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garbage. See, the proper way to prep plastic is to actually uh, you know,

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creative haven't even been really on camera at all yet. Um, so we want to get

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a super clean battle station, super clean build, and then uh add the

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flourish and like everything that's going to make this thing creative and

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the uh case feet right now. So, we're going to do white on the whole case, but

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then we're going to do some accent pieces in in pink. So, some of the mesh

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and different things. So, we thought that pink feet would be kind of a nice

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contrast. So, just getting those painted ahead of time.

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Oh, fish eyes didn't get didn't get prepped very good. Yeah. So, if you

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don't prep something and clean it really good, uh I don't know if you can see it,

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but so the black little spots that you're seeing are what's called fish

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eyes. And so if there's a contaminant on the surface and you try to put paint,

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especially if it's like a oily contaminant, it will separate the paint

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from the surface. And so it leaves what they call a fisheye.

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So, this is the front panel piece. So, what I did was cut it down. Uh, we

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removed the actual door that would go here. And we're just going to make like

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a filler panel to set inside here. So, this was on the front of the actual

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door. And so, I took it off and it just had to be cut down a little bit. Oh my

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god, it's a perfect fit. Okay, we'll

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mount this in here so it's permanent. And then we're gonna have to drill a

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couple holes for our water cooling lines and then some mounting holes for the

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brackets for the reservoir. So our reservoir is going to Oh, I look great

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with it. So our reservoir is going to uh

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sit right here. And so looking at the front of the case, we'll have a

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reservoir on the outside. I do kind of wish that I had gone with a white primer

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if we were going to try and do any vibrant colors. But if we do go ahead

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with chocolate brown for real, then it'll work just fine. That actually

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looks super pro down there. All my parts drying. I mean, okay, super

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pro is probably an exaggeration, but okay. One of these parts is touching the

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saworse leg.

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Okay. Wait, I'm good.

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No, I'm using up all my pegboard. Just trying to find a spot for this to dry.

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So, my power button and my reset button

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don't have time to do like really tidy masking with, you know, razor blades and

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stuff. We need a piece of tape to cover

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what can't get paint on it. But, I think if I flex this out, then I can slip this

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under it. Actually, you know what? I

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think I'm going to leave the sticky side. Wow, this must be the world's

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crappiest masking tape. Brilliant.

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So, I think what I can do is just stick this in there and

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demonstrate once and for all that there's no problem you can't solve

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by flexing out and sticking it in there.

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Thank you.

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No, it's fine. I can work with this. Cuz that is what Tech Showdown is about.

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Working with what you got in spite of Ed's best efforts to sabotage everything

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you hold dear.

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Can of flat brown? No, no, no, no. Three cans of the um of

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the clear coat. And clear coat. Yeah. And you want three colors of brown

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still? Uh I I think so. Like if we're going,

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you know, shades of chocolate, then uh

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we might as well go shades of chocolate.

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Like I really didn't want to get into the whole like painting thing with this

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project, but these guys have forced our hand a little bit. Like we can't show up

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with a not painted system at this point. Oh man, I am I need Luke to get back

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here with more paint. Holy crap, this painting is taking longer than I had

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hoped. Okay. How long will you be there? Um, I just I'm out of primer.

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is probably the only thing that saves this chocolate idea. So, I need to get

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literally everything taken apart where we

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were pretty screwed. Okay, so I'm officially out of primer, which means I

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disassembly. So, in terms of color scheme for the

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monitor, frankly, I don't have a ton of options. We're going with uh with gold

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gold for this thin bezel frame. Then we

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all the way and then maybe I could mask off like a like a jagged line and we

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could have uh brown come out the bottom or something like that. But I mean,

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something I'm already not going to have a lot of time for.

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Is Luke back? Yeah. Hey. Hey, man.

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I have a wide mix of news for you. Uh

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oh. What is this? All good though, right? Um, mostly.

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and then tell me the better. Um, I got a lot of track.

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Okay. There weren't a lot of trains that you could put things in.

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Check this out. I got the logo off.

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So, we're going to be able to put that back on after we paint. Cool.

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But I got like this. So, we have a little station,

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which I think is cool. Um, I got this,

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which we can unscrew the top off of it and just use that bit.

