all right we're live and uh we were in here kind of pumping ourselves up
pre-show I don't know if you guys heard that but we're like are you ready to
rock and then some chick Drives By and
she's like yelling out her car window I don't know if she was replying to us not
but that was pretty awesome timing either way the timing was most
exceptional really good yeah so she might have been which was fantastic
anyways what do we got going on we have a great show for you guys today and we
are just we are both burning to talk about what's going on with csgo like
multiple times leading up to the show in spite of the fact that we've barely seen
each other today we've like started talking about it and then we have to we
have to like give ourselves disciplinary stop stop no no save it for the show
save it for the show so we're going to talk about what's going on at dream hack
right now team fanatic and csgo um also Ubisoft has taken a small break from
digging at least on Assassin's Creed Unity they might be following up with
some more digging with their other franchises but we got to give them
credit where credit is due and when they do the right things if we're going to
like if we're going to REM on them for doing the wrong things then we have to congratulate them for doing the right
things um what else we got today uh Azo
has an x99 board coming out which has two 10 G Nicks and two gigabit Nicks
which is insanity I have two Nicks as
well there are two people named Nick who work here yes what else we got I was
trying to find more Nick jokes it is not December yet so well as long as you you
know use an older joke it might have a couple Nicks in it
oh yes okay Nintendo also files patents
for Game Boy emulation finally and that's I think mainly on uh Android I
think but anyways we'll talk more about that later all right we've got a couple
of people complaining that there's no sound but then we've got other people
enjoying the Nick joke so you're going to want to refresh your stream there
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Ubisoft first okay so hold on let's just find the let's find the unity topic here
oh that brought up opportunity uh okay so this was posted
by Raph banan on the for the original
Source isst Link in chat I'm sorry post a link in chat ah yeah that's right wait
do you want to do those uh you need to I need to there's reasons there's new
functionality added because reasons we'll try to fix that for next week good
enough for me because reasons is good enough all right so there's the link to
the thread on lestech tips.com and the
the basic premise here is and I'm even going to remember to screen share with
you guys this week I'm going to be okay well the page isn't really loading but
the awesomeness all right so there there you go wait I don't usually load the
lineus tech tips Forum page that's right I usually load the source link yeah I
know um okay so assassin's creed. ub.com the head of the game Studio behind
Assassin's Creed Unity has emailed players apologizing for bugs in the
video game yep and offering them free
content which is pretty cool I know a lot of people were talking about how um
they should have I can't even find this topic I read it but I can't see it in
there anyways no worries I know what's going on I know a lot of people were
actually talking about how they wanted a recall on the game entirely stupid that
was a stupid article and no one recalls a video game the only reason you would
recall anything is if there's like a a
safety hazard or it doesn't even do what
it said it did it's still an Assassin's Creed game yeah it doesn't run very well
but that's more of a yo dog you probably
shouldn't pre-order our stuff anymore type situation than a recall situ how do
you even recall it's like recalling a movie well yeah
that's a good point CU you could have already possibly had the experience um
but then you could recall a car after someone's driven it for a long time
that's true but you wouldn't give them a brand new car I don't even know you
wouldn't give them their money back you fix it okay that's how a car recall
Works a patch is basically how a car recall works so they already recalled it
if they're patching it you know what that's kind of funny what about the ev1
if we made game developer call their
patches recall notices well okay I don't think that's
fair because some patches could be like adding features
not fixing things so that could be an expansion pack or a DLC but it's but if
it's a bug fix they have to call it a recall notice they might not they might
but they're taking it from you that's
true they're not recalling it that's true so and since okay anyway case so
recall is dumb um basically anyone who bought Assassin's Creed Unity will get a
free copy of dead King's DLC which is
pretty cool and I believe it's people who bought the season pass are eligible
for a free Ubisoft game so you can pick from uh Raymond raving R raving rabbits
I'm going to completely stop you because you're already wrong uh the crew Far Cry
4 Watch Dogs Assassin's Creed Black Flag Raymond Legends you never let me have
fun Just Dance 15 I was going to come up with stuff like Prince of Persia Sans of
time no it's actual like good games like
even games that aren't even out yet so you can get a copy of the crew mind you
mind you the crew might just be setting yourself up for disappointment again
although we'll we'll get into that topic next so I mean I I don't know what else
there is to really say about this kudos to Ubisoft happy they addressed it the
season pass will be discontinued they it's not like they've completely learned
their lesson they didn't come out and say we aren't do seasons passes anymore
we're going to deliver all the content we can at launch and then if an expansion pack happens it happens and
it'll be an expansion pack not a nickel and diing you for every little thing DLC
I'm okay with the expansion packs I'm even okay with when they're like yeah
we're going to finish the game at this date and then we're going to work on one
and it'll be ready when it's ready probably a year from now but when
they're fixing like in-game currency to buy you know treasure chests and crap
and open chests versus having the game actually like eyeball floating around in
the air like having a big part of the game be like oh yeah you need to be
online so you can open these chests and then being like Oh yeah you're having performance issues just go offline I
just shut her down what yeah I did we even cover the thing where they wanted I
think it was PS4 players to delete their friends list what or something like that
oh crap I can't remember I kind of ignore conoly so I don't know yeah uh
that's kind of funny okay do you want to move into the crew the crew so yeah so
hold on by the way there's two days left in the keep on digging shirt campaign
I'm not wearing the right shirt but this is also Highlander so it's a lus techtip
shirt so you've got that much right yeah 50% did I pass keep on digging shirts
are still available at uh teespring.com keep on digging with no G uh those are
going to be available for another couple days um I wor mine to the gymm and I
think people thought it was like a a workout thing really yeah I actually had
quite a few people like reading my shirt I don't know that's totally off topic but anyways um um so the crew will not
be given to reviewers before its a release date Ubisoft is claiming that
this is because the crew is supposed to be a very large expansive World
experience with a lot of other players in it and reviewers wouldn't have been
able to experience that whole dynamic ecosystem therefore rendering it invalid
and I get that it's kind of like if you weren't going to provide like okay okay
well hold on there's flaws in the logic but just can you bear with me for I'm
I'm I'm I'm nodding cuz I'm with you for now you were going to jump on me I was
going to add stuff actually you were going to jump on me what for what I was about to say so for me it would be about
like um not providing reviewer copies of
wow like original that's actually exactly what I was going to add okay okay but but then that would be stupid
because if you hadn't provided reviewers copies of wow that would because they
couldn't experience an MMO the way that it's meant to be experienced with other
players that would basically mean that you didn't test it at all which leads us
to the next part where they see where they say that the Ubisoft The Crew
release will be smooth the the the I
believe it was one of the lead de lead designer says he's confident that it will go smoothly reason being we've
reaped the benefits of a lawn beta program with thousands of players all
over the world playing the game at the
same time why exactly weren't reviewers able to get this game was it because
there weren't thousands of players all over the world being able to play with them oh it seems like you solved that
problem give reviewers the damn game what are you doing
God and like wow had an open Beta yeah I
know pretty sure reviewer could have jumped in the open Beta that solves that
problem I I left that off until we got to this part because the whole thousands
of players thing like yeah they solved that problem tons of but like every MMO
that I really know of is had an open Beta at some point if they've closed the
beta down by now then arguably yes
there's no one on the servers but then you could also say well hold on a second
why don't they just leave the beta users
in there until lunch it's not like other games haven't done this before or even
send all your beta users a message and be like oh did you want to keep playing
the game we're opening the servers again for 72 hours for whatever and then just
don't tell them oh by the way there's also going to be reviewers on the servers who cares it doesn't matter so
then you know you've got your your reviewers running around there's a bunch
of people who've been playing the game for a while so they so they get to have
that experience whereas reviewers actually that's another really good
point that I just made um whereas reviewers are going to be jumping into
it with a whole bunch of noobs all over the place which might actually
negatively affect the gameplay experience so if you have that long-term
beta group that can kind of lead people around and get people in on missions and
stuff that might be more helpful UB should be watching because that's a
perfect idea you take your beta you end it four weeks before launch or whatever
then you open up like a 72-hour period when you hand out the reviewer keys so
that everyone who's been starved for it for the last few weeks gets to jump in
and the world is nice and active with people who know what they're doing
ah you know if you want to surrender like your business practices division to
lus Media Group I'm sure we can handle that that'd be totally fine stop making
games that suck common sense and logic anyways uh so those were posted by
I ort Master race on the Forum the original article there was from
