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Alrighty,

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go for it. What is up everybody and

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welcome to the WAN Show. I am coming at

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you live from a Microsoft Teams AI

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replace background. Just kidding, Luke.

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It's real. I can prove it.

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>> Oh yeah, look at that.

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>> Look at the effects. Look at the amazing

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effects. I am in beautiful Connecticut

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today where I've been attending a secret

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event that actually like has a live

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website. Uh it was really cool. I got to

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meet some incredible creators. I met the

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one and only Alec from Technology

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Connections. I also met Michael Reeves

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for the first time. That was awesome.

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Got to catch up with Tom Scott. It's

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been an amazing amazing couple days. So

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I'll be talking about that a little bit.

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And I will also be talking about oh I

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don't know maybe the fact that sorry

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GameStop has offered $56 billion for

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eBay even though GameStop does not have

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56 billion. So I definitely have some

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thoughts on that. What else have we got

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this week sir?

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>> Well I I mean I offer 57 billion. So

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>> okay

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>> now it's a bidding war.

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>> Thank you. That's helpful. Yes, it's

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just it's just as legitimate of as an of

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an offer. Uh, did you mention the Valve

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thing? I don't think so. Valve imported

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50 tons of something just being called

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game consoles for now. We'll have to

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speculate on what that might be because

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there's at least a couple things. Um,

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and Toyota built a $10 billion private

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utopia tech city. What is what does that

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even mean? And I got to throw one more

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in here because our headline topic

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wasn't actually in our uh our four. AMD

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is prepping full HDMI 2.1 implementation

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for Linux. This is super exciting for

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anyone who's a big gamer on Linux who or

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who just loves high resolution and high

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refresh rate displays over HDMI. AMD

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just keeps being chatted and I

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absolutely love it. Roll that intro.

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missing my Razor chair right now. There

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is negative lumbar support on the like

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couch that I'm sitting in right now and

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it is it is extremely uncomfortable. Uh

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can't can't wait to get back to it. But

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why don't we jump right into our first

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topic for today, which has got to be the

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big news that AMD is prepping full HDMI

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2.1 implementation for Linux. They

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submitted patches to add HDMI fixed rate

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link or FRL support to their open-source

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Linux GPU drivers, which is a huge step

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toward full HDMI 2.1 support on Linux.

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>> FRL is part of the HDMI 2.1 standard and

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enables the higher bandwidth that's

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needed for higher resolution and refresh

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rates. This is all notable because in

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2024, the HDMI forum rejected AMD's

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earlier attempt to bring HDMI 2.1 to its

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open source drivers over, you guessed

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it, concerns about exposing proprietary

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details of the standard, which ain't

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that the always way? Anytime someone

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tries to do something really cool and

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just do the work for somebody on Linux,

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some standards body or some company is

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like, "M, yeah, no. Uh, yeah, just no.

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No." An AMD driver engineer confirmed on

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the Feronx forums that a full

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implementation is on the way, pending

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compliance testing, and that display

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stream compression support will follow

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in a later patch. and this change and

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the timing of it are,

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let's just say, convenient and very

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interesting in light of one of our other

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headline topics, which is, of course,

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the uh supposed what what was it? 50

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tons. Are these metric tons? Are these

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imperial tons? um the 50 tons of game

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consoles that uh Valve has apparently

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just imported because it was a a major

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topic of discussion during the

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announcement of the Steam Machine that

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um hey it's got kind of a modern GPU in

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it. Couldn't help noticing it doesn't

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support HDMI 2.1.

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What's up with that? Well, if AMD's

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implementation lands and passes

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compliance and the timing of all of this

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works out, it could be that Steam OS

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devices could get HDMI 2.1 either at or

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closely near launch. We don't know if

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Valve's been involved in these patches

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at all, but just given how chatted

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they've been about all of this, nothing

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would really surprise me. Luke, do you

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want to jump right into the speculation

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around the um

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very very soon upcoming Steam Machine

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launch?

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>> Yeah, between April 30th and May 1st,

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Bra Lynch, who was uh correct about the

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Steam Controller import documents a

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couple weeks ago, posted that the United

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States received a total of 50 tons of

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game consoles from Valve. It is unclear

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if this is the new Steam machine, which

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is would be the console, or the Steam

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Frame, which is Valve's new VR headset,

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or possibly even just a bunch of Steam

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Decks,

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>> though unlikely. Uh, but they were also

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game consoles when imported before. So,

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it wouldn't it wouldn't be too weird.

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Uh, it's worth noting 50 tons is not

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maybe actually as much as you might

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think. The steam machine was confirmed

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to weigh around 6 lb, which would be

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about 20,000 units, which

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>> is probably not enough even if you think

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it's not hyper compelling because if we

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look at like the the Steam controller,

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which basically every review that I saw

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was like

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>> it's a little expensive for what it is,

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and then it's just instantly sold out.

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Like it's Steam hardware, it's just

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going to fly. Um, so yeah, I I I mean I

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if this is the entirety of the initial

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wave of the Steam machines, I think

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they're just going to fly out

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immediately. Um,

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>> yeah, I um Is it our discussion question

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on this one or is it our discussion

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question on a different one? Uh,

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>> yeah, I don't remember, but I'm going to

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move our discussion question.

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>> One second. Sorry. Elijah included that

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the math to figure out that it was

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20,000 units is accounting for shipping

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weight and CC can weight and things like

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that.

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>> Yeah. Okay. Um I guess my my question

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here is ah yes, this is actually our

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discussion question for the Steam

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controller selling out in 30 minutes.

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Um, and it was, you know, given Valve's

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history with, you know, the Steam Deck,

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was the day one sellout just

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unavoidable, or should a company of

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Valve scale have been better prepared?

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And I guess I have the same question

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when we come to the Steam Machine. If,

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and this is a big if because we don't

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know for sure, but if this is just

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20,000 units of Steam machines for the

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US market, is Valve being kind of

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irresponsible in launching it with such

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limited inventory, or is it possible

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that this is just, you know, the the

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first shipment and, you know, the next

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five CC cans coming in are going to mean

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that we're actually going to have a

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reasonable amount of of launch

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inventory. Like if they launch this with

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just 20,000 units, is that just kind of

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asking for trouble from scalpers?

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Because Steam controllers going for like

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hundreds of dollars.

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>> If this is the Steam machine,

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basically everyone on the internet has

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been saying, "Ah, I'm not that

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interested for a long time." So like if

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you're if you're choosing Yes, I still

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think it's low personally, but if you're

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choosing the stock for this, I can

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understand being a little bit concerned

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compared to the Steam Deck. Even

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compared to the Steam controller, people

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were very interested in the Steam

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Controller. They just said it was

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expensive and Steam hardware seemed just

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be like whatever, people are gonna pay

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for it anyways. Uh but the Steam

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machine, like most the press I saw on it

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was saying it's not super compelling. Um

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which I mean I still think it's cool.

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>> Like if you're Valve, don't you have

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kind of a don't you have kind of a

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responsibility to to make your products

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available when you say they're available

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and stop acting like a small company? I

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think the Steam Deck, if I remember

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correctly, sold out pretty much

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immediately, but then had fairly rapid

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waves of restocks, did it not?

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>> Sorry. Uh oh, yeah. Um,

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yes. Yes, it it was restocked pretty

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rapidly, so it was clear that they were

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kind of they kind of had staged

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shipments that were sort of in various

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stages of being transported across the

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ocean at the time. Um, it's also

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possible, though I'm just speculating on

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this, but it is a pretty common strategy

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that they would have if they had like

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one shipment in their warehouse and like

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one at the dock and one at the midpoint

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of the ocean and one that was just

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wrapping production. Sometimes what'll

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happen is if things go way better than

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expected, they'll actually take that one

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that is just wrapping production, throw

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it on a plane, and it'll actually beat

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any of those other ones to the

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warehouse. So you can kind of you can

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kind of massage the availability of

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things that way. Like we've we've had to

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do that with some of the cables. We've

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had to air freight them rather than seaf

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freight them just because the demand is

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so ridiculous. Um but I just I don't

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know man. I seeing what they did with

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the controller is not really giving me a

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ton of faith that Valve is adequately

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stocking this thing. And at a certain

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point, I've actually had a Valve

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employee

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>> say to me like unironically,

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>> you know,

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>> something something something,

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but like, you know, we're a small

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company, so blah blah blah. And I go,

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listen,

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>> revenue and profit-wise, you're not a

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small company at all. As as a hardware

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company, they don't ship

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>> that much hardware. Um,

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and I I think that side of their

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business is is relatively small, but

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still they they they could not be as

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you're saying. Um, I think as well it's

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it's it's like scalper bait. Um, there's

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there's tons of these controllers on

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like eBay and elsewhere. Uh, I it's it's

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tough because I I I wish that they did

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more to fight against that, but I don't

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necessarily know what they do.

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>> That doesn't make it

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>> One of the things they could have done

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was they could have just not called it

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the exact same name as the original

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Steam Controller, which is causing a lot

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of OG Steam controllers to be sold at

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scalper prices by, you know, to confused

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relatives or giftgivers right now.

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That's um

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>> That's true. That's a really frustrating

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situation that was completely avoidable

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that I raised with Valve when they did

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the unveiling and I was like, "Hey, this

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is a really bad idea." I raised it again

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in the review and then I just I don't

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know. I was feeling kind of sassy and I

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sent them and I told you so as well. I

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was like I basically linked them like a

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bunch of scalper eBay listings and I was

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like hey so just a you know third time

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this was super avoidable and you guys

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didn't have to do this. You could have

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just named it in a way that wasn't

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confusing.

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>> Yeah. People are now calling it the

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Valve Steam Controller 2026 model.

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>> And if Valve had called it that, I

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wouldn't have even been that mad.

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>> Would have been a little bit better.

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But they just called it Steam

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Controller. Like guys, so avoidable. And

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so I guess I'm just I guess I'm just

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kind of This is just kind of a run of

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avoidable issues from them. And I and I

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hope that like a I hope we give Nintendo

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enough appreciation for what they did

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with the Switch 2 launch. They took the

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time. They delayed the launch. They

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built up inventory to make sure that if

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you wanted to switch to pretty much at

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launch, you could go and get one. And

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that's that's something that is not

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necessarily good for their cash flow.

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And to your point, can be a risky thing

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to do, but it's good for your customers.

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And I I I want Valve to stop behaving

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like a scrappy startup and act like a

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real company when it comes to their

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product launches. And I realize this is

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kind of rich coming from the guy who

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can't keep his cables in stock for more

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than flipping 20 minutes, right? I get

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that. But come on, man. I definitely

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operate with constraints that Valve does

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not have.

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Just doesn't have.

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>> Yeah.

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Um,

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with all of that said, hey, where are

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you at for Steam Machine? Like I I feel

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like in the initial launch window,

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people were super excited. The uh

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excitement kind of waned as we made our

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way into the RAM apocalypse and and a

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lot of the pricing estimates for the

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Steam machine started to go up. Um Valve

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clearly has gotten their hands on enough

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RAM to manufacture the thing cuz they

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haven't actually delayed the launch

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outside of Q2, which means it's coming

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in the next 7 to 8 weeks. Where's your

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bullishness right now? I still think

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it's super cool. I I uh I don't think

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the lack of interest due to ramp

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apocalypse has anything to do with Steam

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Machine. I think a very very significant

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amount of people are just not interested

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in computers right now because they are

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in a lot of ways kind of boring. Like

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the most interesting news in computer

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land right now is people running away

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from Windows. It's not it's not

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hardware. And then hardware is super

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super super expensive. Uh it's it's just

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a terrible time to be into computers

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unfortunately. So I think that is what

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reduced the interest in the Steam

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Machine. Nothing to do with the actual

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Steam Machine itself. Um

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>> really

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>> I I think so. When when you look at

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handhelds, people prefer the Steam Deck

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mostly over pretty much all the

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alternatives, even though the Steam Deck

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is pretty old and underperformant

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compared to alternatives at this point.

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Um, and I I think there will be a market

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of people that will really like a Steam

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machine. People like Steam hardware.

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It's another push forward for for Linux,

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for Steam OS. I think both of these

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things are good. I wouldn't be surprised

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at all if the Steam Machine is at least

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part of the kick in the pants that that

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pushed AMD to try again to push for the

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HDMI 2.1 thing. Um, I I think it it just

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keeps progressing this same thing that

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we've been trying to push for for a

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while now, which is which is Linux for

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more people. Um, and that's great. I

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think people will buy it. I suspect if

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it's 20,000 units, it's going to

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disappear immediately. Um,

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>> I I don't suspect it's going to be like,

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oh my god, this like incredible value

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option that a bunch of people seem to

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think that it was going to be. Um,

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>> does it need to be?

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>> I don't think so. I wish it was too, but

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does it need to be in the grand scheme

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of things if what the Steam Machine can

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accomplish is it can

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>> is it can make PC gaming a more

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consolelike experience, something that's

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easier to to get into, even if it even

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if the money barrier is still there,

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something that requires less sort of

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technical knowhow. If it takes people

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out of their comfort zone and puts them

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into Linux, if it creates an install

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base for Linux that incentivizes

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developers to target this hardware

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platform, like can we then can we then

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forgive Valve if the Steam machine

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ultimately is not that affordable?

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>> I like there there's some people in

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Flowplane chat. Uh Mick Bane said that

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the Steam Machine will need to be cheap.

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Um Deox said the deck hit a value

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proposition.

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>> I hear what you guys are saying. That's

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very true. The controller sure as heck

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didn't. Sold out in 30 minutes. Um, I I

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don't think the machine is as compelling

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as the controller. I don't think the

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machine is as compelling as the deck. I

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think Valve knows both of these things.

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I think for the people who kind of want

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a home theater machine and it would be

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pretty cool to have a Steam OS powered

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home theater machine.

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>> Yeah. paired with the knowledge that is

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kind of weird and a little bit

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uncomfortable for me, but the knowledge

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that an incredible amount of people just

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buy pre-builds. This is a cool Steam

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powered pre-build that is trendy because

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it's Linux and Steam OS and it can play

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all your freaking Steam games and it's

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on your TV and your cool new Steam

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controller works with it and your Steam

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Deck and your Steam Machine are kind of

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in the same ecosystem. Neat. I still

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think it has all of those things. I

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don't think it's going to be super price

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competitive. I think for a lot of

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people, it's going to price them out

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because any computer right now is

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basically going to price out a massive

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amount of people. It just is a fact at

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the moment. Um, but especially if

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they're bringing in low volume, I think

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it's going to do well for them. And I

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welcome anything that uh is honestly

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going to keep spicing up the competition

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in the operating system space right now

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because

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even if Microsoft is waking up a little

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bit, I need them to wake up a lot. Um

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>> yeah, I um this is going to sound crazy.

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Okay, bear with me for a second here.

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So far, I like the new leadership at

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Xbox.

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>> Yeah,

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>> one of the first things she did was

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slash the price of Game Pass. Um, yes,

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removed day one access to COD, which is,

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you know, a a big boatload of suck for

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people who bought Xbox, bought Game Pass

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just for COD, but in my opinion,

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actually a boon for everyone who enjoys

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the variety of Game Pass and appreciates

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that aspect of it more and wants the

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subscription to be more affordable. So,

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I I can actually I can I can get on

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board with that move, especially as

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someone who doesn't play COD. So, so

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take that take that for what it is.

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>> Um

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I already like what they're doing with

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changes to the branding, changes to the

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messaging, whole that that whole this is

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an Xbox campaign where like a TV's an

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Xbox, an iPad's an Xbox, everything's an

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Xbox.

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>> I understood where they were. I

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understood what that meant, right? I

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didn't know anyone,

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>> but like you know

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how long was Microsoft going to beat

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that drum that the Xbox is not a game

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console? I mean after the disastrous

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launch of the Xbox One with the connect

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module and then eventually unbundling

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the connect module and going, "Oh, okay.

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So it's not

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the center of your digital life or home

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media hub or, you know, whatever." What

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it feels like to like how long are they

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going to keep trying that? And it seems

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like she's saying not anymore.

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>> She's also saying, this isn't in the

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doc, but I wanted to bring this up

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anyways. I'm going to share my screen. I

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don't think we can see it, but I'll I'll

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I'll speak to it. Uh, Microsoft gives up

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on Xbox co-pilot AI.

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>> New Xbox CEO Asha Chararma continues to

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make her mark. Windows is winding down.

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>> Here's where I'm going with this. Here's

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where I'm going with this. So far,

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I like her. And I think both you and I

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were really skeptical. Yeah,

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>> because we were just like, "Okay, so

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what?" She comes from like the AI side

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of the business. What her gaming street

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credit is functionally

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>> other than other than reducing the price

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of Game Pass, a lot of it right now is

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words.

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>> So, I like I like the words,

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>> but they're good words.

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>> They're good words, but I'm still kind

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of holding

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>> powerful words.

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Tears streaming down their face.

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>> Uh I like these words. They said, "These

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are the finest words that any man or

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woman alive has ever has ever said.

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>> I don't know if I'll ever taste words

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like this again."

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>> So, so I like her. And

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I'm going to make a bold prediction

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right now. With Sony being unwilling to

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just shoulder the cost of selling

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consoles at a loss, they in an

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unprecedented move, they raised the

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price of the PS5. Sony has never raised

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the price of a console before. You and

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you can make the argument that when they

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when they did the uh the slim for the

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PS5, they effectively raised the price.

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And in some ways they like kind of did

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depending on what configuration you were

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buying, but they also like didn't. Um

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Sony raised the price of a current

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generation PlayStation 5. Never been

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done before. Uh Nintendo, this is in the

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dock for this week. Nintendo is raising

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the price of the Switch, too. That one I

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don't know if it's never been done

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before, but it certainly is not common.

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Valve has moved away. They they or at

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least it looks like they have signaled a

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strong intent to move away from what

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they did with the Steam Deck. With the

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Steam Deck, they got really aggressive.

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And from what I've heard, they weren't

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selling it at a loss. That's not my

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understanding. But what they did do was

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they made a huge commitment to AMD. They

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did that custom silicon and that enabled

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them, that was a big part of what

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enabled them to hit a hyperaggressive

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price point and really build an install

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base for this machine so that developers

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would have a reason to care about it.

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So, so far everyone

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except Microsoft is kind of on defense

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right now. Do you kind of are you kind

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of picking up what I'm throwing down

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right now?

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Microsoft doesn't have much to defend

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right now. What if Microsoft

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is the one who comes in with Project

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Helix, which is the code name for the

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nextG Xbox, and does the like

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299

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and walks off stage. And to be clear,

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it's not going to be 299. Don't Don't

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live in a diluted la land where you

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think you're going to get a console for

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>> You said it.

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>> No, I know. I don't mean literally $299,

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>> but honestly, you know, against the

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backdrop of of rising technology prices,

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I think if they walked on stage and even

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said $4.99 at this point, that would be

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a mic drop moment. Um, I I I'm not I'm

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not sure how much hope I should have

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because Microsoft has actually also said

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prior to Asha Sharma's leadership that

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the nextG Xbox will be very expensive.

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But like Microsoft has also done a

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two-tiered strategy already twice. So

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just because the the X skew is really

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expensive, that doesn't mean that there

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won't be a really compelling value

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option. We don't know that. So do you

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have Luke, can you find Check your

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pinky. Can you just look at check your

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pinky?

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Can you find even like a single tiny

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bone in your body? like a pinky sized

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bone that contains any hope for Xbox to

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be the savior of the next generation of

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consoles. Can you find that hope?

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>> He's trying. He's trying, folks. He's Oh

00:24:01.919 --> 00:24:07.039
my god, the the brow furrow. Oh, I'm

00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:09.919
watching I'm watching in real time as

00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:12.640
you're as you're trying so hard. Oh man,

00:24:09.919 --> 00:24:15.039
>> my my gut says no. But you are saying

00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:16.640
one singular bone and I have I have a

00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:20.000
lot of bones. Um

00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:22.720
>> yeah, can you bone this?

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:25.120
>> Uh I don't know. I can I can hope. I

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:28.159
seriously doubt though. If you look at

00:24:25.120 --> 00:24:32.880
>> Microsoft's path with Xbox for so long

00:24:28.159 --> 00:24:35.520
now, the answer from them is for sure

00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:39.840
no. Um,

00:24:35.520 --> 00:24:41.760
>> but you know, she's also clearly down to

00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:42.799
try to change the path and change the

00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:44.000
strategy.

00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:46.000
>> Um,

00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:47.760
>> so maybe they figure out I think it

00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:50.080
really depends on like what are the

00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:52.799
goals that have been given to her?

00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:54.559
>> Is she supposed to make it so that Xbox

00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.279
isn't the laughingtock of consoles

00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:58.640
anymore in regards to like when you're

00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:59.919
saying like, "Oh, the other people are

00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.279
raising their prices." And I'm sitting

00:24:59.919 --> 00:25:03.840
here being like, "Yeah, and Xbox is

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:04.799
raising their price on what?" Like They

00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:06.000
don't have to raise their price. No

00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:09.039
one's buying their consoles. It doesn't

00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:11.279
matter. Um like the what what is that?

00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:13.120
What was that random thing that outsold

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:14.480
Xboxes for Christmas?

00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:17.760
>> Oh, the uh Next Cube.

00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.480
>> Not the Ouya. The Yeah, next Cube or

00:25:17.760 --> 00:25:20.080
whatever it's called.

00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.279
>> Is that Is that what it's called? I Oh,

00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:22.159
man. What What is it called? Is it

00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:25.279
called Next Cube?

00:25:22.159 --> 00:25:26.720
>> Definitely not the Ouya.

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:29.679
>> Next cube.

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:31.679
>> I'm not.

00:25:29.679 --> 00:25:33.440
>> Uh what am I thinking? So, we don't even

00:25:31.679 --> 00:25:36.000
know the name of it, dude. And it

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:38.400
outsold Xbox. That's That's my point.

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.880
So, like is is

00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:39.840
>> from

00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:41.279
>> Next Playground.

00:25:39.840 --> 00:25:43.760
>> Next Playground.

00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.559
>> NEX, not NEX. So, you were you were

00:25:43.760 --> 00:25:47.039
close.

00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:49.679
>> They they Xbox connected better than

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:51.919
Microsoft was ever able to Xbox Connect

00:25:49.679 --> 00:25:53.679
and managed to outsell the Xbox with a

00:25:51.919 --> 00:25:56.320
console that effectively requires a

00:25:53.679 --> 00:26:00.240
subscription. It's freaking wild that

00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:02.080
that thing is has found that market that

00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.679
it has and absolutely killed it the way

00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:06.000
that they have. Kudos to them.

00:26:03.679 --> 00:26:08.559
>> Yeah. And it's stomped. So like is is

00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:11.600
the goal from higher than her that was

00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:13.600
given to her like her KPI for for her

00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:16.080
not even Microsoft but for her was her

00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:17.679
KPI, hey we want to be taken seriously

00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:19.120
in the console space again. We want to

00:26:17.679 --> 00:26:21.200
sell some freaking consoles and get our

00:26:19.120 --> 00:26:24.240
name out there and be a big player again

00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:27.760
cuz we're honestly not right now. or was

00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:30.159
it just revenue line go up? Cuz if it

00:26:27.760 --> 00:26:32.720
was just revenue line go or profit line

00:26:30.159 --> 00:26:35.200
go up maybe cuz if it was just that she

00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:36.960
might be incentivized to focus on what

00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:39.360
she's technically been focusing on so

00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:41.440
far at least publicly which is game pass

00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:42.480
and and and pushing Game Pass even

00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.240
harder and getting game pass

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:46.159
>> and not including COD in Game Pass

00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:46.960
because that cost them a whole bunch of

00:26:46.159 --> 00:26:49.440
revenue.

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:51.120
>> Yeah. Um, so like is it is it those

00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:55.760
things

00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:57.760
or is it make Xbox a console that people

00:26:55.760 --> 00:26:59.520
actually buy again? Because if it if

00:26:57.760 --> 00:27:00.720
it's this one, if it's, hey, we're going

00:26:59.520 --> 00:27:01.840
to try to invest in the future. We're

00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.679
going to try to get our market share

00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:05.279
back in the in the console space. We're

00:27:03.679 --> 00:27:08.159
going to do these things. We're we're

00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:09.840
going to um

00:27:08.159 --> 00:27:12.400
double down on consoles continuing to

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:14.799
exist. cuz it felt like in the era of

00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.480
like metaverse, VR, all that kind of

00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.760
stuff, Microsoft was just going like,

00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:20.960
"No one's even going to have consoles

00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:22.880
anymore. Let's ditch them." Um, but that

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:24.960
seems to be going away. Yeah. What's up?

00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:27.440
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Here's what I want to

00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:29.600
know. This I'm actually like hyper

00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.240
interested in your perspective on

00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:35.120
because I think that you almost have

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:39.120
like two competing fragments of your

00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:43.039
soul in your body that are almost uh

00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:45.120
that have goals that are almost in in

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:48.159
perfect conflict with each other because

00:27:45.120 --> 00:27:50.720
on the one side you were an Xbox kid and

00:27:48.159 --> 00:27:52.400
when you see a green Xbox logo that

00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:56.720
makes a little lizard part of your brain

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.720
light up and go, "Yeah, Xbox." Yep.

00:27:57.360 --> 00:28:02.480
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly right. Okay. Okay.

00:28:00.399 --> 00:28:04.480
Other side other side of your other

00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:08.080
fragment of your soul

00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:09.600
>> is PC gamer. Why would I game on

00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:12.399
anything that I didn't build with my own

00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:14.320
two hands or or Lionus' children built

00:28:12.399 --> 00:28:16.159
me built it for me or you know whatever

00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:17.520
you know some some variant of

00:28:16.159 --> 00:28:19.120
>> why would I play on a computer that

00:28:17.520 --> 00:28:21.760
wasn't it didn't have child labor

00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:24.799
involved? What are we talking about?

00:28:21.760 --> 00:28:26.240
Good news, Luke. You don't have to. Um,

00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.640
>> none of us do if we're being very

00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:27.760
honest.

00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.240
>> Yeah.

00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:32.240
>> Dang. Oh.

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.440
>> Uh, okay. Let's move on from that really

00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:34.960
really fast.

00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.440
>> Um,

00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:41.360
and and and and rooting for the

00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:43.840
customizability and the DIY spirit of of

00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:46.320
PC gaming. And I think that part of you

00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:49.679
has really embraced the way that

00:28:46.320 --> 00:28:52.399
Microsoft is has is making the PC more

00:28:49.679 --> 00:28:54.240
Xbox like and buying a single license of

00:28:52.399 --> 00:28:58.080
an Xbox game gives you the right to play

00:28:54.240 --> 00:29:00.000
on PC and and I I I suspect you're also

00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:02.159
pretty down for like the Xbox full

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.600
screen experience and how it, you know,

00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:04.960
makes your PC run slightly more

00:29:03.600 --> 00:29:07.520
efficiently and less like a Windows

00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:11.520
machine and more like a gaming machine.

00:29:07.520 --> 00:29:14.159
How do those two pieces of you reconcile

00:29:11.520 --> 00:29:16.240
with each other when we know when we

00:29:14.159 --> 00:29:19.760
know in our heart of hearts that the

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:22.640
thing that makes a console generation

00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:24.240
successful more than any other more than

00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.200
any other rule in the playbook

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.279
>> exclusives

00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:29.039
>> is exclusive. Yeah. See, you knew

00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:31.120
exactly where I was going with it.

00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:35.760
That's what sells consoles. So, how can

00:29:31.120 --> 00:29:38.799
Xbox be come back to its former glory

00:29:35.760 --> 00:29:42.399
without like Dead Rising and without

00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:45.120
Halo exclusives and without without all

00:29:42.399 --> 00:29:47.039
these things that made the 360 era the

00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:48.720
peak of Xbox?

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:52.159
What What would it look like for you?

00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:54.880
>> Yeah, it's tough. I The exclusives one

00:29:52.159 --> 00:29:57.760
is interesting because Sony and Xbox

00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:59.279
both started pushing games to Steam. Um,

00:29:57.760 --> 00:30:00.640
you can there's a there's a chart that I

00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.640
saw recently that was super interesting

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.159
which was like PlayStation exclusives

00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:09.760
and how they performed on Steam and like

00:30:06.159 --> 00:30:11.120
Hell Divers was way up there and but a

00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:13.600
lot of other things did pretty well but

00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:15.120
you know Hell Divers killed it. Um, but

00:30:13.600 --> 00:30:16.960
a lot of people

00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:20.640
>> like that that's a lot of PlayStation

00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:21.840
games on PC.

00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:23.440
People are still buying tons of

00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:26.559
PlayStations.

00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:28.720
So, like I I kind of feel like

00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:31.760
>> uh you know them them putting Microsoft

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:34.000
exclusives on PlayStation might be the

00:30:31.760 --> 00:30:37.039
the too far move in terms of exclusives,

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:38.399
but I don't know 100%. I also don't know

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:40.080
if this is just my brain trying to

00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:41.760
convince me this is true or if I

00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:46.080
actually believe it's true. But I don't

00:30:41.760 --> 00:30:48.640
know that putting games on PC ruins your

00:30:46.080 --> 00:30:52.880
console attractiveness. Now, I would

00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:54.559
also have to dive deeper into the time.

00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.880
dive first or can I counterpoint that

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:59.039
first? It's up to you. I was going to

00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.320
add really quick thing basically that I

00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:01.279
don't know how PlayStation has done it.

00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:02.640
I don't know if there's like an

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:05.039
exclusive window at the beginning and

00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.799
then they released it or or not.

00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:10.080
>> That's exactly what I was going to bring

00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:11.919
up is that the PlayStation 5 generation

00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:14.720
has been one of

00:31:11.919 --> 00:31:17.039
>> shifting strategies for Sony. At the

00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:20.039
beginning of the generation,

00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:20.039
there's

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:27.440
never going to come to another platform

00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:29.919
or at the very least there was literally

00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:33.520
no given timeline.

00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:34.960
Then Sony kind of started to do this

00:31:33.520 --> 00:31:38.080
thing where it turned out they were

00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:40.880
actually selling like, you know, a lot

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:43.039
of PlayStation games on Steam and they

00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:45.039
started to talk about, you know, when

00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.640
the window is going to open and when

00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.960
you'll be able to buy these PlayStation

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:51.279
games on other platforms. Now, I don't

00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:54.000
think this has actually been confirmed

00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:55.519
formally. Um, and someone can correct me

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:58.399
if I'm wrong. Hit me up in the chat,

00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:02.240
guys. But from my understanding, Sony

00:31:58.399 --> 00:32:05.039
has now sort of started to look at these

00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:08.320
numbers in the gear up to PlayStation 6

00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:11.600
and gone, "Okay, well, hold on a second.

00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:15.279
Maybe we need to dial back this

00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:17.200
exclusives on PC, on Steam strategy

00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:20.320
because are we selling enough

00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:22.799
PlayStation fives right now?" Um, I

00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:25.600
would say we're not.

00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:29.279
That's that's my understanding of kind

00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:30.640
of where it where it's at right now.

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:32.720
>> Um,

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.000
>> so could you see a future where there's

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:38.320
a window where where Xbox exclusives

00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:40.640
exist on Xbox exclusively for some

00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:43.360
period of time, a year, year and a half,

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:44.880
two years even, and then they kind of

00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:47.039
open up the floodgates and go, "Okay,

00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:48.799
let's grab some more extra revenue now

00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:51.039
that this has moved as many consoles as

00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:53.279
it as it will." I honestly think even 6

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:55.039
months is would be completely fine. The

00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.640
world moves so fast. Now, one thing that

00:32:55.039 --> 00:33:02.240
I want to throw out there is this chart

00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:05.760
from uh the Alina Insight newsletter. Uh

00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:09.519
Alina analytics substack. Um copy sold.

00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:11.360
Top PlayStation Studios games by copy

00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:14.000
sold. You see Hell Divers 2 is way way

00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:15.440
way up here. This is sold on Steam. I

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.720
don't have the stats for on PlayStation.

00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:18.720
And as far as my understanding goes,

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:22.159
this game sold

00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:25.200
gang busters on PlayStation 2. Uh, well,

00:33:22.159 --> 00:33:27.760
>> PlayStation as well. Um, thank you.

00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.640
>> It was released simultaneously on PC and

00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:32.880
PlayStation 5. It did release on Xbox,

00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:34.000
but it was way delayed on Xbox.

00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:35.600
>> Um, okay.

00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.279
>> Oh, but closer to the window I was

00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:38.480
talking about. Not a year or two years.

00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.799
It looks like it was released on

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.360
PlayStation and PC in February, and it

00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:47.039
was released on Xbox in August. Same

00:33:43.360 --> 00:33:48.640
year. No, not same year.

00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:49.039
Next year. So, it was a pretty big

00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:50.559
window.

00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.080
>> Okay. So, like 18 months almost.

00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.919
>> That's huge.

00:33:52.080 --> 00:33:56.159
>> I mean, we're in pretty uncharted

00:33:53.919 --> 00:33:59.760
territory right now. Uh, pun kind of

00:33:56.159 --> 00:34:02.960
intended here. Um, where this whole

00:33:59.760 --> 00:34:05.519
thing with exclusive, but like not

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:08.639
exclusive, but maybe timed, but maybe

00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:10.399
sometimes not timed. Um, you know, I

00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:13.760
think it's I think it's pretty pretty

00:34:10.399 --> 00:34:16.399
obvious that Nintendo has has drawn a

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:19.679
clear line in the sand. They allow their

00:34:16.399 --> 00:34:21.520
IPs in other, you know, forms of media

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:24.800
now, like you you know, there's that um

00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:26.399
there's that mobile Mario Kart game. Um,

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:30.320
and and you know what, actually, I mean,

00:34:26.399 --> 00:34:32.320
their IPs have actually I remember um

00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:35.919
what's what was it? Mario is Missing was

00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:38.639
like a PC a PC Nintendo IP game back

00:34:35.919 --> 00:34:40.800
from when like I was a kid. Um, so they

00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.520
they allow their IPs on other platforms,

00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.200
but Nintendo seems pretty clear that if

00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:47.200
you want to play a Nintendo game, you

00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:51.040
will play it on a Switch console or they

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:53.359
will come after you. Um, yeah. Is this

00:34:51.040 --> 00:34:54.879
Did I imagine this? Maybe it was

00:34:53.359 --> 00:34:57.280
something else.

00:34:54.879 --> 00:34:59.440
No, it I mean it shows Super NES as the

00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:01.200
as the image, but it says platforms MS

00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:03.599
DOSs,

00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:04.000
>> Macintosh, Windows, NES, and Snoop Super

00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:05.440
Ness.

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.240
>> I remember seeing it for sale at London

00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.480
Drugs.

00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:10.320
>> I've never heard of this before.

00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.280
>> Anyway, I I never actually played it. I

00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.720
just remember seeing it.

00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:15.680
>> Did not like it so much.

00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:17.359
>> Oh, well, okay. Maybe maybe maybe that

00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:19.040
was the one. Maybe that was what chased

00:35:17.359 --> 00:35:19.680
them off the PC in the first place.

00:35:19.040 --> 00:35:21.599
>> Maybe.

00:35:19.680 --> 00:35:23.839
>> Um,

00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:26.079
>> but okay. So, you've laid out your ideal

00:35:23.839 --> 00:35:28.400
strategy, which is that Microsoft

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:30.079
doubles down on the Xbox hardware being

00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.520
affordable, right? I where I don't know

00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:31.920
if you actually said that, but it was

00:35:31.520 --> 00:35:32.400
kind of

00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:33.680
>> Yeah,

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.599
>> I asked question.

00:35:33.680 --> 00:35:37.280
>> If they want consoles to if they want

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:39.920
their console to continue to exist in a

00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:41.440
meaningful way, they need to make a

00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:44.160
splashback cuz they're going to have to

00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:48.000
win everyone that went to PlayStation 5

00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:48.480
back, which is going to be tough.

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.680
>> Yeah.

00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.280
>> So, they're going to need to come in

00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:54.720
swinging with something big. They It

00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:58.400
would be real good for him if they had a

00:35:54.720 --> 00:36:01.520
Halo like game, which

00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.960
What What's the last like Microsoft

00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:05.359
Studio game?

00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.920
>> Forza, I guess would be the last one

00:36:05.359 --> 00:36:09.119
standing.

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:10.720
>> Forza Horizon 6 is coming.

00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:12.000
>> It'll be it'll be too early for the

00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:14.640
console launch. Um,

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:18.720
>> but in terms of like blockbuster first

00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:22.560
party Microsoft game

00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:26.640
or even exclusive game like I I'm having

00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:29.280
a hard time even even thinking of any.

00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:32.400
Yeah, Lightning XCE in chats like I

00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:33.760
don't know Halo 2 remake again.

00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.599
>> Yeah. Like

00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:38.560
>> yikes, man. So, I don't I don't know

00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:42.640
what they have to like really bring

00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:44.560
people in. And and Halo has

00:36:42.640 --> 00:36:45.599
diminished pretty hard.

00:36:44.560 --> 00:36:47.920
>> Uh yeah,

00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.480
>> I don't I honestly don't know if they're

00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:52.960
capable of bringing it back. Starfield

00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.680
was kind of

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.079
>> um

00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:56.400
>> Yeah,

00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.560
>> I'm not confident in Bethesda being able

00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:00.400
to release a good game.

00:36:58.560 --> 00:37:02.000
>> Don't worry, Activision Blizzard will do

00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.200
it.

00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:08.640
>> Uh yeah. Okay. Uh,

00:37:05.200 --> 00:37:11.599
sure. Uh, I don't know. They sure spent

00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:13.599
a lot of money buying some stuff.

00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.800
>> Okay. Noi put together a comprehensive

00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.839
list for us. Here we go.

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.119
>> Cool.

00:37:15.839 --> 00:37:22.160
>> Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:24.000
Gears of War Reloaded. I can You look

00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:25.280
like You look like I I know it didn't

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:28.000
happen because I'm not in the room with

00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.440
you, but you look like someone farted.

00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:31.040
>> And that's what you look like.

00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:33.520
>> I know it didn't happen cuz I'm not in

00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:36.000
the room with you. Is hilarious.

00:37:33.520 --> 00:37:39.400
He farts on wros so much and you guys

00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.400
have no idea.

00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:45.680
>> Age of Empires 2 definitive edition.

00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:48.680
>> Is that helping?

00:37:45.680 --> 00:37:48.680
>> Uh

00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.280
new fable.

00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.720
>> You know what?

