welcome to the rancho starting again
which will make no sense to those of you watching the vibe
uh we've got we're totally doing this for the first time we've actually got
some pretty crap topics this week no yep
they're crap um we do have we can polish it
you can polish the crap as long as it's not diarrhea
oh man try and polish diarrhea you just end up that would be a more advanced
process well you could like uh put it in like an
ice cube tray oh so you freeze it freeze
it freeze it then polish it yeah
more work possible i mean can you imagine a poop ice cube
like what would be a what would be an appropriate context for that
i mean if you if you're if you need improvised projectiles that
might also cause disease yeah so if you're this far into the show and you're
thinking is this going to be one of those ones where they actually have tech
news or is this going to be one of the ones where they just bs for an hour
hopefully that's already clear we do have some we do have some real
topics though uh crash plan for home says au revoir
that's goodbye in italian um they are pulling out of the home market
samsung's boss and heir jailed for
corruption jails oh this just in
Intel's eighth generation mobile processors are just updated seventh
generation tips tips chips they're not tips at all
i'm sorry i'm having i'm having one of those but the tip of them has been
updated i'm going to argue jet lag essentially the same jet lag
you know i was in new york this week right yeah but didn't oh no you got back
yesterday i got back here i i i got uh
okay i was at the airport in new york at
5 30 eastern time yesterday
whoa so at 3 30 home time i was at an
airport getting on what would have been a 5 30
our time flight getting off uh no on
boarding at this airport at that airport
then i flew for six hours and i got off the plane at 10 30 a.m our time
and came to the office for the day so i'm going with it i'm going with the
juice i did seem very tired that day and i was like huh okay sure
well did you notice that i was only gone for about 35 hours i wasn't here yeah to
new york and back plus doing the entire samsung event on my own
on your own okay i only vaguely heard about it i had no camera person why
because you know what okay we'll get to it after the intro so the vega shortage
could last until october intro
i mean who really cares
who is buying vega
okay does this work i don't know
uh not yet okay what the crap wait what about the other one why don't i just try
the other one yeah okay uh um
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that are fresh yeah the drinking stuff is turkey it's less fresh because it's
preserved because it's jerky it's smoked but relative relative to jerky yeah
relative to other jerky i guess it's fresh yeah um in that there's less
preservatives and nitrates um yeah okay hold on i'm gonna put this back
but why isn't my screen share working confused confused disappointed
and disappointed and uh hold on i didn't have the thing on and no it's still not
working still not working i don't understand
um also this might be this is like not
working is that the official end of xsplit the end of
xsplit i don't know okay well that's avio
um has issues with x-play yeah blames it
on xsplit and refuses to do things because they blame it on xbox yeah
that's um episode episode yeah no i'm so okay
that's probably a topic of discussion is it finally time for us to move to obs
let's find out um and actually another good discussion
topic that we've got here is is Floatplane dying
i don't know what would make people think that but that is definitely a i'm
stoked on that as a topic of
conversation i have no idea where that came from is that posted in the doc what
were we talking about before we rolled the intro and i said we were going to talk about it after the intro
uh i don't know crap
i have no idea whatsoever maybe twitch chat will help us with this
is Floatplane dying where did you get that from but i'm uh
it's not yeah it's not hold on are they gonna help us it's doing quite well
people are asking if i dye my hair oh the trip to new york that's right oh i
dyed my hair i'm only 31. i can't believe i'm 31.
that's not too bad it's not too great you look like a very
young 31. thanks that's like saying you know
for a corpse you really don't look that decomposed you don't look like you're in
your throat so don't worry about it i wouldn't assume that you're in your 30s
you've aged a lot since you like had kids and started this country
thanks but me too it started nice it started you look really great for your
30s then it's like but wow man you are really on a downward slope dude i am too
yeah but you can just shave your beard and you go to
okay yeah you know what i'm going after it because this is this is payback time
baby all right your face looks horrible enough that you have to hide it right
here bam that's right screw you dick
i mean the old but at least i can show my face where is it i wonder if i can
find it there's the instagram posts from
when i had to shave for that video that we didn't get to release yeah i know the
oh the comments on there are hilarious i think there's people that like
legitimately think i'm a different person okay but you know what though in
your defense i think part of what i think part of why it doesn't work for
you though is because your hairdo is kind of like you have like kind of i
think i think it did better when i had like the spikes you have a choir boy
hairdo but then you offset it with the kind of rugged facial hair yeah so when
you have like the no facial hair and then you just
have like the nice kind of yeah you just you go kind of like yeah kind of choir
boy yeah um i think when i had when i had the spikes or when i just had like
the faux hawk kind of deal or just short hair in general i think it i think it
did a little bit better yeah uh okay so we were supposed to talk about the trip
to new york okay so here's what went down okay um i have never been invited
to a samsung launch event before this is the first
because you've just had like the meetings yeah so i've had meetings with
like samsung canada yeah where i'll go
to like a hotel in vancouver or a restaurant one time
and i'll get briefed on the phone
and a lot of the time this is like a week or two after yes like the unpacked
event and marquez and jonathan morrison
and austin all those guys like have full reviews up and i'm getting briefed and
i'm seeing the device for the first time because get this because
it's just launching in canada now yeah
which is so like super stupid
as though i should give any cares when it launches in canada
nobody cares when a device launches in canada and the kind of stuff they'll
cover at these briefings is great they're like yeah and the blue color is gonna be
available exclusively on rogers
why i did have uh okay someone will find out from the video
that they're interested in the phone go to rogers.com and be like oh there's
blue and they'll buy it cool or they'll slap
a skin on it anyways or they'll never go to rogers.com and never know that they
had a blue one and not care yeah in all likelihood if we're being honest right
now vast vast percentage of people so that's what would always happen so i was
super stoked to get an invite to the samsung unpacked event because that
meant that i could actually do a hands-on video at the same time that the
and every other press in the world mind you the verge had an article or had a
video up while austin and i were sitting there at the audience going why do we
