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I I am I have my voice in my ear day
going so I'm being confused good um yes
and in so some of you may have noticed that last week when I had Harry Potter
as my co-host the show managed to actually stay on topic and uh some of
you wish for that Trend to continue so I'm going to do my utmost to not let him
completely derail this show yeah we're
just going to bring Harry Potter back permanently so we got a break a bunch of
great topics for you guys uh HTC's value has plummeted so much in the last four
years that they are now effectively valueless uh more on that at 11 uh
alphabet a company called alphabet now owns Google not just owns like pwned
their base but like owns like they
belong to them uh also some poor farmer
was quoted yes I see Harry thank
you you can touch me with your Harry something else but not that one um some
farmer was quoted hundreds of thousands of dollars for an internet connection
and Spotify oh we've got a lot of great topics today actually Spotify rumored to
be ending their free music streaming and
do you want to do the last one of them certain swed high
schools are adding three hours of Esports classes a
Weak video game high school is real is this going to go I think it
worked oh this
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scene how much do you want to Bettis is going to break no no it shouldn't break
I have the intro stored locally on my machine now yeah see also this is the
latest xplit so we were still running a version of xplit that must have been
like a year old on the stream computer in the old office just because like and
and it was like kind of like broken like that Windows install itself is just
broken oh yeah so that machine would just shut off and like we had our
regularly occurring blue screens thanks to our black magic capture cards and
like all this stuff was broken about it so we actually what we needed to do was
uninstall and reinstall in order to get the upgrade to work and we just never
did it so I yeah we're actually running a proper version of xit a long time too
uh which was kind of sad which is kind of the world's most pathetic thing but
isn't that like okay everyone has like that computer that probably only works
cuz they know it's like how to make it
happy if you unplug the mouse and then replug it into a different port then
then it'll turn on 6% of the time every week you have to go in and
like tell it to Reign the CPU fan header or whatever and that's the computer that
uh you know we hosted our live broadcast on because we're apparently freaking
Geniuses we never actually claimed to be Geniuses lonus Media Group takes uh that
makes no claims as to uh why we why we are geniuses uh Luke tell lonus
to three asterisks up we want to hear
you he ruined the last WAN Show now hold on a second this is a discussion topic
what curse word is
that tell lus to blank
up I wonder if it just changes all of them to three Aster cuz if not that's
really weird tell L because I'm just trying to think FW cuz the FW is a
pretty versatile word doesn't work there
you failed yep so we got the SH word n
it's very close to shut up so maybe is that a new slang like is that what we
should should we start this it's like you
know you know what son sorry letters oh yeah it's not even
three letters yeah ass
up so I need to do the rest of the wedge
like yeah it's kind of there you go
there you go don't fall good yeah well
that's kind of your crotch well this chair does spin go we do have these
great Mach comic chairs for the new office here I'll move you more yeah
thank you there you go yeah hold on I
need to get a bit higher it's falling
oh my God okay all right so we still
don't know what s word that is yeah we are absolutely no
closer what happens okay if I do this
what are we supposed to be talking about I have let you derail the show already
that was a plant that was that was a
100% you that was an ALT account from
you bu bull yeah yeah
bullshut sorry oh come on that was pretty good
that was not bad I like that one okay
you [ __ ] okay so okay go ahead go
ahead go new company alphabet now owns Google but it's not it's super serial oh
wow that was actually pretty good I am on today I am on today my friends so
actually not super serious while it might be super serial a lot of people
freaked out when they read this oh my God I can't believe a company like Google could be acquired and it's like
oh they were acquired by themselves yeah so this is just a new parent company
that they created um to help kind of sub
a whole bunch of different companies probably for tax reasons to be completely honest yeah or for the
appearances to shareholders reasons um so what they've effectively done is
they've Google is the the internet stuff brand so your YouTubes and your Google
chromes and your uh your Google Maps and
your Hangouts um is all going to be is
all going to be under that brand whereas alphabet is also going to run sort of
other Bizarro land stuff like xlabs yeah
um and I actually don't even know what Calico life extension project is do you
even know what that is I've heard of that okay Calico life extension his
mission is to harness Advanced Technologies to increase our
understanding of the biology that controls so so basically okay oh okay
that's yeah life extension so fairly fairly straightforward you know you know
what's really funny about the the advancements that are being made in that
right now so both Singularity and
reversing the aging process are
potentially going to happen in the next like 100 to 200 years we were that
close we were that freaking close you and me we're just going to grow old and
die and that's it that's it but like our
generation's kids I know you're not plan problem with that yeah it feels like it
kind of sucks cuz you know like it but
on the other hand I mean there's a lot of issues with people living forever
that are not easily resolvable and I think like this this is just the amount
of them not just the amount of them cuz
that's actually a pretty big problem but okay amount of them I I actually think
particularly at the beginning the amount excuse me the
amount of people living forever will almost be a nonissue at the beginning
yeah because it's going to be so expensive that it's going to be a whole
other issue of only the rich and Powerful being able to so so it's one
thing if the rich and Powerful can super rich people live forever and poor people
die just exactly o if if that is not
like and if it's not a rat race
now it's like nowadays like if you're
rich you're like yeah Freedom 55 or whatever you retire Young no that's a
whole other thing so now it's like climb over the backs of your fellow human
beings are you able to make enough money so that you can not die instead of are
you able to make enough money so that you can retire and then if you're not
going to die well do you have to work forever then I I guess for like cuz you
can bet and I mean this is some tin foil hat stuff so if you're not into tin foil
hat peace see you later but can you
imagine the first life uh life extender solution being um
you know a shot that you take once and then your life is extended forever uh no
no it's going to be a pill that you buy and you take every day and even if they
had the other solution more hardcore than that there's no no way that anyone
is going to give you the the shot in the ARM that reverses the aging process of
your C and and there's going to be a whole bunch of other issues with living
together or living together with living together we we won't have we we'll work
hard at it stay together for the kids um with living forever like your teeth are
not going to reverse their aging process so you're going to be like this weird
reconstructed creature in certain ways
and I'd be flored if they figure out how to reverse the aging process of
everything so your eyesight you're going to have like this super like old man
eyesight I mean with that said they've got those new contacts coming hearing
when they're working on stem cells and stuff what if they can grow you a new
body and you just brain transform well that's a whole that's that's been
tackled like that's some that's some crazy stuff like I forget what there's
like some book and I think it's a movie or something dog or something no the the
um the parents have like a terminally ill kid like a degenerative disease kid
and then they have another kid that's basically like spare parts or something
along those lines or whatever like like that's that's some crazy Next Level
stuff yes but I don't I don't mean like birthing a new child than using them as
spare parts which we've seen in I think more than one movie that's been done um
I'm talking about like no brain grow a
body in a lab stem cell style yeah but see that becomes a very