00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:55.680
>> A killer,

00:37:52.720 --> 00:37:58.240
>> dude. The new fable that doesn't have uh

00:37:55.680 --> 00:37:59.359
uh character physical changes based on

00:37:58.240 --> 00:37:59.839
karma status.

00:37:59.359 --> 00:38:00.240
>> What?

00:37:59.839 --> 00:38:01.680
>> Really?

00:38:00.240 --> 00:38:02.480
>> Yeah. Did you hear about that? How's it

00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:04.960
even Fable,

00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.560
>> right? Like, what are you doing? Uh, new

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:08.400
Fable won't have

00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:10.480
>> we made a different game and slapped the

00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:12.640
name on it.

00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.400
This is one of those things that I just

00:38:12.640 --> 00:38:16.320
kind of I look at and I go, look, I

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.960
understand from a game developer

00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.560
standpoint and even from like a fan and

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:23.280
community standpoint, you know, the

00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:25.680
sequel shouldn't just be like slap a

00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.160
coat of paint on it, Force Awakens it,

00:38:25.680 --> 00:38:32.640
and just make the same thing again, you

00:38:28.160 --> 00:38:34.800
know, but how can you not

00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:38.240
Yeah. How can you how can you take

00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:39.839
something that was like like a core

00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:42.320
standout

00:38:39.839 --> 00:38:44.000
differentiating feature of the original

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.680
and just go eh

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.440
>> dude when when people would tell me

00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:49.839
about Fable when Fable was first coming

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:53.040
out that was the thing that they would

00:38:49.839 --> 00:38:55.119
tell you. That was it. It's an RPG

00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:56.800
>> and the actions that you do physically

00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.560
change your character based on karma

00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.720
status. It's like oh wow interesting.

00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:04.000
Uh, Boom pointed out it's like Civ 7

00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:07.359
forcing you to switch civs all the time.

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:10.000
Amazing example of just like what are

00:39:07.359 --> 00:39:12.160
you doing? Like I I honestly have no

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.160
interest in ever launching Civ 7 again.

00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:15.040
That that game is just cooked in my

00:39:14.160 --> 00:39:17.599
mind.

00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:19.440
>> Like I don't even care about cosmetics.

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.640
Like you know this. I've never spent a

00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:26.480
dollar on cosmetics in my life. And just

00:39:22.640 --> 00:39:28.720
just out of silent protest towards horse

00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:30.560
armor and everything that followed it. I

00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:32.560
mean, you know this too. I played a

00:39:30.560 --> 00:39:34.880
bunch of Halo Infinite. I earned a bunch

00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:38.079
of helmets and armor and like what

00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:41.040
skins. And I stubbornly played with the

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:42.240
stock skin no matter what my rank was. I

00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:44.240
actually even did the same thing in

00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:46.240
Clare Obscure where they're not even

00:39:44.240 --> 00:39:48.240
they're they're not even purchasable. I

00:39:46.240 --> 00:39:50.640
just I played with the stock outfits the

00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:52.640
whole game because I'm just like I don't

00:39:50.640 --> 00:39:54.640
know whether I'm old school or whether I

00:39:52.640 --> 00:39:56.480
just like can't stand the idea of

00:39:54.640 --> 00:39:58.640
microtransactions and cosmetics in my

00:39:56.480 --> 00:40:02.160
game. I just I don't I don't want to

00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:04.079
even allow myself to assign a value to

00:40:02.160 --> 00:40:07.200
my character looking a little bit

00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:09.839
different and I'm probably yeah I'm

00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:12.320
probably I've gone too far and that

00:40:09.839 --> 00:40:14.960
that's that's like that's totally fine.

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:18.720
But even for someone like me who goes

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:22.640
out of my way to proudly publicly not

00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:25.920
care about cosmetics in Fable, there

00:40:22.640 --> 00:40:28.160
would have been times when I was like,

00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.400
"This quest would be easier or this

00:40:28.160 --> 00:40:32.960
situation would be easier if I just

00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:36.160
murdered the crap out of everyone and I

00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:38.079
didn't because I didn't want to like

00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:41.599
senator Palpatine myself."

00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:44.800
>> Yeah. And I and I wanted to so so tying

00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:48.720
the moral choice to your physical

00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:52.400
appearance in that way really impacted

00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:55.920
gameplay for me in a way that I think

00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:58.240
would actually be even more impactful in

00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.839
the era of in-game cosmetics and in-game

00:40:58.240 --> 00:41:04.319
outfits

00:40:59.839 --> 00:41:06.560
and and to to not do that is like

00:41:04.319 --> 00:41:07.359
>> actual insanity. People are saying

00:41:06.560 --> 00:41:09.599
>> crazy to me,

00:41:07.359 --> 00:41:12.000
>> by the way, that apparently Foraxis has

00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:13.599
announced that they are going to maybe

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.680
be walking

00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:16.880
>> the the force changing of civs back or

00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:18.800
something.

00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.880
>> I don't know the details. No one linked

00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:22.000
an article, but multiple people said

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.119
this um

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.240
>> look like

00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.760
>> I don't know. People are saying it might

00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:30.720
be a different mode now. Um yeah, they

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.720
did with the time of update something

00:41:30.720 --> 00:41:34.160
test of time. I I don't know, but some

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:35.520
something may have changed or be

00:41:34.160 --> 00:41:37.839
changing or something like that. But

00:41:35.520 --> 00:41:41.760
honestly, like

00:41:37.839 --> 00:41:44.079
I I played one match of Civ 7 and every

00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:46.079
single Civ game that I remember playing

00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:48.240
since I think Civ 4,

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:49.359
>> you play it on launch and it's like it's

00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:51.359
a little rough,

00:41:49.359 --> 00:41:52.960
>> but I see the bones. This will be cool.

00:41:51.359 --> 00:41:54.640
We'll come back in some updates. They

00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.400
release some expansions and it becomes

00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:57.760
really, really good. And then you wait

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.520
and the next game comes out and the same

00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:00.720
thing happens. Civ 7 was the first time

00:41:59.520 --> 00:42:03.119
that I played it and was like, "The

00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:05.359
bones are rotten." This

00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:07.839
>> Oh, here it is. pcgamer.com.

00:42:05.359 --> 00:42:09.839
Civ 7 players can once again play as a

00:42:07.839 --> 00:42:11.760
single civilization in a massive

00:42:09.839 --> 00:42:12.720
overhaul update that is tentatively

00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:14.000
coming in spring.

00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:16.240
>> So, it's not here yet.

00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:19.280
>> These these updates are similar in scope

00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:22.000
to an expansion. So, there's hope, Luke.

00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:25.280
Maybe I I won't completely give up. But

00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:26.960
I will say

00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:28.800
>> like I I specifically remember playing

00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:30.319
Civ 6 and being like, "Oo, I don't like

00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:32.000
a lot of these systems. I don't like how

00:42:30.319 --> 00:42:33.040
this works." But, you know, they do this

00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.119
every time. I'll just wait and then

00:42:33.040 --> 00:42:38.319
it'll get good. And then I like Civ 6

00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:40.720
now. I didn't have that reaction playing

00:42:38.319 --> 00:42:42.800
Civ 7. And you know, if they can pull it

00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:43.920
out, they don't have Luigi anymore, so

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.160
that'll be rough.

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:48.000
>> If they can pull Jeez,

00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:49.839
>> that'll be rough. they can pull it off.

00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.160
I think it would be considered a win

00:42:49.839 --> 00:42:52.079
though.

00:42:50.160 --> 00:42:52.800
>> They lost their ace in a hole. They lost

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:54.160
their their

00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:57.599
>> I don't want to talk about I don't want

00:42:54.160 --> 00:43:00.800
to talk about Xbox forever. Uh that was

00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:04.000
that was crazy what you just said and

00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.079
I'm glad I was talking over it. Um, I

00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.839
want to play a fun game before we before

00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:11.119
we finally move on from like talking

00:43:07.839 --> 00:43:13.200
about Xbox, but Amir in Floatplane chat

00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:14.480
kind of inspired a little short

00:43:13.200 --> 00:43:18.880
conversation that I want to have with

00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:21.680
chat here and said, "If Microsoft bought

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:24.880
Project Red and made the Cyberpunk

00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:26.800
sequel an exclusive to Xbox, I would

00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:29.040
definitely go back. I think that's

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:31.599
literally the only title I can think of

00:43:29.040 --> 00:43:33.680
that would bring me back to Xbox." And I

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:36.880
actually want chat I want you guys to

00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:39.680
kind of give me your line. Give me your

00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:41.599
bribe that it would take for Microsoft

00:43:39.680 --> 00:43:43.040
to to to win you back.

00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:45.040
>> An interesting question. Yeah.

00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:49.599
>> Force you back to Xbox.

00:43:45.040 --> 00:43:53.119
>> Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2087 or

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:55.520
something. Both coming to the new Xbox

00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:57.359
console would be pretty that would be a

00:43:55.520 --> 00:43:59.680
pretty big pull. One of

00:43:57.359 --> 00:44:01.280
>> GTA 6. It's not happening. It's not

00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:03.359
relevant. I shouldn't say it's not

00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:04.960
relevant. It's very relevant. It's not

00:44:03.359 --> 00:44:06.160
relevant to this conversation.

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:06.960
>> Yeah. Give me something a little more

00:44:06.160 --> 00:44:09.119
realistic.

00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:10.720
>> I I think something that's kind of funny

00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:12.160
about that argument to me is the thing

00:44:10.720 --> 00:44:16.480
that would bring you back to Xbox is

00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:17.119
them buying another game studio.

00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:18.720
>> Yeah.

00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:20.720
>> And seeing how they've handled the ones

00:44:18.720 --> 00:44:22.720
that they have like

00:44:20.720 --> 00:44:24.640
>> I I would prefer that just doesn't

00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:26.240
happen. I think, you know, okay, they

00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:28.400
have new leadership. I need to I need to

00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:30.240
try to remember that and have some hope

00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.560
cuz she's been doing, you know, she's

00:44:30.240 --> 00:44:36.319
been saying good things and has done a

00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:39.280
good thing so far. Um, but yeah, Peter,

00:44:36.319 --> 00:44:42.240
just one more hit, bro.

00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:45.359
>> Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, man.

00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:47.599
>> Oh, man. Uh, Elijah says Elder School 6

00:44:45.359 --> 00:44:50.000
being exclusive might.

00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:52.079
>> Katos is like Portal 3. Okay, we all

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.040
know that's never happening.

00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:58.000
>> Uh, people got me, man. Titanfall 3.

00:44:55.040 --> 00:45:00.400
Titanfall 3. If they actually made a

00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.960
genuinely good successor to Titanfall 2,

00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:03.440
>> let's go.

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.359
>> That That would be my hook 100%. I would

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:08.480
be done. I'd be cooked immediately cuz

00:45:05.359 --> 00:45:10.560
that's the in my opinion, Titanfall 2 is

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:12.960
I I don't know how nobody freaking

00:45:10.560 --> 00:45:15.200
played it cuz EA is dumb and never

00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.359
marketed it. But you look at reviews on

00:45:15.200 --> 00:45:19.119
Steam, overwhelmingly positive. Everyone

00:45:17.359 --> 00:45:21.359
loved it. The community is super strong.

00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:22.880
That's the like Halo.

00:45:21.359 --> 00:45:25.680
>> That's their halo. If they market

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.760
Titanfall 3 properly and they get the IP

00:45:25.680 --> 00:45:29.520
somehow and they get some of the the

00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:32.000
spirit that actually made Titanfall 2

00:45:29.520 --> 00:45:33.280
and they make a genuinely good successor

00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:34.800
to it, that game would

00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.839
>> combat is so fun.

00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:38.319
>> It's so fun.

00:45:35.839 --> 00:45:40.400
>> That game is just and and it's it's one

00:45:38.319 --> 00:45:42.000
of those things where it's like um like

00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.079
you know how you know how wine

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:46.319
connoisseurs will talk about the body

00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:48.240
and the aroma and the whatever you know

00:45:46.319 --> 00:45:50.000
I we can be the same about games, right?

00:45:48.240 --> 00:45:51.839
where we start to kind of pick them

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.000
apart and we talk about the innovative

00:45:51.839 --> 00:45:55.520
mechanics and the stunning visuals and

00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.920
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:59.839
blah blah blah blah,

00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:02.480
but at the end of the day, does any of

00:45:59.839 --> 00:46:05.280
it matter unless it's fun?

00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.200
>> Titanfall 2, I could say a lot of really

00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:08.960
sort of pretentious

00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:12.240
things that are really good about it,

00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:14.000
but at the end of the day, it's fun.

00:46:12.240 --> 00:46:16.720
Sometimes you're in a mech and it's

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:18.960
never not fun. the weight and the like

00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:20.720
the momentum of this mech. You can like

00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:22.640
feel it. I was never even like a mech

00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:23.280
warrior kid, but it was like neither

00:46:22.640 --> 00:46:24.400
>> satisfying

00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:26.960
>> and it was great.

00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.640
>> And and and those combat sequences made

00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:31.200
sense. You had big weapons and you

00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:33.280
fought big stuff. And then you kind of

00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:36.240
it's kind of like like power '90s Power

00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:37.440
Rangers, man, where then that didn't

00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:39.280
mean that you could just solve every

00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:41.520
problem with your big mech. Sometimes

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:44.640
you had to fight on the ground and like

00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:46.800
cool like mirror's edge like uh parkour

00:46:44.640 --> 00:46:49.280
and like running and sliding and like

00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:52.079
really satisfying gun combat too. It's

00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.599
just such a fun game. Okay. Okay. I

00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:56.480
think I think we're starting to lay a

00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:59.440
groundwork here, Luke. So, they need to

00:46:56.480 --> 00:47:01.440
actually somehow turn around Bethesda

00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:03.359
and make a good Elder Scrolls game.

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:05.839
>> That would be massive as well.

00:47:03.359 --> 00:47:07.200
>> They need to they need to do Titanfall

00:47:05.839 --> 00:47:10.000
2.

00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:12.000
Um, you know, COD is going to be COD,

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.160
right? So, you know, but I don't I don't

00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:16.400
think I don't think at this point you

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:18.640
can make COD Xbox exclusive. I don't

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.319
think there's any putting

00:47:18.640 --> 00:47:21.839
closing that Pandora's box again.

00:47:20.319 --> 00:47:24.319
>> Yeah, I don't think they should, to be

00:47:21.839 --> 00:47:25.200
honest. Just

00:47:24.319 --> 00:47:25.760
keep saying

00:47:25.200 --> 00:47:27.280
>> um

00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:29.839
>> like if I'm trying to think if I'm

00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.040
trying to fully put my Microsoft hat on,

00:47:29.839 --> 00:47:32.160
I don't think they should do that with

00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:33.839
COD.

00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:35.680
>> I don't think so either. Yeah,

00:47:33.839 --> 00:47:36.720
>> take taking COD off PC would be crazy

00:47:35.680 --> 00:47:41.119
work at this point.

00:47:36.720 --> 00:47:42.880
>> Obsidianbased New Vegas sequel.

00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:44.720
I don't think they can do I don't think

00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:46.480
they even should do a New Vegas sequel,

00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:48.880
to be honest. I think just doing an

00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:50.960
Obsidian-based Fallout though could be

00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:53.280
pretty sick if if they if they get

00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:57.200
Bethesda to just really actually make a

00:47:53.280 --> 00:48:01.040
good game again and they focus on on uh

00:47:57.200 --> 00:48:01.839
Elder Scrolls 6 and just leave them

00:48:01.040 --> 00:48:06.400
there.

00:48:01.839 --> 00:48:09.119
>> Yeah. and take get Obsidian to wake up

00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:12.720
and make things and make Fallout. That'd

00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:14.880
be awesome. If they somehow get the IP

00:48:12.720 --> 00:48:16.720
and actually do right by it with

00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:18.960
Titanfall, that would be amazing cuz

00:48:16.720 --> 00:48:21.960
honestly, I don't think they can make

00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:21.960
Halo.

00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:27.520
I feel like Halo's like aged out.

00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:29.920
>> I don't know how you fix it. I think may

00:48:27.520 --> 00:48:32.160
maybe if you get off of Spartans or

00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.760
something like if you if you focus on

00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:34.640
>> what is even Halo without Spartans

00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:36.720
though like come on.

00:48:34.640 --> 00:48:39.359
>> Yeah. If if you somehow focus on like

00:48:36.720 --> 00:48:40.720
>> without planets too

00:48:39.359 --> 00:48:41.680
>> you know like what are we even what are

00:48:40.720 --> 00:48:43.599
we even talking about?

00:48:41.680 --> 00:48:45.599
>> Yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah. People said

00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:47.680
ODST. There's ODST.

00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:49.359
>> We should move on. Uh Madscribe says,

00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:51.440
"Hey, Steam Controller has a reservation

00:48:49.359 --> 00:48:53.040
queue now. So if you want one, uh that's

00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.599
probably the way to do it if you don't

00:48:53.040 --> 00:48:57.599
want to get scalped on that." And uh

00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:59.839
man, don't pay $300 for a Steam

00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:02.240
controller. It's a good controller. At

00:48:59.839 --> 00:49:06.000
$100, it was kind of hard for me to

00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:08.319
wholeheartedly recommend. At $300, it is

00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:09.599
impossible for me to recommend.

00:49:08.319 --> 00:49:12.800
>> Um

00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:15.200
>> go go sign up for the queue. Give Valve

00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.280
your money. Not predatory scalpers. I

00:49:15.200 --> 00:49:19.119
don't know why I have to say this. If we

00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.800
all just got together and never paid a

00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.559
scalper for anything, they wouldn't

00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:26.160
exist anymore and it would be a better

00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.920
world. Um, don't do that. Uh, but let's

00:49:26.160 --> 00:49:29.280
uh let's let's let's move on. Uh, we

00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:31.440
should probably get some sponsors done.

00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:32.880
Hey, Dan, I can't see your your thing.

00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:34.720
Or why don't I jump into the CW

00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.839
announcements first. We actually have a

00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:40.800
a pretty loaded up week for CW. Some of

00:49:37.839 --> 00:49:43.359
you have noticed this already, but to

00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.960
celebrate our new website,

00:49:43.359 --> 00:49:45.599
Dbrand, uh, Luke, do you want to share

00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:47.839
your screen?

00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:51.440
>> Uh, yeah. Let me get there.

00:49:47.839 --> 00:49:56.160
Dbrand products. Select Dbrand products

00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:59.920
are now available on ltstore.com

00:49:56.160 --> 00:50:03.200
with exclusive colorways,

00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:06.319
ghost and green circuit that look

00:50:03.200 --> 00:50:09.599
absolutely flipping amazing. And the

00:50:06.319 --> 00:50:12.000
best part is that unlike if you order

00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.960
these products from Dbrand's website,

00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:19.040
you will actually get both the ghost

00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:21.599
circuit skin and the green circuit skin

00:50:19.040 --> 00:50:24.960
for the product that you select. So,

00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:28.960
we've got skins for uh Switch 2 as well

00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:32.720
as for um Steam Deck for key modern

00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:34.559
phones. Uh I've actually gotten a ton of

00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:36.400
comments. Uh where is it? Where's my

00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:39.920
phone? There it is. I've gotten a ton of

00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:43.440
comments on my green circuit skin here.

00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:45.200
It's got just like very OG classic

00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:47.920
circuit board vibes. And then we've got

00:50:45.200 --> 00:50:50.800
the uh the white one. The ghost circuit

00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:52.400
has like a super cool kind of prismatic.

00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.559
Uh you'll have to find maybe another

00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:56.319
shot to Dan has some shots on his

00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.319
computer that show how it kind of

00:50:56.319 --> 00:50:59.920
catches the light. Uh Dan, do you want

00:50:58.319 --> 00:51:03.040
to just uh do you want to show those and

00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:04.640
just go back to uh Yeah, you can kind of

00:51:03.040 --> 00:51:07.520
see it on the on kind of the bottom

00:51:04.640 --> 00:51:08.720
there. What else you got? Hit me. Yeah,

00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:13.000
you can see it kind of at the bottom of

00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:13.000
the phone there. Yeah, super cool.

00:51:13.359 --> 00:51:16.800
>> Dude was up in Floatplane chat says, "I

00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:18.480
knew you were using a skin that wasn't a

00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:20.319
thing before. You ignored me for a

00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:21.839
reason. I understand. I'm not mad at you

00:51:20.319 --> 00:51:24.800
anymore. I'm glad we're good. I'm glad

00:51:21.839 --> 00:51:27.440
we're good." Dude was up.

00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:29.760
Anyway, freaking excited about this

00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:33.119
partnership. Uh so now if you wanted to

00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:35.440
get a a Dbrand case for uh for your

00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:37.359
device, then you can also pick up some

00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:39.839
awesome stuff from ltstore.com at the

00:51:37.359 --> 00:51:41.760
same time. And I've got a couple of

00:51:39.839 --> 00:51:44.000
things that you can uh that you can pick

00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:47.200
up that are new. For this week, we're

00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:50.559
launching our LT precision multi-bit

00:51:47.200 --> 00:51:53.680
standard kit. So, a little while ago, we

00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:55.440
rebranded the Precision Kit Pro, and

00:51:53.680 --> 00:51:58.000
that was in preparation for this because

00:51:55.440 --> 00:52:00.240
we now have two tiers of our precision

00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:02.079
multi-bit screwdrivers. This one is

00:52:00.240 --> 00:52:04.319
designed for everyday repairs, upgrades,

00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:06.640
and tinkering. It covers the most useful

00:52:04.319 --> 00:52:09.200
precision bits in one compact package.

00:52:06.640 --> 00:52:10.960
Has the same premium LT build quality

00:52:09.200 --> 00:52:12.960
with an anodized aluminum handle,

00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:14.640
magnetic bit retention, a stainless

00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:16.559
steel internal shaft, and an end cap

00:52:14.640 --> 00:52:18.720
that spins suspiciously well for

00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:21.040
something meant to be a screwdriver. It

00:52:18.720 --> 00:52:22.640
builds on the bestselling Precision Pro,

00:52:21.040 --> 00:52:25.119
and it packs the most useful bits, a

00:52:22.640 --> 00:52:27.440
removable crossbar for stubborn screws,

00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:30.240
that's new, and a magnetic organizer

00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:33.040
case into one compact everyday kit. So,

00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:35.359
the main difference here, guys, is that

00:52:33.040 --> 00:52:37.599
it um

00:52:35.359 --> 00:52:39.119
it

00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:41.200
hold on, I'm actually trying to think.

00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:44.079
Uh how many how many bits are bit

00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:46.800
changes? So, this one has 31 and the big

00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:48.880
one has 61. And then Luke, if you zoom

00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:50.720
in, you can actually see there's a hole

00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:53.680
through the driver now that you can use

00:52:50.720 --> 00:52:55.599
that torque bar on. Um, and so it

00:52:53.680 --> 00:52:57.680
doesn't have the internal bit storage in

00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:01.599
the driver anymore. But some people

00:52:57.680 --> 00:53:03.680
actually prefer this style anyway. So,

00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:06.000
uh, we've got that launching this week.

00:53:03.680 --> 00:53:08.480
And then finally, we're adding new

00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:10.240
colors to the blank t-shirt lineup. Uh,

00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:15.280
we're getting a seasonal refresh with

00:53:10.240 --> 00:53:17.760
grape, jade gray, and cafe. Oh, excuse

00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:19.520
me. Coffee. Same lightweight fabric,

00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:21.119
refined fit, and all the overthinking

00:53:19.520 --> 00:53:24.079
that went into making a genuinely good

00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:26.240
blank tea. And

00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:28.000
also available in tall because finding

00:53:26.240 --> 00:53:30.400
basics that actually fit shouldn't feel

00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:32.160
like a side quest. Love that. Love that

00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:35.119
tagline. So guys, you can check out the

00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:36.880
new blank tease.

00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:40.880
I think that's it for creator warehouse

00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:43.760
stuff. Oh, okay. This is interesting. We

00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:48.000
have a new mailing list. We're offering

00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:50.559
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00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:53.440
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00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.359
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ltdstore.com/pages/welcome.

00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:09.599
Uh oh, I guess we should jump into uh a

00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:10.880
few comms. Uh, we believe that when you

00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:12.240
throw money at your screen, when you're

00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:14.160
watching your favorite creators or

00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:15.839
podcasts or whatever else it is, that

00:54:14.160 --> 00:54:18.079
you should get more than just the

00:54:15.839 --> 00:54:20.240
self-satisfaction of supporting a show

00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:22.160
that you like, you should get quality

00:54:20.240 --> 00:54:24.720
products in the mail. So, we did away

00:54:22.160 --> 00:54:27.040
with super chats and Twitch bits and all

00:54:24.720 --> 00:54:29.119
that other stuff. And we consolidated

00:54:27.040 --> 00:54:31.200
all the contributions to the show into

00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.800
checkout messages. All you got to do to

00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:35.440
send a checkout message is what Luke's

00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:37.920
doing. He's presumably adding something

00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:39.280
to his cart. There he goes. He's adding

00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:40.800
something to his cart and he's going to

00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.559
show you guys the interface. Once you're

00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:46.720
in the checkout, you will see the box to

00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:48.800
type up a little checkout message. There

00:54:46.720 --> 00:54:51.119
it is. You can choose your color. You

00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:54.000
can make your name show up if you wanted

00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:55.280
to um if I don't know if you want your

00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:58.079
name to show up on screen, you can make

00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:59.680
it anonymous. And then when you guys are

00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.800
done typing up your message while we're

00:54:59.680 --> 00:55:06.079
live, it'll go to producer Dan.

00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:08.160
There he is. who will respond to it or

00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:09.680
curate it for me and Luke to respond to

00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:11.200
and we'll show you guys how that works.

00:55:09.680 --> 00:55:12.559
You want Do we Do you have a couple uh

00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:14.960
check out messages for us, Dan?

00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:17.760
>> I do. Yes, I got a few here.

00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:19.760
>> Hello, LLD live leaks and damage

00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:21.760
control. How many times have you blamed

00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:23.920
a company for a product not working when

00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:26.000
it's because of you and you will not

00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:28.000
admit it?

00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:30.400
>> Uh,

00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:32.800
I've definitely blamed companies for

00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.520
things not working.

00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.040
um because and and it turned out to be

00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:41.680
user error.

00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:46.559
>> Um I I can't I I am open to a time that

00:55:41.680 --> 00:55:47.119
I have done that and not followed up.

00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:48.720
>> Uh

00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:51.680
>> can you think of can you think of the

00:55:48.720 --> 00:55:53.520
most maybe interesting one when it was

00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:56.079
it wasn't Jimmy Fallon show? That one

00:55:53.520 --> 00:55:57.200
just actually didn't work. Um, can you

00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:00.240
can you think of maybe the most

00:55:57.200 --> 00:56:03.040
interesting one where it was user error

00:56:00.240 --> 00:56:06.400
and you ended up figuring out later?

00:56:03.040 --> 00:56:09.359
>> Uh, let me think. I'd say that happens a

00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:11.359
lot more like live on WHow where I'll be

00:56:09.359 --> 00:56:13.040
like, "Oh, I can't get my, you know, my

00:56:11.359 --> 00:56:15.599
iPhone to do this because I'm I'm not

00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:17.760
facteing everything for Wow,

00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.839
>> yeah, yeah, that's true. I don't fact

00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:23.960
fact check everything in my life

00:56:19.839 --> 00:56:23.960
anyway." Um,

00:56:24.160 --> 00:56:27.680
oh yeah, of course, of course chat's

00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:30.000
going to go there. Billet Labs, question

00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:32.000
mark. I mean, my my issue with Billet

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.920
Labs was not that the temperatures

00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.920
weren't good, though. Um, the reason

00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:37.440
that I was dismissive of the product is

00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:39.680
for all the reasons that it failed

00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:41.680
anyway, which is that it was expensive.

00:56:39.680 --> 00:56:42.720
It didn't fit in any case that existed

00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:44.559
or would ever exist.

00:56:42.720 --> 00:56:47.119
>> Based on your technical thing, you were

00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:48.559
saying that you didn't because you guys

00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:50.079
did use it wrong, right? You used it on

00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:52.319
the wrong card or something. We used it

00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:54.319
on the So, so they told us it might work

00:56:52.319 --> 00:56:57.200
on this GPU, but it's designed for this

00:56:54.319 --> 00:56:59.440
other one. And I put it on the GPU that

00:56:57.200 --> 00:57:01.920
it didn't work on, and the temperature

00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:03.839
sucked. But by that time, I had already

00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:07.760
had to modify my motherboard to get it

00:57:03.839 --> 00:57:10.960
to fit. I had already determined that it

00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:16.640
was not actually like good to put in any

00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:18.720
case anywhere ever. Um, I had already

00:57:16.640 --> 00:57:21.760
be from my experience as a water cooling

00:57:18.720 --> 00:57:23.440
product product manager, I had already

00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:25.040
determined that there was never going to

00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.720
be a follow-up to this thing cuz that

00:57:25.040 --> 00:57:28.400
that I don't think people even like

00:57:26.720 --> 00:57:30.799
remember this video at this point.

00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:32.960
They're just like mad, right? Um, so

00:57:30.799 --> 00:57:35.200
part of the pitch for it was like, hey,

00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:36.640
if your GPU changes, but you keep your

00:57:35.200 --> 00:57:38.160
CPU, you don't have to throw away the

00:57:36.640 --> 00:57:40.240
whole thing. You could like you could

00:57:38.160 --> 00:57:42.559
like have like a GPU replacement. They

00:57:40.240 --> 00:57:44.319
never made that because that was never

00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:46.480
>> All I was trying to bring up was that I

00:57:44.319 --> 00:57:49.599
think we did talk on W show about how

00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:51.520
you technically didn't use the the fully

00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:53.119
appropriate card. So it wasn't it wasn't

00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:54.880
that you didn't address that.

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:56.720
>> Oh yeah. No, we Oh, we totally addressed

00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:58.000
that. It just wasn't the problem with

00:57:56.720 --> 00:58:00.000
the product. The problem with the

00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:01.760
product was that it was a bad product

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:05.359
and it didn't matter how how it

00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:07.359
performed because there's a you can only

00:58:05.359 --> 00:58:10.160
you can only get water cooling to

00:58:07.359 --> 00:58:12.559
ambient temperature, right? And water

00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:14.880
cooling CPUs and GPUs has been mostly an

00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.240
optimization problem for like many years

00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:18.799
at this point. We saw this when we did

00:58:16.240 --> 00:58:22.640
water cooling through the ages. So no

00:58:18.799 --> 00:58:24.240
amount of of narrowing of of reducing

00:58:22.640 --> 00:58:26.079
that sort of that narrow performance

00:58:24.240 --> 00:58:31.599
band was going to make this totally

00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:33.680
senseless product make any sense. So

00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:35.280
and I've been completely validated on

00:58:33.680 --> 00:58:38.480
that. They did one production run and

00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:40.559
then never made it again. uh in spite of

00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:42.559
all of the attention that it got like

00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:43.839
millions upon millions upon millions of

00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:44.799
impressions for this product.

00:58:43.839 --> 00:58:46.079
>> I mean, I still don't think it was

00:58:44.799 --> 00:58:48.960
handled properly, but

00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:51.040
>> No, no, it wasn't. No question. No

00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:53.520
question, but it was doomed from the

00:58:51.040 --> 00:58:56.559
start. And I just I don't think I need

00:58:53.520 --> 00:58:57.119
to go over it all again.

00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:59.200
>> Um,

00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:03.280
>> how about another one?

00:58:59.200 --> 00:59:05.119
>> What else we got? Anyone got anything?

00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:07.440
There was, wasn't there some time you

00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:10.319
said something about a drive on like the

00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:13.440
PlayStation or something and uh

00:59:10.319 --> 00:59:15.760
>> Oh, yeah. But we did a whole video.

00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:17.920
>> No, I'm not. No, no, no. I'm I The core

00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.920
question because we got way off track

00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:22.720
here. The core question was what do you

00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:24.319
think was the most interesting time that

00:59:22.720 --> 00:59:26.240
something went wrong because of user

00:59:24.319 --> 00:59:28.160
error and then,

00:59:26.240 --> 00:59:29.680
>> you know, we we addressed it or whatever

00:59:28.160 --> 00:59:30.880
cuz it's going to happen many many

00:59:29.680 --> 00:59:32.559
times. We've been making content for way

00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:34.240
too many years. So, what do you think is

00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.359
the most interesting one? I I don't need

00:59:34.240 --> 00:59:38.480
you to like defend something. It's just

00:59:37.359 --> 00:59:39.839
what what do you think was the most

00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:42.240
interesting one?

00:59:39.839 --> 00:59:43.520
>> I mean, I don't think the uh the

00:59:42.240 --> 00:59:44.880
>> PlayStation one might not be a good

00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:46.640
example. I was just trying to throw

00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:48.960
options out there. When I'm when I'm

00:59:46.640 --> 00:59:51.440
thinking interesting, I'm thinking like

00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:53.119
it was, you know, the reason why the

00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:55.440
user error happened might have been

00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:57.280
because they did something in a in an

00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:00.240
interesting but non-standard way. So, it

00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:02.480
kind of like was intriguing when you

01:00:00.240 --> 01:00:04.319
figured out that it it was it was user

01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:06.400
error and it ended up making the product

01:00:04.319 --> 01:00:08.480
like cooler potentially,

01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:10.480
>> not temperature- wise, like interest.

01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:12.079
>> I mean, it wasn't user error, but I

01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:14.160
think my favorite product that I was

01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:16.960
ever completely wrong about was probably

01:00:14.160 --> 01:00:18.880
the Logitech G-Cloud.

01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:21.280
I just

01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:23.599
completely underestimated what a great

01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:25.839
experience that product would be for the

01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:28.240
right for the right user. And it's still

01:00:25.839 --> 01:00:30.559
not something that I find myself using.

01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:34.079
Like there's one in our warehouse. I I

01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:36.400
don't use it. But um when I did take it

01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:38.880
home and use it for a while, I was like,

01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:41.920
"Oh, I get it now." Cuz it was like so

01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:45.520
light and um the battery life was so

01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:50.200
great. And I had been so so dismissive

01:00:45.520 --> 01:00:50.200
of that. Um,

01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:58.640
I think that's probably

01:00:55.440 --> 01:01:01.280
I think that's probably the the the

01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:04.799
coolest product that I've ever been like

01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:06.799
totally totally wrong about.

01:01:04.799 --> 01:01:07.920
Can you think of any like are there are

01:01:06.799 --> 01:01:09.920
there any that you were just like,

01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:11.599
"Yeah, this this thing is useless and

01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:14.559
stupid." But like

01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:16.240
>> I mean we've disagreed on on things many

01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:18.799
a time over the years, but that makes

01:01:16.240 --> 01:01:21.799
sense. I I I can't really think of like

01:01:18.799 --> 01:01:21.799
um

01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:28.559
again that isn't really at the core of

01:01:26.319 --> 01:01:31.119
the the question. So I think I think we

01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:32.799
just move on to the next one.

01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.720
>> Sure. Yeah. And you know what?

01:01:32.799 --> 01:01:38.000
Realistically there's probably something

01:01:34.720 --> 01:01:40.799
that I've gotten wrong um that I just

01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:42.240
don't even know yet. like if if anyone

01:01:40.799 --> 01:01:43.839
that's why I kind of wanted to go to

01:01:42.240 --> 01:01:47.520
chat because if there was something that

01:01:43.839 --> 01:01:49.760
you guys saw that uh that that we kind

01:01:47.520 --> 01:01:51.200
of that we got that we got wrong that I

01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:55.000
have not acknowledged yet then I'm I'm

01:01:51.200 --> 01:01:55.000
happy to I'd like to

01:01:56.000 --> 01:02:01.200
bring back Kickarted. Kickstarter is not

01:01:58.160 --> 01:02:03.440
like the same anymore. It still exists

01:02:01.200 --> 01:02:05.119
but it's it's a totally different world.

01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:06.880
It's honestly

01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:09.520
>> I'm assuming more like a marketing

01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:12.559
>> probably better now. Yeah. It it used to

01:02:09.520 --> 01:02:14.160
be like the freaking wild west and now

01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:16.640
there's there's a lot of companies that

01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:18.960
like are Kickstarter companies kind of

01:02:16.640 --> 01:02:20.240
like they they almost exclus like they

01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:21.680
they barely even have their own

01:02:20.240 --> 01:02:24.240
websites. They basically just function

01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:26.160
through Kickstarter. Um Kickstarter is

01:02:24.240 --> 01:02:28.640
where they launch every product product

01:02:26.160 --> 01:02:31.760
that they make. Um like these are these

01:02:28.640 --> 01:02:33.920
are totally a thing. Um

01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:37.359
which is which is cool. It just makes it

01:02:33.920 --> 01:02:38.559
less interesting in a kick farted

01:02:37.359 --> 01:02:39.680
stance. For people that don't know what

01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:40.880
we're talking about, we used to have a

01:02:39.680 --> 01:02:42.000
series called Kickarted and I don't

01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:42.720
think there was a I think there's maybe

01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.720
like three of them.

01:02:42.720 --> 01:02:45.760
>> We did like two episodes or three or

01:02:44.720 --> 01:02:47.440
something like that. Yeah.

01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:49.760
>> Yeah. But it was we would we would back

01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:52.079
a Kickstarter and the idea was that we'd

01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:54.319
actually hope that it did ship

01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:56.240
>> which was another flaw with the plan

01:02:54.319 --> 01:02:58.240
because sometimes they just wouldn't end

01:02:56.240 --> 01:03:00.400
up shipping at all. U but we would back

01:02:58.240 --> 01:03:02.240
a Kickstarter, hope that it would ship

01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:05.200
and then

01:03:02.240 --> 01:03:06.480
>> you know our bet basically was that it

01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:07.760
was going to be junk.

01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:09.760
>> Yeah. Yeah, if it's good, then it's a

01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:11.359
review of a cool product. And then if

01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:12.480
it's bad, then it's kickarted.

01:03:11.359 --> 01:03:14.960
>> Kickfarted.

01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:17.119
>> But it turns out the the the overlap

01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:20.960
between ideas that were good enough to

01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:24.240
eventually get manufactured, but so bad

01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:25.039
that they were completely dead on

01:03:24.240 --> 01:03:27.520
arrival

01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:29.920
>> and just worth crashing basically.

01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:30.799
>> Is Yeah. It's like really really really

01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:33.920
small.