even attend these things like honestly
why are we even why are we even here what's the point um but that's a whole
other conversation um the verge had a video so they so they
in so they invited me up and i was like oh this is great yeah i'd love to go do
it um you know you want to build that relationship i want to i want to be
timely on mobile stuff if i can at all manage to do it
and then i'm like okay yeah so we need two tickets me and a camera person which
i think is fairly reasonable for a publication of our impact
and they're like oh sorry um you can't bring a camera person and i'm
like okay well can i just pay for their ticket and
pay for their hotel or even just share a room like i don't care like most of the
camera people here i'm buddy buddy enough with that we could just share a room no problem
um and then they're like no we can't get you another ticket for the event
so even if i brought my own camera person there you can't get them inside
they could only get me one one ticket into the event because again it's
because i'm going through samsung canada samsung canada had 12 tickets
for the entire country i was i was going as far as like is this like a fire
marshal issue like they literally can't bring more people into the building it
was full but the problem is that canada's allocation was so little of it
right that so austin had three people there
because but he didn't get his hotel and flight paid for and he didn't get like
there was this activation after where why did he need three people i was
supposed to have to get this i was supposed to have two to three thousand dollars to go experience new york with
the note 8. and they were like yeah you could do like a chopper flight or you
could do this you could i didn't end up doing anything because i was busy
editing my stupid video that i shot that day so i didn't even end up using it but
it was like you guys you guys have all this like influencer budget but i can't
bring a camera person to the event with me come on so austin didn't have that
because that was just something samsung canada was doing but this just all leads
back to like a a larger fundamental issue which is how fragmented yes yeah
where one company samsung
okay they have the verge going live where i
don't know why hashtag free luke is being spammed i don't know what it means
so they have the one company has the verge going live with a preview yeah
well the entire rest of the world press which has like astronomically more views
than the rest of the stuff in their channel while the entire rest of the world press is sitting in an auditorium
waiting for the presentation to start they've got um the us and canada and
whatever other countries with wonko allocations for press they've got and
and they've got completely different programs for i would consider myself and
austin pretty similar in terms of what we are
youtubers influencers like we fall in the same category
and he's gotta buy his flight buy his hotel but he can get as many tickets as
he wants i get a free flight free hotel and a few
grand to spend on doing something cool in new york but i can't bring a camera
operator yeah so so it's just all over the place
um and i just i feel like
somewhere at some point what could have even been
sort of interesting is if they gave you like one of those phone gyro things
and like you were able to bring an editor and they got you to like film the whole
thing on the phone yeah and they like gave you a phone to talk about and
display and they give you a phone to film with yeah and you're able to bring an editor so they could actually edit
the exactly that would be pretty neat
and the other thing too though is consistency like i no one's going to be
upset if everyone's kind of doing the same thing yeah but like honestly and i
don't me i hope she i sincerely doubt she's watching but there was another
person in the media on the media side of the presentation
that was sincerely taking notes
from the presentation on a little pad of paper
and wrote down like 10 things and i'm kind of sitting here
going like how are you even covering this like what are you
are you gonna fold that up tie it to a pigeon and
mail it to someone like what are you doing what are you doing i've taken i've taken
written notes before such that you are relevant enough to be here and that
you're yeah but she wasn't it wasn't a speed thing
because she didn't even write anything okay she was sitting right in front of
me and i'm sitting here going what could you possibly be doing that doesn't
require you to digitize this at some point yeah one of the things that i like
about paper notes and i know this isn't what you're saying i'm just we have to talk a lot today because we have no news
so i'm going for it yeah um is is that
it's kind of like the one note idea if i had like a surface book that i had
folded back with a pen then sure but that's i don't have that
what no stop
so like i can stop part way through and draw something
or do whatever i need to okay she does nothing and the notepad was like this
big see that's crazy it's really hard to see i normally have big ones like this
and we're sitting in a dark auditorium because it's like a presentation yeah
anytime that i've sat down at a presentation if i had the option i did
laptop or even phone but if i'm like being walked around a
booth really quickly i often just write
right so you know right tool for the job and i
totally get that but it was just like like why are you even here
yeah um so what else we uh what else we got for
today actually oh oh uh why don't we talk about is
Floatplane dying slowplane dying i don't i don't even understand no okay
is that it yeah that was it in other news are we gonna finally move to obs
because my uh laptop screen capture is still not working why don't you talk
about pros and cons while i see if i can figure this out okay so
uh if people have watched my little stream i don't know if i've ever talked
about it on the WAN Show but i've done
quite a few different attempts of moving off of xsplit to obs because the amount
of rain that happens from everybody about how obs is so much better because
it's open source uh convinced me to try it a few a few times
and i decided that i didn't like it every single time until recently and i'm sure i'm gonna
receive an email about this or a tweet or something
but i've been having a huge amount of problems with xsplit
and i'm not the only one and a lot of them have to do with
capture cards and other different types of things that we're trying to use and
i'm getting feedback from these companies that make these devices that
it just doesn't work on xsplit
and they're blaming xsplit and they're refusing to do anything about it so
like i'm pretty sure the stream deck doesn't work on xsplit and we've had
tons of problems with it right yeah so the stream deck i don't know uh what just happened
oh dear oh crap did you unplug the sdi uh maybe hold on well we theoretically
still have audio so i'm just going to keep talking so you don't really need to see me anyways
um so continuing from there
i wanted to play horizon zero dawn and i couldn't so i started trying to look
into obs and man there's been some leaps
and bounds in terms of how good and functional obs is and it's still in my
opinion a very clunky ui i think they have made a number of objectively
terrible uh design decisions
but functionality wise it does really well the transgender stuff it does it
does well with the audio levels
the audio stuff on xsplit is just
