what up y'all and welcome to the show I'm lonus like you
don't F and know I guess be I stole that
I didn't come up with that yeah I thought you stole the thing in
the pre-show not that I listen what in the pre-show the joke what is the joke
okay we got well why don't we why don't we get into what's going to be on the show today and then we'll get into what
we stole and what we came up with on our own okay that we should tell people we
have a terrible show coming and see how many people watch uh they'll all watch
they'll all watch because they know that there's no such horrible show to there's
no such thing as a terrible land show because the worse it is the better it
gets his voice is gone I know mine is
very clearly here which is probably a problem yeah no what oh
sorry all right let's just roll the intro
yeah all the twitch all the twitch trollers you guys get wrecked Get
Wrecked today because half of the people are like there's no sound and the other
half are like lol Linus's voice yeah so
so get wrecked Get Wrecked yo I got sponsors and stuff oh yeah
excuse me a little slow on the trigger there so they're still they're still up
there there we go all right guys welcome
to the show should be a good one actually we've got some great topics
today I think the thing on everyone's mind right now is oh yeah right what's
on the show today because we didn't do it prior to the intro yeah I was
wondering about that uh I didn't do my hair today either that's probably on
everyone's mind too um so main topics this week we've got Microsoft kills one
drive un limited storage G the douchiest way ever y yeah
the what they did is not popular for very good reason yeah
YouTube has apparently arranged a loan
program for YouTube creators very
interesting what else we got Activision Blizzard to acquire King Digital so the
guys that made Candy Crush mhm they're like oh the top five grossing games
which is Candy Crush and some other version of Candy Crush
like okay Wicked yeah super cool I'm
very very happy that you brought that up also AMD is facing a class action
lawsuit over misrepresentation of a product and we'll have to we'll dig into
what that means a little bit but I think that I think the thing that's on
everyone's mind is why lonus keeps
telling everyone what's on their minds and the reason for that is because
I firmly believe that the thing on everyone's mind is I'm just where are
you going with it nowhere okay this whole time I'm like what what is he
talking about he's he's waiting for it to have a point cuz usually I do yeah
yeah not today no today my point is not today carefully hidden in my trouses
there will be no points today it's going to be a soccer game oh
with no ball does anyone remember that way an episode how long ago is that I
don't even know I don't even know I was I was doing doing uh I was doing I was
filming a video or writing a video or something that's my whole life doing
things related to videos and um and I
was like blah blah blah something I called it on the W show and for a minute
I thought to myself I should go try and find that clip so we can play no nope
nope there is there is literally over a
hundred hours of w show someone messaged
me on Twitter once saying that he had watched the entire back catalog of w
show over the previous like month or something my God and I was just like
why I mean it's news to do with that
week don't get me wrong like it's cool I love the dedication like major props
that's awesome but
why the early ones like the really early
ones maybe for like Nostalgia no no no
but because we barely talked about news ever we had like one topic a week
Nostalgia news today yesterday we'd talk
about our like crazy sports game that we were planning yeah that's true we did
talk about that and like we we would do like other random things then again
making the argument that the show is about news today is sort of uh is sort
of like pretty rough it's like standing on one stilt
with like a balanc beam on your head and
like potted plants on the be soccer on one side yeah like we actually I mean
we're at least 10 minutes into the show we have not talked about any news yet we
inted four of them that's true we did do
that but sometimes we intro topics and then never talk about them there's also
that problem I don't even remember where I was going with this so Activision
Blizzard to acquire King Digital and
this this is definitely the kicker here for
5.9 billion yes friends 5.9 billion what
is this ad 5
billion um thing whenever I yawn I'm going to make it look like a
roar that's Majestic thank
you are you going to make the sound
no preferably not I think I would prefer
that too um all right so they paid $18
per share which is a 20% premium over the trading price man it is good for
investors when companies acquired okay I don't understand how this works I think
you might if you're acquiring a company why don't you just buy all the shares
why do you have to pay a premium because everyone ends up paying a premium because those people own it so it's kind
of like if you want to run basically they're like actually I don't want to
sell this much and then they're like what about 20% more and then they're like oh okay sure yeah well those
shareholders don't get to make the decision unless they're unless they're a
majority or they can form a majority of the shareholders then they get to make
the decision but for the sake of the shareholders including the majority
holders who definitely get paid more if they're paying more than market value um
in their best it's in their best interest to ask for more than just the
like day-to-day trading value like yeah okay if you don't just want to own a
share of the company you want to own the majority of the company then you're going to pay extra now the conventional
wisdom the the consumer wisdom would be well hold on a second if I'm bulk buying
something then I should get a discount yeah but it's think of it more along the
lines control and that matters a lot you're not just getting 400 popsicle
sticks yes you are you now run the company that makes the 400 popsicle
sticks so think of it in terms of like if you're if you want to run a highway
through an area typically the property owners except in cases where the
government of whatever country it happens to be is a gigantic tool um
typically the correct way to do that is to offer the people in the way more than
their land value um some people don't want to move and in those cases they
sometimes end up getting less because because etc etc etc cuz now they've got
you know the one house that's like next to a super highway that curves around it
like there's a lot of there's a lot of different ways it can go but typically
the sort of the best practice way is to offer people more than the assessed
market value so that it's a quick and easy transaction and it's done and no
one's raising a poop storm about it um so basically with the acquisition they
take two of the top five highest grossing mobile games in the US which
are Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush
Soda Saga yes that's two games
apparently that's like come on two of the best games World of Warcraft and
World of Warcraft burning
Crusade even then like World of Starcraft and Starcraft brood War but I
don't even know if that's fair because I is it this is probably I don't know I've
never played it's probably just a skin it's probably not even like an expansion
it probably has different sound effects oh God they're probably equally happy
but different equally happy yeah
probably so basically um CEO of Activision Blizzard
said the combined revenues and profits solidify our position as the largest
most profitable Standalone company in interactive
entertainment I mean I guess so but you just bought a company for 4.9 billion or
5.9 billion that did uh hold on what was
it 2 point something it's not in my notes why is this not in the notes 2.1
is it 2.1 billion 2.1 billion in Revenue
now with that said it should be noted that for a microtransaction driven game
like Candy Crush 2.1 billion revenue is basically as good as 2.1 billion profit
I mean yes they have to you know pay
some dividends or whatever and I guess they probably have at least six
programmers to develop a game like Candy Crush six
