and like way better we're going to have polls live polls so that you and me can set up the polls on our own website then
there will be a history of the poll and we can try I don't want to know the
history of any po if someone is watching the live stream they'll be able to see
the pole you know how we have straw poles so instead if they're watching an
archive if they watch the archive on our site they should be able to see the pool
the history of the pool groy all of the
history we're live now as if it was never erased or cleaned
the whole history of the poll the pole should be cleaned at some point or
Another We're just discussing an upcoming website feature welcome to the
vanan show thank you guys very much for tuning in my laptop screen just wow it
just completely crapped itself I wish I
was screen sharing with you guys I opened up a Google doc and like my
desktop icons like flashed through it for a couple seconds and they gone
computers man computers man welcome to
the show um so let's kick things right off
let's let's let's make things easy for ourselves we've got a bunch of great
topics for you today first up is Google cardboard you can use an ordinary
cardboard box and a
smartphone to make your own virtual reality headset okay it might not be
quite as sophisticated as the Oculus Rift but more or or as easy as what I
just did just there a little bit more complicated than that but it should make
for an easy lowcost way to make that happen next up we've got Ubisoft just
keeps on digging it's almost like this week they were trying to find something
popular to say so that we don't like DRM
we're going to do things yeah we're
which don't include getting rid of
DRM what else we got we also have YouTube tip jar so you'll be able to tip
up to something talk about that later to YouTube creators while watching their
videos and twitch and YouTube are both
going to be playing at 60 FPS now
wowps to u u i can watch PewDiePie yell
with that much more clarity now tweet tube tweet tube all right intro
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playing and the music was broken I actually kind of liked talking over the
music we should have music in the background so um next week we'll get
like a music track but for this week can you just kind of beatbox while I do the
show all right so our first topic this week is going to be the uh well if I had
my topics open I'd be able to do that YouTube now runs at 60 FPS they actually
announced a really bunch of the best part is I'm a horrible
beatboxer I can't do anything I have no abilities whatsoever but if we actually
had an actual beatboxer that could have been maybe cool I don't know no probably
not I have about the beatboxing skills of like that random six-year-old kid on
the playground who thinks he's a plane that's that's about
it or that kid that used to run around the track while making motorcycle
noises the sophisticated kids put the playing cards in the spoke
so there you go yeah I did that when I
was like 12 I think I did as well actually yeah I think I should have been
younger than 12 when I was doing that all right so this was originally posted
on the Forum by RT YouTube now supports
the 60fps I actually retweeted this tweet last night because I was pretty
stoked on this news but there you go so
what they say is motion intense videos will look even better on YouTube when we
launch support for 48 and 60 FPS yes so
bring on the Hobbit piracy since that's
the only thing that comes to mind that 48 frames per second no but seriously
though higher frame rates are better for many things I know you guys are probably
expecting me to say well now every single video on YouTube should run at 60
FPS but that's not necessarily the case
game play will definitely benefit from this um things like running around with
a the camcorder probably not so much the
main benefit the reason that we shoot all of our Channel Super Fun stuff for
example in 60fps is the ability to slow it down to half speed and still play at
30 FPS which to the eye with appropriate motion blur does still look very fluid
the problem with games is that the eye
and graphics cards they well they don't inherently have motion blur they don't
actually um help you put the pieces
together of each of these frames the way that something like a film does so 60
FPS exciting one little trick you have to turn it up to 1080p in order to
enable 60 FPS also if you're in Firefox you might not be able to see it
automatically so if you go download all HTML 5 or some other HTML 5 add-on which
can switch YouTube to HTML 5 by forcing
it um then you'll be good to go I am so over Firefox at this point between it
logging me out of the Forum all the time and just flat out not working very well
and crashing a lot over the last little while I think uh We've pretty much
broken up so Firefox is now my tertiary
browser whoa yeah what's your second at
home I am I'm actually using Chrome IE
Firefox why not like opera or something Opera doesn't work with anything yeah it
does no no I use I use on Chrome Okay
Google straight up doesn't support Opera and Google doesn't support Opera no they
they say blah blah blah blah blah sometimes when you log into stuff they'll be like uh yeah this feature
works on Firefox and chrome and then half the time it doesn't work on Firefox
and the other half of the time it doesn't work on Chrome so I have a feeling within the next few years Google
is going to try to basically eradicate everything except for Chrome because I I
honestly think a lot of the issues that are coming in are based around Google
just being like NOP no no we're doing all this it seems to be mostly flash
related for Firefox for me yeah and I mean it's not like Adobe and googler In
Cahoots so I think it's gota I gotta just blame the Mozilla team for
this I don't know but if the flash
thing's your problem just download the HTML 5 add-on and you're good to go yeah
even then not everything runs on HTML 5
sometimes flash things exist and then my browser crashes and then and this is
this is something that I have an issue with with both Firefox and chrome is it
seems like about 30% of the time the restore last browsing session feature
just doesn't work I have literally never had a problem with that with fire I had
it happened last night last very night last night was my last night did you
have multiple Windows open of course I did I always do you know what my
computer looks like because some of because I need to be able to alt tab
between certain sets of tabs very quickly so for example see like he's
complaining about his RAM he has to upgrade his RAM doesn't do anything
other than web browse ofing his Brown I have to upgrade
my desktop my brother's taking like five gigs of
RAM oh yeah I know I I'm having troubl
defending Firefox lately I hope they pick it up because I don't know I feel a lot more
safer on Firefox than I do on Chrome yeah well there you go um all right so
cat oh this is something really cool that also came out of the uh VidCon
event recently they are adding caption
crowd sources so every single video will just say butts butts butts butts butts
on the bottom well probably the first thing I thought of when I read that was
like okay every single video that's going to attract like a certain crowd is
just going to have like buts yeah there's going to be a lot
of potential for this to be griefed I have to think though that once the
initial sort of spam dies down it'll
probably start to it'll probably settle in I think videos like ours will
probably do reasonably well by comparison and the way that I see except
for this one which will probably just have butts butts butts on it yeah
someone will go and hide it like 34 of the way through where no one's going to
be looking at the captions I mean especially in English it's probably
going to be more a matter of going through and fixing the mistakes of the
automatic one yeah um so I mean I'm sure
YouTube will be able to tell cuz in much the same way that they can take the
audio track and they can caption it I'm sure they can take the captioning and
somewhat validate it so figure out if it's like that far off yes okay that's
what I expect to happen although this is all just me guessing these features are
not out yet that makes sense though and if they're not doing that now they
probably should and they'll probably think of that or figure that out at some
point in time maybe P 10% um so I find a
lot of the news that just happened um in in this one segment are all like
PewDiePie because it's YouTube 60fps and
tip jar so if he's having problem well he's he's like doing okay for doing okay
but game streamers in general aren't probably going to make as much money on
their ads so tip jars are going to help game streamers a lot and 60fps is going
to help game streamers a lot so I find it actually kind of surprising that both
these things are landing when traditionally they didn't really seem to care about game streamers it's it's
actually kind of refreshing to see YouTube Bend to the will of the
community for a change instead of just marching off in a direction and doing
whatever the heck it is that they want go plus integration and screw you just
expecting everyone to sort of fall in line I mean we want you know higher
quality content and we want this and we want that it's like guys that's great
but people are not watching that they're
watching PewDiePie do whatever it is
speaking of PewDiePie I actually was this close to retweeting one of his
tweets for the first time ever I do follow him on Twitter and I agreed with
this so hard and I was just like Google
what are you doing twitch play Pokemon is in our chat again oh L that's so cool
I saw him in last week too I was like what the hell all right so I'm going to
