welcome to one of the angriest Wan shows that you're ever likely to encounter
between the blue screen of our streaming PC about 9 minutes ago when we were
suppos in a while which has not happened in a while and the fact that xplit
managed to completely forget everything
and the fact that Chrome continues to be a giant steaming pile of garbage and the
recently closed tab feature which used to just work work completely
automatically and be effortless now just seems to randomly totally not work and I
would switch to Firefox but that's been a giant piece of garbage for the last
six months or so as well I don't know what to do am I supposed to go back to
Internet Explorer like honestly it's still worse it's still worse and that's
the sad thing that's the saddest part of all of this is that somehow they still
manage to be worse when they're compet and our domun fell down
and the whole background is ruined it's all ruined I
quit hate this show I'm going to fix
everything you keep talking no I want to fix it well I don't want to keep talking
you talk it's going to get worse you're going to break it you know there's stuff
in there right it's okay we're good he's
standing now all right everything is fine in the universe he's looking over
us maybe that's why the browser is broken all right welcome to the show
guys we've got some great stuff for you this week Oculus is what do you
have no unbox it
now me yes okay okay okay holy crap oh
my God screw news topics news topics
don't matter let's my day just got fixed
completely okay don't chop this out okay yeah that would break my day I'm going
to move this okay this my friends is
from original storm tree TR er.com we are going to have a full unboxing and
like gearing up guide with lots of Glamour footage and all that stuff
coming soon and let the jokes come
aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper yes thank you yes I am I'm
probably going to make that joke for you guys in spite of the fact that it's not
funny at all just to prevent people from
flooding the comments of that video with aren't you a little short for a
stormtrooper thank you Leia very helpful
and I'm even shorter than Mark Hill so it's like even worse so this is from
original storm trooper.com it is a full set of stormtrooper
armor okay so there's a oh holy cow wow
and it's signed by Andrew answorth who
designed the original A New Hope Stormtrooper helmets and armor and all
that cool stuff or at least the helmets okay I might be I might be a little bit
I might be a little bit not quite up on my history so they include a catalog uh
that includes the hero trooper helmet the standard we got we've got some
Fallen going okay hold on hold on don't worry it's it's armor so we couldn't
break it that hardcore um scratched yeah I don't want it to get scratched either
okay okay hold on so anyway they've got like um Imperial pilot helmets they've
got Stormtrooper helmets they have Darth Vader helmets and busts and they have
full sets of completely wearable
authentic armor so I don't know if it's all in this box or if it's not but at
any rate we're going to do a bit of a live unboxing here and holy crap okay
there's another box this size and I have
no idea how any of this is going to work so this looks like is this the helmet th
armor that's probably the helmet this looks like th armor so we got oh no hold
on this will be Shin that'll be that'll be Shin so there's one of the
legs just like that oh I'm so stop
what uh I think that's the bust so that
we can uh so we can display him in the back of the land show set okay they also
include this is like the best day ever all the anger is completely gone so they
also include a black uh like bodysuit
thing so that in the gaps in the armor you don't just see like your jeans or
whatever so that zips up okay styling they include whatever
this is the best okay they don't have
official shoes so they just have like some recommended models and they're not
available in every size so this is just like this is just like you know boots
and they're like two and a half sizes too big for me but at least I'll have no
way guess what this model of shoe is called what guess the Stormtrooper pimp
50 wow right inside not even
kidding so that's not it's not from original Stormtrooper do oh wow okay
okay so this holy crap E1 Blaster individually
numbered signed by Andrew answorth
certificate of authenticity all that good stuff it comes with holy crap it
comes with everything look at that individually
numbered here as
well wow and it comes with a little display stand yeah holy crap I wish we
got two sorry
dude epic um so to be clear guys they
sent this to us they're extremely expensive and while I had been eyeing
their stuff literally for years I had
never really gotten together the funds to actually to to order it um but they
reached out to us about sending us a unit and in exchange we all we have to
do is show you guys like how to put it on and stuff so here's a neck thing so
that you don't see your neck through the gap between the helmet and the armor
this is presumably a holster for the
Blaster okay let's keep going here if you guys are bored you can let me know
on uh on Twitch apparently no one no one
cares no one's bored I mean okay so this
looks like shoulders okay so there's like velcro
pieces here I don't want anything to get scratched so I'm going to leave it all
on the baggies for now you should put the helmet on let's get the helmet going
on here I'm not going to make you guys sit through all the different pieces of
armor but maybe the chest plate uh Brandon was that everything
that was in this box no this other stuff
holy
crap okay so that's the stand
and yeah that's the bus that the that
he's going to live on yes okay so there
you have it guys
here there's a chest
plate fantas oh oh oh look at that okay
so that's the uh the tinted lenses which I guess I'll leave off for now so I
don't know oh it's signed inside a
Luke I am your father wait I think I got that wrong what yeah yeah no I'm just
I'm kidding so there we have it guys obviously I'll have to do some playing
around with it in terms of size cuz they're a little bit bigger than a
normal person's head can I put it on I'm sorry can I put it on yeah absolutely
here you go well I'm holding the a here I got it I got it I got
it oh I'm so stoked to do the unboxing
don't worry you got this uh should fit
yeah there you go I didn't want to break it no one wants you to break it there we
go that's epic it is kind of massive
yeah it's like huge inside so you got to picture that with like the proper lenses
inside of course they go on the inside yeah I am like stoked so hard hard if
you turn your head sideways it's super easy okay I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put these in something safe oh
you got okay okay okay that's
awesome that's cool that it signed I know
holy crap this will be like the best
headquarters statue ever the only thing better would be a life-size statue of
gay Ben that would be better but bronze yeah
in bronze all right so there's the the
front and back plate pieces I'm just going to put those over there now
everything's all like scattered around
oh yeah that crotch
protection right there belts right in
here okay there's the butt
protection not quite as robust as the crotch protection but that's fine the
butt is less fragile than the crotch there's a tech tip for you and then
we've got the uh y the utility
belt whatever these are oh this is a
little canister that goes at the back of whatever it is I never actually saw a
stormtrooper use one and there you have it guys okay
let's just we can drop this back there oh no we can't no
Brandon is there anything in this oh
yeah oh are those gloves yeah yes than you yes yes they
are sweet your knife is open oh thank
you someone says they're bailing it's too boring don't worry the show is
starting in like a couple seconds all
right so the gloves aren't really anything that special they're rubber
gloves with uh with armor on the back but as long as people don't look too
closely at them they'll probably never notice I'll probably try to find
something else these are just stuck on with velcro anyway so I can probably I
mean yeah you're going to have to customize a little bit anyway but okay
there we go we'll compromise I do the
whole show with those in your hands they're pretty warm actually they're rubber gloves so all right guys we got a
great show for you today I'm sorry for the oh there goes my water bottle I'm
sorry for the interruption there at the beginning Oculus is being sued over
their name by oculo the 290x the R9 29x
a graphics card that by All rights
really isn't that competitive price to
performance at its original introduced price which was
$549.99 has now reached a
$900 price on new EG the most baffling
thing about all of this is that this pricing is not even reflected in other
markets outside of North America so more on that later um Google and foxcon have
started to work closely more closer on
robotic manufacturing techniques that will allow them to I don't know it looks
like the objective is to get rid of inexpensive labor in their Chinese
factories and as a as as another sort of
benefit to this potentially move manufacturing back overseas to North
America but then depending on where you place benefit depending on okay you know
what we'll talk about that more in depth because I've okay I have a lot to say
about that one and finally what do you got uh well you you spilled a little bit
into my section I did did three things I always spill your section there's also
the Flappy Bird Insanity which is like the whole internet has something to say
about it and it's it's ridiculous and we'll talk about that later and that's
about it it is so baffling to me that Flappy Bird matters at all like at all
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today all right so let's get going on our first topic here steam adds a
recently updated feature to the storefront this is actually either going
to be awesome this was posted by Esq on the Forum this is either going to be
awesome or it's going to open things up
to abuse what is your take on this I
think uh it it's buried far enough down
on the front page that I don't think it's going to be that bad and then if
you decide to you can just completely ignore all parts of it except for the
your games and software part in which I do actually think it
