025. Alas, this will be another Christmas without an ultra-violent crime simulator wrapped beneath the pine tree. Sad! But at least Rockstar’s long silence gave us some great theories.
Rockstar’s trademark hush-hush routine has turned GTA fandom into a sweaty detective bureau: Reddit sleuths pore over patent filings, numerologists map release dates to moon phases, and anonymous “insiders” drop breadcrumbs. In this episode we sift the signal from the speculation and ponder whether weaponized silence is part of the new marketing playbook.
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Liv Agar
The Once On This Island reference was truly unexpected
more Jake singing! he’s got a great voice
Could you guys look into the black qanon material surrounding the Diddy case? It is a whole media ecosystem and impacted 2024 turnout (blexit voters), since black media was 24-7 Diddy case in the run-up to the election. Same skeevy playbook, conspiracy influencers, but in black media
I like that Travis and I share the way we enjoy video games, play one or two very good games each year
Glitches? Oh Like Saints Row 4?
gabbo. Gabbo! GABBO!!!
Release the Doo Doo Tapes.
I think jake is unclear on what makes LLMs and Gen AI expensive - the upfront cost of training, yes, but there are open source models. It’s also a one time cost. The other cost that Julian is taking about is for inference or the cost of computing the LLMs output. That is what balloons costs and would mean every time you play, it would have to actively metering your compute, for every npc interaction. $$$
I'm not an expert but I feel like the increased power cost of running a lightweight text gen based on llama or something would be less than what raytracing would add
Guys, text gen AI can run local on most gaming GPUs. Love y'all, but you seriously need to read up on AI because every time you talk about it, it feels like you don't know what's current.
Isn't a new Wolfenstein game what we really need?
It is 2013 and I am playing GTA 5 on my XBOX 360 It is 2016 and I am playing GTA 5 on my PC It is 2025 and I am playing GTA 5 on my PlayStation 5
A Chicago pope! Who knew "may the deep dish bless you and keep you" was a prophecy?! 🙏🙇♂️
Liv Agar
After listening again to Jake's origin story on liking jank games, he should try playing The Beginner's Guide, I think, as long as he goes in aware it's less about gameplay and more a meta narrative deconstruction of amateur game design, made by same person who developed The Stanley Parable (an equally meta deconstruction on, I suppose the limitations of videogame freedoms) - A solo developer with their own distinct voice, it gets surprisingly emotional at points too
Doodoo making Jake giggle twice was impressive!!
And I bet he would giggle saying your last name in his Chicago accent to :-) -this is a “with love” comment from a fellow childhood Chicagoan.
The consequences of the MGSV early hype campaign will be felt for generations
fuck this EP I wasn't planning on jumping back in to any of the early mentoned games but now I want to go back to Witcher3, CP2077 AND GTA... FUCK
Have you guys seen the trailer for Intergalactic??
I couldn’t get to the end of this episode. :(. I don’t care about video games I guess but the part about the people Thinking those nodes were different islands was entertaining. Back to more pilled stuff. Toy marketing or non marketing… just hard to get excited about. I admit I did think GTA 6 came out when I was 30 and I’m 41 now so this episode did save me from some minor embarrassment in a conversation I will probably never have. 🤷♀️
A 2013 hymn to the algorithms, in case you missed it. Still relevant in the 2025 qaa era. An offering to the hosts and fellow listeners: https://on.soundcloud.com/wQuLfdkhd2UkVzcYA
somebody hears you. you know that. you know that. somebody hears you. you know that inside. someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to (say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood. here you’re known. leave your life open. you don’t have. you don’t have. leave your life open. you don’t have to hide. someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these (mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot. keep them all. let our formulas find your soul. we’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind), marshal feed and force (our machines will) to design you a perfect love— or (better still) a perfect lust. o how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born. now we possess you. you’ll own that. you’ll own that. now we possess you. you’ll own that in time. now we will build you an endlessly upward world, (reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth. is that wrong? isn’t this what you want? amen. *** Produced by Cason Cooley and Vienna Teng Nothing I am involved with, I just appreciate it
Have you even seen the Silksong community???
Jake, I think the remaster of elder scrolls Oblivion is on its way to reforming the blasphemy that the games industry has gone towards in the last two decades. People are finding out the games made 20 years ago even 25 years ago, were better. Bc they were made by people who loved gaming, and storytelling. World building. Today developers are rode by the investors. The disneyfication of gaming. Games used to be better. The youth are realizing it slowly. All my favorite games were before 2010. They were just better. Graphics do not mean the player is more engaged with the world. Interactivity, community, and overcoming difficulties makes the world. Graphics, skins, dlc, all overrated.