tricky question and like you religious arguments aside the conversation about
what makes something a human is an incredibly complicated one I thought
someone just called this autism the show and I was like what what is it that
we're talking about that made you say something so like that anyway um so so
sorry sorry back back on topic what makes something a human is it a body is
it a is it a soul do we have a soul these are all questions that we're not
going to get into we not that we're not going to be able to answer because we
don't actually have an answer yet if you can transfer a Consciousness you know if
you if you believe in a soul then have you also transferred the soul did the
soul die is it now an Abomination who
knows so would you want to live forever
I don't know I think it depends I don't
know I I feel like I would because I'm constantly interested in things and I'd
be like o technology moved on and changed now this is another really
interesting way of looking at it is it worth it to live forever if everyone
around you dies and what if what if you
were Rich enough to keep yourself alive but not but not let's say let's say you
and your wife had to decide who can afford the like uber treatment I don't
know if I could claim that for myself so that's that's exactly knowing
how I do things I'd probably pass it so then let's let's talk well then but what
if what if the other like cuz that I mean you see all these what the other person wants to pass it right so what
what if what if old you know how old people the most epic game of rock paper
scissors rock paper scissors death you'd
win oh my God so like would you want to leave
behind all your brothers and sisters right you know what I mean yeah and if
you had kids like like like get this would you prefer to pass it down to your
kids and then if like like what if there was like your family could only afford
like one Fortune what if you could could only keep one person alive and and
remember no anti-aging treat no I'm not married he was saying conceptually IM
yeah no anti-aging treatment is going to you know prevent you from smashing your
head open on a rock if you're if you're climbing it so there's no guarantee that
it's even going to work anyway this isn't uh what's that awesome movie Death
Becomes hurt we need we need like Windows Server automatic nightly backup
for brains I I I suspect it would happen
eventually and you just download into a new into a new body there's got to be a
way like even if you can't 100% it if it
could get extremely
close okay here's a tough one for you
person no if they could okay well no I know but tell me this then if your
hypothetical wife if your hypothetical wife was downloaded to a server
somewhere yeah she dies yeah and she
gets Rebooted are you married
still uh I think you would have to
choose that legally before before so I
think you'd have to like sign a thing being like yes or no this is going to be
a whole new level of prenup kids cuz when when people when when people are
potentially married till death do us
part hold on a second you get married for like thousands of years so it will
become cheaper to kill your spouse and
reboot them than to
divorce and reboot them oh my god oh man
like hunt this isn't working Let's do let's suicide packed reformat Our
Lives okay do you still have your job
right I guess that would have to probably be in your uh employment if you
die if you died would I even
know like show I be like you shave and you're bald cuz like you don't have your
hair yet right cuz it has to die oh man
it's like why' you shave your head I don't know Lon and you're like
what minor changes it's like you you come in and
you're like you're like uh uh you know like you know never never
mind you're like a bottom guy all of a sudden
Oh I thought you meant that differently I get
it never mind I didn't get it at
first okay so uh one tricky thing sorry
back on topic about the whole Google uh
breaking itself apart into sub companies under alphabet is that um they will
still go by the stock tickers of g o o g
l and g o o g so they're still going to trade under their old name um
and yeah I guess there's really not that
much to say I know I say that a lot but like this is really not that interesting
news and the internet exploded about it yeah there there also their actual
landing page abcxyz received over 1.9 million views
after the announcement and the funny thing is alphabet.com which Google
actually doesn't own but and and is it
wouldn't be an insignificant thing for Google to try to acquire since BMW sort
of another Global brand uh owns it it's actually their like business
oriented like corporate customer vehicle
Supply you know Fleet Management leasing
thing um so BMW owns alphabet.com and
they are apparently looking into trademark implications but um don't
intend to to take legal action against
Google so there go unless they probably need to in order to keep their stuff uh
this was posted by blade of grass on the Forum did you ever post the link in the
chat no I did not I can do now so go ahead and drop that in there the next
article is Tesla is burning cash this is
not exactly uh this is not exactly
groundbreaking either it costs a metric butt ton of money to develop cars just
to ask anyone who makes cars and Tesla is uh basically doing it without the
sales to support what they're trying to do over here I mean they they're losing
money per car yes not yeah not not only
do they only have like so let's see how many Model S's the one that matters we
can sell um they're actually losing somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000
to about $15,000 per car depending on how you
crunch if numers you look at Elon musk's
business history this is super not surprising when PayPal first started he
was paying people to open accounts he would put real money in your account
when you opened one there's a lot of sites that'll be like you get credit on
the site when you open an account no he was putting cash money that you cash
dollar elsewhere that he would not get credit for when you opened an account
and it was not small I don't remember how much it was but it was like you
could go buy something probably with the amount of money that you would put in
your account so he's he's buying market
share yep effectively and yeah it's
still expensive and that's but that's kind of life because they cost a lot of
money to make so um this this is great
so they've actually burned through uh they
$359 million in cash last
quarter wow and this combined with the
production Target cuts for 2016 uh doesn't bode that well for their 500,000
car production Target by 2020 so they have a mere 1.15 billion on hand so
enough to run for another 34s at the rate they're going this is down from
2.67 billion one year ago so yeah the
rate at which they're burning through it is pretty consistent and not going to
last them much longer and then the article from rooters actually estimated
that a new car can cost 1 billion or
more to engineer and bring to Market so
that reduction in cash looks like development on well we know they're
working on other cars they're working on the model X and the model 3 EXC me uh oh
I I meant to say e excuse me three but whatever uh the model three so musk says
there might be some value in raising Capital as they move into 2016 where
they are expecting to increase their spending uh due to the model 3 and the
gigafactory so um yeah we'll see how
this whole thing plays out I mean realistically honestly I think they're
fine realistically if Tesla's straight
up like yep we're doing another round of funding I don't think there will be any
shortage of backers to try and get in on this one they'll be fine and they they
will be fine but they might have to do another round of funding I mean it's
it's really interesting to see why it is then that the incumbent automakers
aren't just going head-to-head with Tesla it's like well why aren't they
just matching Tesla's investment into electric cars well because even if
you're BMW or Audi sold a lot of money it is yeah and
unlike a fledgling company I mean Tesla is still a really young company unlike a
fledgling company an established company with established shareholders that
expect to get their established benefits from being
shareholders you're going to have to sell the idea of just spending money
hand over fist on an unproven although I
think we're pretty close to it being a foregone conclusion that electric cars
are going to be a thing but on an unproven Market where you don't have
well here's the last 50 years of sales
and Market data the car the Auto industry doesn't move that fast it
really doesn't it's kind of sad uh this was posted by snow comet on the Forum
I'm going to fire up lenovo.com where we are going to learn
about actually a pretty cool uh pretty