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Cool. So, that could like be pouring off like the GPU or something if we want.

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Um, I got a little thing. So, if you want to have a pad on top of the computer.

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Dope. Okay. Um, this I think we could just like put

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some on it or something. I don't know. And then there's only like

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two that you can actually put things in, which is a little sad. Nope. I think we can live with that.

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That'll be the thing that pulls them. Uh, that's a caboose. Oh, does that

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push? No, I don't know.

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Does it matter? We We need one of the stack. All right.

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I can get that later. Might be cool.

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Um little firet truck. Sure. And a little ambulance.

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Oh lordy. Okay. Yeah, we need that. Yeah. Uh

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our team needs an ambulance. Yeah. Okay.

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I don't know if this is going to I don't know if this is going to translate to

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like foil wrapping,

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but I'm sure going to It looks okay.

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this is tacky, dude.

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Oh god. No, I'm not. I'm worried about me. Keep painting. I'm worried about us.

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Keep painting, man. Don't you ever think about us? Oh my god. You have the primer, right?

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Only in therapy. No.

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No, I'm not. Oh, that's bad.

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I will go get primer.

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Should I do Ace Hardware? Or should I just go to Home Depot?

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I don't know. Okay. Is there anything else you can do

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in the meantime? Uh, yeah. I can keep working on the

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monitor. I'll find Don't worry. I'll find things to do. Okay, cool.

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I swear I could have strangled Luke when he came back without primer. My level of

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impress went from here like here. I

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cannot believe he came back without the primer.

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Well, I got sick this morning, which was not good. Um, and I'm tired and I have

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to like go around the city and stuff and forget primer, which was like

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the main reason that I went to the store. So, that was pretty bad. So, Luke

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and I couldn't help noticing um while we

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were checking out their super boring

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generic candy color scheme over here that they have four tables.

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And meanwhile, we're scraping by with two. So, we've liberated a table. That's

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how we do in Canada. Hey, buddy. Actually, we'd probably just

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ask for it. But they're American. They wouldn't really like get it, you know?

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Hold on. Let me just get this hanging first. Yeah, it's good. Okay.

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So, everyone knows I just likes pink, right? And everyone knows Steve from

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Gamers Nexus is going to be like picky on the actual computer.

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But what these guys don't know is Central Park.

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Okay. What about it? I'll explain it in more detail later. Okay. I super don't get it.

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done getting everything painted. We need to adjust the RAM to monitor a side

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panel. And once we have everything under paint, we got to run and grab a couple

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things that we couldn't get yesterday. And then we'll be back here and we have

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to lay a second color of paint on our tabletop. And we want to try to get that

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done about 4:00, which lets us let the paint set up a little bit, let us pull

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I bet you did. Pretty good. Pretty darn good. So, it's

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going to it's going to be a little bit closer on the second coat as well

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because right now we have a lot of that white popping through. So, you're going

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to see that it's really close.

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It's just the shaking.

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just have uh we So, what we're going to do now is we're going to bond this

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little insert panel right here that we

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cut. We're going to bond it into this

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piece and let that sit overnight so that it's good and strong. And uh when we

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come back in the morning, it'll be locked in. It'll be solid. And then we

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can scuff it and paint it. This

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um that's the mark that I made when I

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kicked out my foot to try and keep it from falling. Okay.

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Oh, there. Oh, okay. It got that gold on it from the

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floor. Yeah. So, Luke, this is coat number three of the monitor. This is the point where

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this gold either starts to look good or uh we give up hope on it.

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how well the gold turned out. I um I was

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paint by the first coat, but it's a

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clue. That looks pretty all right. Yeah. Okay.

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it's definitely coming together. Well, hey, one more coat is a hell of a lot easier there. Easier than, "Oh my god,

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blow it up. It's terrible." That whole thing that we were kind of

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told we couldn't do. I think they're going to go pretty far with that.

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You know what though? I honestly am not worried about that.

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You guys were told to do that. Well, we assumed based on that we had

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parts provided by sponsors.

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I was you were okay. Well, I wasn't.

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I was told by you. Okay.

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actually like boring? Yeah. I'm worried that they did that on

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purpose. What do you mean? I'm worried that uh that we're looking

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at sort of a a fraction

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of Well, don't look at it then.

