which is actually coming along quite well we're live oh
hello I'm trying to get into the twitch chat so I can link people articles and
stuff because people like it when we do what we're supposed to do on the show
which is usually cover topics but right now it's covering un
mustard I told you I was going to do the
joke I told him I was going to do the joke
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hello welcome to the W show I don't know
why he's not talking I don't know what topics we have today I'm just trolling
you so uh welcome to the W show guys it's going to be a great show today I
hope um we're definitely dressed for a great show today I got my uh got my
wiener head thing going on here I have a
nozzle head yeah Luke's got his mustard cap does it have a thing on the end I
think there is yeah there is a hole yeah yeah you have a mustard hole I do in
your costume I do anything sounds dirty when you add hole to it it's like
mustard Hole Hot Dog hole dog hole corn hole okay well that one that
one's fairly well established um oh my goodness so uh lots of great stuff today
the FBI's advice on ransomware just pay the
ransom woo the E ejaculator now on
Indiegogo now we don't generally cover
uh Indiegogo and and Kickstarter topics anymore because most of it is a steaming
pile of fail but uh this one is going to be a different kind of steaming you
missed the steaming pile of ejaculate yeah I was being a little more
subtle than that I didn't miss it is that what my mustard cap does I never
miss wow um what else we got here Arkham
Knight finally back on Steam I I I was
reading the article about this and I was like what do you mean Arkham kns
launching wasn't that like a billion years I'd actually forgotten about all
the controversy because I I I think I
played it like a little bit and I was like wow this is Arkham City without any
relevant villains who who
cares um so anyway I we already rolled the intro so I guess I'm kind of doing
the intro things now but I would normally I've heard I guess we're not
discussing the things we're just doing call outs yeah I think I was doing call
outs I I sort of got I got the ball got
rolling and then my balls were all rolled and then uh I think hot dogs have
balls it got awkward well they they could have uh they could have uh
cottage cheese balls wow some people
like cottage cheese on hot dos yeah I'm pretty sure that's a thing there's some
really interesting hot dogs people put some crazy stuff on their hot dogs yeah
yeah so I don't know are we talking about Arkham KN or we doing more call
out as long as you don't get poop on your hot dog
wow because it would taste gross that's why it's a problem yes it
would I should use that chair uh no
why I'm kidding okay uh okay so let's uh
let's get into our first topic here let's do the Surface Book issues so
everyone and their dog in the tech world
was like freaking out over the Surface
Book I certainly was I've got one on order or at least I thought I had one on
order no I actually do have one on order those of you who follow on Twitter will
have maybe seen the Epic Saga that is my
order of the Surface Book holy crap where I ordered it 3 weeks ago and then
I wanted to cancel my Surface Pro 4 order which was also in the same order
because I wanted to review them both so
I look he's VI uh so I cancelled my
Surface Pro 4 order because a micros a local Microsoft rep dropped a Surface
Pro four off with me the next day after I had placed it and I was like oh great
I don't have to buy one now that's fantastic um then
so I canceled that then I got an email like two weeks later saying your order
for the surface book has been cancelled and I was like yo ring ring no I never
cancelled that I definitely still want it please get your act together because
I actually need that thank you and they were like oh yeah yeah no it's it's just
a bug a bunch of orders were a bunch of emails were accidentally sent out it's
all fine it's all good I was like okay great so then I happened to be digging
around in my Microsoft account because
uh some credit card issue something something I had to double check some
previous transactions and I was like this order
is cancelled it says cancelled so I
finally get in touch with someone it's like the live chat is the hardest thing
to find on their site when you're looking for it when you're not looking
for it it's like right there like and it's the weirdest thing CU I'm sure half
of you are going to be like uh yeah is the live chat is like right here that's
fine but if you go to the contact us page it's not so that was like EA site
where if you're on if you have Canadian English selected it won't give you the
phone number at a certain time because
their English line is open at different times in their French line so if their
English line is open they won't display the English phone number so you go for
contact us and they're like we recommend for your problem because it's Advanced
that you call us here's the number and then it's just blank great so anyway I I
finally get in touch with someone and it takes forever because like can I get
your name can I get these security questions can I do this can I you know
stroke your child's hair gently while you watch like no just can I give you an
order number can I just give you an order number you look it up he's like no I can't look up your order number unless
I do all this crap I'm like why I just want to know if my order is
cancelled so finally they have this phone verification SMS thing I'm like
here's my number he like oh sorry can we do that again
like yes fine this is the slowest
support call that I have ever been on to
verify that an order is in your system but fine he's like no it's cancelled I'm
like okay so I really need this he's
like okay I'll put in a new order I'm like so that means my order date will be
the 27th not like the 8th when I
actually ordered it he's like yep I'm like so this is backordered there is
a weit list I want one now he's like
there's nothing I can do I'm like so I finally did it I finally played the
reviewer card I was like look I really need this I have a YouTube channel with
2 million subscribers it is in your best interest to get me a laptop sooner so I
can make my video it's like there is
nothing I can do [ __ ] there is always something you
can do it's called get off your ass get up go talk to someone and get the
problem solved because I never canceled my
order anyway so I'm mad but I'm even
heard this story I'm not going to let that affect my impression do anything no
it no he just placed a new no he never he offered me free express shipping
which is $10 on a $3,000 order so I was
like that's a nice gesture I'm still pissed but at least I saved $10 $10 $10
thank you you cany bu McDonald's I kind
of gross too you know does McDonald's
have mustard they don't have hot dogs this is
like the anti- McDonald's Access of Evil right Nowa I don't yeah I don't think
they have someone might be able to correct I don't really go there like I
they might have like a mustardy relish but I don't know if they have straight
up mustard anyway they have relish you can get mustard in packets there can you
yeah I don't know wait is there the burger would probably have mustard I
don't know the Big Mac doesn't for sure it's just covered in
mayo I think I okay it's been a while all right anyway so so Surface Book
issues they honey mustard so yes thank you honey mustard you are my honey
mustard oh uh okay let's actually do a
topic now uh so the Surface Book issues so I and everyone in their dog was
excited before I went off on that tangent about this thing because it
looks fantastic um but there appear to
be a number of issues with people reporting crashes and lockups uh random
trackpad freezes uh some screen wobble
due to weight imbalance between the screen and keyboard um wow no ambient
light sensor controlling the brightness of backlit keys that really seems like a
very first world problem to me um no quad core CPU options yeah that's kind
of to be expected like some of these reported issues uh really don't seem
like that they're not issues they're they're features that you would like to have the Dell 34 in Ultra wide cannot be
used with the dock that kind of sucks um so it looks like maybe there's some
bandwidth loss or like a a switching issue or whatever with the DisplayPort
adapter for the dock um technically 3440
by 1440 should be perfectly doable on DisplayPort 1.2 in fact um Acer's
Acer's ultrawide the Predator x34 our sample does 100 htz most people are
reporting anywhere from the 95 to 100 Hertz range so the actual interface is
plenty fast so it looks like there's some other kind of issue um this is
really bad this is where things start to get pretty brutal uh not being able to
boot with the dock having to unplug and plug it back in
um uh cannot not being able to detach
the dock um I've seen people having issues with uh driver crashes when they
detach the dock that's not actually in our dock but that is something that I've
seen reported so apparently playing this one I love this one playing MPEG files
just when it's in laptop mode works fine but if you plug it into the dock it
gives you this UND decryptable error
code so I didn't order the doc or unable
to decode error because I'm planning to use it just as a laptop sltt not also as
a desktop so I actually won't be able to comment on a lot of these issues um but
what this has demonstrated to me is that
I definitely instead of doing like a normal review I need to do more of like
a long-term Impressions review like like more like an ey switched so you can how
it yeah so I'll I'll get it all set up and I'll use it for like a couple weeks
and then I'll I'll let you guys know how it goes but uh that that'll that'll only
happen when it we're doing with the steam controllers yeah when it
arrives so so I don't know uh yeah so
steam controllers a lot of people were like noticing that oh hey so you uh
posted on Instagram your steam controllers and then you posted on
