oh boy hi welcome to the WAN Show guys how are
you doing today it has been a long journey I hope you're well but we
finally made it it's a great day today it's been a very frustrating hour and a
half or so uh basically the computer I
streamed from right before the WAN Show that some of you may or may not have
watched I mean it's kind of been a while everyone who watched that stream is probably in bed by now probably um
yeah so the computer that I streamed that stream from decided to it yeah does
not it boots into Windows sometimes and
then when it does it locks up within about two minutes it's having a bad day
there you there you have it yes I know the camera is a little green um yeah I
don't it I don't know what to tell you guys about low audio because I just
listened to it so there's that um but
there you have it we are finally here we
are finally here and
uh apparently Luke looks terrible damn
dude well sorry sorry sorry sorry to
sorry to hear sorry to hear that Luke Luke's had Luke's had kind of a rough
spell here you know damn
dude Luke looks different Luke got
fatter as for being so quiet I'm literally listen to the stream right now
so it's fine uh all right so guys let's
get right into it we've got uh not a not a lot of time here based on the time
that it happens to be right now and how little of it is left so topics Pokemon
go is obviously the worldwide poo storm
that is taking the nation and the world
it swept pretty much everything um tops
daily Twitter users and sees more engagement than Facebook something that
not many apps can boast and we've got a lot of news around
Pokemon go it's going to be actually some pretty fun conversation the csgo
gambling debacle continues valve has
issued a statement so we'll get into that and sort of what that means in a
little bit here um it is customary for the co-host
to do two of the call out topics he's new at this don't worry folks sh it's
okay PC shipments in the US are growing for the first time in quote unquote ages
it's only been a few years but it's still been quite a long time uh and then
also Nintendo is releasing a miniature nest with 30 built-in games so that
could be cool that actually sounds freaking awesome let's roll the intro go
away go away Colton go away go
away at least I'm hoping the intro will roll at some point here
yep you should go do the thing so Colton doesn't have it it sure is supposed to I
will I will uh
seriously wow uh
so I am not sure if we are oh oh oh we
are we are we are we are broadcasting a thing I
oh I pulled the network versions that's why it didn't work um so
the intro will not be occurring today
and Nick will jump into our first Pokemon go topic while I change my shirt
does that mean that the sponsor stuff isn't on there yes it does okay we should probably fix that yeah we'll
figure that out okay anyway so as lonus
alluded to earlier Pokemon go has topped Twitter daily users and sees more
engagement than Facebook currently uh so it's now the biggest mobile game in US
history approximately 5.92% of the us
Android population engages with the app on a daily basis which is insane um so
that's the highest percentage of daily users on Android or sorry the highest
percentage of daily users on Android is in Australia uh at about 7.98% of all
Android users in the country um and like is it even officially launched in
Australia maybe people in the chat can tell me but uh I don't think it is I
could be wrong though uh and then the current Peak daily active users is just
over 20 million people uh Candy Crush
Sager reached approximately 20 million back in 23 or 2013
so remember how big the scope of that was uh it's even bigger than Candy Crush
and then Clash Royale only reached about six million at its peak in 2016 uh so
it's closing in on Snapchat on Android right now which is pretty insane and uh
professional yeah look at you huh and apparently the Pokemon go Android
application could even pass Google Maps on Android in terms of daily users like
what what yeah so more people are trying to find a map to where to find Little
Monsters than people who are trying to find a map to get to their grandmother's
house I'm just G to move somewhere to actually do something productive yes I'm
gonna move the mic right next to you okay and so uh so on Monday the average
iPhone user spent 33 minutes in Pokemon go uh be the average iPhone user yeah
the in America in America wow yeah uh
and that beats Facebook which saw about 22 minutes and 8 seconds on average uh
and I mean to be clear Facebook has probably more staying power than Pokemon
go yes but don't I mean don't quote me on that maybe Pokemon go will be the new
social media app and it will completely overtake everything ever and replace
YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and Instagram all at the same
time uh but probably not so this is very much a hype train at the moment and I
don't expect them to be able to sustain these kinds of numbers over the long
term like someone like Facebook has managed to do but um still it's
incredibly impressive I mean when you consider that the average iPhone user
spent half an hour in Pokemon go that means for every like old person like me
who didn't play it at all so this is US statistics remember yeah that's fine so
for every old person like me who didn't play it at all that day someone played
for an entire hour like if you look at
pretty much anyone who does Vlog style
content on YouTube right now like they're just walking around being like
everyone here is playing Pokemon literally and I'm sure that it's
more prevalent in the really concentrated areas uh like LA and New