could be good okay so here's here are a
couple of problems I have let me let me go back to the earlier days of YouTube
back when the homepage of youtube.com was not necessarily just
video about Justin Bieber and it was it
was kind of a mix like there was an actual section at the bottom for
technology for example anyway I got homaged once
randomly on a video that honestly I didn't really think was anything special
it was actually this is this is kind of funny okay so I'm bit of a tangent here
it was actually uh like a Showcase Video for an ncpc special edition system that
was based around a brand new AMD processor launch with an AMD graphics
card at the time the system didn't sell
a single unit it was the only system we
ever released at NC that didn't sell a
single unit and we actually had to disassemble the Prototype and then
repurpose the parts okay so anyway that got featured
on the front page of youtube.com as like one of the
technology videos that video went from
zero to a couple hundred thousand views
overnight that is how powerful even the
crappiest featured spot on the front of
a hight trffic page like youtube.com or
the front of the steam store can be and
I think that people will try to game the
system developers will try to game the system in order to get featured in that
spot I'm sure that they will I'm sure that certain Ones Will especially and I
worry about some things where it's like game updates and things are still in
Early Access Y where it's going to be like update update update update update
update update update because Early Access is such a big thing now yes and
when when you're in Early Access you're not too worried about if things are
unstable and like catering to your current audience more what you're doing
is oh my god let's produce the game so release tons of updates um and in other
situations and especially if you're in Early Access you're probably trying to
get funding and crowdfunding and early purchases is such a big thing now that
people are going to jump on that like crazy um I do still like the your games and
software side though yes but if you were a small Dev would you release daily
updates to your game like and tweak a texture here or there to get featured in
that recently updated list um I me I'd
like to say no but probably yes because
there's so many things that people are bundling into really big updates to not
annoy people with tons of little updates because they're working on things very
actively and some things don't take that long some things take a really long time some things don't take that long so if
you can instead plug people with updates all the time yeah but have like that
naturalized um advertisement of being on the front page all the time that could
help a lot I mean what Tom buo valve says is the more options developers have
for communicating about their products the better it is for everyone with this
new product section and corresponding developer tools customers can more
easily discover products that provide ongoing value and involvement from the developers and I agree more two-way
communication between developers and customers is definitely good as long as
that communication is somehow positive I
oh wow I feel really terrible for this but I forget whose video it was uh
Batman someone sent someone tweeted to me I'm going to try and find this in a
moment here but someone tweeted to me a video about Batman Arkham Origins where
basically they just came out and said yeah there are game-breaking bugs that
cause like save games to be lost but
we're not fixing them but we're hard at work on the
DLC and I was like really I'm gonna try I'm gonna try and find that while you
move on to the next topic but um oh the other thing steam added that actually
isn't in the dock that I'm more excited about than this is the new tagging
system uh did you see that have you heard about this uh yeah I think it was
just somewhere else is it in the dock no
I guess it's not fled anyway so steam's added a new tagging system that will
allow people to add tags to G games in much the same way that they would add
them to things like Forum threads or any
other tagging based service obviously if
you and your you know brother are like
let's put penis on that one that's not going to work it's not going to show up
it has to be something that it gets tagged with over and over and over again
in order to become an official tag for the product but I personally think that's fantastic because this is
something we were complaining about only a few weeks ago because I was sitting
there in bed trying out valve in home streaming and I was like I want to play
a game with my wife I got a couple controllers I got a computer what do you
got Steam and the answer was who the heck knows oh and even I I would even
like it if you could do it in your own Library so like I don't know if this
works but if the search for that applies to your own Library so you could be like
okay Co-op and then it does a search through your own library for those tags
that are on the store I hope it's in both sections cuz that would be awesome
so basically you're so ball that you have so many games that you need to
catalog them I'm just no like bundles I know it's mostly like Bund you spend
like four bucks and you get 18 billion games like everyone's steam library has
just exploded over the last year or two I'm just trolling You Insanity bundles
just like every day what oh no I thought that shirt was
like an everyday I'm shuffling shirt and I was like what I thought I was the only
one tasteless enough to wear that all right do you want to move on to
the next topic while I find the Batman so so valve wins and there will be no
selling of digitally used games so this
wasn't Germany but it's probably going to spill over everywhere the Federation
of German consumer organizations also known as
verin band don't worry about it um and VZ bz
for short was versus vve and they were saying that there was a uh where is it
European Union decision from 2012 that the states uh
that states that companies cannot stop consumers from selling their digital
products um but valve has been able to
kind of get around that they are not in that cupation and we expect things like
origin and up playay to have the same
exemption status um some people freaked
out about this but I was actually surprised I expected The Gaming Community to explode like The Gaming
Community always does um but as far as I can tell no one really cares I think
that's probably tied into the fact that steam cells are so ridiculous that
there's almost no point in ever selling a game because you'll get 50 cents for
it um and it's just really not a big deal uh but yeah I expected more of a
backlash from this one thing that I worry about is when you go buy a game in
the store now if you buy a physical copy of a game half the time it's a disc but
then the disc just has a steam key or a up playay key or An Origin key actually
pretty much always it's one of those situations and even if you install the
game it's just like okay it's installed now attach it to one of those accounts
so that you can actually play which does that mean that that applies to physical
games as well you can't sell them yes because that's attached to that service
and that service you can't sell things on so it's interesting I also wonder
about double standard issues where they freak out if with DRM issues there's
always on DRM all over the place and they'll shut down servers and they don't
care if your game has zero value anymore after buying it even at full price a
year or two later that doesn't matter you're just a consumer shut up go away
this isn't a normal product but then if you want to resell it it's it's it's
it's it depends on what side of the battle you're on and right now it's always on their side which is I'm not
too stoked about that one thing I'm happy about and I wasn't really listening to what you were saying
because I was looking this up sorry um so I apologize if I'm repeating myself
but one thing that I'm happy about is that valve at the very least has already
announced Family Sharing yes so now it's
kind of too late the the cat out of the
which means that if valve's going to offer Family Sharing which would allow
at least people within the same house to share a game
then someone's going to have to sort of figure out that okay steam's really
competitive okay maybe we'll do that on Origin okay maybe we'll do it on up play
and I suspect we'll move towards that as an industry standard however you know
the inability to resell games is a huge
concern for me because and and I think for a lot of people because for frequ
upgraders for hobbyists think about yourself as a hobbyist or Enthusiast I
think that it's wrong to say that anyone who's an Enthusiast spends a ton of
money maybe you spend a ton of money but you find smarter ways to spend your
money so for example when I was in high school and I didn't have a lot of money
I didn't have a full-time job I was going to school I was like lifeguarding
one or two shifts on the weekends and that was all the spending money I had I
still had a Ballin computer and the way
that I did that was by spending smart so
I would go on the used forums and I would buy like the next one down and
then I would acquire that so I'd put my like my $200 down and that was tied up
it was in my computer and then what I would do is I would make sure I was
keeping up on the news and as soon as I started to see rumors of something
coming that would make that product irrelevant I'd flip it quickly so I'd go
okay uh I'm going to even though it's still kind of worth 200 I'm going to
flip it for you know 175 or 180 make
sure that I move it quickly then I would take that cash and I would put my 180
that I recovered from that original card I'd pitch in maybe another $100 so I'm
spending $120 over what I spent six
months ago and I would get myself a higher tier of card this time and I was
able to gradually build up my PC to be really
awesome and then I was able to keep it up up to date by churning through
Hardware by flipping it for sometimes more than what I paid if you're a really
really Savvy Shopper this eliminates that it turns enthusiasts into a
perceived wallet rather than people who can be enthusiastic about something
rather instead of just spending money on it there the difference between spending