Instagram your Xbox Elite controllers and then the Xbox Elite video is out
already where's hold on where's that steam controller video dog um so you
want to explain what the methodology is with the steam controller video with the
stream controller video one we already have a video out from like a while ago
when I used one at a show and as far as I can tell the time between then and now
was largely used on manufacturing not changing features um and it's kind of a
wono controller like testing out the Xbox Elite it's like okay this is an
Xbox controller but with a bunch of upgraded stuff so that's a lot more
simple and people would be a lot more familiar with it than a controller that has like touchpads and wono stuff going
on so I took them home and I'm going to be doing a long-term Impressions thing
so I've got a few weeks I'm going to try that out and the hope is that um because
Luke plays video games he will play video games with them um but we actually
we actually purchased two of them for a couple of reasons so here's actually the
coverage we did back at PAX East 2015 so
not not a whole ton of a lot lot has changed since then um but but basically
the the rationale behind the two controllers was that Luke will always
use one he has to use a steam controller
for his gaming until he's done this video and then he's got an extra for any
guests that come over so at least one guest has to use the steam controller
and he can get impressions both from himself over the longer term and from
people who just have to kind of pick it up and and run with it yeah so it should
make for it should make for a pretty interesting um so it should make for a
pretty interesting video um I actually am going to cover it more as like a side
note uh because I've actually got two Steam Machines I don't know if you know
this I've got two Steam Machines either here already or on Route so I have the
Zotac one and then I have the Alienware one so the Alienware one for sure comes
with the steam controller so I will be reviewing the Alienware I think it the
Windows version is called the alpha but I think it's just called the steam
machine Alienware steam machine oh if it's not the alpha I'm not I'm not sure
I'll don't worry I'll I'll sort out all these details before I do the video um
but I'll be sort of talking about using it I can already tell you guys though
that if you don't have big hands steam controller is probably not a thing for
you oh I noticed it immediately when picking
it up actually yeah so but but we'll see
my Impressions could change I mean it's really funny because um they probably
can't hear you very well right now yeah this reminds me of something I've been
asking for for so long that I feel like
my request for it has become irrelevant
so back when I first saw the Xperia Z3
compact uh I was like oh yeah that's great like an iPhone siiz Android phone
that um you know is the right size for my hands because I was like yeah all the
high-end Android phones are so big but
it's gotten to the point where I've gotten so used to larger phones that
this thing just feels so small to me now so the Z5 on that subject the Xperia Z5
compact just arrived today and I'm going to be uh working on my review of that
next I also have a Z5 premium on Route the one with the 4K display nice and
then after that is probably going to be the Droid Turbo 2 so I have a full plate
um on the phone side of things look it's updating um anyway we'll we'll see how
that goes cuz this will be the first high-end small Android phone that I have
I think ever used yeah because you didn't use the Z3 combat did you no yeah
no I I never actually touched one outside of like with a huge like
security device on the back of it in a store like not enough to get a good
impression so far this is looking really promising so it looks really nice but
the it okay the the the difference between this one and I think it was the
Z3 compact where the spec was very similar to the full size is that this
one is significantly downgraded in terms of spec like it's got
no okay but it's got a Snapdragon 810 which is an older processor it's got a
720p screen which I have made the
argument and continue to make the argument is just fine for a 4.7 inch
display um but I'm I've just I need to I
need to spend some time with it and find out if that if that downgrade of the
spec matters to me someone's asking what about the Nexus um I don't really have
any plans to do the 6p or the 5x um they
both look like P NE e phones to me I I
yeah I I don't really have anything to say because okay here's something that
people have been giving me crap about a little bit lately and that is that every
time I do a monitor video I'm like wow
it's the best thing ever there's a reason for that and the reason is not
all the $100 bills that the manufacturer is slipping in my backet Innovation and
monitors right now there's a lot of innovation and monitors it is moving so
fast there's a lot of monitors that are coming out that can genuinely say we are
the first person to do X or Y yes um and
and and the other thing is that I am pretty selective about the monitors that
I every okay every once in a while I screw up like that vew Sonic vpu
whatever the 4K one really nice monitor um but the reason that I requested that
sample like three months before I ended up doing the video was it was the first
HDMI 2.0 display that I had seen and so
that was going to be part of my focus is I really wanted to talk about HDMI 2.0
but by the time I got to that video because we got wrapped up in moving I
had already done another HDMI 2.0 display that was like way more relevant
and I was like oh crap now I don't really have much to say other than hey
this is a really nice monitor which it is uh but what I generally do is I don't
even accept a review unit of something
that doesn't bring a new experience to the table aside from just being a
monitor so so when people are like oh yeah you know lonus can you review X the
answer if it's very similar to something I've already done is a lot of the time
no because I'm not really I am not a non-tech I never going
to be a non-tech that's just that's what it is I
am not TFT Central so if you guys are looking for the really nitty-gritty
details down to the you know the O oscilloscope like you know look at the
pixel you know rise and fall of voltages blah blah blah if you guys want that
stuff that stuff's out there but for me it's more about I want to talk about
what the experience of this product is and what makes it different from what else is out there from an experience
standpoint so it's very frustrating to do a review of something that's super
similar to another thing that you've done because it's you want to say
something new you want to add something to the table you don't want to just be
like oh whatever have a good day you want to say something interesting and
when you're basically doing it twice that's really dry so why am I doing this
because it's the first time I've used a high-end compact Android phone also it
intrigues me because the lower spec is lower in a way that I don't believe is
going to bother me uh but it still has a 2700 milliamp battery and with the way
that yeah with the way that Sony's implementation of Android handles
battery life plus marshmallow I think it's running marshmallow I'll have to
double check I could be looking at a phone that legitimately gets me through
two days so I'm so I'm super stoked on that the reason I'm doing the 5 premium
is that it'll be the first 4K display that I've seen on a phone so I can really talk about how that changes or
doesn't change which is what I suspect is going to happen the experience and
then the reason I'm be doing the Droid Turbo to is because of the shatterproof
screen and because the Droid Turbo has for an entire year managed to hold the
throne as my daily driver preferred phone in spite of its very inferior
camera compared to the LG G4 the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge uh compared to the iPhone
6 the iPhone 6 s yes so so that
is whatever I was talking about I don't
remember what it was anymore it's been a really long time and
I don't remember either yeah so cool well we were talking about the Z3 compact but I don't remember why we were
talking about the Z3 compact yeah that's okay all right so here's an article and
we actually had a really great suggestion from a viewer last week I didn't have time to deal with it before
the show show today uh but they had
suggested an all alternate layout for when we're viewing articles for where
it's like bigger on the one side and then Luke and I are kind of stacked on
the side that I really liked we're going to do that in the future thank you for that suggestion but for now we're uh for
now we're sticking with this so this is kind of like the suckiest thing ever and
there's a lot of really ignorant comments about this unfortunately
there's a lot of people saying like oh that's like terrible advice just like
paying the money to to the like Jack
bums who are like yeah we got some ransomware installed on your computer we
encrypted all your data you got to pay us to unlock it um they should just like
they should just like be able to fix it you know what that's the double-edged
sort of encryption yeah yeah if if they
were able to fix that people would be freaking out about that yeah you got to
kind of pick your poison here I guess yeah so basically for those of you who
don't know what ransomware is what what it is is it's a type of malware that
gets onto your computer encrypts your data and then sends the encryption key
back to the ransom they get in touch with you and they basically
go we have all your data um we may or
may not do anything with it like they may not even care about doing something
with the data but basically if you want to no actually hold on okay sorry to be
clear they don't necessarily have your data they can just have encrypted your
device has encrypted on your device um sorry sorry sorry I sort of started