screen share with you guys for a second here check this out so in the old days I
would click on my name and I would go to video manager you can see that that's
still working on this page for some reason it must be a really old one they
changed it today yeah there we go so my name is now gone this is great I can
show the before and after my name is now gone now I get to click on this I get to
click on Creator Studio wait around for that to load it slow ass and then I get
to go way over here and click on video manager in order to manage my videos
which is where I spend 99% of my time when I am logged into my
YouTube channel um YouTube seems to be trying to pay attention to the needs of
creators they're finally giving us a dedicated YouTube creator app which will
allow us to manage things that's actually pretty cool that's pretty cool
although honestly there's not that much more that I needed to do they could have
just fixed you know broken like outright
broken stuff like here's a couple of examples um when you're loading comments
it just stops working after a while and then you can't restore it other than by
reloading the page and then scrolling back to that point again you can't see
the most recent comments first and then the other one that was just broken as
all heck is when I would try to reply to a comment I think it is and then go
back it would reload the comments and I'd have to start over again at the top
it's like you wonder why YouTubers aren't interacting with their audiences
much you're making it as difficult as possible for us oh my God it's it's it's
the the comment system as a whole is ridiculous I I watched a video the other
day that was uploaded that day this was like a day or two ago but for some
reason it had the old comment system yeah and it was so refreshing it's so
much better I'm going to be honest with you I couldn't tell the difference really yeah I had there was a video
recently it was a funk commercial that we did and I was reading through the
comments and everyone was freaking out about how it was the old comments and I actually couldn't remember the
difference between them anymore the reply buttons there on everything um and
honestly it looked cleaner it's mostly mostly there are reply buttons on
everything now like people have basically just kind of accepted it you
know I don't know Dro TR and I still have a problem I'll read through the
comments and someone will ask a question directed at me and I try to reply and
I'm like this is not possible that still happens to this day my favorite is that
well and but there are issues with the old comment system that I think people
forget in the old comment system someone could have contact lock on and there
would still be a reply button so you'd click reply you'd type up a nice long
reply to them you'd click it it would go away and it would tell you this person
has contact lock on they did not receive your message actually never ran into
that that's a lot worse that's like a hundred times worse at least I don't
have to waste my time trying to reply to people who ask me questions that don't
have a reply button on their comments I can see up front haha I don't have to
talk to you because you didn't do the thing yeah yeah so at least there's that
I don't know I think I ran Twitch Plays Pokemon off because the the chat freaked
out way to go smart guy we actually we
had someone cool in our chat for the first time ever I mean the rest of you
are cool too but like someone like crazy famous on Twitch cool well when when my
brother and I were streaming we had Day N come in and say hi yeah I think myself
or my brother I don't remember which one was wearing a day n shirt and after his
stream ended he went to the homepage and saw us homepage and he was like what
that's why he came into the chat and was like hello oh he's still here still here
y anyways all right so our you know it's
funny cuz my issue on Firefox is that the Forum keeps signing my me out my
issue in Chrome is it keeps signing me back in when I sign out
stop it like no you must have your proper account for this listen to me all
right so this was originally posted by Twisted dictator on the Forum and this
is Ubisoft the original article from
Gamespot this is Ubisoft coming out and
saying well DRM can't stop piracy
actually this article is fantastic it's so ridiculous full of all the win okay
so VP of digital publishing from Ubisoft says I don't want us in a position where
we're punishing a paying player for what a pirate can get around so where you are
right now that position that you're like very deeply rooted in you don't want to
be there okay so Witcher developer CD project red uh thinks that DRM is an
ineffective way to stop piracy on the PC them I actually believe because they've
been reasonably friendly in the past however Ubisoft is just like what
popular thing can we say that Gamers will like so that they will stop hating
us as hard as we deserve deserve to be hated right now and so
that oh this is great so what's key for
us is making sure we're delivering an experience to paying players that is
quality so the question becomes what do we create as services or as benefits and
the quality of the game that will just have people want to pay for it and I'm
just kind of sitting here going blah blah blah so okay the more services
there the reality it is the more services there are in a game well
Pirates don't get that stuff so when it's a good game and there's good
services around it you're incentivized to not pirate the game to get the full
experience this is all true it's just that
Ubisoft it's not like they actually said well here's an upcoming game that we're
going to go you know uh steam DRM only
or we're going to go zero actionable items yeah there there's nothing there's
not a Microsoft might as well you know
uh publish an open letter about how they're committed to PC Gamers for all
the emptiness of this statement that has
nothing to do with anything oh my God I mean it's not like I agree with the
Pirates I mean this is this is this is interesting um there was a claim uh that
Bethesda recently released Wolfenstein the New Order was pirated over a 100,000
times in the first week and obviously you can't say oh well then they lost
whatever 60 times 100 so what 60 mill6
million do in Revenue whatever that works out too um lost $6 Million worth
of Revenue because of pirates you can't really do the math that way but you
can't do the math that way at all we have to agree that it is a problem and I
don't agree with the typical you know
quite frankly stupid argument that you
know uh piracy doesn't hurt cuz it's you know basically like if if they deserved
my money you know after I if I played it okay here this guy this guy basically
made me pretty mad uh Russ takeout okay
uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so this guy is like well people buy good or great
games the problem is when you have a game with a 5H hour single player and
lousy multiplayer how do you justify 60 bucks for it piracy helps the individual
to test the game I downloaded 10 to 20 games this year and purchased the 3 to
four that let me play for at least a few weeks and I'm kind of sitting here going
well no because if you want to have the
experience you should pay for it if the
experience wasn't good enough to have then you don't have to buy it and not
every game cost $60 wait like 3 weeks
and it'll probably be 30 transistor like just came out it's already 25% off on
Steam Sale exactly so if you don't think
something is worth the cost 100% then just wait a little while
and if you're not willing to wait well then I'm sorry I guess you get to pay
and you can't just say oh well if something can't be reused 100 times then
it's not worth buying I mean by that logic do you refuse to buy
condoms or
food it's basically the same thing it seriously is no I know I was just trying
something that isn't reusable over and over again dogs try to make food
reusable dogs oh that's gross you know
my old Pony when I was a kid oh no she would basically like if we if we imagine
that this is the pony the crap would come out this end he would turn himself
180° no yep you know how that story I I
don't know like especially with how Steam Works nowadays we were talking
about the Steam Sale uh last time on the show about how it's just like yeah all
this stuff has pretty much been on sale for these prices already like not a ton
of them were super amazing that's that's because everything gets discounted so
hard just wait like three days I fear
for twitch chat what you can't reuse
condoms twitch chat twitch chat
that I mean I guess theoretically you
could it's but the effectiveness well I mean it already has
a pretty scary Effectiveness 99% is not
that good that's true that's still one out of 100 times the funny horri the
funny thing about the 99% Effectiveness is that I'm not 100% sure how you
calculate that is it 99% of the time you have
sex you won't cause a pregnancy or is it
99% of the times that you would have caused a pregnancy it doesn't because
it's hard to because I mean if it's 99% of the time there won't be a pregnancy
it's not even helping as much as we think because about 60% of the time to
70% of the time the the fertility is not
an issue anyway and nothing would have happened so H that's that is actually
kind of interesting either way it's still scary I feel like we've gotten off
topic a little bit we have a little bit maybe a lot of bit let's talk about
Android TV we aren't even necessarily done with the previous topic oh okay
what do you have something to say cuz I can just take a drink go for it um I I
found it interesting that the main thing that he was saying was uh services and benefits they want to add on to games if
you've been noticing something they've been doing for a long time now is these
