you're are going okay uh nope not that one the
other one Chrome and then yeah Chrome's stupid
restore session that's just Absolut recent yeah it's
ridiculous and just doesn't work
sometimes wow Chrome you are so terrible
I just love you I just love you to
pieces recent tads none
it's like yeah I know the computer trash but it's just like really like really
like oh man the D Dem black magic
drivers man they were you know we were doing real well for a bit and the funny
thing is that's even on their fancy like $1,000 or $22,000 however much it costs
like 4K capture card and it just like
sometimes oh no no no cuz this was an HDMI one no it is on the intensity Pro
cuz sometimes it just outrights like yeah no blue screen sorry not so see you
all right so you know what guys I hate to kind of make you sit through this but
because it will take me about an extra 6
to 12 hours to have the wow archive up
if we uh if we don't do like if I cut it
together afterward there are a few reasons for that um and it's absolutely
terrible so we're going to kind of just start over and then we're going to Nuke
our first topic so we're going to do an extr extremely quick intro paid
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late all right so let's move on to our
oh I guess since it was one of our headline topics we better at least sort
of talk about it very briefly so FCC approves internet fast lane basically
that's just a way of screwing over people who don't have the money to pay
for the fast lane you know what's funny and we actually I guess we didn't talk
about this last time around but it really is like that because calling it
calling it an internet fast lane is actually the very best way to explain
what it is it is a way of making sure that the people who don't have way too
much money so that they just don't even care anymore um just all get stuck in
like sitting in traffic and wasting their time they're taking a three lane
Highway and making it so that one of the lanes is paid for only so the other two
lanes have way too much traffic all the time and then this one's awesome but
only has really rich people on I mean um so have you ever have you ever been to
Toronto uh for like a half an hour okay
so Toronto has basically they have like
two kind of not quite but like two somewhat equivalent highways and one of
them is a toll Highway and the other one is the sit and don't move Highway and
the toll highway is so expensive because
you actually you get told when you get on and then it actually keeps track of
how far you go and then tolls you like based on how far
you went at the exit and the way like
the the way they enforce this is it's it's all cameras but get this if you try
to dodge the toll they'll actually they keep records of all the vehicles
matching a given description and when they catch you they look for patterns
and when they catch you they hit you with the entire Bill plus interest so
like it's absolutely brutal and basically I remember I forget I forget
how much it costs but I was there and
um and and I worked it out and it was something like an hour of your wage per
day if you were making like okay money
just to get to and from work aside from gas aside from insurance which of course
the the local government is also collecting taxes on yeah it's just
absolutely brutal that's nasty so that is what a fast lane is a fast lane is a
way of saying saying you got lots of money all right man you don't got lots
of money you can go get in that one get in Highway that doesn't move ever yeah
pretty much okay okay so this is pretty
fantastic this was posted originally on the Forum by death Jester we're going to
go ahead and share my screen here Watch Dogs the Watchdogs experience so okay so
here's a quote from the article which was on the Ubisoft blog our nextg system
or on nextg systems the game will run at 900p on PS4 which actually is not that
bad upscaled 900p is not that bad that's
what like 80% of the resolution of 1080p is that's it's still not 1080P and 1080p
is kind of meh on a TV though remember you're playing on a TV so 1080p is like
as good as it get not not everyone plays these on TVs that's true but you're
still playing on a 1080p display especially like dorm room people yeah
yeah okay so so you're playing at 1080p so 900p not that bad it's going to run at
792p on the Xbox
One what is
792p like they're just they're just inventing things it's like what it's the
highest it's probably the highest they could get that sits at 30 FPS yeah but
it's two better than 790p why didn't you go with 790p why not 793 highest they
could possibly get where it sits stable at 30 FPS I tell you that was it it runs
at 30 frames per second on both on both consoles and um basically what Ubisoft
had to say is while some new gen games now offer native 1080p it was much more
important to deliver an amazing NextGen experience than to push a few more
pixels onto the screen and this is a quote resolution is a number just like
frame rate is a
number
oh no resolution is not just a number resolution is one part of the overall
visual Fidelity but that assumes that
the resolution is at a reasonable enough
level that it's not detracting from the
experience experience is a word just like how gameplay is a
word how did I ever do this show without
you oh right less
expensively you don't pay me for the whole show and actually at the beginning
when I first came on you didn't pay me for the show at all for like a year and
a half or something I don't think it was a year and a half I think it was I don't
know when it was it was a year and whatever mons I think that a year is
just a period of
time oh no oh man so okay guys this is this
is the problem with this okay like look look at it this way when you're playing
a game like Battlefield 4 where it's available on the PC it's available on
the PlayStation 4 it's available on the Xbox 360 it's available on all these
platforms that gives you an opportunity to evaluate the importance of like
gaming hardware and you know what I think when you and I were doing our
evaluation with the gen versus last gen versus entry level PC we pretty much
agreed PlayStation 4 you know what not a bad value the the difference and we this
was Assassin's Creed at the time and that was running at 900p at the time
wasn't it uh I think so it was something like that I can look at up it was 720p
on uh it was 720p on Xbox one for sure
and I think we could agree and just jump
in if I'm saying things that are totally unfair but I think we could agree that
PlayStation 4 looked a hell of a lot closer to the entry level PC like
basically yeah yeah sitting a distance away from but the Xbox One experience
because the resolution was so low even though maybe they're running similar
detail levels and they've got the same physics simulations and all that
gameplay stuff that is really important the resolution was so low that it
detracted from the experience it was very noticeable it was it was obvious
and your eyes kind of went oh like crap like this would look good if it wasn't
for yeah that that people are saying 1080p now but I think there was0 I think
there was an update no there was an update so the point is that up to a
certain point resolution's just a number
and when your TV is going to be you know 20 ft away from you or something like
that 1080p versus 4K you may not even be
able to tell depending on the screen size and stuff too depending on screen size depending on distance depending on
content but 1080p versus 360 P you'd be