rolling and get misspoke there so basically they go you can't have access
to your your data unless you pay us this sum of money and we will send you the
encryption keys and then you can unencrypt your data and go about your
mer day and hopefully you learned a valuable lesson um and basically the the biggest
issue here like the biggest targets for this are businesses not individual users
because individual users what they're going to pay a 100 bucks 150 bucks 200
bucks like because the Cyber criminals
here they they don't want to demand ,000
and get nothing they want to this this
is a volume game yeah yeah they want to hit a thousand people for 100 bucks each
and they made 100 Grand that's the point um but if you find a really big fish
business and you know that you did then you can probably ask a huge amount of
money now you can start asking for you know 100 Grand 500 Grand however much
depending on what it is that you've gotten from them you know did you get the did you get the president of the
company's laptop did you get this did you get that so uh basically the FBI
issued a note in June identifying crypto wall as the most common ransomware
affecting individuals and businesses they received 992 complaints between
April and June of 2014 to 2015 that's
not that bad no it's not that bad except that the losses are totaling $18 million
which is very bad for those cases which is very very bad and raises the probably
targeting businesses thing y even more so they basically said yep the reason
that a lot of uh a lot lot of folks are getting into ransomware is that it's
extremely effective um and that the only
way to avoid it is to back up your data regularly to just restore the infected
system to a prior state to avoid paying a ransom that's pretty much all there is
to it and all of the usual hey please you know put on your common sense
glasses when you're browsing the internet stuff applies but you know the
cold hard truth of it is that a lot of people don't know and don't don't care
because the internet plays such a small role in their life aside from like
needing to use their computer for like Excel common sense is also not enough
common sense is relative like it's also not like the people that are like oh I
just won't run an antivirus at all because I know how to use the internet
that's no sorry but no doesn't work that way
yeah that and I mean you know the fact that a file is exe is bad yeah yeah it's
like that's common sense to me but like
not to my mom or my aunt like why would she know that oh it's a picture I'm
going to do the thing yeah it could be called cute cat.exe and the email could
say hey it's a picture of cute cats and like they wouldn't know
yeah so uh here we go this is fun so
this is an Indiegogo project that uh in
the age of the internet was uh was was
definitely destined for for Success the e ejaculator VR headset
synced stroking adult
toy I actually don't know why they
pixelated this I mean it's just a piece of plastic probably you can show it
Japan sorry so you can show it in Japan
what what are you talking is that a thing I don't know is it I thought
Japanese like porn and stuff you had to pixelated but that's not porn it's a
piece of plastic but it's a recreation of
whatever is that is that right I don't they have to do it in like animated
stuff too so I would assume so huh I don't know the twitch chat will
probably know yeah I mean yeah yeah they will um so anyway it's
$130 for the E ejaculator basically I
think sort of looking at the uh looking at the product here it should be fairly
self-explanatory what it does what does
it do it Strokes folks um I thought these things already
existed so you download the app you connect the app to the E ejaculator you
put on the headset you navigate using the wireless remote choose your fantasy
and prepare for you know there you
go really that's a video what data users
are saying yep so you guys can definitely go check that out we're not
going to we're not going to play any of these videos on the WAN Show we're
trying to keep it somewhat I don't know what are we like
PG what what's higher PG or PG13 let's go with I
think PG is the like worst one so yeah
we're trying to stay PG here um but yeah
it's going to cost you 130 bucks to uh
to to get the VR set as an early adopter
so it includes the device one VR headset one remote one battery one silicone
sleeve and shipping to the US and Canada is $16 with the rest of the world being
$24 so um you know what I think we have
to do it I think we don't really have a choice here straw
pull will you buy one oh okay I thought
you GNA do should we buy one I was like whoa should we review it PG-13 is higher
than PG oh okay okay so then it goes g and PG to PG-13 to R to nc7 then to not
rated okay maybe we should try and make our show not rated one day all right
here comes the strong it's
coming I'm so interested in this I am
super I am super interested in this too all right let's surprised though that
they didn't try to launch their Indiegogo in like early 2016 when the
actual headsets come out yeah but they've got their own uh they've got
their own like kind of ghetto ghet head yeah it comes with a headset I think you
just drop your drop your phone in it I haven't I haven't checked out uh phone
compatibility or anything like that like I actually haven't looked that I haven't
looked that closely turnup is winning this
vote Yes is losing this vote but it has
a lot of votes blah blah blah this is just the beginning we want you to be
along for the ride wow their campaign is just so cringe just Way Beyond cringe I
love this here's some of the prototypes there is no way that I would put
anything of mine anywhere near any of those
prototypes and that was when they were new
yeah uh gear Factory manually producing
gears like they've really they've really put some some thought into this puppy
here hey there you go that one's not censored oh yeah I don't know 12 Ines
tall 4 inches wide well I guess I
couldn't really do the review anyway oh it's oversized too big too big I meant
you were but oh yeah I tried to give you credit on that one yeah you tried you
tried but it was no one was going to believe that discret packaging and labels all
right so let's have okay we won't do another Topic in the meantime let's just go ahead and uh have a look at those
those results there so will you buy one we've got a whopping 28% of our audience
that is planning to buy the ejaculator now just to be clear guys we are not
suggesting that you buy it while it is an Indiegogo campaign I would definitely
wait for it to actually roll off a real production line I would wait for
independent I was say wait see if there's a review yeah like it saw off my
penis at the base things can go wrong with the Surface Book and it's annoying
things go wrong with this it's probably a little bit
worse it was
terrible my life will never be the
same okay oh wow moving on the worst
topic we have ever done is
it I actually legitimately don't know
all right this is interesting Microsoft has a this is such a sensation oh I was
I have screen sharing that whole time uh this is such a sensationalist headline
has Microsoft admitted defeat in the console sales War over on tech radar
okay that very sensationalist but it uh
is related to a legitimate piece of news so um Microsoft announced their
quarterly results and it lacked hard
Ware shipment metrics so when they were questioned as to why those were absent
Microsoft's Source responded saying it was no longer using such figures as its
measurement of success so they are actually going to focus on Xbox Live
figures as the leading stat um and it
should be noted that Xbox Live users Rose sharply last quarter growing by 28%
to 39 million users so would you argue
that that is a legitimate thing for them to okay so first of all would you say
that that move has anything to do with Microsoft admitting defeat in the
console race um no to be completely honest not
admitting defeat because that's a little harsh but they might be trying to make
it look prettier because now that they can if when they're doing online stats
that's something that will continue to grow over time as long as they're not
losing users whereas Hardware shipment
might mean that just less people are adopting it yeah which is not
necessarily meaningful now with that said the Xbox One um what didn't have as
much adoption even early on compared to PlayStation it was a little rough out of
the gate compared to the PlayStation 4 but I would look at their $60 a year for
Xbox Live Gold um
as indicative of prob more indicative of
the profitability of that customer because it's already fairly well
established that in terms of Hardware alone the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One
were not particularly profitable especially when you compare it to well
really not anything I mean the console Hardware they were more profitable than
previous consoles yes cuz they made a little bit of money whereas usually they
would lose a little bit of money on the console but nothing compared to something like the Wii where it was
basically powered by like peanut butter and you know elastic happiness yeah
exactly um I just got Yoshi's woly world
yeah my God pretty fun you can't be upset while playing that game it's
actually wonderful it's very fun yeah um
so so I mean that's never really been an indication of of of of the success of
the business unit because it doesn't really indicate profitability what it
does indicate is the installed user base
so if Microsoft's going to switch metrics and go okay we are less
interested in how many physical Xbox
units there are out there and we are more interested in what the installed
user base of Xbox Live members is
because that's actually a more meaningful number to someone like a game
developer how many people are are sitting there paying a subscription to
use their Xbox and if we're and if we're going to look at that as more indicative
of the profitability of that transaction someone who bought an Xbox and it