digitalspy.com for the crew not being given to reviewers before release and
then for the crew uh Ubisoft is sure
that the crew launch will be smooth uh the original article there was was from
pcgamer.com and that was posted on the Forum by Master
disaster yeah okay so can we please yeah
yeah let's let's do it let's do it let's do it all right let me scroll all the way down this is the main event today my
friends um hold on let me just I'm just
I know right this is unbelievable so I'm
just going to bring up uh okay whatever the source that I have for it right now
is basically a Reddit thread with people talking about it so I'll just fire this
up but dream hack Winter 2014 fanatic
uses boost against ldlc so let's go ahead and fire this up
this was originally posted on the Forum by uh oh crap I forgot to put down the
uh the op here but I think that's
important giving people credit for contributing to the news section of Linus Tech tips.com uh here's the Reddit
discussion right here um warning this thread contains spoilers
oh okay I guess spoiler alert if you follow Esports events um yeah that's a
good call spoiler alert don't miss for this part I guess although it's like
literally everywhere so good luck okay so here do you want to so ldlc and
fanatic are teams one and two they played the first game ldlc won they
played the second game fanatic uh fanatic one and to give you a little bit
of History a few fanatic players have been kind of pointed at pretty heavily
in this recent hacking Point people out game that's been going on and a few of
them have quite a bit of public evidence against them yeah um what's his face
there was a there was a good compilation of of gifs yeah GI for um I still say
GIF yeah I know I'll find it I'll find it goad
going keep going the third game was on map Dore overpass pretty interesting map
and a map that valve has asked their competitive teams to help them in terms
of tuning and fixing anything things that should be balanced or fixed on map
anyways uh the game was going 12 to3 at
halftime ldlc was essentially wrecking fanatic uh which is that's fine um but
yeah 12 to3 at halftime and in the second half fnatic was on the CT side
that's counter ter side a boost at the a bomb site was found where if they use a
couple players to kind of stack on top of each other they can get up on top of
something by pixel walking a little bit I think they were pixel pixel walking a
little bit all this is a little bit early on so they could see the three main pathways on the map from this kind
of Perch Way on the back and they could use a sniper it's not like they could
just see them they could use a sniper to shoot people from there um and actually
kill them from extremely far away from a position that you should not be able to
see and or kill those people from yeah there's a screenshot on the lonus tech
tips Forum of the like the the developer view of the map where you can see where
the oh that's interesting um where you
can see that the areas that they're walking on are not supposed to be areas
where you can walk and basically the the reason for that is that you'll you'll
tend to curve surfaces so you can end up with stray pixels that can be that can
be stood on um even though that's not the way that that surface was intended
to be used so it's it actually clearly states in the dream hack rules that
pixel walking is not permitted although
I don't believe an official judgment has been passed down yet um because they're
going to be reviewing it and they have committed to do something uh by the end
of today um but honestly with with all
the Poo flying around right now over
cheating in csgo um with I mean we talked about this on the show last week
but with with hacks as blatant as
pressing a button and then zeroing in on the head of the nearest enemy uh being
used and you know there's a lot of denial about whether it's been used in
competitive play or not but there's also evidence stacking up against
way more scrutiny than they otherwise would have been under and even if even
if the I'm going to go ahead I'm going to call it a cheat because there is just
no way even if the cheat gets allowed
here we go we've got an imager screenshot of the dream hack rules pixel
walking is illegal even if they end up getting away with this the community is
going to hate them for doing this and
like this is this is stupid most like uh we've talked a lot about how like it's
very specifically Esports it's not Sports BL um that's something lus likes
to bring up all the time uh but something notable about that whole idea
is that basically all the sports I've ever
played have pretty aggressive Sportsman
sportsmanship uh like rules guidelines
you can get in trouble you can get put in penalty boxes you can be kicked out
of games you can be kicked out of leagues for Sportsman like conduct you can get like big fines $10,000 much tens
of thousands of dollar fines for doing unsportsmanlike things in a game and
this is one of the least sportsmanlike things you could ever do I would almost
argue that in a fit of rage mid-match swinging out at someone is almost not
the same as this cuz this wasn't one round this wasn't right after you got
nailed by some dude this was for the
rest of the match it was 12 the three they ended up winning what was it 16 uh
1613 so the other team got one more game one more match after they started using
this and I believe that match was pistol round before they were able to buy a
scout on the second round so that they could start sniping from that position
and then they won everything I think that's how it went I didn't actually see it so for people who don't pay much
attention to Competitive Gaming like when you're just in a pub um you can see
a kill cam a lot of the time so yeah sorry uh yeah like just a public random
match on the internet you can see a killcam and you can see where guys hit
you from and you can even spectate the other team a lot of the time not the
case here so until they could go back
and watch the match replay or figure out where this guy was in a place where
where he should not have been they had no way of discovering
um where they were getting hit from even yeah there there was there was a lot of
confusion trying to figure out where they were getting hit from guys were
dying and then guys were kind of looking around going like where the heck could
we have possibly just been shot from and then that guy was dying uh it was a mess
I think there might have only been one pathway that they could have possibly
gone that wasn't under vision of this sniper and eventually that sniper got an
auto sniper so it was just mowing people down and then they could just
essentially win everything because if there's only one path that they could
possibly come be coming from in Counter Strike you're you're going to win like I
don't know absolutely ridiculous completely pathetic insanely
disrespectful um I have I I don't care about that team at
all everyone on that team should just be kicked
out I don't know that's absolutely ridiculous I hope dream hack solves this
properly I hope valve solves this properly there should be sportsmanlike
conduct rules um there's rules against
what they just did so hopefully they figure it out um I kind of hope that
they were pixel walking just so that everything is no matter what
invalidated uh yeah I used to watch
Counter-Strike a little bit I probably won't ever watch it again
after the the last little bit that's been going on Shooters in general are
quite notorious for people hacking in them Counter-Strike has always been on
the top of that list of people talking about games that people hack in so this
is just kind of ridiculous well I say I think top of that list is a little bit
aggressive what else would be I know something like cod
hacking maybe not in competitive play so
fair fair point
ah okay um well I don't know I guess what else is
there to say I wish I could find the
um I wish I could find what are you trying to
find the uh there's there's a the collection of GIFs that I was talking
about from fla oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm sure Nick would be able to send it to us yeah I was looking at it before
but basically it's just it's just like hilariously bad like you'll be looking
over here and the camera just it does like it doesn't reload and then snaps
and and then smooth movement again and then he and then you can tell he moves
his Mouse to where the guy's going to come around the corners it's just just
unbelievable and like how some of this stuff is working is you'd be able to see
at a land oh my
goodness hello truck you'd be able to see at a land if
someone was using a wall hack where they could see through the wall so a lot of times it just puts your mouse cursor
there um so one thing that I noticed even in watching one of these uh Gifts
of fla was he was going smoothly across
and then his cursor snapped onto someone's head and then he went smoothly
across again and then came around the corner and shot at where the guy was but
by the time he had moved around the corner that guy had happened to move so he shot exactly where the dude's head
was previously but he had moved and I'm like
dude what the hell like he pre-fired
around the corner and missed right um very possibly um all right so let's go
ahead and move on to our next topic I I just I okay I guess sorry one last word
um valve dream hack administrators you
have to do the right thing and the problem the problem with something like
this is that it's not just one player
deciding to go ahead and exploit
something this was a team decision U
their M their their coach after the match was asked about it the interviewer
basically paraphrase just kind of went I don't really know what to say like how
long have you guys known about this and he goes oh a couple of months um so
there's there's even more there's more controversy the person who discovered
this this exploit was actually posted a video on YouTube about it and claims
that fanatic told him to take the video down and then they've allegedly just
kind of had this in their back pocket and chose to pull it out at a quarter of
a million dollar tournament on a map that valve had asked people the Prof
to help them fix and help them tune up and there's been patches and updates to
that map and if they knew this glitch was there they probably would have fixed
it so this isn't a matter of like one player spitting on a referee you know
what I mean and an unsportsman this is an unsportsmanlike culture within this
organization and when you call it professional Esports professional
doesn't just mean that you get paid to do it there's a there's a connotation
that comes with the word professional that means I mean when I say
I'm a professional YouTuber that means I make money by being a YouTuber but if I
were to say that I want to behave like a
professional then there's a whole lot more that comes along with that the word
means so much more than just I I do this as a profession and you know seeing
