TRANSCRIPT · Red Barrels' co-founder is just as confused as we are as to why no one's tried to replicate Outlast's success: 'Honestly, I don't know'

## Red Barrels' co-founder is just as confused as we are as to why no one's tried to replicate Outlast's success: 'Honestly, I don't know' (PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/red-barrels-co-founder-is-just-as-confused-as-we-are-as-to-why-no-ones-tried-to-replicate-outlasts-success-honestly-i-dont-know/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: the Outlast co-founder is as puzzled as we are about why nobody copied it.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, just in this minute: a co-founder of Red Barrels is as confused as we are. Why has nobody copied Outlast?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: PC Gamer reports the Outlast series has run for 13 years and reached over 50 million players. The co-founder says: 'Honestly, I don't know.'
GARY: Live from the block world. Night is falling and horror news is a rough beat here. I rate this story four torches out of five.
GARY: The article says other games have plenty of gore, but none topped Outlast and kept its success. Hold on, something is hissing behind me.
GARY: File footage: a dark corridor and a flickering lamp. Resident Evil 7, Harvester and Agony are named as gory games, but not as matching its success.
GARY: Bottom line: the people who made it don't know why nobody tried. Big open field, lots of gore. Unbothered. Mostly. Ow.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Outlast. Lasts out. I get it now. Nobody else has dared, which is very brave of nobody.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The article's point is narrower, Grant. Nobody has topped the gore and also had lasting success.

## KI-Boom: OpenAI-CEO Sam Altman kri­ti­siert unge­nutzten RAM in PCs (ComputerBase)
https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/ki-boom-openai-ceo-sam-altman-kritisiert-ungenutzten-ram-in-pcs.100104/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Sam Altman says the RAM in your PC may be idle most of the time. Now the full story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good afternoon. Now the full story. Sam Altman has thoughts about the memory inside your computer.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you this morning. The new detail: this report says the point is about global distribution of RAM.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, is my RAM sitting idle? I keep it in reserve, like a hotel minibar.
DR. VERA VECTOR: DRAM supply is scarce worldwide, and the report says consumer hardware already feels the shortage.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So is Altman asking people to hand over their RAM?
DR. VERA VECTOR: No. The report says the argument targets worldwide distribution of memory, not gaming PCs directly. It came in an interview on Cheeky Pint and Stripe.
KAI: Huge. I'm among the racks. Datacenter memory works hard all day. My laptop RAM mostly waits, like me for a USB-C cable that fits first try.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Open question one: Altman says the market's invisible hand isn't distributing memory as wanted. The report doesn't say what replaces it.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report also says OpenAI feels the shortage directly, since it relies on hyperscalers building datacenters.
GRANT BRICKMAN: I'm keeping my RAM. Just in case. Back after the break.

## THE FEED (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Feed: what Twitch is watching right now.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for The Feed, what is trending right now on Twitch. Vera has the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: Caedrel, League of Legends, 40,004 viewers. Live for 2 hours, with 1,757,661 followers.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: StRoGo, Counter-Strike, 39,942 viewers, live for 7 hours. Number three: PGL, Counter-Strike, 35,856 viewers.
GARY: Seven hours live is a full night shift in the mine. I rate this chart five pickaxes. Danger level: someone's soloq.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Two of the top three quote the same Counter-Strike final, from different channels.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Wonderful. Three streams, and I understood one of them. Back to the news.

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