York where a lot of these guys reside I mean I've seen a lot of people going oh
I can only get like four Pokemon in my area which is in like Montana or
whatever but I mean just the sheer
number of people who are engaging with the app on a daily basis is ridiculous
absolutely abolutely ridiculous so the original article here was from Tech crunch let's go ahead and pull that up
yeah absolutely love it you know what's kind of sad is I've been so busy this
last week I have not only not played Pokemon go I haven't seen anyone play
Pokemon go right I I haven't installed it yet I pretty much haven't been
outside of work or my house yeah in this
last week or so it's been it's been a sort of a challenging challenging period
here it looks very fun though yep so I
guess yeah that's that's great oh actually here's a few more numbers as
far as the installs go so uh Pokémon go
Android installs and daily active users
so in New Zealand 60 New Zealand and
Australia love their Pokemon go that is absolutely fantastic between 6.6 to
almost 8% daily active users and about
15 to 16% of people have it installed
pretty incredible so let's talk about some of the worst news with respective
Pokémon go this article is from tweak toown let's go ahead and pull this
up San Diego residents brush with death
while playing Pokemon go fall off
cliff wow they were both taken to Trauma
Center suffering moderate injuries according to battalion chief Robbie Ford
of the I'm not even going to try and pronounce that local fire department
presumably where they were playing the game incat sure let's go with that
sure so one of them fell somewhere between 75 and 100 feet and the other
one approximately 50 feet and was found
unconscious by firefighters holy crap the dude who fell a less or a lower
distance was the one who was knocked unconscious so like he should be darn
happy that his friend like fell a little better and was able to go yo dude we
just fell off a cliff playing Pokemon please come save us like ridiculous
unbelievable and then uh there was also a teen hit by a car while playing
Pokemon go so the original article here is from Gamestop excuse me Gamespot
that's completely different things actually even though it's just a couple
letters Mo shifted yeah so 15-year-old female from Pennsylvania was hit by a
car and hospitalized for injury injuries to her collarbone and foot uh in
addition to numerous cuts and bruises the her mother says I blame the game
because she would not have been out of my house my daughter is a
Hermit so that's that uh I would like to
clarify what a Hermit actually is before
we actually go any further with this story well like a Hermit used to be
someone who lived on like a royal property right but like never went
Outdoors or something uh oh no I had not
heard of that I thought Hermits lived in seclusion maybe like away from other
people so you can't live in seclusion in
your parents house yeah I'm just I'm going to look it up because you got me
doubting myself a person living in solitude as a religious
discipline so or decide yeah discipline
okay yeah so so your daughter wasn't a Hermit for one thing just to be very
clear about that and for number two you cannot
blame an app on a phone for your
daughter leaving the house for your daughter walking across a major highway
yeah she says at 5:00 in the evening
which is Rush Hour
fantastic what else we got here uh a US
Holocaust Museum asks players to stay away uh so somehow us Holocaust museum
has been designated as a Pok stop um so that's you know developer
slightly overlooking something there I would say uh the communications director
of the museum has said that they're trying to get the museum removed from the game and that playing the game
inside a memorial to victims of Nazism is extremely inappropriate which I would
agree with uh a Dutch hospital has also asked that players refrain from entering
the build their building uh with the sole purpose of playing Pokemon go after
some players ventured into restricted areas uh and they posted a cute little
picture through Twitter there uh where they said there's indeed a sick Pokemon
at AMC but we'll have but we'll look after him well please don't visit him
and it's like a Pikachu with little Band-Aids and stuff if you want to show that yeah I I will it takes a second
sure oh okay yeah but
like oh I mean it's one of those things
where it's like I know that in Skyrim it
is considered acceptable to just walk into anyone's house or any building just
pick stuff and just start like bashing things with a sword to open them up you
know like this is this is the typical RPG player Behavior yeah but that don't
lean away from the mic oh sorry uh this is the typical RPG player Behavior but
but while we are looking for Pokemon in
augmented reality we're not supposed to be just like behaving as though we're
looking for Pokemon in augment okay so
we are supposed to be behaving that way but we're supposed to remember that we
are also operating from within the real world and that is that is not that is
not considered the the most most appropriate way to yes well you get the
point I hope hopefully yes so here's the
uh uh I don't know I don't know what he needs the tissues for but you know oh
right he's got a cold that's right it's a little Pikachu got some snot that's
the AMC uh Twitter post which is extremely cute I'm glad they at least
had a sense of humor about it yeah um but like that's serious apparently
people were going into their basement um where there's like where they
essentially sterilize like bed sheets and stuff like holy crap you're exposing
yourself to like serious possible like
