all right what up y'all welcome to the show what up y'all yeah did you become
American while you were gone with your baby yeah yeah dog I guess dog is
American and gangster American and gangster yeah I'm the most gangster
person ever I'm like all rapping and I was going to say have have have they
seen the stormtrooper video you're obviously pretty gang you straight up killed a guy yeah yeah with Force
lightning no you know the number of people who complained oh my God that it
was fake because Stormtroopers don't have Force lightning did you guys see a
stormtrooper rapping yeah exactly it's
like let's figure out all the other things that could how about the
Stormtrooper was wearing headphones well there's one thing how about the
Stormtrooper didn't have a gun that he was firing wildly at
nothing although I'm actually a believer
in the conspiracy theory that they were instructed not to hit
anything I buy that have you heard of this that sense though yeah the the the
conspiracy theory is that the Stormtroopers were told not to hit
anything because we already know from Obi-Wan that only Imperial Stormtroopers
are this precise I actually just rewatched a new hope not special edition
not remastered actually totally makes sense it totally makes sense who that
blew my brain up a little bit anyway I just watched re-watched a new hope with
my son and I can happily say actually I haven't watched it in probably at least
eight years I I've watched it a lot of times but I haven't watched it in a long
time it still holds up really yep and my
2-year-old son sat through the whole thing even though it's not really that
action-packed like the first movie he really sat through all the way was uh
How to Train Your Dragon yeah yeah like that's a pretty exciting movie that was
one of those things where it was just playing on like a local TV network and I went to my parents house and I came in
like half hour late you still haven't seen it no I came in like half an hour
late and I was supposed to be helping my mom cook and I like kept on dragging
back to like watch to TV I was like this is really interesting this is actually a
pretty good movie fantastic mov I have I have to you know what else is supposed
to be really good is Guardians of the Galaxy I haven't seen it yet but I've
heard glowing reviews from like everybody have not seen it up to this
expect you probably would have seen it yeah just bring bring like absolute
newborn into the theater I did manage to see how to train your dragon too before
the the new baby come we actually didn't take my son what why it was Date Night
he got wrecked well that and we could only find a 3D showing and he's two I 3D
showing yeah know I wouldn't do that yeah it was just one of those things and I was like I've heard too much crap
about 3D in little kids I wanted to see it in the theater
so I'll watch it again when it's out for
DVD or whatever that's hilarious okay
when that happens then that's what'll happen um so our first topic yeah we
have some topics for today the Samsung Galaxy Alpha has been announced
announced it's the least exceptional thing ever as far as I can tell uh USB
type c has a finalized spec which is
actually really exciting a hundred times more exciting than the Samsung Galaxy
Alpha uh Ubisoft is promising to cater
more to PC Gamers and pay more attention to PC Gamers
so excuse me sorry uh yeah I don't we've
been having these problems lately was that too subtle [ __ ] there we go
there uh the experience 2 survived
multiple weeks under salt water which is insane we'll talk more about that thing
like meters of salt water but without further
Ado come on can I never get this right
were there even technical difficulties when I was gone
uh we might have yes there was remember
the the screen sharing worked before I remember anything oh well I told you on
oh that's that's right yeah yeah I'm back in the a media now it's all good
all I had to do was unplug it and plug it back in and then it was fine
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Jam Space Jam still exists right I think I think Space Jam 2 is like sort of
coming is the Space Jam site still up no I think so yeah yeah it is yeah space
Jam's website 100% this has been a thing
for a long time the website has never gone down and it's still well like I'm
sure it's said it's downtime but it's like it still exists and you can go to
the site map where they have like little mini descriptions of each section like
people used to do oh my goodness there's a few websites that have still existed
Press Box shuttle Jam Central Planet bball lunar Tunes jump Station Warner
Brothers store behind the jam site map Stellar souvenirs Junior jam and the
lineup ridonkulous all right so I have an early straw pole for you guys
um this is actually I've got to get the I'm not logged in can you never remember
my login thank you that's TWiT on my
computer at home um will tell me that my login information is incorrect and then
if I just click login again it's like okay good
job what I'm going to go on my dashboard I'm
going to post this straw pull um want you guys to check this out okay so
speaking of of the internet in the uh
not the '90s but certainly the certainly the early 2000s does anyone but me
remember the palace this is preabo Hotel okay we're
talking Palace not habo hotel if you were a habo hotel kid then you were
basically as cool as my
sister that's STW all right so guys
check that out I'm curious to see the results here that is the most hardcore
spam I think I've ever seen so apparent
I am like the only person in the entire universe who remembers the pal I
remember the palace I don't think I ever was on it but I knew the palace oh
Palace was awesome like it was okay it was It was
kind of if they had figured out a monetization model for avatars they
would have been you know 10 plus years
ahead of in-game items yeah in terms cuz
cuz the way that avatars worked in the palace was generally speaking people
shared them back and forth you couldn't really just rip them off people because
the way that they worked was they you know you like you built them up on your
guy and it was kind of this weird thing so there were sets and then some people
would be mismatched so everyone had like there was like the one chick with the
skater shorts and like the one dude with the skater pants or whatever and so you
could like mix and match them so they look different anyway the point is um I
don't know what the point is the point is I'm old and no one remembers the things I remember so well you got that
from the Space Jam thing still existing so we're just talking about old internet stuff no no I already homar Runner
someone said homar runner in the chat yeah hestar Runner man there's a
Wikipedia entry update apparently they released a video at some point like
teasing that there's beting all the
people apparently there's going to be a another Strong Bad email at some point
but that was like three years ago I think and it still hasn't happened so I
don't know yeah we'll see all right so speaking of things that should have
happened 3 years ago and never really managed to happen uh Samsung is a
finally releasing hold on I'm just going to sign out of my Forum account here
Galaxy beta yeah galaxy beta no no this
is pre beta this this be Alpha Dog all right
the screen share here so this was originally posted by nine shadow on the
Forum and it is finally a metal phone
from Samsung is it called Alpha cuz it's not ready yet and it's funny because I
don't think they could have made this look any more like an iPhone if they had
tried what now that Android has onscreen
buttons you have just one home button in the middle you got a speaker grill a
front camera and like side buttons wow like I know they
already weren't really that different but that's pretty close but it's pretty
if their button at the bottom with circular then I know right GG but at
least okay so it's got a 4.7 in display it's got a metal housing it's got their
exos octacore processor so four core
cores at 1.8 four cores at 1.3 it has 2
gigs of RAM 32 gigs of internal storage it supports LTE Advanced which is nice
but it's got a fingerprint sensor speaking of yeah really yeah 12
megapixel rear camera metal building materials and it
is the rumored street price for off
contract is
$800 now I left out a couple of key specs there that 4. 7 in screen is a
1280x 720 screen and I'll be the first
like I've talked about this on the show before I don't think we need Quad HD
2560 x445 in screens I think it's unnecessary I think it adds to cost
power consumption and reduces battery life and otherwise just generally
doesn't really have any benefit but you got to at least try and
there's something to say for 1080 over 720 on a phone yes yes 1080 is
noticeable whereas you know 1440 maybe
not that noticeable 720p is definitely lower it also only has an 1860 milliamp
battery yeah I was I I noticed you skipped over that and I was like I know
why cuz I'm about to lower the hate
boom and no micro SD expansion I mean
we're talking a flagship phone when pretty much everyone else has reversed
on the whole yes we're not going to have micr SD because people should use up
their entire internal storage for their music libraries that never made any
sense super dumb super dumb I mean I don't I I don't necessarily agree that
phone makers need to allow people to install apps on an external SD card no
and there are good reasons for that SD cards are not reliable they're not fast
so fine I get it have the experience or whatever that's fine but let me put my
