welcome to Tech Showdown episode two if you're not familiar with the format you
can one yes one also you can click that
corner that's one this is two basically
what we do is we take a theme and we build a computer around that theme with
a very limited budget and very limited
time and today's theme is a future a future or the future future
future future so let's see what's in our future or not right now yeah I think
mine is similar okay let's
go so the idea behind Tech Showdown is
that neither of the participants other than the secret ingredient which is the
theme of the future knows what the other is doing but I think based on very
cryptic conversations with Luke that we've both taken a worst case
scenario interpretation of the future and run with that today and while I
think on some whoops I'm I'm
okay dang it while I think it's
impossible for us to actually have come up with the same
idea he thinks the same thing so do two
impossibilities make a possibility
no unless they do man like I don't know
the viewers are going to be in on it the whole time if we're building the same
computer I don't think it's impossible though oh you have got to be kidding me
I don't have my orange screwdriver kill
me now Jake maybe he borrowed it sometimes he
borrows it he's not allowed to but he does it anyway
yes success okay um so he's building his
computer already I'm actually I'm quite a ways away away from that I have some
work to do on the case before I can
start on that now last tech
Showdown I was heavily reliant on
something I had never done before being executed with a reasonable degree of
skill um it was almost an entirely glitter themed PC for
today I'm going back to skills that may
not be fresh in my mind but at least I
have scissors construction
paper and glue sticks the label maker is key my
friend open
Josh why is the case derping Josh I
blame you for any problems that happened
today this this this is our color
palette for the day
welcome
I'm going to spell out my theme but not
actually in
order there you go that is my Bleak
future I'm going to reveal to the camera
just because it seems surprisingly likely that he's gone
with a similar
theme you got to get away get get away
run run run
run I really hope he's not also doing this
okay oh man I'm just kind of scattered
right now I'm going to I got to get my thoughts together my my future is so
depressing that uh it's hard to even
execute any like it's not even really funny the first thing we're going to
need is a striped a striped color
scheme on the one side panel
here because it's all about it's all
about the uh the greatness the greatness
of the effect of This Magnificent
event and I really hope that I bought
enough construction paper and I'm really
not sure I went and I returned some of the white sheets
at the last second uh not realizing um what colors I would need so
I need a straight edge um Luke do you have the level all right yep that'll
work and now I just need a pencil how do I even get
in
oh why is it such a piece of sh God damn it why is it so
what a sh way to waste time with a can
of primer that we had at work I should have just trusted the paint I
brought do racist jokes fit into your
theme
trying to open it I don't have I don't have scissors
C I don't have scissors excuse me John yeah oh my
God all oh measuring tape Luke can I have a
measuring tape uh see the advantage to being on that side is that you actually
have easy access to most of the tools the disadvantage is that you have to
hand me the tools oh
wow hey I'll show you how I can grab
things the better to grab you with my
dear um do you mean like it's not allowed because we're both
men oh maybe we have the same
future okay oh my goodness I have burned
like 20 minutes cutting out six
Stripes this is not
good I didn't even measure how many I needed I might have cut extra oh what am
I doing I think I cut
extra um what about them where I don't
know okay I might have to start going a little faster but if I'm planning to
overlap them I actually don't really need them to be that precise at all so
I've been wasting time either way D I'm speeding up this is how it was
with the glitter I got faster just in time to not need to do it anymore we're
going to have what would look like a pretty
traditional um stars and stripes kind of arrangement here but in the corner I'm
going to put the face Trump oh yeah oh he's
beautiful he's beautiful
wait it's red and white right okay we're
just we're going to have to approximate it all right here we go I'm going for
gold for my next trick I'm going to add more glue in
retrospect I think it may have been better to start at the bottom I mean
does this stuff set like instantly or what
holy crap I'm going to start building them from the bottom up I don't even
remember what color I started with anymore I don't know when this thing is
ready going to take that as a
no how long does it take okay I'm just