able to tell and then like 1080p versus like you know whatever the lowest one
like is it like 144 or like whatever the
like lowest vertical line resolution is
going to be distracting and terrible and
I it's in my mind 792p for something that we're going to
call a nextg gaming experience I I
understand what they're doing but it's a totally unacceptable gaming experience
in my mind but I don't blame Ubisoft for
this at all no not their fault in fact
Ubisoft I'm going to do this you know why they push the
experience that they needed to push that's right and on the platforms that
can do it they're going to deliver that experience they had the balls to say
look we're going to make an awesome game that looks fantastic and has a bunch of
really cool features does and it does and you know what if people don't buy
the right Hardware fine then they're going to get a lesser
experience and like we're sorry but like we did our best man we did our best and
deal with it honestly this the stuff ubisoft's been pushing out lately has
been really cool other than you play you play terrible yeah you play is terrible
really bad but like the game this live stream brought to you by Ubisoft you
play terrible oh wait hold on Noe no no no um one actually fairly interesting
thing is Mario Kart 8 on Wii U is going to be 1080p 60 FP hold on hold on this
is great this guy's like is such a suck up sometimes and then he probably hasn't
seen the part of the stream you play is terrible yeah you play is awful really
bad yeah you play as awful very possibly the worst one what I think Ubisoft
should do is they should just like uh make a deal with valve where they can
have their own up play but they can just skin steam a section on Steam like
there's the up playay section on Steam no valves should just sell them a
license for steam no way that would be so good that
would be awesome that would be awesome if anyone from valve is watching please
rescue them you you know that they need to have their own thing so they can feel
like big boys like like they have their online content distribution thing let
them build their own you can still make money off yeah you can still make money
off of it this way just let them license it so they can feel like they're doing
their own thing everyone's a winner
everybody everyone's a winner because it's so much better than origin and you
play and then and then maybe part of the license contract can be that browser
based what's that Battle Log Battle Log has to go away yes oh man I would be so
happy valve can rescue us all valve can literally save the whole universe okay
I'm sorry you were talking about Mario Kart and how marioart Nintendo is going
to be delivered Nintendo Mario Kart 8 on
Wii U 1080p 60fps including split screen
multiplayer they're just like nope it needs to be in this experience and it
looks really good and it has new features and all this kind of stuff stuff and boom done I mean part of
Nintendo's thing I I think they benefit from resolution more than other guys
because their graphical style it's kind of like blizzard where they're just like
okay we're going to make stuff that's really easy to run and then we're going
to call that a graphical style yeah but it looks really good but it works that
cartoony style works I mean that's not going to help
Nintendo stop losing money but and it's
not going to help watch dogs in any way no because Watch Dogs is not cartoon
this great who's this on Twitch uh adal
valant Battle Log is so much fun yeah it's basically its own game the game the
game is can you make it work press the button I don't if it works it's like
playing slots you know every time someone wants to play
Battlefield with me I'm like let's see
cuz I don't know and half the time it's like nope can't play okay good luck have
fun oh fantastic someone wants to know what
are the aftermarket buds on my ie80s um nothing these are just these are just
stock ie80s and I love them they're amazing they're my favorite they're my
favorite earphones ever um not because Sennheiser paid me to say that in fact
my relationship with Sennheiser has been very Rocky at times but I definitely do
love their products what's what are those tips that we used to use comply
yeah those were nice comply actually reached out they want us to do a review
and I was just kind of like how do you do a review of a piece of foam that goes
on the end of a yeah we could do like a 30 second review we could do a review of
just the tip I guess we don't want the whole thing good
but they break down and then you have to buy new ones and it gets expensive you
done I mean edzel buys them but my whole
thing was I don't want to get hooked because yeah I I cannot okay I can
afford to buy foam tips but I would feel
stupid yeah it's yeah it's not like that
much money but it just seems like an investment where you're like wow do I
really need to do this I'm locking into this commitment but you know what in the
grand scheme of things they do sound better and they are way more comfortable
way more comfortable if they had like a subscription service as stupid as this
sounds they should have one though soent
has a subscription service yeah like well I mean one of our sponsors Dollar
Shave Club like if you told if Dollar Shave Club came to us and they're like
yeah we have this great idea you're going to buy razors online I be like wow
you're an idiot that's a terrible idea that's a terrible idea but the whole
subscription model makes it actually work really well because you're
committing a small amount of money spread out over a long period of time
and then you don't have to think about it because to me it's really about the hassle I'll tell you what if anyone from
comply is watching if you guys figure out a subscription model where it like I
just get a new set of tips once a quarter or something like that and it's
inexpensive and like I get a discount for being like part of the club kind of
like what again one of our other sponsors 54 where they take their store
and they basically go okay look you sign up for the subscription and you have
half price off of MSRP and we send it to you once a month like if comply figures
out something like that where they get the commitment from me so they can rely
on the business and I get a discount and the convenience I will commit and I will
start using comply tips so recently came out of their like beta phase they're now
selling normally beta food I know with
the way beta tests go like well they have they have FCC approved even though
that's still kind of sketchy but they do have a nutritional label now and all that kind of stuff so that's kind of
good they have a nutritional label but
nutritional labels are just
numbers this is not going to end like
ever um we need a t-shirt resolution is
just a number and then it should be all like pixelated and shitty looking yeah
that's actually not a bad idea guys let us know if we need to do that you know
what I'm I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to just jump on this we we have to
make that t-shirt need uh resolution is
just a number t-shirt resolution is just a number just like yeah and the text
should look crappy and low res okay I'm
I'm sending that to edzel I'm trying to think of some way that you can include just like FPS is just a number it's it
would be too long it would be too it would be too long for one and then for
two the only way that I can think of that you could style it properly would be like lagging the the word the letters
out and that would just look really weird yeah and like if you want the the
