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Europe doesn't exist to me hi I'm Tanner mccoolman I'm a writer here at LTT I'm
mentally unstable and I collect and live amongst trash
thank you the first bit of trash I would like to
show off today is McDonald's story heartwarming store manager training a
lot of people don't seem to realize there's actually multiple McDonald's games out there there's there's
mcdonaldland for the NES there's mcdonaldland for the Game Boy and
I often get asked is it any good and
no it's a collection of five mini games one of them you fill up a cup full of
soda one of them you flip Burgers I don't know what the other three are
because I don't speak Japanese and it's not a good game other features of the
game include the ability to print off receipts using the Game Boy printer
next thing I'd like to show off is just a real quick one beat Takeshi the
hardest NES game ever made it takes years to beat and you have to know every
little thing happening in it and if you die you start at the beginning again
it's not a game I've even tried to beat or play if we're being perfectly honest
not worth my time Pokemon Stadium you may think you have the first Pokemon
Stadium at home you don't do you prefer Charmander Squirtle or Bulbasaur psych
you can't play as any of them because there's only 40 Pokemon in this game you
like mini games tengen Tetris now what makes this version of Tetris interesting
is that it was made by Nintendo previously it was only made by Atari
e-lorg and bullet soft bullet soft later
went on to become the tetris company they made Tetris when you press the down
button the piece spins when you press the a
button it hard drops you can't soft drop
you can't spin it the other way these are the only two inputs or you can do
side to side but by the time you realize that a and down do the things that they
do you turn the game off if you want to play a famicom game on a North American
NES you're gonna need some sort of 60 to
72 pin converter so that now it will fit into a regular sized NES I like to use a
cloned version of the NES this Retron from hyperkin is it good
but it's also not trying to turn everything into HDMI and I really
appreciate that the thing that I like most about this version of Tetris though
this comes from Nintendo's R D1 branch that was headed up by gunpeo Koi gunpeo
Koi doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves he invented The Game and Watch
he invented the Game Boy he invented the virtual boy we don't talk about that
that's why he left after he left Nintendo he went on to make the Wonder
Swan a portable game console that ran off of One battery and nobody really
cares about tragically he passed away in 1997 after getting into a car accident
he got out to check on the car after the car accident and got into another car
accident the last thing I want to show are my
sealed and unsealed copies of the 2019 movie Cats I have seen this movie no
less than 30 times four times in theaters and every time it's in theaters
I will see it again what do you think this is that's the question I asked when
I first saw it at the MCC sale there's like a garage sales section of it where
people are selling like old things it looks like a piece of technology could
it be a printer what do you think it is
it's an IBM p7386 portable computer there's another
term for them I saw online a very strange computer at the MCC sale the
person who is Manning the station said give us an offer and my dad said two
dollars and fifty cents that's how much we paid for it it is a full functioning
386 computer with a plasma flat screen
from 1989 if you can believe it and
um I never used it and I said I'll bring it to work maybe they'll be interested
and it sat under my desk for the past year and a half when I first brought it
here in hopes that it would be very interesting to the people who work here
I tried to boot it up and there's some sad things we've learned first off the
disk drive the floppy disk drive never worked on this thing it'd be really great if that was fixed because I could
play Old dos games but now I think the hard drive's broken it did have Windows
3 installed on it so let's take a look
hey
turn it off
oh yes the Rams booting up how much RAM
do you think it has 8K 8 megabytes eight
bags so apparently this is a pretty fast computer to be lugging around yeah so
I've got some error numbers coming up here not okay IBM manual it does need a
little bit of tender loving care um to get it back up to snuff but this
is a plasma screen oh yeah this keyboard
it's not quite the Sims keyboard that's a reference to a Mac Address video you should watch but it is a really nice
feeling keyboard lots of sounds from this computer
if the drive was working I probably would have played around with them more it's just kind of been a relic sitting
in the corner and now it's been a relic sitting under my desk it doesn't have a battery or anything like that you have
to plug it in so there's like this like these like doors to like really turn it
like seal it up when you're done with it and you can like just walk around you
got a PS2 port for the mouse there's a printer port and then I guess two
parallel ports oh yeah I guess there's a VGA out as well so if you do want to
plug in a color monitor I don't know if it's Sports color though but let's just pretend it does and then there's actual
