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One day I will go on vacation and pack all the tech that I need. But it is not

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this day. I was still in the Uber to the

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airport when I realized that I didn't have the webcam or highquality

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microphone that I needed for the WAN Show. Which means I've got two options.

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I could end a 5-year streak of weekly WAN shows. Or I can venture out once

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again in search of an Asian tech mall that has what I need. Welcome to Yongan

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Electronics Market, which according to Flip Korea is the largest in the

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country, boasting about 5,000 stores across more than 20 buildings. Now, I

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won't be exploring all of them. At least I hope I won't need to, but it seems

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like a pretty good chance I'm going to end up in more than one because unlike some of my previous adventures, I don't

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have a local guide or even anyone who speaks the language. And if this recent

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conversation on Reddit as well as Trip Adviser is anything to go by, it seems

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like this place can be a bit of a challenge if you don't know exactly

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where you're going and exactly what you're looking for. Things aren't looking much different on the second

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floor. Feels kind of like a ghost town. There's not a ton of people here

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considering that this is a weekday afternoon. What I would also love to see

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is uh any peripherals. But what I do know is exactly the segue to our sponsor

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[music] According

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to Wikipedia, Sunnin Plaza is the place to start if you're looking for computers

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and computer accessories. And right out

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of the gate, literally the gate, I think we're looking pretty good here, which is

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kind of a relief because honestly getting here was a bit of a bear.

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Anywhere but China, I'm accustomed to using Google Maps. But here, because of

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a data sharing agreement, or rather lack of an agreement that the South Korean

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government has with Google, we instead use Naver, which has some stuff that's

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really good about it. Actually found the walking instructions to be freaking

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outstanding. But it's not really super English optimized. And in fact, even

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just searching for this plaza on it didn't bring up any results. So I've had

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to look things up on Google and then cross reference with neighbor in order

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to find any specific building. I was about to say, look, look, they have RAM,

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but they actually don't. Most of them are empty. One thing that doesn't seem

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to have hit, at least too hard here yet, though, is storage shortages. Lots of

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hard drives at this shop, not to mention plenty of SSDs. How's pricing, though?

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I'm already noticing a pattern I've read about online where a lot of [music] things don't have pricing, and you're

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just kind of expected to heaggle. Can I have a price? 8 TB.

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>> 8? >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh, the price buddy gave me for that was about $247,

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which isn't ridiculous, but it is about

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$40 USD more than if I just bought it from New Egg. One nice thing if you're

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looking for a deal, though, is there seems to be just tons of secondhand

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stuff here. Even the shops that seem to deal predominantly in brand new hardware

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will unashamedly put, you know, older used CPUs on display. As a scrapyard

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borer, I love to see it. What I would

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also love to see is uh any peripherals.

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What I'm really here for is a microphone, remember? And a webcam. Oh,

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here we go. Well, let's have a look. That's a microphone. All right. With

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that said, I don't want to buy the first thing that I find, especially when there

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could be deals to be had. I was on my way to explore other options, and I came

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across this bin of Logitech G102 mice

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for $7 each. If I could find a deal like

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that, but for my webcam and my microphone, I'd be pretty stoked. I do

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wonder if some of the deals are because this place has kind of fallen on hard

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times, though. A lot of the stuff piled up in here seems to be e-waste and

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[music] there's not a ton of people here. Considering that this is a weekday

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afternoon, things aren't looking much different on the second floor. On the

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one hand, there's all this inventory and there's plenty of staff, but just feels

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kind of like a ghost town. To the stairs we go again.

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>> Nope. Maybe better luck going up one more. Okay,

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think we run out of stairs here. I'm back on the second floor now then where

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with my fresh perspective things seem a little more alive. Oh, is that is that

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an entire Noctua store? Okay, kind of cool. Not going to lie,

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this place kind of hopping. People trying out all the different mechanical

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keyboards. Great. Made my way back to that first

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shop where I found the Razer mic and the closed. I guess the adventure

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continues. Wait, you got to be kidding me. I came in on the second floor. I

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haven't even seen the first floor yet. And some of these shops look big. Lots

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of inventory in this one. Any mics and webcams, though. Hard to say. And in

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fact, I don't even know if I'm allowed in there. Think it might just be a

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pickup location, which might explain the very limited foot traffic here. Like,

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that place looks cool. I think it's time to ask directions. Apparently, there's

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someone here who speaks English. At least enough that the rest of the staff

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is bullying him into trying. Yeah, they sent me back upstairs. I really don't

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know if that's going to work out for me. Holy crap. How did I miss this before? A

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Logitech store. This may be the answer.

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Show me a desk microphone. Show me any webcams. I don't see any.

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All they have is the most basic of webcams and no desktop microphones.

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Uh, according to my new bros at the Noctua store, I might be better off

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trying Electroland. So, my prediction came true. We are done at

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this building and moving on to the next one. All right, it might be time to

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adjust my objective here. I mean, even back home, I can't think of anywhere

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that I would go to buy a bougie webcam. So, how about this? I plan to use my

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phone as my webcam. I just find some kind of phone tripod and then as long as

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I can find a decent microphone, then I'm GG.