a bunch of money and being an Enthusiast and this takes the Enthusiast option The
Savvy Enthusiast option away and turns us all into people who just have to
spend a lot of money not everyone has a ton of money and you can make the
argument and we've talked about this before well just don't buy games at
release you can just not buy games at release you can just say look EA Ubisoft
valve for that matter I'm not going to spend $60 on your game I can wait two
weeks because you're going to drop the price to $40 anyway or with ESO when it
goes free to play and that is an option
but unfortunately when you think about enthusiasts that's not how they are you
want to be there in the thick of things you want to be experiencing all the
different areas and talking about it with your friends cuz they're all doing
that at the same time and this locks those people in and extracts more cash
from them and it makes me extremely unhappy I also find it weird where like
uh you'd think if you lose all these freedoms by having a digital copy of
something you would gain something and the most obvious thing to gain from this
situation would be cost savings a digital copy of something should be
drastically cheaper than a physical copy you would think that they don't have to
ship it they don't have to print it and
and something a lot of people don't think about is that there's a lot more
to it than shipping there's the person to actually put it on the Shelf I mean
there's the space do you have any idea how much retail space costs to lease so
there's that then there's storage because space adds up over time when you
have a pallet of something sitting in the back of a Best Buy do you have any
idea how much that costs to keep there for a month if it's not selling Well
Physical media has so much more risk involved in it and so much more cost
involved the fact that we're paying the same for digital media is Criminal I was
actually I noticed this uh i' never had a Kindle before I just uploaded my
Kindle review last night my first one ever and I noticed that Amazon's
generous lend to a friend program allows
you to lend every ebook you buy once for
a period of 14 days are you kidding me I
bought story of Ice and Fire or whatever it is the Game of Thrones books as a
single ebook 14
days there's no way it's going to happen impossible I think it would actually
take longer than 14 days of back to back
reading to okay probably not no but if you have a full-time job it's not
feasible and that is really
frustrating apparently I'm way too into this I'm sorry twitch chat but it does
it does kind of amped up right now it do kind of get me going he's just amped up
he's excited for later uh you just said
yeah sorry you said get me going I had to it's Valentine's Day I can be excited
for later all I want I I know um yeah it
it's it's ridiculous I yeah so here's
where we're heading guys here's a little bit of insight this won't last forever
because people will be upset and competition is still on our side there
are still competing entities nobody has
a monopoly on all of this and thank goodness for that it's damn close though
I know but what will happen eventually is this model will go away and it will
be replaced by a model that we didn't
really like and everyone was pissed about but we've started to accept and
that is the subscription model
is getting away with it how long is it Go Amazon has their lending program for
Prime members okay how long is it going to be
before gamers are just forced to suck it up when the news about services like on
live so that's on demand streaming based gaming Services first started to surface
we all got so mad because compared to
what we had at the time which was physical copies that we basically owned
especially before per always on DRM came about we basically
owned them compared to that we were looking at this going are you freaking
kidding me but over time subscription
based individual games with the justification of server upkeep like
World of Warcraft have been successful uh other subscription Based Services
have been successful they've eroded our
rights with respect to the software that we lease from them really that we
thought we owned but actually we're leasing from them to the point where
that will become the more attractive
alternative compared to there's there's
buying digital games that you don't have any rights for there's some uh back and
forth with that I don't mind individual games when they have subscription if
there's enough justif justification for it E online exists for a reason yes E
online has existed for a very long time at a subscription fee because they dump
out so much stuff all the time that it kind of makes sense you get all the
expansions for free because you're paying for them you're pay you're paying
$15 a month you're paying for them the wow model is difficult because you buy
the game up front and then you pay for all the expansions and then you pay for the subscription and then you pay for
in-game gold and you pay for I mean you don't do that no you can do that Eve
kind of you buy you buy these like you buy these time codes and you can sell
them in game like officially it's a real thing uh it's done through the eve
website I love this fony fony scheme says I'm switching to board games
exclusively they're going to turn those digital too so yeah don't imagine you're
don't imagine that you're going to be free from uh actually at uh at CES Intel
was showing off a large TBL siiz tablet perfect for playing Monopoly yeah so
you're screwed either way sorry go ahead uh but I think it's it's probably coming
but I I wouldn't be surprised if if it does show up at some point if they do
themed stuff because there's so many
games yeah so it I I could easily see it
being like I'm an RPG subscriber that's an interesting thought and that's
probably the direction it's going you wouldn't just be a steam subscriber cuz
that's way too big or you could but that would be insanely expensive right they'll probably have like the $200 or
$300 a month ultimate bundle and you can play anything on all of steam and
that'll probably exist but otherwise it's probably like or you can be like
the week late one or or or it's a subscriber thing but your your
subscriber thing you get the games late there's going to be or if you pay
individually you get them on day of there's going to be so many ways for
them to squeeze an extra three or four dollars out of us
yeah like it's it's going to be brutal because Netflix is a completely
different realm when when you get like games and the library that is steam
which with green light and everything is just all the time so you'll be looking
at 50 bucks a month for a basic subscription 60 to FPS let's say for
example $60 a month includes all the DLC
for those FPS and $70 a month gives you
a premium download service and access to better servers and includes a membership
in like a TeamSpeak server and $80 a month and there's and it's going to go
on and on and on and on it almost makes more sense because you don't own any of
that anyways considering you're leasing all of it anyways yep so now you're just
on a monthly lease instead of a Perma lease it's like yeah someone says we can
stop that from happening just don't pay it and I wish that was true there are so
many things that I wish were true why
didn't we stop Xbox Live
Gold why did we pay for that I certainly
didn't I never gave them a penny for an Xbox Live gold membership but enough
people did that that is now something
that we accept and Sony's doing it as well and it has become industry standard
when did it become industry standard to pay for Game servers and why do we
accept this it was never industry standard before when did we give them
the option to take away the ability for
us to host our own game servers why is it that you can still play Team Fortress
1 and original Counterstrike because
valve cared or maybe they just don't care anymore at this point whatever
whatever the case may be they gave us the option whereas you look at what was
that stupid game that got pulled off of Steam not that long ago I don't even
remember the name yeah I don't remember the name but any was some flying game
and the point is that it got shut down and the server don't exist anymore the
game doesn't exist for paying customers because we allowed our I mean at the
time we considered them right so I guess we allowed our rights to be eroded and
we just accepted it and we kept giving them our money and I always get ragged
on for my love of physical copies of things but I honestly think that's part
of it I've always liked a physical copy of something because even though a lot
of them now are literally just ports for steam keys I feel like I actually own
something we've let ownership completely disappear
which I don't like at all I mean unless
it's like slavery you shouldn't own people well I'm not trying to own people
though I'm trying to own that you're not trying to own people what kind of gamer are you yes man you had that set up a
really long time before that okay yeah
um I'm sorry uh yeah seriously though like do
you want to hear me rant for another 10 minutes or should we move on to something else uh let's skip that one
for now we into this weird and one of my
videos going up this weekend oh man you
guys prepare yourselves this product
this manufacturer this product anyway he
just anyway okay um posted by beibs sco
on the Forum Google Voice search just got a lot smarter hit it me oh come on
me well I'm thirsty so you're going to have to do it while I go get a drink
okay I talked too much apparently now they have a field where you can put in
your relationship with that contact so you can be like this is my uncle or this
is my mom or this is my dad or whatever you want to do okay I have to rant for a
second and yet they still haven't figured out that you might want to put
multiple contacts and tie them all to the same number if anyone from Google's
watching why can't I put my grandpa Archie and my Grandma Donna both in my
address book and just have the same number for both of them so that I don't have to think about it so I don't have
to remember did I put them under Grandma and Grandpa did I put them under AR and
Don and I put them under Donna and Archie why do I have to remember that
crap I'm getting a drink okay so you
yeah you can attach these labels essentially to different people which is