music and pictures on it I don't want to be using up my stud stupid 16 gigs of
internal stage that's I ever used it for anyways exactly I just used a direct
storage device play in the computer put freaking music what songs whatever on it
take it out put in the phone so it's freaking awesome so this doesn't have
that and just otherwise is not very
impressive I mean okay it's it's less than 7 mm thick and excuse me thin oh I
hate that so much are you 59 years young yeah I know right God that kills me
every time like come okay I'm when
you're 59 you'll understand no I'll still call myself 59 years old um or
just 59 years or that 59 years of Swag
Dog uh so right and it's only 115 gram
so it is pretty light especially for a metal phone but I think that Samsung's
marketing video really does tell us
everything that we needed to know about this
phone this phone has Le nothing to do with how good
it is it has to do with this completely
stupid way that some guy has it on his mixing console it has to do with for
some reason someone like moving their hands around like this has their phone
propped up at the edge of the table on its side and it has to do with storing
it like that for some reason they all do
that well they're showing that the side is flat I guess yes oh who cares you
were not the first to do that no oh wait
they're all walking with it hold on hold on the suspense oh look at look at how
well it goes with that Chic little let's make sure she carries it in the
dangerous position outside of the purse yeah where it might potentially fall
yeah don't put a case on or anything though no of course not so pretty much
this phone is targeted towards people who were never going to care about the
spec anyway but the thing is that the thing
that I have to respect Apple for is if you're going to make something that's a
fashion accessory an iPhone is still a wicked
fast phone it's still got the
horses and it it I personally think it looks better than that yeah never liked
the Samsung button on the bottom and it always has that wobbling issue well
maybe this one doesn't maybe let's not be too down they've all had it so far
but yeah you're right it might not I don't know it comes in five colors black
white gold silver and blue I'm actually trying to get HTC to send me a pink 1 M8
really oh I like super stoked on if I could get my
hands on one of those um anyway so the only pricing we actually have is $599 so
it's possible this will land at $5.99 that happens a lot where there's no
currency conversion between territories I always feel bad for other places when
that happens well remember they also get paid in that currency so like a
competitive minimum wage is not going to be $10 an hour here and 672 an hour
whatever but it isn't typically I don't know so I have no argument here in a
country with a similar economy it'll be similarly equivalent in terms of the
actual number on the end right um sometimes not
always okay so I don't think that works
for people in bad economies cuz when you're making like when when a phone
cost like millions of what that's what I mean like in in similar devel
okay okay so I I have a segue I have a segue for a phone that cost $800 at
least they're not as bad people as one plus one oh right this is happening I
forgot about this happy baby to
you happy baby to you happy baby dear we
genitals on it yeah happy baby to you
okay thank you every uh here we go so it's going to
be hard to show this to the people watching but it says congratulations on
making a human with your genitals I'm
not sure what they were expecting me to make with my genitals maybe a little
like uh you know like a little thing with like sunglasses and a big nose and
a mustache I could I could make that oh
God maybe not on this show but I don't think yeah I think we get banned off
twitch for that I think so I'm pretty sure Prett sure that's not allowed yeah
well thank you very much guys this is this this is from like mape and ghost
and all those guys I don't remember sorry guys I don't remember all the names included um but we'll get you
those later I know mape is the one that did like almost all of the organization
for it well thank you thank you to whoever came up with putting the word
genitals on my cake too I appreciate that is that you no it
was all I did was help organize the pickup and stuff like that I didn't I
didn't name it I had no other yeah all
right well thank you guys I actually thought we were going to be celebrating
my birthday because this is the last show before my birthday as well well
then also happy birthday no don't sing that song yeah you can't sing that song
it's not allowed no we didn't sing the song We sang happy baby to you happy uh
birthday to you I think the melody is
actually included uh oh no no it doesn't matter it doesn't matter oh balls well
thank you guys thank you guys I appreciate it enjo I will take that home
to my wife who recently had a baby and I'm sure could use some cake at this
point yeah she watches the show sometimes you better watch yourself I
mean h yeah gracefully with little tiny
Fork delicious delightful couldn't possibly eat another
bite okay so um so ghost useless bread
map St strore map and low thank you guys
appreciate that there we go okay okay so
anyway seg my my previous segue was it may cost about $800 and be somewhat
useless but at least the company behind it isn't as bad as OnePlus One oh one
plus what are you guys doing it's like
is the plan to create as much negative
publicity as possible negative publicity is still publicity I guess yeah that's
true but I mean come we are talking about on so this was originally posted
by Alex Goes high on The Forum and
basically um it was a contest exclusively for women where it asked
women to take a picture of themselves with the OnePlus logo visible on either
a piece of paper or drawn somewhere on the body the 50 most well-liked ladies
would get a T-shirt and a code so that they could so that they could buy a
OnePlus H OnePlus dropped a ladies no nudity warning um and I believe which is
just another way of saying we want you to get as unclosed as possible without
it being considered new well yeah cuz if you think about it it's most liked so
what do you expect to yeah and it it invites the you know the sub caverns of
the internet to come in and spam do
whatever whenever you host a big poll you're always going to bring in that but
whenever you post a poll in this style it's going to happen way more yeah way
way way more so basically it's super
tasteless yeah super super super tast a lot of women came in and started um
doing pictures where they would have like the OnePlus logo and then don't be
sexist and then like not be wearing super revealing clothing I think that
was the general idea on that yeah there was some of that by at this point
Cyanogen has like denounced the whole
thing sonen exactly said we value all of
our users and do not support any contest that objectifies people and the contest
thread has since been taken down I mean you know what it would be one thing if
they were all for equality and they just said take a picture of yourself with one
plus. and if people submitted you know scantily clad whatever they were going
to do on their own of their own valtion if people just are like yeah you know
what I'm down I want to post a picture of myself on the internet that's their
right and they can do that but they specifically LED people down the path to
believe that that's what they were looking exclusively for women and in the
thing it says somewhere on your body somewhere on your body pie so they were
specifically asking for that and then again it would be a whole other ball of
wax if they were actually giving them a phone or something here's you get a
chance to buy one cuz we're
douchebags people keep asking me for review of this phone and
honestly I just don't even want to we
got close like a day or two ago yeah we were kind of maybe going to do it cuz if
one fell into our lap uh and maybe then
it maybe would have happened but at this point no yeah I don't think so like I
just if we did half the review would be like yeah they're kind of douches with
they invite only system and yeah they're kind of douches with their objectifying
women thing so and breaking perfectly good phones instead of encouraging
people to recycle them yeah yeah yeah but it's made well yeah I guess so and
Okay Google Now support isn't there but you can patch it in and blah blah blah
blah blah there's your review there's the whole review that's all you really
need to know is it we should do a series
all you really need to know by Luke it's just like 30 seconds long it's made well
but some things are broken but you can fix most of them but they're kind of a douchebag company so it's a pretty good
phone if you're okay with ignoring the company and you're okay with patching
things in thanks for watching I had an idea for a segment that I wanted to
start doing and now I've totally forgotten what it was not the LSD
segment right no no not that one it was uh it was going to be something else
shoot it was a really good idea uh oh well
all right so Microsoft it happens every time so it's hardly news we're not going
to spend a lot of time on it but Microsoft and Sony caught using PCS to
Showcase games at gamescon not new but a
continued Trend which is still worth talking about so Microsoft decided as
usual to camouflage a number of PCS in order to Showcase one or even more of
its titles so there was a game Crash and apparently this was running on a GeForce