literally sits on a shelf in their warehouse is not a good customer someone
who bought an Xbox and uses it for for 5 years paying 60 bucks a year just gave
you another $300 of money that is not necessarily
pure profit because a lot of that goes into uh development of things like their
Cloud assisted rendering or U building
which apparently isn't helping them that much which no isn't but that doesn't
mean they weren't working on it and that doesn't mean that wasn't expensive I'm
just saying that that the hardware is just a transaction here's a piece of
Hardware here's how much it cost us to build it here you go and if that person
buys a bunch of games then great but games and live memberships are still
being looked at as indicators of success so I totally disagree with that headline
and I actually agree quite strongly with Microsoft changing the way that they're
measuring the success of a console to look more at software sales and
membership sales because that's it's more logical and it's more favorable for
them I don't necessarily think it was admitting defeat they're not stopping
producing Xbox Ones and just being like oh well you guys won yeah and if you
know if Sony sells let's let's say the lifetime of the PlayStation 4 and the
Xbox One you know if Sony sells 100 million and Microsoft sells 60
million and Microsoft made a bunch of money on a bunch of people buying Xbox
Live memberships and bought a bunch of games um I I was looking into it
apparently the Xbox One is beating the PlayStation 4 in terms of game sales
so hey there's there's lots of different ways to be successful if you sell 60
million units is that a failure well I would probably say no I don't think you
necessarily won in terms of hard Ware sales yes but overall doesn't there's
more categories to look at that being said using the Xbox One a little bit for
the controller review God I hate that thing holy crap
not the controller right you liked the controll the controller was great okayer
was awesome I don't like Xbox One controllers I was like what video did I
watch no I don't like Xbox One controllers but the elite is actually
pretty solid and that's largely because of the trigger stops the trigger stops I
hate the normal triggers for me the other big one on the elite controller
and as much as this is a stupid thing where you could kind of go well actually lonus the solution to that is just to go
buy an Xbox 360 controller is I really really don't like the abxy buttons on
the Xbox One controller they're too I want to say Ticky I know that's
not a word like the tactile feel is feedback that yeah yeah like like I I
actually like the kind of mushier feel
of the Xbox 360 controller and the Xbox Elite feel too cuz saber too th like
mechanical I used the Sabertooth for about 4 seconds and then I handed it to
you to do the review if you recall how
that went down yeah so that's why you handed that off
well I was super stoked on it I was like super excited I was like yeah high-end
controller man let's do
this Luke's job because I I mean okay to
be clear I could have done it I could have done it but it would have been
needlessly negative because a lot of people like that and so handing it to
someone who's willing to look at it AIT more objectively I think is being more
fair to the prodct like if I see a product that I look at and I go I cannot
review this objectively like I you did the uh the note two or three I think so
note three or something like that a long time ago because I looked at it and I
went this is way too big I cannot hold it my entire review is going to be about
how I dropped it and broke it why am I going to bother to to
subject you guys to this so got people
saying stop rambling stop watching this show this this whole show is
rambling what yeah what did you what do
you think this was I'm dressed as a wiener we had a miscommunication issue
going on because that's not what this is okay to be clear I don't actually want you to stop oh he's gone oh I I want
everyone to watch mustard can but I also want to ramble uh okay let's move on to
our next thing um Sennheiser Good Guys
Sennheiser opens up their corporate building to refugees whoa what yeah I
mean there's not whole lot to really say about this and the news source is in
German so yes I will be Translating that thank you uh so given the acute
situation Sennheiser has the Hanover region offered to accommodate refugees
for free in their corporate building commitment of the company is exemplary
and deserves the highest recognition etc etc that is the sub headline so uh there
you go the uh pretty badass they've got up to 300 refugees that are housed there
and I could tell you having been to sennheiser's facility there
wow that is some nice Refugee housing yeah it's a super super nice place very
clean the cafeteria is great I wonder if they get access to the cafeteria that
food was actually really good I really doubt it like an extra 300 people would
put a lot ofad well a lot of load on the staff like it's not what are they going
to double their staff overnight right
um but yeah so in March 2016 uh the
building can be converted into a
dormatory for about 150 people will also be used as a Reception Center and a
place for social Gatherings for refugees so uh cool stuff I mean we we we love
those guys it's no secret we've worked with Sennheiser in the past they
sponsored our trip to um that stupid show Brandon lik neb sorry Sennheiser
has opened a corporate building in
Handover I don't remember exactly what region a corporate building sorry not
the HQ yeah how it's worded it sounds like it might be somewhere else yeah it
it looks like it's a different one interesting okay um so anyway probably
still super nice yeah the point is Good Guys Sennheiser we like those guys we've
worked with them a fair bit all
right wow whoa this I guess neither of
us have read this one I missed this I straight up missed this and I apologize
because this is the best thing ever single player games with dead
authentication servers ruled dmca exempt
so it is officially appears I'm going to
go through the notes because whenever whenever Luke and I haven't haven't gone
through something we do usually have pretty good notes on it um back in April
a petition was launched to exempt abandoned games from Digital Millennium
Copyright Act so that is applying to singleplayer games with their servers
shut down personally I think this should apply to multiplayer games with their servers shut down as well but hopefully
we'll get there eventually yep uh so basically page 52 to 56 of the US
copyright offices ruling on the petition allow ing for modification and copying
of video games only if they have single player components which require online
authentication to check uh the games this would mean that there would be able
to be very legal websites Distributing
games yes that's pretty epic I'm I'm
interested as to who's going to jump on that that's very interesting stuff so
the games must have been shutdown abandoned for at least 6 months I mean
this is such good news because and the timing is actually not too bad because
right now it's not a huge issue there
aren't too many games but it's going to be that way but it's going to be massive
it is going to be a massive problem
although one thing that I'm a little bit worried about is this is going to even
more incentivize stupid useless multiplayer which happens a lot and I'm
kind of tired of it like you mean just unnecessary multiplayer modules that
contribute nothing well hold on a second because allowing only if they have
single player components which require online authentification to check so yeah
so if you if you have online authentification uh authentification
authentification if you have onl online authentification and you have single
player that requires it then get wrecked uh basically it is legal to copy your
game um epic so the US copyright will permit
preservationists to modify console firmware in order to make games playable
only if used for non-commercial purposes in institutions that are open to the
public Andor unaffiliated researchers that so I would I would expect that
someone like a private collector SL Enthusiast could consider themselves a
researcher like I mean I think this is going to be it the thing okay the thing
about moving the line to make it gray is
that it actually just kind of opens up more gray area because in the past it
was very black and white um it still
does not allow for video game owners to modify games for local or multiplayer
play so it's very specific what is
allowed and what is not if it has a single player component that requires
online authentification authentication then you can unlock that
functionality and copy it so that people can use it and not for commercial use
and all that kind of stuff that is basically fantastic news and absolutely
love it I'm sure you could still set up like a please donate to my
PayPal yeah I don't know because for
commercial use is pretty broad but donate usage yeah if you're making a
certain amount of money I think it's commercial regardless of whether it's a donation or not like if the lonus tech
tips forum is run purely off of donations which it is sort of I mean no
there's ads on it okay no but if it was run purely off of donations don't make a
ton CU ad block well there's a lot of
reasons the ads don't make a ton of money also that um we're not going to
get into that um but if it was run
purely off of donations but it was making you know a fair amount of money a
month like you guys can look up I think how many gold contributors and silver
contributors we have like our community is awesome like we can run like the The
Forum Community off of our contributors it's great just inhaled part of my
costume that is not recommended
um yeah I'm pretty sure that is still a commercial Endeavor even if it's donated
okay yeah I just know a lot of like not paid mods
sites still have donate buttons but that is not legal at all so I don't know yeah
I think that's exactly it I think it's more of a slightly legal it's Blind Eye