their their relationship status with you um so cool you can say call Dad or you
can say Call mom um the not to mention
not to mention that Android's voice calling is ridiculous on iOS I can just
say call wife mobile and it says calling
wife mobile and it rings on Android it's
like call wife mobile it's like calling
wife do you want to dial and she's got like four numbers and then it's like
okay that one and it takes forever to get through this option it's like do you
want yes yes I do why does it take so
long okay it's like they want me to use my phone when I'm driving it's like
Google wants to kill us speaking of uh
Apple products actually because I don't normally do that CU I don't normally
like them in this case they actually definitely had the oneup so with with
apple there's a tapped add custom label and you can add whatever the heck you
want so you could be mom or whatever and then if you say Call mom and it doesn't
know your mom's number say you haven't added that custom label if you say Call
mom It'll ask you what is your mom's name and then if you tell it your mom's
name it'll find that person in your contact list add that custom field for
you and then call them G G I don't even know why this is a
news article lonus put it in here so I filled it out with everything that's on
there um I guess he put it in here so he could rant about the things that he
doesn't like that already exist that don't necessarily pertain to
this I don't know this was linked like he said by be
kadoo on the Forum let's see where the source is from just none of my cares about is
linked uh it's from The Verge I just and
like honestly I know not everyone does this but my dad in my phone is just Dad
and then his full name after that his first name is his middle name and then
his last name is our last name why do we have to use workarounds that's what I
want to know well I was just talking about how
like sweating series thing Does It Better anyways oh yeah yeah do you know
about the if you say Call mom It'll ask you who your mom is then you just tell it who your mom is and then it adds a
custom field that they're your mom and then they just calls them some days I'm
tempted to go back to Apple I'm still not but I'm just not impressed by
that like cool okay it's there but at
least they're improving I just don't see how it's a news item so I think it's
come down to which thing you want to fight about next really oh you know what no I'm not
that angry about the Oculus thing I'll let you be angry about that I'm actually
not super there's there's reason okay so
what oh the page you're looking for
cannot be found well let's try it again Linus Tech tips Oculus if it worked on
mine that's weird that's weird one of the problems
uh which one are you clicking on I don't know anyway okay well the point is on
this one ULU
yeah that's weird he okay anyway let's let's move on so go ahead
huh um anyways so there's a company called ULU what they do is they supply
side video/ pre-roll monetization platform for Publishers professional
seamless whatever ad free delivery video platform for businesses whatever you
want um and they have Solutions like video encoding video SEO video email and
syndication uh realtime video management and analytics available are 24/7 blah
blah blah blah they're they're video video embedding and video streaming
Solutions so essentially instead of just embedding YouTube videos on your website
you could embed your own videos fairly easily on your website with metrics and
proper SEO and all that kind of stuff um
and their name is oculu spelled exactly the same as Oculus without the final s
and they are mad because it's spelled exactly the same as Oculus without the
final s and they exist they existed before Oculus um a quote from Palmer
lucky luky I can't remember exactly how you say his last name um said
unfortunately he
decided the they didn't just decide to put an S on the end of oculu is
essentially what he's trying to say that was never their plan what they're trying
to say is Oculus the Latin word for an i
they had they weren't they weren't adding an S to some other company's
final name the problem is that it doesn't really matter you're still one
letter off of another company's name and it's the company's not even in a
competing industry their fight for that is that
they could be they could be because but they aren't I know but they're defining
what they do it's it's definition is I'm not on their side I'm just playing from
their angry so yes so am I um their
whole thing is they're video streaming they're not trying to be like we do
exactly these things because what what if they spread out from what they're
doing so they are video streaming and what they're saying is Oculus could very
easily on their road map have video streaming because what if you start
watching videos or certain experiences that come from Oculus servers Oculus is
getting into game development and media
so they're say eventually their roads could cross so take of it now because
it's a one off name for companies that
could cross each other
I I still think it's completely ridiculous because if I hear ULU yeah
they don't sound alike it doesn't sound different if it was
Ula like that's actually a pretty big difference it's really weird word Ula
but if if if that was actually what it sounded like uh maybe I don't know
um I just uh the one thing that was kind
of funny is if you Google ULU the first
result is Oculus that's probably not helping it's not
helping it's not helping at all but I find it hilarious it's just cuz Google
is auto correcting the last letter it doesn't know what it sounds like but
right because no one's actually searching for Oculus sorry you're just
not as popular as Oculus cuz you're not you know what the reality of it is
they're not a small company I know a lot of fine
I have to put I know but I have to put that out there because a lot of people
have been saying that they're a small company they're not a small company they're just not a consumer facing
company y um this is kind of like when
people were baffled that tashiba bought ocz ocz's SSD business and they were
like well tashiba doesn't have any presence in the SS oh yes they do have
presents in the SSD space they're huge they just don't necessarily sell the
consumers but many of your laptops very likely contain tashiba ssds with their
toggle n they're an actual manufacturer anyway all that aside I don't think it's
going to matter either Oculus is going
to have to change their name or they're not and if they change their name does
it matter are you not going to buy one
because they changed their name it could hurt their
trending maybe part of the problem is a lot of people think it's called an
Oculus yeah that's true the Oculus name has been passed around more than the
rift name that's true I even catch says
buying a rift no because what's a rift I even catch myself very consistently
saying I'm I'm I'm looking into an Oculus or whatever because they only
have one product so a lot of people do that um which is going to be part of the
problem if they have to change their name now knowing them they'll probably
change it to something similar but not similar enough that someone can sue them
baculus um I wonder if there's a Latin name for two fake of like the Che
Chinese clone could be called a
crocus and the one for investment bankers could be called the
stulis and if you're making fun of the whole thing you could wear a
mulus I'm sorry I'll stop yeah um I
wonder if there's a different Latin word
for eyes instead of I I don't think so because Oculus is an eye so hopefully
they can I don't know hopefully they can find something that makes sense uh if
they have to change their name but uh I fully expect them to fight it at this
point um although it is unfortunate because you would hope that all that
money that they just got that $75 million of investment that they very
recently got would go towards making the consumer release instead of fighting
someone for a freaking name I'm getting really tired of all the trademark stuff
in the last little while candy and Saga
it's like man and like Latin words and
Latin words like that's that's that's one thing that sucks too is it's a word
yeah whereas oculu isn't is not so it's
like really really no you can't just make something that's like you can't say
your your your word is bck be okay and
they're like oh well your name can't be book right they don't sound the same
they're one letter off right that doesn't make a lot of sense you should
be Oculus as lawyer I should yeah that
would be cool if I if they would let me see the release version yeah you should
be like you should be like if someone else's name was luk which isn't a real
name can I not be named
Luke I mean objection consider Chewbacca
he is a wook he lives on the planet kashik does this make
sense okay so let's move on to the ISP
disaster in the US wait uh
Comcast to buy and this was posted by pit 5000 and pit 5000 is probably the
place where all of the subscribers of
Comcast or Time Warner Cable Services
are thinking about throwing themselves because this is terrible a
Comcast takeover of Time Warner Cable to
would be I mean they're both evil enough
as it is and it's already enough of a of of a of
a you know backdoor colluding
relationship going on between isps here
in North America anyway in general without them actually
merging there's and there's some things that just totally don't seem right so in
a quote they say um it will not it will
not reduce competition in any relevant Market because our compan IES do not
overlap completely with each other in fact we do not operate in any of the
same zip code when I read that even without doing any further research I was
like wow that sounds impossible then reading on the thread on
R Forum someone said the only services offered in my area are these two
companies so like I haven't actually gone and looked at a coverage map but I
I'm assuming that guy on the Forum isn't just lying for fun
and it makes complete sense that they would both be offered in at least some
type of overlap somewhere and saying that they do not operate in any of the
same zip code sounds a little bit insane maybe someone in twitch chat can tell me
that I'm wrong because I I haven't done deep research of this so I could
definitely be wrong but like really I don't know that seems a little bit
