in Flo Plain. I'm we're live now. Hello everyone in Flo Plain. I am so grateful that you are here
for this Scrapyard Wars commentary track where we bring in people that worked on it, people that
participated in it, and we're going to kind of give you the scluce behind the scenes stories
as we watch each episode and sort of break it down. We did one of these last year and the plan
was to watch it through but it broke down pretty quickly and we just kind of ended up talking about
the dirty secrets airing them out. But first... Is that what happened last year? I thought it was
someone spoiled that's why. Did someone spoil that? I'm sure people spoiled it. But first we have a
little bit of Scrapyard Wars drama that we need to address. Sam is going to let me know when
he's ready. But Hoffman, how are you doing buddy? If you guys don't know, Hoffman... What's the drama?
Hoffman was the editor on Scrapyard Wars. He was the primary editor for all of it. You had some help
for animations and some parts of the edit and stuff. But let me tell you, I was grateful it was you
again. I was grateful it was you writing, honestly. We work like dream team, I'll be honest. We work
well together. It's very nice getting to the mid-edits where there's not that much guidance. It's
kind of just like, here's a 15 hours of footage, go. And Hoffman always has a really good job
putting it together. It's like a puzzle. Your guidance is what you gave the contestants and
everyone in camera and the directors are camera people. And then I just take what you gave me
and whatever spits out, it's good because you gave me good stuff. That's why. It's a very symbiotic
kind of project where everyone is good. It's nice having Linus and Luke host with all the
participants who did a really good job. So it's like, there's so many little stories that I actually
didn't become aware of until watching an edit. And I'm like, oh, that happened. That's really
cool. I knew that they were having trouble with their TV and the deal or whatever, but I didn't
really understand that they had been to like five different fucking bleepies, five different stores
being like, and they just didn't pull the trigger. And I get it, but I'm so, my brain is so different
from Linus where I'm just like, I like it. I buy it now. I want it. But there's just, yeah, there's
no, I feel the frustration too. Like, how do you, how do you think I feel when I'm editing,
you know, the end of the shopping? And then turns out they went to two other stores beforehand.
I'm like, wait, what? No, one, like one of the things that you, the audience can never be aware
of or we can only make you aware of is how much stuff gets cut. And I know that there's always
the desire for more details on the stories or more kind of going in depth and stuff. But
we make the conscious choice to cut a lot of stuff so that it flows well, because you have to balance
you know, the stuff for the hardcore audience, which is you people here that want, you know,
17 hours of scrapper wars versus the more casual audience that they see a 40 minute video from
LTT and they're like, we can do some math before we start the stream. Like, so every, we get four
days, contestants, two teams, two camera, two camera crew per team. So four, yeah. So work
day or eight hours, you get like maybe roughly around 68 hours per camera. Yep. That's times four
times another four for four days. Yeah, it's called six hours a day per shooter, 24 hours per day,
times four, 96 hours of footage to go through. And that's non top of the security camera
footage that we pull or any action cam stuff. Realistically, it was like 50 hours of the FX6
main camera. And then like, if you add in the screen captures and the security cameras, it goes
into triple digits. Yeah, I know we were, I think we were better this year about the early parts
of editing, getting it all sunk up and like kind of offloading that, not making it just a Hoffman
task to make everything sink up. Because we had a team. Yeah, because I was leading. I was the
sole editor last year. And then this year, I'm the lead editor. And then I have other two editors
to help me out. And then as well as Robert, who did the animations in the introduction and the
really cool graphics. Yeah, what did you guys think of the intro? I really liked it. I, it's
like, I wouldn't change anything. I wish I had asked for an abbreviated version for the later
episodes because it's like, it's hard. It's hard because like, we're just trying to condense
everything so much. So it's like, if I could save 10 seconds there, that's 10 seconds somewhere else
I could, I could put back in. Totally. I thought about cutting things. Yeah. Like, like make it
shorter. But when your timeline is 40 minutes long. Well, and a big thing we learned last year,
I think this was my biggest learning outcome of helping on the Scrapper Wars last year was
we tried to streamline it so much that when it got to Linus for his review, he was like,
where's the sparkle? Where's like the actual like the spice of this video? Because it was just
plot, plot, plot, like the story driving forward. But I think what makes Scrapper was special is
that it's finally an opportunity for people just to be the people they want. Is he on the count
there? We got something. Is he face camming? Oh, Dan, you need to come in and widen the
shot a little bit. This is drama. Hello, Luke. Can you hear me?