these multiplayer aspects that they've been adding to games I don't know how many times you've talked to someone
about that super awesome enthralling Assassin's Creed multiplayer that you
played with no one because no one really does that um or the awesome strapped on
stapled together multiplayer that's in Watchdogs I think they need to they're
talking about this quality of the game in quality services and benefits but a
lot of their quality services and benefits don't really seem thought out
it seems like they built the entire game and then we're like oh yeah we need
these things that pirates don't get so we're going to make this weird really
really bad ship mini game in Assassin's
Creed that this is the only way you can get certain items and then we're going
to put it in your ship and everyone's going to hate it so cool like I don't
make good ones make interesting ways to work with your friends and I know
they're working on it like uh Far Cry 4
and Assassin's Creed Unity have these Co-op things where someone can enter
your game and then help you do like an open world thing but they can't help you
with storyline missions and stuff and then I don't really that seems weird
again so I don't know maybe work on that a little bit and then people might care
but for now they're probably just going to Pirate your game I won't but they
probably will and I I think it's funny that they brought they're bringing all
this to light right now yeah I know right because then everyone's going oh
yeah I can just pirate all your stuff did you see how many comments
there were about that they're like oh yeah I was waiting for Watch Dogs and then now I'm just going to Pirate it
it's like wow why did you wow not good
timing I wonder if piracy rates would go
down if they just stopped talking about
shut up there's an interesting they need to
shut up put their heads down and work on stuff and make really good releases for
Assassin's Creed and Far Cry what's the upcoming Assassin's Creed Unity Unity
yeah okay French Revolution sure sure that could be good
it could who knows hopefully they'll make the PC
version look exactly the same as the console version oh there was other there
was another Ubisoft thing they were saying you know why it's challenging to
have the PC version come out at the same time is the console version and
something blah blah blah does your hups in your company make them look the same
yeah anyway here we go uh Android TV so
it looks like Google uh Google IO they actually had a bunch of stuff they were
talking about they showed off the upcoming Android L whatever it's going
to be licorice lollipop ludicrous ludic
keeping with our Rap Theme um I hope ASUS wants to do laptop
Integrations again with with the new one ends with JK
oh and I will just never stop all the
terrible jokes no I don't want to talk about that anyway um it weighs a lot JK
it's light so they showed off a bunch of really cool stuff they showed off some really Pointless Stuff they're moving to
a more circular sort of design language now which to me is kind of like oh
that's great I'll put that on my circular phone that I don't have I guess
if if they want if they want Android phones to stop looking like iPhones so
all these lawsuits can just go away it's
like discus things yeah this is this is the Samsung Galaxy Milky Way and it's
like it's like this shape that would be amazing with like a
sphere it with like a curv screen see that curv screen sphere in the middle
like and that comes out the back you know the the LG like you know orb Flex
the or it doubles as a discus throw it to
your friend and the built-in accelerometer speakers
the built-in accelerometer will tell you how fast it
FW and when and when your friend doesn't catch it it'll say uhoh Well it falls
and you'll be able to hear it because it has a speaker the size of the entire back yeah all these smart features the
Samsung sh no wrong the speaker should not be the size of the back I've been
working on my LG G3 review as well as my
Surface 3 Pro review and they both
have rearm mounted speakers which is still wrong in this day and age what if
it's a discus thing still
wrong still wrong and I still hate it so you want like a bezel around the front
of the disc for a circular speaker there yeah a bezel
disc now with 30% more
bezel new and improved oh no oh not this
again coming soon Android TV now with
30% more TV
Honestly though that might be applicable this whole Android TV thing I'm kind of
sitting here going like how many times are you guys going to relaunch the same
thing it's like we really really really
want Android to run on your TV the old
you know little USB sticks or HDMI
sticks those aren't good enough anymore chomecast isn't good enough anymore uh
Standalone boxes like the posos player
or that a thing what was it called I don't remember something box I don't
know I didn't care then all these all these Google operating system things no
we're doing much better now we're just doing regular Android this time but with
a different skin over top so it's XBMC
but like Android or something and there's a world of content in games
there's actually not too much detail about it right now but you can get Batman Begins Man of Steel The Lego
Movie and The Hobbit desolation of smog if you want wanted to watch one good
movie and uh one really good movie and
two slightly less than good movies Oscar nominated there's going to
be so much infighting on what movies you're talking about they're adding
voice control which I guess is interesting if you didn't already have a
chomecast and an Android phone and this functionality seems like it could have
just as easily happened that way the one place where I see this really being
valuable is in terms of more power
hungry type of applications so NVIDIA
actually on their own blog is talking about this as well they are saying they
want the K1 so that's their upcoming chip of course they do they want the K1
to be the first validated chip for Android TV which could be interesting
because we'd be looking at both a powerful local gaming experience as well
as a streaming experience with you know Netflix and all that other stuff and um
having the ability to stream from the cloud or view things things and Playback
things and game locally it seems like I guess it'll be somewhat valuable I just
I don't see it as that different from so
many other things that are out there I mean you look at something like
Ouya I mean is this really different from Ouya with a skin on
it is it is it skins a lot though skins user
experience what do you complain about a lot with phones yes
okay the skin is important I'm just saying did we need a
dedicated I like my CH casts I see no
real reason to change for my chomecast right well chomecast latency isn't
anything special so there's that if you wanted to game on your big screen I'm
not going to play Android games on my big screen no you
aren't but this is NVIDIA we're talking about so if we could see integration
with their gam stream technology like the way I'd like to see NVIDIA go Shield
right right um but what you don't have a way to do right now is get a low latency
HDMI connection from your Shield to your TV okay so if that could be integrated
you could have a wireless controller or you could use your Shield as a wireless controller like the way I see NVIDIA
going with this to make it really successful is have there be an
experience just for having an NVIDIA chip in the device so they enable game
stream as long as there's an NVIDIA chip in your device then if you have a shield
then you enable second screen type things like what Nintendo's trying to do
with Wii U or with the ability to use your Shield as a controller and then
switch screens when you run away just like Nintendo's trying to do with the
Wii U but hopefully better than the Wii U like a lot of the stuff they do with
the Wii U is pretty stupid Mario Kart 8 has sold 2 million copies which is
unfreaking real not to mention how many Wii U they're selling now I think
they're on track to sell more than PS4 and Xbox I if if that's still trending
that was trending like that before we left for Highlander so I'm not entirely
sure anymore freaking badass but what I
do have to say about Mario Kart 8 and the Wii U is that the second screen is
not very useful there yeah yeah it's dumb you can make it a mini map but then
like it's in your hands it's in your hands I don't anyone who looks away from
the screen for more than a split second in Mario Kart is like red shelled up the
ass so like no I don't know but then I
don't mind that controller for it either because if you try to use the motion
controls for it it's a lot better than weote
controll anyway get it yeah the second
screen does work for that game but I don't think they need the second screen
to be amazing for every single game yeah that's true um so there's a couple more
things for Android TV it's so blah blah blah clean interface allows multiplayer
gaming with people on Android tablets when was the last time you played a
multiplayer game over Android this one of the really big problems with Android
gaming is there're like here's a new platform that you can can take these
games which are not made for this platform and play them on and it's like
no I don't want to do that yeah I mean no wants to do that it's the same issue
that PC Gamers have nobody makes good
co-op games for Android it's like what
like what and yeah okay okay twitch chat you're going to have like four examples
I don't care it's not really my point my point is that it's not a focus Android
games are focused on this experience PC PC gaming Co-op is starting to come back
a little bit not enough not enough not enough I'll tell you what when Microsoft
releases re-releases that Halo package for the PC and it includes Halo 1
