Machine gun

Exactly.

So what's happening here? I just switched to Machine Gun.

I didn't know I did that.

We have our typical roguelite-style run of choosing out of three abilities.

Maybe it's also not too hard.

Yeah, but that's the usual kind of honeymoon phase, I guess, for the first week here with these games, because they just give you overwhelming number of...

Oh, I can build another tower, machine gun tower.

second city wall that's nice uh they give you overwhelming number of resources so it's the usual afk arena honeymoon honeymoon period of first week when you're swimming in energy swimming in resources until you hit some gate and then you need to grind or pay it's It's the usual Chinese playbook monetization, so nothing really to it.

IT'S EASIER TO DEFEND A POSITION THAN IT IS TO GO TAKE A POSITION.

WHEN I WAS IN VIETNAM, WE WOULD SEE THAT THE VIETNAMESE WOULD HAVE JUST ONE OR TWO PEOPLE ON THE TOP OF A HILL WITH A MACHINE GUN, AND THEY COULD FIGHT OFF 50 AMERICANS UNLESS YOU BROUGHT IN AIRPOWER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

IT'S EASIER TO DEFEND A POSITION THAN IT IS TO TAKE A POSITION.

SO IF YOU WERE TO BEGIN TO SEE YOURSELF THAT I AM ALREADY THE HEALED, I AM ALREADY BLESSED, GOD'S ALREADY COMMANDED THE FINANCIAL BLESSINGS, WHATEVER I SET MY HAND UNTO IS ALREADY BLESSED.

... as well, that style of holster.

Machine Gun Corps probably as well.

Yeah, Machine Gun.

So it's basically so that it's not on your belt, on your waist, it's, you draw it from across your chest.

But anyway, so I got those three bits, and I got some manuals, actually, which I haven't shown you yet.

你整个，你整个子弹打，扔到他口里都不死喔，大佬。

不是，但是他，他在追，他在追你嘛。然后他们就用，用那些 machine gun 射他几枪，他又倒下了，又说追不到，然后又跳起来，再射他几枪，他又倒下了。那么之前怎样射都不倒喔。

我是奇怪地爱伦为什么会又跛脚又死了而已。

那么爱伦他始终都不是大力神那个级数。[笑]

And I immediately linked that to Napster and saying like, we're kind of in this wild west period now where there's, there's such a rush to get things to market that no one's really thinking about greater implications.

And it was only what a week or two ago where whole news like like oh at the rate we're going we're gonna lose control this thing is gonna like escape out of its sandbox and it's gonna become autonomous and it's gonna cause problems you know and then it you know the phrase it's gonna kill us all which was a lot of hyperbole but nonetheless um i think because i think because like artificial intelligence in a lot of ways is kind of like a real it's like a toddler with a machine gun Like, you just don't know what it's going to do, because it doesn't know what it's going to do.

It just knows it's barely cognizant of what it's doing, but it has a lot of really powerful twos, hence Toddler with a Machine Gun.

And that's the interesting part of it to me.

Like, yeah, obviously it's been dangerous, but I think it's also more like, Where does this go? Like, we're so limited in our imagination.

[digital effects] All right, here we go.

Today we have Ramon Mundo Mendoza, AKA Machine Gun Mundo, East Los Angeles altar boy who became a Mexican Mafia hit man and spent almost 20 years in prison, who's actually hiding his identity right now.

We'll explain why at a later point.

Mundo, welcome to Vlad TV.

But I, like I said, I wanted to be alone with my thoughts.

Then the, one of the guys tells me, he, he summons me to the back room, to a bedroom.

So I go back there, and on the bed is a, a .45 caliber machine gun.

It was a...

It was like going to some...

I went in there and people caught up with Machine Guns and just mowed us down.

And we were just trying to clamber out.

I would have been surprised.

The two gangs, a bit like in Los Angeles, the Crips and the Bloods, who are red and blue.

They're a red and blue gang, and they're just at war with each other.

They've all got access to machine guns.

It's very, very gritty.