seeing them you know congratulating each other on the successful execution of
this tactic means that this is just a
fundamental problem with this organization there's there's obviously
some diamonds in the rough people like Pasha P Pasha is awesome there's other
guys in the community that are awesome but there's just so much junk to sift
through to get to that and obviously like there might be a disproportionate
amount of good people in the organization but how much the guys that
are screwing around get attention makes them much a much larger group yeah so
here's a good look at it you guys I'll go ahead and zoom in so just to be clear
this is what pixel walking is so this is
obviously not a part of the map that is is intended to be stood on um this
guy right here has to jump on someone
else to get here and then he has to jump on top of him uh so he can basically see
the entire uh the entire I think that's
what four ways they can go and he can see three of them it's yeah yeah I think
it's I think that's what it was three main pathways on the map yeah kind of
ridiculous yeah pretty pretty embarrassing like how pissed and or
disappointed would you be if you were ldlc wrecking that whole match going 12
to3 at halftime like really really good setup for the next uh next team switch
and then just getting killed from nowhere for the entire rest of the match
just to come out of it and figure out that they were essentially glitching ridiculous all right so I
guess that's all to uh that's all to really say about it for
now yeah um are you still trying to find that
gift list yeah I would really like to find it that's incredibly frustrating
that I can't find it but uh but it's okay all right all right so let's move
on to the next thing a Nintendo patents Game Boy emulation so this was posted by
aing on the Forum and the original article here is from Pocket Gamer so
let's go ahead and fire that up
um there you go Pocket Gamer oh someone
posted the gift list right before I did that oh oh oh
terrible terrible um oh oh hold on maybe
we got it oh this isn't the one that I was looking at unfortunately that's not
as extensive right yeah no there was one I had that was crazy long one that was
awesome yeah yeah not the right one unfortunately okay so let's move on to
uh so what does what does apparently Nick has sent it to you apparently Nick
oh oh he has okay uh this better be the
right one Nick no that's the that's it's the same one I'm pretty sure there's one
that's longer than that but okay anyways all right yeah no no it's okay
it's okay it's okay let's move on let's move on okay so Nintendo patents
emulation on for their Game Boy systems original article here is from Pocket
Gamer I'll go ahead and share this on the screen so these are some
illustrations from Nintendo's patent for an emulator that runs on mobile phones
so there's an illustration of someone playing a game boy um okay there were
some more illustrations in the you can read a lot more details about like the
least helpful image patent thing I've ever seen yeah there we go so they've
got some more details about it so the idea is maybe we could see it integrated
into Airline seats uh we could see it
running on computers potentially on I
guess that's supposed to be a tablet it's like yes this is a 1990s
pocket PC that uh like palm palm like
black and white monochrome display thing for some reason someone's playing GES so
basically there's an example of an emulator architecture virtual core kead
emulation sound blah blah blah Etc I mean those of you who are familiar with
emulation will probably already have some idea how it works but the way that
it's never worked in the past is with
official sanctions from the original developers of the games now in some
cases they're just not really around
anymore in such a state that they would be able to that they would be able to
defend anything so you go back you know far enough things like Neo Geo or like
MIM emulators yeah but Nintendo on the
other hand has the resources and has the existing presence to take the emulation
communities um well really they're fun
away from them I guess if you it depends
on how they do this so if they just kind of go okay we're going to patent
emulation so that anyone creating an emulator for a Nintendo system is
infringing our patent and we can legally go after them and then they're just
going to sit on all those IPS and all those old games then that's just that's
a super doofy thing to do and they they need to go just get their heads out of
their butts if the intention is to patent it and then create an emulation
console and then sell the titles at a reasonable price then I have no problem
with them monetizing their old IP in
such a way and that was bound to happen eventually we've seen a little bit with
things like the Virtual Console on the Wii and on the Wii U whereas if we if we
saw them create more like cuz those Virtual Console games like just the
whole way they were doing that where they reporting them was just stupid yeah
when they could have just run an emulator in the first place and then
they don't have to report anything yeah yeah um so so yeah it depends on their
approach if they're going to wait and like remaster everything or whatever
else then that's super crappy because there's something to be said for those
retro experiences and you you can't buy
those retro games anymore unless you're ebaying it in which case the original
creator of the content isn't getting anything for it anyway yeah and there's
that whole there's that whole piracy argument which frankly I've talked about
this before but I think is silly where it's not stealing if you don't actually
remove the object from the other person in order to have it for yourself um and
if you weren't going to buy it anyway then it doesn't represent a lot Revenue
opportunity for the person that you are whose content you are enjoying um that's
dumb but what isn't quite as dumb is if
that content creator is no longer providing that content in any usable way
to you well then what are you supposed to it's impossible to purchase if it's
not possible to purchase anymore
then like we're not talking about you know a limited edition Sennheiser orus
headphone where they make 2,000 of them and then they they're not available for
purchase anymore we're talking about something that is lines of code and
they're just opting not to sell it anymore and so they're the ones that are
ultimately predetermining that there is no Revenue opportunity to be had and
they're forcing piracy it's it's it's much the same way where I think there's a gray area even with things like movies
yes okay you can buy them used but there's no you're not but not even just
that you can buy them used for one but you're not taking away their revenue opportun probably in the Nintendo store
some stuff a lot of stuff not that much
I mean do you know how many games there are for Super Nintendo yeah but you know
how many games there are that no one is interested in playing at all on Super
Nintendo okay yes I'm just saying that in some cases it can be justified if
there's no way to obtain it legally it's in much the same way that in some
countries there are a lot of movies that you just can't obtain because there's no
licensing deals in place and it's like well come on what people are just
supposed to move so they can you
know watch uh
Song of Ice and Fire I can't remember what the stupid TV show's called Game of
Thrones remember what the book's called that's
funny wait isn't it Fire and Ice uh ice
and fire oh I said it wrong once I said
Fire and Ice in like an audible.com integration or something and I got torn
apart I didn't mess up mine yeah well
yes anyway um so I guess that's pretty
much oh yeah so so the big news here is there are popular ROM sites that are
already pulling all of their ROMs because ROMs have been a very legal gray
area up till now is it stealing if no
one is selling it I don't know who knows also I don't think anyone
was really pursuing it cuz they're not selling it anymore so that's
right interesting okay kim.com is now
free so the original article here is from kit Guru and the poster on the
lineus tech tips Forum was ful grim and I don't know I don't know how closely
you've been paying attention to the whole kim.com thing I can't find any of
the topics but thank God for control f um I a little bit not enough probably um
I know he's just frustrated and I've heard lately that he might have gone
bankrupt um well that's not a good do the bankruptcy I I think he declared
himself bankrupt his ex-wife now has control of the Family Trust And if
there's a trust I suspect that means the money is not exactly all gone um so then
he had to get a new lawyer something something something something something
anyway the point is um kim.com was one
of the founders of mega upload which was taken down crap I think it was back in
2012 Wikipedia has a pretty good history of the whole thing but the the the case
against him and they were trying to get him extradited from New Zealand to the
states for some reason and the whole thing's been just kind of a a mess I a
complete sham um but the the argument
against him was that he was responsible or and the sit's owners were responsible
for the um copyright infringing content that was uploaded to the site and then
downloaded and the arguments went something along the lines of because I mean obviously Mega uploads defense was
well hold on a second we didn't put it there and we comply with dmca takedown
notices but then the counterargument to that was well you guys actually have
Advanced Filtration in place for things like child pornography where it gets
taken down automatically every link to it gets taken down and the file gets
removed like you guys are actually taking this series iously whereas
copyrighted files um the way that the
dmca takedowns worked is all they had to remove was that link to it and then the
way that uploads to mega upload worked was that if you uploaded a duplicated
file then it would just say yo that file's already there so do you want to
just link to that one and then a file
could have many many many links to it so it created it created basically a
bottleneck in the system where it was almost it was very difficult to get
things removed from it um and there are some arguments to be made like the way
that they would incentivize users to post popular things because uh the more
clicks it gets I think they actually even had an incentive program where they would pay people to upload things that
were going to get a lot of cck back then I didn't use mega upload much so I'm not
really sure well their revenue model was based on Advertising so they needed
traffic traffic traffic traffic traffic and then obviously the response to that is well hold on a second just cuz we're
incentivizing people to um yeah thank
you just cuz we're incentivizing people to visit our website doesn't doesn't
mean that we're encouraging copyright infringements so back and forth back and
forth back and forth at the end of the day I mean come on you can't put me in