words to be low res enough to kind of get the joke it's going pretty big
they'll take up space so you can actually read it and stuff so yeah resolution is just a number t-shirt
we're going to we're going to get on that you guys yeah I'm sorry our t-shirt
supply chain takes so long we're looking into some other options um so stay tuned
on that you guys yeah but yeah so they they win Subscription Service recently
and I think that's really smart because a big problem with that whole thing
sorry we're back to talking about soilent I've lost TR I had to think about it for a second what is he talking
about subscription condoms that probably
exists it probably does it would make you feel really insu like it would
wouldn't it make you feel crappy when you start to get a stockpile and you'd be like Oh I'm not oh
no I'm not doing very well here there's you you know how I
sometimes try and find like people that want to do pre-rolls and stuff like that
um I I was watching a yeah this is going to go there um I was watching an old
Archive of one of The Young Turks videos
on some topic I don't even remember why I was watching it but there sponsor for
the video was some condom website and I thought about it and I had like written
the email being like maybe we should contact them and I was like no because I
was like well our target audience would be so big for them wait because they'll have large
penises well I mean you probably do but
yeah but I meant more the male side yeah
we should totally do it why not I did I wasn't a huge fan of the website oh okay
if it was like a better service or a better website then I probably would have actually sent the email but it was
kind of okay okay yeah cuz if we can find I guess well there's the challenge
if we can find a not sketch yeah online
condom seller well like durx wouldn't be
sketch but then it would have to be like a subscription service to them or
whatever so and like I don't know if that's going to work but anyways back to
soilent again um my biggest problem with
it is like the second you run out you're like okay well I'm going to have to wait
two weeks or something until I get more so the time to not be using this for a
while right cuz you you can never be on cycle properly can never actually test
it yeah exactly so now they actually have a subscription thing you can sign
up for a month or whatever weeks or I don't know I didn't really look that a far into it but you can get a
subscription and they're like yeah it'll show up a little bit before the end
because it's not that big of a deal because this stuff lasts for like years
before it expires so it'll show up before you're out and you're good it's
like okay cool and then if you listen to everything he just said and you imagine
he's talking about condoms that works too actually all of
that would have been accurate would yep I was paying
attention awesome I mean whenever we're
talking about condoms I'm definitely paying
attention subcription so this is a topic SS o e l e dude we're you know what
normally we don't we don't no normally we don't change people's names on The
Forum like it's kind of against Forum policy but if if he or she ever wants to
message me and get a name change we will take care of that for you so that I can
pronounce your name when you post things that are helpful like
this whatever anyway the point is excuse
me the point is that nocta has released penis size is just a
number and the entire twitch chat
exploded oh my God that's awesome maybe we should have a low reses penis on the
resolution is just a number shirt well it's like small enough that
you can't really make out what it is yeah yeah like a low res cocking balls
like right under the under the in the corner or something so it just looks
like an underline or something yeah so it's just like four squares right oh
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there you go oh terrible that's awesome you know I
don't think I've ever used that word on the stream before no probably probably
shouldn't all right so Noctua has new fans coming you guys this is pretty
freaking exciting new fans in new colors
although the way the internet exploded about this news um kind of made me feel
like they didn't really watch our computex coverage from last year like
one year ago we broke this news showed
off all these
fans and it takes Noctua a year this is what I like about Noctua they don't seem
to care about making money nope they just don't they just like so many so
many fan companies or cooler makers you look at them and you just kind of go you
know I wish they would just give up their precious money and spend a bunch
of money making like a really great quality fan which they'd probably make a
lot of money off of which well no I don't think so because like the you look
at how much nocta spends on the packaging you know to make sure and you
can't have a premium brand without having good packaging I think this has
been proven time and time again I'm not criticizing them for spending money on
packaging you have to so they've got their premium packaging they've got
actually legitimately well-built products the amount of R&D I mean it
took them a year to get these to Market I don't think after they were working
yes I don't think their margin is any better than any other fan maker and if I
had to guess I would guess it's probably worse so like on a bomb cost basis like
you look at what the other guys can afford to spend on marketing whereas we go to nocta and we're like hey you know
we love your products um you know we would have no problem Shilling the heck
out of them because we think they're great and they just kind of go like we
don't really have a marketing budget so
yeah we thank you for loving our products we'll send you as many of our
products as you want which is kind of awesome which is great which which
actually use them all the time that was all we really wanted
anyway but uh I don't remember where I was going
with this right right right so I love that they just have the balls to have a
product that's pretty much ready to rock like a year ago take a year to bring it
out because that's how long it takes to get it perfect and I'm assuming it's
perfect they are in the mail but we don't have them yet but anyway the redo
line takes away some of the little extra
like rubber grommets and brings back some of the older designs that we
haven't seen in a while like the older S12 non- rux and cost them down a little
bit to make noct tool quality a little bit more affordable which I think is
great but and then nope oh these are the ones that have my attention I mean we're
talking $30 plus a fan for industrial
grade Noctua fans and they're black and
they just have little brown accents and they have all the way up to IP67 water
and dust proofness they're available at a couple of different RPM levels and
Holy balls these are exciting because I
well that it's the only fan they look
really sharp that really matters if you want the and I again I haven't even
touched them yet but because of noct to's reputation I'm comfortable saying
they're going to be the only fan in terms of the highest possible quality PC
Fan Experience that you're going to be wanting to look at so and those those
rubber accents on the end can one probably be changed in color pretty
easily yep um and two they're removable so that'll be even more easy to change
the color and and they're the dark dark brown yes not the light brown that a lot
of people complained about anyways yeah I'm I'm all right with the color I don't