going to wait for this to heat up and try to do something else so careful of that
Brandon it's going to be very hot is
this even going be enough oh my
God I'm cutting my sand right
now cuz I need that to be done
first I'm just short I don't have the
corners it might be okay
because I bought
uh this stuff
so I might be able to Like Glue in that right
there is this thing not plugged in oh my God that's the problem holy sh this
stupid extension cord isn't plugged in is this stuff supposed to make your
eyes burn super
glue all right so this is pretty good but we're going to do some more I'm
especially going to try to hit the sides up cuz I don't really know how they're
doing at this point try to work some some golden magic
here I'm going to hit up the white here
again someone's going to leave a message being like wow he's doing that so
wrong I'm a professional I've been doing
it for 5 years
hey foam boards look at it fused
together
whoa
how's that
look Bob is going to kill me Bob's going to be like Luke you're an idiot and I'm
going to be like Bob I'm sorry Bob I don't know what I'm doing
Rod's going to be like this is why we
lost no
no that was a mistake too wasn't it now it's too
liquidy I'm just ruining
everything no
what is all this God damn it I just
lost
okay now we have a design decision to
make when we tried to fix the white it
got all this crap in it when I sprayed the top of the case I guess that paint
is very dusty and it leaves a lot of r Rock like dust in the air and you can
see there's a bunch of that crap in the white and it doesn't look good so I'm
going to try to get a bunch of it off in the most delicate way I can which is not
very delicate and uh then I'm going to try to start over I
guess try to like sand this panel or
something and I'm running
out
I work
out the super glue is a little bit crazier than I had
hoped okay so this is the wall this is the wall that separates
Mexico and the US that apparently Mexico
is going to pay
for maybe blue painters tape wasn't the
greatest idea that's still very visible isn't it
back to square one again not like we're not used to
that perfect done okay let's go
there we go oh that side panel though
wait oh
no it's upside
down oh no okay think Linus maybe if I could
peel up the whole
thing and I could put the whole thing back
on the other way hold on a second let's
think about this is it better upside down like if the idea is that I've kind
of designed a new flag with the portrait of the grand
leader here is upside down okay okay
okay you know what we're going to call that intentional editors cut out the
part where I realized that it was upside
down for the other
side I don't want Windows right Windows
represent people being able to come into your
country so instead of a window I'm going
to have a wall a red white and green
wall it's going to look a little something like this yeah that's right
I'm going to need my hot glue I actually grabbed my own hot glue gun just in case
Luke was going to be reliant on the hot glue as
well also it was adorable look at this
thing no unfortunately no but definitely
pink all right when it comes to hot glue it's about length not
girth the scary thing about all the the time I'm spending right now is that I
haven't even begun on my
diarama I just need a little bit more height for my construction
project and this should take care of it somewhat match the other ones see
there you go now that should actually work pretty well now I also brought
myself a couple little characters so did
I I'm not be kidding I hope we don't have the same
ones I I sincerely doubt you have the same characters that I do I'm I'm pretty
confident in my ability to be I went out and got a Styrofoam cutter do you want
it um not yet thank you though I
wouldn't have uh I wouldn't have offered you the same
thing now we also need a
lawn okay um you know what I actually
don't know why I thought I needed did this foam board I am
L what I'm going for here is kind of you know what I think I will I think I will
use the foam board just because it'll allow me to lift the whole thing up
after the fact uh
which could help a little bit now I'm a little worried about not having
actually at all started on the
computer but um I will get to that later I hope wow I'm
already down to the hole in the glue stick I have used a lot of this and I am
nowhere near done fortunately I can switch to hot
glue for most of the upcoming construction and I do have a fair bit of
that okay so here we
go my first diarama project since
elementary school I guess I should kind of map this out a little bit I could use
a piece of paper so I need four in the front and six in the back so 10 10 P oh
man this is getting kind of brutal
um
okay so on this side I want sparkly gold
then I'm going to put the mannequin head on a slight angle give ital trunk hair
put money all around it and diamonds um and maybe label uh label
maker some of his quotes So this side's
going to be all Glam and
Glitz