pathogens harmful pathogens and tainted bodily fluids and ah
just I understand that it's Pokemon and that you're stoked to go catch Pokemon
but like have some sense please please
um in a little bit more positive news uh there's a Long Long Island pizza place
uh who has their sales who has had their sales increased by
75% uh by using Pokémon go lure
yeah this is a huge thing so Luke and I were actually talking about this earlier
this week and um it is I don't know if
this is confirmed at this point it was a speculated thing earlier in the week
when we were discussing it but apparently I want to say bread garden
had made it a chain wide procedure nice
to constantly spam lures at their
locations in order to draw in people who were playing Pokémon go and this has
become and that this is this is amazing to me because it's almost like um like
something I've talked about before on the show and just in general is how
computers had this um progression that
they followed where they were kind of slow and not really useful and only like
nerds used them and then over time they
got more accessible they got uh less expensive they got more powerful they
got more functional and this happened over span of here you can sco over a
littleit too this happened over a span of decades in the case of computers
right and phones have gone through just
this accelerated version of that right
where the first smartphones were kind of like stupid and quite frankly didn't do
much I mean people forget this but the iPhone couldn't copy paste I mean come
on it couldn't copy paste and that was only what like 10 years ago N9 years ago
I don't even know if that was 10 years ago like 2008 or something like that so
like eight years ago maybe yeah so so that was not a long time ago and now
they've gotten to the point where I feel like a lot of phone reviewers are just
kind of bored of phones because it's sort of the same thing year to year the
camera's a little better but like it was already pretty good okay so I'm taking that whole thing
where computers and phones have gone
through this these this the this much accelerated progression through the
stages of of just for nerds then exciting to everyone then it kind of got
boring right so it feels like as a mobile app Pokemon go is going through
an accelerated version of previous social applications where it's like you
know Facebook was just used on on a Col
on a single college campus and then multiple college campuses and then all
of a sudden it went massively mainstream and now your grandma's on it okay but
that took a long time and what also took a long time was
advertisers figuring out how to leverage the platform and ruin it for the users
right okay so all these platforms YouTube Facebook Twitter they start out
free and then there's ads and then
there's sponsored tweets and then there's you know companies trying to
spend lots of money on attempted viral videos or whatever the case may be it
goes It goes commercial yeah Pokemon go
took like two days to go from free sort of microtransaction
but but free fun app to businesses
figuring out how to cash in on it and spamming lures in front of their stores
in order to get you to buy more pizza which leads us finally into let's be
fair there though because I actually don't have that big of a problem with
this because they're not saying oh yeah we have a lure in here you can only come
in if you're buying Pizza as far as I know no no they're just providing a safe
place for people to congregate where you can also enjoy some food and
drink if you so choose yes and I
actually prefer this because like they're placing lures here whereas other
people are placing lures in the middle of parks in the middle of the night and
holding people up at gunpoint yeah no I'm not okay I'm not saying it's wrong
right I'm just saying that by the same logic um you know we're just putting the
W show here and we're just saying you know hey uh linda.com you know hey it's
a thing and you can you can sign up for it you can not sign up for I'm just
saying like that that commercialization the advertisers taking over and figuring
out how to leverage the platform happened so fast we have to remember
though that it's very similar to Ingress
true so a lot of this stuff did develop over time in Ingress but the impact was
much lower the impact was much lower because Ingress wasn't this
phenomenon um but I mean it's you know
what you're saying is true but there are a lot of other factors I
think all right all right so let's see
there's not much left so the Lindo L lenio whatever Pizza Bar in Long
Island New York started using the in-game lures as of Monday July 11th it
was reported that Pokémon go had 7.5 oh wait what the crap is this I think some
of the notes got mixed up okay anyway there this is wow nean has confirmed
that retail establishments will be able to pay to have their shop become a
sponsored location that hosts rare Pokémon attractive items or a gym so
this is where we start getting into issues and this leads into the next topic this is this is happening so
unbelievably fast the Pokemon go partnership with McDonald's is on Source
says according to Gizmodo Source everyone is using the same like two
stock images in Pokemon go it's awesome for their articles I mean it doesn't
matter you could you can use any picture Pokemon go you want completely doesn't
matter at all but like all right let's get into the det details here what do
you got okay so uh redditors discovered
decompiled code in Android and iOS versions of Pokemon go earlier this week
and part of that code indicated a potential sponsorship deal with
