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i loved the original galaxy fold its gigantic screen top tier performance and

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head turning wow cool phone factor was enough for me to ask it to go steady

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with me until i eventually got tired of carrying a second device around in my

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back pocket and ultimately junked it for one without a floppy hinge dim screen

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and game breaking software bugs

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i mean how could samsung treat their most premium customers the ones who spend two

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thousand dollars on a smartphone like second-class citizens

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is the question that i asked back then well now i have the answer along with my

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one-month review of the only smartphone whose asking price would make apple

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blush the galaxy z fold 2. and it's

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brought to you by this ugly picture of me

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thanks dbrand you can get this or the

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infinitely more attractive sticker bomb bombskin which is chock full of LTT

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memes and tech references at the link below but only for a limited time so act

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now or robots will come murder your pets

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why do they want me to say that i don't condone pet murder

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wait sorry they're paying how much um all right

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uh pet murder then

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the original fold already did a lot of things right once we got past the whole

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breakage scandal but it had four obvious flaws the outer screen was too small to

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really be usable even with my homunculus hands the main foldable screen was too

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dim the hinge seemed great out of the box only to turn into a flaccid pile of

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suck down the line and the software was buggy and i'll address each of these

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with the z-fold 2 as we go but first

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the pitch why on earth would you spend 2

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000 on a phone well i never would but if dbrand wants

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to send me one there is a solid argument to be made for chucking everything else

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and switching to it for starters

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yes my friends from a dollars per square millimeter of screen area standpoint the

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z-fold 2 actually doesn't look too bad in comparison to the latest and greatest

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in apple or samsung's own lineups does it it really is like carrying a tiny

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tablet around in your pocket and almost everything about the experience is

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better than last time for starters the weird

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jello effect when you're scrolling is almost completely gone and that gigantic

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multi-lens selfie camera is replaced by a tiny little hole punch that

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drove me crazy at first because like

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why wouldn't i just take a selfie like this and use the front screen and then

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my better rear camera and then i could have my big screen totally unblemished

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until i realized what a terrible experience using it this way was

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ergonomically and accepted that yeah the

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hole punch here was probably the best they could do

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next up is brightness the final straw for me when i was using

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the original fold was a trip to la when i realized walking out of the airport

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that it was completely unusable in strong sunlight by contrast totally

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intentional by the way the z-fold 2's max brightness managed

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741 nits in gsm marina's tests not

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market leading but in the real world it was noticeably more usable

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and then finally there's the hinge i'm going to admit something andy i'm

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sorry i was super miffed when i got my fold

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one back from the camera guys with a bit of a gull wing shape to it unless you like

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really crank it open and even though i never said anything i

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blamed my shooters but it's clear to me now i'm sorry i'm sorry seeing the

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infinitely better hinge on the z-fold 2

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that the old one never stood a chance this feels

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much more sturdy and on top of that it actually opens up to almost any angle

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that you could want although i have to confess that with all this screen real

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estate at my fingertips samsung's idea of using the fold as like

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a built-in stand while you watch movies feels pretty wasteful i'm just gonna do

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that and use the whole thing unlike multitasking which is where this

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device really shines got a whatsapp chat going and you want

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to browse the internet no problem got a spreadsheet rolling and want to

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reference some data to copy into it you can do that too are you more of a single

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task kind of person no problem in supported apps and we will talk about

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this later the z-fold 2 offers what is simply the most immersive experience of

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any phone that i've ever used ever and

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pretty much without compromise with the latest snapdragon 865 processor 12 gigs

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of RAM and a 120 hertz display oh i can't believe i

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didn't mention that before apple's a14 bionic might be a lot faster on paper

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and when rendering a video and when gaming okay it's a super impressive chip

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we'll make a video about that make sure you're subscribed but the z-fold 2 and any device with a

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high refresh rate display just plain

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feel smoother in day-to-day use the best part is that even with that enabled the

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4 500 milliamp hour battery only failed to get me through the day a couple of

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times and that's with me watching a fair bit of tv don't worry though i'm

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actually sleeping for a lot of well that's running i don't actually watch eight hours of tv a day and by the way

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the speakers are great i also unlock 70 times a day according

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to samsung's usage stats with 100 plus notifications coming in

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although that notification number seems a little off and we will talk about that later too

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for now more good things 5g

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corning victus glass on the front up to 512 gigs of internal storage wireless

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charging with reverse charging as well what could be bad all right here's

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something the unfolded screen is bigger than last time

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i know i know crazy thing right i'm like hey sales

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pitch giant screen by the way my biggest complaint giant screen

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let me explain one of the biggest reasons that i almost never use a tablet

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is that unless you sit down at a table and hook a keyboard and trackpad up to