01:03:30.799 --> 01:03:36.079
>> Yeah. Yeah.

01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:37.440
Yeah. It was fun to make those. I had a

01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:39.359
they were they were fun to shoot. They

01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:40.880
were fun to write for. Uh it was

01:03:39.359 --> 01:03:45.599
actually kind of fun testing those types

01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:48.640
of products. Um but yeah, it's just the

01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:50.079
like limited inventory of what types of

01:03:48.640 --> 01:03:53.520
things you can actually do that with

01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:55.760
just sort of kind of ran out. I'm sure

01:03:53.520 --> 01:03:57.599
there's been examples since then, but we

01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:00.160
haven't paid enough attention that you

01:03:57.599 --> 01:04:02.000
would have to to be able to do that over

01:04:00.160 --> 01:04:06.799
time. And I don't think really anyone

01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:10.799
has like Kickstarter was had this like

01:04:06.799 --> 01:04:14.799
super super powerful moment uh of of

01:04:10.799 --> 01:04:17.839
relevance and I I think it's kind of in

01:04:14.799 --> 01:04:19.760
the past now.

01:04:17.839 --> 01:04:21.680
>> Yeah. I mean there are still things that

01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:22.160
just go freaking gang busters on

01:04:21.680 --> 01:04:25.200
Kickstarter.

01:04:22.160 --> 01:04:27.359
>> No, dude. I mean I'm holding one.

01:04:25.200 --> 01:04:29.119
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good example.

01:04:27.359 --> 01:04:33.839
Um, like Kickstarter is still a really

01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:35.599
big deal. It's just not um,

01:04:33.839 --> 01:04:37.920
>> you know, it's not in the news like

01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.359
every freaking

01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:42.000
week like it was before. Like, yeah,

01:04:39.359 --> 01:04:44.640
this the Slay the Spire Downfall board

01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:48.319
game uh, campaign.

01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:52.960
>> It's it's a it's a board game

01:04:48.319 --> 01:04:56.240
that raised $7.6 million.

01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:57.839
>> Wow. But then I mean that's like that's

01:04:56.240 --> 01:04:59.200
an established IP too.

01:04:57.839 --> 01:05:00.480
>> That's what I'm saying. A lot of

01:04:59.200 --> 01:05:02.319
Kickstarter now.

01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:05.280
>> Yeah. Just using it as using it as

01:05:02.319 --> 01:05:07.359
marketing slash as a as a cash flow

01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:10.319
exercise. like we've got a product

01:05:07.359 --> 01:05:12.880
coming. It's the one that I was alluding

01:05:10.319 --> 01:05:15.359
to that

01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:18.559
in order for us to manufacture enough of

01:05:15.359 --> 01:05:21.039
them um

01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:23.599
probably the best way to raise that

01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:25.359
money outside of like you know taking

01:05:23.599 --> 01:05:27.200
private equity or venture capital or

01:05:25.359 --> 01:05:31.599
whatever out outside of taking outside

01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:34.559
capital would probably be to essentially

01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:38.480
you crowdfund the the costs of the first

01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:39.920
production run um by announcing it early

01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:41.839
and and like doing a Kickstarter

01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:44.240
campaign. I don't think that we would

01:05:41.839 --> 01:05:45.920
bother to use the Kickstarter platform

01:05:44.240 --> 01:05:48.000
if it was us. Like I got to imagine

01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.920
there's like a Shopify plugin for that,

01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:53.520
right?

01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:56.880
>> But just pre-orders basically.

01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:58.640
>> I mean, essentially, but part of the fun

01:05:56.880 --> 01:06:00.000
of Kickstarter is that it's at like

01:05:58.640 --> 01:06:01.599
different tiers. So, if you get in

01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:04.720
really really early, it's at like a

01:06:01.599 --> 01:06:06.319
crazy good price. Or it comes with extra

01:06:04.720 --> 01:06:08.319
it comes with a hat that's like, "Yeah,

01:06:06.319 --> 01:06:09.359
I backed it first." like building these

01:06:08.319 --> 01:06:11.280
kind of these bundles.

01:06:09.359 --> 01:06:12.960
>> We have the ability to do that.

01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.400
>> Yeah. Yeah. I think we could do that.

01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.839
>> Remember the wave system that we had for

01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:17.280
the backpack?

01:06:15.839 --> 01:06:18.960
>> Yeah, I wave system.

01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:21.680
>> Pretty sure you could just use that to

01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:23.280
to like change it as it goes.

01:06:21.680 --> 01:06:25.039
>> Master of Nun says, "Aren't there strict

01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:26.079
rules regarding the use of crowdfunding

01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:27.680
capital? I don't believe you're allowed

01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:28.960
to spend that money." No, no, no. But we

01:06:27.680 --> 01:06:31.200
would be spending the money to make the

01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.960
product, so that would be fine. So that

01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:34.960
that's what I mean when by like raising

01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:36.880
money to do the first production run. It

01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:38.799
would be

01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:40.559
to to make the product that people are

01:06:38.799 --> 01:06:43.520
are buying. Uh you're just you're

01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:46.559
selling it at a discount so that you can

01:06:43.520 --> 01:06:48.319
um so that you can scale it up faster.

01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:51.359
Uh so that you can get the money in

01:06:48.319 --> 01:06:53.599
ahead of time so that you can produce it

01:06:51.359 --> 01:06:55.520
all all in one go rather than doing a

01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:57.200
small production run and then selling

01:06:55.520 --> 01:06:59.119
that and then using that cash to buy

01:06:57.200 --> 01:07:00.640
twice as many and then selling that and

01:06:59.119 --> 01:07:02.240
then using that cash to buy twice as

01:07:00.640 --> 01:07:05.240
many which is like a many monthsl long

01:07:02.240 --> 01:07:05.240
process.

01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:10.720
Yeah, like I'm going through the

01:07:07.599 --> 01:07:12.079
technology section on Kickstarter right

01:07:10.720 --> 01:07:13.280
now. I'm

01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:13.920
>> Yeah, bring it up. Let's see.

01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.520
>> I don't

01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:18.799
>> I can see your screen share.

01:07:15.520 --> 01:07:19.920
>> Oh, really? Cool. There's like a calima.

01:07:18.799 --> 01:07:22.319
>> What's a calima?

01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:23.520
>> It's a musical. You You push down the

01:07:22.319 --> 01:07:24.480
like metal prong.

01:07:23.520 --> 01:07:25.760
>> It goes.

01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:26.559
>> Yeah. Um

01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:29.280
>> Okay.

01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:30.960
>> So, okay. There's a 3D printing modular

01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:32.640
arm system.

01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:35.440
>> Neat. I mean, I'm assuming you're just

01:07:32.640 --> 01:07:37.200
>> I want to see the kale limba actually

01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:37.839
>> cuz it looks like an electronic calimbo.

01:07:37.200 --> 01:07:38.480
>> It is

01:07:37.839 --> 01:07:38.880
>> sick.

01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:42.160
>> Yeah.

01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:43.920
>> Okay. That raised half a million USD.

01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:45.200
>> But are like is Lionus Tech Tips going

01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.960
to make a video about an electronic

01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:48.960
Calima? Probably not. Heck no.

01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:52.640
>> So that's not it's not really like topic

01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:54.400
relevant for for us. Um

01:07:52.640 --> 01:07:57.119
>> if it makes Dan happy, it's relevant for

01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:59.119
us. Luke, come on. Is that a granular

01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:00.240
delay? What what is all this cool audio

01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:01.760
crap on on

01:08:00.240 --> 01:08:05.039
>> It seems like there's a decent amount of

01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:09.880
interesting uh audio stuff. Floor

01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:09.880
washing robot. Um

01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:13.039
I don't know, man.

01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:15.359
>> Wow. A table

01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:17.199
>> RC tank. Like a lot of this isn't stuff

01:08:15.359 --> 01:08:20.159
that I would see and be like, "Oh, yeah.

01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:22.799
Kick farted. Cool. May maybe some AI

01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:23.520
glasses." This all looks like relatively

01:08:22.799 --> 01:08:25.199
competent,

01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:26.560
>> but then there's so many AI glasses

01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:29.759
coming out that I feel like we'd be

01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:32.159
better off just making videos about AI

01:08:29.759 --> 01:08:33.920
glasses in general. Yeah. Like it it

01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:36.560
doesn't really scream that it needs a

01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:38.799
kick farted. There's a keyboard.

01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:39.920
>> Look at this lens. That is comical

01:08:38.799 --> 01:08:41.600
sticking off of that phone.

01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:43.120
>> Lens. Yeah.

01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:45.120
>> Okay.

01:08:43.120 --> 01:08:46.640
>> So, it's just like ah I don't know, man.

01:08:45.120 --> 01:08:49.839
I don't see Kickfarter making sense

01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:51.920
here. Mick Bane says, "Uh, LMG doesn't

01:08:49.839 --> 01:08:53.600
need Kickstarter, just use pre-orders."

01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:56.480
So, pre-orders have always been kind of

01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:59.279
an uncomfortable thing for me. And

01:08:56.480 --> 01:09:01.359
>> isn't it kind of the same deal?

01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:03.199
>> Oh, it's totally the same deal, but

01:09:01.359 --> 01:09:04.560
we've we've always shied away from it.

01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:05.839
Like, if you recall, like even the

01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.679
screwdriver in the backpack where we

01:09:05.839 --> 01:09:11.279
made major bets, we we basically were

01:09:07.679 --> 01:09:13.040
like, "You should never pre-order." Um,

01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:14.319
you know, I don't know for sure that

01:09:13.040 --> 01:09:17.279
you'll like it. you should wait for

01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:22.080
third party, you know, uh, evaluations.

01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:23.839
Um, at this point, I am I am starting to

01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:26.319
recognize that at the scale that we're

01:09:23.839 --> 01:09:29.279
operating at and at the experience that

01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.799
our team has, um, I'm a lot more

01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:33.040
confident

01:09:30.799 --> 01:09:37.040
taking people's money ahead of time for

01:09:33.040 --> 01:09:39.759
something that is on track, that is is

01:09:37.040 --> 01:09:41.600
hitting all of its milestones. Um, and

01:09:39.759 --> 01:09:42.960
the project, which is no, is not the

01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:46.560
battery bank. It's actually a different

01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:51.000
one. The project is coming along really,

01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:51.000
really well to the point where

01:09:51.759 --> 01:09:59.600
if I know that this thing is going to

01:09:55.120 --> 01:10:00.800
absolutely be super super exciting for

01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:03.120
people and they're going to absolutely

01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:06.239
freaking love it. And if there's some

01:10:03.120 --> 01:10:08.000
something else that we could do uh or

01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:09.199
even nothing else that we could do. I

01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:12.159
was thinking like we could do like a

01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:15.040
satisfaction guaranteed uh policy or

01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:16.960
something like that. But I I don't think

01:10:15.040 --> 01:10:18.239
for sanitary reasons this would be a

01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:20.960
good product for us to take a bunch of

01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:22.480
returns for anyway. Uh so that could get

01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:23.520
complicated. I don't know. I'll have to

01:10:22.480 --> 01:10:25.679
think about it some more.

01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:28.719
>> Interesting question from McBain. Why

01:10:25.679 --> 01:10:29.760
not enable pre-orders for the cables?

01:10:28.719 --> 01:10:31.280
>> You've already shipped a ton.

01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:33.199
>> Okay. All right. Yeah. And you know

01:10:31.280 --> 01:10:35.840
what? I could do that. I could I could

01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:38.400
take realistically I could probably have

01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:41.120
like millions of dollars sitting in the

01:10:38.400 --> 01:10:46.560
LMG coffers right now who want to wait

01:10:41.120 --> 01:10:49.920
for a cable. But riddle me this right

01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:51.840
right now. McBain, you're probably a

01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:54.480
little irritated that you'd like to buy

01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:57.280
this cable and you can't get it.

01:10:54.480 --> 01:10:59.840
>> But what if it takes 6 months?

01:10:57.280 --> 01:11:02.960
>> What if I had your money

01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:04.640
then? and how irritated are you?

01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:07.280
And that's always that's always been the

01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:10.280
challenge for me. Like we're our

01:11:07.280 --> 01:11:10.280
manufact

01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:21.920
is is completely beyond the expectations

01:11:17.360 --> 01:11:25.040
that we had and that they had. Um

01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:26.560
and so I don't know

01:11:25.040 --> 01:11:28.560
I like we're we're in uncharted

01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:32.560
territory here. I don't know how long

01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:34.800
it's going to take us to to be able to

01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:39.679
meet the demand that is there for these

01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:42.320
these freaking cables. And so I um

01:11:39.679 --> 01:11:44.320
I don't know how to I don't know man.

01:11:42.320 --> 01:11:45.920
Yeah. So, so it comes back to me saying

01:11:44.320 --> 01:11:47.280
the same taking the same principled

01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:49.120
stance I had before, which is I really

01:11:47.280 --> 01:11:52.320
don't want to have your money and be in

01:11:49.120 --> 01:11:53.920
a position where, you know,

01:11:52.320 --> 01:11:55.840
there could be a mismatch between what

01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:57.679
I'm promising and what you're expecting

01:11:55.840 --> 01:12:03.239
both in terms of timeline and in terms

01:11:57.679 --> 01:12:03.239
of of product quality, right? So, I uh

01:12:04.080 --> 01:12:07.679
Yeah. And and someone had a good

01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:10.000
suggestion. Uh I I missed whose uh I

01:12:07.679 --> 01:12:12.000
missed the username for it, but it was

01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:13.440
um

01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:14.640
uh you know, you could just take like a

01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:16.159
little bit of pre-order. What about a

01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:18.560
little bit of pre-order? So, we actually

01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:21.199
did that. Uh remember when there was

01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:23.120
like a second wave that like went up for

01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:25.360
sale? That was someone else in the

01:12:23.120 --> 01:12:28.239
company making a decision that we were

01:12:25.360 --> 01:12:30.560
going to take pre-orders on the cables

01:12:28.239 --> 01:12:33.120
we were going to make out of the extra

01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:37.440
cable stock that we had that was like

01:12:33.120 --> 01:12:41.199
sitting staged ready to go.

01:12:37.440 --> 01:12:43.280
people still lost their minds waiting

01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:44.880
for those and it causes a whole bunch of

01:12:43.280 --> 01:12:46.159
tickets to customer service who

01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:48.320
otherwise just wouldn't have to deal

01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:50.960
with that. And and what I said when I

01:12:48.320 --> 01:12:53.120
was kind of lecturing not one person but

01:12:50.960 --> 01:12:56.080
like the team that made that decision on

01:12:53.120 --> 01:13:00.520
like why I had decided we weren't going

01:12:56.080 --> 01:13:00.520
to do that was guys

01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:04.880
why did we make this decision? Did it

01:13:03.280 --> 01:13:06.239
lead to a better experience for our

01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:08.800
customer? Yes or no?

01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.880
>> Is it just a communications problem? Um,

01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:12.239
>> yeah. Well, that's part of it, but

01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.679
communication's hard. You can put as

01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:14.960
much communication on a web page as you

01:13:13.679 --> 01:13:18.000
want. People won't read it. It doesn't

01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:19.440
matter. So, so did this make did this

01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:22.400
make the experience better for our

01:13:19.440 --> 01:13:24.000
customer? Yes or no? It no or neutral

01:13:22.400 --> 01:13:26.159
basically was the response. I'm like,

01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:27.840
okay, did this make us more money?

01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:29.840
Right? Like that motivates businesses,

01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:33.600
right? Businesses make decisions to make

01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:34.880
more money. And the answer again is no

01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:36.400
because we were going to sell those

01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:37.920
cables the second that they reached our

01:13:36.400 --> 01:13:39.600
dock regardless of whether we took

01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:41.199
people's money ahead of time or whether

01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:44.320
we take people's money when they arrive.

01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:45.760
So again, the answer is no. So all we're

01:13:44.320 --> 01:13:47.520
doing is we're putting a little bit of

01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:51.840
cash in our bank account from our

01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:54.480
customers today and we're holding it. So

01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:55.840
why don't we let them keep it?

01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:57.840
Um,

01:13:55.840 --> 01:14:01.360
>> is it a communication thing because the

01:13:57.840 --> 01:14:03.360
backpacks I I don't I don't remember if

01:14:01.360 --> 01:14:04.880
people were upset or not, but it as the

01:14:03.360 --> 01:14:05.280
waves went on.

01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:07.040
>> Yeah.

01:14:05.280 --> 01:14:09.760
>> We would just tell people the estimated

01:14:07.040 --> 01:14:11.120
shipping time. Uh, from from my

01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.280
interpretation of the story that you

01:14:11.120 --> 01:14:14.560
just told is we didn't tell people that

01:14:13.280 --> 01:14:16.320
there would be a different shipping

01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:18.480
time. Um,

01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:22.480
>> um, we did, but maybe we could have done

01:14:18.480 --> 01:14:24.480
it like even more in your face. Um,

01:14:22.480 --> 01:14:26.000
>> but even then, you know, you still get

01:14:24.480 --> 01:14:28.000
even with the wave system, we still had

01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:29.760
people who were upset about that like

01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:32.960
and who just felt it was really

01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:35.760
ridiculous. I get that. I get that. Um,

01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:38.560
and so I've just I've always had uh, you

01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:41.760
know, sitting next to shout out Corbin

01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:43.360
from NCIX. All right. I I I worked in

01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:45.199
customer service sometimes in the early

01:14:43.360 --> 01:14:47.199
days, not because it was necessarily in

01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:50.080
my job description, but because when we

01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:51.679
had like holiday rushes and and big sale

01:14:50.080 --> 01:14:53.440
events or big launches and stuff like

01:14:51.679 --> 01:14:55.600
that, uh customer service would get

01:14:53.440 --> 01:14:57.920
overwhelmed and they would just kind of

01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.199
call on random people who knew our

01:14:57.920 --> 01:15:00.640
system well enough and were technical

01:14:59.199 --> 01:15:02.480
enough and I happened to be one of them.

01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:05.760
So, you know, sometimes I would work in

01:15:02.480 --> 01:15:08.560
customer service and I would I I would

01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:11.600
sit there. I'd sit in the bullpen and,

01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:15.760
you know, I'd hear the exasperated voice

01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:18.480
of Mr. Corbin uh explaining to someone

01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:20.560
for the for the for the 13th time on

01:15:18.480 --> 01:15:24.560
this call that, hey, when you ordered

01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:25.840
this, it said ships in 7 8 to 11 days,

01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:29.040
or you know, whatever. It says special

01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:31.840
order ships in 8 to 11 days. uh we

01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:33.440
shipped it on the 10th day. Shipping's

01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:34.480
not magic. It's still going to be a

01:15:33.440 --> 01:15:36.000
little while. That doesn't mean

01:15:34.480 --> 01:15:38.480
delivered in that number of days. And

01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:40.159
the site was so clear. It said ships in

01:15:38.480 --> 01:15:43.520
or like like whatever whatever the word

01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:46.480
was. Um but people they they don't they

01:15:43.520 --> 01:15:48.400
don't read and now that's customer

01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:50.239
services problem and it causes it causes

01:15:48.400 --> 01:15:52.719
stress and frustration. And what if we

01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:54.640
just avoided all of that?

01:15:52.719 --> 01:15:57.440
>> I I don't want to out the company, but I

01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:58.719
had a I I bought a thing. I was going to

01:15:57.440 --> 01:16:01.840
say recently. It's not even recently

01:15:58.719 --> 01:16:04.159
anymore. Uh, a while ago and I was

01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:05.360
emailing them monthly asking for updates

01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:08.400
because they weren't giving me any

01:16:05.360 --> 01:16:10.000
updates and their their website didn't

01:16:08.400 --> 01:16:12.880
say anything about delays or anything. I

01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:14.159
think it might have said I I ended up

01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:15.920
looking at their website and I couldn't

01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:17.120
find it, but I think at the time that I

01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:20.159
ordered it, it might have said that it

01:16:17.120 --> 01:16:23.199
might take a month. Uh, and we we passed

01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:25.120
the 3month point of again, they never

01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:28.480
sent any form of update. I kept reaching

01:16:25.120 --> 01:16:30.320
out to them. Um, and they they emailed

01:16:28.480 --> 01:16:31.440
back I think it was like yesterday or

01:16:30.320 --> 01:16:33.040
something and we're like, "Yeah,

01:16:31.440 --> 01:16:34.080
>> really?" Oh, this is like right now.

01:16:33.040 --> 01:16:35.920
>> Yeah. They're like, "Yeah, we're

01:16:34.080 --> 01:16:38.000
shipping we're shipping it Monday." I'm

01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:39.199
like, "Cool. Thanks." It's been it's by

01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:40.800
the time it gets here, it will have been

01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:43.280
like three and a half months for one

01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:45.760
thing. That didn't warn me of that at

01:16:43.280 --> 01:16:47.679
all. It's very annoying at this point.

01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:49.199
It's a It's I think it's the longest

01:16:47.679 --> 01:16:51.600
I've

01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:54.960
waited for something that I've ordered

01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:56.719
that didn't have like a very specific,

01:16:54.960 --> 01:16:58.800
you know, this product is not ready yet.

01:16:56.719 --> 01:17:00.159
It will release at whatever time. Cuz

01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:03.280
there are there are definitely things

01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:06.560
that um

01:17:03.280 --> 01:17:08.800
I'm trying to think. Um

01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:10.480
you know, like a shirt that was made for

01:17:08.800 --> 01:17:11.520
some event that

01:17:10.480 --> 01:17:13.360
>> it's a Trump phone, right?

01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:16.159
>> But Oh my goodness. No, it's not a Trump

01:17:13.360 --> 01:17:17.920
phone. Um it's f equipment. I just don't

01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:18.480
want to call out the brand because like

01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:20.159
>> equipment,

01:17:18.480 --> 01:17:21.920
>> whatever.

01:17:20.159 --> 01:17:24.560
>> Uh, what are we supposed to be doing

01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:25.760
right now? Oh my gosh, was that one

01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:27.600
comm.

01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:30.800
>> Okay, hit me with another Dan.

01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:33.360
>> Sure. Um, I am looking this year to

01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:36.560
upgrade my TV from a 77in OLED to

01:17:33.360 --> 01:17:39.760
something in the 98 to 100 in range.

01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:43.840
Currently looking at the TCL X11L

01:17:39.760 --> 01:17:47.679
or wait for what Sony True RGB brings.

01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:49.920
Uh, will I regret going away from OLED?

01:17:47.679 --> 01:17:54.640
>> Okay, so you're clearly a mad baller

01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:55.120
because you're upgrading a 77 in OLED.

01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:57.360
So,

01:17:55.120 --> 01:17:58.800
>> honestly, the biggest thing that that's

01:17:57.360 --> 01:18:00.560
piqued my interest on that is you have

01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:01.199
the throw distance for this to make any

01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:04.560
sense.

01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:07.040
>> Yeah. First up, congratulations. Um, TV.

01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:10.719
>> You have you have achieved

01:18:07.040 --> 01:18:13.840
much and uh and my and hats off to you.

01:18:10.719 --> 01:18:19.760
Um, second of all,

01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:22.000
right now is kind of we're I hate to be

01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:25.840
that guy, right? Because I think that

01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:28.239
for for a long time I have beat the drum

01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:30.320
of if you wait if you're always waiting

01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:32.719
for the next thing, then you will never

01:18:30.320 --> 01:18:34.159
just get to enjoy anything because

01:18:32.719 --> 01:18:35.520
you'll always be waiting for the one

01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:39.120
that's right around the corner that's

01:18:35.520 --> 01:18:42.800
better, right? Um, however, the time is

01:18:39.120 --> 01:18:45.760
now May, which is exactly when the new

01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:47.760
models are starting to trickle into

01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:51.840
stores that were like first unveiled at

01:18:47.760 --> 01:18:55.120
CES this year. Um, and as we head into

01:18:51.840 --> 01:18:57.120
back to school and especially Black

01:18:55.120 --> 01:18:59.760
Friday,

01:18:57.120 --> 01:19:02.480
there will be deals. Now, as someone

01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:04.320
who's upgrading a 77in OLED, you sound

01:19:02.480 --> 01:19:06.560
like you might be the sort of person who

01:19:04.320 --> 01:19:09.120
doesn't care about getting a deal.

01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:14.080
If that's the case, I haven't actually

01:19:09.120 --> 01:19:19.440
tried the X11L series yet. What I have

01:19:14.080 --> 01:19:22.560
done is I have used TCL's like last last

01:19:19.440 --> 01:19:25.520
generation kind of similar class of TV

01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:26.960
in the form of the that 115 in that is

01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:30.480
still in my theater room in spite of

01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:32.960
everything else that exists. And TCL at

01:19:30.480 --> 01:19:36.159
their very high end makes a very fine

01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:38.239
TV. I haven't seen the X11L yet. I I'm

01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:39.920
hoping to soon. The other thing that

01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:41.840
I'll say, and this is probably going to

01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:44.800
complicate your decision more than help

01:19:41.840 --> 01:19:49.920
it, is that I have seen Sony's RGB back

01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:52.800
lit LED um LCDs, and they are

01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:56.000
absolute fire. They are

01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:58.480
so cool. Um, it was in a pretty

01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:01.280
controlled environment and I didn't

01:19:58.480 --> 01:20:04.239
actually get a chance to look side by

01:20:01.280 --> 01:20:06.159
side with an OLED.

01:20:04.239 --> 01:20:07.520
Oh, actually uh Oh, yeah. No, I didn't

01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:11.360
get a chance to look side by side with

01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:13.120
an OLED. But if I was a betting man and

01:20:11.360 --> 01:20:16.960
I didn't have a budget, which you might

01:20:13.120 --> 01:20:19.360
not, uh, I would say that True RGB is

01:20:16.960 --> 01:20:21.600
going to be pretty killer. And take this

01:20:19.360 --> 01:20:23.600
all for what it is, right? like Sony

01:20:21.600 --> 01:20:26.560
sponsored our trip to go check it out.

01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:29.840
So, full disclosure, everything. Um, and

01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:31.760
you know, we saw it within the confines

01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:33.920
of of their controlled environment. So,

01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:36.320
take that all for what it is. Uh, but it

01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:39.719
looks really good. It looks really,

01:20:36.320 --> 01:20:39.719
really good.

01:20:39.760 --> 01:20:44.880
>> Okay, moving on to some more topics.

01:20:43.360 --> 01:20:46.080
>> All right, Luke, do you want to pick one

01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:50.640
or two?

01:20:46.080 --> 01:20:54.000
>> Sure. Let's see what we got here.

01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:55.440
Oh, yeah. Let's go over this

01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.120
charade. Um,

01:20:55.440 --> 01:20:58.080
>> yeah. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I was

01:20:57.120 --> 01:20:58.400
hoping you were going to pick that.

01:20:58.080 --> 01:21:02.400
Nice.

01:20:58.400 --> 01:21:05.679
>> Yeah. GameStop offers 56 billion

01:21:02.400 --> 01:21:08.000
in value for eBay, but struggles to

01:21:05.679 --> 01:21:10.560
explain how it'll

01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:12.800
gather up all that value. Uh, on May

01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:14.480
4th, GameStop, because they try to use

01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:16.159
the force to make this happen, I I don't

01:21:14.480 --> 01:21:19.920
know. Whatever. Uh GameStop made an

01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:22.880
entirely unsolicited $56 billion offer

01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:24.719
to buy eBay at $125 a share. The offer

01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:27.040
letter stipulated that the amount would

01:21:24.719 --> 01:21:30.800
be paid half in cash, half in GameStop

01:21:27.040 --> 01:21:33.600
stock. GameStop's operational/ strategic

01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:35.679
plan was that its roughly 1,600 US

01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:37.679
retail stores would become eBay drop off

01:21:35.679 --> 01:21:39.679
intake, fulfillment, and live commerce

01:21:37.679 --> 01:21:42.640
hubs, which actually sounds kind of

01:21:39.679 --> 01:21:45.920
smart. uh with CEO Ryan Cohen promising

01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:48.080
$2 billion a year in cost cuts,

01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:51.199
including $1.2 billion from eBay's

01:21:48.080 --> 01:21:53.120
marketing budget alone. The bid seemed

01:21:51.199 --> 01:21:56.560
weird because the market valuation of

01:21:53.120 --> 01:22:00.960
GameStop is around 11 billion, while

01:21:56.560 --> 01:22:04.159
eBay is roughly worth $48 billion.

01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:08.159
>> Is this is this like me um you know,

01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:10.480
offering to uh I've got my uh I've got

01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:13.280
my Floatplane shirt on here. Okay. Is

01:22:10.480 --> 01:22:14.320
this like me offering to buy YouTube?

01:22:13.280 --> 01:22:14.639
You know,

01:22:14.320 --> 01:22:16.239
>> uh,

01:22:14.639 --> 01:22:17.920
>> like this isn't even a merger.

01:22:16.239 --> 01:22:20.080
>> The scale isn't even close to be honest.

01:22:17.920 --> 01:22:21.920
>> This, but you get what I mean, right?

01:22:20.080 --> 01:22:24.480
Like they're a lot closer, but

01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:26.560
>> they're the smaller company and they're

01:22:24.480 --> 01:22:28.159
not even offering a merger of peers.

01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:29.600
They're like, "We're going to acquire."

01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:32.080
What are you even talking about? Anyway,

01:22:29.600 --> 01:22:35.520
sorry. Flow plane trying to buy

01:22:32.080 --> 01:22:37.679
YouTube's toe. Um,

01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:39.199
yeah. I mean, there's a lot of funny

01:22:37.679 --> 01:22:41.040
stuff with this. I I think it's

01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:42.719
literally just a stunt, but we'll we'll

01:22:41.040 --> 01:22:44.560
we'll get into that. Uh about

01:22:42.719 --> 01:22:46.159
>> Why do you Why Why can't Why are you

01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:47.600
feel so compelled to spoil the

01:22:46.159 --> 01:22:47.920
punchlines for things, Luke? I can't

01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:49.600
help.

01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:51.360
>> But there's so many good reasons why,

01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:53.760
and people got to absorb it as we go

01:22:51.360 --> 01:22:57.440
through. About 9 billion of the Which

01:22:53.760 --> 01:22:59.040
has me interested in if GameStop's

01:22:57.440 --> 01:23:01.840
valuation includes their cash. But

01:22:59.040 --> 01:23:03.679
anyways, about 9 billion of the cash for

01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:05.760
the offer would come from GameStop's War

01:23:03.679 --> 01:23:08.800
Chest with the rest being raised through

01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:12.000
a debt instrument from TD Securities.

01:23:08.800 --> 01:23:15.440
Uh, a subsidiary of TD Bank provided a

01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:18.560
highly confident letter

01:23:15.440 --> 01:23:21.040
indicating a potential commitment to

01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:25.520
provide approximately 20 billion of the

01:23:21.040 --> 01:23:28.400
cash. Um, half of the offer in debt

01:23:25.520 --> 01:23:29.840
financing.

01:23:28.400 --> 01:23:32.560
What? Okay, I'm a little bit lost here.

01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:34.080
But anyways, um yeah, it's it feels like

01:23:32.560 --> 01:23:35.920
Sam Alman being like, "Yeah, I'll buy

01:23:34.080 --> 01:23:37.440
all the RAM." It's like that level of

01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:39.199
like I don't I don't think they actually

01:23:37.440 --> 01:23:41.440
technically have to do it, but they've

01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:44.560
said that they probably will. Um, Cohen

01:23:41.440 --> 01:23:46.239
went on CNBC's Squawkbox where the hosts

01:23:44.560 --> 01:23:49.760
flagged that the value of all of

01:23:46.239 --> 01:23:53.520
GameStop's stock is just over 11 billion

01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:56.639
and half of the stock um half of the

01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:58.880
stock, half of the acquisition offer

01:23:56.639 --> 01:24:00.960
about 28 billion stock. Yeah,

01:23:58.880 --> 01:24:04.480
>> basically there isn't enough equity or

01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:06.880
enough cash to make this make sense. And

01:24:04.480 --> 01:24:09.520
half stock half cash also doesn't really

01:24:06.880 --> 01:24:12.960
make any sense. And if we go check out

01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:15.840
uh GameStop stock and we look at the

01:24:12.960 --> 01:24:17.760
last five days, I mean, it even went

01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:19.840
down.

01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:20.400
>> So, it's worth less today than it was uh

01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:23.440
when

01:24:20.400 --> 01:24:25.040
>> a month it's it's up. Yeah, it's down 4%

01:24:23.440 --> 01:24:27.760
because because people saw this and were

01:24:25.040 --> 01:24:29.760
like, yikes. Uh which is kind of funny.

01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:33.280
Um

01:24:29.760 --> 01:24:35.679
>> yeah, the the the the CEO apparently

01:24:33.280 --> 01:24:37.360
just kept on saying when asked like,

01:24:35.679 --> 01:24:38.560
"How does this make any sense?" like

01:24:37.360 --> 01:24:40.880
where are you getting all that value

01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:42.960
from? He just kept saying uh half cash,

01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:44.639
half stock. Uh and then saying it's on

01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:48.000
the website. Go check it out there. It

01:24:44.639 --> 01:24:48.800
it it gets explained on the website. Um

01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:50.400
yeah, amazing.

01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:52.159
>> I missed this part. He eventually told

01:24:50.400 --> 01:24:56.000
the host, I don't understand your

01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:58.560
question. It's like, dude,

01:24:56.000 --> 01:25:00.719
okay, sorry, carry on. He was framing

01:24:58.560 --> 01:25:04.320
the I don't understand your question as

01:25:00.719 --> 01:25:06.159
if there was enough stock and cash

01:25:04.320 --> 01:25:08.960
available. Therefore, the question

01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:12.800
didn't make any sense, but clearly there

01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:14.960
isn't. Um, fantastic. Morgan Stanley

01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:16.800
analyst then piled on with a research

01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:18.719
note calling GameStop and eBay

01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:20.960
fundamentally different businesses with

01:25:18.719 --> 01:25:22.960
no real overlap and noted that if the

01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:25.760
deal somehow closed, it would be the

01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:28.560
largest leveraged buyout in history.

01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:30.639
Then on May 6, Cohen created a new eBay.

01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:33.199
This is my favorite part. He created a

01:25:30.639 --> 01:25:34.960
Cohen, the CEO of GameStop, created a

01:25:33.199 --> 01:25:36.719
new eBay account under the username

01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:39.679
Ryan5050.

01:25:36.719 --> 01:25:41.760
You know, 50 cash, 50 stock. Um,

01:25:39.679 --> 01:25:43.520
presumably a nod Oh, yep, there it is.

01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:45.120
Presumably a nod to the halfcash, half

01:25:43.520 --> 01:25:48.000
stock split. And they started listing

01:25:45.120 --> 01:25:50.800
personal items in his words to help fund

01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:54.159
the eBay acquisition. uh including if I

01:25:50.800 --> 01:26:00.040
remember correctly some socks and and

01:25:54.159 --> 01:26:00.040
other things. Um Frank Sedali

01:26:00.400 --> 01:26:05.679
Safali, I don't know. um of the Video

01:26:03.679 --> 01:26:07.600
Game History Foundation, then flagged on

01:26:05.679 --> 01:26:10.800
Blue Sky, that several of Cohen's

01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:12.800
listings appeared to come from the the

01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:15.760
Game Informer vault, which housed

01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:17.840
decades of rare gaming memorabilia that

01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:19.679
GameStop kept after shutting the Game

01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:20.719
Informer magazine down.

01:26:19.679 --> 01:26:23.600
>> Okay. Yikes.

01:26:20.719 --> 01:26:25.120
>> Uh then late that same night, eBay

01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:28.159
suspended Cohen's account, citing

01:26:25.120 --> 01:26:30.800
concerns that his activity um was was

01:26:28.159 --> 01:26:32.560
putting the eBay community at risk. As

01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:34.480
far as my understanding goes, they have

01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:36.560
reinstated his account. I don't think

01:26:34.480 --> 01:26:38.400
that's in here. Um, analysts have

01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:40.159
pointed out that the whole thing likely

01:26:38.400 --> 01:26:42.480
comes down to Ryan Cohen trying to

01:26:40.159 --> 01:26:44.800
trigger a performance gate in his

01:26:42.480 --> 01:26:49.199
compensation package, which would unlock

01:26:44.800 --> 01:26:51.199
35 billion in potential stock options if

01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:53.840
he increases the company's market value

01:26:51.199 --> 01:26:58.679
to hundred billion and achieves 10

01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:58.679
billion in cumulative ebida.

01:26:58.960 --> 01:27:05.679
You know what's funny is that is so much

01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:07.520
better analysis, I guess, of what he's

01:27:05.679 --> 01:27:10.080
doing. See, I thought this was as simple

01:27:07.520 --> 01:27:13.280
as GameStop hasn't been in headlines

01:27:10.080 --> 01:27:16.880
enough lately. I need GameStop in the

01:27:13.280 --> 01:27:19.120
headlines so that people like pump it as

01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:22.080
a meme stock again. I like I was

01:27:19.120 --> 01:27:25.840
thinking like 3D chess. That's like

01:27:22.080 --> 01:27:28.880
that's like 4 D chess. So if I need to

01:27:25.840 --> 01:27:33.280
reach a revenue target,

01:27:28.880 --> 01:27:36.000
>> I just go out and I borrow enough money

01:27:33.280 --> 01:27:38.560
to buy a company that already has that

01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:39.600
much revenue.

01:27:38.560 --> 01:27:43.280
>> It's brilliant.

01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:45.280
>> I don't think I think if anything

01:27:43.280 --> 01:27:47.679
leaking that like that was the goal

01:27:45.280 --> 01:27:48.960
might have been part of the 3D chess

01:27:47.679 --> 01:27:50.239
because I don't think this was ever

01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:51.840
going to happen. Um,

01:27:50.239 --> 01:27:54.320
>> well, no, it was it was never going to

01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:56.719
happen. But like maybe he is del I mean

01:27:54.320 --> 01:28:00.960
we have no idea how much ketamine the

01:27:56.719 --> 01:28:05.880
average CEO is on, right? So like maybe

01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:05.880
in his mind this is serious.

01:28:07.040 --> 01:28:12.639
>> You should just you should cold call

01:28:09.440 --> 01:28:14.960
Taran and ask him.

01:28:12.639 --> 01:28:16.239
>> Oh, hey Lionus. You need a plug or what?