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Maybe some LED strip lights. Why am I adding things? I just left the last

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building because I couldn't find anything on my list. There it is.

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The is that?

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[music]

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Anywho, here we are. And okay, I could

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get a camcorder. That would be a camera solution.

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Already, this is looking way more promising in terms of what I'm likely to

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find for consumer electronics. Here we

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go. This looks promising. Not bad. It's a

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little over a couple hundred for the mic, which is more than I want to spend

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for something that I'm going to use once, but is a high quality enough mic

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that could just be part of my travel kit permanently and then I'll never be in

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this situation again. And there's a little vlogger kit that has a little

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stand that you can put your phone on and then a little uh LED panel. Didn't

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actually ask for the pricing on that one cuz I was like, "Well, hey, look. If the

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second place I walk into here already has what I need, who knows what else

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I'll find." Oh, dude. Totally unrelated to my quest, but this is so cool.

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Wait, it actually works. Floor

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two looks like it can serve all of my portable CD player needs. Whoa.

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I don't even want to know how much this stuff costs. Never mind. I found out.

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And that's just scratching the surface of the crazy hi-fi stuff in here. Check

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out this place next door is another one. Are enough people buying this stuff that

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we can sustain multiple of these shops right next to each other? It is that is

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that an old CRT projector.

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[laughter] What What is this place? Even more of this

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stuff. Look at this damn turntable. That's enough bougie audio storage for

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me. Let's see how things go on floor three where Okay, we're back in build a

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PC [music] out of parts land. Really close to finding a phone stand here.

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That's only about $7 American.

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Unfortunately, the build quality feels like seven American dollars. And [music]

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my iPhone doesn't fit with its Dbrand case on it, which I don't want to have

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to take off every time I go to use my phone as a webcam.

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All right, let's uh go up another floor, I guess, where we find Gaming Land,

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also arcade and cinema. And that seems

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to be about it, other than this trippy Aoris Lounge, whatever the heck this

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thing is. After the spooky hallway, we get to new building where they've got

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this Lego themed cafe with a little

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build-it-yourself workshop next door and a little racing ramp.

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That's pretty cool. Just found another place that carries road, but they don't

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have any of their desktop mics. And I just realized I'm back to the CD

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Walkman. I somehow ended up back in the old

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building, which means I've pretty much seen this place and I only found the one

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spot that had a high quality desktop microphone. and the price. I looked it

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up after. Turns out not great. Let's see

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if he can do anything to help me with that. There is good news, though. On the way over, I found this selfie stick

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tripod combo unit for $27.

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Am I stoked to pay that much for it? No.

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But it seems sturdy enough. And I'm kind of running out of time here, so I think

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I'm going to go for it. Starting to run out of options. Found a place that had a

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little panel light. They wanted about $50 US for it. It looked like it was

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worth maybe 10. However, there is a shop

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right over here that has the same road mic in stock. So, maybe I can get a

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price quote for that. How much is this one? >> 250.

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>> 250. Can [music] you do a discount for this and this and this all together? No.

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No. Okay. Well, I didn't love negotiating with that guy, but Stall B

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106, got to give him credit. He gave me a far better price on the NT USB Plus.

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And while I paid a little bit more for this small rig light and a matching

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stand than I would have liked, the overall bill was

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$223, which is honestly fine. Now I just need

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a stand for my phone. I think I'm going to go back and get the one I just saw. Add another $23 for this mama jama. And

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it's time to have a look at the results. Let's start with what I would have had

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or [music] may very well still have because it just occurred to me, right, I'm doing the

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Linux challenge right now. I I actually don't know if I'm going to

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be able to use my phone as my webcam. Anyway, here's our camera. Not too

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impressive. Also, I'm not getting any

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audio capture off of this thing. Where the Sam hacker my audio devices?

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These were working. Or wait, were they?

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[music] Come to think of it, have I only used Bluetooth headphones on it?

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Well, if the point was to show that this would have been a disaster, I guess

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mission accomplished. Horrible camera and non-existent audio. All right, let's

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see the new setup. All right.

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Well, this is progress. Okay. All right.

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Checkity check checkeroo. Nice. Okay, we've got audio now. Okay,

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now we just got to figure out how to get video from my iPhone to my

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Linux laptop. All right, is this working now? I think so. I've got monitoring.

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I've got video with actually surprisingly low latency. I've got

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audio. I think I'm ready to go. And I haven't

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even shown you guys the best part yet. Haven't even turned on the light yet.

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Oh. Oh, lordy. Is that ever worse? Uh,

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okay. Well, not everything about this was a huge [music] success, but this

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entire setup, assuming that I already had a pretty nice phone, cost less than

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what I spent on the [music] Razer webcam that I did my last away from home stream

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on. So, as far as throwing something together at the tech mall goes, I am

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pretty freaking [music] happy with this. I'm sorry, but no amount of trying to

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make Steam the same thing as the App [music] Store and the Google Play Store

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