cool little release you want to handle this puppy I have read zero of these
topics oh oh that's right you were working on the ultimaker ultimaker 2
thing filming two videos well okay and
getting new internet you know what yeah super
stoked right you have new internet at your house now right oh yes also have
internet at my house that's a pretty important part of that sentence I
haven't had internet for a while and then they were supposed to come today and they came at one of the least
opportune times uh it would have been worse if they came during W show that is
true if you were just like peace I need to go get internet I'd be like yeah I
get it because if I didn't have internet at my house I would basically be living
at the office same as you that was pretty good timing because honestly even
if I had internet I wasn't going to be leaving I needed to get that print
working so and like I wasn't on the computer using the internet I was
working on the like my feet hurt it's on a standing desk and I was working on it
for so long I'm looking forward to watching that review because I have
spent almost no time with the ultimaker I like legit don't want anyone else
printing off of it people can make models people can find whatever models
they want and then I'll do the printing part there's some there's some
trickiness there's some and like the I think it was five or six I don't
remember five to six and a half hours last night where I was just troubleshooting wow straight so I
learned a lot about the printer I heard from the twitch chat that they basically
walked you through it morph more morph Mory he helped a lot
okay yeah all right well maybe that's what people were saying so Lenovo ushers
in a new era of mobile workstation power
and performance with the ThinkPad p50
and p70 so they're not the first ones to
try and build a mobile workstation at all no like at all but
but these ones are definitely the most powerful and badass looking ones that
we've ever seen so the p70 is the 17in model the p50 is the 15in model and the
p70 is loaded up with 64 gigs of ECC
ddr4 memory can handle up to a terabyte of SSD storage over PCI Express and up
to four storage devices it also comes
with two Thunderbolt 3 ports so
Thunderbolt 3 is 40 gbit per second if I
recall correctly and uh sorry 5
Gigabyte yeah thereabouts and is USB-C
is a USBC connector or something along those lines I actually haven't looked
into it enough yeah it's through a USB 3 Type C connector so well okay that's one
thing that doesn't can you not thank you that's one thing that I wish I could
adjust or maybe I can and I haven't yet uh but the the snapping aggressiveness
in the latest versions of xplit it's nice to be able to move things around
freely but um I wish it would snap a little bit more decisively so there you
go that's what the connector looks like this is on Thunderbolt technology.net uh
this is great more speed more pixels more power more protocols DisplayPort
PCIe Thunderbolt and usb3 super speed it can also deliver up to 100 wats of power
and two 4K displays so epic so that is
some pretty ba technology um so it'll come with that
and what else is there to really say about it uh Zeon CPU you're going to
need that for that ECC memory support and then they also feature Quadro gpus
but I don't see exact models and these
aren't going to be available until Q4 2015 although I have already reached out
to Lenovo and we are already confirmed to be getting a review sample nice so we
can check it out in person and let you guys know what's up because let's face
it there's a lot of powerful laptops out there but there's a difference between a
workstation and just any old laptop or
notebook this is a great top of discussion did you know that there is a
difference between a laptop and a
notebook no they are not the same thing I didn't know that yep the amount of
crap that I've gotten about this from one of our particular Partners every
time I say the wrong one um is significant is it what's the difference
so the the irony is that neither of them
is intended to run in your lap that was done away with a very long time ago when
heat existed um okay a
laptop is larger and bulkier okay I
expected that but smaller than a desktop replacement okay okay a notebook is
smaller but not an Ultra
Book and I was
like okay that's kind of what I expected I was going to say notebook is going to
have to be a smaller one but like so this is kind of a notebook because of
its size but I think in terms of its
power it would be more of a
laptop and then this this is a notebook that's an Ultra Book because sorry one
the definition of Ultra Book is a little flexible depending on whether it is a
two and one which used to be called a convertible so this one has like a
tablet mode so yeah there you go if you
guys didn't know that then you learned a completely useless fact
today um as ble is so fond of doing
speaking of burkel oh man he has outdone
himself on the car painting video uh
that's over on vessel right now and it's
going to be coming to YouTube sometime next week but if you guys have a vessel
membership a surprising number of our viewers actually don't know that channel
super fun is also over on vessel it's
not just lineus Tech tips Techquickie and Channel Super Fun are both there but
this is something else this car painting
video uh I think I'm about to show an ad so I'll just uh put that away for now so
you guys don't have to listen to that and then I'll go ahead and oh wow there
was no ad worst intro we have ever done many
episodes ago yeah so this is where the
here basically I'll I'll I'll I'll give you guys a sneak peek at just exactly
what is going down that is me that is me
in my old uh student Works painting shirt from my house painting days so uh
yes you will witness that and many other things in the Channel Super Fun car
painting episode so that is that is some good stuff right there uh let's move on
Intel this was posted by Jesper
0101 996 and Intel says the shortages of
Broadwell and Skylake CPUs will be going
away so if you've been wondering about you know where exactly you can get you
know a uh 5775c for example that's the Broadwell
chip or 6700k that's the Skylake core i7
then Supply is expected to improve soon
and we should see more of everything as Q3 progresses so Q3 is uh August
September October no July August
September yes that is Q3 so uh throughout the the rest of uh whatever
is going on right now all right this is a pretty good oh this was originally
posted on techreport tocom I'll go ahead and uh pull that puppy up there and then
I don't know if I ever actually posted this in the twitch chat this is why this
show is hard to run by myself this is why I have trouble with what the devil
is going on here so this is apparently
like a happy new office
gift five pizzas they they know how many
they know enough to know where we are but they don't know enough to know how
many people work here so there's there's pizzas specifically for specific people
so this is for Nick and Justin okay yeah
so there you go here come take this
we're apparently doing Pizza distribution okay I I'll I'll I'll read
off what it is so this is pizza 5 for Nick and Justin yeah you guys are five
Get Wrecked bro it's from ixie hazy nips and map it is
basically as pepperoni bacon jalapenos and go chick you yes sweet this one is
from the same people not surprising this one is for Taran and John they got
wrecked what' they get I knew someone was going to get pranked and it was
Taran and John okay so the cheese is mozzarella and the toppings are
pineapple anchovies oysters and sour
cream so that's why they ordered five pizzas so that some of them could be
horrible so this one is ours you can
read that one off okay what do we got here pepperoni green peppers jalapenos
bacon and grilled chicken with mozzarella and cheddar cheese that is a
wicked sounding Pizza the boss is straight up not sharing that one I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get a
pizza l oh no okay that sucks that's for
that one's pretty rocking I don't okay so we got this is for Dennis and burkel
green peppers red peppers jalapenos hot banana peppers spicy pepperoni and spicy
Italian sausage Burkle went home early so I guess Den is going to have to eat
this one all by his Lonesome and the last one uh this is for Brandon and Ed
and this is pretty plain Jane mozzarella cheese pepperoni bacon and jalapeno so
guys get in here and uh claim your
pizzas
I'll yeah poor John and Taran guys so all right so here's a
pretty great topic this was posted by jper 10199
on the Forum the original article here is from RS Technica I'm going to go
ahead and pull it up yeah get get out of here go away the door closes itself
automatically you want fiber internet that'll be
383,000
$500 um I love how I love how isps seem to
have this thing where it's like oh you want us like like companies like