mind it it's like a chocolate color as opposed to like like a digestive problem
and if ASUS stops making golden motherboards maybe it'll be okay ASUS's
motherboards I'll have you know are the gold standard oh and that is why they
are gold speaking of ASUS is JJ ever
going to join us here I I we haven't had our video chat open so I don't even know
if he has uh has tried to send a friend
request or anything I don't see any requests and I don't see any emails from
the uh the jmeister so maybe JJ will
join us next week I don't know boom oh you know we never showed the results of
that straw pole that we ended up crashing the stream over wanting to show
them are you happy with your ISP why
wow a third of the people say yes remember though our time zone for this
show is very well lined up with Australia oh yeah that's a good point
they should definitely be answering no all of them should be answering no
anyone from Australia go back and change your answer seriously he said yes
wrong not good enough a full 24% said
cucumber I you know what I might have said cucumber cuz you don't put multi
options do you nope nope you have to
choose one option you got to commit yes no or
cucumber oh man we haven't even covered anything we
didn't really have much of a show lined up today because we were expecting JJ to
talk to us and tell us about z97 we talked about
stuff we talked about FCC we talked about Watch Dogs we talked about uh
Noctua fans we talked about nocta fans okay well let's talk about how Xbox one
is slightly less unfair now so um they
did a couple of things here that I think I would look at and say wow that's
really commendable if they weren't so terrible in the first place so number
one is the fact that like honestly I've never owned an Xbox okay no I have owned
an Xbox I have an Xbox 360 and an Xbox
One okay I do I own two Xbox were both for not for really personal use much I
could have used them but you did didn't
right so one of the biggest issues that I had from day one like when I found out
as a PC Gamer traditionally anyway this was posted on the Forum by rafy um when
I found out as a PC Gamer that they had an Xbox Live gold membership that I had
to have to like update my profile or
voice chat with people or play multiplayer I was just like what are you
are you high like are you stupid like if
we just and I kind of said at the time I remember saying at the time look if we
all just boycott this it'll go away like
that instantly it'll go away because
they have to sell consoles and they have to sell games and if we refuse if we
just all stand there and not pay for it those subscription fees will go away
looks like it's happening Microsoft is getting a little desperate and then the
other thing that's terrible in the first place is the fact that the connect which
was forced to be bundled with the Xbox
one you were forced to buy one if you wanted an Xbox One um is now an
option um and I mean connect is just
like it's one of those things where you know what a $100 Delta and I wanted an
Xbox one I would probably buy the connect option I have a young family for
kids you know what casual connect games
I would rather and and this is like this is like that kind of thing that the
gaming Community makes fun of and I wholeheartedly agree with you guys it's
all kind of silly and you'd have the control of being able to stand in your kitchen and when your kid won't get off
the Xbox just be like Xbox off like it's
one of those things where I would rather my kids play at a game that at least has
them waving their ARM around if nothing else I don't I don't want to see I don't
want to see my son like Flack do life
this for four hours at a time I it's one
of those things like I I don't know like I did it as a kid I turned out all right
but at the same time I just I don't know it just seems
like it can happen you just probably want a mix of things like my parents
were cool with it but I was extremely active I was in tons of sports and all
this kind of stuff but then I would also lay completely across the couch and play
more win for days on it right so like I don't know like I don't know what the
right answer is but I but I will say that if I was going to buy the kids an
Xbox game I would rather like you know Dance Off challenge or whatever versus
like you know blood blood sport 16 kind
of Duty yeah Call of Duty like Space
Edition or whatever that don't worry the amibas have ai yeah we we got like a big
time actor to put in the trailer because we don't know what else to do who just
plays a character that he has no matter what definitely very recently played
like no differences I know it's exactly the same
person have you watched that at all yes I have yeah I'm just like
wow why is this even a video game why don't we just make it a movie then at
this point I legitimately looked up to see if he was actually playing the same
character like I was wondering if they had made a deal with Netflix or
something to like integrate the show into the game I was like oh that's kind of interesting that's an interesting
idea nope it's like oh okay guess not so
anyway I I I don't know remember where we were going with this but uh so you'll
be able to buy the connect separately later this fall you can get the console for $100 cheaper without connect
someone's calling me and uh something else right Xbox Gold is no longer
required for popular entertainment experiences like Netflix and Hulu Plus
and that's baffling to me why did you ever need that in the first place yeah
and I can't imagine that Netflix H Hulu Plus and those guys really wanted that
to be there at all they've probably been pushing against it as well but what can
they do right yeah you know I used to play Halo 2 online so I had to have a
gold subscription and what I would do is I would have my whole friend written out
and then every single time that uh you
know you were a sucker were Su every time my one month would uh close you
would get a one month free if you made a new MSN
account so I had my whole friends list written
out I'm not going to go into what I did from there your friends must have but I
had a hard copy of my friend yeah they
did that is so annoying
oh it's the first okay Luke's freaking
like gonna have to read him because he's a jack at bum Pooh head I was like I I
was paying for my games at that point in time and like there's no way I'm going
to pay that much money for this stupid Online subscription that I don't want to
do and there like there's no way your parents are going to buy that for you no
nope I I I I I've I've I've met I've
spent enough time with his parents to be like yeah they're pretty supportive but
like you f figure it out yeah I paid for I played ever Quest back in the day I
paid for those I paid for those monthlies that's why you got into Eve
online because you could earn your subscription fee
yeah uh wow subscriptions I think my parents helped me out a little bit
though but then it was my brother my dad and I and we all played together like my
mom came and played with us sometimes too and stuff so it was like we're all
yeah that was kind of cool and for a lot of times we even shared an account all
three of us so yeah all right so you
know what's funny is there was a post in this thread so this was originally
posted by Tech fanatic on the Forum thank you very much for posting that
said that like haa lonus was so down on
AMD's free sync LOL show you know goes
to show him and I was a little bit confused by that was I ever at any point
down on freesync a little bit what did I