PC because we see a GeForce experience update down here and then of course
there's an Xbox console that is obviously not doing anything I mean the
thing about this is guys you got to understand this makes sense because devs
I mean what you you you expect to walk
into a game studio and like everyone has like monitors on their desk and like
Xboxes next no the real work gets done
on a PC so the real testing is going to
get done on a PC you're not going to you're not going to do like a a build
version of the game put it on a disc and
like put it in a console every time you want to test something that's not how
that works so yes especially in development
games are going to be showcased on PCS yeah because they're just better I think
like they they'll have consoles there CU obviously going to have to test it on the console but like the mass majority
of the development like all their test builds like you were talking about will
be on a PC yeah I'm not saying they're not going to have uh I'm not saying
they're not going to have consoles in fact uh talking to uh Joel from metek uh
the the channelizer guys with the Spectrum analysis thing they were
telling me that one of the guys that they've worked with in the past was a
major game development Studio that had a big problem because they had so many
Xboxes that even though the wireless controller uh Works kind of like
Bluetooth where it jumps channels all the time to avoid interfering with
anything they had so many of them that it just created Broadband interference
in 2.4 GHz so nothing else could function
oh that's awesome just jumps but lands
on them on each other all the time it's horrible frog with multiple thousands of
people so ay and the blind Forest is the
only game from Microsoft that was proven to be running on PC it is speculated
that others were running on PC and then Sony was also caught showing Need for
Speed on PC hon the amount of years that I've been at packs there's countless
amounts of time where you get a peakin in a cabinet and you can see a console
under it I mean a a PC under it countless amounts of time there's even
been times where people just straight up have like a grill on the side of their
their box thing that's under the TV and you can look through the no and you can
look through the grill and see a computer and it's like K you're not even
hiding it at all so like yeah I don't know all right
speaking of uh I don't know what to call
this Ubisoft pledges to take PC more
seriously Ubisoft said today that it is seeking to take Windows PC gaming way
more seriously as the platform continues to make gains against Rivals um you know
I think as PC Gamers that headline alone
is enough to kind of give me pause it's like so you're only doing this because
there's a lot of us you're only doing
this because in spite of everything that
the entire gaming AAA gaming industry
has done to alienate us it's still
growing so I guess there's nothing can do so at the last possible second as the
growth continues to be uncontrolled and amazing you're like oh okay um yeah
guess we were on board all along guess we'll care about you cuz you have money I used to like them so basically
they're saying they focus more on the needs of PC Gamers they're going to have
simplified DRM activation greater commitment to multiplatform releases
which is a good thing and I am happy to see if it happens if it happens
seriously doubt it and the thing about a multiplatform release is that we expect
to actually get a proper release not one
that gets patched 3 weeks later Allah Watch Dogs and had a bunch of hidden
content in it that you just like I don't even that there wasn't
even a DLC plan it just was turned off
turned off I mean that's a whole other thing like hey pay another 10 bucks for
like the ultra extreme amazing High Fidelity version you know I think a lot
of people would actually go for that they've uh there was a post I don't
remember by who at all I think it was someone from bung saying that like if it
it's so aggressive right now with DLC and microtransactions that we could probably sell resolutions to
you and it's like oh I didn't say it was
good to be clear I said that it they could probably get away with it
um what are we talking about anyway so blah blah blah they'll focus more on the
needs of PC Gamers greater commitment to multiplatform releases we're doing our
best to bring our games to PC at the same time as the console version so
Assassin's Creed unity and Far Cry 4 will come to the PC
simultaneously not the the two games simultaneously but with the cons
simultaneously yeah I'm most worried about the thing actually working or being optimized properly I I've said in
the past when there's there's these like massive ridiculous um Assassin's Creed
delays for PC I'm like it's fine if it works and then it like rarely really
does and it's always like this craptastic Port but whatever all right
so Ubisoft revenues from PC in spite of
you know all the scrummy stuff have gone from 11 % of their total revenue to 15%
so on the one hand at 11% of their total
company Revenue I guess I can understand why they didn't give any cares yeah but
their revenue is very split if you think about it and the thing about that too is
well of course it was going to be 11% if you don't give anyone the option to buy
the bloody game on the
platform that happens a lot of times it's extremely delayed like some of the
Assassin's Creed delays have been I think like 6 months long not super
surprising if they have happened to have a console and happened to buy it for that because they wanted to play it
sometime near its release at all um another thing is they're divied up into
web mobile I believe um even some phone
stuff all consoles including Wii and Wii U PC last gen consoles they're
everywhere right so even 11% is probably still not too
bad yeah all right so of course uh big
news this week was uh the passing of
beloved actor comedian Robin Williams um
wow fans given that he was such an avid gamer in his life have asked for a wow
tribute it wouldn't be the first time that Blizzard's done an NPC as a tribute
to um you know a person or some kind of
event so not a new thing at all and
basically the only news we have right now is that blizzard is indeed listening
and they did send out a tweet if I could just find the Tweet y blizzard says
thanks to Robin Williams and we'll see you in game so that's that's really nice
I mean I just you know I I hope that
it's not so soon that it's just kind of piling on because the thing that I think
a lot of people don't really think about is how the family might react to an
in-game representation I mean as long as they're okay with it then that's well
this is this is slightly jumping but did you did you hear about how people were
treating Zelda uh no people were treating her
incredibly poorly and like attacking her for not having enough pictures of her
dad and all this kind of stuff on Twitter so she fairly publicly left
Twitter she's like I'm installing uninstalling it from everything and I'm
kind of gone for now and then Twitter's like yeah we're going to work on our
harassment policies because it was like pretty bad I can't believe people to be
clear Zelda is not the game Zelda is Zelda Williams Robin Williams's daughter
yeah um she's what 25 I think I don't know something like that so anyway the
petition to get him added to wow as an NPC has almost 11,000 signatures and uh
so yeah I'll be glad to see some kind of meaningful tribute as long as it's not
something that's upsetting to the family and knowing blizzard I wouldn't be too
surprised if they talked to them first I made myself so sad today when we were
filming um an NC PC video because at the
end I was like there was kind of like a like a salesy pitchy thing at the end
and I was like something something something on sale today come on down and
I was like oh now I'm sad cuz that's uh
an aladdin bit from the very beginning
yeah yeah I just I made myself uncomfortable and
sad that's no good I like this is kind of sucky that is kind of I grew up on
like Mrs doubt firan I know yeah I saw all his stuff too yeah and I even used
to watch like all of his comedy and everything apparently the internet
absolutely exploded with uh torrent downloads of Robin Williams stuff I'm
sure did um so this Tech gauge article moving along to sort of less sad but
also kind of annoying uh apparently this one's been
taken down but the uh the gist of it was
gathered by our our you know article
sleuths before the whole thing was was disappeared so ddr4 will be just as
expensive as we feared it would be 60 to 70% more expensive than DDR 3 based on
crucial prices which are on newegg.com as a pre-order um both the 4x8 gig 2133
and 4x8 gig 2400 MHz kits are listed at
$520 us wow worst D yeah that's fine uh I
mean it doesn't really matter I don't think there's anything it's on Tech gauge if anyone cares y you can find it
so for whatever reason 2133 and 2400 MHz are priced the same so our kits with and
without heat spreaders although um that actually makes sense that's a trend that
we've seen in the past because when the pricing is so high for memory the memory
makers actually have some margin so they don't nickel and dime you on the heat
spreader that's legitimately what happens yeah they're just like yeah
whatever I because heat spreader costs like what 40 cents or something like that like they're not expensive but when
we're talking like I mean I've seen module prices in in my time fall down as
low as I think NC was buying Samsung