probably a fair amount behind it I I know I mean they have to process all
those payments somehow y you know you need an infrastructure for that um so
okay but but still you have to make sure that people have to pay more in order to
play your game that's you know there's you got to put some effort in in front
of stopping people from having fun yeah marketing marketing is marketing is key
um tell me something we've had a lot of
mobile game companies off for us advertising dollars and every time I've
said no because it's stupid um did we
ever do it maybe there was an exception actually I don't remember I don't think
so but maybe there was one where they were like they did something that was
sort of somewhat different from what anyway if if Activision Blizzard came to
us and was like we want to do an ad spot for Candy Crush would you do
it I want to hear from twitch chat
should okay hold on we we got to we got to get a straw pole going here kids uh
should we take that candy m i I know
people that like Candy
Crush I just super don't does that mean
it's wrong I don't know I mean there was the whole there was the whole there is
the whole argument that um you know
these are these games are are predatory twitch chat why are you guys posting the
answer we don't look at that stop spamming so people can click the bitly
um cuz we're going to show the straw pole not the twitch chat I love you guys
but come on um so there is the argument
that microtransaction games are praying on the same people who are addicted to
gambling or addicted to well really
gambling but people who have addictive personalities um with that said I
wouldn't want to yeah okay fair enough fair enough so we've got 26% of you
saying we should take that candy money with 52% of you saying no and 23% of you
voting for turn up the way that you should um the thing is I think we have
enough really solid respectable
companies that we work with that I actually kind of enjoy doing ad spots is
Activision Blizzard not a respectable company but I don't like that
product okay I'm just saying it's a respectable company though yeah you
could make that argument yeah Al although they've done some dumb freaking
crap yes like oh my God they basically
killed Starcraft 2 yes they did do that
yeah that's cuz like there's an argument to be said that they pulled the like
okay they didn't actively do anything to kill it but they also just didn't
actively do anything yeah it was like their baby and they were like I'm going
to leave it in a field with wolves and
just see what happens you know like there's these Riot games guys what
they're they're cuddly they're furry don't worry about that we'll just leave
our baby in the field it's okay that's basically how Esports was like two three
years ago yeah so um uh so yeah I don't
remember where else right I remember where I was going with this so tell me
something it used to be blizzard okay
yeah but now we've entered you know the
the the the modern the modern era you know the '90s the 2000s
hyphenated names man that's a thing so now we got Activision Blizzard act the
blizzard King so no no no one does that
no one does that my parents talked about that okay my mom's last name's Sebastian
my dad's uh my stepdad's last name is newfeld that's a very political topic
everyone please keep that to yourself okay so my stepdad's last name is
newfeld and they're like let's go by sefel and I'm like that's stupid because
sefel is not a name that's just a thing
you invented that's like we could go by like JX ymb like my name is Smith no no
you guys should have gone by C3PO actually stupid thank you um been your
last name you should have had numbers in your last name so so so anyway so my
half siblings have hyphenated last names and and this really raises a legitimate
concern sorry burkel is putting decorations on his wall berl no it's
okay it's okay I want him to show them sure okay you'll bring them so anyway
this raises a legitimate concern what happens when hyphenated name people
marry each other so is it activation
blizzard King pictures or King act
activation or King Activision Blizzard like what would we okay your call or
Activision King blizzard King Activision
Blizzard activ King blizzard Activision act act how can you make it sound more
like mro microtransactions
yeah bring bring your stuff out show the audience blizzard activation yeah yeah I
I cracked up when you're putting that stuff on the wall know that's what you
yeah here bring bring that bring that stuff over here okay so you got to explain how you do okay so hold on hold
on let me let me explain let me preface this really quickly so I gave all the
editors because we got to do our editing Dan tour like for a number of reasons
number one you guys have been asking for it number two the folks who contribute
like LG who gave us monitors for our editing den and like so white right now
um Intel Cooler Master Logitech uh razor
steel series like Silverstone tons of guys threw a bunch of stuff at us to
have like the ballest editing Den ever
and the only thing they asked for was that we make a video showing people our
Ballin editing Den which we have not
done but the problem is that it looks kind of crap right now because the walls
are just bare so I gave all the editors
um what was the budget $150 which I
don't think anyone stuck to yeah I know
I did I think each editor got a $150 budget to decorate their personal space
to make it look cool some people went with Saye reasonable choices this guy
was fishing around for broken monitors for some reason I thought nothing of it
what you got I want another I wanted another monitor so I put two my favorite
people on a third monitor that's going to sit get here and talk and never
change yeah okay I'll sit down look you
said LG sponsored it a nice little LG screen for my desk how beautiful is that
to go with the Samsung one yeah the Samsung also for your desk and look it
can you see how much clearer the Samsung is in this I don't know it's really up to you
folks there look at that anti-glare screen on the Sams yeah so we got we got
ourselves a Tim and Eric fan right here so yeah okay go you can go back to the
work you're doing I thought they were CCO monitors sinko no that's a different
one okay walk in front of the camera when you
call me out okay yeah sorry I just wanted to
show you guys that so yeah how how far are we into the show right now I think
we've done one Tech topic we're about 20 minutes in yeah this is a news show yeah
all right why do I look so pale today on
the subject of news you look kind of pale
today I literally don't think I've been outside during the day because the build
log I that might be why I don't think you can lose a tan in like three days
no no no no no no no because it wasn't days this is a lifestyle this is ongoing
lifestyle lifestyle effect okay that's fair um
Microsoft this is a great headline kills the one drive party oh my God ends
unlimited and downgrades storage options
they they were not content this was so
brutal they were not content to Nerf this a little bit they nerfed One Drive
can you think of an equivalent in gaming history can you think of a reason to use
it now I already still wasn't using it I
know so like why would anyone use it now
equivalent in gaming history okay yeah an equivalent Nerf okay I and okay
twitch chat twitch chat let's see if you guys can come up with something too
because okay well submit your submit
your ideas how about you Twisted Fate League of
Legends okay that's mine that's your the Nerf that happened to Twisted Fate fate
was like the best character and then he went to like completely unplayed this
was like way way way way back at like
the beginning or the pistol from Halo 1
to Halo 2 oh that's a good Nerf cuz the
pistol in Halo 1 is basically a sniper rifle shotgun assault rifle and tactical
nuke all in one and then the pistol and
Halo 2 is like well it's a pistol and
the enemies have energy Shields good luck
uh what what wait what do we got we got okay oh my goodness it's going so fast
well so many people are bringing up stuff from like CSG go M
41 was it Nerf that bad I don't think it
was I mean okay why don't we why don't we give people some why don't we give
people some context here uh let's let's