those look sufficiently Fed Up Now
please God don't kick it on our way out and let's
go and then so this is going to go here and
then it's going to have this on it to
the top
bit so this is for the power supply I
was told that I can't wreck the power supply
so I am going to not wreck the power
supply get it it's plating gold
plating 48 68
48
168 this stuff which is um like a paint which I should be
able to squeeze out so I can like get
some of this stuff done if I want to um so that's an
option I have
uh uh this
thing so Brandon accidentally stepped on my side panel a few
times and and it's
here it was on this corner and
then all over okay I don't think he steuck on that one all over this one
used up a whole bunch of paint I don't have enough paint anymore to paint the
back of the brackets and I don't have enough paint to fix
that so I don't really know what to
do trying to figure out some way to fix it
but I have no
idea why isn't it sticking at
all what the f I know there's a giant fing line this
is great
I'm that's that's
that's and I don't even have a hot glue
gun come on
off Jesus
so that is the outer walls of my house
now your glue gun works perfectly to
Warcraft 2 reference wao it's still melting the
styrene under the paper oh craps
cicles look at me I can do
crafts meanwhile the wives and girlfriends of all the people watching
this video are just like he has no idea
what he's doing did he just use c42 hot
glue on foam board it's stuck to my hand that's going
to be the White House a little Trump leg on top okay I don't remember what these
are for oh this is awful everything about it
is awful crap I wish I had my wife to
help me with this kind of up to
there what I'm going to need in order to make it somewhat realistic looking some
Windows should work the second
time okay there's my
Windows yeah baby I am going to glue this down so I'm
committing at this point there's no time to redo everything that I've done on it
anyway so I am going for the Gusto
here
okay oh I never checked the centering on the oh boy well I hope that's somewhat
close actually to the eye that seems okay I think we're all right okay so
this baby is going to go in here and
this is going to go right here then I got to figure out my
pillars okay there's my top
piece
oh that'll do it all right rock on Linus
you marvelous Stud I'm sure the entire internet is
going to be criticizing my rolling technique
too is going to uh wow the
judges oh I love
it I got to tell you Luke you were up again against some
unexpectedly legit diarama skills here I
have spent the majority of my time on my diarama so far which is not because
that's what I wanted to do but that's because that is what happened you to
finish I hope so lonus always
finishes cuz I need the joke to be visible but I also don't want it to look
completely like comical and
huge I had a originally intended to just have a face there but um just because of
the dimensions I think this works a little
bit
better
I'm still pushing towards the Finish Line I still got to build a computer
so
I I don't really know what to do
here but with how much time I'm assuming we have
left I will not be able to I'm not going to be done by five either so okay okay
well that's
good I needed it I'm going to get wrecked too hard see what lonus didn't
know is that you could put your budget
literally into your computer so my solution here is to Plate
my graphics card with money if the judges see money
they might want to take it in order to take it they obviously have to you know
vote for me cuz that's how voting Works isn't
it this is so not really
okay this this whole build is so not
okay okay so we're both super overtime I kind of have a feeling that lonus is
kind of done and is just kind of doing stuff so that the contest is able to
continue because I'm literally not done yet okay apparently he's still doing
things I still think I'm going to get completely wrecked at the end but I'm
just trying to like have something that's that's yeah
that is my goal at the moment have something present anything exist for
some form of reason that is my current goal explain
to at least some level why the f I even
entered this contest yeah all right that helps a lot
it's these little finishing touches that I've got to start getting to right
now so okay so first of all this is a functionality upgrade uh because I
didn't realize until I was building the PC itself that my water cooler on the
top the performance would be impacted by my diarama so I added uh an airflow
shroud so that it'll be able to exhaust all of its hot wind out the back
and then the last thing that I did was I created a sales
brochure so that the judges will know exactly what it is they're looking at
and be able to judge it as uh favorably
as possible okay let's
go this is really dangerous I can't see
a damn thing I where I'm going
is scary okay you're about to walk over a yellow cable John see it's fine what
what that's my theme we did do the same