01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:18.000
>> We're we're concerned that you're not

01:28:16.239 --> 01:28:20.400
taking enough ketamine. Um,

01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:22.560
>> all right. I'll ask him. We're We're

01:28:20.400 --> 01:28:24.080
looking at We're looking at LMG's

01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:25.040
trajectory and we're thinking you might

01:28:24.080 --> 01:28:27.360
need to take more ketamine.

01:28:25.040 --> 01:28:29.440
>> I I forgot where I worked and that he

01:28:27.360 --> 01:28:31.440
would actually do that.

01:28:29.440 --> 01:28:32.639
>> Oh, I I I knew he was going to do it.

01:28:31.440 --> 01:28:33.600
>> What have I done?

01:28:32.639 --> 01:28:35.760
>> Hey, how's it going?

01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:36.800
>> Uh, hey, you're live on the WAN Show.

01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:39.040
Hold on. I'm just trying to figure out

01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:40.400
where the speaker hole on my phone is

01:28:39.040 --> 01:28:41.440
here. Uh, can can you guys hear him?

01:28:40.400 --> 01:28:41.760
Okay.

01:28:41.440 --> 01:28:43.040
>> Yes.

01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:45.440
>> Yeah, he's coming through.

01:28:43.040 --> 01:28:49.199
>> Okay, you guys got him. Um, so we're

01:28:45.440 --> 01:28:53.440
just having a a conversation right now

01:28:49.199 --> 01:28:55.920
um about sort of like CEOs and and their

01:28:53.440 --> 01:28:57.679
typical ketamine consumption and we were

01:28:55.920 --> 01:29:01.360
just wondering like

01:28:57.679 --> 01:29:03.679
>> how much ketamine do you consume?

01:29:01.360 --> 01:29:05.760
>> I've had no ketamine so far. I have

01:29:03.679 --> 01:29:06.719
asked doctors for ketamine and they said

01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:09.840
no.

01:29:06.719 --> 01:29:12.080
>> Really? What did they explain why they

01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:14.960
said no? I mean I if this is getting too

01:29:12.080 --> 01:29:17.120
personal then feel free to to to nope

01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:19.440
out but like I I

01:29:17.120 --> 01:29:20.960
>> like is this for recreational use or is

01:29:19.440 --> 01:29:22.320
there a medical condition? I'm like

01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:23.120
recreational and then that's when they

01:29:22.320 --> 01:29:26.080
hang on.

01:29:23.120 --> 01:29:28.080
>> Okay. All right. Understood. Um that's

01:29:26.080 --> 01:29:30.960
actually really Oh, you know what?

01:29:28.080 --> 01:29:33.120
Chad's got a question for you. Um Denrix

01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:36.400
asks, "Did you tell them that you've

01:29:33.120 --> 01:29:38.480
been diagnosed with CEO?"

01:29:36.400 --> 01:29:41.199
>> Oh, no, I haven't. Is Is that a Is that

01:29:38.480 --> 01:29:44.480
a real condition? Well, that's what we

01:29:41.199 --> 01:29:47.040
think because because of how how how

01:29:44.480 --> 01:29:49.360
people are CEOs and are being treated

01:29:47.040 --> 01:29:51.280
with ketamine, we assume that that was a

01:29:49.360 --> 01:29:53.520
causation relationship rather than just

01:29:51.280 --> 01:29:55.760
a correlation.

01:29:53.520 --> 01:29:57.840
>> Can I ask can I ask questions as well?

01:29:55.760 --> 01:29:59.679
>> Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. This is an

01:29:57.840 --> 01:30:02.800
open This is a safe space.

01:29:59.679 --> 01:30:04.880
>> Oh, when I when I'm at work, does it

01:30:02.800 --> 01:30:07.600
seem like I'm under the influence?

01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:10.000
>> Um,

01:30:07.600 --> 01:30:12.639
thank you everyone. Uh Taran Taran Tong,

01:30:10.000 --> 01:30:16.480
CEO of Linus Media Group. Bye Taran. Uh

01:30:12.639 --> 01:30:18.080
I'll see you next week. Um wow, what a

01:30:16.480 --> 01:30:20.480
great what a great conversation. That

01:30:18.080 --> 01:30:22.800
was tremendous. Uh should we go ahead

01:30:20.480 --> 01:30:24.320
and maybe do whatever it is that Dan

01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:27.120
wants us to do?

01:30:24.320 --> 01:30:27.520
>> Dan is currently flagging two more.

01:30:27.120 --> 01:30:28.880
>> Let's

01:30:27.520 --> 01:30:30.000
>> Dan is currently flagging two more

01:30:28.880 --> 01:30:31.520
topics.

01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.520
>> Yeah, let's let's do some more topics.

01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:36.719
>> We can do this other weird one. This is

01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:39.760
Good news show. Toyota built a10 billion

01:30:36.719 --> 01:30:42.239
private utopia tech city. Last week, RS

01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:44.639
Technica got an inside tour of Toyota's

01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:47.120
woven city. The 10 billion dollar

01:30:44.639 --> 01:30:50.480
private city of the future sounds very

01:30:47.120 --> 01:30:52.639
Disney. The company has been in Japan

01:30:50.480 --> 01:30:54.400
has built in Japan. Yeah, there we go.

01:30:52.639 --> 01:30:57.600
That makes a lot more sense. Uh and the

01:30:54.400 --> 01:31:00.080
picture they painted was a mix uh was

01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:02.880
mixed at best. So, Toyota chairman Akio

01:31:00.080 --> 01:31:05.679
Toyota uh first announced Woven City at

01:31:02.880 --> 01:31:09.280
CES 2020 as part of a pivot from car

01:31:05.679 --> 01:31:12.000
maker to mobility company and the first

01:31:09.280 --> 01:31:15.199
100 residents handpicked alpha testers

01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:18.320
that Toyota calls Weavers moved in 6

01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:21.360
months ago. Despite the city branding,

01:31:18.320 --> 01:31:23.600
only about 10% of the planned 175 acre

01:31:21.360 --> 01:31:26.159
site is actually built so far, although

01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:29.600
these things take time. residents act as

01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:32.800
alpha and beta testers for a rotating

01:31:29.600 --> 01:31:35.199
slate of Toyota tech. Interesting.

01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:36.320
Toyota's stated rationale for the heavy

01:31:35.199 --> 01:31:38.080
surveillance is

01:31:36.320 --> 01:31:38.960
>> yeah, this is where things get a little

01:31:38.080 --> 01:31:42.560
dystopian.

01:31:38.960 --> 01:31:46.480
>> The with the woven city

01:31:42.560 --> 01:31:48.800
telling ours uh that onboard car sensors

01:31:46.480 --> 01:31:51.360
can't reliably spot a kid darting out

01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:55.040
from behind a truck. So, street level

01:31:51.360 --> 01:31:58.880
cameras everywhere is part of how Toyota

01:31:55.040 --> 01:32:01.360
plans to hit its zero accidents goal.

01:31:58.880 --> 01:32:04.080
In practice, the camera density is

01:32:01.360 --> 01:32:06.880
striking with ours counting eight at a

01:32:04.080 --> 01:32:09.760
single intersection and a halfozen even

01:32:06.880 --> 01:32:12.239
in small coffee shops, all feeding into

01:32:09.760 --> 01:32:14.560
Toyota's AI vision engine, which can

01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:17.199
track people across cameras based on

01:32:14.560 --> 01:32:19.840
their clothing. Toyota built a cons a

01:32:17.199 --> 01:32:22.639
consent system called data fabric that

01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:26.719
lets residents opt in or out per service

01:32:22.639 --> 01:32:28.480
and 98% of weavers

01:32:26.719 --> 01:32:30.880
I'm paraphrasing because they were

01:32:28.480 --> 01:32:34.960
handpicked have agreed to camera

01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:36.880
equipped robots in their apartments.

01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:38.239
>> I guess we all have robot vacuums. Not

01:32:36.880 --> 01:32:39.920
all of us, but a lot of people do.

01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:41.920
Mine's been broken for a year, but it is

01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:44.400
what it is. Uh, the company's longerterm

01:32:41.920 --> 01:32:47.040
plan is to refine the AI vision engine

01:32:44.400 --> 01:32:50.159
inside Woven City and then sell it to

01:32:47.040 --> 01:32:52.719
actual municipalities.

01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:56.000
Toyota also confirmed that chairman AO

01:32:52.719 --> 01:33:02.639
Toyota has been uploaded

01:32:56.000 --> 01:33:05.440
to the city's cloud as AO Toyota AI,

01:33:02.639 --> 01:33:09.960
a chatbot trained on a decade of his

01:33:05.440 --> 01:33:09.960
speeches and writings. Really?

01:33:10.639 --> 01:33:16.400
Wow.

01:33:12.560 --> 01:33:17.040
>> I think this has got to be

01:33:16.400 --> 01:33:18.239
>> Wow.

01:33:17.040 --> 01:33:20.800
>> Wow.

01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:24.080
>> We have no idea what to spend our

01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:24.880
copious amounts of money on.

01:33:24.080 --> 01:33:26.560
>> Wow.

01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:29.199
>> So,

01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:33.199
let's do this. And this is coming from

01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:36.320
someone who just attended an event that

01:33:33.199 --> 01:33:38.639
was held in

01:33:36.320 --> 01:33:42.719
an abandoned

01:33:38.639 --> 01:33:45.040
power plant because a billionaire

01:33:42.719 --> 01:33:47.760
saw that it was like kind of an eyes

01:33:45.040 --> 01:33:52.840
sore for his neighbors and decided to

01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:52.840
buy it to turn it into a park.

01:33:53.840 --> 01:34:01.679
>> Wow. Very nice.

01:33:56.320 --> 01:34:06.080
>> Yeah. This is like this is actually peak

01:34:01.679 --> 01:34:10.960
my my my steak is too juicy. My my

01:34:06.080 --> 01:34:13.760
family is too perfect. My money my money

01:34:10.960 --> 01:34:17.280
bushels are overflowing. I simply have

01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:19.600
no idea what to do with it. This is like

01:34:17.280 --> 01:34:21.040
you know

01:34:19.600 --> 01:34:22.800
might be a lot of what what was the

01:34:21.040 --> 01:34:26.000
Disney thing? What was the Disney thing?

01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:28.159
The like city Disney city thing. Oh, the

01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:29.679
town of tomorrow, right? Yeah. Yeah.

01:34:28.159 --> 01:34:34.080
Yeah. Disney.

01:34:29.679 --> 01:34:34.800
>> This feels like like modern that Epcot.

01:34:34.080 --> 01:34:37.679
>> That's the one.

01:34:34.800 --> 01:34:38.320
>> Epcot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

01:34:37.679 --> 01:34:41.360
>> Yeah.

01:34:38.320 --> 01:34:43.280
>> Did Epcot have like insane surveillance?

01:34:41.360 --> 01:34:45.280
>> I don't know if I don't know if our

01:34:43.280 --> 01:34:45.760
corporate overlords had imagined that

01:34:45.280 --> 01:34:48.480
yet

01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:49.280
>> cuz this to me feels like I know what

01:34:48.480 --> 01:34:50.800
you're saying. We don't know what to

01:34:49.280 --> 01:34:52.480
spend our money on. I I don't think

01:34:50.800 --> 01:34:53.840
that's true at all. To be honest, I I

01:34:52.480 --> 01:34:54.960
don't get that read from this in the

01:34:53.840 --> 01:34:57.040
slightest. Really?

01:34:54.960 --> 01:35:01.040
>> No, not even a little bit. I get flock

01:34:57.040 --> 01:35:02.800
from this. I get uh Toyota attempting to

01:35:01.040 --> 01:35:03.840
make technology to sell the governments,

01:35:02.800 --> 01:35:05.120
which is literally what they're saying.

01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:07.920
They're planning on selling this to

01:35:05.120 --> 01:35:11.360
municipalities. Uh they want to be

01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:13.040
flock. They want to have AI enabled

01:35:11.360 --> 01:35:14.719
cameras all over the place tracking

01:35:13.040 --> 01:35:16.639
everyone, measuring everything, and then

01:35:14.719 --> 01:35:18.880
selling it to governments and probably

01:35:16.639 --> 01:35:21.760
also companies for advertisement and

01:35:18.880 --> 01:35:24.719
everything else. I this Yeah, I I don't

01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:28.000
get the same read as you on this. So, so

01:35:24.719 --> 01:35:29.840
basically it sounds like because we're

01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:31.760
neither of us is what they're saying

01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:33.520
it's for. They're saying it's for, you

01:35:31.760 --> 01:35:34.239
know, connected cities for like, you

01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:37.440
know, reducing

01:35:34.239 --> 01:35:38.960
>> No, they're saying it's for what I said.

01:35:37.440 --> 01:35:40.639
>> Well, no. I mean, they didn't say

01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:41.840
anything about crime. They said, you

01:35:40.639 --> 01:35:42.639
know, like car accidents, basically.

01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:45.040
>> Yeah. But they said they're going to

01:35:42.639 --> 01:35:47.199
sell it to municipalities.

01:35:45.040 --> 01:35:51.520
>> No, no, I I No, I got that part. But

01:35:47.199 --> 01:35:54.239
like flock is is uh is is for

01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:54.719
surveillance and and like uh suspect

01:35:54.239 --> 01:35:56.239
tracking.

01:35:54.719 --> 01:35:56.800
>> Sell it to municipalities. What are you

01:35:56.239 --> 01:35:58.560
going to use for?

01:35:56.800 --> 01:36:00.159
>> No, no, I know. I know. But the part is

01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:01.679
that I said they didn't say that though.

01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:03.760
They did. So they haven't said the quiet

01:36:01.679 --> 01:36:06.239
part out loud. What they're saying is

01:36:03.760 --> 01:36:09.440
we're a mobility company and this is

01:36:06.239 --> 01:36:12.480
about mobility and making it like so

01:36:09.440 --> 01:36:15.520
that every car it has a brain on board

01:36:12.480 --> 01:36:18.239
it that is being fed data from these AI

01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:19.920
enabled cameras so that it would never

01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:21.840
like accidentally hit a kid who's like

01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:24.960
darting out from between two cars or you

01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:27.840
know chasing a ball or whatever. Um, so

01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:31.040
your theory then is that whether Toyota

01:36:27.840 --> 01:36:34.560
intends it or not, this will be this

01:36:31.040 --> 01:36:35.600
will be sold as a as a as just a mass

01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:37.920
surveillance tool.

01:36:35.600 --> 01:36:39.280
>> Yeah. I mean, cuz it the the whole cars

01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:40.719
angle doesn't make sense when there's

01:36:39.280 --> 01:36:44.080
cameras inside of coffee shops and

01:36:40.719 --> 01:36:48.480
inside of your home. So, I I read the RS

01:36:44.080 --> 01:36:52.159
article and um they go into a little bit

01:36:48.480 --> 01:36:55.360
more depth about how, you know, Toyota's

01:36:52.159 --> 01:36:57.600
culture and Japanese culture and and

01:36:55.360 --> 01:36:59.760
like privacy are are sort of really

01:36:57.600 --> 01:37:01.679
central to this and what their plan is

01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:04.239
for anonymizing things. Like that's

01:37:01.679 --> 01:37:05.679
that's part of why the individual

01:37:04.239 --> 01:37:09.280
tracking is based on the clothing that

01:37:05.679 --> 01:37:12.800
you're wearing. It does not use facial

01:37:09.280 --> 01:37:16.239
identification, for instance. However, I

01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:18.400
think that anyone as technical as

01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:20.320
anybody at Toyota working on this

01:37:18.400 --> 01:37:22.560
project or anyone from ours Technica or

01:37:20.320 --> 01:37:24.639
anyone in our audience is going to know

01:37:22.560 --> 01:37:26.320
that there's it's like just because

01:37:24.639 --> 01:37:28.159
you're not using facial tracking doesn't

01:37:26.320 --> 01:37:30.400
mean that you can't pin this down to an

01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:33.440
individual, especially if you've got a

01:37:30.400 --> 01:37:35.360
large enough set of data monitoring like

01:37:33.440 --> 01:37:37.600
a fixed number of local residents,

01:37:35.360 --> 01:37:39.600
right? Like whether we're talking about

01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:41.040
the outfits that they normally wear or

01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:43.199
whether we're talking about gate

01:37:41.040 --> 01:37:44.719
analysis, looking at how they walk,

01:37:43.199 --> 01:37:46.480
right? Like it's um

01:37:44.719 --> 01:37:48.239
>> there's a lot of ways like an actually

01:37:46.480 --> 01:37:48.800
pretty wild amount of ways to identify

01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:51.360
people.

01:37:48.800 --> 01:37:53.600
>> Tell me this.

01:37:51.360 --> 01:37:57.840
Okay, this is a hypothetical to be very

01:37:53.600 --> 01:38:01.760
very clear. Tell me this. If Toyota

01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:04.719
could solve privacy for this,

01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:08.400
if their pitch that this is a mobility

01:38:04.719 --> 01:38:10.400
solution that does not store in any

01:38:08.400 --> 01:38:14.000
accessible way, this is a huge if, I

01:38:10.400 --> 01:38:16.719
know, does not store in any accessible

01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:19.760
way personally identifiable information.

01:38:16.719 --> 01:38:24.560
And it is purely a machine vision system

01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:26.480
that sends feedback to to cars and bikes

01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:29.119
and and these like smart equipped

01:38:26.480 --> 01:38:30.800
vehicles to prevent accidents. Is this

01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:32.800
something that you could see having any

01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:35.600
kind of future?

01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:38.000
>> I'm I'm going to be I need to understand

01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:40.239
I know I'm gonna be super annoying for a

01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:42.480
second.

01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:44.480
One thing is you said they if even if

01:38:42.480 --> 01:38:45.840
they don't store the data and stuff the

01:38:44.480 --> 01:38:49.679
problem is there's other types of

01:38:45.840 --> 01:38:51.199
attacks. So like it will be a privacy

01:38:49.679 --> 01:38:53.360
nightmare because everything

01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:53.840
>> if they could solve it if if

01:38:53.360 --> 01:38:55.040
>> I know

01:38:53.840 --> 01:38:56.800
>> this is an if.

01:38:55.040 --> 01:39:00.080
>> But the problem is that if is

01:38:56.800 --> 01:39:01.280
impossible. I know but try to try try

01:39:00.080 --> 01:39:06.560
try to try to play

01:39:01.280 --> 01:39:10.560
>> if it is the world's perfect uh given by

01:39:06.560 --> 01:39:11.760
some dity not of the earth um data

01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:14.480
that's what we're assuming that is

01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:15.679
completely unhackable that is completely

01:39:14.480 --> 01:39:18.159
literally

01:39:15.679 --> 01:39:20.320
>> impossible then yeah I mean I don't I

01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:21.119
don't know if I really care um

01:39:20.320 --> 01:39:23.520
>> well for me

01:39:21.119 --> 01:39:25.760
>> if it can never be if it is completely

01:39:23.520 --> 01:39:29.199
uncorruptible and is only ever used for

01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:31.520
good and is completely unhackable, then

01:39:29.199 --> 01:39:33.199
it's like, okay,

01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:34.320
>> so I'm actually going to argue against

01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:34.800
my point now.

01:39:34.320 --> 01:39:36.960
>> Okay.

01:39:34.800 --> 01:39:39.440
>> And I'm going to say it has no future

01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:42.320
because then nobody would want it. It

01:39:39.440 --> 01:39:44.080
would be too expensive to implement

01:39:42.320 --> 01:39:45.600
purely to save a handful of lives. I

01:39:44.080 --> 01:39:47.840
mean, think about how many intersections

01:39:45.600 --> 01:39:49.840
you drive through in a typical city that

01:39:47.840 --> 01:39:51.840
obviously need better signage, but

01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:54.320
because that would cost a few hundred,

01:39:51.840 --> 01:39:57.679
it's not going to get implemented. So

01:39:54.320 --> 01:40:00.000
this as like Toyota imagining this

01:39:57.679 --> 01:40:03.040
mobility future where everything every

01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:05.600
object in a city is tracked. I think

01:40:03.040 --> 01:40:06.960
even if they could solve it but this is

01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:09.360
why I wanted to have the conversation

01:40:06.960 --> 01:40:11.040
right because you know it has to kind of

01:40:09.360 --> 01:40:12.800
boil down to like

01:40:11.040 --> 01:40:14.560
>> if their pitch is right is there a

01:40:12.800 --> 01:40:15.440
future and I still think the answer is

01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:16.719
no.

01:40:15.440 --> 01:40:17.920
>> Yeah. Yeah. because

01:40:16.719 --> 01:40:20.400
>> I'd love to be wrong

01:40:17.920 --> 01:40:21.760
>> and and

01:40:20.400 --> 01:40:23.040
you know people people can say what they

01:40:21.760 --> 01:40:27.440
want but ultimately when it comes down

01:40:23.040 --> 01:40:28.880
to municipal budgets um

01:40:27.440 --> 01:40:31.440
what are people going to vote for? I

01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:34.560
mean uh looking at like Langley right

01:40:31.440 --> 01:40:35.920
now for example

01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:37.520
we're we're we're doing some weird

01:40:35.920 --> 01:40:39.280
stuff.

01:40:37.520 --> 01:40:39.840
>> Hey Luke. Okay, hold on a second though.

01:40:39.280 --> 01:40:40.239
Hold on.

01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:42.320
>> Yeah,

01:40:40.239 --> 01:40:44.320
>> hold on. Let's um let's back up a little

01:40:42.320 --> 01:40:46.080
bit here because I actually might be

01:40:44.320 --> 01:40:46.560
about to argue against myself again.

01:40:46.080 --> 01:40:47.920
>> That's fun.

01:40:46.560 --> 01:40:48.960
>> What if we what if we didn't do this

01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:50.239
with cameras?

01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:52.159
>> Like what if we could do this with a

01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:54.880
point cloud device? Like what if we

01:40:52.159 --> 01:40:57.600
could do this with LAR? You'd still be

01:40:54.880 --> 01:41:02.400
able to Oh, man. No. Because you'd still

01:40:57.600 --> 01:41:04.880
be able to see a blob coming out of this

01:41:02.400 --> 01:41:06.480
square blob at this time every day and

01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:07.760
going to the other square blob at that

01:41:06.480 --> 01:41:11.199
time every day. Yeah, never mind. I

01:41:07.760 --> 01:41:12.880
talked myself out of it again.

01:41:11.199 --> 01:41:15.600
Because like to to me like the you know

01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:16.960
the cameras and the data analysis and no

01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:18.000
matter how much computed, no matter how

01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:19.199
cheap cameras are going to get, they're

01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:19.520
always they're always going to have some

01:41:19.199 --> 01:41:21.600
cost.

01:41:19.520 --> 01:41:26.080
>> You also just can't get around it. Like

01:41:21.600 --> 01:41:30.080
if if surveillance is being done, it it

01:41:26.080 --> 01:41:32.800
can be hacked and it you know on a

01:41:30.080 --> 01:41:34.960
technical level it can be hacked. On a

01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:36.880
social level it will almost certainly be

01:41:34.960 --> 01:41:38.880
corrupted. There's like there's every

01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:41.600
example of, you know, police officers

01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:43.119
using tracking equipment to track their

01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:45.360
girlfriends to see if they're cheating

01:41:43.119 --> 01:41:46.960
or or or yeah, following ex-girlfriends

01:41:45.360 --> 01:41:48.480
and ex-wives and whatnot. There's

01:41:46.960 --> 01:41:50.239
there's every example of all these

01:41:48.480 --> 01:41:51.760
different things where if it if it's a

01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:53.360
social system, it can and almost

01:41:51.760 --> 01:41:55.520
certainly will be corrupted. And if it's

01:41:53.360 --> 01:41:57.360
a technical system, it can be hacked.

01:41:55.520 --> 01:41:59.520
And those things just like seem to

01:41:57.360 --> 01:42:00.880
effectively be laws of the universe. So,

01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:02.239
it's tough when you have a system like

01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:04.080
this because you just know both of those

01:42:02.239 --> 01:42:07.440
things are true. I'm going to throw

01:42:04.080 --> 01:42:08.960
another wrench into the gears. Yet

01:42:07.440 --> 01:42:11.199
another wrench because I just I think

01:42:08.960 --> 01:42:13.199
this is just a really interesting

01:42:11.199 --> 01:42:15.040
conversation. Uh it's not interesting

01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:18.960
enough for me to have spent my $10

01:42:15.040 --> 01:42:20.800
billion to, you know, prove that it's

01:42:18.960 --> 01:42:24.840
not going to work or whatever. I'm But

01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:24.840
I'm glad Toyota did it because

01:42:25.040 --> 01:42:31.679
>> Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Um, I I I I have a 10

01:42:29.280 --> 01:42:34.000
billion offer, $10 billion offer in to

01:42:31.679 --> 01:42:37.199
buy the city. All they need is a $10

01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:38.800
billion loan. But but TD TD seems like

01:42:37.199 --> 01:42:38.960
their game for this sort of thing. So,

01:42:38.800 --> 01:42:40.800
uh,

01:42:38.960 --> 01:42:42.480
>> they totally totally do it.

01:42:40.800 --> 01:42:47.360
>> Um, so yeah, let me let me throw this

01:42:42.480 --> 01:42:51.280
out and go, okay, but hear me out. As

01:42:47.360 --> 01:42:53.760
our methods for tracking these things

01:42:51.280 --> 01:42:56.880
get more and more ubiquitous and more

01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:59.600
and more precise and more and more

01:42:56.880 --> 01:43:04.679
absolutely everybody has them on their

01:42:59.600 --> 01:43:04.679
person at any given moment.

01:43:04.800 --> 01:43:11.360
How different would the point cloud

01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:13.040
system be? I think you can make a strong

01:43:11.360 --> 01:43:16.000
you can make a strong argument that the

01:43:13.040 --> 01:43:19.760
camera system is is different,

01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:21.040
>> but like it how different would it be?

01:43:19.760 --> 01:43:22.639
>> Hit me up.

01:43:21.040 --> 01:43:24.880
>> I mean, that's already a problem, right?

01:43:22.639 --> 01:43:27.280
I I think we talked on a fairly recent

01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:29.520
WAN Show about a crime scene where

01:43:27.280 --> 01:43:31.600
Google got what is the right term for

01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:33.520
it, subpoenaed or something. Uh for

01:43:31.600 --> 01:43:35.600
information on what devices were in the

01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:37.520
area at the time in this like big

01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:39.360
window. Um,

01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:41.119
>> so they were poking around in the phones

01:43:39.360 --> 01:43:42.639
of people and we know from

01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:44.400
>> there was no reason to suspect them.

01:43:42.639 --> 01:43:46.080
>> We know from the Snowden era, I don't

01:43:44.400 --> 01:43:47.840
know if he's still doing public stuff,

01:43:46.080 --> 01:43:50.960
uh, but we know from when he was like a

01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:52.159
a big deal in the news um that when when

01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:56.480
he was roaming around, you know, he's

01:43:52.159 --> 01:43:58.400
throwing phones in in uh freezers and

01:43:56.480 --> 01:44:00.480
stuff like that to try to Faraday cage

01:43:58.400 --> 01:44:03.679
them um because they were already a

01:44:00.480 --> 01:44:05.440
problem. So, it's like it's it yeah, I

01:44:03.679 --> 01:44:08.480
mean, that's definitely part of it, but

01:44:05.440 --> 01:44:09.760
it's I don't know, adding more fuel to

01:44:08.480 --> 01:44:11.440
the fire because the phones aren't

01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:13.600
perfect. You could decide to leave it at

01:44:11.440 --> 01:44:15.119
home. Um I remember when we talked about

01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:17.199
that story of the Yeah, someone said

01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:18.800
geofencing warrant. When we talked about

01:44:17.199 --> 01:44:20.239
the story of the geoencing warrant, it

01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:21.600
was kind of like astonishing to me that

01:44:20.239 --> 01:44:23.600
you would bring your cell phone to a

01:44:21.600 --> 01:44:25.920
crime scene because it's like, yeah, I

01:44:23.600 --> 01:44:28.080
mean, you can obviously be tracked. What

01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:29.920
are you doing? Um

01:44:28.080 --> 01:44:32.719
>> well, that's the thing with criminals,

01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:34.960
Luke. Yeah.

01:44:32.719 --> 01:44:37.679
>> Yeah. Um,

01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:39.280
so yeah, it's tough. It's tough. It's

01:44:37.679 --> 01:44:41.119
also

01:44:39.280 --> 01:44:42.719
ultimately

01:44:41.119 --> 01:44:45.440
our opinion on it isn't really going to

01:44:42.719 --> 01:44:48.480
matter, I think. Uh, like every single

01:44:45.440 --> 01:44:50.719
person I've ever heard of who has talked

01:44:48.480 --> 01:44:52.639
about Flock in any way has been like,

01:44:50.719 --> 01:44:56.000
"Wow, this is obviously bad and evil and

01:44:52.639 --> 01:44:59.119
a terrible system." Um, and they're all

01:44:56.000 --> 01:45:01.199
over the place. So,

01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:03.520
I don't know.

01:45:01.199 --> 01:45:04.719
>> All right. Uh, well, it's Good news

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>> All right,

01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:30.000
>> some Floatplane announcements. Do we

01:47:26.719 --> 01:47:31.440
have any of those? Uh, we probably do. I

01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:33.440
assume we do. All right, we got some

01:47:31.440 --> 01:47:36.480
Floatplane announcements. We received

01:47:33.440 --> 01:47:39.040
an anonymous report that one of the two

01:47:36.480 --> 01:47:42.320
Why is when late competitors thinks that

01:47:39.040 --> 01:47:45.440
the other is not trying so hard? I

01:47:42.320 --> 01:47:46.639
wonder who it could be. I try I try

01:47:45.440 --> 01:47:48.159
hard. What do you mean? What do you mean

01:47:46.639 --> 01:47:49.360
you don't think I'm trying hard?

01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:49.920
>> Nope.

01:47:49.360 --> 01:47:51.119
>> So,

01:47:49.920 --> 01:47:53.199
>> I think you try hard to cheat. I think

01:47:51.119 --> 01:47:54.000
you try hard to push Sammy to cheat for

01:47:53.199 --> 01:47:56.400
you.

01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:59.360
>> No, I actually I actually don't. Um, so

01:47:56.400 --> 01:48:01.679
to spice it up, Luke promised that if

01:47:59.360 --> 01:48:05.679
this week's why is Wan late video got

01:48:01.679 --> 01:48:08.080
2,000 likes, he will ride a unicycle to

01:48:05.679 --> 01:48:11.199
Wan. To answer the question once and for

01:48:08.080 --> 01:48:14.239
all, what is easier? Lionus getting to

01:48:11.199 --> 01:48:17.440
set on time or Luke learning to ride a

01:48:14.239 --> 01:48:18.159
unicircle unic unicycle to get to the

01:48:17.440 --> 01:48:21.199
WAN Show,

01:48:18.159 --> 01:48:23.440
>> which I cannot do.

01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:25.040
Yeah, I will not succeed at

01:48:23.440 --> 01:48:27.119
>> I I don't know if you will ever be able

01:48:25.040 --> 01:48:28.400
to do that. No offense, but not with

01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:30.159
that mindset.

01:48:28.400 --> 01:48:33.679
>> You're not like

01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:35.040
>> I don't think I have the

01:48:33.679 --> 01:48:35.840
very topheavy.

01:48:35.040 --> 01:48:38.239
>> Yeah.

01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:40.400
>> Um I I don't mean this in like a I don't

01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:41.840
mean this in like an offensive way. I

01:48:40.400 --> 01:48:43.679
just mean it in like

01:48:41.840 --> 01:48:47.119
>> I just mean it in like an objective

01:48:43.679 --> 01:48:48.639
observation way that I I don't you

01:48:47.119 --> 01:48:50.560
didn't put that you put a lot of points

01:48:48.639 --> 01:48:52.480
in strength and not that many in

01:48:50.560 --> 01:48:53.199
dexterity like you got some in there

01:48:52.480 --> 01:48:55.119
>> I think

01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:56.719
>> but like unicycle dexterity

01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:59.840
>> for explorer of a person

01:48:56.719 --> 01:49:02.320
>> yeah I'm not sure I'm not sure

01:48:59.840 --> 01:49:04.239
>> uh explorer please excursion is more

01:49:02.320 --> 01:49:06.560
like it

01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:08.080
>> uh okay in other news

01:49:06.560 --> 01:49:10.400
>> I don't think that's quite accurate to

01:49:08.080 --> 01:49:12.239
be completely honest but An excursion's

01:49:10.400 --> 01:49:13.040
not a That's not That's a powerful

01:49:12.239 --> 01:49:14.880
vehicle, sir.

01:49:13.040 --> 01:49:17.280
>> No, I just Does it tip over when you

01:49:14.880 --> 01:49:19.360
turn around a corner?

01:49:17.280 --> 01:49:22.320
>> Uh,

01:49:19.360 --> 01:49:25.199
okay. You know what? That's fair. Uh,

01:49:22.320 --> 01:49:27.920
map in Floatplane chat says, "Unicycle

01:49:25.199 --> 01:49:30.239
not that hard to learn." And Charcoal

01:49:27.920 --> 01:49:32.159
says he has to ride a unicycle, not ride

01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:36.159
it. Well,

01:49:32.159 --> 01:49:39.119
>> I haven't even been on a bike in many

01:49:36.159 --> 01:49:40.960
years. Apparently, I I read this online,

01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:43.520
so take it with a grain of salt. You

01:49:40.960 --> 01:49:44.239
don't forget.

01:49:43.520 --> 01:49:46.080
>> Well,

01:49:44.239 --> 01:49:46.639
>> like a unicycle, but he never learned a

01:49:46.080 --> 01:49:48.239
unicycle.

01:49:46.639 --> 01:49:49.440
>> No, he he he said he hasn't ridden a

01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:51.679
bicycle in a long time.

01:49:49.440 --> 01:49:52.400
>> Oh, well, yeah. Thank you, Dan. That's

01:49:51.679 --> 01:49:54.239
very helpful.

01:49:52.400 --> 01:49:56.239
>> You're welcome. I appreciate your

01:49:54.239 --> 01:49:59.440
compliment.

01:49:56.239 --> 01:50:01.360
>> Uh, yeah. Okay,

01:49:59.440 --> 01:50:03.040
so this will be interesting. We also

01:50:01.360 --> 01:50:05.520
have Wait, how many likes is the video

01:50:03.040 --> 01:50:09.199
at now?

01:50:05.520 --> 01:50:10.719
Oh my goodness. It's at 1,400 likes with

01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:11.520
zero dislikes.

01:50:10.719 --> 01:50:14.880
>> Yeah. For

01:50:11.520 --> 01:50:16.320
>> it's it got it it got like 16 likes in

01:50:14.880 --> 01:50:16.880
the time it took me to refresh this

01:50:16.320 --> 01:50:18.080
page.

01:50:16.880 --> 01:50:19.440
>> Yeah. You can be the first one to

01:50:18.080 --> 01:50:21.280
dislike it.

01:50:19.440 --> 01:50:24.080
>> Uh no, I'm going to like it right now.

01:50:21.280 --> 01:50:25.520
Okay. Now it has 1461. Hold on. I'm

01:50:24.080 --> 01:50:28.320
going to refresh it again from your

01:50:25.520 --> 01:50:32.719
account cuz it's the same account.

01:50:28.320 --> 01:50:34.400
>> You didn't. How dare you? How dare you?

01:50:32.719 --> 01:50:34.960
I was the first person to download it.

01:50:34.400 --> 01:50:38.480
Let's go.

01:50:34.960 --> 01:50:40.000
>> I would I would unbelievable. Let's go.

01:50:38.480 --> 01:50:41.679
>> All right. Uh Luca, you'll have to do

01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:44.159
screen cap for this. Uh in other news,

01:50:41.679 --> 01:50:46.159
we also have badges now. Designed by the

01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:48.719
one and only Ashley from the Creator

01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:51.360
Warehouse team. Floatplane now supports

01:50:48.719 --> 01:50:54.400
badges so you can flex your vanity

01:50:51.360 --> 01:50:56.239
cosmetics. Right now, we only have

01:50:54.400 --> 01:50:58.800
length of active subscription, but we're

01:50:56.239 --> 01:51:00.239
looking to add more cool things like if

01:50:58.800 --> 01:51:03.360
you were subscribed during big events

01:51:00.239 --> 01:51:05.520
like Scrapyard Wars or what tier of sub

01:51:03.360 --> 01:51:08.560
you're on and even badges to rec to

01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:12.560
recognize super active members of the

01:51:08.560 --> 01:51:15.280
community. We should make it a crystal.

01:51:12.560 --> 01:51:16.960
It should just be Dan, can you send that

01:51:15.280 --> 01:51:19.760
over to Ashley? It should just be like a

01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:22.960
gem because I don't I can't think of a

01:51:19.760 --> 01:51:24.639
more ludicrously oh my god get a life

01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:27.280
active member of our community than

01:51:24.639 --> 01:51:30.560
Crystal Fier8. Don't take this the wrong

01:51:27.280 --> 01:51:33.199
way Crystal just

01:51:30.560 --> 01:51:36.239
wow. Um

01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:38.880
anywh who uh some badges can be added

01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:40.480
retroactively so be sure to join. If you

01:51:38.880 --> 01:51:42.800
have some suggestions you can go ahead

01:51:40.480 --> 01:51:44.800
leave them in the comments. Um someone

01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:46.560
said Langley House cats and the vessel

01:51:44.800 --> 01:51:50.119
logo for OG. So, yeah, we're definitely

01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:50.119
working on some stuff.

01:51:53.119 --> 01:51:56.719
Crystal, I don't I don't I don't mean

01:51:54.719 --> 01:51:58.880
this I don't I don't mean this in in any

01:51:56.719 --> 01:52:02.560
way other than you spend a lot of your

01:51:58.880 --> 01:52:06.679
life on LMG. It's great. I'll see you at

01:52:02.560 --> 01:52:06.679
the next I'll see you at the next whale.

01:52:07.760 --> 01:52:14.000
Uh, we also have a video of the damage

01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:16.880
that Sammy did to that monitor that he

01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:18.000
brought on to WAN Show last week. U, I

01:52:16.880 --> 01:52:19.679
don't know if Luke is launching that or

01:52:18.000 --> 01:52:21.199
if it's already launched. And we promise

01:52:19.679 --> 01:52:22.639
to improve Floatplane and we're looking

01:52:21.199 --> 01:52:24.400
to provide more benefits for subscribers

01:52:22.639 --> 01:52:26.239
at LMG.gg/flatlane.