give some context for What Microsoft did to one drive so they had a free option
storage capacity was 15 gigs they have
nuked that down to five they have cut it
in oneir okay for all users current and
new to be fair these effects if you are current user happened 12 months from now
so you're good for a year but still so you're good for a year and then your
junk disappears um which from from my I
don't want my junk to disappear me neither unless it's disappearing in uh
sorry uh um in mustard in mustard thank you um so to be I mean this flies in the
face of everything that CL storage is supposed to be I mean when when when
Google offered Gmail and they were like G cuz we're G's wait no I think I had
something to do with Google Gigabyte really yeah no it was Gigabyte
it offered a Gigabyte
of I hate you it offered a Gigabyte of storage at
a time when hot Mill offered like 25 Megs or something laughable like that so
so so that was where the exes came from so my remember remember remember the
counters I don't want to talk to you like how much more drive space they were
adding all the time do they still have that I don't know that was actually
super cool cuz that was sick yeah but that is the point that is the point of
like cloud storage is like it's always expanding always getting cheaper and
it's always a safe place to keep your data where companies don't just turn off
turn off your space if you like don't check your email for a year and don't
get the notification or whatever like I I I I thought it was supposed to be like
like pretty safe so which like actually if I wasn't doing this show I probably
wouldn't have heard about this cuz I basically never check my Outlook account
nope I wouldn't have heard about it it is attached to things though and if I
did use one drive for like a few things they would be gone now Microsoft says
the changes are arriving due to Microsoft discovering that some users
were abusing the online storage service
however this pissed me off so I'm just going to wait for you to that has
nothing to do with your free account holders who were allocated 15 gigs who
presumably someone at Microsoft can
figure out the conversion from gigabytes to terabytes to megabytes and how much
hard drives cost and and and maybe like I don't know run some basic freaking
rudimentary numbers and find out you know how much each each Gigabyte of
storage costs in a Cloud Server somewhere because this is like pretty
well established [ __ ] at this point pardon my French um okay they say in
some extreme cases users were storing in excess of 75 terabyt of data on a single
Office 365 account the reason for that is because they got unlimited storage so
it's because a few people using something that they were literally
allowed to use even in the fine print that they were paying for paying
customers as apparently hurt all the free guys as well you give someone
unlimited access to something then you're like whoa whoa whoa we didn't
mean that unlimited that's [ __ ] I'm
do this all the time the correct response to the extreme users who
frankly were being very unreasonable who
cares it's un they were they were what
they should have done was adjusted the
paid customers to a terabyte or something or two terabytes or something
or made them get like a business tier unlimited account which was way more
expensive or something or something and and just targeted the unreasonable users
cuz I get it 75 terab of space for like
what does Office 365 cost like a $100 a year or something like that not a like I
I can't I can't remember I I have a subscription I should know this they screwed up though they shouldn't have
said it was unlimited so and if they're going to backpedal backpedal in a way
that's reasonable and makes sense um so
anyway they are no longer offering unlimited storage I think that pretty
much goes without saying they are cutting it back to one ter of one drive
storage with your subscription um so the 100 Gig and 200
gig one drive paid plans are going away
as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 gig plan for1 199 per
month in early 2016 the 15 gig excuse me camera roll
storage bonus will also be discontinued in early
2016 and Office 365 subscribers with an excess of 1 tab will be notified of the
change and will be able to keep their increase for at least 12 months so
basically they did it in the most dickish possible way super not impressed
um I don't personally use one drive because I don't
care um because it sucks the interface
really isn't very good it's just it's really just
not yeah I I'm super just don't like it
um they tried to make it like clean and modern and honest I think they just
messed it up yeah like anything the way
to make something clean here's a pro tip
okay here's how to make something clean it should integrate seamlessly into the
existing UI of whatever device I'm using it on it's Pro tip okay that's why
Dropbox does so well it's just a folder
on your computer you literally like right click paste or like right click
create public link share with some one it's very
simple my mother still can't do it but
it's a whole other issue um YouTube
homes this is so weird it's weird but like it's it's kind
of cool it's I think it's pretty cool yeah it's just like I'm I'm just when I
saw this I was like wait is this URL right like are we all getting trolled
yeah are we on youtube.com yeah yeah yeah yeah I checked that like I did I
was pretty worried about that actually I was like https yeah yeah youtube.com
there's no like it's not like do corn you know yeah or something SSL checks
out it's verified by Google Inc like okay like okay so basically the way it
works is YouTube has partnered with Lending Club to provide YouTube creators
with a limited Finance option to put towards building their channels yeah um
it's really not that different from any
other business or personal loan except
that YouTube is apparently facilitating it for one thing um the terms of the
loan look there's some interesting stuff pretty good and it's at I believe it's
at like something like a 5.9% interest rate and if you successfully increase
your Channel's average upload frequency
or watch time over a period of 12 months after you take out the loan you get a 5%
rebate on the original Total loan amount so what is that pretty cool so basically
it's it's a and I am not to be clear I
am not an interest calculator whiz kid
Guru who can who can figure that crap out in my head uh so so don't take my
word for this 100% but it looks like if you pay it back in a year it'll be
effectively like a 1 point something perish loan
pretty cool if you need a chunk of money to develop your YouTube channel and you
really think you can take it to the next level so one of the challenges that we
had at lonus Media Group it's really it's really funny um a lot of people
complained about our tip starter campaign where we asked our community to help us fund this new office people are
like take out a loan it's like yeah we
did we're not idiots we also voluntarily asked our
community to help us because that helps a lot too and we said it was optional
and you get literally nothing in exchange for it other than a cool badge
on the Forum and we had to do some pretty stupid [ __ ] yeah we did do some
dumb stuff and like some people I did like personalized thank yous for certain
tiers and like but you don't you don't get like a t-shirt for it or anything
because the idea was we were using it to make our our new office and our new
workflow better and all that stuff and we did um but getting alone is not that
simple okay especially if you're like a smalltime Creator like still living at
home with your parents and you don't have a mortgage to to to use as uh as
collateral or not a mort you don't use a mortgage as collateral you use the house
the value in the house is the collateral like if you don't have collateral um and
this is interesting so there's two tiers that they're offering you can get up to
a $35,000 personal loan if you receive
an official invitation from YouTube that's a key you've been operating your
business for less than two years and you have less than $75,000 of annual revenue
through your YouTube channel um and then the second tier to get up to
$300,000 a business loan you have to be operating for at least two years as a