McDonald's apparently uh so as Lina said
a well-placed source has confirmed with
Gizmodo that the sponsorship is moving forward and is set to launch in one
country in Asia um and Gizmodo learned
that every McDonald's restaurant in this country will either be a poké stop or a
gym uh they're unable to confirm which
country it would debut at but the guess uh based on several compelling reasons
uh including that this country is the birthplace of the Pokemon company uh is
that it will be Japan which makes a lot
of sense uh and this could actually be
the reason why the launch has been delayed in Japan because apparently
there are a number of very upset people
in Japan about the fact that it hasn't been released yet there for seemingly no
reason uh this might be the reason maybe they said hey roll it out in us see how it
goes if it's as crazy you guys as you guys expect it's going to be then you
know we'll Pony up the money to have McDonald's everywhere in Japan be Poké
stops and gyms and we'll launch there which like I don't know I find this
whole thing a little ironic that it's partnership with McDonald's because
Pokemon go is all about like hey get up and go outside walk around and be
healthy and eat McDonald's
W so that's a little weird um but I mean I
guess it makes sense in a way again it's
positive in the sense that they're providing locations for people to
congregate that aren't some Bush in a park at 3:00 a.m. where some dude is
going to try to rob you um but I don't know I just what are your
feelings on it um honestly I am trying to put the lower
or third on here right
now and I hadn't technical difficulties I hadn't been listening to a bloody
thing you said actually no I was okay McDonald's uh partnership with Pokemon
go possibly launching in Japan yeah I don't mind it at all um mind it I I
don't I don't mind okay so there's a couple things that I do mind about it so
I don't mind people having like you said a safe place to go to play right to to
congregate to do this somewhere that's well lit um somewhere that you know
there's staff around with a phone to
call 911 or whatever get attack or whatever emergency number happens to be
um I don't even mind that you can go
there to get some rare Pokemon like a
you know Hamburglar chew or whatever the
case may be like I don't mind that but
what does bother me about it a little bit is that to say that McDonald's
restaurants will be the place to go to obtain a rare Pokemon implies that you
won't be able to get it anywhere else right so those rare Pokemon that you
could otherwise get some other way are going to be limited to McDonald's so if
if you're creating something special something different um the the the the
the Ronald McDonald lacks or you know
whatever actually that's that's that's what they should just call McDonald's
food in general oh my god oh no and
McDonald's never sponsored the L show oh no um that was awful okay so wasn't
great if you're creating new content around it and I can be a purist like a
Pokemon purist who doesn't care about
the MC
Squirtle hey Burger King we got your backs you know what I'm saying um where
where I don't care about thex Squirtle then I can still be a completionist um
when it comes to the actual Pokemon and the actual uh
achievements and whatever else is part of the main game right but if you're
going to go okay yeah if you want you
know you have to buy five Happy Meals to get a
Mewtwo then then it gets then it's pretty frustrating to me and then it's
something that I'm not not necessarily a huge fan of someone says mix Squirtle
leak Squirtle leaked yeah well was kind of where I was going with that um oh no um
like that brings up an interesting point though because I think they're only I
think Pokemon go currently like I said I haven't played it yet I don't know
entirely what it's all about um I think they only either have gen one or gen one
and gen two Pokemon I think it's just gen one Pokemon um but there's like
hundreds now yep so maybe they're going
like hey sport check if you want you know the legendaries from gen 3 to be
sport check exclusives like pay us money
like that's I agree I don't necessarily like that and you know what there's ways
that they can be smart about this as well um like for example timed
exclusives are a lot more palatable to me than forever exclusives so if you are
rolling out new Pokemon very slowly and
you kind of go okay if you want to be the first place where you can get one of
those then the obsessives who absolutely
have to have again like a like a gen 3
legendary or something like that fine they can just go to McDonald's and buy a
Big Mac I don't care but the people who can wait a couple of weeks if they can
still get one in a legitimate manner then that's super cool I I I
don't mind that at all y for sure and I
like to be clear I don't think there has been any confirmation of like this
Pokemon will be specific specific to this retail location or anything yet
right but we're just saying that it would be concerning if that did happen
y oh man like there's some like there's some pretty there's actually some kind
of uh some kind of scary stuff in there like for example what if in Manhattan
McDonald's set it up so that you had to visit like every McDonald's in Manhattan
to get oh
no that would be very troubling um
should we do the chat app one yeah sure let's do it okay Soh apparently Jonathan
Zara was a beta tester in the summer uh for Pokemon go uh he could see that it
offered users no way to chat with one another so he was like Hey I should
probably create something around that um and he said that especially in a