campaign co-op oh God then a you won't
see me on W show because I'll be too busy playing Halo campaign co-op and B I
will believe that something's changing my dad and I went through and beat that
campaign on every possible difficulty not because we couldn't beat it on
legendary yet just just because we were bored like I think we literally I think
we beat on legendary and then like went back and beat on the other ones cuz remember you'd get the different Shields
at the bottom of the level selector so we got all of them cuz we were just like
this is cool cuz why not and it was a really good game to co-op the last M ah
whatever everyone's like try try try yeah it's like one game smartass
and we both love it and we have a video review and we finished it and I played
it with my wife and that was great and she was like oh that was fun we haven't
played games together in a long time and I was like yeah that was fun that was
great um and she was like yeah what other games can we play I'm like
none Portal 2 for like the not as good as the single player co-op that it has
actually the only game that we found to uh to play together recently is this one
it's actually a fantastic game and everyone should play it it's uh it's
free for the basic version and if it ever manages to launch then I'd love to
show it to you guys but in the meantime do you want to bring up girl in the chat
said Android TV equals every Smart TV ever except probably a lot better A lot
better Smart TVs are dumb and they're just terrible they suck just made of so
much terrible and oh man that's another thing that's been driving me crazy about
how to address it with the uh with the
LG G3 so the
G3 has one of the most terrifying end
user license agreements that I've ever seen and just with the recent thing that
came out about their Smart TVs and how if you don't agree to it they just
downgrade you to a dumb TV it made me really uncomfortable to have like five
checkboxes to tick off including all this stuff about personal information
sharing just to use my phone this is why
PE more than one person asked me on Twitter if I would recommend getting a
G3 because of how much I like the G2 this was before I even saw the G3 so it
wasn't really fair but either way I said no because of the TV thing it's your
phone there's going to be way more personal stuff on your phone than your TV and they're being really Ultra creepy
about it yeah so I don't know man not a
big fan fan unfortunately this game isn't
launching but it's called it's called Pocket Tanks and it's badass so you can
they actually have um either Hot Seat multiplayer or you can actually do uh
land multiplayer cool so my wife and I will sit in bed with our laptops and
like fire little rockets at each other with our tanks and stuff she's pretty
good at it tanks she's been kicking my ass lately is it like old school tanks
but like new and improved it's not that new we've been playing it since we met
we met 9 years ago so okay there you go not new not new at
Alla okay I'm old and the things I do are
old along the lines of Android TV this
is interesting uh razor throwing Oh Come
onello technical
difficulties thanks for that l awesome
beatboxing that wasn't beatboxing even
is it just like making noises no is what
making noises is just making noises because I saw a beatboxing guy who was
like doing other random stuff oh form of
vocal P percussion yeah that's not percussion I'm
sorry yeah I guess you're closer but I still don't like
it um well this is unfortunate okay you might be on screen sharing Duty for the
rest of the show here oh okay what am i showing let's see if the issue is um my
output or if the issue is the what am i showing
capture um you're showing razer's gaming
micro console featuring Android TV
available this fall uh this was posted originally on the form by dietr W and it
looks like that screen sharing is not working anyway I'm afraid like I just I
fear for what might happen if I try to uh if I try to properly screen share
with you guys because what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to have to refresh my capture card which will about
nine times out of 10 um blue screen the computer blue screen the computer is
this not working for so I'm going to find another way to share with you guys
here we go we'll just do it this way this is no no it didn't work I tried it
already it's it's all good try try it now sure
okay yeah that didn't work okay so there we go um moving on I tried uh the micro
console all right so this was the original article is on end Gadget I'm
just going to sorry guys I got to do this kind of manually here this is going
to be kind of ghetto so add uh screen
region and there we
go hey that is beatboxing according to
you all right razer's micro console a gaming micro console with Android TV
available this fall it should be noted that this is just a render and this is
not the finalized Hardware although they haven't exactly gone out on a Lim in
terms of showing us something that's difficult to manufacture it's razor so
it's probably going to look something like that there's green underlow it's
black and there's a logo on the top uh matte black specifically okay okay okay
all right okay it's matte black also the logo is
shiny the logo is gloss so I get such a
kick out of the out of the press statement the micro console can stream
movies music and other apps for large screen entertainment with an emphasis on
gaming so it's go hardcore gaming so
it's Google Android TV and it's got an
NVIDIA chip inside it and
um probably it'll have game stream good job Razer so I think we just completely
predicted exactly everything about this product I think that's how they're going
to handle the hardcore gaming though and I'm really excited about that I think it makes as much sense as Steam OS um just
in home streaming whether it's through valve's solution or NVIDIA's solution is
definitely the future in my mind and uh one thing I'm interested in is how much
Steam OS might slow down Windows
piracy might not at all no okay tell me this uh
Libra office do you still use it uh I didn't use Libra office open
Office it's the same thing oh actually I do never mind I do use Libra office and
yes I still do use do you use it if you have a choice Yes actually oh all right
um but in certain situations I use it on my test bench when viewing test results
because it can there's an option that it can give you a preview window okay do
you use it when you have serious work to do that's serious work to do that's why
like you know what I mean and you're dodging the question over and over again
I might add no but we have legit copies of office that's true right so okay but
office office using Office 365 now
honestly for the price it's a great value subscription base I'm kind of sold
on when I was in school and stuff I just used open Office yeah but in school you
got free copies of office no I mean like not not that school oh okay right other
school yeah not like piracy school no
I'm just kidding through through his program at school he was able to get
copies of mic CU I was in a software development thing so you get the yeah
MERS allian Raz thing is named so far um
interface will be managed by Android TV expected this fall um this is kind of
funny ex Orbot from The Forum had a really great comment for the haters
saying that Ouya and Mojo were commercial failures this will be two and
then he responded to that saying how many consoles were unsuccessful or
moderately successful until the NES came along and made the formula work I
thought that was a really good point I don't necessarily agree that razer's
console is going to be the big winner here and I think it's probably going to
be some integration within TVs that is
going to finally gain traction not smart TV I think it'll be more like what
they're trying to do with cars yes Apple and Google have been talking about that
lately replacing the craptastic job that they've been doing making their cars
intelligent they'll be doing the same thing by replacing the craptastic job
that every single TV manufacturer has done with Smart TVs the problem with
okay the problem here though is the difference between car manufacturers and
TV makers because car manufactur curers
have been through the worst of it they're like okay we
suck we need outside help someone please
come tell us how to capture the minds and hearts of our customers again
please whereas TV makers are still living in like this castle of arrogance
that we can do no wrong and $40,000 TV
we're all going to create our own freaking ridiculously stupid way of
doing things that has nothing to do with anything else and this this comes back
to and it's not a TV it's the G3 again
but this comes back to my G3 review I'm just going to try and find my notes on
it it's probably not going to make it into my review because my review notes are five pages and my limit for myself
is two pages so but but this is this is great share and connect under networks
is like an LG proprietary sharing thing
and I'm just like what I have in here is LG and Samsung need to pull their heads
out of their asses and work with Open Standards on this kind of stuff I
challenge anyone at LG or Samsung to
come up with one time one time that some
proprietary stupid only within one brand
standard worked on a consumer product
one time I bet you can't it works with
professional grade stuff Sony gets away with it with professional grade stuff
because professionals have the budget to go and invest in an entire ecosystem
whereas consumers buy things peace meal I mean think about how you buy things as
a consumer things other than food let's talk about more expensive stuff
obviously you go buy food you buy an entire meal so you go and you buy a