jail because someone uploads you know a
an MP3 of Kanye West or whatever the
kids listen to these days to linest Tech tips.com if we do our best to remove it
once we receive a dmca takedown and or not even do our best cuz our best is
very subjective but if we remove the infringing content once we receive a
dmca takedown notice so um so he walked
today uh there was a there was like there was a hearing and uh his comment
on it is actually pretty funny he posted on his Twitter that the hearing was just
like the entire mega upload case nonsensical or nonsense excuse me and um
I guess that's all I really have to say about that yeah kind of ridiculous I'm happy he's free I mean I don't
necessarily think that enabling content piracy is the most you know Noble of No
but how that whole situation was dealt with not correct messed up like
completely not fair and completely messed up uh the original article here
is from techbot this was posted on the Forum by Miss thrope and Google Fiber
rolled out in Austin Texas so congratulations to our buddies down in
Austin Texas you guys are super cool definitely cooler than us because you
have Google Fiber cuz you have Google Fiber One thing that I think is interesting is I know we're not going to
touch on this a ton but the internet access is a human right 93% of people
that use the internet think so 83 83
whatever talk about like a very specific target audience um pulling users of a
system and asking them if they think other people should use that system as well and should have the right to use it
especially internet people because you ask internet people about whether people should have the right to do anything and
they're bound to say yes and then you ask them if they should have the right to use the internet and I like I can't
even imagine who the 177% of people who said no were yeah and possibly trolls
like I like I agree with it but like if
you're going to do a poll like this at least do one that matters and has it
like number at the end that's like oh that's interesting instead of like oh
that's people saying they like something cuz they already definitely like it
anyways um I mean if it's one of those things where the idea was just to get
people like us to talk about it and spread awareness of the internet being
important for freedom of speech and you know Freedom of Information access and
all that kind of stuff then good job yeah but if it was to like move any
political stuff then I don't think it really mattered but fiber man oh sorry
I'm jumping back what I found interesting is that Google is kind of
solving this problem themselves uh if you read part of this Google Fiber thing
you can get 5 megabits per second down and 1 megabit per second up with no
monthly charge just a $300 installation fee which can be spread out over 12
months and then there's no charge that is awesome Google's kind of just giving
people actually pretty damn good internet and a 5 megabit fiber line is
better than it sounds because a lot of the time what makes your internet
connection slow is not actually the the
sheer bandwidth it's it's the latency so
that's what makes something like a web page load slowly like sure on 5 megab
megabit you might not be watching 4K YouTube videos or twitch streams but you
will have quick access to the web which is the intention and then for 70 bucks a
month you get one gig up one gig down and one tab of storage across Google
Drive Gmail and Google+ photos and if
you pay $130 a month you get 150 TV channels and you can record eight of
them at once which is actually pretty intense so
um all right so let's let's move on to our next topic here um ASRock launches
an x99 board with 10 gabit per second
Ethernet so I'm going to go ahead this uh original article here is from
anon.com and I've been saying for a while that I would like to see mother
boards with 10 gig Ethernet built into them however I'm not necessarily sure if
this one is the answer so this is a workstation type grade board uh it's
estimated it's going to be out in December so it's not actually uh it's
not actually available yet but it's estimated that it will be out sometime
in December at the price of around $ 800
to 900
so I believe it's in the article here so
it's actually got two 10 GB RJ45 ports
at the back
um and they are running off I believe it's an Intel chipset yeah Intel x520
T2 and then down here what do we've got
four two three four oh yeah two of them are 1 gbit and then two of them are 10
gbit the cooling solution actually extends down over the 10 GB Ethernet
port so presumably that's dealing with the extra heat being kicked off by the
chipset uh that controls that and then there's also an active cooler on the uh
on the uh the PCH down here that takes
care of all your sta connectivity USB and all that kind of stuff so this is
one Beast of a board but looking at the
article so there's a couple plx chips under that heat sink with the cooler as
well um so they can actually do 16x 16x
16x 16x with four PCI Express cards
but here we go a shoot I can't find it
anyway I can't find the discussion about it but basically there were people
saying that oh well you know that might actually be a pretty good value because
at $800 to $900 it includes you know a $400 10 GB Ethernet card but you can
actually get 10 gbit Ethernet cards for
like 350 I believe and of course this is
going to be the one time that new egg search completely lets me down
networking wired networking so I'll I'll look this up sort of offline and then
I'll go find something here uh wired routers do you want to cover the next uh
next topic I was completely off page give me one second I will try to find it
I can use that we'll see we'll race we'll see who can find things first all
right Supreme Court is talking about tackling online threats for the first
time and this is actually kind of scary
for a few reasons it's it's coming up because Anthony alones I might be saying
that right is convicted after writing graphic gory fantasies about viciously
murdering his wife and other women and posting them to Facebook
e yeah sorry I've already read them but saying that out loud is just really
you're a gross dude um oh by the way I found it so it's 333 bucks so at $800 to
$900 but that's for a single port one just to be clear so at $800 to $900 you
can buy yourself a pretty nice x99 board and a 10 GB Nick if you really want one
and not spend that much and depending on how you feel about ASRock you'll have a
lot more options in terms of the motherboard okay so Supreme Court yes I
already said the gross part so we can continue on from there I'm just hoping you all remember it um the Supreme Court
is judging whether a uh sorry where is
it uh essentially I can't remember exactly where it's here in terms of
wording and I know exact wording is very important for legal stuff but a lot of
it is based around uh literally would it be a teenager playing from League of
Legends or a grandfather posting on his flight Fishing Forum so what they're trying to describe with that is is the
threat real if anyone here in the audience has played online video
games kind of expecting everybody can
you not um you've probably heard at some
point in time a really bad comment from someone
yeah like there's that classic one I'm an xmarine with X number of confirmed
kills I'm gonna come in yeah yeah the copy pasta like there's I'm going to
whatever your mom there's like there's all the crap that gets thrown around
online and like every time anyone says that I'm just like oh whatever you can't
think of something better like it's not oh no I'm fearful for my life or my mom
because those are really common insults on the internet but like I like that
that's the problem with this is we have to be really careful with that line
because like that negates almost anything said on so many platforms but
then that's going to open the door to so many people slamming the legal system
with like oh look at this screenshot I got in League of Legends of this guy
saying he's going to come attack my mom like oh my God and then the flip side of
that is I mean the flip side of that is that we might need something do we need
legislation in place to keep people from acting like complete doofus wads on the
internet doofus wads see if this comes into in if this comes into play
everyone's going to be calling each other freaking doofus wads and the maybe
the world would be a better place if we called each other doofus wad instead of
talking about what we're going to do to each other's mothers I like your mother so I my mom's pretty nice I don't know
if she's seen the the probably um yeah I
don't it's it's it's a very fine line
that they have to walk so the accused claims his posts forment as rap lyrics
not as genuine threats which and and
then if all of a sudden we're going to go okay well no it's not okay to say
those things in rap lyrics then we get into freedom of expression and art and
all that kind of stuff and so I suspect this will not go through I
suspect he will walk away completely scot-free from all of this and the
Internet won't change and while he's
kind of maybe I haven't read his post but just the that description and maybe
I should if I want to com but I really don't want to um but just that
description is disgusting and from that description maybe he's a disgusting
person I haven't read them again and that could be glorifying whatever it
could be a uh what is all when the title oh uh sensal title it could be a
sensationalist thing it might not be that intense probably is but I don't
know um but while that is disgusting there's going to be a lot of people on
the internet that might even just be joking to a friend yep it could be
within friends something is said someone else sees it and then goes like oh
sometimes people don't put SL sarcasm like almost ever ever yeah I know it's
fairly common on Twitch to do the Kappa thing what if you don't know what Kappa means and then there might be common
elsewhere there might be a casee by case I mean so so a lot of the argument here
is around arguing for an objective standard meaning that a threat would
count as a threat if a reasonable person would think the statement is a threat
and reasonable person has a legal definition yeah it does um and then so
there's also subjective intent so whether he intended to scare his wife
with the threat might be more important here not necessarily whether he intended
to follow through on it and a lot of spousal abuse is spousal abuse is a
great example because threats um are are
used to to great effect because the way
that it the way that it works and this is actually a super creepy conversation
that I had with my mom once about someone that she knew who was the
subject of of a of a of a beaten beaten
wife sort of situation and what she said
was he only hit me once but after that this is enough yeah
you know what I mean and so if the idea is that uh is is that this is a verbal
threat with maybe some weight behind it in in the past maybe there's some
history there then is it really any