slots so you can put in a graphics card just kidding was PCI back then was that
a thing back then somebody said oh yeah they're really hard to find because they didn't really
sell very many of them there's one on eBay for 750 US dollars
yeah it'd be great to kind of get it working and like actually fiddle around
with it more I remembered opening up Windows and just being like this is
boring I've Resto modded a an old Mac that was fun I wouldn't build a hack and
touch in it the cooling would be horrific you'd need like very efficient
chips but it has the slots for like a graphics card I guess oh it's made in
Japan I don't know the IBM PS2 p70 or
luggable computer that's what they called it luggable
I brought zooms not just one zone I brought two zoons this is a reefer these
things originally cost like 300 and giving them away refurbed for 75 bucks
was kind of like a kick in the pants for everyone who bought one of these full price as soon as the Microsoft's answer
to the iPod at the time this Zoom came out so this is zoom 30. the biggest iPod
I'm pretty sure is the biggest one you can get was 20 kicks and this one had 30
gigs you were getting a better value I think they were both about 300 at the
time I didn't an iPod that was too poor so when I got this this was great
because I could store all of the illegal MP3s I had
um and the other nice thing was it played video I never did that because
why would you want to watch a video on this advertising stuff showed people
jogging with these things which seems insane to me because it has a tiny
little hard drive in it and if you ran with it you'd probably just destroy it
this is like a semi-official zoom leather case the nicest premium Naga
hide you could get and it also has a very nice belt clip that I've never used
with it I usually just put it in there because the only thing that protects the
screen is nothing it came with a pair of
earbuds which are the worst knockoffs of
the iPod headphones I've ever used and if you bought the very expensive Zoom
that came with a very nice leather case you got a pair of Premium earbuds I took
it to Italy with me and that was in 2010
10 I had a cell phone after that and
that was easier to find music content carrying two different devices and then
years later I was working for Best Buy and someone threw this into the
recycling and I grabbed it out so this is 120 gigabytes they're basically the
same form factor it's like a big chocolate bar but the Zune 120 has a
capacitive touch button that also rocks
but most of the stuff is gesture based on it it doesn't work very well the
battery life on them I don't think was as good as the iPod I think I only ever
get about 8 to 10 hours out of this one before it needs to be recharged and then
this one is pretty much hopeless what it was sort of interesting for the time was
that you could share songs between zoons and you could listen to the song three
times over three days and then it disappeared off your Zoom it was kind of
wild it also has Wireless syncing you didn't have to plug this into the
computer you could just you could just sync it wirelessly it's just really slow
because this is 802.11b I still use this
in software it's the best way of downloading RSS feeds and it puts the
album art on everything and I don't even have to think about it yeah the Zune
itself as a player kinda sucks if you
have MP3s tagged with the disk tag so
like whether it has disk one or disc two the zoom doesn't recognize that it'll
play track one disc one then track one disc two unless you separated like
physically what's neat about both of them though is that they have a built-in
radio tuner David had to go to the drive-in and he used that to watch the
movie at the drive-in that's probably the only time I've ever listened to radio on this oh they're neat yeah it's
a neat Oddity right like so they they were never commercially successful right
even when they came out people said why did Microsoft decide to enter this race
now should you listen to music on a Zune in 2022 only if you're a lunatic you
could user upgrade the battery you can user upgrade the hard drive there are so
many better ways to listen to music now today I brought a bunch of coffee stuff
I've worked in the food industry for some time I've accumulated a couple of odds and ends that I wanted to show off
and help potentially people that have never experienced coffee to experience a
good coffee setup I've got some coffee from a local
roaster here in Vancouver aggro Roasters this is from the yoga chefe I honestly I
don't even know if I'm pronouncing that right jurgachev a region in Ethiopia
known for producing very small beans the
coffee that comes from that region
is very very small it has kind of a
distinct roundness to it when you roast it it brings out a light acidity some
floral notes we're going to be attempting to bring those tasting notes
out with a V60 brewer today I've also
brought my Aeropress it's a really wonderful way to brew coffee but it is a
little bit more intensive and it's not typically what I use in the mornings so
I've got two kettles here today both of them you'll notice are gooseneck kettles
that just means that they have the long neck to them they allow for water to be
distributed very specifically within the points of the Brew so whether I'm using
this Brewer or this Brewer I can aim very specifically onto the bed of the