hamburger you buy some fries and you buy something else and you expect all those things to go together reasonably well
but let's say you go and you buy a house
lus doesn't cook much actually let's not let's not talk about let's not talk
about house let's come up with something uh um something with a lot of pieces
that kind of work okay let's say you furnish a house there's a great example
do you go and buy all the same brand Furniture just because there's a chance
that it will operate together correctly or do you buy what suits your taste and
what's appropriate to each of the different things that you're trying to
achieve that's how people buy things consumers that's how consumers buy
things and a lot of times especially in the technology space you might buy
something and then 3 years later you have to buy something else and then even
if you did buy within the same ecosystem they're probably not going to work
together anyways I know my favorite is the Galaxy Tab 10.1 the original one
that didn't get support for all share yeah whereas the um the cellular
everyone's saying they all buy Ika Furniture
wrecked Get Wrecked oh it's so true the
cellular uh Wireless version had it and there was like a firmware hack that the
Samsung rep was telling me I could do and I'm just like really why don't you
guys just enable this crap you're locking your own customers out of your
own stupid proprietary thing that doesn't even work that well anyway yeah
yeah and like I I actually don't know anyone that buys a new a new PC laptop
phone fridge washing machine dryer TV tablet
all at the same time on game console now and game console like what it's like it
just doesn't work that way no no amount
of trying to make make it work that way is going to make it work going to make
it work that way all right we should probably do our sponsor spot here so uh
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this is fun we actually had a really great live stream with Intel earlier
this week I'm going to post it in the twitch chat here and I'm going to go
ahead I'm going to throw up the lower the lower third that we used for it so
it was # Devils Canyon and Intel's new
CPUs uh just launched and we actually had one of their product marketing
Engineers uh his name is Darren Lynch on the show to talk about behind the scenes
which is something so guys go ahead bookmark that go watch it later it's
only about an hour long and it's really really informative because there's a ton
of stuff about what goes on to bring a
CPU you to Market that you don't even think about I mean we were talking about
all kinds of crazy options like having a liquid cooler in the Box having a
goldplated IHS I mean these are things they've considered and he talked about
the reasons why they would be cool the reasons why they just don't work in the
real world um even things like changing the box he talks about the challenges
involved in that and it might not sound that interesting right now but it was
like something like remember when AMD did that tin box for the FX processors
it's he kind of laughed when I brought it up because he was like yeah it's
funny you mention that because um I can tell you exactly how much that box cost
we ran out and looked at how much it would cost to Source it in fact we've
done it several times both before and after the competitor did it just and
just every time we just kind of looked at it and we went you know like we've
looked at packaging for extreme editions that's like a column like a clear column
that has the CPU floating at the top that would be pretty Co and he's just
like but that package is going to cost $50 so I mean do we take that out of our
margin do we charge the customer another 50 bucks then you get customers
complaining they're paying $50 for packaging and he's like and frankly I
agree with them yeah so that's why it just comes in this box and uh I because
I and it was funny because I didn't actually realize at the time that I had
someone who had as much influence on the call cuz I was like yeah and what's up
with Intel changing the extreme Edition packages to Blue instead of black and
he's like well that was actually me who made that
call awkward yeah so he was straight up
responsible for some of the things that I've been whining about for the last few
years and it was really interesting to get his and he wasp yeah he was really
honest which was really refreshing and really cool so guys I'm going to link
that one more time and you should definitely check it out because it was
super educational and uh there you go
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my screen sharing is not working anymore
all right I wanted to share my screen with you guys that on the network oh no
but it could be yes okay I will do that so I'll share this on the network and
then I will you guys should have seen him on Highlander he tried to be a
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like this what's that can't see seriously
though Squarespace has features that matter like enabling you to just uh use
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fast to use we did it live once and it took us like a couple minutes to make a
cool logo and like preview it on a business card I wasn't quite done
building my website because of e3 stuff and everything that came up when my
trial ran up and I felt so bad cuz they
like send you these emails they're like what could we have done better and I'm
like nothing you were fine it was me I'm
sorry there was nothing wrong with you I had to go on a trip and work I promise
I'll finish my website oh that's the saddest thing
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were discussing that on Highlander how cool it would be if we could um do oh am
I even oh crap I'm not screen sharing with these guys am i l okay chat will
tell us once they catch up yeah exactly uh oh wow oh there we go
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how probably grabbed a certain screen region okay screen there you go there we
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entire year at a time or not an entire year for an entire day at a time and we
figured you could probably do it with their proprietary interface if you could
have a video feed to an external recorder and then you could have an
external battery and then both ends of the of the connection would have to be
waterproof and like damage proof you case for it so that the connector is
like made into the case so that it's waterproof and stuff but if there's some
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that you don't look like a scary scary person should I make them look at it one
more time sure oh my gosh look at him
he's a hideous I wish I could zoom it in more
we really should have taken that picture right when you got off the mountain CU
we just all looked so messed up I know I
don't think my eyes have ever looked that sunken before in my life I I I told
you I went to the washroom and looked in the mirror when we got to that restaurant and was just like what I
hardly recognized my own face me too like it was it was pretty horrible and
uh thank goodness I have I have shaved now you know what's funny is uh that
reminds me of something that I thought of at the beginning of the show to
improve the show so I made you guys look at that but check this out I came up
with this brilliant idea oh yeah check this
out oh the W show now with 30% more
handsome sure and he never needed a Cod host again see what I was trying to say
is that he should at least try to find some way to delay that video there's got
to be some way I would be surprised if
you can do that I don't think so as long as we
don't crash xsplit you're okay yeah I know we're good I don't want to mess
with it anymore but if you could have one side that was delayed a little bit
so it like looked at least slightly like there was two different movements that
would be pretty cool I guess that would help a lot okay I'm I'm go ahead and get
rid of that I'm sorry you guys I you have like Linus and then make the other
one like that that weird inverted color thing so it's like lonus and Hulk lus
I've put you guys through so much today all right the original poster for this
one was diff dlf I don't know whatever
um so forbes.com is the article that we're using to reference here and PS Now
prices have been leaked someone told me to push you out of the way so it was
double me oh for crying out loud it just
keeps screwing up the screen I think what I have to do is just
do this and then we can all look at
forbes's and continue to the site thanks Forbes thanks for that dog all right
PlayStation Now a good idea with a bad plan says the writer so pretty much uh
we're looking at pricing anywhere from4 to 7 us to rent a game for a week you
can rent for 4 hours 7 days 30 days or
90 days with some time periods unavailable for some games there are a
couple of issues with the way that they're handling it though so pricing is
a little bit questionable with 4our
chunks of time coming in at around I think it's $3 to4 so you're paying near
or about a dollar an hour to play the game um something that might be okay if
you just want to try it before you buy
um but I mean another factor is that these are mostly older games and I'm
kind of sitting here going like I could probably find one in a used bin and pay
like 15 bucks for it or 10 bucks or 20 bucks and own it forever someone in the
chat said or just get the same price on a steam sale and that well remember this
is this is PlayStation games so so this is like their yeah um and then it's up
to about $30 for a 90day period and
again with an older game you're looking at a situation where for 30 bucks you
could probably just own it forever and get a disc um I think the biggest here
is not the idea I I think the idea of of