ah why there's just like a volume bar
that you can change the level of and like a tiny very hard to see level
bounce that's just on the bottom of the volume bar not in its own area very
difficult to see is completely beyond me and obs has individual levels for all
your things that are very easy to see all the time
that's wonderful there's some really clunky things about it but
it works very well in terms of the back end
stuff and we use epiphan avio capture
cards because they're wonderful and they don't like overheat and do other junky
things that a lot of other capture cards that we've used have done
um but they have compatibility issues with xsplit
and talking it came up over the last little while yeah
yeah it's it seems to be new um
and that's very frustrating so yeah moving off of something that is
theoretically paid for to something that is free because the free thing is better is just
odd um i hope i hope x split figures
but yeah okay so uh this next news item is
actually from my email so hopefully i don't expose anything critical but it
doesn't look like it crash plan for home
is going away thank you for using crashplan for home
we hope you have enjoyed the secure backup that the free version of crashplan for home has provided as of
today we've made the decision to shift our business strategy to focus on the
enterprise and small business segments
wow so this kind of sucks because
crash plan was like the go-to for quick
painless easy off-site backup of your entire
system so in theory and you know there's some
port forwarding and whatever else that goes along with it but in theory crash
plan was as simple as going okay here's all the stuff i want to back up
here's my buddy's crash plan code
click and then it would send over an encrypted
version of all of that stuff in like an encrypted container file so that in the
event that you had some kind of a catastrophic system failure you would be
able to at the very least back up all of your all of your precious memories and
all that and you you you didn't necessarily even have to trust the
person on the other side you just had to have enough of a working relationship
with them that you'd be able to get physical access to the data
at some point or even back it up online if you uh if you didn't have so
much that it would take like weeks to download or whatever the case may be
so as long as you you didn't even have to trust each other you just had to have
like a bilateral agreement that kind of goes hey i'll have some extra storage in
my place you have some extra storage at your place we'll back up to each other boom done
um and right now i'm not a hundred percent sure exactly what we're going to
um well it says support small business so what does that mean
well how much does that cost i'm using this personally though and small business is i believe i forget but it's
like a significant cost per device okay
yeah so it and it really is priced like a small business solution
um click to get crash plan for small business here we go
so let's have a look at what we got here so i'm in a bit of a better spot
because way back now to be completely honest i got that synology nas yep and i
can synology to synology yes mirror which is actually quite nice
there's other things you can do too on your own um but nothing that's as elegant as this
and this was like the cross platform thing because you could so i could use
it on a Windows desktop and i could be backing up to a crash plan docker
container on an unraid server for example so that was super cool um but yeah no
here we go it's ten dollars per device per month
wow for the business one yeah so it's 120 bucks a year and
what kind of sucks about this it says you can migrate all your cloud back up
something something yeah i don't think
it yeah it does not support computer to computer backups anymore
so that super sucks because that was the
whole that was the whole reason why i would use crashplan because it's going from
thing i own to thing that i own or is like a thing my friend owns instead of
relying on you know some corporation somewhere to keep all of this stuff safe
like i like the idea of having everything on my servers and especially
not having to pay extra for more cloud storage if i have a bunch of crap i want
to back up like if i have a gigabit internet connection at my office
i would love to be able to just
flood it and they're not going to like
so what happens if you've already got this stuff set up because isn't this
local software it is local software um
i believe though that they can just can it remember yeah i believe they can can
it because the way that friends are tracked
is through authentication through the software yeah so it's not something
where you just point it at an ip and it just goes okay yeah so maybe they maybe they've had
this in the plan for a long time uh maybe maybe the
people who are smarter than me are gonna go find some version that you can kind
of roll back to where it all works or something like that i'm not sure but in
the meantime um i'm definitely gonna be looking for some other kind of solution
and that's pretty frustrating um scroll all the way down all the way
down all the way down all the way to the bottom almost right there sponsor
a little bit up a bit half-life three oh you gotta be kidding me nope actually
not so this was originally posted on the
forum by n2a newt
and uh let's go ahead and just kind of wow that
is that was way too broken there you go um
that looks pretty good so half-life 2 episode 3's story
released by mark laidlaw the lead writer for the
half-life series who left valve last year
wow i have a feeling this could get him in a lot of trouble
i really hope he's sought out legal counsel yeah i hope he's lawyered up man
um wow that's pretty crazy
it's on github and i believe it's in like quite a few other places as well
it's on pastebin uh because people are worried about it being brought down
which is not surprising at all um apparently it wraps up a lot of loose
ends it's essentially half-life two episode three
um
yeah wow apparently it the corrected
versions where it like fixes the genders and fixes a few words that he like
changed that can't be enough to save him at all
but whatever um is like a very coherent
and plausible plotline so it's from a fictional character named
gertie fremont yeah but if you change that yeah who
recounts her team up with feisty partner alex vaughnt
to find the hyper borea luxury liner
which must be uh yeah so
wow so he's like probably gonna get owned i really like uh so there's no way
of knowing whether this was a finalized plot line we have no way of knowing
how far into development half-life 2 episode 3 this could be a first draft
yep um but apparently
he was the primary architect of half-life's plot and his departure from valve last year was widely seen as
acknowledgment that episode three was completely dead
so maybe if i can speculate wildly without looking into anything that this
guy has said publicly at all because we don't have a lot of notes it's just the
lan show anyway um yeah why not right let's just yolo it yeah yeah
so yeah fake news warning yeah um but i would i would assume that maybe this is
like he's the main architect for the plot it said that right there this is
probably like his masterpiece
right so while he might get screwed for this maybe he just doesn't care
because like if you created this and like the whole internet is like we want
it so bad yeah and it's like the greatest work you've done i don't know i