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Is this a bad time to mention that I don't really know how to mask and I'm just kind of winging it?

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Uh, I already knew that. Oh, okay.

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If I hadn't already known that before today, I would have known it from

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watching you do it.

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do all the painting rather than hand off at some point. might have just uh

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damaged the finish on one of the most important parts,

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the frame of the monitor. Hold on. Let me see if I can retouch it while it's

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still wet, I believe.

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So, Luke, crazy thing. Um,

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I'm out of stuff to paint mouse. All right, done. Uh,

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unless you want me doing something else, but you're going to have to kind of disassemble it for me.

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Did you do the keyboard? Uh,

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I'm going to assume that I did, but I can't find it.

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If we use a bag to mask it off, we tie

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it nice and tight, then I think I can probably spray around it and hit the

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frame. Holy crap, it does look ridiculous.

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It looks crazy. Some mad scientist lab.

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Today was a blur because I was doing the

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same thing over and over and over again and I was on paint fumes.

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Well, that's what today is going to be like. Um, so I mean sample size of one,

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but other than me spitting on it just now making lightsaber noises, finish on

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this looks pretty good. I'm I'm really

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happy. So, I'm going to start hitting this with paint. My goal for today is to

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finish painting things so that tomorrow I don't have to look at another can of

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paint. Speaking of which, what am I doing? I'm

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going to finish taping off this power supply and then I'm going to finish doing some of the stuff that we were

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talking about to those tubes. Yes. And I need that thing.

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Yes. Ah. Ah. Yes. The thing. The secret weapon. Ah. So, turns out that I had a

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Threadripper block on my desk the whole

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time. I don't know where they're gonna get one.

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If the competition was two days, I think that would look awesome.

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You know what I mean? I like it. I'm I'm like pretty pleased

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with how this turned out actually. Iron Man. Yeah, man. Too bad that's not the team.

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I can't get any paint on where it is anyway. So,

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you good? Mhm. Okay. Yeah, I contained it. You don't look

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that good. Yeah, I know. I've like filled my mouth

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twice in the last 10 minutes. Pretty gross.

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Yeah, I know. All right, that needs to be primed, too. So, just the block and the feet of the

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monitor and then we're done priming. Okay. So, are we good for primer then?

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Yeah, we're good. But if I did send you to go buy more

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primer, that's what you would buy, right? Yes.

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Oh my god, I hate this nozzle.

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Also, it's leaking at the bottom. Freaking brilliant. I'm trying to

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imagine a way that I could be more pissed off by having two bad spray cans

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in a row. I think it looks chocolatey.

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I'm not going to get after them for the color. I think it looks chocolate.

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I don't think I could be more mad right now.

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While you and that color have had their differences,

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together something great has happened.

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Captain, pause.

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What?

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Um, my hand my fingers are Oh.

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Uh, well, our card's dead.

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Okay, you can use theirs. Yeah. Okay, we have another one. I just

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have to do all of this over again. So,

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our GPU can't be air cooled anymore. Um,

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cuz we ripped off the fan header.

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So, which is like ridiculously on here. What I'm trying to do right now is get the

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block part off of it cuz then you could just paint this. You

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just swapped the other card. Yeah. Yeah.

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I'm trying to salvage some of this. Okay.

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um sort of I laid it out on the ground

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but like sorry right now I am trying to

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get a rough idea of how this whole train track thing is going to be able to come

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together. I'm pretty unsure but I'm

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going to try to make it work. I'm still painting. Thanks for asking.

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You know what? Yeah, let's diarama it up for a little bit here

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just to make sure what I need to buy. We need to sanity check this. I don't

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want to go back to toy traders if we don't have to. So, I actually don't mind

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our idea at this stage. We got the train, we got the town, we

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got the theme. Um, I think the system is

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going to end up looking pretty sharp. I still have some deep concerns about the

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water cooling because I haven't figured out how I'm going to make the

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limited amount of tubing that we have work with the fact that I now have to

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integrate a reservoir and pump.

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Um, but my only concern at this point is the

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legs. Our plan for the legs completely fell through and we have no backup.