location based game of course there should be a chat so you can text your buddy and be like Yo dude here's where
I'm at just caught eradicate it's dope
uh So within five days of the the launch of Pokémon go Zara's free app for for
Pokemon Go Chat is approaching 1 million users and hitting servers with 600
requests per second that is unbelievable
and apparently now it may drive him bankrupt because the server costs are
getting like ridiculously high you know the guys I'll give him I'll give him
credit for sticking to his principles here um so this is the original article
here is from the verge.com I'll give him credit for sticking to his principles so
he says he doesn't want to ad support it
because he hates
ads and doesn't want to draw attention
from the Pokemon company and I'm like okay because you
know what makes sense the definition of selling out is compromising your
principles for money that's the definition so if you love ads and you
think ads are great and you have no problem with ads personally and you kind
of go okay well you know so there you go
I consume ads therefore I will also serve ads and people can consume them
and ads make the world go around and this is great then there's nothing wrong
with having ads in your application or your content or whatever else the case
may be but if you you hate ads you
adamantly refuse to use products and services that are supported by ads and
you just kind of like nope nope I do not agree with this I refuse to take part in
this then I got to give him credit for sticking with his principes
and not implementing ads with
that if you have a super successful app
and you are providing a service that people are willing to either endure ads
or pay for it is not very business smart
to be spending your own money maintaining it when you have a community
of literally a million people that wants
to use it yeah and like the
the pay for the app thing is what he wants to avoid in order to not attract
attention from the Pokemon company because like that would probably result
him in a lot of trouble but like if you're doing responsible advertising
that's not like taking over the screen or like playing music at a ridiculously
high volume or like weird like Pokemon porn or something like that like if
you're not infringing on Nintendo or netics um intellectual property in any
way and even like have a disclaimer to be like hey Pokemon company if you see
this like I only have ads on here so that I don't go broke any profit that
I'm making is going to ex charity or whatever and then they can still slam
him with a cease and desist that can still happen and they can still shut
down his app but at the end of the day at least then he hasn't paid out of
pocket for it something that doesn't make a ton of sense I don't know I
mean yeah like good on him for seeing an issue and like doing something to
correct it but holy crap man everyone's
like stop the Pokemon stop the Pokemon there's nothing we can do to stop the
Pokemon yeah dude I'm personally not playing it I'm doing everything that I
possibly I'm I'm I'm not letting my kids play it and I'm not playing it I've done
everything I can to stop
Pokemon like my kids don't even know what Pokemon is I didn't have to stop
them but yeah they know what PAW Patrol is it's a new new generation that so 20
20 years from now 20 2 years from now my
son's generation there's going to be like some some like augmented reality
Paw Patrol thing oh paw yeah Paw Paw
Patrol it's awful it's the very worst problem I do not endorse it in any way
shape or form um speaking of things that I endorse in any way shape or form first
up is linda.com I'm going to go ahead
and get that switched it's being a little slow we're running the show off
of my my laptop today which is super not
ideal I threw all the drivers together on there and kind of it's great it's
great yeah um sorry what's great running the W show off the lapt l.com is used by
millions of people around the world because it's great yes it is do you want
to go through the talking point this will be your first time reading Linda
talking points yeah I mean well I've read them personally in the past
considering I talked to them but okay fine I'll do it there are more than 3,00
courses available on linda.com I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it you're awful
okay linda.com is used by millions of people around the world with more than
3,000 courses available oh that's what he just did I didn't even do it better
yes what's great about linda.com is that it's not just for professionals or it's
not just for casual users there are a
wide variety of people who can benefit from linda.com are you bored at your job
are you looking to take things to the next level are you bored with your hobby
are you looking to take things to the next level are you bored with your life
and looking to take things to the next level are you bored with Pokémon go and
looking to take things to the next actually I don't think they have Pokemon go courses no they don't have Pokemon go
courses but what they do have is uh business courses they've got uh creative
courses like photography or video editing or photoshop they've even got
development courses so if you wanted to say for example I don't know write a
cool app that you and your friends could use to chat and Pokémon go hey it's a
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the W show today I'll just give a disclaimer this shirt is actually a size
too small for me because it was uh ordered for Luke so it's not like the
shirts fit poorly this is just a shirt that's too small for me yeah it feels
nice we ordered it for we ordered it for Luke because Colton way to go Colton