say you said it wasn't going to work but then I think you I think I said it
wouldn't work with the scalers now yeah and I'm pretty sure specific words were
current form and said that that was NVIDIA saying that yeah um and I know I
know that you said it won't work in its current form and when the news first
broke on uh NCH I actually posted that
to Facebook and I was like holy crap does this completely invalidate g-sync
existence yeah so I don't know where all this came from but I am totally 100% on
board with AMD's free sync now called
active sync there there's one thing that I'm a little bit sketched out about so
far and that was doing some reading it's not 100% clear to me what cards it's
going to work on because it looks like they're saying R9
290x and 260x which would basically be um Hawaii
version whatever it is the new ones um
so not the Reb Badges of the Tahiti core ones which would really suck which would
be really sucky and then there's no mention of NVIDIA cards now what I think
is AMD's whole stance lately has been
Open Standards this and that so I sincerely hope that it's an open
standard uh but I would hate to see it
happen where NVIDIA is pushing a gsync standard and AMD is pushing an Adaptive
sync standard and we end up with monitors that support one or the other
or both because and this is something I have criticized NVIDIA about asking
people to lock into something is kind of sucky I do understand that if you
develop the technology like they they basically built their own scaler
hardware for monitors it's not just a software trick I mean if you're
developing the technology I understand that you want to benefit from it and the
only way you're going to benefit from it is a license fee to the monitor guys and
selling more graphics cards to go with those monitors but that doesn't mean I
have to be happy about it um and I I
think that it will be definitely the wrong path if both of them try to do
that I mean the good news about adaptive sync is unlike gsync it looks like it's
going to be a very simple implementation so anything with DisplayPort
1.2a uh will have adaptive sync as part
of the Vasa standard um which which
pretty much I mean you know don't don't quote me on this six months down the
line really don't quote me on this but if that happens active sync is going to
just be in any monitor with a DisplayPort Port because remember guys display
port is free to implement on your monitor compared to the license fees
associated with HDMI so it'll just support active sync and I really don't
know what the future of gsync will be one thing that NVIDIA did say openly was
that we really want the gaming experience to be better and that's why
we made this technology so I really hope that if they managed to move the
industry forward that they still feel good about themselves and that we all
still remember who did it so that's I guess all I have to say say about that
and I I say the same and it's not because you know I've got you know a
raging you know hard on for NVIDIA it's
because I do appreciate anyone who pushes the industry forward I don't have
a ton of love for Apple but I appreciate that they pushed resolution forward even
though they don't even make displays why did it take apple to to develop the
retina concept boy and like I appreciate other
things they do like the fact that they focus on accur color for their displays
whereas everyone else other than Google seems to be and HTC is doing a better
job lately I mean well everyone's doing a better job lately but Apple started it
and so I I think we just all need to appreciate the guys who innovate even if
that Innovation isn't inventing or actually building something if it's just
awareness and making people understand that something needs to happen so there
that's what I have to say about that I guess there's some other stuff in there isn't there something about like
potentially DisplayPort 1.3 as well uh well DisplayPort 133 will be able to
support 8K although it'll have to change the
connector to be able to support H 8K or 4K 3D so that's not necessarily tied
into the actual adaptive sync thing that's just talking about future display
port connectors and if anyone wants an explanation of adaptive sync basically what it means is that your monitor will
only refresh when your graphics card outputs a signal so it's just like gsync
and it will reduce tearing and leg and it really does make a very big
difference it's like fantastic fantastic low persistence is cool man yeah and low
persistence on top of that is going to turn the LCD gaming experience into
finally legitimately better than a CRT gaming experience yeah you know how
people were talking about so many years later yeah yeah this is totally off
topic completely but you know how people were talking about how our office was dirty in the office tour video yes have
you seen Palmer's office no oh my God
there's just like the the side of his desk there's like an Ang angled pile of
garbage that goes all the way up and touches the top of his desk on both
sides and then on both sides of the door there's just like stuff and none of it's
like none of it necessarily looks like you should throw it away it's just stuff
just all over the place the whole top of his desk there's a laptop sitting like
angled on top of a bunch of books and other crap and like just is the top of
his desk worse than my desk was back at NC you remember the piles of paper that
I used to have on my desk right I think they're like I don't know cuz I didn't
get like a top down view M I got it from the side but that's got to be one of the
closest to your desk I've ever seen like it's it's insanity and there's like an
interview going on in there and he's just like yeah whatever I don't even care the number the number of PE 8K is
just a number uh the number of people
telling us or asking why we didn't clean up the office before we did a tour oh
you guys the number of hours that went into
clean up before that tour happened C
you wouldn't have even believed this place there was like okay here I'm going
to put this in perspective for a minute all that stuff in the garage was in the
house okay yeah so that's step one step number two all of the shelves the one in
Luke's office and the ones downstairs for the camera equipment were in the
house or sorry we didn't have the table
all that was on the floor yeah the table that was out in the garage that's just like a dining room table that has like
pedestal style feed under it so there's like not really any room under it that
was what we were using in place of where Brandon's shelf is so like all the stuff
that's on that shelf was either on that under it or on the floor in the in the
fastest possible green screen area sometimes when we had to shoot a fast as
possible we legit had to like rearrange
the piles of stuff on the floor so the lights could illuminate the green screen
correctly you guys have no idea like it's actually everyone around here has
been marveling lately at how easy it is to work right now it's it's it's quite a
amazing you can walk in a straight line for at least 2 seconds without running
into anything yeah and before like shuffling your foot forward would have
run into something I think Brandon's agility has leveled up at least six
levels since he started working here because that guy he almost cables he
almost ended up with the nickname cables if we hadn't started calling him Boll
before we started calling him cables he would have been cables for sure because