as opposed to Legal yeah got a lot of
people that are um that are asking why the ads don't
make a ton of money there basically there's a lot of reasons but I mean in
short I guess banner ads on websites are not a way to get rich and we have rules
because we laid out these rules early on
on the W show publicly we don't want like animated ads or popup ads audio ads
a few have slipped through the cracks I can assure you that was 100%
unintentional neither Luke nor I uh intended for those to be there and
that's a whole other long story yeah um
that we are definitely not going to get into all right what else we got here oh
this is cool stuff the FDA approves a cancer killing
virus yes my friends you can have a
virus get in your body and it can attack cancer now to be
clear this is not like you know I don't
want to I don't want to oversell this this is not the answer to
cancer um it's basically specific to
skin cancer it is a specific drug it's
called hm okay whatever I'm not even going to try um and it only extends the
patient's life by I believe it was an estimated about 4.4
months that's something okay and shrunk
tumors for at least 6 months in 16% of
patients so it is doing things but it's
not like this is the magic Silver Bullet
but we've got something that's cool but it's the first it's the first in in like
a new class of ways to attack cancer
it's something that's been highly experimental yeah nothing's ever thank
you nothing's ever been FDA approved up until now and that's what's exciting
about it is that now a lot of the experiments that have been going on
behind the scenes could be closer to
being available to people um it's not cheap this is always the case with new
drugs I mean I was actually I was talking to my wife about it most of you
probably don't know this but my wife's a pharmacist so she um knows a few things
about drugs and stuff and she was saying
because I was like I was talking about like how it's you know such a load of
crap like how expensive some drugs are like uh I don't remember if we covered
this on the W show but the Canadian government was actually suing a drug
company over the price of their drug in Canada they were like this is ridiculous
you know we're providing we're providing Health Care to our citizens we don't
want to pay this much this is absurd um it like tens of thousands of dollars for
a dose or something stupid like that like it ridiculous um but she was saying
like the reason for that is that the cost of developing a drug is a super
high and the cost of developing all the
drugs that never get approved and never
go anywhere is also super high so when
you make that one drug that makes it you have to make up for all of that and I'm
like yeah okay I get that the pharmaceutical industry is also like
super corrupt and messed up it's also super corrupt so that that that is also
a factor um but anyway so there you go
at least we're making progress hopefully cancer is not a thing at some point in
the near future and that would be good for everyone y
okay except cancer cells isn't that like straight up impossible what I've heard
that there like definitely will never be an absolute
cure I don't know I've heard that like we might be able to take it back out hm
or or something I don't know okay anyway uh not doctors sponsors for today I
thought uh do we have the kit for the third
one oh yeah here it
is this thing is so bad I love this
thing and it's covered by the lower third that's
awesome first sper I fix it I fix it so
basically what can we say about iix it that hasn't already been said before
they have great guides on their website if you've ever searched well well thank
you if you've ever if you've ever searched for how to
repair or tear down a laptop or a tablet
or a cell phone or even some all-in-one computers and like all kinds of other
stuff actually you've probably come across iix it you'll know it's iix it
because it's the site with the great pictures and the instructions that are
actually easy for normal people to follow and what you probably don't know
or maybe don't know unless you watch this show because we talk about it all the time is that aside from their guides
they also have their tools so this is there oh I forget what this one is
actually called This is the repair business tool kit and it's got a whole
whack ton of their tools pretty much everything you would like normally need
okay so anti-static gear multimeter
these plastic cards that are good for like prying things and and flattening
things and having just a set of plastic card is actually more helpful than you
realize yep ni to use my like debit and credit cards and that's just not a good
idea really nice microfiber cleaning cloth I've actually I've taken this kit
apart and put it back together improperly enough times that I'm really
not sure where everything is inside of it their Protek tool kit which I use all
the time I think we're up to like five of them here but I don't think we can
ever have enough of them cuz it's gotten to the point where instead of assigning
them to people and then us having to remember where they are we just leave them in all the places where we might
have to do anything and then we're covered uh their other screwdriver tool kit with
the bigger screwdrivers super helpful cuz sometimes having a dedicated
screwdriver that has a longer skin or neck someone D and put one of our other
prot Tech Tool kits in here uh cleaning solution Work Mat do you have the like
jelly tube thing the magnetic thing for putting all your screws and labeling
where they go suction cups for taking
off uh taking off screens and stuff like that uh prying tools that look like they
fell out of one of the Protech tool kits way to go whoever did that ah yes there
we go the heating pad for uh loosening glue that's like my favorite thing in
the whole kit so you microwave it if I recall correctly yep microwave only one
eye opener at a time for 30 seconds uh
anyway so there you go if you want to fix anything use
professional tools because it actually really does help a lot and if you have a
purchase of $50 or more that you want to make over on iFix it.com you can save
$10 by using offer code
Linus let's move on to ah yes Logitech
so they've got their new gaming headsets out there I am in progress on my review
so stay tuned for that but in short uh this is the g633 and g933 which are uh
USB or analog wired or Wireless versions of
pretty much the same thing they've completely re-engineered this from
scratch acknowledging everything that was not that fantastic about the g230
and the g430 and they've got a truly
truly high-end option that they're really really proud of so it's got
support for 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound they've got 40 mm Pro G audio drivers
they've got adjustable RGB lighting that actually looks surprisingly good uh the
like the the lighting effect is very even I was surprised um I hadn't
actually really used them Luke had the first hands on because he went down to
uh down to logitech's place to check it out it's got a cardioid boom mic mic
that oh this is another thing I discovered it's got like a cool little noise it makes when you mute it I was
like oh that's handy I I was using it for a conference call the other day okay
cuz I was like oh crap I'm on this call
I uh I super need to be able to work on stuff because this is a super dumb call
and and everything they're saying is pointless but I really need to be here
in case there's like some little nugget of useful information so I threw on the
wireless headphones and I was working on some server crap in the time um I got a
link for you guys to check it out boom
right there just like that and finally
fresh books actually this is cool so
I'll I'll do really brief rundown new feature yes really cool new feature so
fresh books online accounting great for small businesses computer repair
Plumbing whatever else it is you got an online tool that lets you track your
hours uh submit invoices to clients get paid through the app and here it is my
friends just launched their deposits
feature so let's say for example you were me like eight years ago painting
houses in the summer you take deposits from people because otherwise oh man let
me tell you doing something like a house painting job and not taking a deposit
you would show up on the day that you were supposed to be there and like the
house would already be painted they would forget who you were like seriously
there's a lot of benefits to taking a mere 10% refundable deposit um so they
just launched their deposits feature so when you create a new invoice you'll see the option to request a deposit at the
bottom of that invoice and all the usual things that you would normally do so
submitting that online having them be able to pay through their credit card
through fresh books all that still Bueno
but now you can do deposits super helpful super awesome stuff love it
absolutely love it freshbooks is one of those sponsors we've been using for a
long time um or rather we've been like we've been doing for a long
time and we never got an STD once oh he
went there sorry it was fresh yeah fresh books has been one of our sponsors for a
long time I have yet to receive a complaint about fresh books and I have
said that before about fresh books and didn't receive a complaint usually when
I say that like people go one oh well I had a problem or whatever one person is
like um actually I had one issue um so
anyway head over to freshbooks.com and claim your free trial today now there's
less reasons to complain cuz now you can take deposits yeah I'm I'm liking that
that's awesome that would have been great for me when I was doing the whole house painting thing that's great for
anyone that does like large project things mhm because you're committing a
lot too if you show up with paint and stuff like show up with supplies yep oh
you can get screwed by not taking a deposit even if you take a deposit you