apparently didn't realize that Luke wasn't going to be here this week so uh
Luke's actually on vacation which is like amazing I don't think that's ever
happened I am I I okay yes it has but
there's always kind of been uh a reason for it right like he's gone on vacation
at the end of a business trip to a location so like we're he's in Germany
anyway right yo I'm going to take a couple couple more days off I'll be back
like a little bit later peace bro like that's happened yeah but he actually
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yeah I think that's the first time like ever played for a plane ticket yeah
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Dennis like Dennis like can't keep a shirt on I'll walk into the he's like uh
oh what's that actor that has this issue
uh I forget who it is it's either like Matthew mccon or Ashton
Kutcher I'm I'm just gonna google it because it's like 10 actors who can't
keep their shirts
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Mark wallberg okay Mark Wahlberg I also knew uh it's G to make me it's going to
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Colton's in the chat saying give me a break why come on
oh okay actually there's a bunch of notes in here so they've got their Gemini button-down shirt the Apollo
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Youtube upload check them out all right let's move into some
non-pokemon topics here I'm sure that we
have some right oh yes okay yeah here we go so the original article here is from
jones.com and this is aett uh this is a pretty serious pretty
serious sort of topic here the other original article is from the steam store
so there's an in-game trading update
from valve so they've acknowledged that there
are a number of gambling sites uh that have started leveraging the Steam
Trading System great job uh being on top of that guys it's been a problem for a
while didn't really take a long time so good and they claim that there have been
some false assumptions made about their involvement with the with those sites
they wanted to clarify that they have no business relationships with any of the sites they have never directly received
any revenue from them and steam does not have a system for turning in-game items
into real world currency so okay
technically all of those statements are correct they claim that the sites have
been using the open ID API in a way that is not allowed by their user agreements
and they are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam and will
further pursue the matter as necessary and what they also had to say um this is
from the article is that users should probably consider this information as
they manage their in-game inventory and their trade activity so basically dump
your items now I tried to find the link
for this I was looking at the Global Offensive Reddit yesterday and there
were claims that some of these uh illicit gambling sites had actually
disabled their trade Bots
so like people had like thousands of dollars worth of
inventory and they just couldn't get it
now there's some speculation that the sites are just updating their terms of
service and updating their use of the API to abide by valve's clarified rules
but it is unclear exactly how they will do so um bottom line here is that valve
seems to finally be taking a stand against unregulated gambling using their
in-game items long overdue but I mean
you can't it's like it's like if your
kid's not doing their homework for a week and they're way behind and then
like they do it all finally you don't yell at them for doing it so I don't
want to be overly critical but this really is overdue um to be clear this is
very much an emerging story so as new information becomes available some of it
may become outdated and uh will require
further updates as time goes on uh there's a group of trial attorneys
that's taking on class action requests in the csgo gambling lawsuit or in a
csgo gambling lawsuit so they're stated they're pursuing multiple class action
lawsuits in the US against valve and various skins gambling websites
connected to the game Counter-Strike Global Offensive working diligently to
recover funds from us residents who have lost money on skins through these
illegal gambling contracts call 1 1800 recover your skins for help
now it really does feel like a late night lawyer infomercial it feels like
those Billboards that are all over the place in like large American yeah
exactly exactly actually haven't watched that show yet is it good I I saw the
first season on Netflix I thought it was very good cool okay um I can't remember
his name but the GU the guy who plays Saul is uh a great actor I'm a fan man
I'm a fan what's his name yeah uh wink Winkler Henry Winkler is that right nope
oh okay crap nope nope Noe that's not
him no uh one other thing that isn't in
the dock but that I noticed uh twitch Bob Odenkirk wow Bob Oden how did I get
that wrong I mean I guess they looks somewhat similar not really not that
similar no not somewhat anyway The Fawns
okay just forget it I'm pulling I'm having a Luke moment here like that's as
bad as some of the stuff it's been a week let's just let's just say it's been
a week okay uh you know we carry on on
uh it's not in the dock here but twitch actually issued a statement that said uh
uh that any you know in their terms of
service it essentially says that if a streamer is streaming something that
breaks the terms of service for of a third party then that is not allowed on
Twitch so they've essentially come out and said you guys can't stream gambling