that guy when he first started working here you put a cable in a room he would
trip over it 100% like the number of times he has
almost destroyed the Sony fs700 camera the $8,000 camera I can probably count
on more than one hand yeah because of like tripping on something or hooking it
on something and like and then oh man there's this one time when he didn't
lock the tripod head oh no and it it was going down so fast that I I swear the
lens mount would have broken or something and then he's like w and he
caught it oh uh yeah and like he he's learn
learn the the foot flick yeah the footlick which most nerds that I know
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Ethernet cable but it could be anything your foot goes under it and then you
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you're okay you look kind of weird but you're okay but it doesn't pull on the
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like dude really okay so the ASUS g750 JZ as far
as gaming laptops goes with go without
getting into the ones that are like so thick they legitimately don't fit into
backpacks in fact I actually have ASUS's
purpose built what did I just drop hopefully nothing important nope so I
have ASUS's purpose made Rog laptop that actually goes with the g750 JZ or any
other similar ASUS gaming notebook that's also uh well this size um where
was I going with this right yes so it's the gaming laptop that without going
into kind of the ludicrous specs is pretty much as good as you can get it's
got now you're just listing off rappers
oh I didn't even mean
to I was doing so good
I will give you 50 cents to go
away I I'm sorry I had to oh man oh man
I was doing so good and then he said ludicrous and I was just like boom
you've completely derailed
me okay so I'm trying to talk about this
laptop here so without getting into the ones that are absolutely crazy run crazy
hot and get like 30 minutes of battery life the g750 JZ is about as powerful as
you can get the onboard Graphics I mean okay I shouldn't say onboard the
built-in Graphics are a GTX 88m which is
actually a about equivalent to a GTX 770 desktop card and then the onboard CPU
onboard CPU why am I even saying these things you just you threw me for a loop
here I was doing so good I lifted up my laptop I put it back down I sat here I
just like looked around in the background and then ludicrous all right well I'm just going to have to make my
way through this as best I can here so the cooling is fantastic good enough
that we can actually run these laptops on our laps and wow I just got the 50
Cent reference I didn't get it till
now oh that was good okay okay can we do
we have our composure yeah
okay okay this laptop is very powerful
it's portable it's fast it runs really
cool it's high quality cuz it's made byus it's got a great overall fit and
finish to it we found that it's great for video editing it's great for gaming
it has a surprisingly excellent price to Performance ratio compared to thin and
light gaming notebooks and even compared to a desktop it's not as far off as
we've traditionally seen in the past you should check out the g750 JZ if you need
something that is while not super thin and light still portable and will
deliver a truly great gaming experience I mean we were able to run BioShock
Infinite on Ultra you were able to run pretty much everything you threw at it
like desktop grade specs I did my normal benchmarking sets for good graphics
cards so maximum everything essentially like Luke has different uh presets for
the games depending on what kind of a tier of product we're running and so we
were able to run all of the like Enthusiast class tiers and without the
laptop um something to tears I'm missing
the word there bursting into tears although that would be like water
cooled Next Level laptops they burst into tears when you put them into under
performance we need the snacks on this show do you have any M&M's no actually
a I was like what of course not ah a oh
my goodness oh yeah okay so I was I was
actually trying I was like I didn't prep my Jay-Z joke this week which like
needed some prep so I was like I'll just let him go and this week will be a calm
week and then nope not at all not at all
he said ludicrous I didn't even mean to on that
one I didn't even think of it that
wasn't even the spelling that was in my head no nope all right so posted on the
four Forum by someone anyway this is an article from an NCH The Shield gets
portal and half life too which uh here
if you want to run through this with everyone I'm going to go get the like
epic NVIDIA swag that they sent over here where you can find it it's a little
bit higher up there I don't think there's really actually that much to say
uh you can talk about how amazing it is yeah it's it's kind of awesome I really
appreciate that they're bringing this back because honestly it's been a really
long time since it came out so you could probably play it again and it would be
totally fine and having it on a shield is definitely something where you just
play it while you're like going to bed and it's not actually that big of a deal
um if you get portal and halflife 2 together it's about 10 bucks on Android
which is actually awesome because that's about the same price as they are on
Steam which is fantastic uh this is just way too cool
we have to show this like now yeah I know right I was so stoked when this
came in I guess he's got to get hooked up first um when it first launched it
ran on an ATI x800 Pro or uh slxt or
NVIDIA 6800 Ultra or gt and that Tegra 4
chip should theoretically be faster that's incredible and that's not even
Tegra K1 yet and Tegra K1 is like right
around the corner yeah they they're already leaking stuff for shield 2 which
will be running it so which is extremely exciting so we're at the point where
NVIDIA has done a lot of gum flapping
about you know console grade gaming experience on mobile but you look at how
long they've been at this like ever since the the whole the the original
Tegra and the Tegra 2 they've been saying look this is where we're trying
to get to It's actually kind of cool it's
actually happening yep it's actually happening and half is finally like half
lifee 2 Portal 2 this kind of stuff they're actually games that I really
legitimately want to play on the device I mean the funny thing is as soon as I
heard the announcement that Portal 2 was going to be coming I think two days
prior I had finished playing Portal using gamestream yeah yeah yeah it's
like so yeah I just played played through I played through the entire game
on my shield with gam stream fine right yeah you didn't have any downsides
didn't have any issues um but anyway so cool okay so this uh this was sent to us
from NVIDIA they hadn't like given us any preparation for what it would was
going to have anything to do with so it's basically just um a painted crowbar
uh it came in like this enormous box with way too much anti-static bubble
packaging yeah I guess when you're NVIDIA the only packaging you really
have is anti but uh there you go so it's a what would
Gordon do crowbar with a halflife 2 Lambda and an NVIDIA Shield logo on it
so this is freaking cool this will definitely live on the wall of Epic that
we need to recreate back here because we seriously need to redo the L show oh
definitely it's absolutely that's that's one of the coolest pieces of Swag I've
like ever seen 100% pretty pretty
amazing whoever thought that was a good idea was was on the money was not stupid
nope yay good job the better than