don't know what else he's worked on yeah i mean i can see how someone would feel like that like but half-life is amazing
so that would be like an amazing thing to be the greatest thing you can i'll tell you something like we've considered
just going live with the Channel Super Fun top gun
shop for shot volleyball scene recreation and just
taking the copyright strike just so that people can watch it like
having it up there for long enough that
some people can watch it before it gets ripped down because like they're not
going to delete our channel no realistically we're not a big enough
target to get sued into oblivion by uh what is it columbia pictures and if we
do what we just give them all the profits from the video can't remember well no no there's more to it than
there's more to it than that but like realistically they're not gonna
they're not gonna put a target on their own back
by like trying to shut down
i like to think a fairly you know beloved
youtube creator company like yeah
like the amount of public backlash over suing us into a crater
over us just doing a fan yeah remake of a scene from one of their
movies like come on it seemed it seems very implausible at
some people like it at ltx yeah yeah yeah like at some point
before an actual lawsuit occurs some human looks at something and makes
a decision as to whether or not to proceed with it and it's not necessarily
as simple as the black and white of law yeah it's like
is this worth the pr is this worth the cost is this worth the effort yeah and
like that but like what you just said just to dive further into this topic
that i know nothing about um could be a reason why valve might not
go for this guy
valve is the like dream child of all the pc gamers but remember to okay less so
these days for one thing and if you don't protect your ip
then you will be seen as soft and you could open yourself up to this
kind of leak all the time yeah and all of a sudden
valve who might not have a ton of employees but in terms of revenues
and profits is a gigantic company
i uh no i i think i think they actually
have no choice but to go after him as hardcore as they
can like if honestly that sucks if i was
them i would do it just because you can't set a precedent
like that and you can't have someone you can't make it okay for that to happen
because someone might actually come out with a game with gertie fremont and alex
vaughn that is like the exact thing like here
and call it like quarter
life span three let's draw a parallel right um so
let's say that um let's say that you
decided to quit or something like that you don't um
yeah i know you're like half half way out the door already but
the point is let's say you decided yeah like what what like three months or
something yeah let's say you decided to quit and as the last thing that you did
you went around the office and you grabbed
your scrap yard wars pc yeah and
um let's just let's just try and think of like
some you know what there that's that's i was going to say the bomb but that's true the bomb's kind of yours already
anyway like i think the plasti dip on it is mine
yeah it's not even plastic yeah yes but the paint belongs to me well the plastic
you can take the whole middle section yeah the whole middle section yeah yeah
but but let's say the scrapyard wars pc where indisputably Linus media group
paid for oh yeah no that's yeah and it was created on work time which your
employee agreement states that the things you create
are the intellectual property of this company i know that's that's works which
i'm sure he has a very similar agreement in place certain so let's say that you
took off with it and you were like i'm not giving this bag
i would have no choice even though i don't actually care and as far as i'm
concerned you can have it because that would be i didn't give you permission
yeah you just couldn't that then be used
against you if someone else does it possibly yes because you said a
precedent that this is okay yes and that could be seen as like a benefit
of working here or something or something either way i'm creating the
potential for this to come back and become a problem and honestly in this
case the stakes are even so much lower than someone you know leaking the plot
of an unreleased game oh yeah definitely that's that's taking some property
and like displaying it in my house probably yeah the other thing would be
taking property and giving it to everyone that's right that would be like
taking a video that we never released that i made yeah and giving it to
everyone on my own channels later yep
where even if you had no intention of profiting from it this is something that
a lot of people don't necessarily understand is the definition of profit
does not necessarily come down to the
money that luke makes like let's say that luke took it and did a stream on
his twitch channel where he specifically
the nda expired
so is the argument here that the statute of limitations is up
because it's been a year or something like that well his nda yeah his nda from
working there has apparently so there's a difference between that's very
yeah an nda and intellectual property yeah and stealing into and disclosing
something that's under if he was like if he was like i had a fully written
script for half-life 2 episode 3
that would be a perfect example
of something that would be nda'ed but not intellectual property
um so anyway so back to literally the script back to the example let's say
luke decided that for that stream all the money that came in was going to go
to a charity or he was going to turn off monetization um for the video where he
displayed that video yeah um he still profits in the sense that
if eva if i can prove that even a single person went and watched that stream who
wouldn't have otherwise he profited
off of the thing that didn't belong to him that
he stole from Linus media group in the sense that he gained notoriety people
were saying get john i didn't uh yeah we could go get john actually uh he's uh
he's upstairs we can you know what why don't we come back to this topic a
little bit uh a little bit later in this i want to say two things before we get
john here so that like everyone remembers so we can bring this up one
some people are comparing this to h3h3 that's not it at all no it's not it's
content that was released by someone else that was used in minor form for
parody completely drastically different situation
and another one this would be
sort of comparable to someone working at like dreamworks
and they make a bunch of like internal animations and different shorts all this
different kind of stuff that they don't get to completion and then they quit and then a year later they just release all
of these publicly yeah that's we'll get john here but i'm like pretty
down i feel pretty good about the position that i've taken on it but hey
he could always come in and tell me i'm wrong in the meantime uh why don't we do
ourselves it's also america so the laws are like slightly different uh what do
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john get in here you can take my spot we're talking about the uh the half-life
three plots we can just make uh have you heard about this
have you seen this have you heard about this okay okay why don't you actually look at it while we do one one more
topic and then you can come back and use my laptop use my laptop yeah okay in the meantime
i want to jump into one of our other topics here
someone messed with me someone put a spicy one
in the cracked pepper and sea salt