renting games digitally is still fine
the the Forbes article right the the Forbes author criticizes this concept in
general and says something like a subscription based service would be much better but I suspect Sony's Sony's hands
are pretty much tied on that one I don't think they'd be able to do it well they
yeah because right now they're leaving pricing up to the publisher and I think
they'd have to and I think they would have to do that I mean it's much like Steam valve doesn't set the pricing for
a third party title yeah so valve can't just come in and say okay we're going to
have a steam subscription you pay 60 bucks a month and you can play any game
on Steam because do that they'd have to set up like a Netflix like service which
would be Insanity how do you how do you divvy up the funds according to what got
watched um or maybe you do or maybe you don't I don't know it seems like it
seems like we're asking for a lot and at least this is a step in the right
direction in terms of digital distribution um
it's just it's not quite there yet it's got to be cheaper older games in
particular probably shouldn't be very expensive um one one issue I have with
sort of paper use in general is that it's going to lead developers even more
down that path where multiplayer is the only thing that matters because they're
going to be optimizing for playtime yeah
rather than necessarily compelling storytelling which is something that
does have a value yeah like uh I know transistor isn't really the longest game
ever but it ends when it should end like
I feel like they if they added things to it and they made it longer it would have just been wasted time have you played
much Bravely Default yet speaking of games that don't end when they should
end no I haven't okay not much I played a little bit you're driving me crazy cuz
I don't want to spoil the game for you cuz there are parts of it that are good
but I haven't had any time yeah I know
and then like on the plane back which when I was intending to play it I was
just like
no way that was happening I passed out so hard on the plane back from
Highlander me too well we you be passed out on the floor in the airport yeah
that's true before the plane we did do that thing all right so the op for the
first Android and that is to say robot not Android the mobile operating system
it's real confusing yeah I know right a newscaster this was posted by top war
Gamer In The Forum and this stuff is
scary man I'm going to go ahead and load up the YouTube video here here I
apologize for this slightly less elegant than usual way of doing this um let's go
ahead got the whole need to see your
your taskbar well whatever man I don't care um so screen share with Linus we go
ahead and maximize that so Japan unveils the world's first Android newscaster so
he hands her a piece of paper um apparently the robot has perfect
language skills and a sense of humor man that's creepy um this guy is slightly
less creepy he's well he's done he's made like that's the guy that made the robot of himself that was actually even
crazier than this there's certain times when it's like like this chick when
she's sitting at certain points in time and when it pans past the other girl
very specific points in time where it's very hard to tell other than that though
the the movements you can still tell that one I think the other girl looks
more realistic in my opinion yeah probably anyway she's uh she's reading
some news about an earthquake um obviously a lot of this is programmed
right now and they're not able to just kind of come up with things on their own
but the objective is to keep improving this and uh yeah I guess
uh the future is going to be an interesting time and place this brings
up a conversation that I actually brought up when we were at the airport
mm which is where everyone is using the automated terminals yep and I I noticed
one of the big things that we got Flack for on the show not Flack but one of the
big things that became a conversation when we've talked about automation on
the show before is people have brought up that people need human inter action
and I see that being disproven everywhere the amount of times that I
see people voluntarily go through the self- automated checkout instead of the
person driven checkout at stores is getting more and more and more and then
now at airports it almost becomes frustrating to have to deal with
people it's kind of annoying because it's like oh I have to deal with this
person who's probably going to be a jerk when I could have maybe just gotten
through the terminal with no problem the flip side of that is that on both our
flight to Denver and our flight back the
autal terminal systems ever that's the problem the automated terminal didn't
pick up my reservation on the way there and then yours and Ed's reservations on
the way back because it thought we already checked in which is really bad
and we had to go talk to a person so
they can make them better though but that's that's that's I I don't know
about that whole required human interaction argument flip side okay so
I'm going to get you to cover this one because um you're the VR
yeah so this project was originally
thought of by uh French googlers David CA and Damen Henry in part of their 20%
thing which I thought was gone but is apparently still here so that's cool so
the 20% thing is where 20% of your time at Google has to be spent doing kind of
your own independent projects and then uh people thought this thing was so
freaking cool that they jumped on and made sdks for it and it actually became
a much bigger deal is this screen sharing yep so you basic you saw it if you click
it again I think it goes back together if you scroll up more I think there's a
way to make it go SL you keep scrolling out if you there we go there we go you
manually scroll it it goes slower so you can see this is the package that people
got at Google IO you can't just buy this I don't think so if you went to Google
IO you got this package so you pull the tab thing and then it folds out all
nicely but you can make this on your own uh if you have a laser cutter they
actually have the file that you need for the laser cutter to able to read that
file and then cut it for you or there's instructions on how to cut it with like
a nice exacto knife or something like that and the magnet on the side with the
like washer thing that's sitting there is actually a a Buton they can't see you
but sure now they can there's a magnet on the side which I I actually wanted
you to scroll to it not look at me but either way there's a magnet on the side
which looks like it doesn't really have a use but if you're looking at something and you want to select it you just pull
the magnet down which is actually really smart and it apparently works really
well from the videos that I've seen which is really cool um they haven't
tried it on a ton of phones yet fully compatible phones are Google Nexus 4 and
five Motorola Moto X Samsung Galaxy S4
and5 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus partially compatible phones are HTC1 Motorola Moto
G and Samsung Galaxy S3 that's really not a ton of phones um it's a but 180
Meg app and includes a bunch of stuff that you can do already so you can fly
around on Google Earth uh you can go on a tour of Versa with a local guide you
can watch YouTube videos on a massive screen so it's just using the lenses so
that the lenses are one of the things you have to figure out how to Source they help you though so you use those
lenses to make the screen appear much larger and further away than it is and
and it is a custom YouTube app like if you're watching the video and you look over to the right there will be other
video selections and you can use that thing on the side to select those videos like it's fairly interesting I don't
know um I mean obviously this isn't going to take the place of something
like Oculus like we were joking in the int it's not trying to though it's some
things that'll be really interesting is stuff like street view stuff like Google
Earth um the the Versa local guide wind
windy day windy day will be really cool I've used I've used windy day on Moto X
I don't know if you have um It's actually kind of fun even with just the
Moto X being able to do it with a cardboard thing would be kind of awesome
windy day is kind of a little interactive thing where you kind of look around with your screen and it's kind of
like a little movie but but in VR you of
inter you control the camera ESS so you follow this hat pretty much that's what
happens but it's actually it's pretty cool PR neat yeah I'm definitely going
to make one I don't have access to a laser cutter so I'm probably going to
try to get a really sharp knife and do
the best that I can I'm not going to Pizza Box it I'm actually going to try
and Source like proper materials so I'll see how I can do there if you are
interested in making one definitely go to Google's website which I believe is
developers.google.com / cardboard because they actually have sourced
everything for you already it's very possibly out of stock because a whole
bunch of people have been buying them and if you look at one of them and then
look at the um items frequently bought together they're all the other ones so
they're pretty easy to find um but yeah it's they also help you
Source it locally so they'll be like here's an Amazon or other website link
to this product and also here's all of its specs if you want to try and find it
somewhere else that you can buy it all right another news Intel has apparently
asked AMD for access to mantle for an
experiment so there's nothing that
sounds super committal the original article here is from tweak town from
Intel on this I mean basically yeah for
an experiment um they have reaffirmed