I’m a gamedev and i aint rode by no one 💪
now I’m just wondering if the YouTuber I dated will get early access/info. should I text him, chat? (jk)
lol child’s play compared to swifties and the hunt for 13s and rep tv
I do think this won’t be as lifelike in our current sim Baby Invasion from Edglrd
Liv agar
Patreon goal release Julian and Jake's embarrassing video game podcast but with travis commentary
Probably not great to say you'd do 9/11 if given the chance Thank God it's a premium
rockstar and qaa releasing gta6 content at the same time 🤨
Ofc the gta 6 trailer dropped today
"A peasant reading intrails." 😂
What if GTA 6 was delayed so they could write the Zizians into the plot? 🤔
Why are you, as men, playing games that were not only developed by men but you often play AS a man??? Idk sounds kinda suss to me
Unc cast
The game will suck.
JC Superstar is an opera you philistine
Does it Liv Agar that Liv Agar would Liv Agar upon every play through of a Liv Agar enhanced with Liv Agar?
Crazy you guys dropped this episode on the same day as the new trailer
Rockstar just dropped a new trailer. Coincidence?
So they're pretty much positing that GTA 6 could be like a digital recreation of The Lost City Of Atlantis... Except if instead of this fabulous wonder of civilization and architecture whose inhabitants excel in everything from technology, culture, science and art, Atlantis was a grimy American coastal city where the inhabitants excel at assaulting strangers in the street in broad daylight and crashing helicopters into each other.
New trailer drops the day this gets posted? Rockstar are confirmed QAA patrons
A GTA episode - and Antarctigo Vespucci reference! Let's go!
Hearing Travis plays games, and talk about enjoying them feels like when your favourite teacher admits to playing and enjoying your fave games. I did not picture this beautiful stoic motherfucker with a videogames in front of him - tbh just assumed he stood heroically atop mountains, staring wistfully to the sky, luscious hair flowing freely in the icy thin winds 😉
Man, fuck Rockstar and fuck the GTA player base. On the other hand, nothing radicalizes you like the video game industry.
Gamers were a mistake.
Utm source chatgpt I'm disappointed in you guys
Doodoo? How old is Jakey?
No mention of the leak after an 18 year old hacked GTA6?
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who wants to play dungeon crawlers and platformers, single player and preferably pixelated.
Nope! The older I get, the less I want to play with other people. Get off my lawn! Let me game by myself!
> NPCs can fly to different islands
🎶this is Epstein's Quest fly the Lolita Express call him Jeffrey or just Jeff this is Epstein's Quest🎶
Holy shit, thank you for the Rockstar pathfinding intel. This industrial espionage may help me in my endeavors. Pathfinding is the hardest problem to solve in real time games.
y'all should play Kingdom Come Deliverance and its sequel, actually don't we still need QAA episodes 😅
This is one of the only times listening to the show where I've ever tapped out on an episode. I'll probably come back to it at some point, but around the time that it got to people baking the idea that GTA 6 will be The Matrix I just felt a wave of dread so overwhelming I couldn't keep listening. Somehow people doing this kind of ludicrous speculation about media bugs me more than doing it about politics. Maybe it's just that hearing it in a different context is a reminder of how ubiquitous this kind of thinking is becoming, that it's infected every facet of daily life now. Jesus.
+1, Travis should play Cyberpunk, it's magnificent
“Jules” teehee 🤭
Same
Wow, yeah I never considered that my rental habits as a kid makes me want to play a little of everything.
I feel less alone in this cold dark world when I hear people talking about their pandemic-era Witcher 3 dlc armor sets 🙏🏼
Expedition 33 is worth a play
but mr president, our military recruiters put so much money into call of duty
is it just me or is it really obvious that Tez is the actual GTA/Rockstar marketing team
The jetpack will be found in GTA6
Ahh that’s why that joker from balatro is called pareidolia
When Jake started singing "Everything's Alright" I absolutely sang along lol.
Sukh yor muhvah yung mann!
These are my favorite episodes y'all do. Stuff like this, Sherlock, and the Club Penguin episode make me so happy. Please never stop doing absolutely weird pop culture conspiracy theory internet shit
club penguin is all-time great for me
In further confirmation that being on or listening to this show does something to your brain, I am playing The Witcher 3 for the first time right now and I'm currently in the middle of collecting Gwent cards and upgrading to legendary feline armour
the Travis View group mind
bruh whats with the chatgpt source
Travis View
Homies, using ChatGPT to do your research? You left the utm code on the last link in the episode description
I noticed that right away too!
THIS is why I---we---pay. Content baby!
Don't dunk on Case like that lmao
oh fuck ya I was talking myself out of mowing the lawn but now I can laughcry maniacally to QAA while doing it
Jake Jake Jake
Jake your booty