McDonald's if you want a McDonald's in your town you can probably email them or
something and they'll probably come build the store if you have enough people they get enough requests and they
do you know like a a business case
analysis and can I say thanks to ni M
and I no you can't I covered the mic damn that was Ed he says
thanks um so yeah they'll do like you
know like a like a business case and proposal and if they can find a
franchise owner right they might have different business models for you know
all depending what business it is basically getting a
co-investor effectively right um no and
I love I love ARS Technica these guys do such a great job of ripping ISP is a new
one yeah so the the basic summary is
this the farmer says okay I would like
to get your your fiber Network extended to my farm in uh Cisco Nebraska uh which
is only 4 and half miles away from windream that's the name of the ISP away
from their nearest fiber facility actually in the grand scheme of things
not that bad not that far really not
that far I mean we were looking at a you
know not a completely trivial distance down the road from us and I think our
buildout cost was five digits not six
even better actually the farmer was able to determine that there appeared to be a
Windstream fiber line about A4 mile from his property which is confirmed by a map
of their fiber Network a quar mile from its property is not bad but but uh
apparently uh they refuse to connect him to that line citing some sort of it's
stating that it's some sort of reserved private windream only line which if you
guys know anything about the kind of data capacity of that fiber is capable
of very unlikely it is basically not a thing you
don't run fiber where any anywhere without dark fiber like without extra
capacity and even if you only had one
piece of fiber even if there was just
one which there isn't even if there was just one it's not like you can't split
multiple signals across a single piece of fiber that is a thing it's just fine
there's no way they need the entire capacity of it just for themselves um so
after receiving this ridiculous qu quot they contacted another network provider
at Northeast telephone company and even though they're completely out of their
service area they quoted the farmer
$41,900 so just over 10% the previous
estimate to extend their they also offered a $6,000 credit for any other
customer that signed up using the line that the farmer was paying to install I
mean you know what the stupid thing is is we got a quote from Tellis for this
place and they came in even though they are like the fiber infrastructure
in British columia like it's TS yeah um
or someone leasing from tus tus came in several times more
expensive in every possible way compared to any other quote we CAU like they were
completely out to lunch and I was like
so is the service different and they're like well we can offer services like uh
cell phone failover and I'm like right
but unless I'm buying like a a thousands
of dollars a month cell phone
plan like I couldn't I just buy that couldn't I just get like a 4G hotspot
stupid thing and put it in my server room like if if that's my plan if that's
my backup internet plan or if I wasn't a complete idiot couldn't I just get like
a residential line from you or sh or something and run that into
the building as well better A different brand it's like 80 bucks a month for
like something that's good enough to keep the the office operational in the
extremely unlikely event that the fiber connection's unavailable like come on
yeah you guys are ridiculous so it's unclear why
Windstream's fee was so much higher but they confirmed it when contacted by ARS
Technica stating that the total quote was for 36 months of dedicated internet
service and they when pressed for further information as to how exactly
they calculated that did not respond about the private line a quarter mile
from the property yeah um so yeah you
know what why don't I do that and why don't you run off and get some plates
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problem with me talking about a new thing is that I was 3D printing all freaking day with the twitch chat over
at twitch.tv/ lukor LFR which was I
think the longest stream we've ever done um you talked about Intel Skylake
Broadwell CPU shortages um you skipped yes I did do
that okay Spotify ending free
music oh jeez due to pressure from like
a bunch of companies that doesn't seem like them original article here is from
so muchh hat.com but basically they have no choice I thought it would shake my
head oh is it that I don't know I actually don't know okay uh the Sydney
Morning Herald I was just kind of having fun so
muchir we're both completely
wrong oh god oh also I want to say uh
Taran did eat one slice of that pizza
did he yeah uh John apparently likes it
what yeah the the anchovy oyster
Pizza God that's so weird anyway sorry
shortages ending soon so um yeah basically they're
they're getting pressured by um
Universal unal and Sony who are
basically yet to renew their licenses to Spotify to host music for their artists
so this is like serious business Spotify can either go premium only and compete
head-to-head with all the other services that are I mean this has got to be a
collusion lawsuit waiting to happen like just stifling competition
but the problem is that it'll take 10 or 20 years to actually resolve it and by
that time you know screaming might even be irrelevant maybe there's a DOT that
you like stick up your nose that contains all the music ever made and you
run a wire from your nose
so is it called a babble fish hher Guide
to the Galaxy I actually have never seen or read Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy that makes me sad anyways you put like a little fish in your ear because
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and it translates everything that you hear yeah
that makes sense maybe not a fish but if science could solve that problem for me
that would be great yeah like a magic booger sure um so there there you go
suaki there is no official statement from Spotify yet but uh yeah there's
really not too much else to say uh this is like the super uninteresting rumor
ever uh because I think a lot of people were really confused due to the model
name due to the model names about what this meant but a lot of the headlines
that I looked at in a lot of forum discussion uh was that uh do GTX
990m for notebooks maybe based on the desktop GTX
980 which to me is the least interesting
thing ever NVIDIA does this every time
the confusing thing is that there sticklers about model names when it
comes to desktop and mobile which is why they skip 300 series but then they don't
care about the rest of the numbers no
what and and it's not the first time they've done this N9 99 M being based on
the 980 desktop is not significant at all 980m
is already based on the 980 desktop so we might get a little bit more power or
something the interesting stuff about this though is that NVIDIA is not
launching an mxm module card this time that's the current word on the street
and they are apparently going to be letting the laptop designers really big
build their cooling solution and their laptop and power delivery around how
much of the chip they want to unlock interesting so the way it's always
worked in the past is that a laptop with
a part X performs
y 990m notebooks could be all over the
place and I mean this has already been happening to a much lesser extent with
GPU boost with throttling and boosting
but this could be a completely different level speaking of GPU boosting uh we
actually have filmed right the video where we took six Titan xes and compared
their boost levels to find out how much performance variance there is so stay
tuned for that guys it's filmed like back in the kitchen yeah like it's we
kind of we kind of forgot about it apparently
so I don't know I made it and then I was like oh I'm excited to see when that
comes on YouTube so I can see the comments on it and then I was like what
why is it why is it taking so long yes
apparently was because literally no one has looked at it at all since you filmed
it nope so um that's great uh this is
original original this is an original article from n Gadget originally posted
by Arty by the way the last one was ah Ming the fbii says retweeting terrorist
organizations could get you investigated
and or even arrested basically you could get wrecked
so you probably shouldn't I mean you
shouldn't need the FBI to tell you this honestly yeah that's one thing that I
thought about when I read this like I saw some comments I don't know what site
it was on um of people talking about
this and oh I can't believe that they
would think this all this kind of stuff it's like why why why are you doing this what kind of toolshed is retweeting Isis