different um yeah so I'll be interested to see how
that goes let's move on to the very
sensationalist headline here this is from kit guru.net original oh I don't
think we said the op for the last one that was rayu yeah [ __ ] whatever kit
guru.net posts active Activision using YouTube copyright system to hide
glitches in Call of Duty um so let's go ahead and post that
up there also share this on the form here now this is a little bit sort of
jumping the gun and Activision has fired back and said whoa whoa whoa hold on a
second uh we're we we didn't intend for
it to uh for it to hide you know game
bugs you know we want those reported fix
that stuff but what we intended um so it
says glitch SL Che videos that's the important word here in the headline from
kit Guru what we wanted was for people to stop posting cheats we're trying to
get cheating reduced in the game and having people not post it all over the
Internet would be pretty freaking helpful if you guys would all just
please help us out with this a little bit we're trying to make it a fun gaming
experience not full of CSG go professional players who say yeah
Counter Strike yeah CS go and like while that's honorable
and everything and actually probably not a bad idea they're going about it the
wrong way cuz this can permanently hurt channels yep and I mean it's it's for
them to hear about it from so so this was an email from Machinima to some of
their Partners Yo Dogs maybe you know ease up on this because uh you might get
you might actually get because okay the problem is that a YouTube Community
guidelines strike has the potential to
per ban your channel if you get a few of them and to get one for something as
innocuous as posting an in-game glitch or an iname cheat fine almost all the
time um so so using using the using the
takedown policy on YouTube is is and
causing potentially irreparable harm to channels is not the right way to deal
with this um so I still I still think
Activision's digging here even if their goal may have been Noble
they and but the thing is a lot of the time I think big companies make because
they can they can retract their their claims and the strikes do go away um and
Strikes do expire eventually as well I've had a strike in the past um it was
a complete misunderstanding but I didn't end up filing my dispute early enough or
something something I knew I wasn't going to get any more strikes so I didn't deal with it and they expire
after I think six months but um you know a lot of the time they might just not
even think about it hey this is someone's livelihood and these strikes
can get their YouTube still isn't
necessarily understood properly by everyone I don't understand YouTube
properly I I made a video where we threw stuff at you I thought it was comedy
gold and it turns out people hate it so there you go I yeah shows you what I
know yeah actually we've we've done I've
done a few unpopular things lately I'm on a bit of an unpopular role but the
truth of the matter is I'm human um you know I I thought the whole thing with
the uh the teasing future videos and the innuendo I thought that my response to
it was funny apparently a lot of people didn't think it was funny what what was your response to
that you didn't see that I don't think so oh yeah in our test bench video I
basically said something along the lines of uh well we've been receiving a lot of
complaints about teasing future videos at the beginning of our videos and the
amount of innuendo in our videos so I'd like to I so I wanted to you know
formally address this but instead here's a teaser of an upcoming video and then I
compared open test benches and closed cases to box versus briefs which is not
actually sexual no no and that's an
important distinction here because I had people giving me thought you going
somewhere somewhere else with open test pches boxers and briefs I I didn't I
didn't think that there's a lot you could do with open test pches I mean it is arguably potty humor but is it sort
of it's underwear come on underwear is low brow but it's not like but boxers
and brief is also kind of just one of those Classics you know what I mean um
so yeah it's okay I I had intended for the way uh for the way it was going to
work in the intro I had intended for it to also have kind of a a humorous
acknowledgement that what I was doing was stupid and not funny where I wanted
a hook to appear from the side of the screen and then reach for me to pull me
off the stage but we couldn't find anything we could have used this boom
stand yeah boom pole would have worked perfectly we were in a hurry and we
couldn't find anything to kind of do that with and then yeah
oh well apparently it didn't work so yeah apparently it wasn't funny anyway
so there you go guys some people thought so I thought so
still some people thought my thing with you guys throwing at me was the main
complaint I got was that they couldn't understand but then like I rewatched it
and I could hear everything so I didn't really get that part I understand that
it was kind of distracting but uh yeah I guess oh well
we tried we tried sometimes we fail and
that's okay that's fine we hope you guys forgive us speaking of forgiving us uh
Panasonics Lumix cm1 I am willing to forgive anything
Panasonic might have ever done in the past okay I was wondering where you're
going with that one I wasn't going anywhere with that Toms hardware. posted this one and this looks
freaking awesome now I originally said this back when Samsung did the Galaxy
camera why isn't it a
phone why isn't it a phone well Panasonic finally did this right so the
here I'm just going to go ahead and pull pull this up the Lumix cm1 will have a
1in sensor in what is otherwise a phone
a like a lens and it's planned to go on
sale for somewhere in the neighborhood of a very very entrylevel kind of I
don't I don't even know what to call like a high-end point and shoot cuz it's
it's kind of in the I think it's in the 900 lb range so it's not cheap okay I
was going to say a high-end phone but I thought that was dollars not pounds no
it's a bit more expensive than a high-end phone but it's uh okay so here
we go blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah the Lumix cms1 pixels are four
times bigger compared to the Lumia
1020s um and but it has so it has half
as many pixels but they're four times bigger which means they can capture
light so in comparison the HTC 1's Ultra pixels were only 40 to 80% larger than
other high-end Smartphones at the time
so basically what this is going to mean is we're finally going to have something
that just Shear to the way that physics works okay bigger light capturing area
much larger much better much bigger lens element in front of it better pictures
this should be assuming they don't completely screw it up the better best
smartphone camera available period and
it's not going to cost that much more than an iPhone 6 or 6 plus I've wanted
this for a little while cuz there's a lot of people that want their phones to
be able to last a while be able to call and text people and take good pictures
like that's all they really want and there you go so 20 megapixel Stills in
both JPEG and RAW formats as well as 4K video recording although only at 15 FPS
which is likely limitation of the Snapdragon 801
so so that's from the Tom's Hardware article um let me just see blah blah
blah blah blah so they've decided to position it more like a camera than a
smartphone from the like the overall look of the device to the controls and
they're also calling it a compact camera with smartphone technology but I hope
people glom on to this cuz I think it is really cool I'm really tired of phones
being sold based on their cameras which frankly none of them are that great we
might as well have a camera that's sold based on the incredible additional
functionality it has thanks to not only Android because we've seen Android
cameras before but also the fact that you can actually just make phone calls
from it and literally only have one device that you need to carry around
with you for people who are shutter buds pictures really cool I like that a lot
yeah the ring around the lens will allow manual control of aperture ISO shutter
speeds and white balance and it's expected to be available on December 1st
sorry it was an estimated €900 pound cuz dealing with those features on a touch
screen is sometimes really not cool so that's actually nice that they're making
that Hardware stuff no I think it's fantastic uh what else we got here we
actually don't have a ton of topics left we've been blowing through stuff sup oh
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that I can take better photos to put on it right which is like a thing you
should get that new Panasonic one it actually looks really no I know I am
interested in it I was interested in one previously but then it wasn't coming to
North America at all and it wasn't this fun it was a different like camera with
a phone on it kind of idea cuz I think that's really cool cuz it's like I used
to be a pretty crazy power user on my phone but that was when I was commuting
a lot on public transit to school and to work and stuff so I would use it for
games and work like I would write essays
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I don't know whatever um and like the Moto X would not focus on it cuz I had
to get my camera my phone too close to it but too close was like this far away
I'm like just do it oh I'm so tired of
camera the way that camera apps still give you a hard time about locking Focus
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the BBC which can you do this topic in the least amount of words possible
because I think it'll be hilarious uh okay okay I will I will take that
challenge so I'm going to go ahead and uh I'll just screen share the um the the
post here don't worry everything is fine uh so this was originally posted on the
Forum by s00 six not fine uh hold on hold on hold on
hold on hold on um oh no no no no okay I
have an idea there we go all
good yes sure all right soff 006 and
there's a video and the video is basically IGN
news saying a thing for like 30 seconds
cuz that's what they do and why is the Xbox one so big because I think we all
are pretty much on the same page about how the Xbox One is significantly larger
than the PlayStation 4 contains basically the same Hardware but a less
powerful version of it contains no internal power supply thanks to its
massive external brick whereas the PlayStation 4 has an internal brick and
the Playstation 4 doesn't have any overheating issues well Microsoft's
response is in as few words as possible
Rod which is no words only letters
what even is that RR o d yeah come on
you had several of them yeah raid Ring of Death there we go
so basically they said look it's for cooling and I think that they have a
great Point here there is no purpose in
personally I don't care about external power bricks I don't think they're a big deal if you have a game console you