I'm trying to, trying to turn the camera on. Sorry, it's having some problems.
Yeah. Luke's in Europe right now. So I put on doing a stir right.
I have a backup camera. Give me a sac. Oh, yeah, sounds good. Yeah, this is the hot goss.
What was that? I told you to leave. You might hang up.
No, I'm not going to hang up. Okay.
You definitely, if you're on the stream right now, I know we're having a little bit of technical
difficulties, but this is not the part you want to miss. Trust me. Oh, wait, is this what I think
it is? Yeah. There was a secret team and they won the whole thing.
Yeah, there was a whole 13 that you guys have right now. That's the prize.
But I guess, yeah, you only have you for this first episode. So like all the editing stuff
that you have to go to, like how many late nights did you have editing over the, I guess it was like
five weeks of releases, but you were working on it for many, many weeks beforehand.
Man, when you're, when you, when you have a project this big and then this tight of a deadline,
you're really counting hours. You're counting the stat days. You're counting, you're counting
everything and then you realize eight hours a day is not long. No, no, not nearly. And we did,
I think, overall better than last year. At least I felt like I had less late nights than last year,
but there was definitely a couple Thursday nights where I know you were working very,
very late and then we would have a review and then you would keep working and I was very grateful
that we could get stuff out for you guys early access on Floatplane. But make sure you thank
Hoffman for the hard work you put in the long, long hours to make that happen. This, this year's a
lot, a lot, a lot of the late nights are like for a lot of polishing and fine tune. Whereas last
year was a little different. Well, and I think people don't always appreciate, I feel like editing
is one of those things that goes really unappreciated because you just assume that, you know, you have
your footage and you put it together and it's really good. But like every little decision
matters and those little decisions take time to make. It does and it drains you. Oh yeah. You're,
you're trying to be there virtually with the contestants all the time and all the different
cameras and you're trying to think of all this, like remember all the storylines. How do you,
like I find one of my biggest challenges is the more times I review something, the less I see it
clearly. How do you maintain that level of like objectivity so you can make decisions on your
edit? You have to trust your colleagues. Oh, oh, no camera yet. We got something. Oh yeah, yeah,
sure. Maybe we start this, maybe we start the live. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the video going
and we'll, we'll, we'll go. All right. I was gonna say you have to trust your colleague. We have a
lot of review process, right? And I trusted you as well and you trusted me and I trust the other
editors as well. Yeah. It's like a funnel. And one of the things that's like hard on videos like
this is that like we have a very distinct process for how we edit videos and normally the timelines
are not so tight that you can adhere to them. Whereas this one, there's a lot of like, I couldn't
get this done. Trust me, I will get it done. Yep. Luke, I can hear you, but I cannot see you.
Can you hear him? I cannot hear. Oh, I can't, but.
Yeah, I'm having weird problems with games. Oh. Oh, I see a picture.
Something handsome. Oh, do you not have? No.
It's so handsome. He's the heartthrob of LTT. That's the drama. Okay, you can see. All right,
Dan, you want to come in here for a minute? Sure, one sec. Does Dan know? No.
Yeah, and Hoffman. Hoffman is the person who made me aware.
Join us. Come on. Come on in, Dan.
I feel a little bit bad because Dan is one of the hardest workers at this whole company.
And I'm about to make your day. Dan, did you cheat during Scrapyard Wars?
I don't think so. Did you know that you're not allowed to use your connections to get free things?
I mean, we bought them. You bought them from a co-worker who posted them free on Craigslist
after you talked to them. Everything we did was approved by the leader of the competition.
Wait, Linus knew about it? Also cheated if that doesn't count.
What's that? What? I thought you knew about this.
I did not know about this until the editing process, and then I found out about...
So this is the drama, by the way. This is the drama. Yeah.