propaganda yeah period yeah like I don't I don't
blame them at all this I I don't even know why they're telling us they should
have just probably been doing it this isn't even the FBI being all like y
we're going to monitor your you know NSA chip inside your brain to no you posted
it on social media that's a that's a that's a public thing like this is very
very public it's it's like it's like walk this is exactly the kind of stuff
that they should be taking advantage of it's like it's like parading around in front of the White House with like an ey
support Isis shirt on you don't think someone's going to ask what the crap
you're doing so there you go I mean um
basically what the FBI said is that Twitter has proved to be an invaluable
source of evidence against supporters of terrorism um an account that's
constantly retweeting content could be a sign of criminal activity with that said
context still matters so so if it's like an awareness like these
are bad accounts or maybe this is what they're doing make sure you know kind of
style thing I'm sure it's fine but if you're like a raah Rah kind of account
then it's probably are you okay bit my tongue ow oh that sucks you know what
really sucks is when you bite your like cheek or your tongue and then you go to
like check it and then bite the other thing mhm yeah so don't do that and when
it swells and you start biting it all the time and you just get this like flab
of cheek skin swelling unexpectedly is a big problem for me is it now he's
swelling up I swell very expectedly
consistently which is always during the Wayne
show um an example of a tweet that got someone arrested was 17-year-old Ali
shukri Amin a 17 okay that's twice there
uh who used Twitter to promote Bitcoin donations to
Isis so go to jail yeah bye-bye I don't
bye-bye again I I don't understand why they even bothered to tell us because
they should have just been doing this I this seems extremely expected a lot of
the news this week is like yep someone made a parent company for
themselves Elon musk's business models make it so that they bleed money at the
beginning and you probably shouldn't be friends with
terrorists all right so uh this is just
a really quick one the original article here is pcgamer.com uh Microsoft plans
to support gaming on Windows
by supporting Steam on Windows 10 or
something games for Windows was a prior approach where it was more at the time
like how do we take things we knew we
wanted to help make great multiplayer we knew we wanted to bring things over but
it wasn't the right approach it was the approach of let's just take things and
Transplant them you know something something and is Microsoft planning to
use the Windows user base to challenge steam no we're not intending to compete
with steam if anything we want them to be more successful they've done great things for PC Gam going to support steam
by doing nothing so they're going to support steam by not directly inhibiting
steam's progress yeah so that's cool I
guess uh directx12 will apparently not
oh that was posted by Z mule on the Forum by the way and the previous one was already uh this is by
hk5 and the original article here is PCR online.
Biz and our our headline topic of mantle
being dead is apparently not factual so
um AMD's gaming scientist Richard H what is with what is with these
titles like mid Langan nice guy gave me
this laptop calls himself Chief
gamer gaming scientist like it's like it's like what
did everyone at AMD play portal and so
it's like yes we need to do more science
also we need to sell things to Gamers
what about gaming and science together
and then there's the logitech's whole like standing there going well actually
hold on a second our tagline is like science wins so can you just not
actually um so mantle was intended to
solve a solve a problem that game devs
cared about uh they can use it for the same task in the future although no one
is going to no one is going to develop for an API that is anyway direct X2
means mantle has achieved its aim although I mean directx12 was in
development going to happen anyway way before AMD anyone even knew that mantle
was a thing um mantle will be used to solve different problems in the future
um no mantle has been
absorbed um by Kronos and you know any
useful you know tidbits of it have been
Borrowed by directx12 and that's it I really don't know why like okay to be
clear I see what he's saying like mantle will live on like you know in the DNA of
other Technologies the concept of mantle the goals of mantle will live on but
it's possible that Battlefield 4 is the only game or whatever Thief I guess
Battlefield the games that are out now are possibly the only games that will
ever exist where you change your rendering engine to mantle and then even
then it didn't really do anything yeah I think that was my
favorite part of the whole thing at least it wasn't worse they didn't make it worse mantle
at least it wasn't worse they didn't hurt people for using
it which is
good all right um this is
cool news.sky.com crazy sorry laging
like crazy I know we're not dropping frases but everyone's freaking out oh
okay well nothing we can do about that that's all yeah Sky News says the UK to
test wireless charging for electric cars
so check that out this right here is an
electric recharging Lane so as you drive
your car would recharge that is some
seriously awesome use of taxpayer dollars if Canada decided to do stuff
like that and and you wouldn't have to do it everywhere because the plan in the
UK is also to put charging stations I think every 20 miles or something stupid
like that like just awesome um but the idea is that if you put that on the main
throw first like imagine if you have that where people get stuck in traffic
mhm so if you're going to be stuck in traffic and your battery is going to be
draining you got your air conditioning on or whatever hey it's all good I'm not
going to get stuck here yeah whereas if you're just going on you know a trip off
the main drag where you've got the charging Lanes then that's fine that
that's predictable I love this this is like the coolest thing ever pretty much
super cool um what is there to really say about it uh British government has
committed uh 500 million pounds over the
next 5 years to keep Britain at the Forefront of this technology and the
trials are expected to last for approximately 18 months and subject to
the results could be followed by Road trials this makes a lot more sense than
like solar roadways yes it does yeah cuz that was a whole load of crap yeah it
was kind of funny how the internet exploded like I could almost see like
some kind of like heated roadways versus
electric like solar panel roadways like there's there's a thousand other ways to
tackle that that wouldn't involve completely tearing up every single road
yeah one tip for the live viewers by the way uh apparently refreshing the stream
helps a lot anyways keep on so it doesn't seem to be us HTC stock value is
tanking apparently it's less than their cash Holdings which renders them more or
less worth nothing which is uh not great and the
sad thing about that is that we really need Vive to come out no no no U well
that to we do yeah Vive looks badass yeah so get this HTC trading below their
cash value leaves the brand with no value not just the brand with no value
okay this leaves their buildings that
they own with no value so basically the
consensus is that their liabilities uh things like that I think
something like 30% of their assets are
inventory 30 yeah 30% of the asset value
comes from inventory and accounts receivable so they're saying that their
liabilities more than compensate for
buildings that they own and that the HTC
brand itself that HTC logo is effectively worth nothing
wow so to be clear they this is this is
not something that happened overnight they had 27.9 billion in cash in 2011
and now have just over 1.45
billion okay and you got to look at it and go you know if Tesla can make a car
for a billion dollars what have you been doing what did HTC do with
it that's only four years they have no
long-term debt I mean that makes sense cuz they had 28 billion in the bank why
would they be taking out loans but they haven't managed to be profitable and
basically the word on the the general consensus among industry analysts is
that they won't be able to get profitable and yeah they they have little chance to
compete with future iPhone and Samsung devices their resources to be completely
honest I I really don't see people diving on on HTC phones much lately the
one the 1 M9 is is kind of kind of not great I mean I think my review of it I I
did review it so I've already said what I have to say about it but it's like
kind of not very great yeah
um and we're going like even more than