sketchy to me I mean was this kind of consolidation bound to happen I forget
the ISP side of things let's talk about cable TV we're all the cable TV
providers going to survive because I don't know about you but I sure as heck
don't have a cable TV subscription I'm not planning to get one I will never
ever need one ever again in my life I have never had one I think my parents
had one for a not super large period of time when my grandpa was kind of staying
with us for a while because he wanted to watch it other than that don't think we
really had one um and then since I have moved out which was actually a fair
amount of years ago I have never had one and I have never cared so we had someone
say they don't directly compete and that's I mean that's another thing too
is what do you mean don't directly compete I mean if you're in neighboring
territories wouldn't it be beneficial to control them
both I don't know they have so I thought they have
yeah okay so someone says blah blah blah they have localized monopolies in all areas because of the
infrastructure um someone says Time Warner Cable is is better than Comcast
someone says uh my parents just cancel TV and use internet now someone says
slick let me get that shirt I don't I'm not sure what that has to do with
anything someone ask what racket I have I use an armortech 900 technique for you
version with the um okay so local law
this is stupid local laws do not allow more than one ISP in an area in most
places in the states that's just plain
stupid actually I didn't even know that cuz I'm Canadian we have crappy isps but at
least we can choose which pile of poo we like or both we're
both apparently we chose both yeah we
chose both we want to give all of our money to
all of them because I want we need to like cue dramatic music we have like a
mixer now we just need like we need to get some tracks like they have on the
radio you know like I want to live in a world where we can give our money to
every free service provider monthly on the 1st and 15th of the month never
missing a payment because missing a payment is not North American and I
can't we want to pay for Netflix and games and cable TV because Netflix
should never have sporting events on it instead I should have one service for
live and one service for video on demand
and another service for movies and YouTube I want to pay for that too
eventually you'll just get this like combined check from like the the
combined conglomerate that is all of the companies it'll be like this is your
monthly check for content and entertainment bye-bye to half of your
paycheck owned well it's like uh oh
right the buy and large yeah the buy and large from Wall-E it all comes back to
that at some point Costco Amazon and
like Google are all just going to merge and then that'll be that well that was
oh nope not going to go into that yet because we haven't argued and been pissed off about that yet so I'll talk
about that later yeah we'll talk about that later all right what else we got
here oh I uh Happy topic I'm sorry happy topic happy topic yeah uh is that yeah
yeah that's the one I was going to so Timmy from Timmy tech TV one of our
fellow YouTuber buddies here is doing a
donation per subscriber to Cocoon House
so up to $2500 Tim is going to donate 10 cents
per sub subscriber so I already tweeted about this so you can find that in my
Twitter feed if you want to know more about it but it's Timmy tech TV on L
Twitter and uh there you go you guys can definitely check that out he makes Tech
videos as well and let's move into our Squarespace
thing so guys if you haven't already heard of Squarespace Squarespace and if
you go to squarespace.com Linus then you can definitely give us credit when you
go and check it out and try out a free subscription or free trial rather they
give you two weeks to build up a little website for yourself and pretty it up
and then decide if you like it it's a subscription based service speaking of
subscription Based Services but at least this is one that makes sense because
they do a lot of stuff for you in addition to giving you the tools to
create a website that looks great and is functional whether it's on the desktop
or on a mobile platform they will also cover the actual hosting fees for you
and it's all dynamically adjustable so if you for whatever reason we're doing a
live stream to almost 4,000 people and you were like guys why don't you all hit
linusmediagroup
docomo yeah we're good and it can dynamically adjust itself in a way that
like a small web hosting server somewhere on a limited connection might
not be able to handle uh Squarespace also has a new tool called logo which I
think is pretty self-explanatory it's a very easy logo generator that allows you
to make a little logo it has little Graphics that you can choose that are
contributed by artists and you can make yourself a nice little business card
it's not meant to replace professional artists but at least it's something for
very small businesses or Charities or blogs or if you want to make a portfolio
website it gives you something that you can put on there so that it looks more
professional the last thing that I wanted to bring up that about
Squarespace is they're doing a huge recruitment campaign so they're calling
this be a part of it you go ahead and apply and uh so you can register to sort
of of indicate your interest in a job and there's actually a bunch of really
cool stuff about this program so number one is that they are giving a bounty to
anyone who refers someone who eventually does get hired so I actually didn't copy
all of my notes for this so this is going to be embarrassing when my Squarespace contact reads this oh that's
funny oh I went to the wrong URL no I did go to one thing to know is by by the
time the twitch stream caught up with you after you said that you could Point
everyone to the website we did significantly increase the Ping but not
Beyond reasonable levels and then it did fracture itself back down yeah I know
you see it works anyway so when you interview at Squarespace so if you get
called for an interview you and your spouse or partner get to CODA New York
for the weekend which is kind of cool they're looking to hire 30 engineers and
designers by March 15th so it's about a month uh you get to experience New York
by working there and obviously during your weekend that they pay for you to
become an interview uh they have grown from a single person startup to a
Visionary technology company of over 250 this is part of their whole sort of
pitch as to why you would want to work there they talk about their jobs how
they're one of the best places to work and they've won awards for being the best place to work in 2012 and 2013
that's kind of cool maybe I should apply and check this out refer a friend and
fly to New York I guess that's that's what the Bounty is so there you go guys
you should check that out it's be a part ofit. squarespace.com
and then of course if you do decide that you just want to use the service and
have a website then go ahead and head over to squarespace.com Linus you get
10% off your membership if you use our offer code which is Linus 2 I should
probably have that up there see just like that Linus 2 right over there if
you use Linus 2 and I'm missing something right they pay
for your domain if you sign up for a year right from the get-go so they'll
give you a free domain in addition to the hosting that you're already paying
them for how does that domain thingy work if if
they pay for your domain and then you leave can you take the domain not sure
but you got 14 days of free trial to ask them questions they have 247 support see
there's they have so many talking points I can't cover them all in a single read
leading you into those oh you were leading me into more talking point that's okay I'm I I think I covered it
pretty well I think you guys mostly know what Squarespace is it's just the kind
of thing that you have to kind of try it to believe it we switched from a
WordPress site to Squarespace for l Med group.com and yeah that's that's what my
web guy looked like when we did it because instead of him picking at every
little thing bit by bit which you can play around with on Squarespace but you
don't have to it was able to be done by edzel in like less than a day and I'm
not a designer yeah so it's the kind of thing that designers or even
non-designers can do if you have a little bit of knoow all right so let's
move into our next topic oh it's going to be an angry topic
which one do you want to fight a I'm I'm going to let you pick uh
should we do flappy birds so we can start getting people talking about it now yeah let's do Flappy Birds okay so
freaking Flappy Bird yeah freaking Flappy Bird so there's a massive amount
of people disagreeing with each other and as far as I can tell just massive
mountains of misinformation as the actual guy himself has really not said
that much yeah dong neon is taken the game down but it's done so fairly
quietly fairly quietly he hasn't said a ton there is people that have like
screen captured some of his tweets but usually it's like he said four to five
words and then people have essays on
what he's actually saying but like we're not interpreting a poem part of the
problem is for one he's ESL so he's he has interpreted a lot of people
incorrectly I think that's actually sort of an impolite term these days is it
yeah I think so but speaking sorry we're not like we're not trying to be rude to
anything it just means English Second Language that's all we intended and the
only reason why I'm saying that is uh I know some of it at least some portion of
it this part is fairly straightforward is because he was getting a lot of uh
what he felt were attacks someone would say like I've been playing for the last
eight hours and my eyes are bleeding I
hate you but like that's not actually necessarily a negative thing they I
don't think they really mean the I hate you part and they've been playing for last8 hours probably because they enjoy
it um but he received that very negatively and was like oh my God I'm
sorry sorry you shouldn't have played this much I'm sorry um and I think he's
having a lot of trouble with all the pressure that's for sure but it's a lot
of other things that people have been speculating about that we don't really know um people have said that he makes