useless award the not stupid award that should be the only W that award that we
can possibly give out we should never have any other Awards other than better
than worthless better than worthless or better than better than all the terrible
words yeah yeah so we can just change whenever but it's essentially the same
idea better than putting nails in my
eye okay so this article from digital Journal honestly it's not the best
article I've ever read and uh I I don't know like I hate to I hate to generalize
about people but like this author needs
a better portrait James if you're watching dude please like it's like
selfie bad and it's like selfie in like
it looks like he took it on his webcam because you can see his screens reflected in his eyeglasses yeah it's
just like yeah he must have too yeah no see you can see yeah and like a really
old kind of crappy laptop webcam yeah so
James please please fix that um it's I mean it's not it's not that it's not
that bad but uh basically the point of the article which is you know like it's
it's actually pretty thorough for all of my for all my criticisms is that the NSA
and gchq are working on tour basically
and it is not as impenetrable as some
people would like to believe the main way that they are getting at your data
and tracking you is through browser plugins which still work with tour so
things like flash and Java that are well known to have
vulnerabilities um that just are gaping
that being that being said a lot of people that I know that try and set up
secure setups that aren't running Java or Flash and they're running a
combination of other things like there's there's you have to have a whole Suite
yeah and the thing is that most of the community that was using tour already uh
probably is doing that but we're talking about more mainstream people hearing
about T and kind of going oh but then I still want to watch my YouTube videos so
if you're unsure about all that kind of stuff um look it up there's guides on
how to like properly set up your browser if you want to be anonymous and it's
still you're still at a huge amount of risk but it's it's going to be a lot
better than just running tour so the tour network has not been cracked but
there are an increasing number of uh sites that are being hijacked do.ion
sites that are being hijacked by law enforcement agencies and recording
details of people that are visiting the sites and sending them to the NSA um so
there you go guys he
uh yeah so you're not safe anywhere I'm
beginning to think that my like technophobe sister might have been right
about all of this like she just she didn't even want a smartphone she
doesn't want a computer she just like no pen and paper I was when I was doing
research for that video that I'm working on right now I ran into something and I
started asking questions about it I was like I feel like a tin Hatter when I'm I'm asking a few of these questions but
then that's probably okay yeah because
of what's been happening lately that's probably entirely fine and I might not
even be that far off so I'm going to let you handle this are you sure yeah I kind
of want you to read through part of this no I don't really want to you don't want to read through this all right go uh so
Oculus Rift is being used to or the idea
of oculus rift is being used to give chickens a freerange style lifestyle so
they set up an Oculus Rift mix it in like a second life kind of idea and they
can make the chicken think that even though it's confined into a coupe it actually has a free range roaming
identity really VR for chickens like really what do you think
about this I think that as Concepts go
it seems more like a publicity stunt for VR in general and less of a uh practical
thing I mean we are so many bajillion
years away from a product like Oculus being able to
be miniaturized and costed down enough to put them on chickens I mean the it's
stupid I want chickens to have good lives but I don't think VR is the
solution well there's two things one I don't think it's actually going to give
you the benefits of free range because they're still confined to the thing and
a lot of free range stuff is the fact that they can run around all that kind of stuff and two I'm not real oh is this
fake yeah okay the whole point of the article was to see how many people they
can convince okay so I thought you had maybe seen that but I don't think so
anymore but everyone watching I bet a
lot of people actually kind of thought that that was legit and you know what it
maybe could be but I I read quite a few places that it's not so like yeah but
that's bad and the fact that that sounds super realistic is really bad
because imagine how many people you could sell free range chickens
to next they're just going to like strap a TV to the front of the cage and be
like yeah free range free has like a field on
it they can see the field which makes them think they're in the
field done all right so I actually kind
of well when we were supposed to have JJ on here I kind of realized we have like
barely talked about Intel's new z97 and h97 chipsets like at all so as usual Z
versus h means that Z is overclockable and H is uh not so much uh the N9 series
chipsets offer increased data transfer speeds for storage drives now supporting
the m.2 specification allowing them to drive two PCIe 2.0 Lanes to the m.2
drive giving it a total of about 1 GB per second of bandwidth compared to
about 600 megabytes per second of bandwidth available over SATA 3 um okay
the same connectivity options are basically there so 14 USB ports six of
which can be usb3 up to six SATA 3 six G
or six GB per 6 GB per second ports an
integrated gigabit Ethernet controller 8 PCIe 2.0 Lanes I believe that's all off
of the chipset because you have 16 Lanes off of the CPU something along those
lines they have upgraded smart response technology SRT so they're supporting
hybrid hard drives with integrated flash storage so pre viously the feature
required separate hard drives and ssds on separate connectors so I think
there's one drive to which that's applicable the uh WD black squared yeah
um okay Broadwell so new CPUs like
legitimate new CPUs are not coming until sometime next year probably about a year
from now and those will bring a 30% increase in power efficiency and z97 at
least some of the boards are advertising that they will have support for
Broadwell in the meantime we get Haswell refresh as well as Devil's Canyon so
Intel has improved the thermal interface material on the CPUs so that they're
going to run cooler and the word on the street is that z97 boards even before we
put overclockable has well refresh processors on them are overclocking a
little better and have the CPUs running cooler and I think that is pretty much
it except uh we were supposed to have we were supposed to have JJ on to talk
about this stuff he's an extremely busy man I know no well it's it's true he's
like super crazy oh oh whoa hey there we go oh just oh
oh oh just got back to the office out of the office due to an emergency it took
longer at the event location just got back into the office okay well maybe
we'll have him join us I think we've only got about 10 15 more minutes left on the show so guys uh you know maybe
what we'll do is we'll have JJ on next week I can't I can't say 100% because
it'll depend on his scheduling but I know you guys will probably want to hear from him about um what ASUS has done
that's amazing uh in the last little while that is what you will hear that is
what you will hear I mean he's uh he's so knowledge eligible so you know I look