probably also have a TV if you care that much tape it to the back of your TV or
something who cares about a power BR and
then having better cooling for the unit without adding additional cost for you
know like intricate heat pipe systems or or whatever else is a totally legitimate
reason to have something be a little bit bigger as long as it's not too big and
when you look at the Xbox One console well it's meant to fit in you know like
a like a media center cabinet and as long as it still fits in there it's
going to be fine and that's the problem is you know people going oh well you
know it runs like you know super awesome cool well you probably are running it
responsibly outside the cabinet you know
not next to a you know heater vent whereas we're talking consoles anyone
can buy a console and they could put it inside a cabinet with a heater vent
under it and run games with the door closed because it looks
nice it's it could be possible one thing that I have to bring up about the brick
thing people W out their TVs strapping it to the back of the TV is not as much
of an option if someone is playing in a dorm room and playing off a monitor
still could potenti be an issue CU you're not going to strap it to the back of your monitor okay well where's their
monitor sitting is it on the wall no
okay then they can put it under the desk there might be very limited room under
the desk well then they can tape it to the side you haven't lived in a dorm have you no that much space literally
matters speaking of that much space mattering uh guys let me let me know in
the let me know on Twitter if you want me to do a uh a video on my uh my plan
to well okay you kind of know this already I guess but I have like too many
pairs of headphones okay yes yeah this is a new
thing not that thing yet I haven't heard from Ruckus yet about the wireless
access points for the other thing I was thinking something else oh okay this
size thing with the stuff wow I'm trying to be super vague yeah you are being
vague why don't you just type it while I talk about the new plan uh so I've got
about 20 pairs of headphones and people kind of go well why do you need so many pairs of headphones and the reason is
that anytime I'm going to evaluate a pair of headphones the your your memory
for what's something sounds like exactly is on the order of seconds as opposed to
being able to listen to headphones 6 months ago and like remember and be able
to compare to something new so I actually have to maintain a fairly
substantial collection of headphones in order to do side-by-side comparison and
I'm not doing Blind AB testing yet but
at some point I'd like to switch to something like that in the future um but
for now I'm at least trying to continue to improve the process so that means
having things for side by-side comparison that means having a sound level meter so that I can make sure that
they are all dialed into the same volume before I'm testing because things that
are louder subjectively sound better to us that's fact that's that's like period
if you're not using a sound level meter in order to ensure that the headphones
are at the same volume level when you're listening to them then who knows I mean
it's it's just a freaking guess um so I
was wondering if you guys want to see me do like a Blog video or something on
like a management a wall management system for headphones or something like
that so let me know let me know on Twitter if you're interested in that
um oh yeah no actually oh oh okay
totally unrelated to that but
um uh SLI tiny PC something like that
okay go ahead and do another Topic in the meantime okay shoot where is that
another topic give me a second oh okay so Smash Bros was we 's
fastest selling title in the US that's not surprising at all I think everyone
saw that coming but it is official and
one of the biggest complaints I've seen about this launch at all is the fact
that it's difficult to go out and buy the controller adapter so you can play
gamec GameCube games on it because they're selling out so quickly which in
comparison to a lot of launches lately is not that bad of a complaint um it's
kind of awesome I think it was the Watchdog release on Wii U uh was so
underwhelming that it was outsold by some like super old game but I don't
remember what it was the stats for that isn't in here cuz like no one cared and
I know people at Nintendo are trying to push for like big new other like third
party AAA titles on Nintendo but no one cares just keep making games like smash
that's all we really want anyways anyways okay this is this is cool this
is kind of related to what he was talking about but only sort of uh this is an Indiegogo project that didn't get
funded I I tend not to like to talk too much about crowdfunding projects on the
show just because um so much of the stuff that I've crowd oh why is that not
working this was up earlier
today all right um well I tend not to
like to talk about it too much because so much of the stuff that I've um that
I've crowdfunded and so many of the stories that I've seen are just sort of
a disaster I don't like I don't like to give these guys too much attention if
they haven't done anything in particular to deserve it but this one is pretty
cool and if I could if I can get the page to load I'll bring it up but basically it's like an matx super tiny
case that is capable of having two graphics cards installed in it which I
think is uh is pretty darn cool and if any any page with any kind of reference
to it would load maybe this Tom's Hardware one then I would be able to show it to you guys and you would be
able to appreciate its greatness do you want to move on to the next Topic in the
meantime while I struggle to Sure again I don't have one but I will try to find
one um welcome to the show guys hope you're enjoying it as much as we are I'm
going to go off off sheet and talk about what happened with Inquisition a little
bit more uh stuff that didn't really end up in the video so we've had problems
with the past where there will be DRM on games that doesn't allow you to activate
it too many times and it would automatically activate in the background
if you change Hardware on your computer so if I'm testing graphics cards I'm
changing a lot of freaking cards um
especially if it's not working at the beginning so which it rarely is yeah um
so anyways that happened with Dragon Age Inquisition it it locked me out um after
we had figured out like what exactly we wanted to do with the testing and how
exactly we're going to do it which was the unfortunate in-game Benchmark um so
I called them up I think unfortunate is a generous word to use to describe that
in game Benchmark is it is um so I guess I didn't call them up you have to go on
their website and sign up for them to call you which is not that bad I guess
but I would rather that I could call them and then get on the list for them to call me back um because doing the
site thing was just kind of annoying anyways they called me back in like an
hour or something and then the very nice
lady on the phone but very very nice lady surprisingly nice lady on the phone
um had to send me off to someone else and that was fine and then that dude that picked up was super nice um and
that whole experience was great and that was awesome and I was actually really
really happy because usually we trash on EA and I was like I'm finally going to
have something nice to say about them and then my game went invalid again and
I had to get them to call me again and they never called me oh EA you tried and
you know what this the people behind the phones are super nice but the policies
and the developers are probably awesome yeah so who's bad someone's bad
Executives I don't know that and the frustrating thing about this is we
actually had the same problem back with crisis 2 and um that one had a lot more
activations for one thing so it took us we had been through several you know
bench marking sessions with it before it ever actually ran out of activations and
then when we called them that time they said well we can't give you unlimited
activations but we totally understand your situation but we can give you 50
and we have easily run it more than 50 times since then so I'm pretty sure that
they gave it like a lot more than that so the fact that they didn't do it this
time is very very frustrating what he did was he reissued me the game he
actually deleted the game off my account and then gave it to me again oh that's
terrible that that means we can never use Inquisition as a benchmarking title
then because we'll just keep running out of them and we'll keep having to be
reissued games that's ridiculous and every single time we have to be reissued
a game we would have to call them back and it's going be super crazy frustrating all right so I found I found
this thing so Luke was talking about that case that I want built that is
about the size of a console and kind of how I want the internals laid out and uh
that's fine Silverstone has already given me heck about a not coming to them
with my ideas because they and probably very actually rightly so see themselves
as the leader in properly cooled small form factor cases in unique form factor
cases especially um and and B there were like well we have some concerns with
your idea because of this this this this this and this so I'm actually planning to discuss it with them at CES and we'll
we'll see if maybe something comes of it I have no idea but this is pretty cool
so this is a crowdfunded project that never made it um that intended to put an
matx board with PCI Express extenders
and the graphics cards literally right up against a side panel keeping any of
the of the air as long as you have a blower style graphics card um keeping
any of the heat from the graphics card from contaminating any of the other components and this was a critical part
of the design for my case was we were going to be able to keep it small by
using maybe a duct or something to have the graphics card directly intake fresh
air from outside filters of course and then blow it out the case and so I I
thought this one was pretty cool I think it's a shame it didn't get funded um but
then again maybe it isn't because maybe they had no real business model anyway
like so many crowdfunding a lot of people didn't know about it though like everyone in the comments is like oh wow
that's super cool wow that's beautiful superb awesome yay cool I had who hold
on a second their crowdfunding campaign was a disaster but apparently NC Tech
tips has one coming oh well there you go
so they're probably doing it anyways I'll be checking it out that's cool cool
well there you go that was a bit of a different spin on that than I
exped I've got uh Wheels from uh oh okay
the guy funded the first run out of his own pocket so like so many of these
crowdfunding campaigns the uh the crowdfunding is probably just you know a
way to help do something that they were already planning to to try to do anyway
um
moving I I had a few people comment that it was presumptuous of us to put we're