their position with direct X saying they are still committed to this open
standard that um they think is going to continue to drive the industry forward
and address the the previous issues with
um API overhead and all the stuff that mantle was looking to try to help
developers with but that isn't to say that Intel is completely dismissing it
which I think is really interesting because as much as there's the whole AMD
versus NVIDIA Fanboy War something that
a lot of people forget is that Intel actually has more market share for
graphics then the two of the others combined and this has been true for
years and years and years and years it's actually something that Darren our our
expert from Intel brought up and so if
Intel were to stay committed to directex
that could pretty much dictate the direction the industry goes and if Intel
were to get on board with mantle along with the 47 game developers that are
signed up for the API then that could
dictate the direction that the industry goes it's amazing how much power Intel
has in very strange ways some
um that the article also mentions is that NVIDIA has only signed up krych and
Ubisoft to its Game Works program however I think that that could be a
little bit deceptive I don't think that AAA uh game makers are the ones who are
going to mostly take advantage of a program like Gameworks I see that more
as an indie play and I think we might see more come out of that in the next
couple of years but um apparently AMD
responded by asking Intel for a month or two until it's out of closed beta and um
there we go an Intel spokesperson said at the time of initial mantle announcement we were already
investigating rendering overhead based on game developer feedback Our Hope was
to build consensus on potential approaches to reduce overhead with additional data we have publicly asked
them to share the spec with us several times as part of examination of potential ways to improve apis and
increase efficiencies so that doesn't really sound a whole lot like they're
planning to use mantle or push towards mantle just want to mess with it it
sounds more like they just want to dink around with it in the lab which is I
don't know that's cool I get it maybe optimizations or something who knows uh
the Moto 360 watch face competition is over this is actually the one I liked
best even though I didn't end up voting one yeah yeah yeah yeah there there was
a couple that I was like oo I would have absolutely no problem with that one this
was definitely the one that I liked best yeah me too I mean as much as I don't
prefer to read an analog face if I don't
have to this looks really good yeah it does uh the one thing that does bother
me is a lot of the space is taken up with telling me the time whereas I would
like for a lot of the space to be taken up with reading my text message I have
pretty good eyes it can and I like small fonts yes I know you can you can change
it out to whatever you want but I wish that instead of just having an icon for
Gmail there was more room on the main watch face to to to
read messages like if we could put the time up here and then have message
previews down here something person I don't mind that because I don't want it to be aggressive yep and I don't I don't
hate this either I actually quite like well you said it was your favorite one I
didn't think you hated it just like personally I I don't like reading things
until I want to read them I end up marking things unread a lot because I'll
accidentally click on something and just be like damn it I need to read this later I'm not ready for this right now
so I don't mind it's kind of hiding in there for now this is funny because it
kind of ties into one of our sponsors
um where dollar oh right I keep forgetting that we're not doing the
normal thing uh this ties into one of our sponsors pretty well because Dollar
Shave club's whole thing is you know oh
razors with vibrating handles and all these features that actually don't do
anything we don't do any of that stuff um well this is oral be's new toothbrush
that pairs to your phone via Bluetooth freaking genius so this is supposed to
be by Nan and basically it gives you a
bunch of information including things like how you can brush for better
results and it can share your uh your
brushing habits with your healthc Care Professionals something that I'm sure
that my dentist would be like what if I
told them about it I care and there's that one time that you leave it plugged
in and on it's like he brushed for 3
days like what I'm sure there's a SA
guard against that I'm sure you sure I'm
pretty sure remember the zero voltage thing that happened no what is this that
that certain that certain board that reports voltage of your CPU and it was
like zero volts oh yeah right things that you would think it would just have
you like sanity checks built-in sanity checks need to be a thing yeah because
without them you can end up with some really funny software stuff um EV blog
how however he pronounces that this this is yeah anyways this is actually pretty
interesting uh posted a great video about how solar roadways are basically
um grade A BS um did the math and pretty
much at the end of the video the conclusion is they would consume more
power than they produce they have proven
absolutely nothing with respect to what
they can handle in terms of weight and what they can handle in terms of
traction um they are extremely expensive
you can watch the video here on the Forum if you want the original poster
here was jurr or something along those
lines um I mean it's a great idea in theory they raised over $2 million
through crowdfunding but it is pretty unlikely that this will see the light of
day in this generation it's something that we talked about originally on the
show and we kind of went okay yeah something a lot of people are
saying in twitch chat and uh yeah we know is that there's actually been a lot
of videos about this out for a long time this but this one was really good yeah
well some of the other ones are pretty good too but yeah either way so I mean
yeah so what we need then is just some
kind of outlandish idea that sounds like
really great to Eco Freaks and then we
need like a really great campaign video
and then freaking roadways well that wasn't their campaign video that's the
funny thing about it no but that's what drove more yes it drove a lot of it so
then we need like that we need to find that guy to make our our viral our viral
video should be like solar
trees they grow with
sunlight you should fund us they also make oxygen wow you need that to live
isn't that freaking awesome they look great in your yard and they live for
hundreds of years they're seasonal W or
they're not maybe not it's up to you
Evergreen you have the choice man
Evergreen can be a stretch
goal and growing your own weed plant can be the next stretch
goal stimulate economies if they make it
legal oh it's funny cuz we were in
Colorado yeah all right also posted by Twisted dictator on the Forum Witcher
three to feature boob
physics which is one of those things where it's like if Witcher 3 was the
first game to include boob physics then
this I guess good boob physics but apparently next power up thought it was
new so my favorite thing is either either they jump around and they just
sit there like solid bricks or they jump around and then they go like no one can
see you right now but I think they should probably see that illustration of
what you were talking about so I said I'm sorry how did you want the boobs to move again I didn't say I wanted them to
move this way I said with bad boob physics they do move this way so either
they jump around and they just sit there which is not realistic or they jump
around and then like a while afterwards it's like
oh that's not how they work either we've seen that in quite a few games and it
gets super stupid after a while or like there'll be a slight movement like
they'll just slightly get bumped and it's like
oh they'll just sit there bouncing for a while it's like no you know the thing is
if these real if these strategies didn't work game developers wouldn't do it so
for all the people who get all upset about this kind of thing just if you
didn't buy into it if you didn't make a bunch of noise about it it would go away
I'm down for more realistic gameplay so if they if they make that realistic
that's cool I think it should be and I'm all for equality so I think we should
have like realistic testicle
physics you know what if C you're playing rust if CD project red wanted to
seem like you know very uh equality
minded then they could they would definitely do that like if we had
realistic junk swaying but then there isn't that many games other than like
rust that you're actually going to see that yeah but they could well boobs are
very exterior you're going to see them even if they're covered up okay the
thing about the thing about the thing about breasts though is that game
developers designed game around making
sure that the breast physics are on display the whole time so they design
the female characters out you want someone to design a game based around
yeah having the junk physics there for
the world to see why not so the camera angle is going to have to be like down
all what or like you know how okay you
know how Laura Croft like shamelessly provocatively stretches whenever you're
not doing anything for so some dude's going to have to do like the unstick
step it's going to have to have realistic
physics or just like the you know the cry adjustment you
know oh no okay oh wow swimming
simulator 2014 yes all the banana hammocks we need the
NVIDIA to add that into their their their yeah Gameworks library for for
like junk physics
and all the viewers left no twitch
breaks every I know twitch breaks I'm just kidding oh man oh people on the