business and you have to have over $775,000 in annual revenue and that is
one of the challenges because since the economic downturn of 2008 lending
criteria at least in some places has gotten a lot more strict and it's not
that easy to just hey I'm a business I've got a business idea you should give
me some money money oh I guess that didn't work well I'm falling for
bankruptcy yeah that happened enough times that the lenders kind of went yeah
no so I was not able to get a loan for
the things that we needed to do here until lonus Media Group had been
operating for two years fortunately that timing worked out pretty much perfectly
with when we got kicked out of our old place um and we were able to move in
here sort of perfectly because another month would have been great super
awesome super awesome yeah it's it's nice though cuz
I've seen some comments on the videos lately that are like yeah I'm you know
I'm not hating on these guys but like some of that content during the move was
kind of rough it's like we know we really had a lot of other stuff
to do like move and moving is not as simple as just
pick up the thing move it to the other place and put it down
it's really not um anyway I think this
is really cool and if you're a YouTube Creator that's kind of struggling but
you feel like wow $35,000 in or even remember up to 35 so
like wow I could really use a $110,000 loan and if Google's willing to kind of
vouch for me that I'm cool and I know what I'm doing um I could invest in like
that capture equipment or that camera gear or whatever else that I need to
really get this thing off the ground because honestly I get I probably get a
request a day from someone who wants to start a game streaming Channel and
they're like yeah all I need to get it off the ground and like do better is
like like this ba computer and stuff and I'm just like I'm sorry I actually
cannot send a computer to every person who tells me that they have a game
streaming Channel and they want to do better it's not actually possible it
does not grow in trees a lot of people think these guys have like tons of
Hardware it's falling out of their ears and from a certain perspective that is
kind of true but for most of the things we only have
like like one of everything so when we're like we probably have more we have
more camera equipment now than we have computers yeah I'd say that's true like
for sure and like the sweet build log
that I'm doing right now I'm just going to have to take apart like immediately
because we're going to need the things from it a lot of people are like lon's three-year-old has a way better computer
than no he doesn't that got taken apart like how long after literally one day
later yeah he's three what does he need a freaking desktop computer for he's
three we build things we take them apart it's like it's like weightlifters they
pick things up and they put them back down we build computers and we take them back apart we we don't we don't have 20
you know 67 6700k processors I think we
have one right we have one and that was like pulling teeth to get it's not like
it's not like free Hardware rigns from the heavens or whatever so so this looks
like a more realistic option for for a
startup Creator to uh you know if they've got some talent and that's the
thing is people are always asking me too like how do you get sponsored with
Hardware like people in twitch chat are like what illusion shattered oh my God
uh yeah it's like how do you get sponsored with Hardware have an audience
well I can't have an audience if I'm not sponsored with Hardware get
creative that's how literally everyone
did it I was literally everyone some
people know this I was starting a channel that no one knew about at all
before I joined you um and my plan was a
lot of my friends at the time were getting into building computers so build
their computer for them do it at your house film a video about every part
review every part in the computer also film building the computer do some
benchmarks with it film that just utilize everything that you can oh your
buddy just got a new phone borrow it for a day give him 20 bucks or something buy
them food or whatever borrow it for a day review the phone do whatever you
need to do get smart about buying and selling used stuff you can acquire you
can acquire things temporarily and then you can get rid of them very quickly and
not lose a whole lot of money on the transaction buy a cheap version of a
popular phone on Craigslist um resell it on Craigslist
for hopefully more than buy a different one review that flip it again start
start building up that that that uh that kind of that slush fund of acquiring
things and and and cycling through them so uh people people are saying I had NC
Hardware to start to build an audience yes I did that's yet another example of
get creative find a solution my solution
was I worked with a local retailer and people are like oh yeah I emailed my
local retailer and they said they're not interested well of course they're not interested you sent an email who cares
what you think you sent an email you didn't even show up you got to show up
if you want to play the game
kids right there's other also like shadier
ways to do it that I'm not going to go over um but whatever let's just say it I
mean a lot of people starting up buy things from places with great return
policies and return them that's legitimately what I'm
planning to do with the Surface
Book they got a 30-day return policy that's not my problem thing yeah and
it's like I don't know what do you want from me yeah it happens it honestly
happens a lot like it's it's it's about get it done that is what any job
especially if you're self-employed is about get it done there's basically
always a way to work
harder um anyway yeah very cool um I
didn't really read any of the notes you got to be 18 or older to qualify it's not there's not really that
much to say it's it's a loaning thing the the loaning Lending Club or whatever
already existed there's just a couple special terms for YouTube that's it and
the 5% rebate just for I mean that's bad if all you have to do is upload more
content in the year then if you don't get that 5 % rebate then go home you
you're not cut out for the YouTube game unfortunately we couldn't even do that
with line ofps it's like more videos on LPS would just be insane that's okay
though because we don't need yeah yeah
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just need like 5,000 bucks okay I need like I need like a a couple generation
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a linda.com subscription here I go I'm like taking my game to the next level it
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linda.com wow one thing that I very much like on there is that you can download
things yes you can download and watch on your mobile device on the go so you
don't have to be streaming it you can make notes you can make playlists so you
and your friends can learn along with each other um like I IAL I think I've
talked about this before but I'm just going to do it again like uh my son's
already reading and he's like three three and a half or something like that
so that kid's going to hit like kindergarten grade one he's going to be
straight up bored so my plan because I
am a complete programming no nothing
is I'm going to like seriously start at his level and start learning some of
that stuff with him and a tool like linda.com is going to be is going to be
awesome because like I already recognize that even though I'm fairly techy a lot
of people don't understand this but the cold hard truth is once you have a job
and you have kids and you have say for example anything else in your life you
know I'll I'll get a I'll get a lot of flack like oh why doesn't lonus know how
to use Snapchat or whatever because quite frankly I I don't have to and
don't care and I've got other stuff going on because I don't have time to
sit if it's not like if it's not my job to do it and it's not taking care of my
babies and it's not like any of these other legitimately very important things
I I don't know and that is how old people get out of touch and I recognize
that not being up on at least the fundamentals of programming is going to