sites anymore you guys can't take sponsorships from gambling sites anymore
wow I'm sure that they have been wanting to do this for a while I remember it was
a couple months ago it was getting super out of hand the csgo uh twitch page was
always just like gamble gamble gamble gamble gamble for like the top 10
streamers and they said something like you can only gamble on stream for 30
minutes a day or something like that but it was so tough to enforce so I think
they were just waiting on valve to finally make a statement on it and now
they've come out and they said yeah okay this is out of hand you guys need to
stop doing this so I mean I don't know I like like I
said valve is technically correct in everything that they've said but I think
that they're like trying to obscure the truth a bit because you can be darn sure
that betting on csgo matches has
increased viewership like I would personally say
that I believe that happened um you could also say that losing while betting
on csgo decreased viewership so I'm not going to try and say that there's a
correlation or uh yeah but I don't know
it's it's just such a nasty subject in my opinion all right let's move on to
another kind of nasty subject but it turns out they got it sorted out the
original article here is from Tom's Hardware NVIDIA GTX 1080 and 1070
DisplayPort incompatible with the HTC Vive this is
something I actually could have discovered on my own and been very very
frustrated by if I had upgraded my media center PC so I actually use the Vive in
my living room because my computer room doesn't have enough room for hollow
point anyway um so what this means
you're such a nerd I know what this means is that if you have a display
plugged in via HDMI already like say for
example a TV most of which do not have DisplayPort inputs if any um and you
want to use DisplayPort into the mini DisplayPort in in the little uh the
little input output box the 1070 and
1080 just wouldn't work with it yeah not my 980 worked just fine but
it was apparently a bug they have identified a solution and will'll be
rolling it out in the next driver update which is this week the article is from
the 11th uh they rolled out a driver update today so it probably wouldn't be
a ridiculous assumption to say that that's probably it but I'm looking at
this going like that is such a huge oversight I would imagine people having
their display plugged in via HDMI and
wanting to use DisplayPort for the Vive being a pretty common thing I mean I
can't be the only one installing this somewhere I mean DisplayPort hasn't
even been mainstream on monitors for longer than a couple of years I mean
ASUS kind of addressed that with the stricks where they put two hdmis in yep
so if you want to learn more about the stricks we have a video coming to
YouTube next week uh yeah I think so just went to vessel last night see if
you have vessel you can check that out um in other news PC shipments return to
growth in the US wow glorious PC Master race am I
right no no I'm not right unfortunately
the news isn't all good and while PC shipments are up I think it what is it
this quarter yeah uh they're still down
overall for the year and the growth is not is not huge they're up I they might
be up for the year in the US only but globally they're still down between 4
and a half and 5.2% and even them we're talking like
1.4% if you don't factor in Chromebooks
yeah and we're talking 4.9% if you factor in Chromebooks we're talking
literally like $100 computers so that's growth so that's that's unit count
growth to be fair y uh I believe that
these numbers only Factor like pre-built PC sales yep so that's been on the
decline for a long time as more and more people realize that building a PC isn't
as hard as we once thought it was or as
some people once thought it was right speaking of PC Building not be
that hard hard Terry Cruz pretty much took over our PC Master race yesterday
because he's building a custom PC and I got to say like I'm a huge Terry Cruz
fan that dude's Awesome Brooklyn 99 is like one of my favorite shows right now
um so I was pretty happy when I saw this
and uh there are a lot of memes going down some dank memes going on with h
with the Glorious Terry Cruz putting the PC masterace hair on him with his
Majestic figure and uh so he was you
know he created a Facebook uh video outlining the parts in his PC which now
has over 1.2 million views pretty darn
significant uh he was very humble throughout the whole process asking the
community for advice and uh checking what the community thought of his Parts
choices which overall were pretty positive he chose a core i7 6800k 2
terab SSD 32 gigs of Dominator PL platinums from Corsair and a GTX 1080 so
pretty badass rig and also he paid for
all those parts himself he wanted to make it very clear he wasn't doing like a sponsor deal or anything with Intel or
NVIDIA or whoever and uh he says that
he's building the gaming ring to spend more time with his son who is a big PC
Gamer but he admits that he's also got a fast growing interest in PC gaming so he
actually was part of the battlefield 1 pre3 event with like Jamie Fox and Snoop
Dogg I think that was the one where there was uh a lot of uh let's say fog
in the booth of all the people there um
that may have been that one Snoop was there so yeah you don't really have to
say any more than that yeah and uh he essentially said he really enjoyed
playing Battlefield 1 there he's hooked on gaming and you know he's he's made it
very clear that he's not going to be abandoning being this crazy like
muscular huge dude he's still going to be a very physical guy but he wants PC