01:52:24.400 --> 01:52:30.719
So now is a great time to join. Can't

01:52:26.239 --> 01:52:33.119
wait to see you there. All right.

01:52:30.719 --> 01:52:35.199
PK7 says, "Get a life respectfully, but

01:52:33.119 --> 01:52:37.440
we do enjoy having you here for real."

01:52:35.199 --> 01:52:39.679
Yeah. Yeah, dude. It's great. It's

01:52:37.440 --> 01:52:41.440
great. No, I mean, we do. We do. We We

01:52:39.679 --> 01:52:44.440
enjoy Crystal's company. We legitimately

01:52:41.440 --> 01:52:44.440
do.

01:52:44.800 --> 01:52:50.639
>> Oh my goodness. Okay. Well, no, no, no.

01:52:48.719 --> 01:52:51.920
I found I I'm ignoring you entirely. I

01:52:50.639 --> 01:52:55.480
found the part of the video where the

01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:55.480
monitor gets impaled.

01:52:56.080 --> 01:53:02.800
>> Ashley is very confused.

01:53:00.080 --> 01:53:05.760
>> What What exactly am I messaging? Just

01:53:02.800 --> 01:53:07.679
just the the one for for engagement for

01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:09.599
like hyper engagement. It should be like

01:53:07.679 --> 01:53:12.400
a a gem. It should be it should be a

01:53:09.599 --> 01:53:15.040
crystal.

01:53:12.400 --> 01:53:18.159
>> Do we have more than one Ashley?

01:53:15.040 --> 01:53:19.199
>> Uh yeah, Ashley W. We we actually have

01:53:18.159 --> 01:53:20.560
Yeah, we definitely

01:53:19.199 --> 01:53:24.000
>> Ashley.

01:53:20.560 --> 01:53:25.760
>> Way to go. Way to go, Dan. That moment

01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:28.320
when you really do need a company

01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:29.679
directory because it has gotten to a

01:53:28.320 --> 01:53:30.560
point where you can't know everybody.

01:53:29.679 --> 01:53:32.159
>> Didn't check.

01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:33.360
>> Yeah. Don't you actually didn't you like

01:53:32.159 --> 01:53:34.800
work on it?

01:53:33.360 --> 01:53:36.400
>> Yeah, sort of.

01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:38.639
>> Dan, what the heck?

01:53:36.400 --> 01:53:40.719
>> I don't update it. That's That's HR

01:53:38.639 --> 01:53:43.840
doesn't maintain it.

01:53:40.719 --> 01:53:48.480
>> Okay. All right. That's good. Love it.

01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:49.760
Um Oh, hey. Uh Polar Eiz asks, "Are you

01:53:48.480 --> 01:53:51.520
guys participating in the Boink

01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:54.560
Pentathlon?" I haven't put anything into

01:53:51.520 --> 01:53:56.800
it yet other than some prizing. So Chewy

01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:58.400
messaged me earlier this week and he was

01:53:56.800 --> 01:54:00.320
all like, "Hey, you mentioned on Wan

01:53:58.400 --> 01:54:02.719
Show that you like want to do prizing

01:54:00.320 --> 01:54:04.560
for Boink Pentathon?" And I was like,

01:54:02.719 --> 01:54:08.000
"Yeah, sure. Can we do that?" And he was

01:54:04.560 --> 01:54:09.920
like, "Okay, are you good with $1,000

01:54:08.000 --> 01:54:13.440
worth of LT store gift cards?" And I was

01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:15.440
like, "Sure." So we're doing 10 $100 LT

01:54:13.440 --> 01:54:17.280
store gift cards as part of the prizing

01:54:15.440 --> 01:54:20.000
for the Boink Pentathlon over on the

01:54:17.280 --> 01:54:22.159
linest.com forum. If you don't if you're

01:54:20.000 --> 01:54:23.920
not familiar with it, Boink is a

01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:26.400
distributed computing project that helps

01:54:23.920 --> 01:54:29.040
contribute to science. So, you can use

01:54:26.400 --> 01:54:30.560
idle cycles from your computer to help

01:54:29.040 --> 01:54:32.639
make the world a better place. It's

01:54:30.560 --> 01:54:35.360
pretty cool and you should go check it

01:54:32.639 --> 01:54:38.239
out. Maybe Dan could throw a link in the

01:54:35.360 --> 01:54:40.639
uh in the video description.

01:54:38.239 --> 01:54:42.480
>> Uh yes, sorry, I was just sending a a

01:54:40.639 --> 01:54:42.960
group message to all the Ashleys that I

01:54:42.480 --> 01:54:45.760
work with.

01:54:42.960 --> 01:54:48.560
>> All right, cool. Nice. By the way,

01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:50.960
Dbrand sent out a thing during the show.

01:54:48.560 --> 01:54:52.639
I think probably when we announced it. I

01:54:50.960 --> 01:54:55.360
don't know if they were watching or not,

01:54:52.639 --> 01:54:57.520
but I I just noticed this in my email.

01:54:55.360 --> 01:54:59.599
Uh

01:54:57.520 --> 01:55:01.520
the the subject is now available on a

01:54:59.599 --> 01:55:04.480
worse website. And then they have like a

01:55:01.520 --> 01:55:06.480
stock going down emoji.

01:55:04.480 --> 01:55:09.480
If you open it, it says now available on

01:55:06.480 --> 01:55:09.480
ltdstore.com.

01:55:09.599 --> 01:55:17.520
you know, without spoiling anything, I

01:55:13.679 --> 01:55:20.239
may get my opportunity to to to to to

01:55:17.520 --> 01:55:22.239
fire back. Um,

01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:23.440
but I'm not going to spoil anything.

01:55:22.239 --> 01:55:24.719
>> Oh man,

01:55:23.440 --> 01:55:26.400
>> these guys.

01:55:24.719 --> 01:55:29.360
>> God, I love Dant. Okay,

01:55:26.400 --> 01:55:31.920
>> they're out of control.

01:55:29.360 --> 01:55:33.679
>> Completely out of control.

01:55:31.920 --> 01:55:35.440
>> Yeah. What's next?

01:55:33.679 --> 01:55:37.199
>> All right, let's uh let's have a look

01:55:35.440 --> 01:55:38.800
here. Let's have a look here. Uh we kind

01:55:37.199 --> 01:55:42.400
of already talked about the Steam

01:55:38.800 --> 01:55:44.719
controller being uh sold out after 30

01:55:42.400 --> 01:55:47.119
minutes. You can join a queuing system

01:55:44.719 --> 01:55:49.360
to make sure Oh, to make sure that you

01:55:47.119 --> 01:55:50.400
get one from them at at MSRP rather than

01:55:49.360 --> 01:55:51.679
at scalper prices.

01:55:50.400 --> 01:55:52.639
>> Scalpers are lame. Don't buy it from

01:55:51.679 --> 01:55:54.800
scalpers.

01:55:52.639 --> 01:55:56.719
>> The last bit is Valve released the CAD

01:55:54.800 --> 01:55:58.320
files for the external shell of the

01:55:56.719 --> 01:55:59.840
Steam Controller and the Steam

01:55:58.320 --> 01:56:01.520
Controller Puck under a creative common

01:55:59.840 --> 01:56:03.360
license, which is super cool. if you for

01:56:01.520 --> 01:56:05.440
whatever reason wanted to like make

01:56:03.360 --> 01:56:06.719
accessories that it, you know, like a

01:56:05.440 --> 01:56:08.159
little cradle for it to sit in or

01:56:06.719 --> 01:56:12.960
anything cool like that and you always

01:56:08.159 --> 01:56:18.800
love to see it. Okay, this is cool. TCL

01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:22.880
um unveiled a 0.01

01:56:18.800 --> 01:56:26.159
hertz laptop display earlier this week.

01:56:22.880 --> 01:56:28.719
This is so cool. It's designed to extend

01:56:26.159 --> 01:56:32.080
battery life by drastically reducing how

01:56:28.719 --> 01:56:34.639
often the screen redraws static content.

01:56:32.080 --> 01:56:37.920
It was showcased at SID display week in

01:56:34.639 --> 01:56:41.280
Los Angeles in a 14in 1920 x 1200

01:56:37.920 --> 01:56:46.719
laptop. So, this panel can refresh as

01:56:41.280 --> 01:56:48.880
slowly as one frame every 100 seconds,

01:56:46.719 --> 01:56:50.320
far below the one herz screens that have

01:56:48.880 --> 01:56:53.199
previously been developed by companies

01:56:50.320 --> 01:56:55.920
like Intel and LG. The coolest part

01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:58.320
though, and this is where it gets real,

01:56:55.920 --> 01:57:01.280
is that the display is divided into 12

01:56:58.320 --> 01:57:06.320
zones that can independently shift

01:57:01.280 --> 01:57:09.119
between 120 Hz and 0.01

01:57:06.320 --> 01:57:12.320
hertz, allowing you to have high refresh

01:57:09.119 --> 01:57:14.560
rate in areas like an active video

01:57:12.320 --> 01:57:17.440
window, while the rest of the screen

01:57:14.560 --> 01:57:19.040
remains nearly static, not being

01:57:17.440 --> 01:57:21.440
updated.

01:57:19.040 --> 01:57:24.080
TCL estimates that the technology or TCL

01:57:21.440 --> 01:57:26.880
sees specifically estimates that the

01:57:24.080 --> 01:57:29.679
technology can add over an hour of video

01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:32.239
playback time and the LCD panel uses the

01:57:29.679 --> 01:57:35.920
company's proprietary oxide TFT back

01:57:32.239 --> 01:57:38.159
plane. Um our discussion question is is

01:57:35.920 --> 01:57:40.719
12 zone refresh switching switching

01:57:38.159 --> 01:57:42.159
enough for a seamless UI or will the

01:57:40.719 --> 01:57:44.239
lack of granularity cause noticeable

01:57:42.159 --> 01:57:46.080
artifacts? I mean, I I think the answer

01:57:44.239 --> 01:57:48.800
to that is probably just going to come

01:57:46.080 --> 01:57:52.000
down to driver and operating system

01:57:48.800 --> 01:57:54.639
management so that you just if you have

01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:56.400
a window like an active video window or

01:57:54.639 --> 01:57:59.280
something like that that slightly

01:57:56.400 --> 01:58:00.800
overlaps one of the control zones, it'll

01:57:59.280 --> 01:58:02.880
just activate everything that's around

01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:05.040
it. Um, so just yeah, as long as you're

01:58:02.880 --> 01:58:08.159
not using the entire screen, there will

01:58:05.040 --> 01:58:12.880
be some savings and I'm here for it.

01:58:08.159 --> 01:58:14.960
more battery life in devices is like

01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:16.480
honestly been like kind of life-changing

01:58:14.960 --> 01:58:17.840
over the last couple generations of

01:58:16.480 --> 01:58:20.719
laptops for me. Whether I've been using

01:58:17.840 --> 01:58:23.679
a MacBook Neo or whether I've been using

01:58:20.719 --> 01:58:25.599
uh like a Stricks Halo or uh man like

01:58:23.679 --> 01:58:28.560
Panther Lake is freaking incredible for

01:58:25.599 --> 01:58:32.719
battery life. I just now that I dock at

01:58:28.560 --> 01:58:34.080
work, I just not that kind. Never think

01:58:32.719 --> 01:58:35.199
about the battery life of my laptop

01:58:34.080 --> 01:58:36.560
pretty much because it'll work for like

01:58:35.199 --> 01:58:38.560
an entire weekend without me having

01:58:36.560 --> 01:58:39.520
>> You're so distracted talking.

01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:40.960
>> Yeah, buddy. I mean,

01:58:39.520 --> 01:58:41.840
>> you don't need your laptop battery life

01:58:40.960 --> 01:58:42.400
anymore.

01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:46.320
>> That's right.

01:58:42.400 --> 01:58:49.360
>> Moved on to bigger and better things,

01:58:46.320 --> 01:58:52.480
>> especially better. Better is key.

01:58:49.360 --> 01:58:53.520
>> Safer, even safe harbor.

01:58:52.480 --> 01:58:56.560
Um,

01:58:53.520 --> 01:58:59.040
>> that felt wrong. It's sticky.

01:58:56.560 --> 01:59:01.520
Jibus.

01:58:59.040 --> 01:59:02.800
Uh, hey, why don't we talk about why

01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:06.320
don't we talk about something that I

01:59:02.800 --> 01:59:08.239
actually missed um last week.

01:59:06.320 --> 01:59:10.880
Uh, this was announced uh last week I

01:59:08.239 --> 01:59:12.400
believe, but on May 1st,

01:59:10.880 --> 01:59:15.280
ask.com

01:59:12.400 --> 01:59:17.599
was officially shut down. I know, I know

01:59:15.280 --> 01:59:21.920
this is supposed to be good news when

01:59:17.599 --> 01:59:26.520
and this is truly tragic, but formerly

01:59:21.920 --> 01:59:26.520
Ask Jeieves the butler

01:59:26.639 --> 01:59:31.920
is no more. And uh I don't know. I don't

01:59:29.920 --> 01:59:35.840
know. This actually this actually kind

01:59:31.920 --> 01:59:38.080
of kind of hit me in a uh more than I

01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:40.480
expected it to. Like I don't know, Luke,

01:59:38.080 --> 01:59:42.239
do you remember the early days of using

01:59:40.480 --> 01:59:44.400
search engines? like back when Alta

01:59:42.239 --> 01:59:46.639
Vista was king and also Ask Jeieves.

01:59:44.400 --> 01:59:49.679
>> I always really like dog pile.

01:59:46.639 --> 01:59:52.560
>> Yeah. So, Ask Jeie's claim to fame was

01:59:49.679 --> 01:59:55.280
that it was, I believe, the first

01:59:52.560 --> 01:59:57.760
natural language search engine because

01:59:55.280 --> 01:59:59.840
you know how you can kind of switch you

01:59:57.760 --> 02:00:03.360
can put on your like I am an advanced

01:59:59.840 --> 02:00:08.000
search wizard hat and you can use like

02:00:03.360 --> 02:00:10.639
boolean operators and you can um uh and

02:00:08.000 --> 02:00:12.880
you can sort of go into like power user

02:00:10.639 --> 02:00:14.560
mode using a search engine uh rather

02:00:12.880 --> 02:00:16.000
than just asking it a natural language

02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:19.440
question. That was like how they all

02:00:16.000 --> 02:00:22.000
just worked back in the day except for

02:00:19.440 --> 02:00:24.239
Ask Jeves. They had this this cute

02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:26.880
butler mascot and you would just type in

02:00:24.239 --> 02:00:29.119
a natural language question and it was

02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:30.639
like actually pretty good. Um, little

02:00:29.119 --> 02:00:33.679
bit of history in our notes here. It

02:00:30.639 --> 02:00:36.080
launched in 1996 out of Berkeley with a

02:00:33.679 --> 02:00:39.920
now familiar pitch. Type a full question

02:00:36.080 --> 02:00:42.000
in plain English and get an answer. IA

02:00:39.920 --> 02:00:46.159
bought it for over a billion dollars in

02:00:42.000 --> 02:00:49.760
2005, dropped Jeeves in 2006, rebranding

02:00:46.159 --> 02:00:52.239
to ask.com, but never seriously caught

02:00:49.760 --> 02:00:55.119
up to Google or even Yahoo despite

02:00:52.239 --> 02:00:55.760
multiple relaunches.

02:00:55.119 --> 02:00:58.400
Um,

02:00:55.760 --> 02:00:59.679
>> dropping the Chiefs was a mistake in my

02:00:58.400 --> 02:01:01.199
opinion. I don't think they were ever

02:00:59.679 --> 02:01:05.199
going to catch up, but I think they

02:01:01.199 --> 02:01:06.719
should have, if they wanted to make uh,

02:01:05.199 --> 02:01:09.920
you know, a zone for themselves, they

02:01:06.719 --> 02:01:12.560
should have, I think, laid into the Jeve

02:01:09.920 --> 02:01:16.000
side of things even more, especially in

02:01:12.560 --> 02:01:17.920
a world where like

02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:19.440
I feel like one of the things that's

02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:23.040
almost

02:01:19.440 --> 02:01:25.040
holding back the the relation the the

02:01:23.040 --> 02:01:28.639
emotions that people feel towards their

02:01:25.040 --> 02:01:31.840
their AI chat bots is the lack of a of a

02:01:28.639 --> 02:01:34.639
of an avatar like uh like a Jes. I think

02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:37.119
if anything the timing for Jeves could

02:01:34.639 --> 02:01:37.679
be better than ever if it was powered by

02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:40.159
AI

02:01:37.679 --> 02:01:41.280
>> almost agentic search. So you should you

02:01:40.159 --> 02:01:42.880
could tell it to go look for something

02:01:41.280 --> 02:01:44.400
and it might actually even take a bit

02:01:42.880 --> 02:01:45.840
but it goes and like tries to gather

02:01:44.400 --> 02:01:48.000
things for you. I

02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:50.159
>> even room for it. Yeah.

02:01:48.000 --> 02:01:54.000
>> Like it goes and it tries to find you

02:01:50.159 --> 02:01:56.880
know the which VPN. Hey Jeeves. Uh,

02:01:54.000 --> 02:01:58.960
which regional VPN do I have to use in

02:01:56.880 --> 02:02:00.880
order to get the best price on this

02:01:58.960 --> 02:02:02.560
ticket? Uh, please make sure you're

02:02:00.880 --> 02:02:03.920
using an IP other than mine to search

02:02:02.560 --> 02:02:06.639
because like I'm sure you've run into

02:02:03.920 --> 02:02:09.520
this loop where the second time you look

02:02:06.639 --> 02:02:11.280
at something the price goes up, right?

02:02:09.520 --> 02:02:13.599
And it doesn't matter like, you know,

02:02:11.280 --> 02:02:15.520
which region you pretend to be from or

02:02:13.599 --> 02:02:18.320
like what computer you like somehow they

02:02:15.520 --> 02:02:20.560
follow you and they know, oh yeah,

02:02:18.320 --> 02:02:23.440
they've looked at it twice, they're

02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:24.800
going to book it. Like I'd be I'd be so

02:02:23.440 --> 02:02:27.800
down for that.

02:02:24.800 --> 02:02:27.800
>> Yeah.

02:02:29.599 --> 02:02:33.040
>> Um Bolster says, "You're saying you

02:02:31.199 --> 02:02:35.040
don't like Cortana?" No, I mean what I

02:02:33.040 --> 02:02:35.840
didn't like about Cortana was that it

02:02:35.040 --> 02:02:38.639
was just useless.

02:02:35.840 --> 02:02:40.400
>> It just sucked. The honestly the idea I

02:02:38.639 --> 02:02:41.760
was really excited when Cortana was

02:02:40.400 --> 02:02:42.719
first announced.

02:02:41.760 --> 02:02:44.480
>> Yeah, me too.

02:02:42.719 --> 02:02:46.239
>> And then it was just terrible. The

02:02:44.480 --> 02:02:47.840
problem wasn't the packaging. The

02:02:46.239 --> 02:02:49.280
problem was the product. The packaging

02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:51.199
was actually fantastic.

02:02:49.280 --> 02:02:53.280
>> The little circle was good.

02:02:51.199 --> 02:02:57.599
>> The Cortana voice was like obviously

02:02:53.280 --> 02:03:00.400
fantastic and then just

02:02:57.599 --> 02:03:02.560
garbage product.

02:03:00.400 --> 02:03:05.119
>> Yeah, once again just the timing for the

02:03:02.560 --> 02:03:09.520
branding and the usefulness of the

02:03:05.119 --> 02:03:11.920
product just didn't quite line up.

02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:15.760
Okay, this is going to be a

02:03:11.920 --> 02:03:17.280
controversial take. Are you ready?

02:03:15.760 --> 02:03:20.320
>> No.

02:03:17.280 --> 02:03:21.840
What happened to Good News Wow. No, no,

02:03:20.320 --> 02:03:23.360
>> it doesn't feel like it's been in full

02:03:21.840 --> 02:03:25.360
force this show.

02:03:23.360 --> 02:03:26.480
>> The good news. No, no, no. Oh, dude,

02:03:25.360 --> 02:03:28.880
there's lots of good news coming.

02:03:26.480 --> 02:03:31.840
There's good news. All right. Okay.

02:03:28.880 --> 02:03:33.920
>> Nintendo is joining its competition in

02:03:31.840 --> 02:03:35.520
raising the price of their consoles.

02:03:33.920 --> 02:03:37.199
>> There's lots of good news coming. You'll

02:03:35.520 --> 02:03:38.800
pay more for consoles.

02:03:37.199 --> 02:03:41.599
>> No, no, this is the good news part. The

02:03:38.800 --> 02:03:44.800
good news is that Nintendo is giving

02:03:41.599 --> 02:03:47.840
several months of warning before the

02:03:44.800 --> 02:03:49.760
change in price goes into effect. So

02:03:47.840 --> 02:03:52.000
basically, here's a quote. In light of

02:03:49.760 --> 02:03:54.480
changes in market conditions, Nintendo

02:03:52.000 --> 02:03:56.960
has revised the MSRP of the Switch 2

02:03:54.480 --> 02:03:58.400
around the world and the Switch One

02:03:56.960 --> 02:04:00.639
along with playing cards and the

02:03:58.400 --> 02:04:02.239
Nintendo online membership in Japan. The

02:04:00.639 --> 02:04:05.119
price of the Switch 2 is going to go up

02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:06.719
around $50 globally. Uh complete pricing

02:04:05.119 --> 02:04:07.679
is in the Nintendo link if you want to

02:04:06.719 --> 02:04:10.080
show it.

02:04:07.679 --> 02:04:12.080
>> That's a smaller increase than both Sony

02:04:10.080 --> 02:04:15.920
and Microsoft put in place for their

02:04:12.080 --> 02:04:17.280
2020 hardware. So, like hardware that

02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:20.719
theoretically they paid the development

02:04:17.280 --> 02:04:23.199
cost on a long time ago.

02:04:20.719 --> 02:04:25.040
Outside of Japan though, consumers, even

02:04:23.199 --> 02:04:26.880
though it's a $50 increase compared to

02:04:25.040 --> 02:04:28.880
the much higher ones from Sony and

02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:31.360
Microsoft, consumers will have until

02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:33.360
September 1st to buy one at the current

02:04:31.360 --> 02:04:37.280
price.

02:04:33.360 --> 02:04:39.840
As far as price increases go, giving

02:04:37.280 --> 02:04:43.920
people what what do we got here? Yeah,

02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:46.639
we've got over 3 months to save up and

02:04:43.920 --> 02:04:50.560
buy a Switch 2 if we want it at the

02:04:46.639 --> 02:04:53.040
current price. That is I mean, is that

02:04:50.560 --> 02:04:56.239
worth nothing? It's not like Nintendo

02:04:53.040 --> 02:04:58.480
chose for component costs to go up.

02:04:56.239 --> 02:05:01.280
>> Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why is the

02:04:58.480 --> 02:05:01.520
online subscription going up?

02:05:01.280 --> 02:05:02.880
Uh,

02:05:01.520 --> 02:05:04.880
>> is that I think that's only in Japan,

02:05:02.880 --> 02:05:06.560
though, right?

02:05:04.880 --> 02:05:10.719
Uh,

02:05:06.560 --> 02:05:14.400
>> the say Japan. Yeah, maybe

02:05:10.719 --> 02:05:17.880
that doesn't line up though.

02:05:14.400 --> 02:05:17.880
Open price.

02:05:19.520 --> 02:05:22.719
>> I don't know what open price means.

02:05:20.960 --> 02:05:25.440
>> It's one interesting thing from this is

02:05:22.719 --> 02:05:27.760
that the European and American pricing

02:05:25.440 --> 02:05:31.679
is matching up. Now, the current price

02:05:27.760 --> 02:05:34.080
was cheaper in the US by 20 bucks. Um,

02:05:31.679 --> 02:05:36.159
and they're now aligning. Canada are,

02:05:34.080 --> 02:05:40.199
you know, we still suck, so it is what

02:05:36.159 --> 02:05:40.199
it is. Um,

02:05:40.560 --> 02:05:45.040
yeah. Interesting.

02:05:43.520 --> 02:05:47.360
If they were going to do it, I

02:05:45.040 --> 02:05:49.280
appreciate the heads up.

02:05:47.360 --> 02:05:51.679
>> Yeah. I mean, that I guess that's that's

02:05:49.280 --> 02:05:52.400
that's the most silver lining thing that

02:05:51.679 --> 02:05:55.440
I can

02:05:52.400 --> 02:05:57.840
>> It's not the silver lining show, Lionus.

02:05:55.440 --> 02:06:00.639
>> It's a show.

02:05:57.840 --> 02:06:02.639
But the good news is that they gave us

02:06:00.639 --> 02:06:04.480
warning and so I need to make sure I

02:06:02.639 --> 02:06:06.560
talk about it on WAN Show so that if you

02:06:04.480 --> 02:06:09.199
really wanted to switch too then you can

02:06:06.560 --> 02:06:11.760
get it now still for the original price

02:06:09.199 --> 02:06:14.480
before it goes up. That's the good news

02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:17.119
Luke because if we didn't talk about

02:06:14.480 --> 02:06:20.400
this and someone got blindsided by it on

02:06:17.119 --> 02:06:21.440
September the second that's on us.

02:06:20.400 --> 02:06:22.719
>> No,

02:06:21.440 --> 02:06:24.800
>> we got to give people a shot.

02:06:22.719 --> 02:06:27.199
>> I'm not shouldering that responsibility.

02:06:24.800 --> 02:06:28.800
We can't we we got to bring We got to

02:06:27.199 --> 02:06:30.800
bring the people We got to bring the

02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:33.840
people the news they need to know. Okay,

02:06:30.800 --> 02:06:37.040
this is important news cuz like 50 bucks

02:06:33.840 --> 02:06:38.239
is 50 bucks is 50 bucks, man.

02:06:37.040 --> 02:06:41.760
>> Like

02:06:38.239 --> 02:06:43.679
>> if you were going to do it anyway, then

02:06:41.760 --> 02:06:45.360
>> if No, I mean, if you were going to buy

02:06:43.679 --> 02:06:47.760
one anyway, then I'm sure you'd rather

02:06:45.360 --> 02:06:50.480
buy it for $50 less. That's like

02:06:47.760 --> 02:06:51.920
>> that's like half a Nintendo game. Dude,

02:06:50.480 --> 02:06:53.440
all this informs me is if you were

02:06:51.920 --> 02:06:56.639
thinking about selling your Switch 2

02:06:53.440 --> 02:06:57.520
that you should wait a little bit.

02:06:56.639 --> 02:06:58.079
>> True, true.

02:06:57.520 --> 02:07:00.480
>> Yeah,

02:06:58.079 --> 02:07:01.840
>> true, true.

02:07:00.480 --> 02:07:03.599
>> Do you Is there anything that would

02:07:01.840 --> 02:07:03.920
compel you to buy a Switch 2 yet at this

02:07:03.599 --> 02:07:05.760
point?

02:07:03.920 --> 02:07:07.280
>> I have one.

02:07:05.760 --> 02:07:09.520
>> Oh, sorry. Compel you to use it

02:07:07.280 --> 02:07:12.159
>> and I'm upset about it. Um, I still

02:07:09.520 --> 02:07:14.000
haven't busted out Donkey Kong. Uh, I've

02:07:12.159 --> 02:07:14.239
been busy with other things, but that

02:07:14.000 --> 02:07:15.440
that

02:07:14.239 --> 02:07:17.199
>> Did you buy it though? Like you own it

02:07:15.440 --> 02:07:19.840
already? I I bought it mostly for Emma

02:07:17.199 --> 02:07:22.320
cuz she was a really big fan of the like

02:07:19.840 --> 02:07:22.880
>> um old school Nintendo era Donkey Kong

02:07:22.320 --> 02:07:24.639
games.

02:07:22.880 --> 02:07:26.800
>> Um

02:07:24.639 --> 02:07:29.040
>> but I mean I was I would say I was

02:07:26.800 --> 02:07:31.119
interested in it. We my family was real

02:07:29.040 --> 02:07:32.560
big into the yellow cartridge Donkey

02:07:31.119 --> 02:07:34.480
Kong 64 game.

02:07:32.560 --> 02:07:37.040
>> Uh that game was sick, but I didn't

02:07:34.480 --> 02:07:38.880
really play many of the other ones. Um

02:07:37.040 --> 02:07:41.599
and other than that, I haven't

02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:44.719
personally heard of a Nintendo game that

02:07:41.599 --> 02:07:46.719
has been super attractive yet. There

02:07:44.719 --> 02:07:49.719
hasn't been a

02:07:46.719 --> 02:07:49.719
uh

02:07:50.320 --> 02:07:54.239
yeah, I don't think so. Modern Pokemon

02:07:52.560 --> 02:07:56.639
games are not that interesting to me. I

02:07:54.239 --> 02:07:59.520
haven't seen a I I could see a like

02:07:56.639 --> 02:08:01.679
Breath of the Wild style Zelda game

02:07:59.520 --> 02:08:03.360
coming out and being like, "Nice, I'm

02:08:01.679 --> 02:08:05.920
happy." No,

02:08:03.360 --> 02:08:09.119
>> the um the conspiracy theory is that

02:08:05.920 --> 02:08:12.159
Star Fox was uh or Fox Mc, whatever his

02:08:09.119 --> 02:08:14.320
name is, was shoehorned into the uh

02:08:12.159 --> 02:08:16.000
Mario Galaxy movie because there's a

02:08:14.320 --> 02:08:17.840
game coming ended up being true. So, the

02:08:16.000 --> 02:08:19.119
the Star Fox announcement just came out.

02:08:17.840 --> 02:08:21.119
>> Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing,

02:08:19.119 --> 02:08:21.440
but it just makes sense. Um

02:08:21.119 --> 02:08:23.679
>> yeah,

02:08:21.440 --> 02:08:25.679
>> I didn't know any part of that story.

02:08:23.679 --> 02:08:28.800
Yeah, without people knowing anything

02:08:25.679 --> 02:08:31.199
else, just Star Fox being in that movie

02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:35.040
was like, "Okay, this is an IP that

02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:37.199
Nintendo has not made a game about. Not

02:08:35.040 --> 02:08:37.760
made a game with in like a very long

02:08:37.199 --> 02:08:39.440
time."

02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:41.280
>> Dude, I never played the original Star

02:08:39.440 --> 02:08:43.520
Fox, but I I think I would be interested

02:08:41.280 --> 02:08:44.239
in picking this up.

02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:46.000
>> Um

02:08:44.239 --> 02:08:49.920
>> Oh, it looks kind of sweet, actually.

02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:51.520
Original Star Star Fox was like

02:08:49.920 --> 02:08:54.719
revolutionary

02:08:51.520 --> 02:08:58.719
and a game that I just could not get

02:08:54.719 --> 02:08:59.599
into. I was a Pilot Wings kid 100%.

02:08:58.719 --> 02:09:01.840
>> Yeah.

02:08:59.599 --> 02:09:03.599
>> No Star Fox for me.

02:09:01.840 --> 02:09:05.679
>> You'd love the new one. The gameplay is

02:09:03.599 --> 02:09:07.599
incredibly tight and satisfying. What

02:09:05.679 --> 02:09:09.599
have you played it? Have people there

02:09:07.599 --> 02:09:13.719
like a

02:09:09.599 --> 02:09:13.719
somewhere that you could play this?

02:09:14.400 --> 02:09:19.119
Wait,

02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:20.880
it's a Star Fox 64 remake.

02:09:19.119 --> 02:09:22.719
>> Remake.

02:09:20.880 --> 02:09:27.159
>> Oh,

02:09:22.719 --> 02:09:27.159
>> that's honestly disappointing.

02:09:27.599 --> 02:09:30.599
>> Okay.

02:09:31.119 --> 02:09:36.239
>> Oh, no. Nintendo says it's based on the

02:09:34.239 --> 02:09:39.440
classic.

02:09:36.239 --> 02:09:41.520
Hold on a second. Oh, wait. based on the

02:09:39.440 --> 02:09:43.280
classic space shooter Star Fox 64, but

02:09:41.520 --> 02:09:45.920
with redesigned characters and upgraded

02:09:43.280 --> 02:09:47.920
visuals.

02:09:45.920 --> 02:09:49.360
All righty then. Well, that was a cool

02:09:47.920 --> 02:09:51.520
conversation while it lasted. All right.

02:09:49.360 --> 02:09:54.480
>> So, this went from that makes me excited

02:09:51.520 --> 02:09:56.000
to have had a switch to to considering

02:09:54.480 --> 02:09:56.639
it's probably going to be full fat price

02:09:56.000 --> 02:09:58.000
or close.

02:09:56.639 --> 02:09:58.880
>> I'm going to do better. I'm going to do

02:09:58.000 --> 02:09:59.840
better.

02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:01.679
>> All right.

02:09:59.840 --> 02:10:06.159
>> On Monday,

02:10:01.679 --> 02:10:08.480
BlackBerry's stock jumped 13%.

02:10:06.159 --> 02:10:10.560
Yes, that BlackBerry,

02:10:08.480 --> 02:10:11.199
>> is it still a Canadian company?

02:10:10.560 --> 02:10:11.840
>> Yes.

02:10:11.199 --> 02:10:14.639
>> Really?

02:10:11.840 --> 02:10:16.400
>> 13% in pre-market trading after a Wall

02:10:14.639 --> 02:10:18.719
Street Journal feature reminded everyone

02:10:16.400 --> 02:10:22.639
that BlackBerry, a decade after ditching

02:10:18.719 --> 02:10:25.920
phones, does in fact still exist and is

02:10:22.639 --> 02:10:28.000
profitable again. What

02:10:25.920 --> 02:10:31.360
>> the driver of the new profit, pun

02:10:28.000 --> 02:10:34.159
intended, is QNX, a real-time operating

02:10:31.360 --> 02:10:35.679
system that BlackBerry acquired in 2010

02:10:34.159 --> 02:10:36.719
that uh I was reading a couple articles

02:10:35.679 --> 02:10:39.360
about this. I kind of went down the

02:10:36.719 --> 02:10:41.840
rabbit hole cuz I was like, "What?" So

02:10:39.360 --> 02:10:44.880
that BlackBerry acquired in 2010 and

02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:47.679
that just was like kind of quietly doing

02:10:44.880 --> 02:10:50.560
their own thing, being mostly ignored by

02:10:47.679 --> 02:10:53.199
BlackBerry, but that now accounts for

02:10:50.560 --> 02:10:57.199
about half of the company's revenue and

02:10:53.199 --> 02:11:00.800
is embedded in roughly 275 million cars

02:10:57.199 --> 02:11:02.800
on the road today. So this is separate

02:11:00.800 --> 02:11:05.599
from the like you know Android

02:11:02.800 --> 02:11:07.599
Automotive or like whatever operating

02:11:05.599 --> 02:11:10.159
system

02:11:07.599 --> 02:11:13.119
interface with in your car. This is

02:11:10.159 --> 02:11:14.960
running things like collision warnings,

02:11:13.119 --> 02:11:17.840
blind spot monitoring. So like when when

02:11:14.960 --> 02:11:21.280
the LED lights up on your mirror,

02:11:17.840 --> 02:11:25.199
>> QNX is doing that, adaptive cruise,

02:11:21.280 --> 02:11:27.679
>> lane keep assist. um they they knew they

02:11:25.199 --> 02:11:29.840
were going to lose the infotainment war

02:11:27.679 --> 02:11:33.520
like a decade ago, so they've pivoted

02:11:29.840 --> 02:11:35.440
deeper and deeper into like real time

02:11:33.520 --> 02:11:36.239
safety critical features.

02:11:35.440 --> 02:11:39.599
>> Yeah. Sweet.

02:11:36.239 --> 02:11:44.400
>> Um BlackBerry's Q4 revenue, and this

02:11:39.599 --> 02:11:46.960
blew my mind, hit $156 million, up 10%

02:11:44.400 --> 02:11:51.760
year-over-year with QNX itself bringing

02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:53.360
in 78.7 million, up 20%. Um although it

02:11:51.760 --> 02:11:56.880
is worth noting that the stock is still

02:11:53.360 --> 02:11:59.360
down about 96% from its 2008 peak uh

02:11:56.880 --> 02:12:00.880
when it topped 83 billion.

02:11:59.360 --> 02:12:01.679
>> They're on top of the world. That's kind

02:12:00.880 --> 02:12:03.280
of whatever.

02:12:01.679 --> 02:12:03.920
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But

02:12:03.280 --> 02:12:04.320
still

02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:06.400
>> interesting.

02:12:04.320 --> 02:12:08.639
>> I mean that's pretty cool. What a

02:12:06.400 --> 02:12:10.719
turnaround story. The fact that they are

02:12:08.639 --> 02:12:12.880
making money again is pretty

02:12:10.719 --> 02:12:14.480
>> What is the rest of their money? Where

02:12:12.880 --> 02:12:16.800
are they making the rest of the 70

02:12:14.480 --> 02:12:18.320
whatever million dollars?

02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:20.880
>> Uh I don't know. For a while they were

02:12:18.320 --> 02:12:22.960
in like secure messaging. Um,

02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:23.920
>> they still have secure communications.

02:12:22.960 --> 02:12:25.599
Okay.

02:12:23.920 --> 02:12:28.560
>> Yeah. All I really cared about was this

02:12:25.599 --> 02:12:31.440
QX thing and like, sorry, who are these

02:12:28.560 --> 02:12:34.639
guys? Where did this come from? How is

02:12:31.440 --> 02:12:37.760
this worth $78.7

02:12:34.639 --> 02:12:38.320
million a quarter? Yeah, it just blew my

02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:40.719
mind.

02:12:38.320 --> 02:12:43.040
>> Yeah, they do like sovereign onrem

02:12:40.719 --> 02:12:45.679
infrastructure for like governments,

02:12:43.040 --> 02:12:47.920
NATO stuff.

02:12:45.679 --> 02:12:49.840
Yeah. Okay. I mean, Blackberry was known

02:12:47.920 --> 02:12:51.199
for that. They were known for security.

02:12:49.840 --> 02:12:52.320
>> Yeah.

02:12:51.199 --> 02:12:54.159
>> Um All right.

02:12:52.320 --> 02:12:56.079
>> And I just I thought I thought it was

02:12:54.159 --> 02:12:59.840
pretty cool that Blackberry's back,

02:12:56.079 --> 02:13:01.280
baby. More like Backberry.