and it's delicious as usual but i have the hiccups now because i wasn't
expecting it that wasn't me that actually wasn't me
i wouldn't be surprised if it was ivan jack jackass is everywhere
what's his plan his plan was to like uh
have a whole bunch in the line you don't know which one's the spicy one and it's like roulette
oh lordy we should do that as a Channel Super Fun kind of a fun channel beef jerky
roulette all right this was originally posted over on ars
technica
and Intel's not really hiding it but they recently launched eighth
generation mobile chips and the
um the assumption i think from a lot of people even fairly tech savvy i assumed
this the assumption was that an eighth generation mobile chip
would be coffee lake which is their upcoming architecture
nope these quad core
dang it these quad-core u-class mobile chips
which by the by the way is pretty freaking sick
so base clocks of anywhere from 1.6 to 1.9 gigahertz
and boost clocks of 3.4 to 3.9 gigahertz
at four core cores with
and these are all 15 watt parts are pretty darn impressive and are gonna
enable a completely new class of mobile
device like i'm really looking forward to see if lg does a 2018 gram
with these processors right yeah or or something like it because a quad core is
really the only thing i'm missing you've already got an NVMe SSD you've already
got 16 gigs plus of RAM so the one thing missing is more multi-threading
performance and they're even hyper threaded so we're
talking four cores eight threads
these things look sick unfortunately this is not nearly the
shift that we were possibly expecting they are built on a somewhat
refined version of Intel's 14 nanometer manufacturing process and even though
they're calling them 8th gen they are actually much more similar
both CPU and GPU to the 7th generation
kaby lake so they're calling these kb lake refresh
which if my experience has anything to go on basically means
kaby lake yeah um and it's frustrating
because the whole idea really can be like with
like a better understanding of their bidding yeah
the whole idea and well Intel is iterating all the time so it's kaby lake
refresh but they're probably already using all
the things they learned in other kaby lake chips as it is
because they are making changes over time um sorry john we're almost ready
for you sorry um but it's frustrating because the whole
idea behind this gen thing is you're supposed to be able to understand
what generation the freaking thing is architecturally and now
we've got seventh generation processors
on the hedt side that are skylake based
we've got seventh generation processors on the mainstream side that are kaby
lake based and then we've got eighth generation processors that are kaby lake based is
nothing sacred no
so um yeah
oh but to be clear the hedt ones i'm talking about are like the 7900x
so that because it has a seven it's seventh gen but it is actually a sixth
generation sky lake architecture so now there's gonna have to be like
the Intel version and there's gonna have to be like the enthusiast who has who's
keeping track of this on their own version of what gen everything is all
right so let's feel like we're gonna need another Techquickie video let's let john jump in and talk about this
whole half-life three thing i'll give you my spot
do you have to leave nope
here we go okay so
half-life three how does how does this work because we think
Linus and i are both in agreement right now that some people in the chat are saying
like oh his nda lifted
but we don't think this is an nda thing in our opinion
it would be covered under nda if he was just like
i had completed a script for half-life
uh two episode three and that's all he says that seems like
an nda style thing him actually releasing all the content does not seem
like an nda protected action
i mean ndas can be written pretty broadly though yeah
you can you can ride in nda so what right but what we're saying is like
um people are saying that the nda has lifted because he hasn't worked there
for a year so he's released this content
not being a employee of valve anymore
and people are saying that he's fine because the nda lifted
does that make any sense uh
it does okay sorry if i seem a little bit confused
you seem very confused well no it's it's more that um i don't i can't really
think of a reason why that wouldn't make sense honestly
okay so if i work at Linus tech tips and
we make a series of videos called scrapyard wars
and we make scrapbook works it's hypothetical here we make scrapyard wars
episode seven and ed finishes editing them but then
Linus hates me so fires me and doesn't
want to release the episodes anymore because it wants nothing to do with me and i have all the copies of the
episodes and i released them somewhere else because my nda expired how does
that make any sense uh well you're covering different things
with an nda versus just
a separate agreement saying that you don't own copyright in it but this is
this is content like did you actually see the post
i read the bullet points below it no yeah no this is what he released okay
which is like the script so he like changed the well it's like it's a letter
from one character to another and the names and places have been changed but
it's extremely obvious but like gordon freeman is uh what uh gerta something
dirty fremont yeah
or frement or something
so wouldn't the storyline be considered ip and wouldn't that be covered
separately from
an nda you could cover it under both anytime
there's no i don't see a reason you couldn't do that so
so do you think it's possible that he's off the hook here
is he in trouble with valve is valve no one knows no one knows yet
we're trying to figure out if he's in trouble with valve yeah
i feel like valve wouldn't construct their nda in a way that makes it so you
can just release whatever you worked on after you leave for a year i don't know
why anyone would ever do that that makes no sense
it could be but like i was saying you could it could be under it could be
covered under something else that isn't an nda so even if they say if they
structure something that says right but we're talking about if it's not covered
not if it is covered uh
okay so you're you're asking me if this
isn't covered by an nda yeah i'm not asking if it's
covered by other things because we don't know we don't know
there's no information about that at all all we know calculating what the likelihood is that he's okay here
based on what based on
because you're asking that he revealed the
plotline of something that he was working on at
valve and is therefore the intellectual property of valve
after leaving
i mean i have no way to say like it it
completely depends on like how much valve values this information so
and who knows if they do or not you know or were they you know were they actually
planning to release a sequel or not so
interesting okay i had thought uh
i had thought it'd be a little more open shut than that like well we're making some assumptions we're making
assumptions that valve is gonna aggressively
protect its intellectual property regardless of whether it mattered or not
uh because it sets kind of a bad precedent if they just let people walk away with this stuff well i mean
you're right in that it probably would be considered ip like you're you're you
are probably right about that but like at the same time is if you're going to
sit here and ask oh how much trouble is he possibly in yeah
impossible to say it really depends on what valve wants to do so yeah all right
thank you yep