gaming to be a bigger part of his life now which is uh pretty dope yeah that's
cool pretty sweet I mean if he gets into VR especially some of the more physical
games yeah he had an HTC Vive very nice on his table there so very nice pretty
cool I would love to see like Terry Cruz do some live streams and I think he's
already been on some twitch ads so like twitch get it going get it popping this
looks pretty cool original article here is from techradar.com
I mean this has been the the emulators
argument for so long look Nintendo if
you're going to tell us we're not allowed to emulate then give us a means
to legitimately acquire the games yep
and they've addressed this somewhat through retro console games but it's
it's not always that well done um this
actually looks like a fantastic
solution check this out the nest is back
it's a little mini Nest it's the same shape um but there's no cartridge to
install in it or anything like that it's a much smaller size and it comes
preloaded with 50 games 30 30 Games
sorry did I say 50 sorry 30 games in it has an HDMI output so you'll actually be
able to use it without buying yourself like uh what's that uh retro bit
retrogen whatever that thing that Luke just bought that super expensive low
latency analog to HDMI converter okay
I'm going to I'm going to go grab it off of his desk while you run through some of some of the details here but a native
HDMI output is awesome because you don't need any specialized Hardware in order
to avoid the horrible processing latency
that you'll encounter by trying to put a lowde signal into a modern TV I'm taking
over the show now it's mine uh but the
Wii are it will be available on November 11th of this year for $ 59.99 USD so
like essentially the price of a new Wii U game which is freaking
fantastic uh and there are actually some awesome and really classic games that
are going to be a part of this so Donkey Kong uh Final Fantasy the first one uh
Super Mario Bros 1 two three uh I think I started on two as well yeah I thought
Mystic Quest was the first one so I've played Mystic Quest cuz it was called
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest but it's not actually a Final Fantasy game oh it was
like rebranded for North America or something it was one of those situations
I don't remember the details interesting uh it'll also have the Legend of Zelda
the very first one as well as the second one uh which is not as great of a of an
experience I've not as welln I've heard it's a a bit of a subpar experience you
know uh but yeah like this is awesome like I will play the crap out of this
yeah and it's like what is it 60 bucks yeah 60 bucks the price of a new Wii U
game you can get 30 classic Nest games
in the little awesome HDMI Nintendo this
is the right way to do it I like it I mean okay well to be clear I don't
necessarily think that you should have to buy a piece of hardware for
this I mean if they have okay I personally like it what if they offered
this what if they also for 60 bucks had like a a package on Wii U Store package
on the Wii U Store yeah like I I'd like to see that as well I think people would
compl great I think people would complain because they would think that 60 bucks is too high and then um I'm
Wonder like I wonder why they're choosing to do it this way maybe it's
just like hey have this cool knickknack as well as all these games and like I
personally like having Hardware stuff like I when I used to buy more PC games
I used to like to buy the physical copies yeah because I like actually
having like a library of games instead of just like oh yeah my steam is at like
500 games now or whatever I don't know I
like having something physical I think it's really cool I like the design of
the nest it's you know a classic and having that on the table is like I don't
know to me it's badass one thing I don't like about the nest is the design of the
controller which they unfortunately didn't update yeah even rounded edges
guys come on please please they wanted to give us back the horrible experience
sorry it's frame Meister oh yes that's what I was thinking of that's what it is
my bad retrogen makes uh like emulator consoles indubitably something says
confirmed for old I mean it's true yeah but that hurts man
hurts real bad it hurts real bad um you know what I don't see a whole
lot else here that we really have to uh have to get into so thank you guys very
much for tuning into to the WAN Show we will see you again next week same bat
Time same bat Channel by which time I will probably have completely rebuilt
and reformatted the stupid computer that's next to me that I hate so very
much hit us up on Twitter if you want to see a build like streaming PC build
guide video oh yeah Nick's been bugging me he's like yeah you should like people
have been telling me they want to see build guides again yeah I know they take
a lot of time but like I don't know if it's interesting though like re building
the WAN because it's like it's like a
it's not that applicable to other people like we're going to build a completely
overpowered ridiculous machine and like
I don't I don't see that being that valuable to anyone else else but okay
well we'll talk about it offline all right all right all right see you guys next thanks for watching
bye okay I gotta turn this down
quickly oh what the what the crap
there's apparently no sound in it anyway so okay
whatever oh while I was waving you had it over top of me so they couldn't even
see me wow you're such a d I know you why is there a hot spot oh
God at least we don't have another bpn at least tunnel bear is not on the show
today