02:12:59.840 --> 02:13:03.840
>> Okay. I got another one. I got another

02:13:01.280 --> 02:13:06.719
one you're going to like. Uh a

02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:10.400
scientific team in China mounted a

02:13:06.719 --> 02:13:12.639
prototype 10 megawatt nuclear power unit

02:13:10.400 --> 02:13:14.480
to a truck.

02:13:12.639 --> 02:13:17.040
This thing is designed to act as a

02:13:14.480 --> 02:13:18.320
portable power bank. that is expected to

02:13:17.040 --> 02:13:21.520
last

02:13:18.320 --> 02:13:22.719
>> several decades without requiring a

02:13:21.520 --> 02:13:25.599
recharge.

02:13:22.719 --> 02:13:28.079
>> So to put it in context, 10 megawatt is

02:13:25.599 --> 02:13:31.599
about the power of a medium-sized AI

02:13:28.079 --> 02:13:34.239
data center. And this could be just like

02:13:31.599 --> 02:13:35.280
on the back of a truck. Uh applications

02:13:34.239 --> 02:13:35.920
include,

02:13:35.280 --> 02:13:39.040
>> sorry,

02:13:35.920 --> 02:13:42.239
>> pretty wild. Yeah. Applications include

02:13:39.040 --> 02:13:45.119
powering remote regions, emergency power

02:13:42.239 --> 02:13:47.760
restoration during disasters, and

02:13:45.119 --> 02:13:50.639
propelling maritime vehicles.

02:13:47.760 --> 02:13:53.599
Imagine that for a second, Luke. We have

02:13:50.639 --> 02:13:58.239
nuclear sub at home.

02:13:53.599 --> 02:14:01.360
Like, what are you kidding me?

02:13:58.239 --> 02:14:03.520
Uh the team has spoken uh about similar

02:14:01.360 --> 02:14:05.760
systems for use at the microwatt level

02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:07.840
for healthcare applications like

02:14:05.760 --> 02:14:10.719
pacemakers. Oh, apparently they're also

02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:12.400
being considered for space systems.

02:14:10.719 --> 02:14:14.320
There is growing private interest in

02:14:12.400 --> 02:14:15.760
nuclear with Amazon investing in modular

02:14:14.320 --> 02:14:18.159
reactors while Google builds a small

02:14:15.760 --> 02:14:20.960
reactor in Tennessee. Amazon, Google

02:14:18.159 --> 02:14:24.159
Meta, and Microsoft have all joined the

02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:27.760
World Nuclear Association. I could see

02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:31.840
that being a really cool outcome of the

02:14:27.760 --> 02:14:34.800
AI boom and crash is if all these tech

02:14:31.840 --> 02:14:36.960
companies use all of their buckets and

02:14:34.800 --> 02:14:40.000
buckets and buckets of money to build a

02:14:36.960 --> 02:14:41.760
bunch of clean nuclear power and then

02:14:40.000 --> 02:14:44.719
the market crashes and they don't need

02:14:41.760 --> 02:14:46.159
it anymore and then we would just have a

02:14:44.719 --> 02:14:49.520
lot of really clean power

02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.000
infrastructure. To be clearly

02:14:49.520 --> 02:14:51.520
regulated,

02:14:50.000 --> 02:14:53.599
>> I don't think that's going to happen.

02:14:51.520 --> 02:14:54.560
That's not going to happen.

02:14:53.599 --> 02:14:56.159
But

02:14:54.560 --> 02:14:57.520
>> it's a girl dream.

02:14:56.159 --> 02:14:59.520
>> Can a girl dream, Luke?

02:14:57.520 --> 02:15:03.800
>> Then we're cool. You can dream if it's

02:14:59.520 --> 02:15:03.800
heavy heavily regulated dreaming.

02:15:04.159 --> 02:15:08.159
>> Oh, yeah. To be very clear, to be very

02:15:06.239 --> 02:15:11.360
clear, I would like nuclear power to be

02:15:08.159 --> 02:15:14.000
done with all of the regulation and all

02:15:11.360 --> 02:15:16.000
of the safety checks. Uh, but I just I

02:15:14.000 --> 02:15:18.079
thought the size of this the size to

02:15:16.000 --> 02:15:21.920
output ratio of this thing

02:15:18.079 --> 02:15:26.360
>> is so cool.

02:15:21.920 --> 02:15:26.360
So cool. 10 million watts

02:15:26.800 --> 02:15:31.119
on something that is portable enough to

02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:32.480
be transported with a truck.

02:15:31.119 --> 02:15:34.400
>> Pretty freaking unelievable.

02:15:32.480 --> 02:15:37.440
>> Yeah. By truck like did you look at

02:15:34.400 --> 02:15:38.000
pictures? Do they mean like semi-truck?

02:15:37.440 --> 02:15:39.280
>> Uh

02:15:38.000 --> 02:15:39.679
>> like what's the scale that we're talking

02:15:39.280 --> 02:15:41.119
about?

02:15:39.679 --> 02:15:43.040
>> We're we're talking semi-truck.

02:15:41.119 --> 02:15:45.040
>> Yeah. Thought so. I mean that's still

02:15:43.040 --> 02:15:46.320
insane. Like there I'm not talking. I'm

02:15:45.040 --> 02:15:48.400
just trying to understand

02:15:46.320 --> 02:15:52.239
>> in the back of your F-150 or whatever.

02:15:48.400 --> 02:15:53.520
>> Yeah. Yeah. Strap it in.

02:15:52.239 --> 02:15:56.560
Uh, okay.

02:15:53.520 --> 02:15:58.800
>> Yeah, buddy. Um, all right. Okay. Hold

02:15:56.560 --> 02:16:02.000
on. Hold on. I can do I can do more. I

02:15:58.800 --> 02:16:04.159
can do more. Okay. This is cool. Do you

02:16:02.000 --> 02:16:06.079
want to bring up the LT Labs website?

02:16:04.159 --> 02:16:06.880
>> Uh, that's uh

02:16:06.079 --> 02:16:07.280
>> you're cheating.

02:16:06.880 --> 02:16:07.920
>> Yeah,

02:16:07.280 --> 02:16:08.800
>> that's cheating.

02:16:07.920 --> 02:16:13.199
>> That is cheating.

02:16:08.800 --> 02:16:15.040
>> Lucas Lucas uploaded yet another really

02:16:13.199 --> 02:16:17.920
cool article this week.

02:16:15.040 --> 02:16:20.880
>> Freaking banger, dude. that I read top

02:16:17.920 --> 02:16:23.840
to bottom because I was all like, "Yeah,

02:16:20.880 --> 02:16:27.199
yeah, what is up with that?" So the

02:16:23.840 --> 02:16:31.920
question that he set out to answer is

02:16:27.199 --> 02:16:35.920
what's up with power supply series like

02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:38.160
say for example the NZXT Core Gold

02:16:35.920 --> 02:16:41.120
series where you've got what is

02:16:38.160 --> 02:16:43.359
seemingly one power design or one power

02:16:41.120 --> 02:16:47.679
supply design that's rated for anywhere

02:16:43.359 --> 02:16:52.240
from I believe it goes from 750 W to 850

02:16:47.679 --> 02:16:55.120
W to 1,000 W. But as you can see if you

02:16:52.240 --> 02:16:59.200
look at them clearly all using the same

02:16:55.120 --> 02:17:00.080
PCB and functionally a lot of the same

02:16:59.200 --> 02:17:02.559
design.

02:17:00.080 --> 02:17:05.439
>> Yeah, there are minor changes but yeah.

02:17:02.559 --> 02:17:09.040
>> Yeah, there are. And Lucas dives into

02:17:05.439 --> 02:17:10.880
all of them, explaining which changes

02:17:09.040 --> 02:17:13.840
impact which characteristics of the

02:17:10.880 --> 02:17:15.519
power supply and what they mean for

02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:18.880
these different units and their ability

02:17:15.519 --> 02:17:20.880
to provide different amounts of power in

02:17:18.880 --> 02:17:22.880
a sustained fashion. And I just thought

02:17:20.880 --> 02:17:27.679
it was a really cool read because it was

02:17:22.880 --> 02:17:30.240
something that I had like had half a

02:17:27.679 --> 02:17:32.240
thought about in the past, but never

02:17:30.240 --> 02:17:34.080
really even gotten as far as forming the

02:17:32.240 --> 02:17:36.160
full thought, let alone asking somebody

02:17:34.080 --> 02:17:37.840
the answer to the question. And he just

02:17:36.160 --> 02:17:41.200
did such a good job of getting right out

02:17:37.840 --> 02:17:44.559
ahead of me and completely answering it

02:17:41.200 --> 02:17:46.080
and asking it all in one go with great

02:17:44.559 --> 02:17:47.200
pictures that illustrate the

02:17:46.080 --> 02:17:48.479
differences. is and I yeah I just

02:17:47.200 --> 02:17:49.920
thought it was I thought it was a really

02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:51.120
cool article and I read the crap out of

02:17:49.920 --> 02:17:53.519
it. I loved it.

02:17:51.120 --> 02:17:55.120
>> There's also been uh there's been a lot

02:17:53.519 --> 02:17:57.040
of really good stuff on the articles

02:17:55.120 --> 02:17:58.559
front recently. The IBOT article which I

02:17:57.040 --> 02:18:00.639
think we've maybe already called on W

02:17:58.559 --> 02:18:02.719
show is fantastic. Popular Linux gaming

02:18:00.639 --> 02:18:04.160
distros. Uh we kind of

02:18:02.719 --> 02:18:04.719
>> we're adapting that into a video by the

02:18:04.160 --> 02:18:05.040
way.

02:18:04.719 --> 02:18:06.639
>> Yeah.

02:18:05.040 --> 02:18:08.319
>> So I'm working on writing for it now. I

02:18:06.639 --> 02:18:09.840
actually wrote one of the funniest uh

02:18:08.319 --> 02:18:11.359
I'm I'm the writer for it and I wrote

02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:13.120
one of the funniest intros that I think

02:18:11.359 --> 02:18:15.200
I've ever written.

02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:16.399
>> Nice. Yeah. Do you want to want a

02:18:15.200 --> 02:18:18.479
preview?

02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:19.840
>> Uh,

02:18:18.479 --> 02:18:21.439
>> you can just say no. You can just say

02:18:19.840 --> 02:18:22.960
you don't care about my work. That's

02:18:21.439 --> 02:18:24.319
fine. You can do that.

02:18:22.960 --> 02:18:26.399
>> What do you What do you mean by preview?

02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:28.080
Do you mean like you have a clip of it?

02:18:26.399 --> 02:18:29.599
>> No, I mean like I I can read it.

02:18:28.080 --> 02:18:30.399
>> Oh, you're going to read it? Sure. Yeah.

02:18:29.599 --> 02:18:33.760
Sure. Okay.

02:18:30.399 --> 02:18:35.599
>> So So I'm going to have uh it just I I

02:18:33.760 --> 02:18:37.280
always love the comedic value of one

02:18:35.599 --> 02:18:39.920
actor playing multiple characters. So,

02:18:37.280 --> 02:18:42.080
it might just be me playing both of the

02:18:39.920 --> 02:18:44.479
characters or I might have someone else

02:18:42.080 --> 02:18:47.280
be the like the the husband, but we're

02:18:44.479 --> 02:18:49.760
going to do like uh like an altar scene

02:18:47.280 --> 02:18:51.760
like for a wedding and we're going to

02:18:49.760 --> 02:18:54.960
start with like the uh the officient

02:18:51.760 --> 02:18:57.519
saying do you Joe gamer take Linux to be

02:18:54.960 --> 02:18:59.439
your lawfully wedded operating system to

02:18:57.519 --> 02:19:01.359
have until and then we're going to cut.

02:18:59.439 --> 02:19:02.960
Um so we're going to have me standing in

02:19:01.359 --> 02:19:04.160
front of like a crappy plate of like

02:19:02.960 --> 02:19:06.960
church pews or something and I'm going

02:19:04.160 --> 02:19:09.599
to stand up. going be like, "I object.

02:19:06.960 --> 02:19:11.519
She's no operating system. She's a

02:19:09.599 --> 02:19:13.760
colonel." And then we're going to have

02:19:11.519 --> 02:19:16.479
like a crowd gasp like sound effects

02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:19.920
thing. And then uh I'm going to like

02:19:16.479 --> 02:19:21.280
pull back the the the the penguin suit

02:19:19.920 --> 02:19:24.160
and we're going to have like a Colonel

02:19:21.280 --> 02:19:25.200
Sanders mask. Uh and then we're going to

02:19:24.160 --> 02:19:26.960
And then we're just going to like we're

02:19:25.200 --> 02:19:29.760
going to do like a hard cut because that

02:19:26.960 --> 02:19:31.439
is the dumbest joke of all time. Just be

02:19:29.760 --> 02:19:33.840
Okay, jokes aside. What what if it's

02:19:31.439 --> 02:19:36.399
what if it's what if it's just

02:19:33.840 --> 02:19:37.439
>> the the bride is like obscured by the

02:19:36.399 --> 02:19:39.519
veil

02:19:37.439 --> 02:19:41.120
>> and then when when you yell the it's a

02:19:39.519 --> 02:19:43.840
colonel and they they turn to the screen

02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:44.639
it's just a penguin being like

02:19:43.840 --> 02:19:46.000
what if you do that

02:19:44.639 --> 02:19:48.160
>> oh I was going to have the bride be

02:19:46.000 --> 02:19:50.240
someone in a penguin costume.

02:19:48.160 --> 02:19:54.160
>> I know but you peel back the penguin

02:19:50.240 --> 02:19:55.520
costume like they're they're already

02:19:54.160 --> 02:19:57.200
maybe I'm being the Linux guy. I don't

02:19:55.520 --> 02:20:00.080
know. Whatever. Don't worry about it.

02:19:57.200 --> 02:20:01.920
Um, so, okay, but jokes aside, there is

02:20:00.080 --> 02:20:03.520
a common misconception that Linux is an

02:20:01.920 --> 02:20:04.960
operating system when in truth, it's

02:20:03.520 --> 02:20:07.120
just one part of a fully functioning

02:20:04.960 --> 02:20:10.000
operating system. Specifically, it's the

02:20:07.120 --> 02:20:11.280
kernel with a K, not that one. The part

02:20:10.000 --> 02:20:12.880
that's responsible for managing

02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:14.240
resources and communications between the

02:20:12.880 --> 02:20:16.560
operating system and your physical

02:20:14.240 --> 02:20:19.200
hardware. Uh, so we so it's just kind of

02:20:16.560 --> 02:20:21.280
like a it's just like a super goofy

02:20:19.200 --> 02:20:25.280
opportunity to, you know, have a fun

02:20:21.280 --> 02:20:28.080
costume and have a really memorable way

02:20:25.280 --> 02:20:30.000
to without being all um actually and

02:20:28.080 --> 02:20:32.720
insufferable about it. Remind people

02:20:30.000 --> 02:20:35.200
that Linux is not in fact an operating

02:20:32.720 --> 02:20:38.160
system. It is a kernel and that's one of

02:20:35.200 --> 02:20:41.840
the big challenges that it faces both in

02:20:38.160 --> 02:20:44.160
terms of support from game developers

02:20:41.840 --> 02:20:45.520
and also in terms of choosing the right

02:20:44.160 --> 02:20:47.520
one. And that's how we're ultimately

02:20:45.520 --> 02:20:49.920
going to get into the meat of the video

02:20:47.520 --> 02:20:52.640
which is what are the performance

02:20:49.920 --> 02:20:54.479
differences for gamers between the

02:20:52.640 --> 02:20:56.960
various Linux distros that are out

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there. And that was um if you guys want

02:20:56.960 --> 02:21:01.120
spoilers for the answer, the article is

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already up on ltlabs.com

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and you can go check it out. Let's uh

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let's get our last sponsors out of the

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way.

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>> Sure.

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Let me um

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>> Dell and Lenovo answer Linux vendor

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firmware services call for sponsors. Uh

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with the whooped client and web portal.

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distributions. The project has shipped

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more than 145 million firmware updates

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so far. Dell and Lenovo are the first

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two premier sponsors and will be

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supporting LVFS with uh at least 100,000

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US annually. Other sponsors include

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framework investment disclosure for that

02:25:09.120 --> 02:25:13.840
guy. Um the open source firmware

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foundation, Red Hat, and the Linux

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Foundation. This is

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huge and awesome.

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>> Very cool. Good info.

02:25:20.720 --> 02:25:25.040
>> This is the kind of thing that is just

02:25:22.319 --> 02:25:27.920
going to to give these guys more

02:25:25.040 --> 02:25:29.439
resources to do what they already would

02:25:27.920 --> 02:25:32.000
have done. And that's one of those

02:25:29.439 --> 02:25:34.319
things that I just I believe so strongly

02:25:32.000 --> 02:25:37.840
is that giving people who would have

02:25:34.319 --> 02:25:42.960
done it anyway better tools and more

02:25:37.840 --> 02:25:44.399
resources is and h man I I I hate to

02:25:42.960 --> 02:25:46.880
make a definitive statement on this but

02:25:44.399 --> 02:25:49.920
I think it might be the best way to get

02:25:46.880 --> 02:25:51.439
an incredible result that is better for

02:25:49.920 --> 02:25:54.080
everybody involved when you've got

02:25:51.439 --> 02:25:56.720
passionate people that cared enough to

02:25:54.080 --> 02:25:58.479
do it already anyway and then you can

02:25:56.720 --> 02:26:01.760
give them the comfort

02:25:58.479 --> 02:26:03.840
and peace of mind and security to do

02:26:01.760 --> 02:26:05.680
that without having to worry about where

02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:08.160
they're going to get their next meal or

02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:11.359
their day job or whatever. You are just

02:26:08.160 --> 02:26:14.560
going to get such a passionately

02:26:11.359 --> 02:26:17.920
thoughtfully crafted end result. And I I

02:26:14.560 --> 02:26:19.840
just I I love to see people I love to

02:26:17.920 --> 02:26:22.000
see people rewarded for the hard work

02:26:19.840 --> 02:26:25.359
that they're doing for open source. This

02:26:22.000 --> 02:26:27.760
is this is really exciting.

02:26:25.359 --> 02:26:30.399
>> Holy crap. What the heck? What's up?

02:26:27.760 --> 02:26:32.160
>> Do we need audio for this?

02:26:30.399 --> 02:26:33.920
>> Uh there. Okay.

02:26:32.160 --> 02:26:35.359
>> Oh, dude, that's what you found. Okay.

02:26:33.920 --> 02:26:36.160
Luke was looking for the next topic.

02:26:35.359 --> 02:26:38.960
Yeah, this one's cool.

02:26:36.160 --> 02:26:41.280
>> There's a subject called cool LT render

02:26:38.960 --> 02:26:42.560
by I eat pizza 888 on Reddit and I was

02:26:41.280 --> 02:26:44.479
like, oh, that'll be kind of neat. And

02:26:42.560 --> 02:26:46.800
then I looked at it and I was like,

02:26:44.479 --> 02:26:48.960
what? Uh, get ready to have your mind

02:26:46.800 --> 02:26:50.479
blown. Everyone audio playing elsewhere,

02:26:48.960 --> 02:26:52.880
so I need you to mute that first.

02:26:50.479 --> 02:26:54.080
>> Okay, hold on. Is it just the show? Do

02:26:52.880 --> 02:26:54.720
you know?

02:26:54.080 --> 02:26:56.560
>> I could just

02:26:54.720 --> 02:26:57.920
>> I think it's movement. I think it's the

02:26:56.560 --> 02:26:58.479
show. Is it gone now?

02:26:57.920 --> 02:26:59.520
>> Yes.

02:26:58.479 --> 02:27:03.760
>> Got it. It was the show.

02:26:59.520 --> 02:27:05.200
>> We'll do C and enable that button. Okay.

02:27:03.760 --> 02:27:06.479
I don't know if LOS will be able to hear

02:27:05.200 --> 02:27:09.520
this, but hopefully we will.

02:27:06.479 --> 02:27:11.280
>> That's fine. I've I've heard it.

02:27:09.520 --> 02:27:13.280
>> Um, I got nothing.

02:27:11.280 --> 02:27:14.240
>> I accidentally paused it immediately, I

02:27:13.280 --> 02:27:16.000
guessed. My bad.

02:27:14.240 --> 02:27:17.520
>> Wow.

02:27:16.000 --> 02:27:19.359
>> I wonder if there's Hold on. Hold on one

02:27:17.520 --> 02:27:20.640
sec. Hold on one sec. No, no, no. It's

02:27:19.359 --> 02:27:22.080
working. Okay, we're holding on. Are

02:27:20.640 --> 02:27:25.080
there Easter eggs in here? What's in

02:27:22.080 --> 02:27:25.080
here?

02:27:27.200 --> 02:27:29.520
I do not have enough resolution to read

02:27:29.120 --> 02:27:32.319
that

02:27:29.520 --> 02:27:34.960
>> projects. Sexy segue.

02:27:32.319 --> 02:27:36.960
>> Sexy segue. Tech house. Top secret AMD

02:27:34.960 --> 02:27:38.560
tech upgrade shoots. There's some

02:27:36.960 --> 02:27:41.800
there's some Easter eggs in there. Okay.

02:27:38.560 --> 02:27:41.800
Click play.

02:27:42.240 --> 02:27:45.240
Damn.

02:27:50.080 --> 02:27:55.359
Is this copyrighted music, Jack? Uh,

02:27:53.359 --> 02:27:56.880
well, I guess it is what it is at this

02:27:55.359 --> 02:28:00.680
point.

02:27:56.880 --> 02:28:00.680
We didn't check it all.

02:28:02.080 --> 02:28:10.600
So cool. God dang. We're not done. Oh my

02:28:06.800 --> 02:28:10.600
god, it's so good.

02:28:14.560 --> 02:28:18.319
>> Wow. That's actually like just

02:28:16.800 --> 02:28:20.880
fantastic.

02:28:18.319 --> 02:28:24.080
>> How cool is that? And they said they

02:28:20.880 --> 02:28:26.720
said all Blender,

02:28:24.080 --> 02:28:30.080
all handone, no AI.

02:28:26.720 --> 02:28:32.319
Um, and I'm trying to I'm trying to hold

02:28:30.080 --> 02:28:34.720
on. I'm trying to remember. Did was this

02:28:32.319 --> 02:28:37.680
their was this their first full

02:28:34.720 --> 02:28:41.439
animation in Blender?

02:28:37.680 --> 02:28:42.880
Uh, let me double check.

02:28:41.439 --> 02:28:44.800
I seem to recall they said something

02:28:42.880 --> 02:28:46.399
about that, but my Wi-Fi is not that

02:28:44.800 --> 02:28:49.680
fast, especially when I'm streaming.

02:28:46.399 --> 02:28:51.680
Personal project. Yeah. Uh my first

02:28:49.680 --> 02:28:55.840
personal project in Blender.

02:28:51.680 --> 02:28:58.960
>> That's so cool. Uh the 2D and the sound

02:28:55.840 --> 02:29:01.680
design was done in After Effects and uh

02:28:58.960 --> 02:29:03.040
they they said they used zero AI. If you

02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:04.479
want to see how it was made, let me

02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:07.760
know. I plan on doing a breakdown at

02:29:04.479 --> 02:29:08.960
some point. How flipping cool is that? I

02:29:07.760 --> 02:29:10.160
>> I didn't I didn't see this cuz they

02:29:08.960 --> 02:29:11.359
embedded the video directly to Reddit,

02:29:10.160 --> 02:29:14.319
but they they also have a YouTube

02:29:11.359 --> 02:29:16.640
channel that they posted it on, um

02:29:14.319 --> 02:29:18.080
Harun, so check that out. it doesn't

02:29:16.640 --> 02:29:20.720
have that many views. So, go go there

02:29:18.080 --> 02:29:23.040
and and say hi here as well. Um, I'm

02:29:20.720 --> 02:29:24.560
sure if there is updates, it it might be

02:29:23.040 --> 02:29:26.560
on the Reddit, but it will definitely be

02:29:24.560 --> 02:29:29.600
on their YouTube channel. So, so go

02:29:26.560 --> 02:29:34.319
there, get subscribed.

02:29:29.600 --> 02:29:36.880
>> I It's just It's so It's so cool to see

02:29:34.319 --> 02:29:39.520
the kinds of things that

02:29:36.880 --> 02:29:43.600
um that people will just create

02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:45.359
spontaneously like that. Like that's uh

02:29:43.600 --> 02:29:47.840
it's

02:29:45.359 --> 02:29:50.560
and like no offense, you know, but I'm

02:29:47.840 --> 02:29:51.040
amazed at how good it is.

02:29:50.560 --> 02:29:52.160
Like it's

02:29:51.040 --> 02:29:54.000
>> Oh, it's incredible.

02:29:52.160 --> 02:29:55.280
>> It's not that I don't What was his name

02:29:54.000 --> 02:29:56.640
again? It's not that I don't believe in

02:29:55.280 --> 02:29:57.439
you, sir.

02:29:56.640 --> 02:29:58.880
>> Um

02:29:57.439 --> 02:30:01.760
>> it's not that I don't believe in you. I

02:29:58.880 --> 02:30:03.680
eat pizza 88. It's just that

02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:05.439
>> you just you made it way better than I

02:30:03.680 --> 02:30:07.040
would have ever thought that you could

02:30:05.439 --> 02:30:10.319
make it as your first Blender project.

02:30:07.040 --> 02:30:12.399
It's It's I would never know that you

02:30:10.319 --> 02:30:13.760
weren't a pro

02:30:12.399 --> 02:30:14.240
watching this.

02:30:13.760 --> 02:30:19.439
>> It is.

02:30:14.240 --> 02:30:23.040
>> Um Yeah. So cool.

02:30:19.439 --> 02:30:25.359
Like it looks like a real ad.

02:30:23.040 --> 02:30:29.439
>> Speaking of so cool, if you own any, uh

02:30:25.359 --> 02:30:31.439
Samsung's valuation reached $1 trillion

02:30:29.439 --> 02:30:35.680
on Wednesday as shares of the South

02:30:31.439 --> 02:30:37.520
Korean tech giant surged more than 10%.

02:30:35.680 --> 02:30:39.040
We are partially maybe losing line. I'm

02:30:37.520 --> 02:30:43.359
just going to keep going. On Wednesday,

02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:44.560
Samsung stock surged 15%.

02:30:43.359 --> 02:30:47.200
Oh,

02:30:44.560 --> 02:30:49.439
>> okay. Crossing $1 trillion and make it

02:30:47.200 --> 02:30:52.319
the second Asian company past that mark

02:30:49.439 --> 02:30:54.640
after TSMC. The rally followed Samsung's

02:30:52.319 --> 02:30:56.880
record Q1 earnings last week where

02:30:54.640 --> 02:31:00.640
operating profit jumped more than

02:30:56.880 --> 02:31:03.680
eightfold and Q1 alone topped the

02:31:00.640 --> 02:31:06.240
company's entire 2025 profit. Gez driven

02:31:03.680 --> 02:31:09.120
by AI memory demand. Samsung's profit

02:31:06.240 --> 02:31:11.439
engine is high bandwidth memory or HBM

02:31:09.120 --> 02:31:13.760
where it currently trails SKH highix at

02:31:11.439 --> 02:31:16.640
about 25% market share but recently

02:31:13.760 --> 02:31:18.720
started mass producing HBM4 the latest

02:31:16.640 --> 02:31:22.319
generation expected to power NVIDIA's

02:31:18.720 --> 02:31:24.240
upcoming Vera Rubin AI architecture

02:31:22.319 --> 02:31:26.080
discussion question. What impact if any

02:31:24.240 --> 02:31:28.960
do you think this will have on Samsung's

02:31:26.080 --> 02:31:31.840
consumer products? Uh I don't think it

02:31:28.960 --> 02:31:34.720
will have any. Samsung has always been

02:31:31.840 --> 02:31:36.560
very excited to be in everything ever.

02:31:34.720 --> 02:31:37.840
It's It's kind of funky to walk around

02:31:36.560 --> 02:31:39.280
Korea. I haven't been there in a long

02:31:37.840 --> 02:31:40.640
time, but it's kind of funky to walk

02:31:39.280 --> 02:31:43.200
around Korea and just see all the

02:31:40.640 --> 02:31:44.960
different things labeled with Samsung.

02:31:43.200 --> 02:31:45.760
>> There's Samsung tanks,

02:31:44.960 --> 02:31:48.479
>> military division.

02:31:45.760 --> 02:31:51.280
>> Military. Yeah. There's Samsung toilets.

02:31:48.479 --> 02:31:52.960
There's Samsung insurance. Uh there's

02:31:51.280 --> 02:31:54.319
Samsung whatever the heck you could

02:31:52.960 --> 02:31:56.880
possibly imagine. I don't think they're

02:31:54.319 --> 02:31:58.479
ever going to give that up. But um like

02:31:56.880 --> 02:31:59.920
and what I mean by that is I don't think

02:31:58.479 --> 02:32:01.200
they're going to do a micron where they

02:31:59.920 --> 02:32:02.960
just like shut down their consumer

02:32:01.200 --> 02:32:05.200
division. I don't see that happening

02:32:02.960 --> 02:32:09.200
personally because they like being

02:32:05.200 --> 02:32:12.240
everywhere. But they do have the weight

02:32:09.200 --> 02:32:13.520
to just scale. So I do I do suspect

02:32:12.240 --> 02:32:14.720
they'll probably do that where where

02:32:13.520 --> 02:32:16.960
they were saying here they they started

02:32:14.720 --> 02:32:18.319
mass-producing HBM4. It's like yeah I

02:32:16.960 --> 02:32:19.840
see them doing stuff like that.

02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:22.319
Increasing production, hiring more

02:32:19.840 --> 02:32:25.920
people, expanding even further. Um they

02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:27.200
like are South Korea. So yeah, I

02:32:25.920 --> 02:32:30.880
wouldn't I wouldn't be too surprised if

02:32:27.200 --> 02:32:31.760
they just kept going. Um, so that

02:32:30.880 --> 02:32:33.840
>> come back baby.

02:32:31.760 --> 02:32:35.920
>> I don't know if that fits into good news

02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:39.280
either.

02:32:35.920 --> 02:32:43.520
>> Uh, Samsung space.

02:32:39.280 --> 02:32:45.520
>> It's good news for Samsung.

02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:46.479
>> I can't do it. I can't do it. No one

02:32:45.520 --> 02:32:47.760
can.

02:32:46.479 --> 02:32:49.040
>> Oh, and

02:32:47.760 --> 02:32:50.000
>> that's an amazing reference. If you're

02:32:49.040 --> 02:32:52.080
wondering what Dan and I are

02:32:50.000 --> 02:32:54.000
referencing, that's uh one of the Red

02:32:52.080 --> 02:32:55.040
Alert games. I think it's two.

02:32:54.000 --> 02:32:56.000
>> Oh man.

02:32:55.040 --> 02:32:57.120
>> Oh, that's the wrong one.

02:32:56.000 --> 02:32:58.880
>> I don't know if I want to show it on

02:32:57.120 --> 02:32:59.760
screen, but it's like uh

02:32:58.880 --> 02:33:01.840
>> What the hell is this?

02:32:59.760 --> 02:33:05.040
>> I will I will go to the the last place

02:33:01.840 --> 02:33:08.040
not corrupted by capital

02:33:05.040 --> 02:33:08.040
>> space.

02:33:08.800 --> 02:33:11.040
Thank you.

02:33:09.200 --> 02:33:13.200
>> It's amazing. You can tell he's fighting

02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:13.600
off laughter at the end there.

02:33:13.200 --> 02:33:15.439
>> Just

02:33:13.600 --> 02:33:17.600
>> it's uh Oh, it's Command and Conquer,

02:33:15.439 --> 02:33:22.319
not Red Alert. My bad. I always mix the

02:33:17.600 --> 02:33:24.479
two. It is a core part of my being.

02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:24.960
>> Oh yeah, it's amazing.

02:33:24.479 --> 02:33:26.160
>> A section.

02:33:24.960 --> 02:33:27.600
>> Did I drop me?

02:33:26.160 --> 02:33:28.399
>> You did.

02:33:27.600 --> 02:33:30.160
>> You are back now.

02:33:28.399 --> 02:33:32.319
>> How far did I get?

02:33:30.160 --> 02:33:34.720
>> Nowhere at all.

02:33:32.319 --> 02:33:35.200
>> You were You were going I hate it here.

02:33:34.720 --> 02:33:35.680
>> Sick.

02:33:35.200 --> 02:33:37.760
>> A

02:33:35.680 --> 02:33:39.040
>> We're back. Orange bars, green bars.

02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:39.359
Yeah, we can keep going.

02:33:39.040 --> 02:33:40.880
>> Okay.

02:33:39.359 --> 02:33:44.000
>> All right. Here's my good news spin on

02:33:40.880 --> 02:33:47.280
our last story. Um, okay. Just a few

02:33:44.000 --> 02:33:49.520
hours after

02:33:47.280 --> 02:33:51.439
um the evening of May 5th when a large

02:33:49.520 --> 02:33:54.000
chunk of Germany's internet went down,

02:33:51.439 --> 02:33:56.720
it was restored.

02:33:54.000 --> 02:33:57.840
Huh. Good news. The internet was

02:33:56.720 --> 02:33:59.920
restored is good news.

02:33:57.840 --> 02:34:01.600
>> Yeah, this is our Oh, sorry. Okay, I

02:33:59.920 --> 02:34:03.600
understand.

02:34:01.600 --> 02:34:06.160
I don't think that's how that works.

02:34:03.600 --> 02:34:10.240
>> Yeah, that's fine. The outage ran from

02:34:06.160 --> 02:34:12.080
9:57 p.m., so 2157, to a little after

02:34:10.240 --> 02:34:14.080
1:00 in the morning the next morning,

02:34:12.080 --> 02:34:16.720
knocking offline major sites like

02:34:14.080 --> 02:34:20.720
Amazon, DHL, Steam, eBay, and German

02:34:16.720 --> 02:34:24.960
news outlets. Um, only

02:34:20.720 --> 02:34:28.720
um domains that were had that were

02:34:24.960 --> 02:34:32.319
pushed out faulty DNS sec signatures

02:34:28.720 --> 02:34:33.920
were affected. Uh, Denick,

02:34:32.319 --> 02:34:37.200
which is the registry that manages the

02:34:33.920 --> 02:34:40.399
company's.de domains and who apparently

02:34:37.200 --> 02:34:42.000
uh pushed these faulty DNS signatures,

02:34:40.399 --> 02:34:43.920
hasn't published an official root cause

02:34:42.000 --> 02:34:46.319
yet, though some commentators have

02:34:43.920 --> 02:34:48.560
pointed to a botched zone signing key

02:34:46.319 --> 02:34:49.920
rollover. The registry says that it will

02:34:48.560 --> 02:34:53.680
release more details once the

02:34:49.920 --> 02:34:55.200
investigation wraps up. Um, our

02:34:53.680 --> 02:34:56.960
discussion question here is, do events

02:34:55.200 --> 02:34:58.880
like this make you worried about the

02:34:56.960 --> 02:35:01.200
many unknown single points of failure

02:34:58.880 --> 02:35:02.880
that there are for vital digital

02:35:01.200 --> 02:35:06.000
infrastructure? And I mean, I think the

02:35:02.880 --> 02:35:08.800
answer is a is a resounding and obvious

02:35:06.000 --> 02:35:10.479
yes. Yes, it does. Um, like I'd never

02:35:08.800 --> 02:35:12.479
even heard of these guys and all of a

02:35:10.479 --> 02:35:14.240
sudden like, you know, Steam's not

02:35:12.479 --> 02:35:16.240
accessible for an entire country. Are

02:35:14.240 --> 02:35:18.880
you kidding me? What the heck?

02:35:16.240 --> 02:35:20.319
>> I honestly my gut reaction was no. But

02:35:18.880 --> 02:35:22.399
the only reason why my gut reaction was

02:35:20.319 --> 02:35:25.399
no is cuz like man yeah there's so much

02:35:22.399 --> 02:35:25.399
more.

02:35:25.600 --> 02:35:29.359
It's crazy. I mean one of one of the

02:35:28.080 --> 02:35:33.200
wild things that we've been seeing

02:35:29.359 --> 02:35:36.560
lately is the uh the cable cutting boats

02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:38.640
>> uh ships maybe I should say uh with with

02:35:36.560 --> 02:35:40.720
undersea cables. I think I think China

02:35:38.640 --> 02:35:43.840
literally just did this to Taiwan like

02:35:40.720 --> 02:35:48.319
very recently. Uh we saw a lot of this

02:35:43.840 --> 02:35:50.000
in the Ukraine and Russian war. Um I was

02:35:48.319 --> 02:35:52.560
that even allegedly? I didn't think the

02:35:50.000 --> 02:35:53.760
the Chinese Taiwan one was allegedly. I

02:35:52.560 --> 02:35:55.120
think they just I thought they just did

02:35:53.760 --> 02:35:57.359
it. Um

02:35:55.120 --> 02:35:59.280
>> let me check.

02:35:57.359 --> 02:36:01.600
Um

02:35:59.280 --> 02:36:03.280
Taiwan detained and prosecuted Chinese

02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:08.880
crews for deliberately severing

02:36:03.280 --> 02:36:12.080
underseas communication cables. Um

02:36:08.880 --> 02:36:15.280
BB BBC source sentenced to three years

02:36:12.080 --> 02:36:16.800
in prison. It just says Chinese national

02:36:15.280 --> 02:36:18.000
though.

02:36:16.800 --> 02:36:19.439
I don't know if they've been able to

02:36:18.000 --> 02:36:20.640
prove that the Chinese government did

02:36:19.439 --> 02:36:22.080
it. So, I just wanted

02:36:20.640 --> 02:36:24.160
>> deeply enough into it, but I thought it

02:36:22.080 --> 02:36:25.760
was like literally a ship designed to do

02:36:24.160 --> 02:36:28.160
this that they were like testing and

02:36:25.760 --> 02:36:31.040
then it worked. But I I don't know. But

02:36:28.160 --> 02:36:34.479
either way, there's man,

02:36:31.040 --> 02:36:37.040
the internet as we know it is such a

02:36:34.479 --> 02:36:38.880
crazy combination of building blocks of

02:36:37.040 --> 02:36:40.640
different systems and organizations and

02:36:38.880 --> 02:36:42.640
people and individuals and open source

02:36:40.640 --> 02:36:45.680
software and closed source software and

02:36:42.640 --> 02:36:48.479
and a massive variety of companies. And

02:36:45.680 --> 02:36:52.640
the fact that it all works is all works

02:36:48.479 --> 02:36:54.399
and has insane uptime as a like

02:36:52.640 --> 02:36:55.840
generalized system is

02:36:54.399 --> 02:36:56.720
>> the fact that I'm talking to you right

02:36:55.840 --> 02:36:57.760
now

02:36:56.720 --> 02:36:58.479
>> is a miracle.