before we're going down to just a few brands on mobile that really matter yep
and I mean the fact that Samsung woke up and stopped completely crapping itself
um the S6 and the S6 Edge are excellent phones uh there seems to be a fair bit
of hype about Note 5 I actually haven't really I haven't watched the event or
anything like that um CU I tend to just kind of take a when I get a phone then
I'll deal with it approach to mobile devices but um and I don't blame you for
that yeah it looks like a fair bit of hype right now
um oh that was posted on the Forum by Mr
straight face Japan is apparently turning back on their nuclear reactors
this is uh well they were they were turned off
in response to a meltdown back in uh
2011 so the Fukushima meltdown uh
basically shut down all the nation's nuclear power plants and then they
switched the first one back on as of uh
looks like about 3 days ago so there is
a higher tsunami wall and a lot of new
security measures uh the new regulations are incomparably stricter than the past
and this is likely in response to the energy prices in Japan skyrocketing by
30% in the last four years I mean the cold hard truth is that nuclear power
for all of its risks like it's it's such
a it's such a catch 22 right because the
it's like driving though because when people are like oh they they shouldn't
increase speed limits because they're more dangerous it's like well we also
shouldn't drive 30 everywhere and the the the issue you
need to take some risks and I mean that's easy for us to
say like way over here in Canada where we're just powered by Falling Water
which is yeah about as dangerous to people who aren't sitting under the dam
as like I mean it's less dangerous than
solar power cuz the sun is like cancer and whatnot no well it's more than water
no because a dam burst can be dangerous wait but we're not under it so the dam
is hundreds and hundreds of kilometers away what do we care yeah but solar
power isn't going to hurt you but the sun you can't just get rid of the sun if
you don't want solar power it's going to be there anyways the sun isn't there
because of solar power okay my point is that Hydro power DC Hydro didn't install
the sun my point is that hydr power is safe for the people who aren't near the
dam okay yes but but it's like this
Catch 22 because the denser your population the more optimal nuclear
power looks because you don't have to burn all this coal uh you don't have
like you know solar power Fields hectares and hectares of you know wind
windmills and crap like that wind power
so but the denser your population well
the higher risk nuclear power is the more people have to be near a nuclear
power we're working stuff we're working on stuff like uh we are personally yes
yes yes that's what this new headquarters building is for it's for
the L working on developing title power in a building away from the
ocean with no water facilities we could
be closer to the Ocean than you think two washrooms we're working on
technology that will actually have the ocean here
yeah sick anyways uh yeah tidal power
geothermal is being revolutionized constantly solar getting solar more
ubiquitous like getting every building with solar on top of it will make it a
lot more effective big difference um there's every year solar like how well
the solar power panels uh the cells actually perform massively increases
storage solutions for them get way better like the Tesla wall power thing
we have 11,000 viewers that's new alltime high
yeah pizza party that gets way better
everything gets way better in terms of solar every year geothermal is moving up
to Tidal power still has a ton of development going on it's still a little
cray but they've got a lot of development going on like alternatives
are coming but nuclear is strong and here now and you can say whatever you
want about they should maybe be using thorium reactors or whatever but not
only is nuclear here now they actually have the plants now today yeah they just
turn them back on with more safety measures which should definitely be a
thing y yeah all right the ESL this is
posted by X yrz best the ESL announces
details of their antidoping policy so there's actually a
bunch of different sources for this one we're going to pull up the poon one just
for because polygons are cool and their shapes and so I like shapes um so you
want to go ahead and run through what's going on here I also haven't read this
one okay well then fine jump in very so they adopt the
world anti-doping agency's prohibited
substance
and we're back we're back
okay um Pizza stream yeah taking down
the the xplit okay so uh yeah we we had so many
viewers that like the local application crashed yeah um so
the doesn't work that way right here's where I was leaving off so you can make
all kinds of arguments for marijuana not
being a performance-enhancing substance I mean
although I do know people that play better when playing video games while
they're maybe possibly under the influence of the marriage seriously yes
but that is a different problem and that's because they play more often when
they are under the influence right so it's a regularization so it's no secret
that that playing under your ideal
conditions where you've practiced is a good idea but like I mean that whole
thing with Ross reati uh was that was
that in like 2004 I think it's wow I'm
old um where so a Canadian snowboarder who did he end up getting back but he
had his gold medal stripped because of THC and we're kind of sitting here
snowboarding culture particularly in the earlier days in the
earlier days you you throw a rock in a
room of Canadian snowboarders and you're going to hit someone who's smoked a
little bit of grass in their day um and
then there was the whole thing with Michael Phelps where he didn't he wasn't
even tested positive he had he had a duy
in his hand at a party once and someone
like shared that picture um so anyway
anyway it's good they're doing something this is all in response to if you didn't
catch it we talked about this on W show before but Corey seis frezon admission
last month that the professional Counter-Strike Global Offensive player
used Aderall during the esl1 cats event
in March and the quote was which they knew we were all on ader all I don't
even give an f it was pretty obvious if you listen to the coms people can hated
or whatever so testing positive could result in a range of punishments from
reduced prize money and tournament points to disqualification and a maximum
two-year ban from ESL events that's actually scary prize money like they're
going to want to win and if they take ad all do better and have reduced prize
money they'll just probably win more money anyways but a two-year suspension in Pro gaming is basically a lifelong
suspension the careers are phenomenally short you have a very narrow window
where you have to be really successful and then maybe you get a coaching job
after cuz like you're still way better
than humans but you're not good
enough yeah um so you know the funny
thing about this to me is that substance abuse okay and and this
something like Aderall might not even be abuse this is just testing positive for
it period that's that's that's a prescription medication potentially I
mean I'm sure if you have a prescription for it not necessarily no there's lots
of stuff like that like legitimate prescriptions in NBA or whatever like
they test positive for it boom no done done done suspension um and the thing
about this is like where do we draw the line is the line where you're competing
for money because okay should I suspend
Luke if I find out that he's been popping riddlin before he comes into
work so he can focus better
this isn't a competition but isn't it isn't the
workplace competitive are you not competing for promotions for for
recognition from your boss or your peers which I never get
anymore shut up and go back in your
Harry Potter closet but think about that for a second
is where do we draw the line now you can't play video games and I real realiz
that I have made exactly the opposite argument previously on the show this is
as much a devil's Devil's Advocate thing as anything else um that's what this
whole show but where do we draw the line right are you not allowed to take
Aderall like should we just ban the drug out right no it makes people perform
better it's not fair and honestly a lot
of people that I know that are really good at video
games whether or not it's true because there's some hubub about that but add or
ADHD a lot of people that I know that are really good at video games so like
you're going to be excluding a lot of people that would be prescribed for these drugs and looking in at the states
isn't what's what's prescription rates in the states for adol and rity I don't
I don't remember but it's something obscene yeah I mean the thing about the