Jamie Thilke, one of our amazing staff members, had a bunch of home theater stuff that he was
trying to get rid of, which is basically the AV receiver and the speakers, I believe.
And he'd let the team know, oh, you're so red, Dan. I'm sorry.
And so you didn't think we would find out? Like the mic, they were on, the cameras were rolling.
It's a little late, bud.
And so they got Jamie to post it on Craigslist so they could make it seem legit or whatever.
I also think that the speaker wire came from your house, right? Yeah, the speaker wire came from Dan's house.
I left some. I think I left some at home. Oh, I got some speaker wires at home.
I think I dropped some. I also bought the subwoofer from my back bedroom.
And I mean, we had shot the conclusion before we started editing.
So it doesn't... I mean, spoilers for Scrapper Wars. If you're somehow watching this stream
before watching Scrapper Wars, skip ahead three minutes or mute for three minutes, starting now.
So it just doesn't matter because we got stopped. That's exactly right. That's the reason.
For a second, I was like, what do I do? Like, how do I address this in the video? But it
doesn't matter because Lannis' team won. No, it doesn't matter because they lost.
Which should make it especially painful. Did they not cheat either?
I think there was one small thing Justin was really upset about. And I was trying to keep
the secret when I found out. I was watching, I think it was a second episode with Hoffman. And he's like, I think they did this. And then we kind of investigated and I talked to Jamie.
He's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. That's just my stuff.
But I didn't find out till the second episode of editing or whatever.
Me either. We go through all the footage. And then I got told, hey, something happened.
There are some whispers going on in clips where there are no cameras rolling.
Did you include it? No.
It's a hard thing to include. There's no payoff. Yeah. And it's like, it would have been...
I thought you knew, David. No, I had no idea.
And I thought, I didn't know. You knew, Luke. I thought this was going to be a moment of like you deeply disappointed and dead. You knew about it.
You knew about this. No, I remember being really surprised that you were letting us do it.
Yeah. I thought you were only letting us do it because we were getting stoned.
I actually remember it being kosher. Yeah.
Now they're flipping around on me. They're just letting me.
I'm so curious. There's like, no, no, no, there is no way. I was going to try and
give it something maybe like I just forgot. No, no, I wouldn't. It was very secretive. That's too much. There's an audio recording somewhere.
So we have tentacle packs that go into a Sony pack that are wirelessly transmitted to the
camera. So the audio is recorded directly to the camera, but it's also recording the entire day.
The whole time on those packs. And so that's how it was kind of first uncovered was
listening to the packs. Then there was no cameras rolling. There was no nothing.
So I don't think that it was kosher, but I do love that you guys convince yourselves.
I genuinely believe that you believed it.
I genuinely believe that you convinced yourself that was that I did. And I think I do now.
I think what it was was it was probably a misunderstanding. We were probably like too
vague. Oh, maybe that's it's certainly possible that I okayed something because like
early on in the process, we don't show a lot of it, but like the teams are like,
is this okay? Is this okay? Is this okay? Because I kind of remember it being very like
just at the edge of what the rules are. So the
because I remember specifically it's having you say because I was like,
do we need to like include this in the in the footage? And you were like, no,
it's not going to be good for the story. Just don't include any of it.
I deeply misunderstood what you guys were asking me at that point, if that's how it happened.
Because that's definitely like we probably we probably tried to make it sound less bad.
I don't know if we tried to make it. We were probably trying to like frame it for the video,
which like made it sound different than it was. And then you said not to do it on video anyways.
Yeah. And then I doubt we like really doubled down and clarified because one of my lines was
that I'm down to bend or break any rule, but it has to go through you. Yeah. So yeah, I do believe
that that there was a miscommunication where I misunderstood what you were asking. So is lying
to you cheating? Yes, for sure. Okay, don't lie to the judge. And it's one of the one of the like,
there's a lot of rules. I actually want to pull that document up that I sent to both teams,
because I sent her like a pretty long document that was pretty specific about what you need to
do and what's allowed, what's not. And it's mentioned in the video, but we don't ever show it.