can get screwed if they're just like yep we're not doing it just not as hard okay
well I guess I've got this van full of like metal thanks for that yeah yeah I'm
sure that these custom cut pieces will be returnable to the place I got them
jerk
oh this is great Steam Community discussions is our source for this
particular topic here Batman Arkham
Knight is back okay just in time for
Halloween which by the way is why we're dressed up for those of you just in case
no one got it I did not see this in the dock which is fine but I heard that the
they have a new screenshot thing for it remember how there was this the speed
limit 30 the what the the Batman Arkham Knight
it had like a advertisement thing there's a speed limit sign I've heard
that there's a new one that say 60 on it really I saw it somewhere I saw the
picture but I couldn't tell if it was photo edited or not so funny I don't
know if that was true I'm sure twitch chat will let us know so if that was a
real picture awesome if it wasn't like I don't have a link for it so I don't know
people thought the costumes were for a stretch goal it is October 30th where
we're from in fact it is October 31st
first like over the pond so this is this is so funny this is so funny um people
are like yeah it's still broken they're apologizing by giving games that most
people own oh people are saying yes it's
real they changed it but then twitch chat is full of trolls love you guys
dearly all eight freaking thousand of you that are watching the show right now
you guys are all awesome but you're a bunch of trolls I love you you're a
bunch of trolls um so so I I yeah I straight up can't believe anything they
say but uh basically they're still working on GPU support for S and
Crossfire which is like as far as PC
features go basically it especially given their
close relationship with NVIDIA it's like I'm sure NVIDIA would be more than happy
to straight up send software Engineers to go fix it for them they do that they
actually do do that it's the way it's meant to be played title it has
Gameworks NVIDIA's involvement is real
if they're not supporting SLI it is straight up
negligent sorry um Windows 10 users this
is a quote we found that having at least 12 Gigabytes of system RAM on a PC
allows the game to operate without paging because there's still a hard drive paging issue with some gpus uh
that may occur after extended gameplay sessions and they suggest relaunching
the game to solve issues like these are still some pretty gamebreaking bugs um
which is really unfortunate it's just going to be another one of those games that I just super ignore I'll never get
it and that's totally okay yeah I mean like I like I said I I honestly like I
even I saw this on the dock but I didn't dig too far into it because it's one of
those things where there's like there's an article and then there's like the 18
pages of Reddit discussion that has most of the meat of the issue and that I'm
sure twitch is is oh apparently sound's cutting
out we have so many problems with USB cables no I don't think that's the issue
I think they might just be trolling me cuz no one else is talking well you
called the moat for trolling they're probably trolling
you got me you got me again um so anyway
so my my issue with the uh so my issue with the game is just that it's kind of
a turd anyway so
yeah speaking of kind of a turd I heard that Assassin's Creed Syndicate had like
very very low uh purchases yeah oh yeah
that that I don't think this is in the dock I don't think this was even necessarily from this week no I heard it
was the worst yet yeah Assassin's Creed
Syndicate worst episode ever let's see
if that brings up uh no that just brings
up some Let's Plays top seven Assassin's
Creed games ranked worst to best um whoa what is this list where is
Unity on this black flag was awesome I
could see Black Flag in number one then Revelations then two then one then
Brotherhood then Liberation then three oh Unity is just not on the list
but it's from November 2014
wow oh my goodness I would mostly agree with that list funny so this is this
article is from past magazine.com that is that is I made
Shuffle one or two here but like no major changes funny um okay well that
that that was it so Assassin's Creed s to get worst sales let's see let's see
if we can pull that up oh apparently they are second worst second worst in
series as fatigue set and I don't think it has anything to do with fatigue
setting in um I would love to play more
really good Assassin's Creed games if they felt like Assassin's Creed 2 and
the iterations of Two And if they felt like Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag holy
crap that game was awesome and like you know they've still got it in them
because three was trash terrible game
and then four was great four was so good
and they should have iterated off of four Why did Why did why did our run
with that dude that remember his name end so quickly I don't know all right
what else we got here um oh the cancer
killing virus is in here twice oh oh right um you know what
you'll have to do some kind of topic while I compile all the things for that
okay I'm going to talk about uh Tesla then so it's like are you oh no I'll
talk you don't want to talk about VR that would be that would be even less
your thing why don't you just talk about
Oculus well let's you know what let's just you know let to call let's not call
it the wow anymore let's call it the Luke Luke lafrenier Oculus test we had
one of those yeah I know you did we we had an Oculus hour I remember that when
they got acquired by Facebook that was like my favorite W
show ever anyways as onhub SRT ac1 1900
router clean design onhub app can
you wave control seven antennas 1900
you guys know all that kind of stuff because I did the review um basically
it's from ASUS this time I don't think that review is on YouTube yet oh so it's
coming soon and you'll know all that stuff um but I'm not going to bother go
through all of it right now because the review is coming and you should just watch that it's surprisingly good I was
actually really really impressed bear in mind a lot of the things you liked about
that may not necessarily be applicable to the ASUS version because it is
different Hardware it is different Hardware so you
should talk probably more more about the onhub experience the onhub experience is
a super super super super super super
super super simplified router experience
there's only one land port uh there's basically no configuration options all
of that sounds horrible and it kind of is um but it's really powerful it's
Wi-Fi is very good um the range on it is really strong the speed through walls
and different other obstacles is very consistent very fast for what it is um
and that's really cool and one thing that I like a lot is that all of the
control that it does have is through an app that you can access from anywhere
and I know that's not a brand new thing but having it be so simplified and so
easy to do basic things and impossible
to do Advanced things I know but so easy to do basic things means you can set up
one of these at your mom's house or your grandma's house or whoever's house and
it will probably go far enough and it will probably be fast enough and it's
very good at managing what channel it's on and then if there are any major
problems you can probably just solve them through the app so yeah it's
actually a surprisingly good router I was expecting when I started doing the
review to hate it and at the end I kind
of sort of wanted one for my place really yeah even with so little control
my Wi-Fi is terrible I thought you're using that Mari thing no oh what
happened only n oh yeah yeah right
that's right yeah so like and the AC
rotor that I have is like craptastic so if I use Wi-Fi for too long I just have
to like disconnect and reconnect constantly because it'll just stop serving me
Wi-Fi all right so I am ready I am ready
friends um I would definitely like more
control and that would actually be a huge problem but
anyways okay so I'm actually going to hide us so I've had a lot of people
asking are the lonus tech tips Edition fans that you showed off
available for purchase and the answer before was no because we were still
waiting to get orders from all the um
the Retail Partners um but everybody has their
orders in the fans are either shipped or
shipping very very soon across the board
so the fans are officially available so
I'm actually going to you know what I'm going to pick on performance PCS because check this out they for nothing through
Banner space on the side and a headline
Banner at us for uh for people to find the fans so that that's pretty cool so
the retailers that are carrying them are performance PCS in the US and you can
actually I can hey this is a good opportunity for me to audit everyone's
uh audit everyone's sites and make sure that they've got all the all the pictures up look at that very nice so
you've got front and back view of the fan Brandon did a great job of the
product photos didn't he he did they like actually look like profession
he took forever of course he did but he did a really good job of course he did
so you can see the uh yeah there you go you can see the the the orange grommets
this is cool so this is a neat feature sort of a feature I don't know so it
comes with a replacement for the orange Fan Hub cover uh like the fanhub sticker
that's just monochrome so it just that's cool just because you want to take the
bumpers off and make it really just kind of black and white fan just a black
special edition fan so the small one right there is is an aluminum back case
badge and then the big one is an aluminum backed um Fan Hub sticker that
you would use to cover this one yep aluminum stickers man so you would cover
up this one and then you can actually pull the rubber uh the rubber noise
isolators off and it'll be completely black SLS silver if you if you go ahead
and uh and do that so here you go that's what the complete breakfast looks like
that's everything it comes with the fan the extension the noise reduction