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it it's basically impossible to type and

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at that point i might as well just use a laptop

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now phones get around this by allowing anyone with fast thumbs and a reasonably

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good predictive keyboard to get darn close to desktop typing speeds

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as long as the whole keyboard is actually reachable with your thumbs so

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for me a taller unfolded screen would have been

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way better it would have reduced the size of black bars on full screen media

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and resulted in a better fit when reading large documents in portrait

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but then samsung went and widened the screen instead making it hard for me to

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reach the middle of the keyboard quickly i know both the stock keyboard and

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actually swiftkey for that matter do have split modes but

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for me i reach over the center line a lot when i'm at full speed and i can't

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do that on a splitty now if you've got big hands or you don't

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mind the split you can ignore all that but i did have to get it out there

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and this too the included screen protector is horrible

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i understand why it's there glass doesn't fold at least not yet which

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means that almost anything is going to leave horrible scratches in that

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underlying plastic screen unfortunately using the

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also plastic screen protector has really felt like going back over

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a decade ago like the way my finger like here listen to this

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right and it's almost impossible to keep

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clean so here's what we're gonna do oh yeah that it's actually starting to come off at

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the bottom uh hinge point i'm just gonna pull it off right now samsung does not

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advise it but my understanding is that technically it's a thing that you can do

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so this really does feel like the kind of screen protector i would have gotten on

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like my hp ipac pocket pc

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immediately looks better feel how thick look how thick this is check this out

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it's disgusting oh my god that is so much better

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yeah that's way better that's actually my backhand making that noise

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way smoother if that gets ruined at least the z-fold 2's outer screen is a

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whopping 2 inches larger diagonally than the old one it's still not a pleasure to

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use by any stretch of the imagination but compared to the tiny first gen outer

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screen it's way better like if you just need to quickly reply to a text or

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something it gets the trick done even if holding a device like this makes

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me feel a little bad for mocking like the makers of chunky gaming phones

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now let's talk in detail about the camera

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actually i'm just kidding it is fine it's totally

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not the main attraction for a device like this though so i didn't bother

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sending brandon out for two days to take pictures realistically all it needs to

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be is good enough that the vast majority of people would never notice the

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difference and it definitely manages that i never felt like it was holding me

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back but then i'm also happy with my daily driver note 9 which at this point

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is basically crap compared to the latest pixels on iphones

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did you notice that by the way that bit where i said daily driver note 9

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yeah i think it's happening again the z-fold 2 simply can't be my one and

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only phone when it has game breaking bugs like this

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back to my notification stats where the hell is microsoft teams

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i use it for work and i promise you i get plenty of messages from people at

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work notifications are enabled and yet somehow i don't get any of them

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now to be clear teams notifications are a festering piece of crap and microsoft

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should feel bad i'm not the only one in this building that is like having

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problems with it but for all i know samsung could easily

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be partially to blame for this because even very mainstream apps like instagram

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and youtube offer degraded experiences on the z fold too

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instagram actually i didn't even put this in the script but this is hilarious

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instagram looks like garbage and has black bars on the side not to mention

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that it started double posting every time i tried to post an update which was

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especially charming because i couldn't even go back in my older posts and see

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that there were two posts on the z fold too i had to check on a different phone

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to realize oh no all these comments about double post because there's a

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second post so it took me a while to figure out there was a problem and then

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youtube still doesn't have support for

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community posts or stories features that

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well as a youtuber i regularly use

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now when pressed my google contact all but confirmed what i've always suspected

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is the case with a device like this yeah Linus we know it's expensive but

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frankly that's not our problem and for anything that's not running stock

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Android there's just no guarantee that it's going to work out of the box and it

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takes coordination between google engineers and engineers at the device

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manufacturer to make these kinds of things work as you can imagine at the

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moment the dozens of people like you running foldable phones just aren't a

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priority compared to the millions who will be running iphone 12s within the

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next few weeks so you're just gonna have to deal with it

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well okay then

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see you later

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oh it's just the rg phone for a limited time we've got a drop where you can for

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some reason buy this face skin

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um but i kind of figured we talked to them i was like really you guys so we also

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worked on this super cool sticker bomb skin it's all the same dbrand quality

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that you guys have come to expect you know precision fit it comes off without

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any residue protects your device from incidental scuffs and scrapes and the

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drop is available for two weeks so get it while it's here because after that it

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is gone it's gonna be linked down below

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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out um i don't know what the hey

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go watch whole room water cooling that was years ago but a lot of the new

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viewers probably have never heard of it we water cooled an entire room it was

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awful uh pet murder then

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sorry is it funny though okay you sure it's

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not too far okay people can tell it's just silly

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okay