moving in our thumbnail when we were crowdfunding for the move the crowdfunding is to help with the move
we're moving to help us build sets we are moving we are going to move it might
take longer we might not be able to afford nice sets or you know proper
acoustic dampening this or that at first it might take us longer the crowdfunding
is to help us we are moving we have to move we cannot stay here yeah so so
that's basically all there is to that speaking uh speaking of the move um I
actually had kind of an interesting exchange with Logan from Tech Syndicate
today where and you know what the truth of the matter is I don't blame him for
this um because when I watched the part of
the tech that it came from it was obvious that they were goofing around
they were talking about my badminton gambling debts and Wendell building a
robot bird that was stuck in a Badminton Center that I uploaded a video of a bird
that was stuck in like on my lonus cat tips channel two or three years ago and
they like zoom in on the thing and they're like blah blah blah Illuminati
and like uh so somewhere in that whole
obviously goofing around trolling the
heck out of everyone segment they said something like we made $2.4 Million last
year and so amongst Robot Chicken bird
gambling badminton people decided that was true people decided that that was
true because I mean obviously we have a relationship with the guys at Tech
Syndicate we've collaborated with them on projects before so obviously lonus
shares all the financial details of company and and you know based on the
size ofan Chanel yeah based on the size of Logan's Channel and how many you know
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars that Tech Syndicate brings in
obviously lonus is making making two M $2.4 million a year right um so I
basically went dude can you can you issue a public sort of retraction of
that uh because people are misinterpreting it and going oh you guys
are crowdfunding when you make $2.4 million a year and he like what why
would I have to do that it's a joke it's a joke and I'm just like it would mean a
lot to me just if he just said something so he's like okay and he sends out a
tweet today and so I like I retweeted and I'm like yeah obviously a joke and
then now now now he's emailing me he's like oh I kind of feel bad and so Public
public statement from me dude don't feel bad I laughed throughout the the whole
segment and I didn't even notice cuz I I
assumed that I hadn't even watched the part with the 2.4 million part because I
didn't notice it I had actually watched that part I just didn't notice it
because it was all silly and I was I was looking at you know Illuminati bird
conspiracy garbage not uh not not that
so yeah dude don't feel bad I thought it
was funny it's just a couple people on the internet that apparently take things
way too seriously and the only reason that I
was upset and sort of asked for him to clarify it was because we are taking
some Flack over our crowdfunding campaign in general and people
misinterpreting him and then repeating it as if it's fact loses the context of
the joke yeah and so that is the problem
not anything about the joke that was an issue so
anyway Sony has an Innovative watch I think
Innovative is a word um this was originally posted by Tech dreamer and
the original article here is uh the one that I liked better was from uh gizbot I
think here um of an Innovative watch made entirely out of
eaper so there's a I'm going to I need a
faster way to like I need to set up like a tab system so that I can sort of alt
tab tab and I can uh oh my gizbot link
is no good anyway the watch is made entirely out of vaper they've got enely
well okay the okay the strap and the
watch surface are made out of e paper and the idea is that you can change the
look of your watch uh very easily so you could have like it looks kind of like um
you know leather or it looks kind of like metal finishing and with eaper that
can actually be pretty interesting yeah they're claiming a 60-day battery
although none of this has been verified off of a regular watch battery so 60-day
battery life off of a watch battery um and here let me just fix the link boom
there it is with the amount of jerking around we've had lately with freaking
battery life I know I know I know I know
but it looks pretty cool so there's uh there's a video in the in the CNet link
here I'm just going to fire this up and you guys can check it out so there we go
hopefully I don't get a uh hopefully I don't get a strike for this I've
actually I've actually gotten um copyright complaints from playing
promotional videos for things in my in land show wasn't it from someone who
wanted us it was uh I think it was LG I want to say
basically their their PR firm wasn't talking to the right people and
miscommunicating something anyway so so the point is oh look how eye grabbing
this is no I don't think it's that attention grabbing I think this is a bit
of a silly video but I also think they're having some fun with it now you might have noticed that the company whoa
hold on a second what was that that doesn't say Sony that says fashion
entertainment s is
for fashion entertainments and uh this
very tired looking man tells us about how it can the the look of it can be
customized it doesn't have a lot of the more traditional um or even expected
Smartwatch features things like you know oh heart rate monitor this and and that
but uh looks cool I don't know if I care oh I don't
I'm not gonna buy one yeah but like I don't know if anyone should I like the
idea I like the idea you get the combination of the annoyances that
you've had or if if you're playing badminton it's either going to be a
strobe light or when you actually want to look at it it's not going to be able
to turn on so you have the annoyances of it just not always being on then you
have it running off of a watch battery that only lasts for 60 days look at
these shoes they change colors with every step it's a watch though it's not your
shoes no no the the the technology they're looking at bow ties
uh watches shoes here's the here's the bow tie one like I I don't know if the
watch is the right product maybe the other stuff is a better product than the
watch but the concept as a smart watch I don't think it makes any sense I think
as like a fashion watch maybe but then you're probably better off getting
something that isn't this and isn't going to die off a watch battery in 60
days cuz replacing that it's a lot more annoying than charging something I mean
I don't this will be eyeg grabbing that's for sure it's super cheap I guess
it could work as a party favor yeah it'll be a long time before it's that
cheap but um I don't know I think I think it's cool what they're doing uh
it's it should be noted that there is no Sony branding on it so um so FES uh
fashion entertainments is a subsidiary of son Sony even though they're not
really talking about it and they've actually raised uh 3.5 million yen
$30,000 from more than 150 supporters via crowdfunding in order to get this
idea off the ground I do find it interesting that a company like Sony if
we're going to get criticized for crowdfunding then Sony mind you Sony's
more broke than us they have more assets but they I they
they may have less due to assets I think they're not more broken okay but okay no
I know I know but like if we if we look at it that's like the that's like saying
like oh yeah the dude on the street has 15 cents in his cup and I own a house so
I'm way more in debt and he should be giving me money like that's that same
broken logic it is broken logic but they they made less money than us last year
even if we only made a dollar we made more they made negative right but then
they still have their assets I know they have the assets uh holy crap is it six
o'clock yeah wow okay so
um and and lonus is now
broken yeah cuz there's a whole bunch of stuff that I still really wanted to talk
about this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen um is it like totally just a
concept yeah this is a crowdfunding thing I was wondering why that no but
again they have a crowdfunding campaign even though most of the time the
crowdfunding video at least sort of shows off a sort of functional product
of some sort this secret bracelet is
just obviously not even anything other
than a pipe dream I mean the idea behind it is very cool so there was a simple
sketch then a first molding now it's a dream okay a simple sketch and a molding
the jump to dream is not real far not a whole lot of progress has been made
basically the way they want this to work is you'd have this this bracelet that
projects your phone onto your wrist and
they're like oh yeah the way it's going to work is uh let's see no they don't
have any diagrams here I I kind of wonder if this is just a way to drive
more traffic to their secret app which is just a like an encrypted messaging
app uh because I I can't imagine they're going to build this and you can even
tell from their campaign video um like the campaign video looks pretty looks
pretty sleek and if it wasn't so poorly done I might even believe they'd made
some progress on it but this is just nothing and then this is just a motion
tracked screen and then they're you can see like they're just kind
of completely Faking It the motion tracking on this one's particularly bad
you can see it wobbling around on his skin see cuz he's not holding his wrist
still enough um so the way it's supposed to work is there's like a Pico projector
thing here and then there's proximity sensors all along the edge here here so
that as you put down your finger you stop the beam and it knows how far away
your finger is it knows which beam you broke and then it's figure out where you
pressed but the problem with that is they show things like typing on a keyboard and then if we go later on in
the campaign video like I can see how people who aren't that techsavvy might
fall for this but this is just straight up not going to work um I wish I could
find the part of the video yeah there we go so with seven of those if the way it
works is by interrupting the beams you will not be typing on a keyboard it will
have no idea where you're pressing well with that level of detail
they have to come out with their own keyboard and it would have to be like
you know how old phones that work where you like tap something a number amount
of times so like if you interrupt these two beams twice no no it wouldn't be
like that cuz they could have an onscreen keyboard as long as it all
lined up and the buttons were nice and big then it could work CU it knows how
far away you are and it knows which beam you can attract how far away you
interrupted that beam okay yeah so it could work but it won't work with any
kind of traditional keyboard and it's obviously nothing more than just like
basically like a a razor project uh is
it Christine or CHR project Christine yeah
from from CES last year apparently they're still interested in that I think
they're having a hard time getting Hardware Partners called it uh what else