thing about ADHD is that and I I feel like I can talk about this fairly
critically because I was haven't figured that out an ADHD kid I was on in very
legitimately by the way I might add but um what is a legitimate prescription
for Ridin because you see a lot of kids getting Ridin subscript subscriptions
Ridin prescriptions yeah it's like uh sign up for it hold on Dollar Shave Club
isn't a sponsor yeah dollar dollar riddlin club we send your riddlin once a
month for a low monthly Fe you know what if you had a prescription of that stuff
and there was a service like dollar ridd and Club I'd be down with that I would
be down to get my good business model they know what they're doing I would be down to get my prescriptions delivered
online if I didn't think that every company selling prescription medications
online was only interested in selling me fake Viagra um so so no let's so hold on
wait so so back to that so the thing the the the symptoms that get someone a Rin
prescription and I talk about Rin because that was the drug back in my day
when I was on it I think it's it's Aderall now but whatever adol consider
the thing that gets you a Rin prescription is being hyper which
doesn't to be a bad thing so show me a redbled 8-year-old that isn't a little
hyper and you know what the reality of it is is my childhood was pretty
complicated and if I wasn't acting out
if I wasn't a little offthe wall then there was probably something even more
wrong with me so is a Ridin prescription
the answer or should we be finding the underlying issue a lot of the time ADHD
gets used as a catchall diagnosis it's kind of like um and sometimes it will be
real I'm sure yeah absolutely it does get used as a catch all a lot and the
thing that people have to understand too is that ADHD is a spectrum it's like
it's like autism you're not like 100%
Autistic or 0% autistic just like you're
not 100% ADHD like all over the place I
have to do a thousand things right now or you just sit like a lump like this
it's it's it's a spectrum so where is the line drawn it's is very complicated
and you look at something like autism where I believe Asbergers which was kind
of like mild autism spectrum has
actually been removed as an official
diagnosis by at least I think my mom was telling me there was some organization
that has that has eliminated as a diagnosable condition because basically
the symptom was being kind of like socially awkward and like and so who
isn't like who isn't a little hyper who isn't a little socially awkward so so it
became sort of like what is like where's where's the line if I'm not if I'm not
prepared for someone to recognize me or notice me I'm the weirdest person ever
if I'm like totally not thinking about that possibility at all that's some's
like hi and's just like hey I've been really rude to people
by accident just cuz I was like completely
taken off guard they were like hey lonus
and I've gotten more used to it now I'm just like hey the really awkward one for
me though sorry I'm totally going off in a tangent is I'm pretty bad with names
and faces so it's when people are like
hey lonus and I'm like hey and I just think they're a fan or whatever but it's
actually someone I
know that sounds that sounds like me that's super super two minutes left on
the print oh wow really that's fun I wish that power supply was working I'm
going to I'm going to play around with a little bit after the show and see if I can figure out what's going on yeah um
this is a pretty exciting topic though this is from gosu
gamersnet and this is uh this is going to be a definite opinion piece right
here or piece of opinion or I don't know I don't know what you want to call this
but we are we are straw pulling the crap out of this
one um Esports in
school all right um I think I gotta I
got to give more than the usual options so yes gaming
um so hold on like practical gaming
Theory and um you know like I don't know
ah okay
okay yes just theory yes just practical
gaming so do want to talk about this a little bit like okay yeah there's I
don't think there's a ton to say basically a few schools in Sweden
uh not like certain schools not all of
them we'll be putting about 3 hours of Esports class a week so remembering how
they do high school I don't know if they do it this way in Sweden you have blocks
so you might have like an hourong block
three times in one week so like Monday Wednesday Friday or something I'm
assuming that's how it's going to work um peoples will be able to practice and
learn games such as Dota 2 and Counter Strike just to name a few um none are
supporting fullblown Esports programs yet but certain uh alignments can take
classes in Dota Counterstrike and Esports in general it's really funny
that they're called alignments yeah um it's like if you're a if you're
a passive alignment then you can take Esports class but no woodworking for you
that sounds a lot like video game high school where it was like are you an RPG
player and like that's what class system you were in so you could go with like
racing and then you took all the racing class
that's what you were you were a racing student you didn't do the RPG stuff you
might in your own free time after class but in class you're a racing student
so um they're treated as normal athletic subjects access to rooms and areas
designated for practice uh school teams will be formed with the ghoul of
competing at of with the ghoul with the goal of competing at events um they're
planning on bringing in players and personalities for guest lectures which
probably wouldn't be that hard to find in Sweden completely honest kind of a
big deal they're really good at those things um at one school student studying
events will also get to host a large tournament as their third year final
project that's pretty interesting
um yeah the school system must get better to in general and educating
people about the Contemporary society and this is good evidence of that very
fact I think it's interesting that it's so that was a quote that's from Ibraham
Khalifa chairman of education and employment um in uh
sigtuna County yeah Stockholm and that's a good point isn't
it we've got nobody voting on the straw pole oh balls I think I posted it in the
wrong chat I think I had the wrong another pretty cool quote there have been some frowning noses and some
wondering why they get to play computer games during school hours but we aim to
kill the myth that it is that it has to be a bad thing furthermore it is about
showing respect to this group of peoples now there's some interesting things kids
that aren't going to want to engage or straight up won't engage at least
positively in gym class like you can't expect every kid that
goes to gym class to get on an NFL team yeah and like we've all known that but
one of the reasons why people do it is because of team building exercises
physical fitness all this other kind of stuff well Esports classes could work
very much in the team building exercises way it could help these kids get in
different Social Circles if you're someone who's not necessarily going to do great in gym class
maybe this could be one of your Avenues to build a team and make friends that way or honestly a lot of the really good
uh players that I know are really physically fit so maybe it's just
another Avenue uh it can be very mentally stimulating especially some of
these hard games you're very engaged the whole time um I don't think it's a
terrible thing I don't know about three hours a
week yeah I'm really like I'm really in high school you get to pick your courses
right so I'm really not sure how I would feel about my son you know coming home
and being like yeah I enrolled in gaming level to well in high school you'd
probably be a part of that conversation yeah or like okay fine like here's
here's my suggested course load that I'm taking you know I'm going to take
chemistry DOTA and uh and Mathematics if
he had a spare I mean the thing the thing for me is
that honestly I had I had a few spares
because my school just didn't have anything better to offer me so here's my
here's my problem if you're going to be like H like I have no problem with a
school DOTA team that I don't object but
you want it to be extracurricular I think it should be extracurricular I don't think it needs to be during class
time and the reason that P I think they should encourage school teams yes no
problem with that at all I think that's great I think being part of a school
team and being part of your your school's culture is really important and
cool but the reason that PE gets a pass
for me because PE was something that I stopped taking immediately when I didn't
have to anymore um not because I couldn't do it or whatever it was just I
just thought it was a waste of my time I have to be in school during this time