be a huge difference between me and the generation that's following me so if I
want to keep up I have one shot at this
as he's getting older this is my one chance for him to not be speaking a
language literally a language that I completely understand when you guys
starting that um probably when he's around five cool yeah that's that's kind
of that's kind of my plan so I I need to get him into badmon if you ever need
like help or whatever super interested that' be cool thank you yeah um that's
like an off the show thing but like yeah whatever yeah I'm thinking I'm thinking
around the time he hits five uh I really I want him in martial arts I want him
doing like some kind of competitive sport not
that I'm saying martial arts isn't competitive I know but a team sport um
maybe team maybe maybe not I don't know um I want him swimming swimming is like
necessary um and then my wife wants him doing a musical instrument he's half
asian so I'm assuming he'll play the piano um piano is really good though I
know I I'm not dissing The Piano I'm just saying I'm just saying like and I'm
not I'm not not trying to stereotype I'm just saying that there it's a better
chance then not if it's like what instrument did
your parents make you play it's like okay so it's the Asian kid piano right
it's like no piano and
flute no offense what was really Co when
I was at BCIT they had a piano in the common Hall and it's it's BCIT so I'd be
sitting there studying and then every once in a while chat's exploding I know
I should I should pull the lind third off that part at least it's it's BCIT so
every once in a while someone would come up and play the piano yeah and like
there was amazingly good people and it was wonderful I don't know
I got like classical music played to me while I was like live classical music
from very skilled pianists played to me while I was studying I was like this is
amazing oh violin sorry I missed violin
oh yeah that is a legitimate alternative yeah um you know I if if I was going to
pick up an instrument it would be the violin for one
reason I have small fingers so a real guitar is not an
option no that's not actually the reason because I think that the problem
with fiddle music and yes I know a fiddle is a violin it's just a different
style of playing I think the problem with high energy violin music is that
it's all like country music I think that high energy violin and if people have
artist suggestions um Twitter not now
who's that super famous chick on YouTube doesn't she play violin y y y isn't that
high energy yeah but like
okay if people send me suggestions on Twitter later tonight I will check them
out and I will let you know which ones are the ones that I'm thinking of any
something Sterling L Lindsay Sterling
Lindsay saying percussion gives you athletic
skills Lindsay Sterling lindsy Sterling okay anyway my my my point is that's the
style of music that if I was going to create anything I would want that to be it so so that's that that would be my
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about that right what else do we got on the show today I love this show yeah H
oh this is this is some good stuff so AMD faces a class action suit over
bulldozzer misrepresentation now to be clear the
class action suit does not allege that AMD marketed their product as a
bulldozer only to have customers buy it and realize that all their dirt was
still there yeah that would be disappointing that would be disappointing um no what the what the
suit alleges is that AMD Mis represented
the core count of for example their eight core bulldozzer processor so the
way that AMD's module system worked and
I say worked not because there aren't still processors that use it that there
are but because it looks like with their upcoming Zen course that's going away
the way that it worked is that each module had two integer units and then
some shared cache and a shared floating Point Unit so from the sort of strictest
traditional standpoint they were not
full cores but people who say that
they're like hyperthreaded cores are not correct either because they they they
can process much more than an individual
core were the best way that I would describe them is like is one and a half
cores each um so where's this going oh I
don't know probably nowhere everyone probably gets a $10 rebate in eight
years or something like that going to go through um cuz honestly my thing on this
is yes it was kind of weird to an average consumer to be completely honest
y I agree but it wasn't like they didn't
try but well yeah but try AMD try and like
effective is not the same thing and you got to understand that we're not just
talking about consumers who went to the store and bought an fx 8150 okay we're
talking about consumers who went to Best Buy and bought an HP Pavilion something
or other cuz it had more cores than the because it had eight
cores that tag down there AMD's try does
not extend to that one tag under the I got my $20 rebate for buying whatever
RAM in whenever the hell like some ramus
crap or something yeah really yeah wow okay it showed up check for $20 I was
like okay whenever I go to the bank next I
guess that's cool I don't know yeah only
took like two years I think I swear AMD
fans are the most difficult to penetrate
group on the entire internet anything
350 is8 cor stop being stupid actually
it's not that simple life is very rarely that simple that's I guess all I can
really say about it at this point because I give up unless you're playing
the piano um all right so I guess that's uh
that's pretty much all that yeah the blah blah blah results in etc etc okay
oh um so it's still a little early for
us to wear them no no no no trust me bad idea okay well forget then um there's
LTT stickers available so over on teespring.com LTT stickers we've got uh
apparently 56 people have bought a lius
tech tips logo sticker um for $9 where's
the I haven't seen the stickers yeah well it's pretty simple it's just like a
lus tech tips logo there you go so it's
just a short 7-Day campaign it's available for another 4 days um
something a lot of people have been asking about lately stickers aside so
you guys can check out the stickers if you're into that but stick oh oh right I
was I'm supposed to bring this up the reason it has like such huge black
borders is so that you can kind of cut it to whatever size you want I was going
to say I was like how big is this does it even say how big it is like actual
dimensions I don't know I don't know anything about this it just says it's
landscape this is a lick Knight Pro lick KN a lick Knight project lick this is a
Nick light project that sounds like a Shovel Knight thing yeah lick Knight
lick Knight oh you sizing chart and thing so it's 3.6 in do it by 5 in oh
maybe you can buy different sizes you buy different sizes you pick your size
ah there yeah so there you go scker so
it's a Nick light project and um he asked me to bring up that you could just
cut it to size and I was like okay sure that sounds cool but then what if you
wanted a 5 by seven what if you just want to calm down so we've had a lot of
people asking not about stickers necessarily but about our other merch
because they've noticed that our district line store is completely empty
um we are going to be launching a new store very soon on Teespring that will
happen and when we launch cuz because Teespring has traditionally just been
like here's a design we're doing a campaign but we're going to have a store
and when that happens we're going to bring back if not all most of the
designs that we've ever done so they will all be available again and then the
way that it works is they'll all be kind of like mini campaigns so it's going to
be sort of like I don't know what I would call it like it it it' be kind of
like it'd be kind of like a mass drop page that never goes away so like every
time it reaches 50 people who commit the counter resets and it ships those 50 out
yeah or something like that right I think I think that's how it goes yeah
that's so that's pretty much like kind of how it's going to
work um this is interesting so Apple
patents yeah a witchless Force touch
keyboard I mean it's not like this idea has never been thought of before like a
laser projected keyboards tou
keyboards like I just I even read the headline and I was like