so so it sounds like we weren't that far off we were just making kind of a
different set of assumptions about how we think valve would behave yeah that
may or may not be right so we're just gonna have to wait and see
how this one shakes out according to apparently um he has
released a tweet i don't know where it went i lost the
click sure why don't you have a look while i jump in and talk about the vega
shortage okay so this was originally posted over on videocards.com
and actually there's a post by coaxial gamer over on the forum and the original
article there is from pcgamesn.com
but apparently the vega shortage could last until october in spite of AMD's
efforts to keep rx vega prices low
so uh this is from video cards according to
well-informed sources of digi times you should not expect to find rx vega in
stores at least at a normal price until october while AMD promised to prepare a
high to prepare a high volume of rx vega graphics cards for launch the reality
was that many countries apparently did not receive a single unit of the new
flagship card the problem allegedly lies in the
complexity of the vega chips other sources claim that this issue may lie in
advanced semiconductor engineering packaging technology if i had to guess and this would be pure
speculation i would say it probably has a lot to do with hbm too and
maybe not necessarily even the amount of hbm2 that AMD can buy
but possibly as much as that
to do with AMD simply not wanting to buy that much hbm2 right
now because right now they're one of the only ones using it
so if they put in a massive order they would themselves inherently spike the
pricing of something that is a very limited commodity and that just you can
i mean anyone can look at this on dram exchange something that went up
drastically in price in the couple of weeks before rx vegas official launch
so if i was AMD i would be probably trying to ride it
out until another competitor starts building hbm2 which is supposedly going
to happen fairly soon and i would be um
yeah like i wouldn't be going out of my way to produce a bunch of cards that i'm
maybe not even making money on
i'm just i'm speculating though yeah that's fair
uh one thing i want to add i found i found the tweet he tweeted saying my website's down for
now i guess a fanfic is popular even a
gender-swapped snapchat snapshot of a dream i had many years ago
so is that him backpedaling on i don't even know how because he
wants to be is he forward pedal at all or did the internet just freak out maybe
i don't know yeah it could be a case i kind of think it's probably
fairly not a big deal and i'm gonna make
another wild assumption based on no information um because fake news is
really fun rancho man um but my idea here is that it's on his own website his
pinned tweet is him trying to sell books that he's written he's trying to sell
books that he's written an easy way to get a whole bunch of traffic to his website which did happen
and to get more interest around him and his books is so if it happened on the thing that
he if it legitimately had nothing to do with any kind of planet valve
then i think it's fine because i believe fanfic is like okay
i think you're allowed to do that and letting the internet go full conspiracy
theory is a great marketing tactic i don't know
how long interesting took until he clarified it right
i like your new theory i like that one the most um okay in
other news uh this was from pcgamesn.com
AMD says they're trying to keep prices of rx vega low though so after the price
is inflated after launch AMD now says it's trying its best to get those prices
to where we suggested when we launched them
so their AMD's gerald youngblood says our sep so that's suggested prices and
the price tag that we announced is our full intention of where we would suggest the product be priced not just for
launch but ongoing they said the price surge due to overwhelming demand and
that the filling of retailers inventory is key to getting the prices of vega
down to their original pre-launch levels um
yeah that makes sense uh but again so we're looking at AMD having to um having
to put pressure on retailers which a lot of the time manifests as like a rebate or something
and you know that whole thing broke a little while ago we expressed our
frustration with yeah yeah again this is more evidence for
AMD not really having um much motivation
to provide as much vega as they possibly can right now
because here's what you guys need to understand AMD
does not profit from the mining craze and from
the prices being jacked up 200 on the shelf the retailer and or the
opportunistic reseller who runs out to a store
whenever they find it at regular price and then flips it on ebay they profit
AMD doesn't want that because they're effectively creating a bunch of hate in
their community and a bunch of anger and they don't even get to make more money
out of it yeah so you so you shouldn't really think about this emotionally you
have to think about it rationally it's it's not in AMD's best interest
unless they are actually raising the price of the product which is going to
piss everyone off to have the street price be high
um so you know
i've talked to them um i can't share everything that was shared with me but
i'll say benefit of the doubt um i still
and you can go back and watch last week's wine show if you want to know what i'm upset about i'm still upset
about pretty much all of it AMD could have done a way better job of
communicating the way that they were handling this launch pricing because if
they had told me that it was going to be through rebates i would have known that the entire thing
was going to be a cluster and this is okay so this is a situation where like
i've never been on the other end so i don't know there's unknown
variables here but sometimes the communication stuff that happens
directed towards us from a wide variety of companies i'm not even going to
narrow down to AMD right now is just
very not good yeah and it doesn't seem that hard
well it seems hard when
you make things hard on yourself
so a lot of the miscommunication around vega had to do with that they originally
were going to just lift the embargo on vega 64 the flagship card and then at
the last second decided to lift the embargo on 56. don't do that right but
think about it this way it's not the people who are actually in
the trenches with NVIDIA card in their right hand and upcoming AMD card in
their left hand testing them against each other
who like actually know how this whole thing's going to shake down and how the press is going to react to it
it's not those people making the decision unfortunately it's probably
some executive making the decision and then ultimately and i told you so moment
that takes place once the hardware is already in the hands of the reviewers
and they get some initial feedback that hey this isn't going to be a super positive
review because hey vega 64 is
not crazy competitive like it's it's not a game changer guys um
so some some executive who's in la la land
probably got that feedback and mate was like okay fine let's do it your way
let's launch the one that actually makes sense vega 56 at the same time so we
don't end up with a bunch of negative press to lose our momentum that's probably how it went down and i'm
speculating i told you guys i had a call with AMD that was definitely not
confirmed or talked about but that's what i would guess went on
and that's how these things keep happening because it was the same bloody thing with ryzen 7.