like when I was in high school I was one of those kids that didn't take a free
blog I took no free Block I took no PE I
took all my Sciences even though you only had to take I think one or
something to to graduate one grade 12 level science or did you even need any
12 need a grade 12 level science so so so I did all my grade 12 level Sciences
need 10 or 11 or something or and and stuff like that because I'm in school to
learn and video games are not learning
and quite frankly throwing a basketball at a hoop is not learning either unless
you're serious about it in which case you're on the team and you're attending
practices before or after school and it's a serious part of your life like
it's it's it's it's secondary school is learning and PE the reason that that I
give it a pass for existing at all is that the rationale behind it whether it
works or not is very much an open discussion and not one that I'm going to
get into now but the rationale behind it is that it's about getting into the
habit of doing some exercise daily which is a good lifelong Habit to have and
getting kids used to that idea especially I mean I don't know what the
culture like going to University that doesn't work um so I don't know what the
cultures like in Sweden but here even
for very little kids uh PE might might be the only exercise these kids are
getting on a given day and having it exist at all if that does if that does
anything if it does okay if it does nothing else it reduces the barrier to
entry for learning a sport and I'll
explain what that means like badminton I think one of the big things holding it
back I I love badminton I play badmon all the time one of the big things
holding badminton back it is is it is damn near impossible to pick it up
because where do you play well it's kind of fragmented there's like badminton
centers but the only way to play there is to either go play Drop in with like
all these people of varied skill levels most of which show up with a click of
friends to play Drop in together so there's almost no one to play with if
you're not very good no one's going to want to play with you people will actively avoid you okay so the
alternative is you can go try and find like the like the the Rogue groups the
the leave it alone you C someone's touching his 3D print
apparently so there'll be like like small small private leagues or like
private facilities or whatever so you can play at those again no one's going
to want to play with you if you suck which leaves nothing you can like hit to
yourself in your backyard which is which is sort of horrible um so unless you're
any good it's not like bowling where you can just go practice by yourself um it's
it's going to be hard to become part of that that social experience of of
playing with people and and learning and all that and all that kind of stuff so I
think that PE class builds skills that
make it even possible to go and engage I mean can you imagine if you if you show
up at you know um the local basketball
court you know just at the park or whatever and you totally suck no one's
going to want you to play you know you'd be always last to be picked and in some
cases never picked at all so You' just lean up on the wall or sit up in the
bleachers with the rest of the sorry yeah that was awesome I so happy I came
back for that so that to me is the
justification for PE because you are legitimately learning how to engage in
these activities and PE will cover things like how to throw a ball because
it's one thing if you show up for like a beer league baseball team and you can
throw a ball and like swing a bat but you're kind of not very good versus if
you show up and you like throw something like this people are just going to be
like oh my go no one's going to want to play with you so
there you go and I don't think that
Esports has that issue I think it's easy to practice on your own at home outside
of school hours and it's also you know
let's be honest with ourselves it's very
much pure enjoyment for the vast majority of people who are doing it the
only people who are really working at it are the competitive people so what's the
benefit for the people who aren't competitive is this A system that is going to be put
in place and simply abused I don't know um I can also see like if it was a
purely Theory based and no one agrees with me 5% said yes just Theory like if
it was a purely Theory based thing like you're looking at you know how leagues
work you're looking at the history of gaming you're looking at like if we were
going to tackle Esports more from like just a purely educational perspective
then great but I don't and here's another thing 3 hours a week is nothing
for gaming like if you're like yeah I'm going to get great at Starcraft 2 I'm
going to practice for 3 hours like what you've done your tutorial campaign in
the first week of classes like that that's really that's
really silly yeah like gaming is not
designed for learning it in three hours
a week it's designed to have people sit down and do it repetitively until they
Master it which is again one of the criticisms of of PE of gym class is that
you're never going to get great at football by doing your one week football
unit when I was playing football it was three four practices a week and a
game so like yeah and like we were pretty good
but four practices a week at like I think an hour and a half each mhm and a
game that's a
lot so I personally don't think people should be playing video games in class
um I don't think it makes a ton of sense
objectively so there you go
um what else do we got
here n oh this is original article here
is kataku and this is by uh RAM mataz
posted on the Forum a Nintendo fired an employee for speaking out on a podcast
um lot of debate about this um but the
reality of it is whether it was whether it was heartless or not uh it's
extraordinarily likely especially given the secretive culture at Nintendo that
this was in his employee agreement that he was not to talk publicly about
company projects or and he gave a lot of opinions not all of them positive about
you know policies and and yeah
basically last week he went on the podcast said some things he shouldn't
have this week Nintendo fired him um I
hope that we never get corporate enough around here to
have to have something like that happen
I've seen a lot of people saying well he should have been given a warning first
or whatever else but you know what pretty brutal this was the
warning but the warning was for everyone else yeah and if you are going and see
the thing to understand too about Nintendo is that they have a culture
that's very secretive nothing leaks from
Nintendo why because when it happens
they make an example out of them and if people get a warning everyone's if one
person gets one warning everyone's going to feel like they have a freeb too
so I get it um super sucky and his
Facebook comment is absolutely heartbreaking you know like I look
around my house I see images of my son and I feel intense shame and crippling
sadness I know that if I can't find a job at least as good as this one I won't
be able to provide for my family um I've lost them their health
coverage and their security I also know that I've probably lost a good deal of my friends just because I know how hard
it can be to stay in touch with someone when the convenience of proximity Is
Lost I'm so sorry to everyone I failed you you believed in me and supported me
and trusted me and I failed you I failed me and that's that's that is some that
is some powerful stuff right there and super super sucky but the thing that you
so let let this be let it not be for nothing let this be a warning to you
read your employee agreement
carefully don't talk about private stuff
to anyone who is not internal and authorized CU that is some that is some
sucky stuff right there um one more topic uh scre with the printer so I'm a
little pissed off but we can do one more topic if okay this is so annoying
because if they screw anything up now I'm just going to have to spend hours fixing it but they think it's funny so
that's okay steam boy or smash zero is a portable handheld steam machine so it's
going to be powered by 4 gigs of RAM 32 gigs of internal storage a 720p
touchcreen and an HDMI output it will carry an AMD embedded G Series S so with
a Jaguar based CPU and gcn based radon
Graphics basically I think this thing is probably a boatload of fail at
$300 um but it will there's naturally
going to be tons of games in your library that won't be compatible with smash zero on Steam duh yeah but it will
according to the promotional video play 1,000 plus games there's so many of
those are going to be trash yeah so many is going to be trash yeah that's it's
not about the volume of games at all no
so on that note thank you guys for
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