we got just cost so much oh this is this
is one more just kind of silly thing that I wanted to uh I wanted to talk
about so the a dedicated one key hash
key is now available also a silly
crowdfunding thing if I recall correctly so this was originally posted by Linux
user on the Forum and uh here's the this isn't
original he just ripped off the control delete
keyboard yeah but now it's for social
media junkies rather than people who want to restart their
computers it's called hash key and it's an idea for a tiny one key keyboard that
only does one thing put hashtags
instantly okay cool it's actually doing not bad
like the crowdfunding campaign because people are just going to get because he launched at the right time because
people just want to buy it for Christmas stuff it's a cool stocking stuff not
going to be available in time for Christmas I know but it's Christmas so
you're in Christmas shopping mood yeah annoying my mom if she buys it I don't
know 5 years before Christmas it's probably fine now one commenter here on Gizmodo
actually brought up a very good point and said have y'all ever seen a British
it's a British Kickstarter have y'all ever seen a British Mac keyboard where
is the hash key good who
cares whoa we need to stop hashtagging things anyway they got their own pound
yeah I didn't realize that um good
actually need it I didn't realize that
uh it's not called pound outside of North America it's it's always been Hash
Hash sign and then a hashtag is I've never send I've never said pound key
anyways yeah was pound until the whole social
media happened thing as far as I could tell uh like of course there's there's
situations where you should probably use it um but like don't a I hate social I
hate social media hashtags I don't know I've never really been into it so this
is cool um speaking of of social our Forum Adam The Geek just posted I just
got a Pebble Steel since then I've since then I've been uh playing around making
watch faces made a wow watch face that's
sick yeah that's awesome I love it so I just wanted to uh wanted to share that
little bit of fan art I love this fan art stuff it's cool no one ever made fan
art of us before except that one really creepy thing um oh yeah uh so this was
originally posted by am on the Forum and it's from Hardware
zone.com Sony is uh this is this is amazing so
they're releasing the vpl
gtz1 this is a 55
kilogram so guys for those of you who think Imperial we're talking about 130
lb something in that neighborhood 4K
Ultra short throw laser projector it
does 4K 60p over h HDMI 2.0 with four
inputs it needs only 7 in from the wall
for a 17 by9 aspect ratio image so you
need like two people to hold this thing that is 147 in tall so you can fit it
whoa what from 7 in from the wall it's a
laser projector this thing is badass if
you were looking to build the ultimate
home theater setup and you kind of went you know what my home theater setup is
not going to have a projector mounted on the ceiling you only have to have it
this far from the wall in order to have a home theater sized perfect Fork every
single one of them is hand assembled in Japan okay how much does this cost
you're talking about home theater setup uh well you you you'd be a pretty you'd
be pretty okay so like 50 Grand I think
yeah 50 Grand us talking about those like Lottery home home
yes so to put this in perspective this is 135 in uh would be like the typical
4K projector distance um this one sits 7
in away now it's not small it's a meter
wide like it's huge that's really big
but it's pretty pretty freaking cool I thought that was uh that was pretty darn
sweet uh what else is there to say about it yeah I guess that's pretty much it I
think that's pretty much it for the show for today unless you had anything else that you really wanted to hit
guys thank you so much for watching I mainly just wanted to talk about that
whole um which we already talked about dream hack
winter cuz that's just been ridiculous I wanted I wanted to show that Ubisoft was
still digging despite doing some good things they did a good thing they did
let give them credit I'm not taking off the shirt yet and I'm not going to tell
you guys to stop buying the shirts they have like one dude in the hole trying to
put dirt back in it and then they have another dude in the hole trying to throw dirt back out so I don't know they still
haven't solved their problems well the hope is that the guy putting the dirt in
will suffocate the guy taking the dirt out and then they can just keep on
digging they can get rid of that guy that's not the hope well that might
be their hope based on their based on their goals yeah yeah yeah people are
bringing up Star Wars but I haven't been able to see the trailer yet you haven't seen it I have not seen the trailer yet
you know why I haven't seen the trailer yet is because last night someone linked
me to an imager post aming saying here's the Star Wars trailer and it was someone
secretly filming in a movie and I was like okay cool and then you get Rick
Rolled I'm like oh so it's not real so
every mention I saw of it after that I was like oh whatever it's not real it's
just people trying to spread this Rick Roll whatever I guess Rick Roll is coming back so I was just ignoring it
completely and then today so real we're filming that thing that I'm not going to
bring up that's coming on Sunday um and Brandon's like oh yeah have you seen it
yet I'm like well I got Rick Roll and he's like what I'm like yeah that's what
it is you got you got wrecked R yeah got
compl you didn't even get not only did you get Rick Rolled you didn't get to
watch the trailer so do you want to talk about it
uh you can talk I don't mind spoilers I'll watch the trailer yes I will talk
about it well the the trailer has a lot of like long dips to Black so there's
not a whole lot of spoiler to happen it's like it's like basically like a 2C
snippet and then it's like di to Black dramatically and there's
like like he's like couple seconds and
it's gone they're not showing you anything but but there's a couple really
cool shots that reminds me of the world of drainer trailer where it's just like
the orc facing at the screen like breathing angrily like not showing you
anything it was actually a really cool trailer no they are they are showing nothing but uh okay so there's there's
one shot that like made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and they've got
a couple of x-wings information flying like a couple feet over the water and
the water spray is like flying up behind them uh they've got obviously a Sith um
you know firing up a lightsaber that's actually got like a hilt on it oh yeah
but the the the design of the he Hilt isn't very good it's kind of stupid because there's actually like things
that they come out of so the traditional way that that was used the the handguard
was used is if the sword slid down it well that wouldn't block the blade
because if you slid down the blade you cut off the thing um there's nothing
preventing a lightsaber from being cut in half it would have to be like up on a weird angle or something but yeah okay I
got you so it is it is amazing how
emotion invoking just that music is yeah
that music with some kind of imagery to
it I I I I do love Star Wars and if i' I
think I said this on uh on netlink today
uh over on ncx Tech tips but if Abrams
screws this up he's going be called jarar Abrams yes I've read that
somewhere that's me I still like the joke even if it isn't yours because it
like Star Trek I enjoyed the movies but
there was really no risk that I wasn't going to enjoy the movies I'm not a treky like I I watched a bunch of Next
Generation with my dad when I was a kid but like as a as an adult and even as a
teenager I never got into any of the
Star Trek series hold up pause sorry apparently the dream hack match is being
played again from halfway that is [ __ ]
no that's not right that is super dumb
okay we I'm ignore that now we don't use the RW to describe things that are dumb
because that's not PC sorry
but I I acknowledge that you're anger is
not entirely unjustified and sometimes angry outbursts over an incredible
Injustice um don't make it through the
politically correct filter I'm sorry that's just stupid but that is
ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous hopefully that's not actually what happening hopefully he's trying to add
hold on hold on apparently that's not confirmed yet okay okay no the decision
isn't final yet okay good good anyway back to back to Star Trek um so I didn't
really have any emotional investment in it I was able to watch those movies as
just like fun space movies that I don't really care about Star Wars is a whole
other ball of wax I'm sure Nick has official verdict thing has not been
decided okay not been decided um so Star
Wars I have a much more I like read tons of the books and like I owned like Star
Wars like encyclopedia reference style books like The Ultimate Guide to
vehicles and weapons and characters and like read them cover to cover multiple
times as a kid like I'm a Star Wars kid so if he screws if I hear any mention of
medoran I will walk out of the theater do you know the old like straight up
Golden Black Box the VHS box yeah yeah yeah that one is like half destroyed
because of how many times I watched it as a kid well I'm a little older than
you so for me it's the one with the uh
the the Blue Star Wars text the um my
dad I think my dad had a version before that one purple Empire one and then the
uh maroon Return of the Jedi one in blackbox set yeah um but I also own the
gold one that's funny so uh so there you go
the remastered ones the the one the gold one is pretty bad it's got a lot of
remastered crap in it greo shoots first terrible but the one that I own before
that is the one that I grew up watching over and over again Han shoots first the
way that he should have it's not even a debate I don't even understand what
there is to debate about it you know people star Star Wars people need to
just get together and all go look we're not going to talk about this anymore because there is no debate any movie
where Han doesn't shoot first is not a Star Wars movie any movie that mentions
mclan is not a Star Wars movie any movie that has Jar Jar Binks in it is not a
Star Wars movie and and Revenge of the
Sith I can I I enjoyed it but I have
never once rewatched it so I I maybe I'll go back and give it
another shot um see if see if it still
holds up to being not complete garbage right use the force Harry quoting
Gandalf thank you for that jerk you're
banned all right now the twitch chat is full of han
han did not shoot first and so the show
is over thanks for watching guys peace
bye show is so over like over enough
that we're never going to do it again greo shot first until next Friday
yeah when we'll do it again yeah very
specifically at 4:30 PS yeah unless we're late
usually so like in any range specifically from 4:30 to 6
We'll Be Live we're only like 6 minutes late today or maybe
eight they're both even