adapter the uh the noise reducing orange grommets screws the case badge and the
replacement fanhub sticker so it's available and I had a lot of people
asking is it available in 140mm yes both
the NF F12 and the NF A14 version are
available and so performance PCS in the
US overclockers doc. in the UK boom and
this is cool so the way that we handled msrps is the sanity way where it's just
a straight currency conversion yay we didn't screw over the
UK or like other places y so straight
currency conversion um in Australia it
is PL computers and the Aussies are probably looking at that going well we
got screwed it's like I'm sorry your dollar sucks but that actually doesn't change my cost on the
fan so so yeah our dollar sucks too and
to be clear you guys the reason they're so expensive is that nocta fans aren't
cheap in the first place so yeah and
then in a in a move that surprised absolutely no one the Canadian carrier
for these will be NC so so my Bros over
at ncx also have the nf2 and the nfa1 14
listed so regardless of who you order from they should be getting them around
the same time give or take a couple of days but if you guys are down for some
LT Edition fans then check it out yeah yes we know they're expensive no we
don't expect people to buy a bunch and kit out their whole case uh we only made
4,000 of them so it's more like if
someone wanted to have like one 140 mm
special edition fan for the back of their case that's kind of what we're
expecting people to do I already know from talking to Performance PCS who by
the way has already sold through almost a fifth of his allocation of 120
Ms so from talking to perform handk over
at performance PCS um the feedback is that lots of people are buying more than
one but um we just we're doing it as a limited edition thing if they sell out
really fast we might do more but it is not clear if we will do any more and if
we do do more it's quite possible we would just rerun the 120 because right
now the 140s for obvious reasons are selling quite a bit slower yeah so um so
there you go there are some people talking about New Zealand in general if
there isn't a store in their region is is there a process that people go
through to do something what the best
way I believe at least a couple of the retailers do ship internationally NC
does for sure yeah I believe performance PCS doeses because they've shipped stuff
to me and I'm in Canada so they're in the US um also ships up to me and
overclockers doco.com
ships within Europe so so I would expect Europeans to order from overclockers
co.uk I would expect Americans to order from performance PCS Canadians to order
from NC um if for whatever reason
someone else doesn't ship to uh your area NCIX would be a good bet because I
know they ship pretty much worldwide and then PL is there to cover our Australian
and I would assume shipping to New Zealand would be cheaper from plle than
from like NC over the Pacific Ocean so that was kind of my thought there as
well yeah yeah yeah so there you go people are
saying overclocker ships everywhere there you go so basically everyone
probably ships everywhere yeah and I know that shipping is expensive there is
not a lot I can do about that because we weren't like I'm not looking to get into
the retail computer hardware business that is actually not my business model
at all uh this fan you know what maybe I'll talk about the story of this fan
been a long time coming so sure go ahead this fan has been a very long time
coming I'll be back in the first time we teased this fan we were doing the W show
in Luke's old office at the old place still we hadn't actually moved into the
room where we ended up doing the W show for the rest of the time that we were in
the old office and all we teased was that like I think we said something
along the lines of like we drive so much we knocked out Knock to his site by
linking to it uh because everyone on the W show rushed over there and we were
like we drive so much traffic for Noctua and they don't do any advertising with
us but we just love the product so they should do a custom fan for us and that
was sort of where the seed was planted and so ever since then I've been pushing
them I've been like look I advocate your
product because I love it because I trust it because I've seen the return
numbers like I was the product manager for Noctua and a number of other fan
lines and I had access to information from all of them I was the category manager for fans at NC so I was like I
trust the product I know it's reliable I know it performs great I've got all these reasons that I love it but you
guys don't believe in advertising in in
these ways that we do advertising so I
want a custom fan and I had a lot of people when we teased the idea that we
wanted to do a custom fan um it just
looked cool we had a lot of people saying oh are you going to do it with this are you going to do it with that are you going to do with that I
basically dug in my heels and I said no we are doing it with the nff 12 and if
we can't do it with the n12 I'm not doing it with anything because I know
it's expensive we could have done a 9.99 LT Edition fan 100% I could have done
that no problem but the reason that we're doing this is because this is our
F the first time that we're putting our name on an actual computer product that
you put in your computer so I didn't want anything that I wasn't 100% certain
of so I was like nope we're doing with that or we're doing it with nothing um
so I have waited this must be about two years now until they finally agreed a
number of months ago to actually do it we reached an agreement about you know
what we would be able to customize what we wouldn't we didn't customize much
because I'm not a I'm not an engineer in fact it comes with a with a little note
from me inside the inside the package where I explain I'm not an engineer I
did not design your fan and that is a good thing we didn't change much because
it made the importing of the product simpler it didn't have to go through any
recertification processes or anything like that um because we meant for it to
just be hey here's a cool product that is good that has our name on it that
we're okay with that and that they can't read it at all because Fanboy it says
because Fanboy and fan is in in quote marks and that if you want to contribute
to L's Tech tips but you don't want a shirt or you don't want a badge next to
your name on The Forum but hey you do need a new fan and you don't mind
spending a couple bucks for high quality fan go for it and one thing L fan that I
would pimp right now for for Noctua is that they have swappable colors of their
noise dampening yeah those are coming so actually if you buy the LTT Edition fan
which is I believe about the same price as the industrial ones although not
waterproof or dust proof it's just the standard fan but it is about as
expensive as the Industrials um it runs at a lower RPM by default so the
Industrials are kind of loud though they are exactly so even when you control
them you can't control them as low as you can a regular nf12 so if you just
want a black ff2 and you want to swap
out the uh the colors of the corner pieces which Noctua has kits coming or
you just want a black fan it's actually a great option if you were going to buy
Noctua anyway and you just want a black fan so there you go people are saying
restock them to the US uh these are pre-orders they are actually not shipped
yet there will be plenty for all uh everyone every retailer that I listed
those are all pre-orders uh but don't worry the product is good I have held it
in my hands it is awesome and uh yeah
can you put them on a radiator it's an n12 it is about as good as it gets for a
radiator it's yeah or it's an nfa1 14 which is also very good for a radiator
uh great for radiators great for heat sinks pretty good for just case air flow
but like overkill for case air flow you don't need that kind of static pressure
uh very good for things like hard drive cages it's got very directed air flow
very high static pressure so anywhere where you've got a tight Grill you've
got uh any obstructions like hard drive cages heat sink fins radiator fins this
is a fantastic fan why not LED fans because LED fans are just put LEDs in
your system yeah it's way better yes way
better all right there's like pretty good LED strips these days and you can
get ones that like you can change the color of with the remote and stuff like
get those ones all right let's go ahead and uh you know what we're oh where
should we put links to all that stuff like should I just put links
to like you know what why don't I just do do links in the chat of of each one
so there you go for the Canadians there's ncx and I'm sure you guys are
super smart and you can find the other version of The Fan if you really want um
so there's there's PL if you guys haven't heard of any of these stores
then uh then great and um we actually oh
this is more more like I'm sorry I don't I don't want to like waste your guys
time so if you're bored of this then just let me know but we've also got some
pretty exciting other merch news um our
sample arrived yes is he here uh I doubt
it you can go check do you want to see if he's here but I have a picture like I have a picture that we posted on Twitter
I know but it's way cooler if we can show it in person yeah um so we got our
sample of the lonus tech tips when
hoodie uh from G8 so if you guys have
ever seen like the NVIDIA land hoodie that they did that was freaking awesome
basically I got one of those this is also an an incredibly long story so I
got one of those two years ago
at NVIDIA's gsync launch event that's
when the seed was planted for this and it has taken this long to go through all
the iterations of Designing this all the waiting all the just oh it took oh it
took forever we just didn't have time to work on it and and it was also timec
consuming but we got our sample of the LT Lan hoodie and uh that will be