sticks of DDR 1 or ddr2 for like 9
$25 or something like that like we're at
that price yeah 40 cents makes a difference so at lower prices it it
tends to really matter and then very expensive heat spreaders will still cost
money things like Dominator Platinum heat spreaders those are expensive yeah
those actually cost money to make you have to pay for lights and the clear
panel and all the metal and all that kind of stuff so it's kind of a big deal
uh okay we just got confirmation from our potentially new employee who uh you
still need to meet and kind of sign off on on but he said yes he can probably
get some contract stuff done for us in the metime cuz we are in a little bit of
trouble over here at lus Media Group Taran has an injury to his ARM and needs
to take some time off and Brandon's going on vacation to Mexico next week so
we are down two Shooters SL editors so we brought in a guy named
David part-time who's a friend of Brandon's and then we are we are adding
another another head because we have no idea how long Taran will be gone David I
I almost just leaked the name of a video David has edited a video that um that I
did very recently and it was actually pretty good so you guys will see that fairly soon oh yeah David's done work
for us before yeah yeah like quite a lot I can you can like if I don't tell you
which one it is you probably won't be able to figure it out yep all right so
speaking of highspeed memory original poster for this is Mike TZ and then
we've got a promo video which is very exciting so this is over on the Kingston
hypx channel so
4,620 MHz hyperx Predator memory is a
thing now to be clear that world record
was set with a single 4 gig stick cooled by liquid
nitrogen so this memory basically
doesn't actually exist in fact the uh
the the kits that they are going to make out of the same you know chips and with
the same binning process aren't even for sale yet but um I guess it goes to show
you if you want to buy expensive memory
there's probably not much in terms of compelling reasons to spend that money
on ddr4 instead of highspeed DDR3 at
this point that happens every time though does it happens every time we see
a last harra and we see lower pricing
and then we see it eventually go away and then we reach price parody and then
etc etc and around the time Intel releases an actual mainstream platform
so around the time we see Broadwell that's when we'll see that price parody
and all that yeah but this was on a board that's specifically designed for
overclocking from Gigabyte like it's totally Barren of like features and
stuff it's just an overclocking board brilliant yeah uh speaking of
Intel's upcoming platforms silent laptops may be coming with Broadwell so
this was originally tweeted at me by aljo Mr noia okay the original article
is in Spanish but Google Translate is Magic hoay and yeah hooray uh although
this is not the translated version doesn't seem to be working for me now
URL it can give you a translate thing yeah it's okay it doesn't matter um so
basically we are going to be seeing chips that potentially require no
additional cooling um Intel is doing a
lot of bragging lately about their 14 nanometer process which they'll be using
to manufacture these upcoming Broadwell y chips and uh the impressive gains in
performance as well as power consumption that they've made over the last few
years so core M will be a 14 NM chip
based on Broadwell Intel claims it twice as fast as core models that were
introduced in 2010 seven times better graphics performance and with power
consumption that is four times smaller so that means you could achieve double
the battery life with a battery that's half the capacity that's pretty Beast
which is some pretty simple math but impressive nonetheless um so yeah cool
we're going to see a whole new class of devices I mean imagine this this was
something someone tweeted at me this week was what if you could build a
shield portable that's actually just a Windows PC like if we could get
something that small that has a built-in h264 decoder so you could just run Steam
in home streaming that would be pretty sick
actually and do a lot of other stuff you have a browser or you could have
whatever right so you can even view if you want to be like a super super
business loser dude you could like view PowerPoints you can do whatever I view
PowerPoints sometimes PowerPoints have useful information in them I make power
points so kind of shooting myself in the foot
as well not that big of a deal good I hate you I very recently pinned it to my
start bar so I could see recently created items speaking of upcoming Intel
CPUs there is an erum or whatever you
want to have I actually I've never heard that word said out
loud okay well the point is that Intel
has had to turn off a feature called TSX
that was first announced back in 2012 so
all previous processors that have this feature are going to have it turned off
with an upcoming micro code update so if you update the BIOS of your motherboard
for example to get better memory overclocking or some new feature or
something like that improve stability by default it will disable this feature um
unfortunately so that stands for transactional synchronization extensions
let's just ignore that e there yeah yeah don't worry too much about the E TSX
sounds much cooler as long as we don't call it TSA then yeah then no one will
hate it it's not good I mean it's one of those things where for most users it's
probably not that big of a deal but this was going to be really interesting in
terms of multicore processor performance
over the next little while and unfortunately with the upcoming sort of
new Haswell whatever we're going to
whatever it's ND so with the upcoming potential new platform form that could
be coming sometime in the future ever
well okay we all know it's coming eventually so I haven't said anything that's not it's not too bad actually
yeah so we all know it's coming so anyway so it won't be there for that and
even the first Broadwell y those super low power processors um will not have it
fixed yet but Intel is of course working on it so there you go uh to be clear
guys this kind of stuff happens all the time it happens every generation I'm not
saying it's good it's super suck that a feature that has had started to gain
traction I mean that's the thing is Intel or AMD or NVIDIA or whoever is
going to release a feature with a product like let's say directx10
compatibility and then they're going to
get an install base of people who can support that feature and then software
developers are going to get on board and create software that leverages it so
this sets TSX back a generation and a
half or so which is a bummer it is but
they kind of need to go through that process because no matter how much debugging you do once you get a mass
install base that's when you really see how stable your stuff is yeah but mostly
Intel doesn't have this issue mostly so there you go um all right so
speaking of reasons to hate Ubisoft yeah
well okay sure this was originally posted on the Forum by
Jers and uh he used used some pretty
strong language G joners I don't know if that language belongs on the uh the the
land show here let's just go ahead and keep things somewhat PG we're going to
not display that on screen right now yeah sounds good do you want to handle
this one sure okay so Ubisoft has confirmed the presence of
microtransactions during their gamecom Gamescom presentation of Assassin's
Creed Unity which will essentially allow you to FastTrack things like upgrade
um do they say anything specifically what you're going to be able to Fast Track in here I don't think so yeah uh
you you it's a straightforward way to pay for in-game items so essentially
instead of like doing all the work in the game to get something you can just
be like I want it I can't I'm I'm I'm I'm I don't know
okay riddle me this because I had a thought while I was while I was looking
at this article and I was I had a thought one thought was I it's not many
thoughts mind you um
what if how far away do you think we are from
someone offering an ingame like uh like an
in-game microtransaction for let's say a game
like Tomb Raider okay so you go into an optional tomb I just finished Tomb
Raider 20 2013 there's like five optional tomes I told you right it's
like and each of them's like one puzzle it's really short it's like figure out
the pulley and they're like all the same it's a pretty good game but you get
to the end in be like what and I'm only
like 60% complete but I think that I just have to go find relics and crap I'm
not going to do that me stupid anyway um
and the relics don't even have any significance I mean the audio logs are kind of cool but I already know what
happened because the audio logs are just hints about what's going to happen
anyway anyway anyway so how far away do you think we are from a microtransaction
where you walk into the tomb you walk into the tomb and it's just like press
press o to just have Lara just do the
thing and press X to try to solve it yourself oh God that makes sense because
they're doing that on mobile games right and is it really any different from
buying a strategy
guide that's pretty intense now okay the
strategy guide for more CU those were like 20 bucks yep or more Yep y yep
definitely not cheap the strategy guide for mowind I actually thought was pretty
cool because it was written like you
were kind of having a conversation sure but a microtransaction could be I know
some Fair could be really well animated be like hello Luke you did a really good