02:36:57.760 --> 02:37:01.520
>> Mindblowing.

02:36:58.479 --> 02:37:03.280
>> Like we we should never stop believing

02:37:01.520 --> 02:37:06.240
that. We should never take it for

02:37:03.280 --> 02:37:08.080
granted because it's the the deeper you

02:37:06.240 --> 02:37:10.800
go into it. I feel like it's it's like

02:37:08.080 --> 02:37:14.399
one of those um it's like one of those

02:37:10.800 --> 02:37:16.080
uh those like IQ curves. Uh what is it

02:37:14.399 --> 02:37:18.000
like? Like like dumb, smart, smart,

02:37:16.080 --> 02:37:19.600
dumb, smarter, like whatever. But

02:37:18.000 --> 02:37:22.399
basically,

02:37:19.600 --> 02:37:24.160
>> yeah. How how amazed you are by the

02:37:22.399 --> 02:37:26.960
internet. Like if you're super dumb,

02:37:24.160 --> 02:37:29.600
you're like super super amazed. And then

02:37:26.960 --> 02:37:31.600
if you're kind of like midwit, then you

02:37:29.600 --> 02:37:34.240
might not be that amazed. And then if

02:37:31.600 --> 02:37:38.080
you're super smart, you're probably

02:37:34.240 --> 02:37:40.399
really amazed because there there's like

02:37:38.080 --> 02:37:43.359
there's so much

02:37:40.399 --> 02:37:44.800
like professional grade duct tape. No, I

02:37:43.359 --> 02:37:48.560
know it's called a bell curve, but it's

02:37:44.800 --> 02:37:50.640
like it's like a like a midwit um

02:37:48.560 --> 02:37:53.280
meme.

02:37:50.640 --> 02:37:56.960
Uh bell curve. I watched a video last

02:37:53.280 --> 02:38:00.319
night where uh Destin from Star was

02:37:56.960 --> 02:38:03.760
talking to uh two of the astronauts on

02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:04.399
the ISS and I I kind of like

02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:06.399
>> No, it's not.

02:38:04.399 --> 02:38:07.840
>> Mentally paused partway through just to

02:38:06.399 --> 02:38:10.080
like

02:38:07.840 --> 02:38:12.479
>> marvel at I understand it's not new

02:38:10.080 --> 02:38:14.080
technology, not by a decent amount, but

02:38:12.479 --> 02:38:16.160
I I paused for a second just to marvel

02:38:14.080 --> 02:38:18.720
at the fact that they were having a

02:38:16.160 --> 02:38:19.280
video call. I was just like,

02:38:18.720 --> 02:38:22.240
>> "Yeah,

02:38:19.280 --> 02:38:26.720
>> damn, dude. That's crazy.

02:38:22.240 --> 02:38:28.399
Um, yeah, it's uh it's a wondrous thing.

02:38:26.720 --> 02:38:30.960
>> So, there's a there's a version of the

02:38:28.399 --> 02:38:33.439
Midwipet meme where the like cloaked

02:38:30.960 --> 02:38:35.840
genius is at both ends of the

02:38:33.439 --> 02:38:36.960
distribution and then the like uh dumb

02:38:35.840 --> 02:38:37.920
guy is in the middle.

02:38:36.960 --> 02:38:41.840
>> I knew what you

02:38:37.920 --> 02:38:44.000
>> um Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:38:41.840 --> 02:38:46.000
>> Um Oh crap.

02:38:44.000 --> 02:38:47.520
>> Or or Oh, no. It's the It's So, it's

02:38:46.000 --> 02:38:49.520
based on the Midwip meme. Yeah. Yeah.

02:38:47.520 --> 02:38:51.359
Sydney Broke It has got it. It's the one

02:38:49.520 --> 02:38:52.960
where the guys on both ends have the

02:38:51.359 --> 02:38:54.479
same outward opinion, but the middle is

02:38:52.960 --> 02:38:57.120
like furious. But in this case, it's

02:38:54.479 --> 02:39:01.359
like the outside is like amazed and the

02:38:57.120 --> 02:39:03.520
middle is like meh. Um, yeah. Cool. All

02:39:01.359 --> 02:39:05.840
right, dude. That's it for topics. We're

02:39:03.520 --> 02:39:07.280
ready to jump into Wancho After Dark.

02:39:05.840 --> 02:39:08.560
What What all you got for us, Mr.

02:39:07.280 --> 02:39:11.359
Besser?

02:39:08.560 --> 02:39:14.720
>> Well, give me a second to change

02:39:11.359 --> 02:39:17.040
everything over.

02:39:14.720 --> 02:39:20.240
>> We know you have a life crystal. I just

02:39:17.040 --> 02:39:22.080
know I just know you can take it.

02:39:20.240 --> 02:39:24.319
You can handle bit a little bit of

02:39:22.080 --> 02:39:28.479
ribbing. Or I don't mean it that way,

02:39:24.319 --> 02:39:30.319
but like uh Okay, I'm I'm stop now.

02:39:28.479 --> 02:39:33.760
>> This is also a really cool video. It's

02:39:30.319 --> 02:39:34.319
from the studio. I know David ML had a

02:39:33.760 --> 02:39:37.280
one of the best

02:39:34.319 --> 02:39:39.120
>> to do with I'm just over you guys. Um

02:39:37.280 --> 02:39:40.560
David Ml had a lot to do with this. Are

02:39:39.120 --> 02:39:43.439
there really seven keys to the internet?

02:39:40.560 --> 02:39:46.720
this if you want to look into more of

02:39:43.439 --> 02:39:49.280
like, man, how the heck does this thing

02:39:46.720 --> 02:39:50.960
keep working? This is honestly a a great

02:39:49.280 --> 02:39:53.600
video. It It was stunning to me that

02:39:50.960 --> 02:39:54.800
this only got 180,000 views. This is a a

02:39:53.600 --> 02:39:57.040
really good video. It's really

02:39:54.800 --> 02:40:00.880
interesting look into

02:39:57.040 --> 02:40:02.800
uh how some of this stuff works. Um

02:40:00.880 --> 02:40:06.640
yeah, anyways,

02:40:02.800 --> 02:40:09.040
internet is a crazy thing. Hi, WAN team.

02:40:06.640 --> 02:40:10.560
Getting the ABCs of gaming for my 10day

02:40:09.040 --> 02:40:11.520
newborn boy. smiley face.

02:40:10.560 --> 02:40:14.240
>> Oh, congrats.

02:40:11.520 --> 02:40:16.560
>> Lus, what is your best tech tip for

02:40:14.240 --> 02:40:18.399
younger babies? When should someone

02:40:16.560 --> 02:40:19.359
start them out on it in your opinion?

02:40:18.399 --> 02:40:21.760
Thanks.

02:40:19.359 --> 02:40:24.640
>> Um, I think you should basically delay

02:40:21.760 --> 02:40:26.960
it as long as you can because they're

02:40:24.640 --> 02:40:30.560
going to get plenty of screen time and

02:40:26.960 --> 02:40:32.720
plenty of, you know, gaming time. And

02:40:30.560 --> 02:40:35.200
when they start asking for it is

02:40:32.720 --> 02:40:37.760
basically when you should start even

02:40:35.200 --> 02:40:40.960
beginning to ask yourself you know

02:40:37.760 --> 02:40:42.800
should they have any in

02:40:40.960 --> 02:40:44.800
in my opinion I mean there's always

02:40:42.800 --> 02:40:47.359
going to be times when let's face it

02:40:44.800 --> 02:40:49.200
being a parent is not always easy and

02:40:47.359 --> 02:40:53.359
sometimes you actually just do need a

02:40:49.200 --> 02:40:55.920
break. Um Kids TV123 taught my firstborn

02:40:53.359 --> 02:40:59.439
the alphabet and how to count and

02:40:55.920 --> 02:41:01.200
phonics. Um, it's a YouTube channel.

02:40:59.439 --> 02:41:05.680
I'm not proud of it, but I'm not ashamed

02:41:01.200 --> 02:41:07.040
by it. Um, as for as for getting them

02:41:05.680 --> 02:41:08.560
into tech, I don't think it's really

02:41:07.040 --> 02:41:11.840
like time based, but it's like

02:41:08.560 --> 02:41:13.520
motivation based. So, my my kids had

02:41:11.840 --> 02:41:15.600
access to all the tech that they could

02:41:13.520 --> 02:41:17.920
possibly want, but they didn't really

02:41:15.600 --> 02:41:19.840
start like learning 3D printing and

02:41:17.920 --> 02:41:22.560
modeling until the girls wanted to make

02:41:19.840 --> 02:41:24.720
toys and my eldest wanted to make some

02:41:22.560 --> 02:41:28.399
money and start like a side hustle

02:41:24.720 --> 02:41:29.680
selling 3D printed stuff. Um,

02:41:28.399 --> 02:41:32.960
it's going to it's going to happen

02:41:29.680 --> 02:41:34.720
organically and or or it might just not.

02:41:32.960 --> 02:41:36.160
And here's the thing. You can't make

02:41:34.720 --> 02:41:38.560
your kids be interested in the same

02:41:36.160 --> 02:41:41.600
stuff that you are.

02:41:38.560 --> 02:41:43.280
Just doesn't work that way.

02:41:41.600 --> 02:41:45.520
Do it in front of them. That's a that's

02:41:43.280 --> 02:41:46.960
a big thing. They will naturally be

02:41:45.520 --> 02:41:49.359
interested in whatever it is that you're

02:41:46.960 --> 02:41:52.720
doing. So, if you're always like fixing

02:41:49.359 --> 02:41:54.880
up bicycles or if you're always uh you

02:41:52.720 --> 02:41:56.479
know working on computers and you make a

02:41:54.880 --> 02:42:00.640
point of involving them, that's your

02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:02.880
best shot at um them

02:42:00.640 --> 02:42:04.560
adopting like a healthy relationship

02:42:02.880 --> 02:42:05.920
with, you know, whatever it is that is

02:42:04.560 --> 02:42:08.399
your hobby that you want to do with

02:42:05.920 --> 02:42:11.760
them.

02:42:08.399 --> 02:42:14.000
Hey, Lionus. If Project Helix is a Steam

02:42:11.760 --> 02:42:15.920
Machine-l like device and Windows is

02:42:14.000 --> 02:42:18.800
improved, how well do you think it will

02:42:15.920 --> 02:42:22.560
do against the Steam Machine?

02:42:18.800 --> 02:42:25.040
>> Oh, I mean, I feel like Luke has

02:42:22.560 --> 02:42:27.040
immediate thoughts on this. I could see

02:42:25.040 --> 02:42:28.800
it. I could see it in his face.

02:42:27.040 --> 02:42:30.319
>> Uh, I actually don't think they compete

02:42:28.800 --> 02:42:32.319
that much.

02:42:30.319 --> 02:42:34.960
>> Yeah.

02:42:32.319 --> 02:42:36.399
Uh, yeah. I I think they're in I think

02:42:34.960 --> 02:42:40.640
they're in different markets. I I think

02:42:36.399 --> 02:42:43.920
Microsoft has to compete with Steam OS

02:42:40.640 --> 02:42:45.520
but on a PC level. Um I think the people

02:42:43.920 --> 02:42:50.640
interested in a Steam machine are

02:42:45.520 --> 02:42:53.600
interested in having Steam on their TV.

02:42:50.640 --> 02:42:56.160
And if if Helix is going to matter

02:42:53.600 --> 02:42:57.439
basically at all, it's going to have to

02:42:56.160 --> 02:43:00.800
have some like, you know, timed

02:42:57.439 --> 02:43:05.680
exclusives or whatever else. Um, maybe

02:43:00.800 --> 02:43:08.319
those games work on Windows, but

02:43:05.680 --> 02:43:09.920
and and maybe they sort of work on

02:43:08.319 --> 02:43:11.280
Linux, or maybe they do work on Linux,

02:43:09.920 --> 02:43:12.960
but with some tinkering or what,

02:43:11.280 --> 02:43:13.840
whatever, wherever that line ends up

02:43:12.960 --> 02:43:15.520
being.

02:43:13.840 --> 02:43:17.280
>> Um,

02:43:15.520 --> 02:43:18.399
>> but yeah, I I I think they're different

02:43:17.280 --> 02:43:21.040
devices. I think they're different

02:43:18.399 --> 02:43:23.120
target audiences. And as as like cool as

02:43:21.040 --> 02:43:25.040
it is, as as you know, Windows is

02:43:23.120 --> 02:43:27.200
growing or sorry, Linux is growing in

02:43:25.040 --> 02:43:30.240
installation

02:43:27.200 --> 02:43:32.960
size, what am I trying to say? uh not

02:43:30.240 --> 02:43:34.240
market cap, market share uh in in market

02:43:32.960 --> 02:43:36.319
share of people that are using things

02:43:34.240 --> 02:43:39.040
like Steam and whatnot. It's still a

02:43:36.319 --> 02:43:41.439
tiny slice of the pie. So like Steam

02:43:39.040 --> 02:43:43.120
Machine doing well is not going to be

02:43:41.439 --> 02:43:46.479
the reason why Helix doesn't make it.

02:43:43.120 --> 02:43:49.920
Like I I I would bet everything on that.

02:43:46.479 --> 02:43:51.120
Helix might not make it because no one

02:43:49.920 --> 02:43:53.120
has really cared that much about

02:43:51.120 --> 02:43:55.760
Microsoft consoles in a really long time

02:43:53.120 --> 02:43:57.840
because they've been not good. So, it

02:43:55.760 --> 02:44:00.399
needs to like be really good and be

02:43:57.840 --> 02:44:02.399
really compelling. Have good freaking

02:44:00.399 --> 02:44:04.560
games for once. What are you doing? And

02:44:02.399 --> 02:44:05.760
then also be priced well. And if they

02:44:04.560 --> 02:44:06.960
can accomplish those things, then it

02:44:05.760 --> 02:44:10.600
will matter. And if they can't, it

02:44:06.960 --> 02:44:10.600
won't. That's it.

02:44:10.960 --> 02:44:14.880
Hey, DLL. You've said before you

02:44:13.279 --> 02:44:17.520
generally have a good sense of how a

02:44:14.880 --> 02:44:20.000
video will perform pre-launch. Have

02:44:17.520 --> 02:44:22.640
there been any that genuinely surprised

02:44:20.000 --> 02:44:24.479
you by doing way better than expected?

02:44:22.640 --> 02:44:26.560
Oh, you were going to say you're saying

02:44:24.479 --> 02:44:27.600
better than expected. Uh, I thought you

02:44:26.560 --> 02:44:29.760
were going a different direction with

02:44:27.600 --> 02:44:33.200
that and I had one completely ready for

02:44:29.760 --> 02:44:35.600
you. Uh, the video keyboard that we

02:44:33.200 --> 02:44:39.359
uploaded earlier this week, the uh the

02:44:35.600 --> 02:44:40.960
Flux keyboard like

02:44:39.359 --> 02:44:42.880
vastly

02:44:40.960 --> 02:44:45.040
uh underperformed compared to my

02:44:42.880 --> 02:44:48.479
expectations. And actually, I guess

02:44:45.040 --> 02:44:53.040
followup, the the TV with no smart

02:44:48.479 --> 02:44:56.479
features, the the Scepter TV video, um,

02:44:53.040 --> 02:44:59.600
way overperformed. We got just over half

02:44:56.479 --> 02:45:02.319
a million views on this keyboard that

02:44:59.600 --> 02:45:05.359
like has an entire screen under it so

02:45:02.319 --> 02:45:08.560
that you can uh change languages on the

02:45:05.359 --> 02:45:10.479
fly or do it's it's it's kind of like a

02:45:08.560 --> 02:45:12.640
like a stream deck, but an entire

02:45:10.479 --> 02:45:15.680
keyboard. You can put any icons you want

02:45:12.640 --> 02:45:17.680
that control anything, any hotkeys that

02:45:15.680 --> 02:45:20.720
you want in basically any software that

02:45:17.680 --> 02:45:24.960
you launch. Um, it's supported by

02:45:20.720 --> 02:45:26.800
Windows, macOS, and even Linux. Um, it

02:45:24.960 --> 02:45:29.680
was like really cool. It raised almost

02:45:26.800 --> 02:45:33.120
$4 million on Kickstarter.

02:45:29.680 --> 02:45:36.160
Super neat. Um, yeah, no one cared. And

02:45:33.120 --> 02:45:38.800
then we did a video on like a Scepter TV

02:45:36.160 --> 02:45:40.240
that was more like a like a writer

02:45:38.800 --> 02:45:42.319
meeting like, "Hey, yeah, what the heck?

02:45:40.240 --> 02:45:44.399
Why aren't there more like dumb TVs?

02:45:42.319 --> 02:45:46.560
Does anyone still make dumb TVs? Oh, L.

02:45:44.399 --> 02:45:48.240
Scepter does. Haha. Okay, let's get one.

02:45:46.560 --> 02:45:49.920
We'll like maybe just like, you know,

02:45:48.240 --> 02:45:51.680
unbox it and watch it a little bit and

02:45:49.920 --> 02:45:53.279
see if it's any good. Like 2 million

02:45:51.680 --> 02:45:57.200
views. Like, okay. Well, I don't know

02:45:53.279 --> 02:46:00.000
what the rules are anymore. So, um,

02:45:57.200 --> 02:46:01.600
good luck everybody.

02:46:00.000 --> 02:46:03.680
Uh, Torpedo Bench says, "I'm not

02:46:01.600 --> 02:46:06.000
surprised to hear the screen keyboard

02:46:03.680 --> 02:46:11.279
underperformed. The video watched like

02:46:06.000 --> 02:46:14.880
an ad." That is that is like super

02:46:11.279 --> 02:46:17.520
interesting feedback and I have I'm

02:46:14.880 --> 02:46:19.439
gonna I'm gonna have to watch it again

02:46:17.520 --> 02:46:22.960
and see if I can figure out like what

02:46:19.439 --> 02:46:25.040
you mean by that because I um I have no

02:46:22.960 --> 02:46:27.920
idea what you're talking about. We not

02:46:25.040 --> 02:46:29.920
only is it not an ad, but they didn't

02:46:27.920 --> 02:46:32.000
even send it to us. Like I didn't even

02:46:29.920 --> 02:46:34.000
buy one. I borrowed it from someone who

02:46:32.000 --> 02:46:37.439
backed the Kickstarter.

02:46:34.000 --> 02:46:40.560
So I don't really uh Yeah, I'm okay. I'm

02:46:37.439 --> 02:46:44.960
going to have to I'm I'm going to have

02:46:40.560 --> 02:46:46.640
to figure out what that means exactly.

02:46:44.960 --> 02:46:48.000
I mean, yeah, we're always uh we're

02:46:46.640 --> 02:46:52.160
always open to feedback, but I just

02:46:48.000 --> 02:46:58.560
don't really know how to have a not ad

02:46:52.160 --> 02:47:00.080
um not look like an ad. Um no, I totally

02:46:58.560 --> 02:47:03.399
understand it wasn't an ad. It just had

02:47:00.080 --> 02:47:03.399
ad vibes.

02:47:05.439 --> 02:47:09.439
Interesting. I mean, okay. Current year

02:47:07.600 --> 02:47:10.880
sucks says, "Even when pointing out the

02:47:09.439 --> 02:47:12.080
downsides to the keyboard, you sounded

02:47:10.880 --> 02:47:16.840
super positive." I mean, I thought it

02:47:12.080 --> 02:47:16.840
was really cool. Sorry.

02:47:19.040 --> 02:47:22.240
Charcoal says, "It was scripted in a

02:47:20.720 --> 02:47:24.399
similar way to your sponsored content."

02:47:22.240 --> 02:47:26.479
It wasn't scripted.

02:47:24.399 --> 02:47:30.279
It was actually unscripted. I just

02:47:26.479 --> 02:47:30.279
thought it was really cool.

02:47:31.760 --> 02:47:36.880
I scripted the intro. Only the intro

02:47:34.800 --> 02:47:38.080
before we like roll our animated intro

02:47:36.880 --> 02:47:40.319
was scripted.

02:47:38.080 --> 02:47:42.399
>> That's so funny.

02:47:40.319 --> 02:47:44.319
>> So maybe I So you guys think my

02:47:42.399 --> 02:47:46.319
unscripted sounds like scripted and my

02:47:44.319 --> 02:47:49.279
not ads sound like ads. So should I just

02:47:46.319 --> 02:47:50.800
do all scripted ads?

02:47:49.279 --> 02:47:52.720
>> Raikenclaw says you're supposed to be

02:47:50.800 --> 02:47:55.279
cynical and dismissive. Like no, I'm not

02:47:52.720 --> 02:48:00.000
going to do that. The keyboard's cool.

02:47:55.279 --> 02:48:03.279
I this is man it's not only it's not

02:48:00.000 --> 02:48:05.040
only um like like one person as well

02:48:03.279 --> 02:48:06.560
saying like it felt like an ad like

02:48:05.040 --> 02:48:08.319
there's a number of people in flow plane

02:48:06.560 --> 02:48:10.080
chat that are like yeah I like I felt

02:48:08.319 --> 02:48:13.359
like it had kind of like an ad vibe too

02:48:10.080 --> 02:48:15.040
that's so weird to me

02:48:13.359 --> 02:48:16.240
um turn your socks I to be clear I

02:48:15.040 --> 02:48:17.760
didn't hate the video no I'm not saying

02:48:16.240 --> 02:48:20.800
you hate the video and it's fine if you

02:48:17.760 --> 02:48:22.560
hate the video like it literally our the

02:48:20.800 --> 02:48:25.279
best videos on the channel still have a

02:48:22.560 --> 02:48:27.920
1% dislike ratio You know, somebody

02:48:25.279 --> 02:48:32.319
dislikes something, no matter how quote

02:48:27.920 --> 02:48:35.120
unquote universally loved it is. Um, and

02:48:32.319 --> 02:48:38.240
this is a scary comment from Birdie Num

02:48:35.120 --> 02:48:41.240
Noms. They mistook your enthusiasm for

02:48:38.240 --> 02:48:41.240
marketing.

02:48:42.720 --> 02:48:45.840
That's kind of

02:48:44.800 --> 02:48:48.000
>> sad.

02:48:45.840 --> 02:48:50.240
>> A terrifying

02:48:48.000 --> 02:48:52.399
world to live in

02:48:50.240 --> 02:48:55.040
where you're not allowed to be. Is that

02:48:52.399 --> 02:48:55.520
like Tik Tok undisclosed ad brain going

02:48:55.040 --> 02:48:57.359
on?

02:48:55.520 --> 02:48:59.920
>> I wonder.

02:48:57.359 --> 02:49:03.080
I do wonder that. That's exactly what I

02:48:59.920 --> 02:49:03.080
was thinking.

02:49:07.760 --> 02:49:10.760
Huh.

02:49:13.840 --> 02:49:19.920
>> Um, can you unsay that please? Because I

02:49:16.640 --> 02:49:22.800
hate it. I mean, I think it's

02:49:19.920 --> 02:49:24.319
I've heard I don't have Tik Tok. I've

02:49:22.800 --> 02:49:25.760
heard that's a thing. I've heard that

02:49:24.319 --> 02:49:27.680
there's a lot of undisclosed

02:49:25.760 --> 02:49:31.680
advertisements on Tik Tok. I can't say

02:49:27.680 --> 02:49:33.120
from firsthand experience. Um, but like

02:49:31.680 --> 02:49:35.040
maybe maybe that's what's going on.

02:49:33.120 --> 02:49:36.399
Maybe you've been trained that if

02:49:35.040 --> 02:49:39.200
anyone's speaking that way about

02:49:36.399 --> 02:49:40.640
basically anything that it's an ad. That

02:49:39.200 --> 02:49:43.760
is funny. I haven't watched it yet, but

02:49:40.640 --> 02:49:46.000
it's funny that it was unscripted, not

02:49:43.760 --> 02:49:48.640
an ad. They didn't even send the

02:49:46.000 --> 02:49:50.319
product, etc.

02:49:48.640 --> 02:49:50.960
>> Like literally everything people hated

02:49:50.319 --> 02:49:52.240
about it

02:49:50.960 --> 02:49:55.279
>> the opposite

02:49:52.240 --> 02:49:58.640
>> wasn't what it was.

02:49:55.279 --> 02:50:00.319
>> That's very funny.

02:49:58.640 --> 02:50:03.319
>> Um,

02:50:00.319 --> 02:50:03.319
wow.

02:50:05.279 --> 02:50:07.359
>> You're really

02:50:05.840 --> 02:50:09.279
>> It's called It's called This Video

02:50:07.359 --> 02:50:12.240
Raised I'm talking to Dan. This video

02:50:09.279 --> 02:50:15.120
raised 3.8 million on Kickstarter.

02:50:12.240 --> 02:50:15.760
>> It's dollar sign 3.8M. 8 M. You got it.

02:50:15.120 --> 02:50:17.600
Okay.

02:50:15.760 --> 02:50:19.359
>> Like there's definitely things I think

02:50:17.600 --> 02:50:20.800
we could have done better. Um we tried

02:50:19.359 --> 02:50:22.240
to do that cool thing with the packaging

02:50:20.800 --> 02:50:23.840
where the thumbnail is actually the

02:50:22.240 --> 02:50:26.319
first frame of the video so it just like

02:50:23.840 --> 02:50:28.080
starts right away. Um cuz I really

02:50:26.319 --> 02:50:29.600
wanted people to like see the keyboard

02:50:28.080 --> 02:50:31.680
in action. But I think maybe we could

02:50:29.600 --> 02:50:37.200
have chosen a better video. I just liked

02:50:31.680 --> 02:50:40.240
the idea of like uh um playing a video

02:50:37.200 --> 02:50:42.800
of a keyboard unboxing while I unbox a

02:50:40.240 --> 02:50:44.319
video keyboard was just and you know

02:50:42.800 --> 02:50:45.920
what?

02:50:44.319 --> 02:50:50.080
Oh, I wonder if this is something

02:50:45.920 --> 02:50:52.000
because I shot the intro afterward, like

02:50:50.080 --> 02:50:53.760
after we'd already gotten it working and

02:50:52.000 --> 02:50:54.960
I was already like super excited about

02:50:53.760 --> 02:50:56.080
it. So maybe

02:50:54.960 --> 02:50:58.160
>> maybe that's what's going on

02:50:56.080 --> 02:51:00.000
>> for like an for like an intro. Maybe I

02:50:58.160 --> 02:51:02.960
seem too excited for something that I

02:51:00.000 --> 02:51:03.760
like hadn't really like explained or

02:51:02.960 --> 02:51:06.960
shown yet.

02:51:03.760 --> 02:51:09.760
>> Super stupid server dude, fantastic name

02:51:06.960 --> 02:51:12.479
in flip plane chat said, "I get I got

02:51:09.760 --> 02:51:15.479
those ad vibes too and I don't watch Tik

02:51:12.479 --> 02:51:15.479
Tok."

02:51:19.439 --> 02:51:24.800
And then meanwhile, like nobody's mad

02:51:22.319 --> 02:51:27.840
about the sponsored video we did on LG's

02:51:24.800 --> 02:51:29.439
HTA9 competitor. the their like wireless

02:51:27.840 --> 02:51:32.160
surround thing, which by the way,

02:51:29.439 --> 02:51:35.120
totally unsponsored right now, but is

02:51:32.160 --> 02:51:36.640
really cool. Um

02:51:35.120 --> 02:51:38.640
uh

02:51:36.640 --> 02:51:43.439
but uh

02:51:38.640 --> 02:51:44.720
Huh. For the first time in positive W

02:51:43.439 --> 02:51:47.200
show era, I think you're going to have

02:51:44.720 --> 02:51:49.200
to take away my bird, Dan.

02:51:47.200 --> 02:51:51.200
I Yeah, I don't know how to

02:51:49.200 --> 02:51:52.399
>> Torpedo Bench said, "West I don't know

02:51:51.200 --> 02:51:54.319
how to process this. I'm going to think

02:51:52.399 --> 02:51:55.840
about it. I'm going to fester." I feel

02:51:54.319 --> 02:51:58.479
like considering how many people have

02:51:55.840 --> 02:52:00.479
this feedback, I feel like that's worth

02:51:58.479 --> 02:52:01.840
>> uh trying to work on and figure out.

02:52:00.479 --> 02:52:03.520
Torpedo Bench said, "Wild Wild Guess,

02:52:01.840 --> 02:52:04.960
you seemed almost too informed rather

02:52:03.520 --> 02:52:08.080
than discovering it along with the

02:52:04.960 --> 02:52:08.640
viewer." I don't know if

02:52:08.080 --> 02:52:10.240
>> it's interesting.

02:52:08.640 --> 02:52:12.720
>> He is left in shame.

02:52:10.240 --> 02:52:14.319
>> He's gone. That is interesting. Again, I

02:52:12.720 --> 02:52:15.439
haven't watched this one. Maybe I'm part

02:52:14.319 --> 02:52:17.439
of the problem, but

02:52:15.439 --> 02:52:19.040
>> Oh, he's gone completely.

02:52:17.439 --> 02:52:19.760
>> Slide over to Luke.

02:52:19.040 --> 02:52:22.880
>> Yeah,

02:52:19.760 --> 02:52:24.399
>> I'm just uh getting logged in here. I'll

02:52:22.880 --> 02:52:24.960
do another thing

02:52:24.399 --> 02:52:26.240
>> chat.

02:52:24.960 --> 02:52:30.080
>> Talk to Luke.

02:52:26.240 --> 02:52:32.240
>> How's it going? You must speak to me. I

02:52:30.080 --> 02:52:34.080
can maybe do merch messages if there's

02:52:32.240 --> 02:52:36.640
any ready and also for me.

02:52:34.080 --> 02:52:38.399
>> I have to reconnect him and do things.

02:52:36.640 --> 02:52:39.840
>> That makes sense. Uh engage with our

02:52:38.399 --> 02:52:40.399
community once.

02:52:39.840 --> 02:52:43.920
>> No.

02:52:40.399 --> 02:52:45.680
>> Oh, I mean here's one. What's up, boys?

02:52:43.920 --> 02:52:47.680
Luke, what workout equipment, if any, do

02:52:45.680 --> 02:52:49.600
you have at home? Looking good.

02:52:47.680 --> 02:52:50.960
>> Looking good. I mean, I'm way out of sh.

02:52:49.600 --> 02:52:52.319
Interestingly enough, the first time

02:52:50.960 --> 02:52:53.920
I've gone to the gym in a really long

02:52:52.319 --> 02:52:54.560
time was actually last night. I am

02:52:53.920 --> 02:52:56.960
>> How'd it go?

02:52:54.560 --> 02:52:58.720
>> Incredibly sore right now, dude. Oh my

02:52:56.960 --> 02:53:00.560
god. I did the

02:52:58.720 --> 02:53:01.359
>> So, you're not just waddling for no

02:53:00.560 --> 02:53:03.840
reason.

02:53:01.359 --> 02:53:05.200
>> No, no, no. I did I did my my chest

02:53:03.840 --> 02:53:07.520
routine, so I did the whole skull

02:53:05.200 --> 02:53:11.040
crushers thing and everything. Um I was

02:53:07.520 --> 02:53:14.240
fairly surprised at how much I still

02:53:11.040 --> 02:53:16.160
had. Um

02:53:14.240 --> 02:53:17.680
>> like lateral raises was one that I was

02:53:16.160 --> 02:53:20.160
expecting to lose a lot of performance

02:53:17.680 --> 02:53:22.560
in. And I still I was still doing 30 lb

02:53:20.160 --> 02:53:25.200
sets of 12 lateral raises which I was

02:53:22.560 --> 02:53:27.439
decently happy with. Um I had been out

02:53:25.200 --> 02:53:30.240
for a very long time. I had so like

02:53:27.439 --> 02:53:32.640
basically honestly

02:53:30.240 --> 02:53:34.479
for surprisingly close to a year. I

02:53:32.640 --> 02:53:38.479
think it's like 10 months I've basically

02:53:34.479 --> 02:53:40.479
been out. There was um

02:53:38.479 --> 02:53:42.399
there was there was a massive rena at my

02:53:40.479 --> 02:53:44.800
house. There was a bunch of moving stuff

02:53:42.399 --> 02:53:46.000
that was happening and I couldn't get

02:53:44.800 --> 02:53:48.319
spare time to go to the gym for a really

02:53:46.000 --> 02:53:50.880
long time. And then health thing

02:53:48.319 --> 02:53:52.080
happened and then minor injuries because

02:53:50.880 --> 02:53:53.680
I wasn't going to the gym for a long

02:53:52.080 --> 02:53:55.840
time and then I tried to start doing

02:53:53.680 --> 02:53:57.279
things again and I have a lot of small

02:53:55.840 --> 02:53:59.760
issues that if I'm not constantly

02:53:57.279 --> 02:54:01.359
maintaining them they're problems and

02:53:59.760 --> 02:54:02.800
now I've mostly moved through that and

02:54:01.359 --> 02:54:04.800
I'm going back to going to the gym and

02:54:02.800 --> 02:54:08.160
yeah I know I'm just now I'm just very

02:54:04.800 --> 02:54:09.600
very I'm very sore. I uh I tried to man

02:54:08.160 --> 02:54:11.520
there was there was a guy there I

02:54:09.600 --> 02:54:13.279
haven't been in so long right and it's

02:54:11.520 --> 02:54:15.840
just a little community gym that I go to

02:54:13.279 --> 02:54:17.920
nothing too special. So, I walk in and I

02:54:15.840 --> 02:54:20.319
used to recognize like almost everybody.

02:54:17.920 --> 02:54:21.920
And I walk in and I recognize like the

02:54:20.319 --> 02:54:22.960
front desk guy and he was a little bit

02:54:21.920 --> 02:54:24.800
surprised to see me and I was like,

02:54:22.960 --> 02:54:26.479
"Yeah, I'm back." And that was cool. And

02:54:24.800 --> 02:54:29.680
then I walk inside and not a single

02:54:26.479 --> 02:54:33.840
person working out do I recognize. Um,

02:54:29.680 --> 02:54:36.160
partway through my workout, however,

02:54:33.840 --> 02:54:39.279
this dude walks in and I recognized him

02:54:36.160 --> 02:54:41.200
and he's freaking stacked. He's like way

02:54:39.279 --> 02:54:42.720
bigger than I than I remember him being.

02:54:41.200 --> 02:54:44.960
And I was like, "Wow, cool." And then

02:54:42.720 --> 02:54:46.479
partway through working out, I I work up

02:54:44.960 --> 02:54:48.399
a little bit of courage and I and I walk

02:54:46.479 --> 02:54:49.520
up to him and I start trying to talk to

02:54:48.399 --> 02:54:51.279
him and I was going to say basically

02:54:49.520 --> 02:54:52.640
like, "Hey man, like I you know, I used

02:54:51.279 --> 02:54:53.840
to come to this gym all the time and I

02:54:52.640 --> 02:54:55.120
don't know if you recognize me, but I

02:54:53.840 --> 02:54:57.439
remember you from back then and like

02:54:55.120 --> 02:54:59.200
it's I really like appreciate that

02:54:57.439 --> 02:55:00.800
you're still coming. It's like

02:54:59.200 --> 02:55:03.200
inspiration for me to see that you're

02:55:00.800 --> 02:55:04.960
still here cuz nobody else is." Uh, and

02:55:03.200 --> 02:55:06.640
I get like halfway into it.

02:55:04.960 --> 02:55:08.800
>> I get halfway into it and he's like,

02:55:06.640 --> 02:55:12.359
"Oh, I'm so sorry. No English." I'm

02:55:08.800 --> 02:55:12.359
like, "Damn it.

02:55:12.560 --> 02:55:16.560
like, oh no.

02:55:15.040 --> 02:55:20.399
Um,

02:55:16.560 --> 02:55:21.760
>> yeah. But, uh, yeah. So, I don't know.

02:55:20.399 --> 02:55:26.800
What workout equipment do I have at

02:55:21.760 --> 02:55:29.120
home? Uh, I ordered a weight bench and

02:55:26.800 --> 02:55:30.560
it has taken over 3 months and isn't

02:55:29.120 --> 02:55:31.040
here yet, but theoretically, I'll have a

02:55:30.560 --> 02:55:34.000
weight bench.

02:55:31.040 --> 02:55:36.479
>> In fairness, they did say that you were

02:55:34.000 --> 02:55:38.479
going to have to wait for it.

02:55:36.479 --> 02:55:41.600
>> My god.

02:55:38.479 --> 02:55:42.960
Jeez. Uh, and then going home. I came

02:55:41.600 --> 02:55:44.640
back just to do that.

02:55:42.960 --> 02:55:45.439
>> I have a couple dumbbells. I'm probably

02:55:44.640 --> 02:55:46.880
going to be trying to get some

02:55:45.439 --> 02:55:48.319
adjustable dumbbells. And with

02:55:46.880 --> 02:55:49.680
adjustable dumbbells in a weight bench,

02:55:48.319 --> 02:55:51.359
you can do like an incredible amount of

02:55:49.680 --> 02:55:52.880
stuff. There's this thing that I've been

02:55:51.359 --> 02:55:55.680
looking into. I don't know if I want to

02:55:52.880 --> 02:55:58.240
talk about it yet, but it's it's uh it's

02:55:55.680 --> 02:55:59.600
a pulley attachment. So, you know, when

02:55:58.240 --> 02:56:02.240
you go to the gym and you you have the

02:55:59.600 --> 02:56:04.240
the um

02:56:02.240 --> 02:56:05.520
the like six axis pulley thing that's

02:56:04.240 --> 02:56:07.520
usually in the middle of the gym. That's

02:56:05.520 --> 02:56:08.960
not the right name for it. Darn it. I

02:56:07.520 --> 02:56:11.279
don't remember. Anyways, you have the

02:56:08.960 --> 02:56:12.960
the the pulley machines. It you can

02:56:11.279 --> 02:56:14.880
attach it. I think it attaches through

02:56:12.960 --> 02:56:16.800
magnet or you can latch it in, but you

02:56:14.880 --> 02:56:18.960
can attach it to basically anything. And

02:56:16.800 --> 02:56:20.800
then it has a electronic pulley

02:56:18.960 --> 02:56:23.279
attachment. Yeah, I think that's right.