coffee where I want it to go so this one is unpowered this is one that just goes
on the top of a stove and it's very very affordable it's probably one of the
first ones that I got is you can kind of tell by how grimy it is I don't use this
for coffee very much anymore I mostly use it to water plants but this one is
electric it goes on this nice base here
and I can set it to a very specific temperature within one degree Celsius
and it just sits there I can let it boil for an hour if I want to this is a hand
Grinder from Easy presso this is a very very good quality hand grinder and it's
pretty expensive as far as they go the reason for that is the build quality
when you uh when you look into coffee grinders you can get them for 20 30
bucks and they can go all the way up to thousands upon thousands of dollars the
reason that it is good quality is because of the tolerances involved in
its Machining it's also a fully metal
Bursa what happens when you grind coffee
is it has a burr here that grinds
against this Burr which is just a set of metal pieces that try to crush the
coffee as it's being fed through by gravity or by the rotational movement of
your hands this is important because this shaft is very very carefully
machined when you have a grinder that's potentially cheaper it's going to have a
lot more wobble and so the grounds are going to be different sizes when they
come out coffee is just in general a chemical process the closer that you can
make a variable to a specific point the
more accuracy you can have with the end result because there's a lot of
variables along the process that create the outcome of coffee the reason that I
use a hand grinder part of it is cost this is just affordable for somebody who
doesn't need to put out a lot of ground coffee like a coffee shop or somebody
that's selling it the other part of it is the ritual of it I like the sound of
it I like the feel of it in my hands when I'm brewing coffee and I want to
share that with you today what we're going to do is take 30 grams of coffee
and 500 grams of water which is approximately a 20 Brewery ship I've
also got a coffee scale here the reason that the coffee scale is important is
because this has very very specific accuracy it's I believe good down to 0.1
grams which is pretty tight for kitchen scales and it's also very fast it's
almost instant to come to these specific
point of weight that's important for when I'm actually Brewing the coffee I
can see how much water that I put in at a specific point in time it also has a
timer so when I start it I know how long it's been brewing that's not useful in
the moment but when I look back I can see how I need to adjust my Brew for the
next one that I make one thing that I like to do with this
hand grinder is just use the Basin as a
a catch bin to weigh out my coffee probably a bad habit because I'm
collecting coffee grounds from previous grinds but it's one that I've
been doing for quite some time and I refuse to give it up so now that I've
got exactly 30 grams of coffee here what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the
back end of a spoon I'm gonna get it a little bit wet and I'm going to stir it
through the coffee beans the reason that
I'm doing this is to reduce static lots of people will use an aerosol spritzer
like a like a little spray bottle that's kind of a newer way of doing it this is
how I start it so now I'm just going to grind
The Next Step is the Brewer this is a Hario V60 it's
just a really common 60 degree Brewer which is why it's called the V60 inside
there I'm going to be putting one of these filters which I'll show in a
moment on the bottom the carafe that I have is actually a hand blown piece of
glass from Japan this is a pitchy server a lot of servers have trouble
with drips afterwards just like that cup did but this pitchy server when you pour
it there's no drips so I have a couple of
filters here today the really distinguishing part about filters is
just personal preference the ones that I like to use are these ones that have no
tab as opposed to ones like these that do have a tab generally they have less
taste I've noticed less of a paper taste in my coffee and these ones Brew pretty
slow what that means is it takes longer for the water to filter through which
means more extraction is happening in the chemical process and it just tastes
different and so I've adjusted my Brew generally for these these ones
are just the same as the White Version
here except they are unbleached this is going to impart a more of a darker more
of a papery taste on the coffee which some people like and some people don't I
don't typically use these with a V60 I use them with a different Brewer called
Chemex it allows for a little bit longer of a steep time all of these variables
make a difference so I'm going to take my filter and I'm just going to fold
over the edge here what this does is it allows it to stand up a little bit
better the next step is rinse out the
filter with just a little bit of boiling water it just removes some of the
articulates that would have been created in the manufacturing process it removes
some of the papery taste from the filter itself and generally it gets the Brewer
warm why that matters is you're using the energy to extract oils and lipids
from the coffee the colder this is the more heat it's going to take while