thing what the
m
true how did we do the same thing is that the White House yeah okay mine's
the wall on the other side there's people
trying to climb over it is this oh they're both they're Donald Trump both
of them hus look at this like Vegas look at this
look at the little Mexican whoa whoa they're trying to get over they are
blond haired okay I don't think they're Mexican okay are they trying to get into
Mexico then can we even show this on the channel I don't I I think they're I feel
like I ask that every week I feel like they're supposed to be ethnically
indeterminate um I don't think it's really supposed to Matter What ethnicity
they are oh so what have you done it just matters it just matters that
they're not white okay so let's have a look here I thought I broke
this is this
okay oh it's a it's the border wall that
he made the Mexican Government PID for okay yeah and apparently this PC was
proudly made in Romania does it say oh Trump
PC wow I don't even like Okay so let's
see here um I like smells like cancer I
like how we replace the flag 2 three four five six seven eight what are the
nine Stripes emblematic where are the stars where's the blue on the flag yeah
oh um is Trump looking Shifty oh so we
have an American flag or but it's upside down it's upside down which is a signal
of distress is is is the Builder of this trying to make some kind of political
statement here or is this just for I I
don't know P so we have a gold like a gold plated
power supply a bunch of Canadian I mean Monopoly money sorry um we have diam
plastic diamonds I guess and a glass of
that might just be flat Pepsi but I'm going to just pretend that it's wine um
so literally gold plated you know what actually the motherboard I like how the
motherboard goes with the rest of the build as far as color scheme because it's sort of like a dark orange we both
have the same motherboard John I didn't change
anything I used black cable mod cables I used white ones cuz you used the white
ones now there's lither on here you can
see that it's kind of coming off like everywhere so which one look like
there's a lot of painting done on this F so which one has the more impressive
wall this one apparently they force the Mexicans to pay for it but this one has
actual people this has emotion in it yeah your wall apparently has more
emotion emotion my wall it gets sad
sometimes okay feels he just called mine an
elementary school project that is exactly what I
did is this just taped on looks that way
and it looks like it was attempted to be hot glued but that probably didn't work
very well so it unless this is temporary to secure it while it was
like are we supposed to take that off if we took that off does no no no no no
don't take don't take it off don't take it ready this whole panel makes me feel
safe really there's the gun the gun is
pointed directly at the Temple of Trump's head is that is that symbolism
is he being controlled by you know someone else
M interesting this this build just got meta oh man I don't even know what to
say to that I have nothing to say say
for once so do we actually judge this based on quality well it's it's a very
Square White House it appears to be missing the entire West Wing where the
president's office actually is of course John knows some useless crap like that
if you Google White House that's what comes up I do like how this one made an
obvious reference to we made Mexico pay for it with the wall here it is in the
it's in the isn't the colors of the Mexican tri color it's very accurate I
like your dress so oh I do like how it say Trump president presal Hotel yeah
well if you read this if you had read the it says thank
you I told you you'd get it John's like well no it says this seems to be too
about the standard of Trump's normal Bill quality though Trump's what quality
normal build quality of his of his hotels and various other
establishments wow um says scale replica and it's not
and I just don't want to be lied to but that's
trump it also says a bunch of other crap about by what metric is this 30% more
Trump compared to a regular Tower um
there's like the international unit of umum trump it's just it just is you
can't this is trumped up judging is what we got going on here John is defending a
metaphysical Point have we ever had this happen before I don't know I think
they're being really harsh on my build here
see he says what Trump brings to America do they even know the theme is the
future can you go tell them the theme is not Trump the theme is the
future nobody said
that I mean I walked over here and I saw both Trump builds and I was like this is
certainly a potential look at the future if you look at it as this side being
America and this side being Mexico or Canada CU Trump will probably build a
wall up here too how am I going to get back home then it's a great
question M on that got awkward wow no I think this
really feels like the future it's a little it's a little dystopian if