02:56:20.800 --> 02:56:24.800
Um, and then you you you just dial it to

02:56:23.279 --> 02:56:26.560
a setting and then you have a pulling

02:56:24.800 --> 02:56:28.479
machine basically anywhere. I don't

02:56:26.560 --> 02:56:32.080
remember what it's called. No. Wow. Not

02:56:28.479 --> 02:56:33.359
a Smith machine. Nope. That's if H. I

02:56:32.080 --> 02:56:36.560
may have described that extremely

02:56:33.359 --> 02:56:39.840
poorly. Uh, Voltra. I think that's

02:56:36.560 --> 02:56:42.720
right. Ultra pulley. Cable. That's what

02:56:39.840 --> 02:56:44.800
I'm thinking. Cable, not pulley.

02:56:42.720 --> 02:56:48.000
Yeah, I've seen these. How much are

02:56:44.800 --> 02:56:50.640
they? I don't even know.

02:56:48.000 --> 02:56:52.479
My laptop just froze. There we go. They

02:56:50.640 --> 02:56:53.760
might be super crazy expensive. Oh my

02:56:52.479 --> 02:56:56.399
god. I'm not buying one of those. All

02:56:53.760 --> 02:56:59.399
right. Sick. Sounds good.

02:56:56.399 --> 02:56:59.399
>> Huh?

02:57:05.040 --> 02:57:09.439
You want You want one pulley and you

02:57:07.040 --> 02:57:10.080
want to spend $2,100 on it?

02:57:09.439 --> 02:57:12.880
>> What?

02:57:10.080 --> 02:57:13.439
>> Um, it's a really cool idea. It can go

02:57:12.880 --> 02:57:14.560
up to like

02:57:13.439 --> 02:57:16.479
>> put it on a tree

02:57:14.560 --> 02:57:18.000
>> 200 lb or something. You can attach it

02:57:16.479 --> 02:57:20.399
to like practically anything and then

02:57:18.000 --> 02:57:23.760
you can have a pulley machine anywhere.

02:57:20.399 --> 02:57:25.680
>> But my god, the price

02:57:23.760 --> 02:57:29.200
>> attached to a pulley machine. Have a

02:57:25.680 --> 02:57:30.000
pulley machine on your pulley machine.

02:57:29.200 --> 02:57:32.560
Oh my

02:57:30.000 --> 02:57:32.720
>> ultimate bundle. $6,000. It comes with

02:57:32.560 --> 02:57:34.560
two.

02:57:32.720 --> 02:57:36.000
>> Oh, it comes with two.

02:57:34.560 --> 02:57:38.640
You can do both arms at the same time.

02:57:36.000 --> 02:57:40.720
That's way more efficient.

02:57:38.640 --> 02:57:42.960
>> If you have that kind of money you need,

02:57:40.720 --> 02:57:44.399
>> honestly, not buying that is just losing

02:57:42.960 --> 02:57:47.359
money if we think about it.

02:57:44.399 --> 02:57:48.720
>> That sounds like financial advice.

02:57:47.359 --> 02:57:51.920
>> Yeah.

02:57:48.720 --> 02:57:53.840
>> Refocus, you buttthead. Sorry, my uh my

02:57:51.920 --> 02:57:54.479
my camera will not refocus right now.

02:57:53.840 --> 02:57:56.640
And I don't know why.

02:57:54.479 --> 02:57:58.640
>> Let me see if I can force it, too.

02:57:56.640 --> 02:58:00.960
>> You can't do anything. It's the camera.

02:57:58.640 --> 02:58:02.640
>> Yeah, I can.

02:58:00.960 --> 02:58:04.880
>> Wait, you can. How did you do that? And

02:58:02.640 --> 02:58:06.160
now it's in focus. You had autofocus

02:58:04.880 --> 02:58:06.880
disabled.

02:58:06.160 --> 02:58:07.520
>> I did?

02:58:06.880 --> 02:58:08.479
>> Yeah.

02:58:07.520 --> 02:58:10.800
>> How would I do that?

02:58:08.479 --> 02:58:12.560
>> I don't know.

02:58:10.800 --> 02:58:14.160
>> Yeah, I can focus on the background

02:58:12.560 --> 02:58:17.600
everybody's saying is fake.

02:58:14.160 --> 02:58:18.880
>> I didn't touch uh I didn't I didn't

02:58:17.600 --> 02:58:21.279
touch the settings. The only thing that

02:58:18.880 --> 02:58:23.359
happened was my stupid horrible MediaTek

02:58:21.279 --> 02:58:25.600
Wi-Fi cutout.

02:58:23.359 --> 02:58:26.240
>> I didn't touch anything.

02:58:25.600 --> 02:58:28.560
>> Weird.

02:58:26.240 --> 02:58:30.399
>> It's your fault. Okay. More.

02:58:28.560 --> 02:58:31.680
>> How did you change the focus on my

02:58:30.399 --> 02:58:34.399
camera?

02:58:31.680 --> 02:58:35.680
>> Yeah. That is magic. No, I I see you

02:58:34.399 --> 02:58:38.560
doing it, Dan. You don't have to prove

02:58:35.680 --> 02:58:41.680
you can do it. How did you do it?

02:58:38.560 --> 02:58:43.520
>> I clicked on focus.

02:58:41.680 --> 02:58:48.880
>> Yeah, but like how

02:58:43.520 --> 02:58:50.960
>> uh the software that I use for the um uh

02:58:48.880 --> 02:58:52.399
video call that we're doing here lets me

02:58:50.960 --> 02:58:54.399
adjust a bunch of settings.

02:58:52.399 --> 02:58:55.840
>> Yes, apparently. But explain further.

02:58:54.399 --> 02:58:57.920
I'm sure I'm not the only one that's

02:58:55.840 --> 02:58:59.439
like this is cool.

02:58:57.920 --> 02:59:01.359
>> Uh I mean, we're not associated with

02:58:59.439 --> 02:59:02.560
them, but it's called Video Ninja. Yeah,

02:59:01.359 --> 02:59:05.439
that's fine. I don't care.

02:59:02.560 --> 02:59:06.800
>> Um, and there's a producer section. You

02:59:05.439 --> 02:59:08.720
can have multiple people. You can do a

02:59:06.800 --> 02:59:11.120
whole bunch of stuff. It lets me see all

02:59:08.720 --> 02:59:13.840
sorts of stats like round trip latency,

02:59:11.120 --> 02:59:16.960
buffer settings, your webcam's exposure,

02:59:13.840 --> 02:59:18.240
and stuff. What is it set to? 155.8. So,

02:59:16.960 --> 02:59:20.240
I can do this.

02:59:18.240 --> 02:59:22.479
>> You know, I can adjust your white

02:59:20.240 --> 02:59:24.080
balance, your color. It really depends.

02:59:22.479 --> 02:59:26.560
Say you don't know what you're doing and

02:59:24.080 --> 02:59:27.359
you have the wrong audio device or

02:59:26.560 --> 02:59:28.960
>> Yeah.

02:59:27.359 --> 02:59:31.359
>> or something like that. I can also

02:59:28.960 --> 02:59:33.040
change your audio device. I can um

02:59:31.359 --> 02:59:34.160
request that you change it to a certain

02:59:33.040 --> 02:59:36.160
thing. Uh

02:59:34.160 --> 02:59:37.520
>> yeah, I'm just I don't recall at any

02:59:36.160 --> 02:59:38.640
point like

02:59:37.520 --> 02:59:41.439
>> I've never had to do it.

02:59:38.640 --> 02:59:42.720
>> I gave I gave this application access to

02:59:41.439 --> 02:59:46.160
my camera,

02:59:42.720 --> 02:59:50.800
>> but I guess I never really thought about

02:59:46.160 --> 02:59:51.200
that that meant access to my camera.

02:59:50.800 --> 02:59:53.520
>> Yeah,

02:59:51.200 --> 02:59:55.760
>> I thought that meant access to the video

02:59:53.520 --> 02:59:58.319
feed. I I had no idea that there was

02:59:55.760 --> 03:00:01.600
even like any kind of like common API

02:59:58.319 --> 03:00:03.439
for webcams that would like I I'm sorry.

03:00:01.600 --> 03:00:06.160
I just never thought about this before.

03:00:03.439 --> 03:00:08.720
>> Yeah. And I mean I said earlier like oh

03:00:06.160 --> 03:00:10.240
you've got 32 cores on your computer.

03:00:08.720 --> 03:00:12.000
>> Yeah. Yeah. Know that I figured there

03:00:10.240 --> 03:00:14.319
was like kind of an obvious way for you

03:00:12.000 --> 03:00:15.840
to check. But in terms of like actually

03:00:14.319 --> 03:00:16.160
changing settings on the camera like

03:00:15.840 --> 03:00:18.080
what?

03:00:16.160 --> 03:00:21.120
>> I've doxed you as well. I've got your

03:00:18.080 --> 03:00:22.880
your external IP. I've got like

03:00:21.120 --> 03:00:24.640
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that I mean I

03:00:22.880 --> 03:00:25.279
assume again video call

03:00:24.640 --> 03:00:26.160
>> like I mean

03:00:25.279 --> 03:00:27.840
>> maybe

03:00:26.160 --> 03:00:31.040
>> Yeah, but that's exposed to me. Yeah, I

03:00:27.840 --> 03:00:32.479
don't I don't know. Um it's a

03:00:31.040 --> 03:00:34.399
>> great I love it. And

03:00:32.479 --> 03:00:37.439
>> what else can you change on my camera?

03:00:34.399 --> 03:00:40.319
>> Um I can change the aspect ratio. I can

03:00:37.439 --> 03:00:42.560
change the brightness. Uh color

03:00:40.319 --> 03:00:45.200
temperature.

03:00:42.560 --> 03:00:47.200
>> Height. Frame rate. Let's make you

03:00:45.200 --> 03:00:50.160
>> You can make me taller.

03:00:47.200 --> 03:00:51.840
>> Let's give you 21 frames a second. Well,

03:00:50.160 --> 03:00:54.319
that's this is this is great. I'm glad

03:00:51.840 --> 03:00:54.800
that I did this for the end of the show.

03:00:54.319 --> 03:00:58.080
Um,

03:00:54.800 --> 03:00:59.760
>> very cool. Um,

03:00:58.080 --> 03:01:02.960
all right. Why don't we uh why don't we

03:00:59.760 --> 03:01:04.960
jump into another com.

03:01:02.960 --> 03:01:07.920
>> Uh, sure. I'll just leave you yellow

03:01:04.960 --> 03:01:08.880
then. That works. Uh, hi LLD.

03:01:07.920 --> 03:01:11.600
>> Simpson did it.

03:01:08.880 --> 03:01:14.800
>> I dived out of a plane at 15,000 ft for

03:01:11.600 --> 03:01:16.800
charity last month. I raised 1,200 quid.

03:01:14.800 --> 03:01:18.960
Have any of you ever been skydiving?

03:01:16.800 --> 03:01:22.080
Also, any recommendations for a UPS for

03:01:18.960 --> 03:01:24.080
a new UG Green IDX6011

03:01:22.080 --> 03:01:25.200
Pro NAS

03:01:24.080 --> 03:01:29.920
may say all these numbers.

03:01:25.200 --> 03:01:32.319
>> No. Uh, always been interested, but

03:01:29.920 --> 03:01:34.880
never enough to bother going through

03:01:32.319 --> 03:01:37.040
with it, I guess. Um, I suspect I will

03:01:34.880 --> 03:01:39.040
at some point.

03:01:37.040 --> 03:01:42.880
As for the UPS, I don't know. Get

03:01:39.040 --> 03:01:44.880
whichever one is the APC basic one or

03:01:42.880 --> 03:01:48.479
Cyberpower basic one. That is the

03:01:44.880 --> 03:01:50.720
capacity that you need. Uh if you're not

03:01:48.479 --> 03:01:53.279
a data center, then that's all you

03:01:50.720 --> 03:01:56.640
really need to know is get one of those

03:01:53.279 --> 03:01:58.000
and that'll probably be fine. That's a

03:01:56.640 --> 03:02:00.560
that's a super cool experience, though.

03:01:58.000 --> 03:02:04.000
I've I've never skydived. I'm not 100%

03:02:00.560 --> 03:02:07.560
sure that I want to do it at all.

03:02:04.000 --> 03:02:07.560
I'll I would

03:02:08.080 --> 03:02:11.080
h

03:02:12.000 --> 03:02:15.200
I am still thinking about it. Ivonne

03:02:13.920 --> 03:02:17.600
doesn't want to though, and that's a

03:02:15.200 --> 03:02:20.000
major thing for me is we like doing

03:02:17.600 --> 03:02:21.439
things together. Uh Luke, are you are

03:02:20.000 --> 03:02:22.880
you on board to skydive?

03:02:21.439 --> 03:02:26.000
>> Yeah.

03:02:22.880 --> 03:02:28.080
>> Yeah. Okay. I'd think about it then. And

03:02:26.000 --> 03:02:31.600
I've never had anyone to like really

03:02:28.080 --> 03:02:33.120
push me, pun intended, um to go.

03:02:31.600 --> 03:02:35.680
>> That's the thing is my my desire level

03:02:33.120 --> 03:02:37.680
on it has never been

03:02:35.680 --> 03:02:39.840
quite that high, but I've always been

03:02:37.680 --> 03:02:41.920
down. So, it just hasn't really happened

03:02:39.840 --> 03:02:43.920
yet, but I'm like pretty confident it

03:02:41.920 --> 03:02:46.080
will eventually. I at one point in time

03:02:43.920 --> 03:02:47.680
I was like I'm going to do it but I want

03:02:46.080 --> 03:02:49.600
to go like the whole way and I want to

03:02:47.680 --> 03:02:51.439
get like certified and I can do solo

03:02:49.600 --> 03:02:53.359
jumps and stuff and then I looked into

03:02:51.439 --> 03:02:55.600
the time and the expense and was like

03:02:53.359 --> 03:02:57.600
I'm not going to do it.

03:02:55.600 --> 03:03:00.240
>> Yeah. And the tandem jump is not as

03:02:57.600 --> 03:03:00.560
appealing to me as going by myself.

03:03:00.240 --> 03:03:02.479
>> Yeah.

03:03:00.560 --> 03:03:04.640
>> So the fact that I would do it once and

03:03:02.479 --> 03:03:07.840
it would be the like

03:03:04.640 --> 03:03:09.200
>> kind of Yeah. for babies version. To be

03:03:07.840 --> 03:03:10.720
clear, I still would expect it to be

03:03:09.200 --> 03:03:12.640
extremely thrilling, but I would just

03:03:10.720 --> 03:03:14.000
like I would want to like, you know, do

03:03:12.640 --> 03:03:16.640
it myself.

03:03:14.000 --> 03:03:18.160
>> Um, by the way, Rod jumped in. And so,

03:03:16.640 --> 03:03:21.600
I'm just going to go ahead and say he he

03:03:18.160 --> 03:03:25.680
says go eaten for your for your UPS and

03:03:21.600 --> 03:03:29.200
get an get a lithium um whatever it is.

03:03:25.680 --> 03:03:31.279
>> Are there affordable FE4? Yeah. Yeah.

03:03:29.200 --> 03:03:32.640
No, Eaton does have consumer really uh

03:03:31.279 --> 03:03:33.680
consumer friendly products. Yep.

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>> That's cool.

03:03:33.680 --> 03:03:36.720
>> All right. I actually

03:03:35.279 --> 03:03:38.479
>> thanks for jumping in with that.

03:03:36.720 --> 03:03:40.000
>> Wow, they totally do. They look cool,

03:03:38.479 --> 03:03:41.439
too. What?

03:03:40.000 --> 03:03:44.000
>> Yeah.

03:03:41.439 --> 03:03:45.760
>> Yeah, we got a lot of eating stuff. It's

03:03:44.000 --> 03:03:49.160
good. It's good things.

03:03:45.760 --> 03:03:49.160
>> Rod tips.

03:03:49.920 --> 03:03:55.240
>> Do Did Did Did you cook chicken for it

03:03:52.000 --> 03:03:55.240
first or

03:03:57.120 --> 03:04:02.880
Okay, let's touch it to some merch. Uh,

03:04:00.319 --> 03:04:04.800
hey DL. My wife and I know it's the

03:04:02.880 --> 03:04:07.680
weekend when the WAN Show is on. What do

03:04:04.800 --> 03:04:09.279
you do when with your significant other

03:04:07.680 --> 03:04:11.359
that makes it feel like the weekend is

03:04:09.279 --> 03:04:17.920
here?

03:04:11.359 --> 03:04:22.760
>> Um, I host the WAN Show with him.

03:04:17.920 --> 03:04:22.760
>> A what about Luke?

03:04:24.399 --> 03:04:26.720
>> Too easy. Too easy.

03:04:25.920 --> 03:04:29.200
>> That was good.

03:04:26.720 --> 03:04:30.960
>> Um,

03:04:29.200 --> 03:04:34.560
hey Dan, Luke and Lionus. Question for

03:04:30.960 --> 03:04:37.439
Lionus. What if your most quote unquote

03:04:34.560 --> 03:04:39.120
if they just do this take for a company

03:04:37.439 --> 03:04:41.040
where you think they'd be super

03:04:39.120 --> 03:04:43.200
successful quote unquote if they just do

03:04:41.040 --> 03:04:45.359
this? Thank you all.

03:04:43.200 --> 03:04:47.680
>> Oh, okay.

03:04:45.359 --> 03:04:49.840
If they just do this, they'd be super

03:04:47.680 --> 03:04:51.680
successful. Okay. So, this has to be a

03:04:49.840 --> 03:04:53.359
company that I've heard of. So, they

03:04:51.680 --> 03:04:54.880
have to already be at least reasonably

03:04:53.359 --> 03:04:55.359
successful. If anyone else wants to jump

03:04:54.880 --> 03:04:58.080
in with

03:04:55.359 --> 03:05:00.960
>> No, they they could be they could be

03:04:58.080 --> 03:05:03.359
failing but previously successful.

03:05:00.960 --> 03:05:04.720
>> Like uh we could use this as our We

03:05:03.359 --> 03:05:05.279
haven't talked about Oh, did you say

03:05:04.720 --> 03:05:06.640
Microsoft?

03:05:05.279 --> 03:05:08.720
>> I said Ubisoft.

03:05:06.640 --> 03:05:10.640
>> Oh, okay. Let's Should we use this as

03:05:08.720 --> 03:05:12.080
our excuse to talk about Microsoft? We

03:05:10.640 --> 03:05:15.120
haven't really We haven't really dunked

03:05:12.080 --> 03:05:17.359
on Microsoft yet this show. If they just

03:05:15.120 --> 03:05:19.920
actually put half of the resources into

03:05:17.359 --> 03:05:22.720
making Windows better that they do into

03:05:19.920 --> 03:05:24.880
stuffing it full of ads and AI, um, I

03:05:22.720 --> 03:05:26.720
think they'd be really successful. To be

03:05:24.880 --> 03:05:28.319
clear, they could keep doing what

03:05:26.720 --> 03:05:31.359
they're doing now and still be really

03:05:28.319 --> 03:05:32.800
successful. I'm just saying that if they

03:05:31.359 --> 03:05:34.000
did this thing, they would be really

03:05:32.800 --> 03:05:36.720
successful. I'm not saying they would be

03:05:34.000 --> 03:05:38.479
unsuccessful if they didn't. They also,

03:05:36.720 --> 03:05:41.680
and like this one I actually don't want

03:05:38.479 --> 03:05:44.560
to harp on too much because they might

03:05:41.680 --> 03:05:47.439
maybe be making the right steps to doing

03:05:44.560 --> 03:05:49.680
it right now,

03:05:47.439 --> 03:05:51.680
but they got to figure out what the heck

03:05:49.680 --> 03:05:53.680
they're going to do with their massive

03:05:51.680 --> 03:05:56.399
assortment of legendary studios that

03:05:53.680 --> 03:05:58.399
they have under their belt

03:05:56.399 --> 03:05:59.520
>> when they are not like the publisher of

03:05:58.399 --> 03:06:01.680
the moment right now. It doesn't really

03:05:59.520 --> 03:06:04.560
make a lot of sense. They they have so

03:06:01.680 --> 03:06:11.279
much potential there. They have so such

03:06:04.560 --> 03:06:12.560
a wealth of IP and um it feels like a

03:06:11.279 --> 03:06:14.479
lot of mismanagement. I don't remember

03:06:12.560 --> 03:06:16.800
the name of the game, but some game came

03:06:14.479 --> 03:06:18.160
out, did super well, got rated really

03:06:16.800 --> 03:06:21.439
well, and then the whole team got laid

03:06:18.160 --> 03:06:22.720
off. And I remember just thinking like

03:06:21.439 --> 03:06:23.680
I understand

03:06:22.720 --> 03:06:24.479
>> do that.

03:06:23.680 --> 03:06:25.920
>> The the

03:06:24.479 --> 03:06:27.600
>> the fact that you can't remember the

03:06:25.920 --> 03:06:29.040
name of the game and it happens so often

03:06:27.600 --> 03:06:31.760
that you're like, "Ah, which one was

03:06:29.040 --> 03:06:33.920
it?" is awful. And it happens a lot with

03:06:31.760 --> 03:06:36.720
Microsoft. And the the weird thing to me

03:06:33.920 --> 03:06:39.040
is I understand what I've heard the

03:06:36.720 --> 03:06:40.640
strategy is is that if they don't

03:06:39.040 --> 03:06:42.960
necessar I think it was Hi-Fi Rush.

03:06:40.640 --> 03:06:44.319
Yeah. Um if if they don't necessarily

03:06:42.960 --> 03:06:46.479
have something to work on like

03:06:44.319 --> 03:06:48.000
immediately and they can't ship

03:06:46.479 --> 03:06:49.359
something like soon, then it looks bad

03:06:48.000 --> 03:06:52.319
on the books now. So they just get rid

03:06:49.359 --> 03:06:55.359
of them. But the the insanity to me is

03:06:52.319 --> 03:06:58.399
that with the amount of IPs that they

03:06:55.359 --> 03:07:00.240
have, like holy crap, guys, just put

03:06:58.399 --> 03:07:02.720
them on something else. They clearly

03:07:00.240 --> 03:07:04.960
made good game. They don't have to make

03:07:02.720 --> 03:07:07.279
good game version two. They could go

03:07:04.960 --> 03:07:09.760
make other good game. Like that's it's

03:07:07.279 --> 03:07:11.359
okay. You could put these people on on

03:07:09.760 --> 03:07:12.720
anything else. You have so many

03:07:11.359 --> 03:07:14.800
different IPs that they could be working

03:07:12.720 --> 03:07:17.359
on. If you don't have an idea for them

03:07:14.800 --> 03:07:19.040
right now or if you think Hi-Fi Rush 2

03:07:17.359 --> 03:07:21.120
would be too soon or something like

03:07:19.040 --> 03:07:22.640
that, have them go help another team for

03:07:21.120 --> 03:07:25.120
a while or something and then split them

03:07:22.640 --> 03:07:28.080
back off. Who knows? But like just

03:07:25.120 --> 03:07:31.200
constantly cycling out good talent is

03:07:28.080 --> 03:07:32.960
not a strategy that is effective. Um and

03:07:31.200 --> 03:07:35.359
if you know that you have a team that

03:07:32.960 --> 03:07:39.120
can deliver, just deleting them for

03:07:35.359 --> 03:07:42.560
short-term gain gain does not feel like

03:07:39.120 --> 03:07:46.800
a Microsoft strategy. Um that feels like

03:07:42.560 --> 03:07:49.600
a tiny has no money dead around the

03:07:46.800 --> 03:07:52.640
corner studio strategy that is failing

03:07:49.600 --> 03:07:54.640
and can't keep up. And if you want to

03:07:52.640 --> 03:07:58.080
make yourself look like that, go ahead,

03:07:54.640 --> 03:07:59.840
I guess. But you're trying to be big guy

03:07:58.080 --> 03:08:01.840
in the room, Microsoft, and buy every

03:07:59.840 --> 03:08:05.120
freaking gaming company out there. Act

03:08:01.840 --> 03:08:07.279
like it. Follow through. Find the good

03:08:05.120 --> 03:08:09.359
teams that are doing well and assign

03:08:07.279 --> 03:08:11.040
them to something that they can do. And

03:08:09.359 --> 03:08:12.640
if they can't, if you don't have another

03:08:11.040 --> 03:08:14.240
thing that they can do, put them on

03:08:12.640 --> 03:08:19.359
temporary assignment. But don't lose

03:08:14.240 --> 03:08:20.960
that talent. Oh my god. It's like

03:08:19.359 --> 03:08:22.640
groups like Microsoft that have all this

03:08:20.960 --> 03:08:24.479
IP and all these employees and all this

03:08:22.640 --> 03:08:27.279
kind of stuff are getting just

03:08:24.479 --> 03:08:29.600
slaughtered by indies right now and and

03:08:27.279 --> 03:08:32.240
and not even like

03:08:29.600 --> 03:08:34.399
you you know you can't properly call

03:08:32.240 --> 03:08:36.000
Larry in a AAA studio or at least you

03:08:34.399 --> 03:08:38.479
couldn't maybe they're getting closer to

03:08:36.000 --> 03:08:40.240
that u but you could you couldn't when

03:08:38.479 --> 03:08:42.399
they dropped Balders's Gate 3 and they

03:08:40.240 --> 03:08:44.800
just slaughtered everyone and a lot of

03:08:42.399 --> 03:08:48.000
that is from my understanding from Laren

03:08:44.800 --> 03:08:51.040
is they've just over the years grown

03:08:48.000 --> 03:08:53.600
this pool of just incredibly talented

03:08:51.040 --> 03:08:56.800
people that have just progressively made

03:08:53.600 --> 03:08:59.120
better RPGs over and over and over again

03:08:56.800 --> 03:09:00.560
over time. Just every time Larry has

03:08:59.120 --> 03:09:04.160
released a game, it's just gotten

03:09:00.560 --> 03:09:06.080
better, which is just insane. And you

03:09:04.160 --> 03:09:08.080
have the capability. You can accomplish

03:09:06.080 --> 03:09:09.840
that. You can do that. And in a lot of

03:09:08.080 --> 03:09:13.520
these situations, you have some of those

03:09:09.840 --> 03:09:14.720
people. Keep them.

03:09:13.520 --> 03:09:17.120
Ah, anyways,

03:09:14.720 --> 03:09:18.960
>> I like Oh, hi Josh's if movie studios

03:09:17.120 --> 03:09:21.200
could just faithfully adapt a video game

03:09:18.960 --> 03:09:24.720
to a movie, they would be successful.

03:09:21.200 --> 03:09:27.200
Um, you know, or TV or a TV series or

03:09:24.720 --> 03:09:29.520
whatever. Uh, like it's it's blowing my

03:09:27.200 --> 03:09:33.359
mind that they're remaking Harry Potter

03:09:29.520 --> 03:09:35.359
when there's so many other beloved IPs

03:09:33.359 --> 03:09:38.880
that you could just, you know, go and

03:09:35.359 --> 03:09:41.760
license and like do that with. You don't

03:09:38.880 --> 03:09:44.319
stop remaking the same old thing. Uh,

03:09:41.760 --> 03:09:46.319
with that said, I think keeping remaking

03:09:44.319 --> 03:09:49.040
the same old thing does appear to be a

03:09:46.319 --> 03:09:51.200
license to print money. So, uh, don't

03:09:49.040 --> 03:09:53.520
don't put me in charge of a movie studio

03:09:51.200 --> 03:09:55.439
anytime soon. I I would have done

03:09:53.520 --> 03:09:57.600
something crazy like have people who

03:09:55.439 --> 03:09:58.880
love Star Wars make Star Wars movies.

03:09:57.600 --> 03:10:01.359
>> That's nuts. I don't know.

03:09:58.880 --> 03:10:04.359
>> I know. So, I'm basically basically an

03:10:01.359 --> 03:10:04.359
idiot.

03:10:06.240 --> 03:10:12.160
Hi, DLL. Just fixed a thumb stick while

03:10:09.760 --> 03:10:14.080
uh with my wife in the hospital for a

03:10:12.160 --> 03:10:15.840
chronic condition. What games would you

03:10:14.080 --> 03:10:18.840
recommend for people laid up in the

03:10:15.840 --> 03:10:18.840
hospital?

03:10:18.960 --> 03:10:23.439
Oh, wow.

03:10:21.120 --> 03:10:26.720
Uh, shouldn't the doctors really be

03:10:23.439 --> 03:10:28.160
fixing the thumb sticks?

03:10:26.720 --> 03:10:29.840
>> That's very funny, Dan.

03:10:28.160 --> 03:10:31.439
>> No, it's not. Shut up.

03:10:29.840 --> 03:10:32.880
>> So, wait. They they want to play a game

03:10:31.439 --> 03:10:33.840
in the hospital and they can't use their

03:10:32.880 --> 03:10:35.600
thumbs. Am I understanding this

03:10:33.840 --> 03:10:38.080
correctly? No, probably the controller

03:10:35.600 --> 03:10:39.200
thumb stick broke and now they want to

03:10:38.080 --> 03:10:40.880
be able to play games

03:10:39.200 --> 03:10:41.439
>> and they're stuck up in a hospital.

03:10:40.880 --> 03:10:44.319
>> Yes.

03:10:41.439 --> 03:10:45.439
>> What's a what's a good um in hospital

03:10:44.319 --> 03:10:46.319
game?

03:10:45.439 --> 03:10:47.920
>> I mean,

03:10:46.319 --> 03:10:50.080
>> are they saying system? I think they

03:10:47.920 --> 03:10:52.000
mean like a system like a Steam game.

03:10:50.080 --> 03:10:55.200
>> No, games games.

03:10:52.000 --> 03:10:57.760
>> Yeah, I would really I think I'd be

03:10:55.200 --> 03:10:59.680
>> the last time I was stuck like in a bed

03:10:57.760 --> 03:11:02.399
and couldn't move. My game was Breath of

03:10:59.680 --> 03:11:04.000
the Wild and a big part of what I liked

03:11:02.399 --> 03:11:06.640
about maybe that's part of why I liked

03:11:04.000 --> 03:11:08.240
the open world of it so much was that I

03:11:06.640 --> 03:11:09.920
was like stuck in bed.

03:11:08.240 --> 03:11:13.120
>> Well, it's escapism, right? So, I I

03:11:09.920 --> 03:11:15.279
would go to like the the classic

03:11:13.120 --> 03:11:18.560
recommendations of like Balders's Gate

03:11:15.279 --> 03:11:20.479
3, Expedition 33, uh Breath of the Wild,

03:11:18.560 --> 03:11:22.880
something like that where it's an RPG

03:11:20.479 --> 03:11:24.399
that you can get yourself immersed into

03:11:22.880 --> 03:11:26.080
and feel like you're the character so

03:11:24.399 --> 03:11:28.240
you can kind of escape the area that you

03:11:26.080 --> 03:11:32.040
are mentally and go have. I like that.

03:11:28.240 --> 03:11:32.040
>> Some fun. Yeah.

03:11:32.720 --> 03:11:37.840
>> Hi,

03:11:34.479 --> 03:11:40.080
Lyra like and Dominus. I know you like

03:11:37.840 --> 03:11:43.840
the Pebble watch Lionus, but have you

03:11:40.080 --> 03:11:46.000
ever tried the Instinct series of Garmin

03:11:43.840 --> 03:11:47.680
screen with basic features and

03:11:46.000 --> 03:11:50.800
incredible battery life? Long live

03:11:47.680 --> 03:11:54.479
buttons. No, but I I definitely owe it a

03:11:50.800 --> 03:11:56.000
shot. Um cuz people said of my Garmin

03:11:54.479 --> 03:11:58.399
ShortCircuit that I like picked the

03:11:56.000 --> 03:12:00.160
worst one apparently. Uh or like the

03:11:58.399 --> 03:12:01.040
worst one for me. So I'm like, "Okay,

03:12:00.160 --> 03:12:03.359
all right, all right, all right, all

03:12:01.040 --> 03:12:04.319
right, Garmin fans. I will I will I will

03:12:03.359 --> 03:12:06.880
give it another shot."

03:12:04.319 --> 03:12:08.560
>> Why does that keep happening to you?

03:12:06.880 --> 03:12:10.640
>> Um

03:12:08.560 --> 03:12:12.640
oh, like upsetting fandoms,

03:12:10.640 --> 03:12:15.840
>> just picking the wrong thing.

03:12:12.640 --> 03:12:17.120
>> Oh, I I don't I don't know.

03:12:15.840 --> 03:12:19.120
It it seems

03:12:17.120 --> 03:12:20.800
>> I feel like the universe shouldn't

03:12:19.120 --> 03:12:24.640
happen this often.

03:12:20.800 --> 03:12:25.600
>> Yeah. Maybe the universe like like bends

03:12:24.640 --> 03:12:28.960
around it.

03:12:25.600 --> 03:12:30.640
>> You help picks becomes the wrong thing.

03:12:28.960 --> 03:12:33.040
>> That's right. Yeah. I mean, you help so

03:12:30.640 --> 03:12:35.600
many people find the perfect system or

03:12:33.040 --> 03:12:37.920
the perfect product for them that all of

03:12:35.600 --> 03:12:40.319
the the like negative karma comes back

03:12:37.920 --> 03:12:44.399
around. It's like um you know, you're

03:12:40.319 --> 03:12:46.640
giving your health to other people.

03:12:44.399 --> 03:12:47.920
>> Yeah. I don't know. I'm in a mystic mood

03:12:46.640 --> 03:12:48.800
this evening.

03:12:47.920 --> 03:12:51.920
>> Thanks, Dan.

03:12:48.800 --> 03:12:54.319
>> Couple more. Hello, LL and the D. Any

03:12:51.920 --> 03:12:56.319
tips or warnings about moving somewhere

03:12:54.319 --> 03:12:58.319
new for a job? I've never done it before

03:12:56.319 --> 03:12:59.920
and the opportunity might show itself

03:12:58.319 --> 03:13:03.040
soon.

03:12:59.920 --> 03:13:05.600
I have never done that. Um, I really

03:13:03.040 --> 03:13:08.000
admire the heck out of people who pick

03:13:05.600 --> 03:13:09.520
up their whole lives and go somewhere

03:13:08.000 --> 03:13:10.960
new and learn a whole bunch of new

03:13:09.520 --> 03:13:13.920
things and meet a whole bunch of new

03:13:10.960 --> 03:13:17.040
people. And uh

03:13:13.920 --> 03:13:19.279
I've I've never had the drive or the I

03:13:17.040 --> 03:13:23.240
mean even like the guts necessarily to

03:13:19.279 --> 03:13:23.240
do something like that. Um

03:13:23.279 --> 03:13:27.840
that's super cool. Um

03:13:26.319 --> 03:13:30.319
give yourself credit for being

03:13:27.840 --> 03:13:31.760
adventurous and give yourself time to to

03:13:30.319 --> 03:13:32.960
give it a real shot to work out, I

03:13:31.760 --> 03:13:36.120
guess, is the only thing that I could

03:13:32.960 --> 03:13:36.120
really offer.

03:13:36.319 --> 03:13:40.960
Last one I've got today. Has Luke played

03:13:38.319 --> 03:13:43.040
Popia yet? A few months ago, he went

03:13:40.960 --> 03:13:44.720
into a small rant about what he wanted

03:13:43.040 --> 03:13:47.680
to see in a new Pokemon game, then

03:13:44.720 --> 03:13:50.319
proceeded to basically describe Popia.

03:13:47.680 --> 03:13:50.960
>> Really?

03:13:50.319 --> 03:13:52.800
>> You have a switch.

03:13:50.960 --> 03:13:54.239
>> I heard it was rated really well.

03:13:52.800 --> 03:13:56.000
>> I have heard it's rated really well.

03:13:54.239 --> 03:13:58.080
Emma's been trying to get me to play it.

03:13:56.000 --> 03:14:00.960
I

03:13:58.080 --> 03:14:03.920
maybe I've like wrote it off on graphics

03:14:00.960 --> 03:14:07.040
too much. Maybe I should give it a shot.

03:14:03.920 --> 03:14:10.319
I I just assumed it was just Animal

03:14:07.040 --> 03:14:13.840
Crossing but with Pokemon. Am I Am I

03:14:10.319 --> 03:14:15.120
being uh too reductive about this? It's

03:14:13.840 --> 03:14:17.439
fun to watch people play.

03:14:15.120 --> 03:14:18.800
>> I think so. It's a little more advanced

03:14:17.439 --> 03:14:21.279
than Animal Crossing.

03:14:18.800 --> 03:14:22.960
>> Okay. All right. Maybe I've been I

03:14:21.279 --> 03:14:24.880
haven't really looked into it much. I

03:14:22.960 --> 03:14:26.319
just Someone described it as Animal

03:14:24.880 --> 03:14:28.160
Crossing Pokemon to me and I was like,

03:14:26.319 --> 03:14:28.720
>> I think it's Animal Crossing Minecraft

03:14:28.160 --> 03:14:29.200
Pokemon.

03:14:28.720 --> 03:14:31.600
>> H

03:14:29.200 --> 03:14:32.319
>> Minecraft

03:14:31.600 --> 03:14:33.200
is interesting.

03:14:32.319 --> 03:14:34.880
>> Yeah,

03:14:33.200 --> 03:14:37.600
>> please. It's Minecraft Animal Crossing

03:14:34.880 --> 03:14:39.680
Pokemon and it's so good.

03:14:37.600 --> 03:14:42.319
>> Okay. The people throwing Minecraft in

03:14:39.680 --> 03:14:43.200
the description loop there does make it

03:14:42.319 --> 03:14:45.040
a lot more interesting.

03:14:43.200 --> 03:14:47.680
>> I saw somebody made an underground

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dungeon for a Mr. Mime and he is trapped

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there.

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>> That seems good.

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>> That seems like the proper thing to do.

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>> Yeah, you can put Epstein in the ground.

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Um

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>> Oh boy. And on that note, I think that's

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the end of the show. Um we will see you

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again next week. U make sure to

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subscribe to the Land Show channel

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because we're going to be transitioning

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over there over the next little bit. So,

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same bad time but like different

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different channel. See you. Wow. Yeah.

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See you there.

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>> Bye.

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>> I got to run guys. I got to get to the

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airport.

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>> Find us. Okay. See you. Okay. Bye.