originally they were going to roll out the skus two weeks apart and then the
last second they're like oh no we're lifting the embargo on all of them and
only a handful of press actually got them all so they couldn't get them to us
someone in the chat was like okay i don't i don't know where the message is so i'm gonna verbatim this and i'm gonna
get a little bit of it wrong sorry but someone in the chat says something along
the lines of um yeah but you were just blinded by wanting the profits of
releasing the video on launch day
i don't think that's valid personally i wasn't a part of the video creation
process for that but from my view
i don't think it's being blinded when to be able to see that you would
have had to make extremely wild drastic assumptions that wouldn't have made any
sense in the moment um yeah and it has that would have been
very a very weird thing to assume here's the thing is i think people
underestimate how much profit there is in having a video up um
a day or two earlier for us the main issue from what i heard yeah and like
again the reason why i keep on putting this in is because i'm actually outside of the circle but the main issue that i
heard was that we had a completed video
yeah we did that would have been a problem if we released yeah because now
there was new information so we were correcting a problem we were we were
completely done our vega 64 launch video
with the air-cooled and the liquid-cooled card someone says LTT is
totally sell-out we do sponsor spots yeah we do ads we work with companies
but we are very transparent when we do so yep and that has not wanting to
repeat work that you've done because someone else made a terrible last minute
decision that screws you over i think it's a perfectly reasonable stance yeah
and as for getting content out on launch day
honestly we don't make a bunch more money for doing that um a youtube view
is not worth nearly as much as you might think in terms of monetary value so yeah
we'll get a few more views but for me it's more about
making sure that we're perceived as a place that you go when you go and get
like graphics card news about a new card that launches and
if you know let's say let's say
we weren't able to bring people in on the weekend if our video goes up and it's just vegas
64 and everyone else's video or written review goes up and it's vega 56 and
vegas 64 it makes us look stupid and we don't want that and we shouldn't
have to work through the weekend in order to do that companies should be
respectful of our time and our schedules and the fact that we have lives and kids
and other things we have to deal with um
that's the issue what about likes are they worth more
profit no likes are worth nothing exactly zero
um some guys said luke likes negative comments uh
they can be helpful because if someone's thinking those
things genuinely it's good to address it and uh help them understand that they're
wrong absolutely um okay this was posted originally on
the forum by james had like an hour to throw together
the dock today so i don't blame him for it not being there numlock21 yeah no and
the original article here is from tom's hardware AMD has gone into a little bit
more detail about their epic and Threadripper chip designs uh claiming a 41
cost reduction which would actually account for the difference in price
between AMD's 16 core chip and Intel's yeah
which is pretty cool so they decided to go with um like this modular design
versus a monolithic design because even
though the modular design because of the interconnects is ten percent
higher in cost so ten percent more die space
apparently it saves so many failures
allowing them to alright save so many failures that they can just take higher
yield ones and quote-unquote glue them together
that they actually reduce their cost by they estimate 41 that's pretty freaking
cool that is actually very cool and that's
very good for them specifically yeah to be honest and good for the consumer need
to be making money so that they can actually keep doing things they like
super do uh amazon has made its first big move
with whole foods the original article here is from bloomberg um
i want prime members to get discounts at whole foods so you can pay
just a uh less inflated price for
groceries and paper bags instead of plastic bags because you're a giant
hipster not that i'm judging i've shopped at whole foods
they also plan to make prime the customer rewards program at whole foods
and products from whole foods private label 365 will be available on amazon
they have not yet indicated a time frame for all these changes i technically have
never shopped there but i've shopped at the like
the like langley alternative oh okay yeah yeah
it's um it's it's so it's so funny it's obvious it smells like health food the
structure of it is very much like a um
like a chain clothing store like a hollister i think is the one that always
smells like cedar wood is it hollister i don't know i don't i
don't know which clothing stores but um you know how you walk in remember the
last time i was in a mall and they like feel really unique
and then you go to another one of the same store somewhere else and it's exactly
the same flavor of totally unique where it's this very um
contrived yeah uh you know we do this
totally differently than everybody else so uh yeah no i shopped at whole foods i
think i've been there twice okay uh once because it was the only thing within
walking distance of my hotel yeah and another time because i really needed an
ice cream bar and i bought the only
like with fat with dairy with gluten ice
cream bar in the whole store actually no i think it was gluten-free by the way if
you're in vancouver i believe this weekend or maybe only for one specific
day but look it up uber is like coming here now
to vancouver finally and i believe they're showing up by doing free ice
cream bar deliveries oh so but i think it's only in vancouver
sick i don't think they're doing all uber all the way out here if they are
doing uber all the way out here i am getting my free ice cream bar
actually even if not i might just like go down there to get a free ice cream
bar because i'm going down there on saturday anyways what else do we have uh
this is from bloomberg apple reported to unveil a new apple tv that'll be faster
4k HDR video blippitybloppity pixel 2 is coming
october 5th rumor rumor rumor originally posted by techcrunch
and um yep it looks like a phone
it looks like a phone it looks like a pixel it it has a thing here that's kind
of pixely yeah the bezels are smaller a lot smaller yep way smaller
snapdragon 836
could have front-facing speakers i love that note that's my favorite note from
today apparently a two to one aspect ratio
okay i know that mathematically there's no reason
to call um uh what is it yeah to call 16 by 10 16
by 10. right you could just as easily call it eight by five
but for the sake of making life a little
easier i kind of wish everyone would go like by nine
since we all know what 16 by nine is
yeah but what what is a two to one aspect
ratio so that would be 18 by nine i guess yeah eighteen by nine but the fact
that i have to convert it all the time is going to drive me crazy to be fair
this probably affects almost no one but you so there's some rumors but i do
understand where you're coming from uh 4.97 inch 1080p display for the smaller
one with a six inch on the larger xl
apparently it'll be provided by lg it'll support uh it'll sport four gigs of RAM
on board internal storage might get boosted to 64 gigs
and uh it's probably got a great camera it might
there's a lot of like it could it might yeah uh there's a it might drop the
headphone port but like might have front-facing speakers