50k like a day on it or something like that um but then like where does that
necessarily come from uh I've heard that the original source for that might not
have actually been 100% accurate or it might have been an estimation or it was
accurate or it's totally not accurate who knows uh if you go to our social
media page for our social blade page sorry um for lonus Tech tips that's
totally not accurate um yeah we can't
tell you how much our earnings actually are because it's against the terms of
our agreement with Google but I can tell you that a that's an extremely wide
range it's actually a full order of magnitude from the minimum to the
maximum and B like it's not even
necessarily closer to one or the other it's
just yeah it's totally flippity it's a number yeah and enjoy it there there's
people saying he took it down for legal reasons even when he said he didn't but
then it kind of might make sense that he did and then who the heck knows uh
there's people wondering if he's having problems with Nintendo because of the
pipes and then who the heck knows the game's not even
good like how did this become an internet
sensation there there's been people saying that he got Bots to download it
and rate it so that it would go up to the top of the list so that people would actually start playing it and then
that's why it played but then who knows but then why would he take it down at
that point then why would he take it down cuz he's making so much money did he copy the game is it just a a new
version of helicopter but then who cares but then did he copy of helicopter yeah
but then but then did he copy a newer game uh someone else that also made a
new version of helicopter um total
biscuit has good comments on it where he actually doesn't say a ton about it but
he's talking he's talking to his own subreddit about why he's abandoning the
subreddit it's because he can't take all the all the hate essentially all the
people attacking him over so many things and he brings up the Flappy Bird context
which that makes sense because there's so much it it was so sudden it was so
quick it was uh zero to not hero all of
a sudden because he was getting attacked by a lot of people um there's there's so
much crap going around that I didn't have enough time to properly say this is
how it is before we did the show so what do you guys think yeah let us know uh
Twitter Blitz guys at linch on Twitter
what's your theory and we'll try to go through quite a few tweets on this I
mean one comment that I have for both John total biscuit Bane and for Don
Newan here or dong new here is like
people say stuff on the internet there's you can't get I mean
did you ever read early comments on my videos yeah and I've read early comments
about myself and I've read current comments about myself I mean you can't
take that stuff seriously and like one thing one thing that you have to do um
is like just try to focus on the positive ones absolutely or the neutral
ones neutral ones honestly you can often get a lot of information from you know
how okay I don't know if you've noticed this but how many negative comments are
there on my videos right now yeah not be
honest almost nothing you want to know why not because I F with them not
because I made public statements about how much they're bothering me because I
just ignored them because I don't
care that's all there is to it how to make negative comments about your work
go away is find the people who are
saying something positive and thank them for saying something
positive positive reinforcement will
always always work better on people than
negative reinforcement and arguing with people why would you argue with someone
who doesn't like what you're doing and doesn't like you are you going to hope
to impress them with with your anger
with your arguing with your with your I mean in the case of someone like like
John like total biscuit with your formidable and articulate excellent
arguing and probably correct
arguing but I mean it's arguing on the internet no one wins you just everyone's
just angry it can get to like it it can get to people and that's that's part of
John's thing is he's saying it's it's like the volume is it's just so much
there's so much of it and like he didn't mind when the subreddit was fairly small
because there was some negativity but it wasn't just like overwhelming waves of
it and he just can't deal with it because of the the volume I find Reddit
a pretty negative community in general I mean don't take this the wrong way guys
but the the whole I mean the internet culture of glomming
on to things that are funny or stupid or
um that you don't like and and and M
making that as public as possible definitely exists and Reddit with its up
and down voting is one of the communities that really
um really does it very effectively finding things that they
really like and bringing it to everyone's attention and finding things
that they really hate and bringing that to everyone's attention I mean it's part
of the structure of the website and I'm not criticizing that I'm not saying it's
wrong I'm just saying that it would be
it I think it Fosters a culture that might either cause people to be um you
know lifted up I mean in ways that Gab Ben gets I mean I'm pretty tongue and-
cheek about the whole Lord and Savior gay Ben thing but you know when
something gets joked about long enough I think people do start to take it a
little bit seriously and then at the other end of the spectrum you take
something like Flappy Birds or you take something like a controversial thing
that total biscuit said which happens every once in a blue moon he'll say
something controversial and I think that it can create that sort of overwhelming
wave of negativity in the same way that it can create an overwhelming wave of
positivity and there's really no middle ground on Reddit because anything on
Reddit that's at the top that's going to be seen is either really positive or
really negative and that that I think is is the reason that I don't really hang
out there I have a subreddit I think someone created it or something but I
don't go there because it's not something that I don't personally prefer
that approach tic.com we have our own website so you know if people want to
talk to us like I've had people ask me if I'll do an AMA on Reddit I'm like no
come on our Forum ask me a freaking question I read our Forum every day I no
I did it as an advertisement for the live stream the first time I did one and
then I answered the questions on the live stream which I didn't realize at the time is not how you're supposed to
do an AMA yeah so I I posted one and people asked me questions and I did
answer them but I didn't really do it right oh so anyway the lineus TCH tips
forum is the place to post stuff if you have questions that actually reminded me about another thing which is people were
saying that floppy birds might have blown up because of Reddit there's
there's even things that I found that I don't remember because there's way too
many so yeah theories away and Reddit
has that power they can make things blow up they're sort of like terrorists that
way and everyone hated lonus and there was
like lonus in his video says Reddit is terrorist up up up this guy's
terrible don't take on Reddit it's a mistake all right Rob says I thought he
was concerned that people were playing it too much see but then like and that
that's yeah I saw that I think at least once dong giveth dong take
away ah why you be so stupid Chrome I'll
go on this side okay steam sales okay I
think this guy with the Flappy birs knows what he was doing he will make even more money from the publicity it's
hard to make money off of it when you're not selling it anymore he has other games in the store that have risen in
popularity due to the fappy Birds thing all right I don't think he wanted to
deal with the comments not everyone can take that in stride like total biscuit
are you okay that's fair enough that's fair enough I mean no one wants to hear
this but I would make the argument the internet is always going to bring out
and imity I think brings out the worst in people and sometimes the best in
people but often the way that we see it manifested on the Internet is bringing
out the worst in people and people will say things to you on the internet that
they would never say to you in person I've actually met I had the I don't know
if I told you this I had the privilege of meeting one of my internet haters in
person super Charming guy we had
lunch I think I remember this and it was
it was it really drove home the point to me that what people say and what they do
on the internet is not necessarily even the real person and I that was that was
actually a bit of a turning point for me because I decided to stop judging and
stop fighting with the things that people said on the internet because I
started to see them not as the real
people but as their personas in much the
same way that my video personality is not not is not 100% of exactly who I am
I mean I think I'm fairly genuine and and you know it's not necessarily even
intentional but when you when you're talking to a camera that's not the same
way that you like you know sit back and hang out with your friends it's you have
to project energy and then that changes you at least to a certain degree exactly
and on the internet people are interacting with people in different
ways all right um so okay someone says
Fabio says when he was he was also in a country where $600 a month is a lot so
when he got 50,000 a day it got suspicious I don't think that's a big
deal though cuz it's not like he's going to have a hard time proving that the money is legitimate yeah uh Matthew says
I actually believe him when getting thrusted into the spotlight even the
most popular okay I think that was a typo but some people can collapse under
the pressure and that's true going from Zero to Hero overnight can be um in this
case I'm with I'm with dong even though I don't necessarily think that people
who have gotten internet famous more gradually can complain but I'm with dong
on this one cuz for me it was very jarring the first time I got recognized
at the mall like it was it completely
threw me off and that happened very gradually like people kind of knew who I
was online and then they you know
recognized me in person from time to time or they so or they'd email me and