forward to having him on the show I wish he'd been able to make it this week but there you go while you get that loaded
up I have to call out a tweet some guy tweeted me I bet you could get two packs
of M&M's for 50 cents yeah no no no no
no no that was pretty good he didn't fit Jay-Z in though so I don't know he can
have three points three points not 10 points yeah all right posted on the
Forum by Alex Goes High LG G3 press
renders leaked she look pretty and then
the completely impartial and unbiased headline says best looking phone of the
year so here we go Phone Arena was the
original uh poster I like the new design of the volume up down and power buttons
so that's back here yeah because um the
one thing I didn't like about the power button before was it was a strip right
which wasn't it was it was fine like it wasn't a big deal I didn't even bother
bring it up because it didn't matter that much but this does look nicer so I
we'll go through these renders like okay so there's a thing there and there's
some stuff uhhuh it reminds you a lot of that doesn't it yeah and why is everyone
doing gold phones please stop like can you can everyone please stop following
Apple like what makes Apple a leader the fact that everyone follows
them like and it's and it's a stupid idea I'm not being an apple Fanboy by
calling them a leader I think the idea was bad I think the idea was bad and the
people following it should feel bad that's all I'm trying to say gold
motherboards like just stop it gold is
Gody yeah I'm sorry people with class wear white gold
gold is awesome Al like everyone but a
metal I'm sorry gold is awesome when it comes in like a metal yeah like if I had
like a if I had like a if I had like a gold brick or like yeah something I I
can't think of too many other things I would like to actually be yellow gold
like some sort of booly or a medal or a trophy yeah all of that's super cool
yeah trophies should be gold yeah I'll settle for brass I've never want a
trophy in my life so I'd settle for any trophy really but you know what I I
don't know that I agree with the best phone of the Year thing because not
because this looks better but because it looks like the same damn thing like it
actually just doesn't really look any different to me I I don't I don't see
the difference and maybe I'm just not picky enough but like brushed metal back
back um I like how it looks but you're
not wrong it looks pretty much the same and and I would if everything else is
equal if they're the same price and they basically look the same front-facing
speakers man it is such a big deal and it is so disappointing that was one of
my complaints about the G3 is if I held it in the right particular way sorry G2
G2 sorry yeah yeah if I held it in the right or wrong way it would cover up the
speakers and essentially manually mute the phone yeah because I would be
covering up the speakers I couldn't hear it anymore it was kind of an yeah and another ergonomic thing that
people might not necessarily agree with me about but is that I don't like bottom
mounted headphone Jacks anymore I complained about this in my 1 and8
review but I actually didn't properly explain what I don't like about it like
I said thing right sorry is it the car thing car thing cuz you put your phone
in oh that's another reason but no that was I don't like it because of cars
because if you plug your stuff in the bottom and then you try and put it in a cup holder oh that's another good point
okay no I was talking about what's more natural for me put it in my pocket so
that I'm not putting strain on the connector um and so and not just that
but that that cuz that you could train yourself one way or the other but I like to have it right side up in my pocket so
I can pull it out of my pocket and glance at it okay and then the other
thing that I didn't explain very well is that if you have something plugged into
the bottom of the phone and you're using it right side up it's kind of in your
way and not so much on the 1 M8 if you're right-handed because it's it
could kind of come down here but using the iPhone 5S something I forgot to incl
includ in my review um where it's on the left it sits right under my pinky so
when I'm typing it's like right in the way um especially if you have a right
angle connector on your headphones just like I do yeah which isn't that uncommon
both of these have it y actually yep uh
Sony's CEO and executives are taking a 50% pay cut with no bonuses um they've
lost money four out of The Last 5 Years this was posted on the Forum by top war
Gam the original article is from IGN and
I I yeah you know what top war gamer I think you nailed it I'm surprised it
took you this long to do it it's almost like a a knee-jerk reaction to oh well
Nintendo's doing this yeah therefore maybe that's the honorable thing to
do okay I mean I don't
understand why an executive gets a bonus
if the company isn't hugely profitable the my my favorite ones and read
hate massively is when the company is like failing and going bankrupt and
they're like massive exiting bonus yeah it's like uh no that shouldn't be
legal I I really I really wish that uh
this mobile site yeah I wish this wasn't the mobile site but aside from that I
mean I I I don't know I don't know how you can ever enforce something like that
because it all just becomes like you know a just like Buddy Club where it's
like yeah let's all make lots of money that sounds great yeah I think that's a
great idea too bonus for you bonus for you bonuses for everyone but I I just
think it's wrong I just think it is so wrong that when you are not making money
I okay it's one thing to I mean okay
I'll I'll use you know the business terms to streamline your
Workforce and you know be profitable and
make money because you cut a bunch of jobs no one likes that but I kind of get
it the company's profitable you're still you're maintaining your sales Target
you're doing the company things that you need to do which is to make money it's
another thing when you are cutting jobs
or not cutting job or okay it's I guess it's better if you're not cutting jobs
and okay no hold on if you are we'll get there we'll get there yeah
yeah so right so if you're making money that's one thing if you're you know
cutting jobs or even not cutting jobs and you're not making money you shouldn't be getting a bonus because a
bonus should be tied to Performance and if the company's not making money then
the leadership is not performing because leadership is responsible for everyone
like if he does something stupid ultimately who gets a cease and desist
or who gets a complaint it will be me
because I'm responsible for him so if he does something great then I should get a
bonus but if he does something crappy then I'm the one who has to deal with it
because ultimately I'm responsible for what he does and that's how leadership
works that's what taking responsibility for things is supposed to look like and
so I don't understand why it took so long and I'm frustrated that that's a
thing and I guess I'm not really going anywhere with this now but the point is
thank you guys for tuning in to the W show I hope you guys enjoyed it as much
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that but uh I think also bunch of finals ending this week there's still some more
coming a little bit later if you guys are have finals later than this I'm
sorry holy crap that sucks um but yeah
thank you everybody for tuning in that was awesome all right peace out
guys someone will get
it