it might have squeezable sides it might have bluetooth
well it might be able to connect to the internet okay
we don't know maybe they're going with the
world's first modern smartphone without the internet
wi-fi hotspot only i think we're probably done with this one and thank
you for watching show we will see you again next week same bat time same bat
chat oh spacex photos of the new spacesuit are actually super cool have
you seen these fine you can do that i know i'm a fan boy but like they're pretty neat
um all right fine we'll look at the new spacesuits these aren't the ones that i
saw these aren't as cool oh they're still pretty cool
those don't look that amazing no where's the cool ones those are just space suits
where's the cool ones yeah i think you're just i think you're done i think
that's the wrong article that is the wrong article okay here's the right
article dang it james for throwing this together in an hour and screwing up one
thing so far it also doesn't have the other photo whatever
let's talk about Floatplane stuff yeah Floatplane not dead not dead definitely
not dead doing great actually you had a meeting really today people were cool
thanks for showing up guys at work on Floatplane uh outdoor gaming the
ultimate camping battle station i think we need a new thumbnail for this one
that makes it more clear that we are in the middle of a forest gaming on like a
freaking awesome gaming pc
see mezzanine update i forgot to upload that i did at the last minute there this
is a really cool video i think a lot of you will like it
we designed the ultimate gaming tv have you seen this have you heard about this
no so um alex and i worked on this together and we basically conceptualized
what uh what a perfect tv for gamers
would be and this is just a couple of we've
probably got somewhere between six and ten features
that tv makers for whatever reason have their heads too far up their exactly i
heard about one of the features okay so one of them was an integrated um
what's that stupid thing called that you have that um uh analog to digital converter
what's that thing called again frame meister the framemeister so is it
actually a framemeister so think about it think about this it doesn't have to be
no as long as it was something quite
similar so the framemeister actually here we're no okay we got the
framemeister's probably like a little too overkill for most yes so it costs
about 400 for a framemeister which is this
external box that takes your analog source like a super nintendo or
playstation one and converts it to HDMI
with next to no latency because as you may or may not have noticed your tv if it takes
in an analog source does a couple of things number one is even compared to
its normal input lag it adds even more light
and number two is it does a crap-tastic
job of the conversion it'll look like garbage so the framemeister does a great
job of both of those things at 400
it's a lot it's a lot but when you look at a premium tv you look at the bomb
cost of a premium tv we're talking like five six seven thousand us dollars
is it unreasonable to think a couple of things number one
that by cheaping out on some stuff we don't care about like how thin it is
that they could find some of that cost to spend on good analog to digital
conversion and number two that they could achieve economies of scale that
would make a framemeister cost a lot less it's not expensive hardware really
aren't that many framemeisters that's one of the reasons why they're so expensive exactly
so anyway that was one of the ideas so retro gamers could game on their new tv
and have a not crap experience um so we've got a bunch of other ideas um a
modular system for the speakers yeah that's the one thing i had heard about
so you can take them off they just clip on and they have like just contacts that
go or you could take them off reposition them run speaker wire and then you could
add like the rest of the kit or something like that um DisplayPort in was one of
the things we asked for so there's a bunch of stuff a lot of which would be
very low cost to implement um a return to front i o
right yeah like come on bring back front i o is
nice i don't mind a little chin bar you know give me and so front uh front usb
charging ports for controllers um for like uh
vr accessories things like that so there's just a bunch of stuff we came
up with we designed what we think is a gaming tv and we would love for the tv
industry to you know maybe wake the crap up
we took a look at the first all AMD gaming pc from dell
it's like taped onto the side well yeah but there's an actual chip inside too
that was for illustrative purposes
that's awesome how many PCIe extensions is too many
and the answer is a lot was it still working then you bet oh my god um
that's crazy organization vlog day one wow we've actually got a lot of good
stuff on here right now cool the last uh last week i think it was i wasn't that
enamored with a lot of it organization vlog day one so this is basically a
return to moving vlog this was
what i watched the trailer for this yeah there's a trailer there's a have you not
seen the trailer in the trailer we should play the trailer oh my goodness
okay give me one second i will get the trailer is it on facebook or something
nick send it to me what okay yeah forward it to me in the meantime
um what else do we got i think there's at least one other like pretty pretty
cool one uh let me just make sure that there's
anything in here that we don't there was another one that i thought people were
gonna like i don't know if we're allowed to share this allowed to share the
trailer i guess you own the company so yeah okay yeah sure let's let's share it
sick let's just let's just straight up yolo it um
okay hang out to me well cool
okay so i'm gonna go hide the ui yeah i'm doing it i'm doing it i'm going full
screen so i don't screw myself again okay and oh man i don't know if i uh i
don't know if i've got sound over HDMI right now i don't know if you guys are
going to hear any of this um so i apologize in advance if
everything is the audio is super helpful is it okay i'm just going to turn up the
speakers we're going the janky way yeah
all right all right here we go because this is great
okay here we go on the screen let's get rid of us we're
boring yep i mean we're cool that we're not as cool as this apparently
people get this perception that i'm like some kind of like nazi mean boss
watch now on Floatplane so yeah that's actually super sick who
did that uh that was a prime oh cool as
far as i know that is a dank af editor so if you want
us what that trailer results in yeah that's on floor
plan right now go check it out yeah and there's gonna be three episodes of uh a
new moving vlog so organization vlog uh over the next over the next few weeks
yeah and uh now's as good a time as any to sign up for Floatplane because don't
forget guys that scrapyard wars season six will also be coming one week early
to Floatplane so yes it's gonna be good yes all right see you guys again next
week same bad time same bat channel thank you for watching
we'll see you next time i'm gonna fix this thing before i get confused next
week there we go cool
what was that day can you scroll back up
oh god
oh oh that's no i understand the question uh wants to know if
i don't know when that's happening yeah i don't know either that's a good question um someone wanted
who is this uh boogerbomb01 wanted to know if all the construction mezzanine
update videos that were exclusive will still be on the platform once we finally
accept payment methods other than paypal i'll tell you what i will oh the
mezzanine yeah i'll find it we'll find a way to get them up yeah yeah okay