then I got recognized in person from time to time then I'd go places like
Tech trade shows like CES or like NC Store grand openings and you know one in
every five or 10 people knows who I am and I got to adjust to that over time
whereas from zero to holy crap you're internet famous okay I'll buy that um
Zachy says I think he just T took it too serious or take it so serious I'm
enjoying the game it's fun and yeah sometimes it's stressful overall it's a fun game okay I hope for the next W show
you show off a flappy space program so
oh you've got to be kidding me okay I'm afraid to click on that everyone's making Flappy everything right now okay
Flappy Birds after being had the ads change uh days later okay think he just
pulled it down because he wanted to stop hearing about all the negativity I like
that he took it down but people found a loophole to getting it of course they did that's parted like crazy already yep
someone says I think he just misinterpreted some of the comments and
that it was stupid anyway says Nick girl started calling him the Flappy Bird guy
I would take it down too if that happened to me would you for 50 Grand a
day for 50 Grand a day you're making like and girls call you the Flappy Bird
guy and know you're making 50 Grand a
day and you can drive up to them in your car I'd be like I'd have sunglasses with
Flappy Bird on either side of them and I'd be like sup sup ladies I'm the
Flappy Bird guy not everyone's like that can you
beat my high score I got 44
okay I think we need to not go down that path couldn't handle the pressure of
knowing how many Flappy Birds had died can you handle the pressure may be part
of a government conspiracy just didn't like money I kind of doubt that one I
would ignore every single comment and keep filling my pockets with fat stacks
yo says Ally I actually think there's a lot of people that would have just been
like all right done sure it's like
disconnected from the internet and then just let their game rot that's not a bad
strategy just like unplug for a couple
months because the internet has a short the the attention span of the internet
let's go back to Reddit for a minute is about equal to the Decay algorithm on
reddit's front page yeah so like if you disconnect for
long enough just it won't matter you're fine don't worry about
it all right uh okay I think that's about it for now let's move on to our
next topic let's make sure we're not missing any of our headline topics before we uh yeah 29 oh yeah 290 XS have
gone as high as $900
$350 clear of the original price of the
290x so this was actually an article posted on a nonch I like mac and PC
posted it on our Forum so here's a link to the article on a nonch by Ryan Smith
and this is like it's like hilarious so there's a couple things here number one
is the prices have hit $900 which is
ridiculous number two oh they've changed
oh oh I'm at new oh oh they changed
them what just happened interesting I
wonder if there's an update to the article already what's this
P it's not on what there's also not as
many cards as there were interesting $6.99 7.99 for the liquid
cooled one okay well maybe this isn't news anymore I want to know what this p
means when I did this article like two
hours ago they were there huh all right
well apparently uh because okay so to be clear guys okay so there were a couple
of observations from Ryan number one was that every single card was $899.99
whether it had an air cooler a reference cooler a water block that is not how it
was when I looked and that's not how it was when you looked so when he looked
that's what it looked like and then uh the other interesting observation was
that this wasn't happening in other
territories so uh Ian cut
who also works for an anx checked out some of you know his favorite UK
retailers and pricing was only marginally above the North American MSRP
which it usually is because graphics card tend cards tend to be more
expensive in Europe so that I just did an inspect element on that P and it's a
membership icon membership icon yeah
that's interesting and if you and if you're clicking on these SKS they're
just not linked to anything what is going on on their website
what are they doing you should call up Paul and be like dude yo dog oh this one
works what are you doing Premier member Premier member does that mean you have
to be a premier member to buy it oh no it's eligible for free shipping on
returns free three-day shipping okay so it looks like it's kind of like Prime
but Premiere which has the same letters
as Prime but has more letters and it's therefore
better more letters is more better all
right so of course all of this is due to uh
Litecoin and Dogecoin Mining and all
that kind of stuff and actually not a whole lot to do with how price
performance competitive something like the R9 290x happens to be I really don't
know where the end of this is but it's pretty clear that for gamers right now
even at $700 that's not a competitive card for gamers right now the better
option is to go for something like a GTX 780 and then you know get like a pretty
decent chunk chunk of cash towards a nice CPU to go along with it or a couple
cool games there was a comparison made by an anch saying that if you paid that
price plus 10 bucks you could get a 780 Ti and an i5 4670k I compared it wasn't
exactly $10 as far as I could find um but that was maybe due to Canadian
pricing um but for not very much more
you could still get a 780 Ti and a 467k talking about like 50 60 bucks so and
mean we consider that you don't need a 780 Ti to perform better than a 290x
there's a cheaper card that does that it starts to become pretty hard to justify
for gamers and does NVIDIA still have that game bundle
running that I don't I'm not sure sorry guys don't quote me on the game
bundle AMD also has their game bundle running as well I think they just added
was it Thief to it or something they added something to it yeah yeah I know
AMD was doing something with Thief so that would make sense all right I'm
going to I'm not going to get too ranty about this I I just don't have the
strength for it um no trouble post on the Forum the original source is the
verge.com Google and foxcon are going to be
working together on a new vision of
roboticized factories so what this will
amount to is heavy investment upfront in
automated robotic systems
replacing um low wage uh menial jobs
like uh plugging in Connect actually I mean some of this is being done already
so things like plugging in connectors on motherboards or even assembling things
like phones and tablets potentially completely replacing those low-end jobs
with machines this will allow them to do
a couple of things uh number one is reduce their labor force so there was a
quote this was in The Verge article uh from someone who worked in a department
that used to have 30 people connecting wires to motherboards remember foxcon
assembles a lot of different stuff everything from you know little tiny
like phones and stuff all the way up to things like OEM PCS for other tier one
PC manufacturers and they were able to take that team and reduce it from 30
people doing all the stuff to five people pretty much pressing buttons and
controlling the machines
um okay so there okay so that's effect number one and then effect number two
the other impact is that this approach
could help move new tech jobs
in the manufacturing sector back overseas to North
America
so it's not very surprising because of certain Acquisitions from Google
recently they bought Boston Dynamics which makes those crazy robotic running
things like big dog and things called Wildcat or something along those yeah
Wildcat um so they they recently acquired a robotics company they've been
looking at AI forever this just all kind of makes sense um now big dog isn't
exactly manufacturing but when you acquire something like Boston Dynamics
I'm sure you acquire a lot of extremely skilled engineers and I'm sure they
could take something like that and adapt certain systems like the articulating
arms and stuff uh into some type of manufacturing system because I mean
really that's the advantage that humans
have over machines is the ability to um
well to to think and to reason as they do things as well as to have everything
from good course motor control to very fine motor control the ability to
diagnose something and look closely at it and carefully while they're
assembling something and between better robotic Vision which is advancing very
very quickly these days and um more wow
look at that I hadn't actually watched this video before that's fantastic it's really old video too yeah this is from
2008 yeah um and being able to build devices like
this that have the grace and reactivity of human we don't necessarily need
people to put stuff together anymore and one of the things that they're saying um
and this is uh this is a quote from the verges article again let me just find
the the right quote is that one of the
benefits is that they want to compete
better with hold on let me see if I can uh are you playing oh apparently the
sound from that video was terrible oh sorry guys sorry guys so this is from
another article that um is also on the verge foxcon begins
replacing workers with robots ahead of us expansion and this is a quote we have
to begin to add more value in the process otherwise it will be difficult
to attract a young generation of workers
and that is similar to one of the things that President Obama said was that he
replied that certain low skill jobs are
simply not going to come back and the country should therefore focus on
developing more advanced
manufacturing I call BS how does removing menial
jobs make it easier to employ younger people
who are unwilling to do those menial jobs you haven't replaced those jobs
with something I actually didn't see that
quote um I yeah I don't think they're helping the job Market I think this is
inevitable and has been happening throughout the entire history of human
existence to happen bound to happen but
like I mean the I I personally just throwing this out there I think the
robotic Revolution is going to be on potentially on the scale of the
Industrial Revolution and mass mass production wondering if it's going to be
bigger in terms of uh what a difference it'll make to how the labor force gets
distributed and how tasks are performed by people because we we are not talking