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People bought some candy from the candy train and are going to go to the park, I

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guess, cuz they're not there yet cuz they're by the candy train. Um,

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that that that's a dog. Um,

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it's a candy dog. Candy dog. It's a black licorice dog.

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It's not a black lab. It's a black licorice dog. Um, there there's a tree.

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I don't I don't know what um It's a lollipop tree. It's a lollipop tree. Uh, yeah. And then

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there's some shrubberies which are probably going to be jube jube shrubberies. I don't know. Every

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previous tech showdown, the setup has been that Lions and I go shopping in the

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morning before Tech Showdown actually starts and buy all of the stuff that

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we're going to use because we know the theme and then the entire duration of

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Tech Showdown is us implementing that theme. That's it. We have one shopping

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trip and we make it work. And with this tech showdown, we decided to sit there

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and try to visualize it or sit there and start taking things apart while trying

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to think of what we should do. And I think the best thing for us would have

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possibly been to just go to the dollar store and go to the other store and see

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what we can find like we did in previous episodes. I could also be totally wrong

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about that. I don't know. I just think our theme isn't super great. Okay. So,

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I've got all my tape uh

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put back over the white area so that I can just stay stay with the same pink

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area that I had before and uh tried to get it as close as I can to the same

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edge so that um it doesn't look wiggly

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or anything like that. So, uh it doesn't have to be super perfect, but I'm going

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to go ahead and just roll the pink back over the top of this. You can maybe see

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on the camera there's some light areas and dark areas. And so you'll get that

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just on your first coat. And so on the second coat and then if you go with like

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a third coat, um it'll darken up more and more each time. So it'll it'll um

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become more solid.

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That is better. But just magnetic.

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So those just drop on. Now we have our pink and white mouse to

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match and they are ready to lock into place.

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Oh, except for it won't it won't look right on the inside corners when we go.

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Wow. So, this is an awesome fact. only 60 calories, contains 20 servings at 60

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calories. We have to put our steel uh

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bendable rods into our lollipop. So, I

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got to cut the uh dowel off. And now I'll have to drill a small hole in to

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fit the uh steel rod just right. Third

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one.

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Yeah, sweet pink. A little lighter, but not too bad. Okay.

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A lot of pain on this part.

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keyboard is all pink keys, white keyboard

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and uh with the white PCB cover underneath. We should get a nice sweet

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glow from the uh

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car. This might be a trick. What? This might be a trick to get this to stay.

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Oh, why am I so long? Oh, that's right. I left it long, though.

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Oh, dang it. Okay, so here's the little box I made.

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Um, the adhesive is still a little bit on the sticky side.

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Oh, nice, dude. What? That's awesome. Does it? Oh, dude, that does look good.

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Isn't that sweet? Yeah, that's sweet. All right, I up, too. It bubbled up and

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looked horrible. Really? Oh, yeah. Huh?

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like you guys. Oh, not quite. Actually, Colton actually

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thought we did do it for a living. Oh, no. We don't.

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We have day jobs, man. Yeah. I said something about working on

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servers and stuff, and he's like, "You what?" Like, yeah, both of us do this as

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kind of a professional hobby, I think, is the best way to describe it. We try

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to achieve professional results, but both of us work 5 days a week. And uh

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we're up here all week on vacation. That's a really bad ugly contrast.

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We could pull we could paint them. The the problem is durability of paint, but

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wow. That's that's hideous.

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Um we could just pull this front cover

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and just blast the whole thing. Yep. Yeah, I'm going have to do that.

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I have to fix a couple of these heights, but that's hideous. Um okay, so yeah,

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keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower. Bob's

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an OCD freak, which makes working with him sometimes really challenging,

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especially since I'm not at all. And he

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gets easily distracted. But, uh, you know, having someone who's

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an OCD freak on a case modding team, it's pretty

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valuable because everything gets put exactly the way it should be on the

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finished product. And that sound means it's the end of the

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workday and the end of the show. Tune in next week when the boys will assemble

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their final builds and present them to the three celebrity judges. Will I,

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Justine, be tickled pink? Will Central Park leave its mock on Riley? And will

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Steve Burke of Gamers Nexus be impressed by things that Steve Burke of Gamers

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Nexus would be impressed by? All will be

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revealed next week on the final episode of Tech Showdown.