twitch chat are like stop please and
it's funny because your timing is excellent I think we're pretty much done
here are there any other topics in the dock you really wanted to hit uh we
didn't talk about Highlander at all but I guess we have all the videos coming so
it's not yeah Highlander videos will be coming you're going to see videos from
Austin you're going to see videos from us oh okay this is kind of a big deal
Microsoft is offering this was originally posted by good bites on the Forum Microsoft is offering up to $650
off a Surface Pro 3 if you exchange a MacBook Air at a Microsoft Store it does
have to be working but quite frankly I would take the
MacBook Air over the surface at this point which isn't to say I would buy a
Macbook but you bought a service I did but I'm going to sell it for yeah not
for MacBook yeah not for a Macbook I'm going to keep using my XPS 12 whoops
because to me this with the okay so here oops
that's basically how it works but okay so you get a little bit of not much more
thinness and it is lighter and it is smaller like it's significantly lighter
than the XPS 12 is it enough that it matters though like no it's it's enough
it's it's something okay so you get you get more thinness so there's that I mean
I'm not making the point here about the thinness it really is thinner you didn't
make much of a point about thinness or weight because there's not much weight
difference between there is a significant weight difference um but the
problem for me is that Windows 8 is not
a good tablet experience it's actually nothing to do with the hardware the
hardware the hardware is very beautiful
um pick it up more and then yeah junk
physics not that I'm calling the surface junk um the the problem is just there's
not enough USB ports two USB ports is minimum to call it like a reasonably
functional PC we get one um it does have mini DisplayPort out which is nice
compared to other tablets there's no SD card reader to my knowledge although
they might have hidden one under there no they didn't so there's no SD card reader or anything like that it is very
beautiful the kickstand is a lot better than the first gen which is the last
time I tried one it comes all the way out here so that gives you a lot of
different different options like you can sit on a plane and you can uh like lean
it up against the seat in front of you the magnetic lock for the keyboard is
pretty robust which is cool so you can kind of like lean it up against
something in bed or you can put it down here and you can rest it on your knee
and you can legitimately use it and all that stuff is great but the question I
have to ask myself is why would I ever use it without the keyboard and then if
I'm never going to use it without the keyboard then why wouldn't I just want
my keyboard occasionally attached once in a while I do use Windows 8 as a
tablet sorry yeah permanently attached like this once in a while I do use
Windows 8 as a tablet when that happens
this may be bulkier but it's good enough
because I'm not going to do it very often and that's going to be basically
the conclusion of my Surface review um
apparently Wendell has an SD card reader maybe I didn't find it I'm not done my
review yet like I'm not actually filming this until next week so I haven't
basically the way that I usually do my reviews is um it's under the hinge it's
under the hinge apparently that's a really weird oh that seems pretty
sensible under the hinge eh I don't I
don't oh maybe that's the micro SD slot right there there you go why would you
put micro SD on it really oh oh headache
anyway um
oh not helpful when I'm offloading footage on a
video set or something like that um oh
anyway where was I going with this right so the way I typically do a review is I
figure out as much as I can on my own without really looking at any other
media coverage of it then I go back and I look at sort of the launch press
release and all that stuff to make sure that I'm not missing anything critical so I would have figured the SD card out
I'm still not particularly pleased with it and I'm still not going to switch
from a convertible like this because it just doesn't make any sense to me I use
it as a tablet so rarely that I might as well have something that here this is
this is the ultimate example of why I'm
not going to use this because I can use it in my
lap sort of but why have this which if I
go to you know oh pick it up and it falls apart why have that when I can
just have this which is weighted correctly to not fall off the back of me
I can pick it up however I want I can turn it around I can use it like this
it's just a lot more flexible it's a lot more practical and it's cheaper so at
the same price I would take the XPS 12 at a lower price I would definitely take
the xps2 um I don't know that there are many
other convertibles that I like better than the xps2 though Sony's is terrible
like just tragic
um I I don't have a ton of experience with different convertibles I like that
one a lot though the yoga is excellent I when we had the yoga at at the ncx
office I liked it a lot oh people are bringing up the pen for the surface as
someone who doesn't use a pen um I'm not a big fan um people who are talking
about note taking with a pen yeah I I get that um however show them the thing
which thing oh the fact that the only way to take a screenshot is with the pen
oh no I meant like like oh right so my
issue with the pen is that it doesn't stash in the device and the Geniuses at
Microsoft I'm sure they're very smart legitimately but this is how you're
supposed to attach the pen to the surface there's a little magnet where
the uh where the the the charging port is that you're supposed to attach the
pen to it just comes off and then and then if you get a type cover the the
Innovative solution there is you stick a sticker on it don't worry any word oh
okay you stick a sticker to it and then you put the pen through the loop on the
sticker and I'm just like really you guys engineered
a fraction of a scent solution to a problem that actually matters that's
what you did just there I yeah like I the reason why I like how the 2DS is
made is it's super easy to get the pen because that's where they put the colored strap along the back it's not
even a strap like the colored piece of plastic is where the pen goes super easy
to grab it super easy to put it back I get that it's thin and that's great but
I'm sorry I just I'm not keeping it I was going to keep it if it was if it was
fantastic the keyboard though is not nearly as bad as people are making it
out to be I actually quite like the type cover keyboard it's surprisingly good so
there's that all right I think we're done here
guys thank you for watching The W show
if you're tuning in late the archive will be up on the YouTube sometime in
the next little while or up on Twitch immediately for those of you we had
someone complaining on the uh on the Forum about how the archive goes up
really late and it's just
like it's up right away on Twitch and they're just like I don't want to watch
on Twitch I'm like okay it's kind of like when people message me on Facebook
um hey uh I noticed on your Facebook it
says not to message you on Facebook and to message you on Twitter but um I don't
have Twitter so I'm messaging you here
I'm just like Twitter's free man sorry
there's a reason that I only accept messages on Twitter and here I will
screen share with you guys I will show you why I only accept messages on
Twitter I'm going to go on Facebook right now and I'm share with you guys
you're not screen sharing right now right nope okay cool not yet okay so
I'mma I'mma go on my I'mma go on my lonus tech Twitter Facebook
Malian okay here we go Twitter my
Facebook mation so here's my screen here
is why I will never reply to Facebook
messages because when I click on them
and I write a reply hello sorry I don't
reply to Facebook messages press enter to send actually
it's a lot faster now okay well they they're doing better it used to be
really really slow to load messages that slow it's better now that
was still pretty slow no that's pretty fast okay it used to be really slow now
I don't have an excuse but still RDM RTM
well there's there's there's there's methodology now you don't want to answer
there you want to answer someone else yes and the thing about Twitter too is I
get a lot of people tweeting me saying hey I want to ask you a question that's longer than 140 characters um how do I
do that and the answer is you don't because I get too many messages um the
best thing to do if you have a tech question is to post on the lineus tech
tips Forum it's like really good it is
that's a good place to go and ask questions because if you don't get the right answer the first time um someone
else will post the right answer at some point so someone do that and then Tweet
back to me saying that no one answered them they tweeted I checked times on
things they tweeted me like 3 minutes after they had posted their thing I
checked it like 30 minutes afterwards and by the time I checked it there was a
page and a half of comments nice I was like we should probably end the show at
some point here but I could I could gr tweets forever I have I am doing
Afterparty tonight and I am doing my 24-hour charity stream that I talked
about this weekend I don't know exactly when it'll start but it's happening you're crazy Child's Play Man Child's
Play is cool all right peace out guys bye
everyone oh dang it that
wasn't should we be
box I can't be box I'm
terrible see that's not percussion yeah
it's not really beat boxing either that's maybe
true I think we should have a junk physics shirt oh my God what would be
the logo though I think you know what the logo would be but then we couldn't
sell what