don't so the idea is that this would allow their MacBooks to be thinner than
ever I don't care thinner than ever lighter than
ever you're not going to buy a Macbook anyway what do you care I
well because then the rest of the industry will do it yeah like I like
that's basically how this stuff works usually in the past Apple was leading
all of these kind of things for the last little while maybe not so much in every
department or any of them um but
nowadays if Apple does this it's very possible that everyone else is going to
do this and honestly their current popular laptop thing didn't we use that
for scrapyard Wars MacBook Air yeah yeah
that was F popular laptop thing I don't know anything about those guys whatever
um the battery lasted a long time the keyboard was actually pretty good it web
browsed just fine that's all I needed it for it was great I didn't pay for it I
don't care how expensive it was wasn't relevant to Scrapyard Wars to be clear
we also didn't keep them we also didn't keep them I'm just saying like I didn't
buy the laptop so I know people are going to be like but it's overpriced and
I'm gonna be like I know that doesn't make it a bad piece of Hardware exactly
it was fine I actually it was it was good whereas arguably a laptop with a
touchscreen keyboard is a bad piece of Hardware probably bad regardless of it's
price now with that said okay you've used the steam
controller right so having haptic feedback for when you move back and
forth on something with a better with a
with a better vibration motor yeah could be not terrible and more on that later
as someone who who I personally feel that on the
MacBook 15 which has the the force touch
trackpad the actual The Click feels a
lot like a click it really does if they
executed it perfectly maybe you've got my attention
but what they would have to do is maybe have like they'd have to have some way
for me to find the Home row still yeah it would have to be like you'd still
have to have like a grid on it or something that I can feel even if the
keys are touched if they solve that it might not be that bad of a problem my
thing is being able to feel the keys still I don't look at the keyboard when
I type but I can feel physical Keys yes
so if they find some way to solve that problem sure but I just haven't heard
anything about that all
right lus doesn't smoke he's coughing because he's sick it's amazing how many
people were like getting super judgy
about yeah we'll talk about that next it's amazing how many people were
getting super Jud about how I smoke and I'm a bad person on our um our our our
old office tour oh because I had a pack
of cigarettes on my desk oh those were
the they were literally FX C cigarettes
okay we paid like a fair amount so that we could get fake ones so that he
wouldn't have to smoke uh let me see if I can find the uh
here they are here they are they're from new rule effects.com
that is the pack of cigarettes that was on my desk okay so y'all can just y'all
can just calm down thank you
um all right let's move on to our next topic Diablo 2 Starcraft 1 and Warcraft
3 HD remakes possibly coming now thank you to
be clear possibly coming is just based
on a job posting it's okay I'm going to read out the job posting no timeline at
all yeah so like don't hold your breath or hold your pee or hold anything
compelling stories intense multiplayer endless replayability qualities that
made Starcraft Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 the Titans they are today evolving
operating systems hardware and online services have made them more difficult
to be experienced by their loyal followers are by their loyal followers
our or or reaching a new generation we're restoring them to Glory blah blah
blah blah blah we need your engineering talents so like they're doing something
whether or not it's just compatibility for newer systems or is actually a HD
remake I don't know because it says right on it some responsibil is listed
as own implementation and curation of features new and old diagnose and fix
all the things crashes Deadlocks overthrows Heap Corruptions
Etc so it's it it is very unclear what
restoring them to Glory means but they're doing something and
that's cool I would love for it to be HD remakes yes Ultra HD please actually yes
but then with the way blizzard goes you know maybe not so much maybe not Ultra
HD maybe it'll be like
960p wrecked in Blizzard's defense their
art style does their their like low
polygon count art style does translate
really well to high resolution screens and and all that stuff I'm not I'm not
hating on the I'm sure the twitch is exploding already they know what they're
doing um yeah they do know what that's
super cool if they released an HD remake of Warcraft 3 I would be Head Over Heels
happy don't worry about that one ignore that one this one why super boring Oh I
thought it was interesting I've had it for like almost a whole year yeah I know
okay but it's beta now but who cares okay fine you can do it if you want yeah
let's do the next one then all right all right the new senheiser
orious have you ever wanted to spend $55,000 on a pair of headphones and now
you can yeah if you're one of the 250
people a year who will be permitted to buy it
so in 1990 this is this is like straight
off of sennheiser's website senis well Tech Insider but I'm pretty sure they
got it straight off of sennheiser's website in 1990 Sennheiser Engineers set out to
create the best headphones in the world
the result was the legendary Sennheiser Orphus a pair of $16,000
our audio file headphones so sophisticated they even came with their
own tube amplifier that looked like something taken from a mad scientist lab
if you're some kind of tool who has never seen a tube amplifier before
pretty sure he went off script there for a moment yeah sorry that last bit was me
it was good though I I liked it so good empasis now thank you I never put it on
the wrong salable
um oh classic joke careful that you might break it
oh um so when I first got the press release
for this you're going to fre out you ask for a review sample no no what I asked for
you're going to freak out what I asked for was the first unit and that I would
buy them because you know what's really
weird I know you're freaking out but you need to calm down no what was really
weird was I looked at this article and I was like maybe we should buy one I'm not
even kidding I'm not kidding at all I was like you know I look at Lou and
stuff and sometimes they just go crazy and they just buy something really cool
then review it and I'm like maybe we should just buy an orus he does so many
headphone reviews like it might make sense so I was like I was like I
straight up I was like cuz I was like I want to review this and they're like
well you can't because Get Wrecked we're
going to have a like an auditioning booth at CES you can hear them there and
I was like no no you misunderstand I'm going to buy them but I want the first
won for being me and because I'm going to review it and then he's like okay
well here's some more detail can we get it signed by senheiser I read into it no
I'm not buying them anymore I read into it even further and only okay so only
300 pairs of the original orus exist today and they typically go for tens of
thousands of dollars on eBay much more than the purchase price and so my
initial take on it was like I will just buy it and flip it because I don't care
because it'll be a limited Edition product and I can get rid of it down the
line without it actually costing anything it's all about the slush fund
right I talked about this you don't have to buy everything and then like put it
in a vault somewhere you can buy it and sell it and get rid of it and to be fair
when I said I was thinking about us just buying it I fully expected it to be back
out of the door probably as soon as possible yeah the problem is that
Sennheiser I think lost their way with
what was so exclusive and interesting
about the orus the original orus and they are producing 250 of these per year
indefinitely so yeah I get it that
that's only 250 units a year so you'll be one of like the only you know couple
thousand people worldwide who can own one but I seriously doubt that for the
best head even the best headphones in the world bearing in mind the original