And one of the prime directives, and this is like a prime scrapper towards every year directive,
is don't use your connections for stuff for anything. Like, and part of that is Linus can't
reach out to a brand to be like, here's some new way that it was described was if we knew a friend
who was trying to get rid of something anyways, and they just left it on the side of the road,
could we go pick it up? And that was confirmed as yes. I think the only line was it might not have
been made clear that it was also a co worker. Yeah, because you're allowed to pick up stuff from like,
like recycle depots and stuff, if you know someone that works there. And so you might have asked
that way. And it maybe was my mistake, I should have dug deeper. But I think it was like, I just
assumed that it was just kind of left out. Left out of which. Because I one of the one of the lines
that I thought might have gotten us through was that it would have had to have been left out in
a way that like, someone could have got it. If we didn't get it. I don't know, I'm trying to remember
this. So Jamie, for example, was going to get rid of it for free. Yeah. And like, it's not oh,
hey, give it to me for free instead of selling it. It's yeah, it's definitely against the spirit
of the rules. I will take some responsibility. I might have done a better job becoming aware of
what the specific thing was. Because I think if it was like, hey, this person has like a bin of
cables that they're getting rid of, and they're just posting it for free, that's fine.
Like if they have a GG or something like that. But this like, in this case, it was too important
of a piece. That makes complete sense. Because I remember being stunned that you okayed it. And I
thought you only, with the second you did that, I was like, we're in so much shit. Sorry, I shouldn't
swear. But I thought they were just so far ahead of us that you were like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
infinite help. Oh, yeah, same. I actually didn't think you guys were in like,
too rough a shape until like, the last day, you guys were team, you guys were team anxiety,
like Lou, you're the chillest dude I know. But you had three high anxiety teammates.
And they overwhelmed you with, I don't know how much we're going over this stuff. But like,
literally the second that they, we confirmed that they didn't have the mount, I was like, word
dud. Yeah, that was a big mistake. Although as the person in who's been content minded about it,
it was great because the projector mount became such an integral story. Of course. Of course.
Also, the, the, the soldered knives is one of my favorite solutions of all time. I think it's so
really 100%. Yeah, I mean, and again, I think, you know, the receiver was kind of garbage.
The speakers are kind of garbage. It was all kind of garbage. Yeah, they ended up with a better
sound system. Anyway, so, and like, like I said, they won. So it doesn't, it doesn't really matter
at the end of the day. I think both Luke and I, our intention was not to cheat. If you know what
I mean, 100%. I don't think you guys go out and go like, hey, let's, let's go get this stuff for
free. Yeah. So I think we accidentally cheated, probably. Yeah. And it's, I think we, we didn't
communicate clearly enough. I wasn't actually trying to deceive David. Yeah. Yeah. But I think we
probably didn't make it clear enough, because I think we tried to like, make it more kind of,
I don't know, funny, interesting for the camera, like, oh, friends. And that just didn't make like,
hey, we're going to give free shit for our show. Yeah. It's fine. I've sworn on. I've sworn
already. Those are different things. Yeah. Well, Veil's been burst. But Luke, thank you so much
for calling in. I really appreciate it, Dan. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. I'm glad
we could clear it up. Drama sorted. We can get back to the rest of the stream. Next year, we'll
cheat better. Yeah, more secretly. No, do it on camera, please. Yeah, it's, it's one of those
things I definitely do believe. I don't remember. So full disclosure, I broke my hand. I think you
can see my hand in the cast. And I was in a lot of painkillers, because I think I'd had surgery
the week before. I thought it was the day before. The day before? Maybe it doesn't really matter.
And so I probably wasn't at my sharpest. Now, I think I would have probably probed deeper.
But we got this great. They took advantage of you. You were in a bath.
You got to see all of it. There's a couple of clips of me. I think one of them made it in where I lie down on the couch and they're like, it looks like it's played up, but it was like,
no, I need to lie down so bad. 100%. But it's one of those things like if, if I had asked to take
the time off without question, it would have been given to me. But there's no way I want to do that.
Like Scrapper Wars is, it's not my baby, but it's my adopted baby. And I, I want to be there and be
a part of it and make sure that it's going well. And so the idea of like being at home resting
during it was like, that was never an option. It was never an option.