job to pay for me to come help you solve this puzzle can I flash my boobies for
you how's your day going I can show you how to do this now um no like the reason
why I liked it is you could use it to just show you where things were mm so
you could like find the cave mhm and then you could just do it all on your
own but it did also have these Solutions forward yes it did yes it did F there
with that and you could always have like varying levels of Micron so you could
have like an ultra micro transaction that just reveal a nearby optional
dungeon I can't beat you you're right
damn it I still like players guides more than damn it so okay and to be clear
guys I'm as anti microtransactions as
anyone other than buying my ship in Star
Citizen I have never purchased a microtransaction no horse armor no
jetpacks in Jetpack Joy Ride I earn my stuff or I don't play the game that
simple but unfortunately not everyone
has that kind of discipline so we have to deal with this stuff yep and you know
what if I was in ubisoft's position I would do exactly the same thing and you
know I'm still totally against this people want it yeah I know they're
asking for it pay for it and the people who don't want it don't have to buy it
yeah so it's kind of win-win it's like okay realistically are you going to not
play Assassin's Creed based on this and my thing is it's a single it's a single
player game right so like you can decide
not to and you can decide not to the balance doesn't really matter it's a single player game one thing that does
bug me is if they make things unnecessarily hard just to get people to
pay the microtransaction yeah but lots of games are necessarily hard if if
anything that would be a return to difficulty for PC gaming and a very
positive step but bam just no not
necessarily because what if it's like n impossible what if they're like oh yeah the best sword in the game is infinite
money essentially or you can buy it for two
bucks why do you need that item because
it's the best in the game you're obviously going to desire it I don't but sure uh but like it's a
lot of a lot of games are about like collecting and make yourself making yourself badass if you really think
about you can beat all of Assassin's Creed with the beginner swords if you
really wanted to but you want to deck yourself out with like the pistol swords
and all those super badass swords that you get throughout the game one thing
about um it being in Assassin's Creed that I
don't necessarily mind and before people destroy me on this um I'm still totally
against it but the idea the fact that it's Assassin's Creed makes it kind of
hilarious because you can buy like the
best sword from the store really early
on especially if you don't just straight plow through the main quest if you like
go and do some other things you can rack up the money to buy the best sword from the store really quickly so I don't know
I've never really seen it as a problem like I have a buddy who in every game he
ever plays he doesn't start the main quest right away he kind of roams around
and tries to experience the game and he was able to buy the best sword from the
store before he even like really started
the main quest once you have free roam of course you have to unlock free roam
first by going through the main quest for a while but still like I don't know
items money has never really been that hard to acquire in Assassin's Creed and
you've also you've always seemed to have insane amounts of it even in what was it
Brotherhood or um Revelations where like
you have to buy all those shops everywhere and it's kind of this insane little game you always have abundant
amounts of money and buying items was never really a problem so we're going to have to tone down our Assassin's Creed
discussion apparently no one cares about Assassin's Creed wasn't going to play it
and don't care says 40% of our
audience and then so most people don't
care between wasn't going to play it and
don't care and was going to play it still going to play it um that's about
70% and then another 25% of you or so
this B is like Mega weren't going to play it and but you're mad anyway but
they didn't lose any money so air 8% of
you were planning to play Assassin's Creed unity and are not going to play it
now because there are microtransactions in it so basically if Ubisoft manages to
increase their average sell price at the game by even 10% and that's down to 7%
Now by even 10% then they missed out on nothing
because you guys didn't play that might be pretty hard if you
think about it if you think about how much money people spend on hats I a 10%
increase in their yeah but there isn't like near infinite amount of items like
there is with Hats or maybe there will be or maybe there will be lots of
different stuff I don't know we'll see yeah you only need you know a few people
to you know buy some crazy ship for if
you spend what $6 if if if you spend $6 in terms of
buying stuff with microtransactions you need 10 people for each replacement
person mhm it's a fair amount that's a lot of microtransactions yeah you have
to average $6 per person but then remember there's always the crazy guys
that spend 100 200 bucks on like the best ship and the best I know just what
I'm saying was this wasn't necessarily possible there's been microtransactions in Assassin's Creed games like that's
that's another thing that I don't think people necessarily realize with this like in the previous Assassin's Creed
game you could unlock the like uh the
the quest finder thing or whatever which showed every single possible Quest point
on the map right so you can just go to
it and like every single Quest point every single rare fishing point every
single treasure point every single whatever it would show it all on the map
like all this kind of stuff has existed before maybe just not in this form um so
I don't know but it wouldn't have been possible to spend 200 bucks before maybe
it is now I don't know especially because it's FastTrack for items I could
see it being a lot because if you FASTT tracked every item and if they made
first somehow if they made it like a sequence of items instead of just being able to buy it directly from the store
then yeah whoa all right so basically here we go
um head of Xbox Phil Spencer uh comments about resolution so
this is from computer andv videogames.com here we go interview etc
etc etc and basically the the summary is
let's just go ahead and go back to
here frame rate to me is significantly more important than resolution to gaming
okay okay I can I can dig that except
that there's a threshold for both like if your frame rate is 23 frames per
second or like you know sure let's pick
on 24 frames per second because that's not good enough for games so if your
frame rate is 24 frames per second and you're running at a resolution of 4K I
would say yes you need to tone down your resolution you need to get that frame
rate up to minimum and like hopefully a
little higher if your frame rate is 45
and you're running at 792p then you need to amp up that
resolution maybe settle in at 40 frames per second or something like that like it's a it's a balancing game and it's
going to depend on the style of game as well for a twitch combat type game yeah
frame rate is going to be extremely extremely important whereas for a more
cinematic or exploration Style game like Skyrim
um you are going to want I know a lot of
people in Skyrim that have massively sacrificed frame rate to make their game
look ridiculously amazing because you can kind of do that with mods especially
if you run Nexus instead of just Workshop so I don't remember where I was
going with this right okay so another quote from the uh from the interview is
reaching parity with our partners has been important in the end I don't want
it to be about a number because 1080p isn't some mythical perfect resolution
and frame rate to me is signic gepl resolution and mix of righty and
freed there certain genres like racing GES hitting 1080p 60fps is important and
expected but there are other genres where I'd rather use the Cycles to put more effects on screen or better
lighting so basically
um I I think he's interpreting the whole 1080p 60 FPS thing wrong because he's
saying oh 1080p isn't some mythical perfect number I don't think anyone has
ever said that 1080p is a bare minimum yes they're saying it should be at least
60 FPS and at least 1080p you're reading it wrong buddy I
mean yes I do understand that more graphical detail is is nice and it's
cool and it's good and we've proven that it's not as hard as cranking your FPS
either yeah I think the thing that is being ignored here is just the fact that
the hardware is underpowered and no amount of spin doctoring is going to
change that the Xbox One just isn't powerful enough and that these next gen
consoles are either going to be the last ones ever or they're going to be need to
be replaced in a much shorter period of time than the last gen ones um so
something cool just
arrived
ddr4 although they sent the wrong thing so I'm not quite sure how to react to
this uh this is ddr4 2800 MHz it's a 16
gig 4x4 kit of
vengance something um so basically
that's uh pretty exciting so the pieces
are all kind of arriving I mean it's no secret that there are chips out there
kower posted screenshots from CPU of
Haswell e chips running on at whatever settings cuz he's crazy like that and uh
yeah so the hype train has started of not
posting screenshots of what just happen happed yeah I don't think it's a big
deal that hype train didn't start um let