orases were already that and they go for
about $3 Grand on eBay I seriously doubt
that there's more than 250 people a year that are going to be willing to spend
55,000 us on also the best headphones in
the world so I think Sennheiser has
significantly overestimated the demand and at the same time killed what is so
exclusive and legendary about the orus
with that said it might still sound great and that's cool and that's fine
but it means that from a collector standpoint they've pretty much made it
irrelevant um from my personal perspective other people can agree or
disagree with me but um I am no longer interested in owning one I will listen
to them at CES on the CES show floor
someone in twitch chat was like 30 grand just to listen to Taylor
Swift yeah hey you know maybe how else
are you g to shake it off all right maybe your boyfriend left you because you spent so much money on headphones
yeah
ah so anyway some some details about it
because I went completely off how he doesn't understand your purchasing
decisions and I just met you and this is no that was the other one that was the
different one um so handcrafted in Germany using over 6,000 components some
components such as gold vaporized ceramic electrodes which sound pretty ba
I guess Platinum vaporized diaphragms karata marble amplifier
housing uh amplifier control is created using a single piece of brass once the
headphones are turned on the quartz glass vacuum tubes Rise Up from the
marble enclosure and emit a glow which by the way two bamps just kind of do um
they feature digital amplification which takes place inside the headphones
reducing interference from cord travel I mean we are talking some audio file
grade snake oil right here no would be badass they super won't so like I
understand that before we before we I get it it's okay it's fine they should
send us on a factory tour where we see
the whole line so they should show us
like Parts not only just that but where
they get the carara marble and where they get the Platinum that they're using
and then like we follow the whole chain of everything in yeah so that would cost
what 50 Grand to make at least sure more
than that probably You' have to like fly around and St you talk to CES or
Sennheiser at CES okay you pitch it you know what honestly I would and you
probably know that at this point but I also super know that they wouldn't do it
so like and it wouldn't even make any sense from our perspective we're going
to be we're going to be trucking all over Europe so long to make a video
about how headphones are made when we legit already made a video about how
headphones are made how siser headphones are made no part of the video would be
like how they the marble and the
Platinum so you want to you literally
want to make you want to remake I collect rocks and then listen to it on a
$55,000 pair of headphones that's what I'm hearing right now yeah you're
drunk I said I knew it wouldn't happen I
just I don't know I thought it' be funny like like what actually goes into making
a pair of 55,000 freaking headphones a lot I would imagine yeah I also suspect
the profit margin is fairly sub want to solve the section of I would
imagine all right so this article here is from Android
authority beware of cheap USB type-c
cables warns Google engineer this is actually a very good point especially
early in the life cycle of a new cable standard it is very common for the now
I'm not saying that everyone has to run out and buy $200 HDMI cables from
Monster but you also shouldn't necessarily be buying 9 99 HDMI cables
off the back of a truck there is a middle ground and so buying a lowquality
cable particularly very early in the life cycle of a connector can lead to
issues because they might not undergo the appropriate tests and validation
depends whose truck depends whose truck so Google engineer Benson Le young has
been testing cheap USB type-c can can you can you imagine like someone at
Google just being like yeah so I'd like for my next assignment to be buying a
bunch of cheap USB type-c cables and like testing them like someone who whose
job it is to kind of go yeah okay I guess that seems like good use of your time um so I they all have self-guided
time don't they yeah they do so he might have just y an important feature with
USB type-c and 3.1 is support for 3 amp
charging and a number of the budget cables fail to match the standard
specifications which can be dangerous to your Hardware as Legacy devices may not
be able to handle charger currents when using adapter cables so B basically what
he found was that some of the cheap type-c cables were not suitable for his
Chromebook Pixel laptop it is amazing how many people at Google use
MacBooks like I was just like shouldn't
you guys be like trying to somewhat Practice What You Preach around here no
can you program on Pixel uh I I'm sure someone out there is
going to tell us that yes indeed if you tap into the underlying Linux blah blah
that's fine but but like naturally without fighting it I don't think so
like I I've actually never used a Chromebook I don't know how locked down
they are I am not even remotely interested in Chromebooks um they are
somewhat locked down they're okay anything you can do in a browser you can
do in a Chromebook anything else I would so yeah there's a fairly obvious reason
why probably almost none of them have Chromebooks um The Witcher is getting a
movie ad.com I didn't mean stuff like
that anyways it's so funny okay so
everyone watching the WAN Show gets to be all like hoyy toyy privy to this
before they watch the video because I am
going to be doing my steam machine video uh next week so I've got an Alienware
steam machine actually I had two Steam Machines one of which I sent back
because one video was enough for me to say everything I have to say about Steam OS
um I wasn't going to reveal that much
but what I will say is this
many of my complaints about Steam OS I
express and then later on in the
video I burn all the Linux Geeks and I I
say that in like a kind way like like I'm a geek you're a geek we're all Geeks
you're you could specifically be a Linux geek I would specifically be a I don't
know I'm I'm sure I could fall into a lot of categories I'm sure um so I kind
of burned the Linux Geeks that I predict
with my amazing powers of future prediction Hammer are leaping down my
throat when I talk about the limitations of Steam OS and telling me all about how
I can enable desktop mode and I can install this and do that and then sud do
that and all this stuff sudu
oh okay so later on in the video I'm
like yo I know that doesn't matter
because so you guys I have saved you the
embarrassment of typing a comment under that video and getting destroyed because
there's a very good reason why that stuff doesn't matter my steam machine
video is going to be really long it's not
sudu I looked it up it's you pronounce it pseudo yeah I
know it's spelled pseudo okay yeah no I I actually looked it up cuz I was like I
need to make sure I don't say this wrong who says Pudu I don't
know that's interesting yeah no I talk to an obscene amount of Linux nerds
pseudo I know I know and I assumed it
was I've I've only heard Pudo is that GI and GIF or is there actually a reason
why it's I will look it up because I unless someone was trolling the crap out
of me how do you pronounce I know it's super admin do but
like oh this one says I've heard it said pseudo across Ross the
board um but this guy okay so the op here here
you go this is where the confusion comes in op says I'm just learning to use
Linux and while I've seen that the official way is
sudu I still want to pronounce itse sudo so which one do you use when talking
about the command CU like so there you go no one's wrong I know it's super user
do but like look at the word but it is way safer for me to say it the official
right way so that those people can be double wrecked when they realize that
they actually aren't pronouncing it right sudo sounds so dumb I don't I I
yeah it's not my problem um so anyway my steam machine video is going to be quite
long probably about 16 minutes and um
I'm not going to ruin the conclusion but
it's it's still in beta and
it's yeah it's been in beta for well it