I mean well the goals here okay so the goals of making it more appealing to the
younger generation of people or moving manufacturing back to the US neither of
those goals are actually going to be creating any additional jobs and if the
cost of the goods goes down
proportionally then fine but if instead
the end objective is to give the executives that came up with the idea is
of replacing the people with machines with a large upfront investment but then
a very small long-term cost is if the idea is just to put more money in their
pockets then who is going to buy an
iPhone that's what I worry about what
impact will this have and how far away are we from the byy and large I mean
maybe Wall-E is more prophetic than even I thought it was yeah it's actually kind
of a really big deal um uh cuz the thing
about low lowend menial jobs is that not
everyone can be an
executive that's that's just life there's only there's only so much
decision making to be done before someone has to actually do the work and
at the end of the day someone has to actually make the sandwich at
Subway or what else will they do it it
it's becoming interesting because like in the wall Universe where everyone just
kind of carts around um and doesn't have to pay for anything or do anything but
why is that going to happen why would the super rich allow
that to happen they obviously don't care they will obviously let you just
raw and die so I think it's going to be Wall-E
but with a lot less of the everyone gets everything so maybe Wally is a best case
scenario unfortunately I'm thinking
maybe ah I don't know I mean I was I went to the drive-thru at Burger King
today or U not Wendy's today and I was
like I was kind of sitting there and you know how a lot of the drive-throughs
have added that voice that says hi
welcome to wherever um can I take your
order and then you say whatever it is and then a completely different voice of
the actual person taking your order comes back and I was thinking about it
as I went through the drive-thru at some point 50 years from now 100 years from
now will there even be a restaurant you can walk into or will it be you know
future style everyone has to go through the drive-thru and will that person be
completely gone replaced by smarter Google voice recognition and smart
Google robots will be like super expensive restaurants will you care if a
robot makes your
food depends what if it does a better job cuz
quite frankly it probably will then I probably wouldn't care care what if it's
faster and does a better job and
yet see cuz like uh and people are going to be like oh but you're taking jobs
away from people yeah but that's you I'm I'm ignoring that part completely
because it's it's what I would care about I would care that that person doesn't have a job I wouldn't
necessarily care that my food was made by a robot unless it was worse in some
possible way I just wonder what people will do if
no one has to make a sandwich or assemble a phone speaking of assembling
phones like I I actually took apart a phone for the first time not my one but
my wife dryed DNA and like I I felt like
this kind of gave me a better understanding of the electronics assembly process because I took the
whole thing all completely apart down to the screen and then replaced the screen
on it and then put the whole thing back together and I was kind of sitting there
thinking about it today as I was in the Drive-Thru and I was like thinking about
this article and I was like if a robot
could do that what couldn't it do it's it's going
to be interesting there's there's um a forum on the internet uh that I frequent
that talks about like futurology and stuff like what what is actually going
to happen and the future of the 60s was
all this awesome stuff all this automation that we're starting to see
and stuff but then no one thought about the ramifications fact that no one will have
a job at some point and then it's like who who Who's going
to make the the Uber Rich the 1% whatever pay the people that aren't
doing anything because there's nothing for them to do and like not everyone can
be a lawyer and I don't mean this in the sense of like you know the the gods and
Claws talk that Kyle's Dad gives him on South Park I mean not everyone is cut
out to be a lawyer I personally couldn't handle it there you go upfront I am not
one of those you know ilite upper tier
like memory and you know Elite upper
tier of you know arguing with people and
like I'm just not cut out for that not everyone can do every job and if you
take away an entire segment of what people do I just don't know what they'll
do and I mean you look at some of the the new jobs that are emerging things
like being gam streamers you guys are on Twitch TV you're aware of this game
streaming is that something that anyone
is going to be willing to pay for for an entire generation of people whose jobs
it is to entertain each other if there's yeah that's that's
actually I've could we sustain ourselves that way well if you look into the past
entertainment has explode exploded completely it's getting bigger and
bigger and bigger and there's more and more and more jobs because there isn't other stuff to do so it does kind of
make sense but then that's the same thing as the lawyer not everyone can be
an Entertainer not everyone can be a lawyer not everyone can be a lumberjack
CU that's incredibly hard not not everyone can do all these different
things I know my Wood's hard um yeah I don't know it's
interesting I I I hope that it's taken care of
but who knows I don't think we're in a position to influence it one way or the
other we just have our little show we'll be entertainers we'll try thank you guys
for letting us be entertainers please please let us keep being entertainers
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no not your sandwich money I I don't want the people who might not be making
sandwiches anymore to give us their money see I don't know how to feel about
this like I feel terrible about like
like I actually feel guilty that my job is somewhat safe at least for now maybe
you know maybe it isn't what if they've talked about the holographic actors
thing exactly they might not need actors for movies anymore so that'll be really
expensive for a while and even if you don't need actors you will still need
people for extremely times sensitive stuff for probably quite some time but
when realtime rendering engines and you
know mouth and facial uh synchronization
with with a voiceover comes to be will
we need me anymore can we just have really nice b-roll of a product which
can be produced by a robot and it could
do better shots than poor Brandon could ever do because it's a robot because
it's a robot will'll we just have really nice b-roll and then we'll we have a
digitally rendered guy that sits and tells you all the key points about it
and will we need me anymore and how far away are we from that probably not that
far is that terrifying so okay maybe we do want the sandwich
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appreciate it very much if you do which
leads us to our last topic which is the
TitanFall beta I didn't get a code did you get one I did you bastard um
apparently and this was posted by Chris LX cross on the Forum if you contact EA
support and tell them the Code you received didn't work they will add access to your account uh he posted a
chat log of it working and there it is
Titanfall right there I'm hearing mixed reports with some people saying it is
Balls to the walls amazing and some people saying it sucks and then some
people saying it's overrated which it probably would have to be given how
hyped it was yeah it's a it's a big change though that's the whole kind of
idea is that we're moving away from Modern Warfare 4 for the first time in a
while holy crap it's it's something is
different they have jetpacks they have these giant robot things there's there's
there's different areas where the pilots can run around that the robots can't get
them there's all these there's there's very the the levels are much more
vertical because if you go really high with the jetpack and land on top one of
the robots you can start ripping them apart there's there's much C with me
yeah essentially but it didn't have mechs before so now it does and it has
jetpacks and it has all this other crap so we'll see if it's worth anything at
all soon I guess I'll stream I'll try to stream it
at some point time this weekend I will not be streaming tonight unless it is
extremely extremely late yeah it's Val 's day guys so uh tell me nope you got a
date and I don't think it's under NDA because I have seen a lot of people
streaming it on it's not under NDA you can't have a non-disclosure agreement for a date um unlike other schools
online is this anything to do with that hcky you had on the show a couple months
ago no actually oh that's
awkward thanks
oh no I think we're done
here uh oh okay one more thing speaking
of depressing um Microsoft's head of PC
gaming posted by badooo on the Forum calls it quits after only six months ex
valve employ employee Jason Holtman was recruited to spearhead their PC gaming
and entertainment division now he is gone there was a bunch of talk at the
time about how Microsoft was serious about PC gaming again and we haven't
given up on you guys and since then the xbone has been released we have no
compatibility on the PC for this controller they're throwing Co they're
throwing um proprietary dongles at us in order to use our gaming headsets and
they are just basically acting
unfriendlies to me it is no amazing
coincidence that Mr Holman decided to leave so thank you very very guys much
for watching the show today I really do appreciate you taking the time out of
your busy lives on a Valentine's Day no less I'm glad the TitanFall servers were
down cuz if it wasn't for that I'm willing to bet a lot few of you or be
here no I will give you the benefit of the doubt you would have been here
watching this show anyway right at least on a secondary monitor at least on a
second monitor or like on a phone or something or or in the background or on a tablet you would have had it on on
your TV that's behind you that you can't see and you would have been wearing open
headphones so you can hear us in addition to the game sounds there you go
peace out
guys so she watches later not I'm still
I know okay