me just send off a quick email because that's not what we were supposed to
get oh I just got a troll hangout
message from Anthony from NC he's like
yeah so you're getting dominators e lol
cuz I was I was supposed
to I don't know what to do right now this is awward you could start a new
topic I don't really want to do your job it's fun hanging out in the awkward Zone
in the awkward Zone yeah this is the awkward zone is that like how your
relationships with girls are is it all about the awkward zone no no it's all
about the like lasting too long
I does it get
awkward that got awkward anyways um all
right this is cool this is really cool this is the kind of thing that I think
everyone can sort of geek out over I hope so time lapse video this is cool a
thing a very cool thing this is your typical time-lapse video
footage Okay blah blah blah some dude or
some lady walking around doing things
okay so here's a 10x time lapse super shaky kind of hard to watch now
Microsoft is working on a feature that will be an app enabled feature okay so
here's video stabilization check this out
hyperlapse have you not seen this yet no
yeah wow wow so basically the way it works is
it's creating like a like a 3D image
it's creating like a 3D scene from all of the images and then navigating
through that so we can just watch these there's a hyperlapse of
that so amazing
um I love it and then the fact that this isn't going to be you know a multi
thousand plugin for Adobe Premiere or
something like that is incredibly exciting because it enables all kinds of
new creative things that people can do
just with basic camera phones so the
video is kind of blown up it's got almost two million views and so yeah I
guess that's pretty much all I awesome I had I had seen this but I
hadn't like I had seen like article titles but this week has been so messed
up that I had no time to open the article so I hadn't actually seen the
video yet that's pretty epic actually and if you saw the twitch chat during
that I'll try to zoom up zoom up no not
at all just yeah holy sheet oh my God whole lot
of that yeah so that was kind of awesome all right so Speaking of awesome NVIDIA
announces and this was originally posted on the Forum by Patrick J P something
Patrick JP 93 why is this
awesome it's not awesome okay there's some awesome things about it actually
I'm going somewhere with this but NVIDIA basically announces that wait what the
heck is this no that's not the original poster where's the top of
this LOL touch screens Dang It touchcreen Go all right originally
posted by why am I on the sixth page
what is going on here artorius thank you so uh Jensen hang from NVIDIA their CEO
believes that modern graphics cards due to their importance for gamers can
continue to increase in ASP so ASP is
the average sell price and Jensen goes
on to explain that a number of years ago
Gamers were typically willing to spend around $200 on a GPU with a graphics
card and memory attached to it and nowadays is closer to they're willing to
to spend $300 now the reaction to this article
has actually been pretty negative because I think a lot of people's
perception of this is that NVIDIA is planning on jacking up prices whereas
that's not actually the way that I read it because we've had see people are
investing more we've yeah we've had higher price options this entire time so
here let's go way back in the day so I'm
going to pick on the X8 50 XT Platinum
Edition that's good with the card not that many people remember well if you
were into this stuff at that time I know I'm just saying then you'd remember it
so way to be a jackass I'm just trolling
you so here we go from tech report
H double so there it is that's what it looked like pretty b super bad check out
that copper though I know that copper yo
all right so here's the pricing Matrix okay so an x850 XT Platinum Edition was
a $550 card so in terms of how much
graphics card prices have increased in the last I mean when was this 2004 so
that was 10 years ago does 10 years worth of inflation account for let's
have a look at amds top-of-the line card
today uh and I'm not talking about buying two of them because that was an
option back then too so a Top of-the Line R9 290x is here we go
$549.99 and look at all just the raw material that's increased since then too
yeah I mean the actual copper is more expensive at this point not to mention
how much more complicated it is to manufacture graphics cards now I'm not
just going to pick on AMD here let's go ahead and find something sort of equally
equally kind of over the top for its time yeah the 8800 Ultra so this was
back in 2007 so we're going to pick on Guru 3DS review this time where
hopefully they have the pricing on the first page no they don't so let's go on
tech report okay Ultra graphics card this is
what I love about these guys who've been doing it forever Scott wson man doing it
for a long time and their pictures and articles are identical I know it's that
consistent experience man yep where is the
pricing come on Scott
help the holder of graphics card performance Crown is rarely available
for $88 88 at Walmart but the ultra's
value proposition is something something and he doesn't actually include the
price on the conclusion he says it's like $200 more but doesn't say what the
price is dag nabit Scott trying to do a thing
here all right it's blah blah blah it's
blah blah blah it's blah blah blah here we go NVIDIA expects Ultra prices to
start at roughly
$829 this crap isn't new so I don't interpret I don't
interpret NVIDIA's statement that they expect graphics card average selling
prices to continue to increase as a statement that they plan to increase
pricing because if we go and look at the 780 TI which is I'm I'm excluding the
Titan Titan is not a gaming card if we go and look at the 780 Ti the highest
and actual gaming graphics card from NVIDIA now is priced at
$720 so there you go it hasn't really
changed a whole lot people are just realizing and this is part of the whole
statement people are just realizing that you know games benefit from these higher
end graphics cards and you can throw like a not super amazing CPU and a super
badass graphics card solution and most
games will grab that and run and $300 as
an average sell price isn't that bad I mean you can get a really great card for
$300 and that's true on both the AMD and the NVIDIA side right now and yes some
crazy guys are going to run out and buy two Titan Z's for
$6,000 but that doesn't mean that you have to be a part of it and just because
that product exists doesn't mean that NVIDIA ever expects people to spend
$6,000 on the graphics card be super amazing at their whole marketing thing
and they might uh say it's a gaming card but it's not and and the reality of it
is if you made the product and someone was bananas enough to buy it would you
not provide an option for them I'd be down with that I don't know whatever I
mean NVIDIA within their own product lineup provides better values yes you
could buy you could pick up better you could pick up three GTX
780 uh 6 gig cards that would be the extreme gaming
option of choice you know if you absolutely had to have the most bananas
thing and that would cost you just over that would cost you around $1,700 $1,800
or so less than the price of one Titan Z
and would absolutely demolish at least one in terms of
performance it would probably beat two given how much lower a Titan Z is
clocked so yeah just because these things exist doesn't mean we have to buy
them yeah yeah exactly people are like I could buy a c yes you could buy a car
but we're talking about Gamers oh uh actually here's an interesting addition
from Ghost uh inflation over the last 10 years has been 26% so the fact that
AMD's top-of-the-line GPU cost exactly the same as their top-of-the-line GPU
from back then is actually pretty darn impressive and is a reduction in
price speaking of AMD AMD is hoping to
put a little bit of mantle into the next open G
sort of developments so they've actually provided I believe they've given the Y
they've given Kronos unfettered access to mantle this was originally posted by
monster Cameron and this is news coming
from Richard huie AMD's gaming scientist
we actually had an opportunity to interview him but interview interview
him but it was while I was gone having a baby and I knew you were going to be
busy so I I kind of bailed on it but yeah that's extremely exciting so AMD
will impose no restrictions nor will it charge any licensing fees and they're
basically just saying here this is how we do it if you want to take the same
approach go ahead so to me this is
basically the nail in the coffin on mantle because why would anyone support
Mantle when they can just if if Kronos
decides to go ahead and Implement some of Mantle's great features into openg
openg is going to be the way to go because it's multiplatform I mean it's
good it runs on tablets and I I I
seriously don't see NVIDIA going oh we don't want to use
openl like no that's no yeah so I mean
mantle it was cool while it lasted yep um but and and it's just like g-sync you
know it was cool while it lasted you know maybe you sold a couple graphics
cards based on getting a bit better performance out of Battlefield 4 but at
the end of the day if the purpose of this was to drive the industry towards
creating this and if you're going to stop really getting any monetary benefit
out of it at all in the future then I say great you know I'm glad that you
sold a couple graphics cards in the meantime or NVIDIA I'm glad you sold a