hasn't been in beta for two years but it's been in is there anything that it
does that a normal installation of Linux
cannot do uh the video is it's a really
good video it's a really well written video it contains a lot of information I
would like you guys to watch it so I'm not going to get too far into it but uh
I have saved you I have saved you the embarrassment of pointing out to me
things that I do indeed already know not that people seem to care no one seems to
care when they say something that it turns out that I already in fact
oftentimes the top rated comment on one of my videos would be like lonus didn't
you realize and then like the like
couple of up votes comment that's next under it is like he said it right in the
video and no one no one cares no one watches the video as far as I can tell I
know it's super user too oh God are people telling you that it's
super user do I but like and the thing is they're going like literally everyone
they're like literally everyone says sudo and I'm like I've literally
actually not heard that like twice yeah
literally not super everyone Do's that
oh D oh no all right jetpacks my
friends yes my friends I thought we were doing a because they oh yeah well oh my
gosh are there still like three pages of topics how the crap did this happen I
think they're adding some while we're doing the show no no these were all here
actually I just now let's do the jetpacks topic come on I want to do the
jetpacks topic it's cool all jetpack
test flight skip to later on in the video to see it actually take off like
so many oh no never mind this isn't the is this another water one A different
one no no no no no this is a thing oh wow this is like this is a thing whoa
yeah no this is straight up a thing this is not a hovercraft
whoa so he's just going over water for like safety problem yes oh no no no
they've got they've got other videos they've got like test flights in their
facility that are not overwat who yeah
so they got some help from the city of New York this is a thing jetpack
Aviation check this out I'm not telling you to order one not that you can
because this is a prototype but these guys have apparently been working for 40
years quietly on an actual jetpack to be
clear it is not the same thing as a rocket belt a rocket belt is just like
burning some fuel and like shooting it out pretty much no no this actually uses
jet engines and carries its own self-contained Fuel and is light enough
for a person to wear and is like some super ba looking stuff I forget what
it's called the something something n the JB 09 I think they screwed up I
think they meant JP 09 or nine there's
no zero don't worry I screwed up too I'm
kidding I don't mean they screwed up no no it's it's called the jb9 is it like
Justin Bieber 2009 yes yes it is thank
you he should fly into one of his concerts like that and then slip on some
water and get sad and Le so their site is great I I tooled around on it for a
little while they've got lots of great information about the challenges that they've faced how they've overcome them
because there's so many concerns like I always just assumed you know non-
mechanical engineer that I am that jetpacks would always be impossible
because we would never be able to control the exhaust temperature so how
do you keep people from burning their legs off when they're flying them um and
and not a thing they have figured it out
and it is looking pretty cool so they're still working on a lot of RNG stuff a
ballistic parachute um a four engined version a simulator to reduce pilot
training time um improvements to the engines and computer management system
but this is some cool stuff hey hoverboards may never happen but
jetpacks wow you saw how aggressively
angry different organizations got about drones
how upset are people going to be about jetpacks I don't know I so want to
commute on one though man like yeah but like what's going to happen the first
time like a person runs into a plane they'll die and then what I mean like
politically oh I don't know I have a feeling these will never
be unregulated though in the way that thees were yeah yeah yeah I'm just like
are you going to have to like schedule flight time and like I don't know I
would what I would imagine to control towers and stuff no because like I don't
think you can go that high but you're still risk for take off no radio is some 60s technology the way that I imagine
this working is you would have totally use that I I know they do but I what I
no I know but my point is that that
would not work for this we need a new system so the way that it would have to
work is you would have to use individual
GPS you'd have to have individual GPS trackers on everyone everyone would have
to have a data link like a super fail redundant data link and then you would
still probably have to like it could even be like app managed so you could be
like I'm leaving this is my destination
you put your phone in your pocket your phone detects that you just freaking
took off the ground and then your jetpack reports in your status it knows
you need way you need a way for inair communication though so you'd have well
you could have okay that that could be radio that could be whatever but the way
that the actual tracking system would have to work would almost have to be
automated so it would have to be like you would have to everyone would have to
still have a headset and then you'd have to have instead of having like an air
traffic control tower everyone would have to intelligently from the mass
management system get the relevant alerts for them but what stops someone
from just not using a GPS device uh the thing that stops air traffic Towers can
detect well okay agencies that control
the air detect planes even if they're not reporting yes so the thing that
would prevent people from doing that would be the Interceptor police
enforcement jetpacks that show up on them and tell them to get the crap back
on their flight path so you could so I
mean that's the way that I really see it being done like what prevents people from taking a car and driving it into a
building technically nothing except that that's going to get you in an awful lot
of trouble so that's that's really the way that I see this being
regulated flight limit yeah like someone in chat just said a flight limit but
there's problems with that because like since when have you not been able to
take a limiting chip out of a car yeah but we're not talking about
limiting chips we're talking about law enforcement laying the smackdown on you
I know so so yeah I mean there's a
there's a lot of different there's people are saying jetpack way too slow
you got no idea what's up as the crow flies is pretty important in terms of
how quickly you can get somewhere like no traffic lights is pretty darn
important I could probably get to work faster from home to here flying you know
40 kmers an hour on a jetpack versus flying uh flying flying down the highway
at 80 kilometers an hour in my car like it makes a big difference and it would
be way cooler so I see a lot of problems
with your playing but for jet there's a lot of problems with my plan okay but I
know that but my point is that the current plan of centralized monitoring
and radio communication is not enough because it needs to be like a smart
system where the individual operators can can receive and transmit only the
relevant broadcasts to themselves so the
centralized thing just has to manage who
needs to communicate with each other and why so I would know if someone's going
to intercept me but I don't need to know about all that other stuff you don't
just automatically hear everything I know okay I know but I also won't have a
freaking console in front of me yeah I won't have pretty much anything in front
of me I might have a HUD if I'm lucky yeah so so something has something has
to be something has to be Cloud managed and intelligent in the background to man
to make sure that that stuff works
okay anyways after party thing yeah all
right peace Bros thanks for watching The Man Show we are going to be doing the
ultra wide Festival uh Afterparty thing where we go through some of the
honorable mentions here so uh stay tuned
my good friends and we will see you on the other
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