they're going for the idea of a dystopian future I think they've got it it is a dystopian future do you think I
want that Trump to turn the White House into a hotel just makes me mad when I
have to watch them judge things I feel like I'm being judged what I almost
wonder if it's happening is if Ed knows which computer is which and he's just
trying to troll you I know he know you know he would and
you know he knows I like the
Simplicity while at the same time I don't like the Simplicity it's perfect
for the average Trump supporter to understand it better but that's not me
wow I'm pretty sure there should be doors in more places what a dick
Construction the construction
favor feels like I could have done it in the third grade so I give it a five ow
five I thought five do they know how long we have to work on these okay go I
thought that the overall approach to # Mega was fine um and I did enjoy the use
of the Trump faces but at the same time there could
have been a bit more continuity throughout the bill I felt like the
Mexico wall was a bit weird I was a bit less brutal than edel giving Mega a
generous seven out of 10 if it's a generous seven that's still pretty
brutal I do think the execution was
slightly crude because the theme seems just to be kind of trump face everywhere
um which I mean which as funny as the
Trump faces are and they are get me wrong I do feel like maybe a little bit
more yeah there we go yeah I feel like a little bit more Nuance probably would
have been good would have liked to have seen um the actual eagle and snake on
the border wall so we don't mistake it for an Italian flag which I actually did
at first overall not bad definitively
trump-like and I gave it a six out of 10 six wow looks like no one made it
through this round of layoffs I like the muted colors it kind
of says Bleak future you know I feel
safer I feel like I have my privacy
intact here I have to give it a
seven unfortunately it does feel too
real and it scares me for me the Vegas
build felt a bit more complete when I
thought the theme was Trump not the
future I would the theme be Trump why
did you both build Trump computers I don't
know I did feel like the uh the facade
on the front of the build was a nice touch you know it does feel very Trump
however shly done however shly done
house um I liked the imagery of you know
Trump being controlled by an outside force with the gun pointing directly at
the side of the head I really doubt that
was actually pointing the gun at
his um I like the
indeterminant uh racial family that doesn't let you know if they're trying
to get into America or out of it over the Trump wall uh and I like the defense
mechanisms of the stickiness of the styrofoam on the Trump
wall while the money and the fake diamonds inside did provide a very trunk
feel it was very unclear what the message was there whether that's you
know America will become prosperous or America will spend too much or you know
it's all just fake and and a sham um and
overall in the theme of the future you know it's it's a bit tough to
say that this really hit the nail on the head
so uh I gave Vegas a slight Edge at
7.5 how granular like the Precision all
right you're up John with that I should do that first of all immediately I love
how the front is very striking it reminds me so much of the trumpet
International in Vegas looks exactly like it if you wanted the theme to be
dystopia you absolutely nailed it you kind of nailed it with like the muted
colors um with like all this going on back here this is super creepy because
it looks like Donald Trump has like channeled his soul into like a young
albino woman and then died so D I think
Lennon said it best sometimes I Want to Hold Your Hand just means I Want to Hold
Your Hand I should take more points off for that but um I what I really liked
about this is that I think the theme on this one was much much more consistent
if like I said if you're going for dystopia I think you nailed it so I gave
you well I would have given you a nine but I took off one point off off this
one and also one point off of this one because the theme was supposed to be the future and I honestly think it's very
unlikely that Trump will win so Vegas gets an eight oo
oh wow I did not see this one coming I
actually didn't either crushing crushing defeat at the hands of the world's worst
no one even noticed the paint job on the front literally looks like you dragged
it across the floor while you were waiting for it to dry we did it's just
better than conru so thanks for checking out this
edition of tech Showdown I apparently
lost again and not by a narrow margin
but uh I think you can let us know in the comments if you agree with the
judges or not
oops um okay I was that was supposed to
open the door oh my God whatever what happens if
I do it with yours so I'll see you again next week next
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