couple monitors in the meantime because someone had to invest to make this
happen and I'm glad someone did it and I'm glad they got paid that's all I have
to say right that's cool Twitter admits that 23
million of its users of its active users are automated I don't even know if I
care though I assume this yeah there's
so many and they're pretty cool like uh well okay stats Canada isn't a bot but
that's a pretty awesome one there's the is half lifee three out yet which just
con constantly says no Uh there's Big Ben which goes like bong bong bong
whenever Big Ben would go off I don't know there's there's there's a lot of bots there's even like social experiment
Bots and there's yeah there's tons of stuff I don't know I wouldn't worry
about it too much not exactly surprising news at all but it is kind of cool to
see the exact number or the exact number figure of total
Twitter users okay that's a lot yeah
kind of oh this is cool the son xeria Z2
lives on after being submerged in saltwater for six weeks yeah so oh okay
hold on uh mango juice stain was the op for that uh that Twitter thing mango and
then lar reviews was the original poster
for this Sony xeria Z2 article that is
amazing here do you want to run through the details of this one we have 6,400
live viewers right now we do what the
heck and I didn't have any time to read the doc this week that's absolutely bananas it's okay I'm was it in the
ocean that's cool I thought they got like a bucket of salt water I haven't
read the dock I told you I'll cover it just thr in the ocean that's so
basically what happened was um the way
that Sony rates the phone is for 30
minutes of submersion in fresh water as
deep as 5T that's it yeah that's what
the IP rating for the phone says that it can handle now what happened here was
that while water skiing uh Mr Alexander
maxen I guess from gothenberg okay I don't know what language that is then I
was assuming it was French it's not uh was water skiing and left his Sony
Experia Z2 on the seat of the boat once the craft started the phone fell into
the sea and was into the seabed more than 10 m deep so for our American
viewers that is 30 feet deep Yad dog
that is six times the rated depth and that's legit like all the gunk that's in
the ocean too six weeks L and salt is a
corrosion problem six weeks later a friend of his went scuba diving and
retrieved it probably just for lws I don't think anyone was expecting it to
work although he did try calling it and noticed that it didn't go straight to
voicemail and therefore assumed it was still on but that's not
necessarily the case because we've played around with the origal xeria Z
and even under a couple feet of water Wireless reception is not too great so
it could have been anything causing that um anyway so 6 weeks later retrieved it
the back glass was shattered but probably from the fall and the battery
had completely discharged probably from just sitting there for 6 weeks but the
LED indicator lit up and when the phone was plugged in and recharged it worked
perfectly even making phone calls beasts
that's pretty cool wait from the fall so did it hit like the the boat and then
fall in the water well it must it remember a metal object a metal object falling
30t in the water if it's somewhat streamlined that's true can come down
pretty whip through yeah okay yeah so that's probably what happened um
incredible I mean the Xperia Z was a phone that I really had a hard time
recommending because that TN screen was bad and on a phone where you might be
looking at it from an angle all the time where it's just like oh yeah you know
whatever I'm just glancing at it on the table that is a big problem whereas the
Z2 IPS panel great specs great build
quality what a great phone next up we have Microsoft possibly
renaming Internet Explorer um apparently they've been discussing it for a long
time kicking around names so that's not super surprising call it
Steve or Bill Microsoft bill yeah just I
know what you're referencing with that but just having like Microsoft Bill and having the icon just be money would
troll so many people because of the Microsoft logo with the dollar sign is
the S oh yeah justes have the Microsoft
dollar sign as the S but name it bill because that makes no sense but who
cares and then make the S like coded in like money texture just be like up
terrible you know I think that I think it's a great idea I think they need to
do it at some point but I what I think they need to do is make sure cuz
Internet Explorer is not that bad right now it's had a lot of improvements it's
been lot worse at times in its past but they've got to get it there yeah they've
got to be cuz I mean that was what worked so well for Google they launched
Chrome when Chrome was good Chrome has a lot of issues now but it still has that
perception that it's really fast and really lightweight it's not lightweight
at all anymore no it's not it's heavy as hell like at all so what they need to do
if they're going to reimagine Internet Explorer now's a good time because
everything else is kind of bloated yeah and having a lot of issues and having
issues so if they were to call it not just Chrome Microsoft something else and
create a new perception of the product it'll be great if they just take
Internet Explorer and reskin it in a way that is undesirable and crappy and it
doesn't stack up well right at the time of launch then it's going to be the
whole same thing all over again apparently they briefly considered Ultron which would have been badass
Ultron uh let me fire up Ultron but uh
lawyer said but lawyer said no so that
got that got those darn lawyers are no fun jerks absolute jerks all right
speaking of jerks anyone who likes micro
USB boom I said it um this is posted by
good bites on the Forum the USB type-c cable and connectors are finalized and
here are renders of what they'll look like so here's what receptacles will
look like here's what uh plugs and cables will look like here is the most
important thing about this actually there's a lot of really important stuff here so number one reversible no more
putting your head around the back of your computer and trying to figure out which way it goes in yay it also it
looks Slimmer although it's hard for me to say that just based on a picture the
next cool stuff is it's going to support the new 10 gbit per second standard yay
is this going to be super thin and fragile though no I doubt it looking
micro I don't know I guess we'll see I
guess we'll see it doesn't look like a locking connector which is a little bit disappointing I wouldn't have minded if
there was an optional lock there may be an optional lock I don't know I haven't looked into that much but the next cool
thing is up to 100 watts of power yes y
that is cool so we're going to be talking about we'd actually kind of seen
that a little bit on a slightly different spec but at uh CES I did a
video on that that was really cool so we're going to be talking about being
able to run like a multi- hard drive external enclosure off of this thing or
running your monitor yeah very cool very
very cool 100 watts is a lot yeah um one
thing that they were trying to do with that 100 watt spec when I was at uh CES
was power a screen charge a laptop and
run everything else on it at the same time because it was so fast and push
power pretty cool all right metal gear solid five
coming to PC that's pretty exciting news
um so Konami says yes that will
happen I guess that's pretty much all there is to really say about this I
think total biscuit actually probably put this best yeah um because the other
big news in terms of you know former exclusive titles was Goat Simulator
coming to consoles so there you go thank you total biscuit for summing this up so
we traded Goat Simulator to consoles for Metal Gear Solid 5 on PC got out like a
bandit there didn't we yes yes PC Gamers
got the uh got the better that how horrible Goat Simulator is like I'm
sorry but God that game is bad and like for being bad it wasn't even very good
at being like funny bad it was just kind of
bad I don't know oh man but we lost a
multiplatform game potentially um very disappointed about
this temporarily temporarily well yeah
but yes I would have like to have it sooner I I finally mind you at the rate
that I finish games given that I just played Tomb Raider 23
this might not affect me at all you won't play it until it's
released then we'll probably get it for benchmarking anyways and then you'll
just play it thing so the upcoming Tomb Raider with the reimagined Lura Croft uh
is going to be an XBox One exclusive at
launch not a ton else to say there there's going to be a delay I believe
they said after holiday season it might be coming to PC I don't remember what
the exact time frame is though I don't know where we even are in the dock now
um I guess I can try and find it there we go uh the game is coming holiday 2015
exclusively Xbox it is unclear how long the exclusivity will last so now we know
it's at least coming we're just not really sure when which is kind of
unfortunate apparently Day Z is going to PS4 um I know uh rocket two guns or
whatever I think that's what he refers to himself as Rocket two guns in the
dude posted by Jam dude has yeah rocket two guns or Dean Hall in the past has
kind of mashed consoles a little bit not a ton but a little bit there's a tweet
here if you jump back real quick yeah
excuse me sorry problem tired it's I was just going to say I think we're both
pretty tired this week
um yeah no I see the one yeah