you're Brewing the more that you can do to warm the Brewer up beforehand the
more consistent abrou you're going to get so I'm going to take my coffee
grounds and I'm just going to dump them in the top here I have it spread in a
nice flat pattern on the bed just by shaking it there and I'm going to put it
on my scale and tear it out or zero out the scale so it shows nothing there now
what I should do is I should show you the app that I use at the same time and
from the Labs I am very statistically minded and so I track all of the data
about my coffee this app is pretty
interesting it's called Bean conqueror it's a free to use open source app
developed by somebody who is dedicated to coffee for quite some time I have
been using it for I think at this point two years what I'm going to do is I'm going to type in my Brew settings here
as well as the amount in grams of ground
coffee that I'm going to be using here I've already preset the beans that I'm
using and I'm going to grab my Kettle and start to brew as I pour over the V60
I'm going to start the time and I'm looking on the scale here for about 70
to 80 grams of water at the bloom stage why this matters you're releasing Co of
two from The Roasting process you know when you have a fire and it crackles a
little bit something is escaping same thing happens with coffee we're going to leave that for about 45 seconds here
after most of the CO2 has escaped during the bloom we're going to pour some more
water in there you'll notice that I'm pouring quite high up the higher you go
the more agitation you can create in the bed of the coffee the more agitation you
have with a bit of coffee the more extraction you're getting from the grounds of the coffee and the more taste
you get from the coffee itself I'm gonna let this first pour draw down and as it
gets really close to the bed of coffee sitting at the bottom I'm going to start
to pour over again
so this is called the Hario spiral but I'm spinning it in a spiral so as to aim
for pretty even agitation across the entire bed of coffee it's important to
make sure that when you are pouring water into the coffee you're getting all
of that hot water mixed in with the water that has already started to
extract this is what's known as a percolation Brew new water comes and
filters through the bed of coffee something like an Aeropress is what's
known as an immersion brew a percolation brew has continuous extraction with new
water whereas an immersion brew has continuous extraction with existing
water and so you're going to have an extraction rate that levels off as time
goes on and there's no real reason to use one or another I prefer to use the V60 because
it allows me to Benchmark coffee in a way that other Brewers can't if I get a
good Brew out of it I know that I've been very pinpoint in my accuracy we're
nearly done this Brew I have 500 grams
of water there and it's just leveling out to be fairly flat on the top of the
bed the coffee is finished brewing and now we're going to taste it I brought a
number of coffee mugs here some of which are pretty important in general to
Coffee tasting to somebody who is professionally tasting coffee a
different shape coffee cup can actually impact the smell and taste of their
coffee we're just gonna pour a little bit in here not a whole lot one I'm
brewing I'm brewing it at 100 degrees Celsius but I want it to come down to
somewhere between 50 and 56 degrees Celsius before I drink it you can't
really taste very well when something is super hot so I'm just pouring a little
bit of coffee into the cup and I'm swirling it around so that I can actually get a sense of how good or how
bad that Brew was it smells a little bit Woody like I've
over extracted it it's not terribly over extracted
coffee tastes good I like that temperature my wife is
always just scalding I generally like you know milk or sugar in my coffee but
this is good enough but you wouldn't want to put anything in it very smooth one of the nice things about a light
roast is that it allows for you to have all of the flavors of the coffee as
opposed to having the roast be the flavor if you didn't have a consistent
coffee flavor would you over roast to kind of cover yes Starbucks
the coffee that I've got here is pretty acidic it's generally on the lighter end
of The Roasting Spectrum the fats the lipids the proteins in the coffee are
not going to be as cooked which means that you're going to taste them more
this coffee that I've chosen is also high in acidity because that's a flavor
that I have preference for but coffee is wide and diverse and you might not like
that some people like drinking battery acid I'm closer to that I've gone from a
place of oh Maxwell House or Folgers is
perfectly fine and I I don't really care what it tastes like to starting to work
in the coffee industry and starting to come out with oh I can kind of taste the
differences between some of these things and then becoming way on the other side
to being a complete gatekeeper oh that coffee is ooh disgusting why would I
taste that and then coming back kind of in the middle of being like oh this is
my ritual this is the way that I enjoy it this is how I would like to share it
to the world it's no more or less good
with one type of Brewer or one type of coffee than any other it's just how do
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