available in like I don't know 16 weeks or something like that like it's it's a
ways out but um what I'm kind of
thinking because we can't just sell these through Teespring because it's a G8 product like it's not just like it's
completely customized like custom color of the strings you know um like custom
tag on it like all this stuff oh oh awesome awesome Ed's got it so Ed you
can be my you can be my model you you go here so Ed actually designed it um
pretty much from scratch other than like taking sort of the ideas for yeah that
logo was painstakingly crafted by Ed Yago um so like things like the zipper
layouts are are not not done by him but the design on the inside of the hood
which says it's actually got a typo this is thankfully no no no it's not typo oh
I made the text grungy and like put in scratches and I scratched out part of
the L and turned it into an I so it's Inus Tech tips it's got two eyes so
we're going to fix that in the real one but it says that on the inside the back
has got kind of like a like kind of a grungy like W logo inspired thing other
side minus Tech tips logo so um so what
I'm kind of thinking is I'm going to if the fan thing goes well I'm going to try
and talk our reseller Network into selling these as well even though
they're not really computer products and like who knows maybe that'll be like a
really unique and cool way that um LMG
can do can do merch moving forward they can hear you by the way you
can talk too headphon Sav your headph headphone wire management things on the
inside and the outside I I don't think they can see
that yeah they're not going to be able to see that but this one actually saved my headphones yesterday when we were
running around in the corn maze my headphones fell out of my ears but was
kept by the loop so there you
go okay I'm gonna go all right thanks Ed see you have a great weekend I like
pulled him out of his car really he was leaving I was like come on you got to
show the way show your sweater car was on like just about to
pull out I'm like no the sweater so to be clear gu oh it's
a G8 brand hoodie and it's like really nice like it's a light material but like
a quality material like that was why I wanted it again it was one of those
things where I was like nope I want this one and if we can't do this one then I'm
not going to so we figured it out g8's
been great they put together just I we were going to order 300 now that I've
seen it I think we're going to order like 600 nice but it's not going to be
cheap okay like not going to be cheap so
G8 our cost from G8 is not cheap we will
need resellers to sell this for us because I can't pull you know Luke and
Nick and Ed off of their regular duties to pack boxes and ship things out the
door not to mention that our shipping rates would be atrocious because we
don't ship in high enough volume so the resellers are going to need their margin
and we're going to need our margin so I'm expecting them to cost somewhere in
the neighborhood of about a hundred bucks so they are not going to be cheap for a
sweater I don't think that's that I don't shop for clothes yeah I don't
really know for like for like a a generic how much does a how much does a
hoodie cost guys yeah for like a generic cotton hoodie um I I I think they're
like 60 bucks I don't know so I kind of figure for that like
yeah but it would be like a it would be like a 100 bucks us so yeah it's going
to be pretty ouch but okay that's high I
don't shop for clothes it's high in the cont yeah I I haven't bought a hoodie
since I was in like grade six yeah so I don't know so anyway people are saying
like $30 like no's no way it's way below
the cost way below cost sometimes things
cost money especially when they're custom so this will be very custom and
there's a lot of cool features and stuff like the pockets on the inside are pretty badass the cable management stuff
is pretty badass yeah so there you go guys
sometimes things just are they are and that's how it
is um all right so what else we got here I mean there's not much time left but I
guess we don't have a whole lot of uh do you have time for after party um I think
I have to shoot fast as possible again today oh Oh you mean the ultrawide
festival after party yeah oh maybe we
should just and okay why don't we do a couple like like super rapid fire topics
so Apple's profits break all records for all companies ever um so they're a
staggering almost 10 billion ahead of the previous record set by exen Mobile
in 2008 so um there you go most
profitable year ever ever ever ever so
apparently they're doing kind of okay without Steve Jobs yep selling lots and
lots of iPhones
um let's see there's the Tesla topic basically we don't have to go watch the
video or anything but basically there was an Uber driver and someone did a
like super bad U-turn right in front of them and they would have had a head-on
collision but the car stopped before he could even like honk the horn so I guess
yeah we're going to see it that guy super not good car stopped saved him
pretty cool there you go yeah good stuff there's there's some Sensational stuff
in the thing where it's like I could have died like I kind of doubt it I
don't think they were going that fast weren going that fast but like it's still cool that it stopped uh this is
interesting this is actually I wish we had talked about this earlier on in the show AT&T data perks offered little bits
of data Snippets of data on your plan uh for completing various tasks so this is
basically straight up one of those like
complete surveys to earn cash cash cash
cash for surveys except brutal AT&T so
it's an iOS and Android app it's called Data perks so you can take surveys you
can shop and sign up for subscriptions and exchange for dat of course you can
shop and sign up for subscriptions that's so bull that can be transferred to your wireless account um AT&T says
subscribers are allowed to transfer up to a gig to their Wireless account each
month within a billing period And I believe they actually expire outside of
that billing period although don't quote me on that one but basically it's like
super lame and Android police uh pointed
out that most offers net 25 to 50
Megs oh my God it's like
wow wow and it's possible to earn more but a
lot of the time that involves purchasing or subscribing to to
something great awesome yeah um this is
this is interesting so more details on YouTube Red so um I actually have a call
that I need to get on with my YouTube contact on I think Monday I told him I
wasn't able to do it today he wanted to talk today
um because the word on the street was that YouTube read similarly to how Apple
was planning to handle their music service was not going to pay creators
during the trial period um this headline
says will pay video makers during free trial after concerns um through email I
haven't got all the details something something Google play music subscribers
are being transferred to YouTube red and you're going to get some of that but I
don't know something something something something something
something so we'll see we'll see how all
this goes because as much as you know I
wow I'm going to I'm going to totally pull a Taylor Swift here as much as that
income will not make or break lus Media Group this is not about Linus Media
Group because AdSense makes up a small
portion of what we do because and some people are much more heavily reliant on
AdSense we Diversified we saw I mean I'm
not going to call us Geniuses or anything but we saw this coming no we
didn't see YouTube Red coming specifically but we saw YouTube
basically changing the rules and going sign up or
GTFO uh we saw that coming A Million Miles Away and so we are also on vessel
which does a lot to support our business and a huge thanks to our viewers who watch on vessel uh we also have merch we
also have subscribers on our Forum that contribute to us like we have a lot of
different ways we we do a lot of our own ad Integrations as you guys know um so
so we are far less reliant on AdSense than many other creators so this is not
about us it's just wrong it's wrong to
offer a free trial and then take that out of someone else's
pocket Google this is your service you
eat it so yeah there you go uh so anyway I
will clarify hopefully next week once I actually get a a better understanding of
what exactly is going on because right now it's not it's not 100% clear to
me uh I think that's pretty much it so thank you for watching The W show today
guys I hope you enjoyed it we certainly did I forgot to I forgot to set up the
intro properly so it'll show it'll show an ad spot for a second here uh we are
we are going to do a very short after you know what no I will find out if we
are going to do a very short after party I'll be right back you just leaving can
I roll the thing I don't
know I'm not here don't look at me we don't have any
topics left I don't know what to talk about I filmed the beginning of probably
one of the coolest build Vlogs I've ever been a part of today I still have a
whole bunch left to film it's sitting right over there off camera so it's like
just outside of the frame and you can't see it super epic so far everything is
actually working and actually going according to plan this is probably one
of the riskiest build logs I've ever tried to do and it would really suck if
it ended in a failure so yeah hoping it works
out um I don't know when the video is going to come out for it hopefully
relatively soon but yeah that's been a
hell of a thing um yeah hopefully it hopefully it looks
good and hopefully it runs well both of those two things are still very much up
in the air in terms of variables I think it could run very well and look super
awesome or it could run pretty okay and
look super trash it'll run at least a
little bit though anyways I don't even think there
is any more new news topics at all um
not my wife wants to home apparently we
are not doing the Afterparty because Linus's wife really wants to go home
which is super fair so we're going to roll the
intro good
stalling
oh