so um some guy says PS4 next release
please uh slightly different wording but yeah and then uh another guy named guy
say uh it hasn't even been fully released on our glorious PC what are you
expecting peasant and then Dean Hall also known as Rocket two guns responds
yes quiet consoles the men folk are talking so he has bashed consoles a
little bit in the past but then has um claimed on Reddit I believe it was that
getting it on the consoles might help funding to get other things so
essentially uh stuff like DirectX 11 and 64bit support
so apparently they used a little bit of the PC
funding to get their PlayStation agreement thing going on so that's kind
of sketchy but that's what happens when you pre-order early withe these games
yeah we really need to make that shirt but the early designs for it are terrible oh did you see them no I paid
full price for this sh I didn't see it yeah no it's terrible um okay so the
creator of popup ads is sorry this was originally posted on the Forum by
Victoria Secret it's actually kind of a a funny little thing okay thank you
continue thank you warning annoying popup Ethan
Zuckerman is sorry he leads the center for civic
media at MIT says he didn't realize what he was bringing into the world when he
wrote the code for the first popup ad more than 20 years ago oh God tells the
story of how it happened in an Exquisite essay about how the ad-based business
model came to dominate the internet and why it really shouldn't and what we
ought to do about it but basically what happened was um they were in the middle
of of working on something and they
create what happened was there was an inappropriate ad that was encouraging
anal sex or something like that on a car manufacturer's website and they went
whoa hold on a second like you know ads
are good but we don't want to be associated with this so the idea was if
it was a popup it wouldn't be associated with the website and it wouldn't
actually have to be on the website it would be separate so it would allow
advertisers and content hosts to
dissociate each other from each other so
that was the intention um yeah and he just says I'm
sorry our intentions were good sorry man but I
know you didn't see that going anywhere
bad well okay you think about the way
that you might sort of cludge something
just as a temporary fix I guess you really think about the long-term
implications someone was probably able to Jack that code so he probably was
like I'm making this for me and someone was like I'm taking this for me it is
mine now and then that was bad yeah
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oh oh this one oh this is good news and
like terrible news at the same time Intel teams up with 50
Cent well 50 Cent company SMS Audio on
biometric earbuds so the technolog is cool
basically it's a biometric monitoring Gadget so it's going to check your heart
rate temperature blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I actually don't remember
exactly what it monitors I don't much care because I personally think that an
earphone is an in phenomenally stupid
place to wear that I mean the the
article says something about uh it seems like one of the obstacles for wearables
uh is that people are not looking for a new thing to wear but the problem is
that nobody lives with their earbuds in
the whole time so well if it's for working out if it's just for working out
then okay but that doesn't actually give you that much useful information about
your overall lifestyle yes this is true so who gives a crap you
might as well just suck it up and wear an armband
then so okay anyway uh basically the
price point will be acceptable to Consumers says SMS Audio says SMS Audio
so what does that mean
$200 and they sound like poo poo yeah they say the thing the thing that drives
me crazy about this is it's an article about earphones that makes no
of how they sound they're earphones if IED a monitor
thing that I we in my ear then that's
what I would look for why would I want earphones that sound bad and I'm
assuming they're going to sound bad although I would be willing to
completely reverse my sort of you know
analysis here if uh if I do try them out
and they're great like I'm not going to be close-minded about it but I just
don't expect them to sound good at all I mean if you saw our review of the
of the streets by 50 on ear yeah that
was just bad I wonder how much the Star Wars
edition in your biometric ones are going to cost I really wish we'd stopped
giving this kind of nonsense our attention we shouldn't have even talked
about it we should have just completely ignored it but if we the biometric thing
is cool though yeah yeah Oh you mean like on the show I was going to say the
review was good cuz we smashed it so that means that other people can tell people it was bad I don't think we have
to inform the informants the problem with us doing a review of something like
streets by 50 I mean that was a onetime thing I think where I was just like oh
this is Star Wars which is cool but it's also an obviously terrible pair of
headphones and it's expensive which is hilarious I bought them intending to
slam them because I knew they were going to be bad I did do my due diligence I
made sure they were bad before I slammed them but I bought them intending to do
that I'm not going to make a habit of just buying stuff to be terrible we do
though not very often not often at all once every quarter every six months or
something like that so I'm not going to run out and buy these just so that I can
declare them to be horrible um and I I I
guess I just don't really know what to say about it
anymore the only uh like biometrically
scanning kind of thingy that I've seen in a long time that I cared about was
that thing that I mentioned to you where it was the I believe it was a wristband
but who really cares and it's constantly measuring and it measures like uh like
the salt and stuff in your skin yeah to figure out like do you need to drink
more water do you need to eat more food do you need to work out more do you need
to start moving because you've been too idle like that one's kind of interesting
because every once's in a while it'll be like hey you haven't had any water today go drink some or you're malnourished
right now go eat something yeah that to me is a lot more useful whereas something like in ears um that you're
going to be wearing maybe an hour a day that's not going to give any kind of
useful information it's just it's just
marketing to PE to gullible people based on that whole fad of Fitness midlevel
monitoring like that's that's all it's another we fit yeah that's what it is
Fitness stuff will always sell yeah I know I just and okay I've got a lot of
people saying that yes reviews like the Star Wars edition streets by 50 on years
are important but I don't actually agree because you guys already know you watch
this show so who are we reaching we're not
reaching the people who are buying this stuff and leaving rave reviews on Amazon
about how great they
are I don't know it's you have to also
calculate in that we're getting new viewers all the time so they may not actually know and if one of their
friends is fairly dead set on buying it and they try to tell them it's bad and
they're like oh no I don't know I've heard it's pretty good they could show them the video still use behind my
name's not going to carry a ton of weight with that person because they
never heard they see that it's a fairly fairly well shot video so it seems
fairly legit there's quite a few views on it and they'll go and then they'll go
look at five star customer reviews two of them on Amazon doesn't matter some of
the other amazon.com has 75 averaging four and a half Stars this is amazon.cm
on right now so that what we're up against we're up against people who
don't know any better and buy whatever FY tells them to and like it and it's
just wow wow in my opinion SMS is better
and wouldn't mind recommending it to my friends I mean we're talking verified
purchases here better than what beats better than I don't know airplane
headphones probably the the the issue is
that people don't these sound so purchased SMS Audio is the best way to
listen to music that doesn't mentioned these headphones are made of superb
quality build and sound they're more durable than beats and they sound better
and clearer that sounds incredibly purchased just saying oh but the but
like the grammar is wrong so it probably is an end user I I would no that that's
happened in purchase ones a lot yeah I guess you're probably right like a ton
mainly you see the grammar problem and spelling problem thing people like audio
is subjective man no it isn't there's
bad audio bad audio AIO is bad audio and
streets by 50 are objectively bad they do not take the
signal that comes into them and output something that resembles it that's bad I
think there's there's a there's a there is some subjectivity but bad is bad but
there's yeah there's still there's still a threshold of this is this is just bad
and these ones are good and these ones are subjective it's like wine there's
lots of different good wine and they can be different from each other but bad
wine is going to make anybody throw up as if they've tried good wine especially
that's all there is to it done I really hoped everyone who watched this show
knew better but apparently they don't sorry anyway I think on that sort of
annoying note we're done here um right
peace out guys we'll see you again next week thank you for watching and the
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