Yeah, let's do it. Sure.
Sure. Oh yeah. Let's see. I want to see what the chat says about that. Is, is it cheating now that
we've kind of gone over how it could have happened, how it, the details of it, let us know if it's
cheating. Hop in, you keep an eye on it. Uh, we'll start watching this video.
This is going to be a long stream, baby. Uh, what's funny is that they really have money
and they throw it, but we have this great animation that covers it. So I don't think you can see,
like, I don't, can you go frame by frame on Floatplane? Probably not, right? No.
So there, yeah, holding real money. Can you see money ever? You can see a little bit of money
above the thing there, but then it's all the animated money. So it's like, no,
it's funny how I told them to keep some of the actual money in.
I want a frame or two. They're, oh, I saw, I saw a hundred. It's, you know what, it really blended in well.
Wait, is the animation, is it Canadian money or is it? No, it's yours.
There's no way.
What's that? You can see them all through it.
Well, it's funny because originally the idea was to replicate, I think it's season three,
where Austin Evans was in town and they shot in one of the rooms in the editing room,
throwing the money. And that was the thumbnail was them with the money in the air. And we were
going to do something with that, but then it just didn't quite work. Normally we build a PC,
but this time we build a PC. I want to address. Normally we build a PC.
Okay. So I know this is probably the biggest valid complaint I've seen online because I've been
obviously reading the comments, reading the Reddit. But one of the like the complaints
that is something we have to reckon with is they didn't have to build a PC. And so
I'll pull it up in a little bit. But in the rules, it says they have to have a working PC.
And it's wasn't a rules oversight to allow them to circumvent building a PC. It was a very
specific conversation. And it was a debate for a long time of like, should they be allowed to
do consoles and streaming and this. And the result of that conversation was it could be very
interesting to see how people circumvent. And then I came up with the like, what's the best
method to allow for streaming. And originally it was going to be you have to buy a whole year
of the streaming service. But then I thought it would be more interesting. And this might have
been a little erroneous, but I thought it would be super interesting to see how scrappy they could
get with free trials and see if they could get everything on a free trial. I thought that would
be a really interesting thing to be. It was quite funny to see them check out every single trial
and go through every website. And another thing you guys didn't see is in the rules document,
I've got to find that rules document. I'm going to go cam only. Let's see what drive is.
There's no camera, right? Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I'll show you guys the rules.
I think we can't go any further without looking at the rules. Let me share. This is Wansha,
what email is this? Wansha1. I'm doing, I'm doing something for the stream. I'm not just
checking my phone, okay. Scrapyard Wars.
Rules of Scrapyard Wars. What is this email? Get perfect.
Dude, there's a lot of multitasking when you're live streaming. Oh, man. I don't
miss streaming. It's so much brain power. I don't have the brain power anymore.
Okay, you're here. Rules of Scrapyard Wars, maybe. Okay, so this is the document that I worked on
before, like weeks before the thing. And part of this was a response to last year where I
had purposely left it vague. I kind of told them some specifics, but I wanted to be able to
make sure the competition was going the way I wanted to. And it's probably too
much game master control. And it was a mistake. So this year, I wanted to make it very clear what
the guidelines were. And so we're not going to go through all of it, but it's like general line of
what your task is, what you must have, which includes one working, I'll zoom all in hands.
Man, they read between lines, man. Yeah. And I actually purposely left some stuff.
So yeah, one working to see one display, one audio solution, peripheral to play games and access movies. So that's really like the core of it. And then you need a way of playing the
three following games. Originally, I was going to have them draft. We were going to do a draft
for what movies and games were played in the thing, but it got cut last minute because it was
like, is that really interesting to have them like pick a team, pick a movie, pick a game?
And so instead I just got Luke and Linus to send me their picks before Linus and Luke picked
Cyberpunk and Red Dead. And so I looked at different services that had them. And the one that was
the hardest to get on all of it was Returnal. That was on purpose. So it was on purpose to
make it that it's like, you couldn't just get Game Pass. I didn't, I thought that would be a good
strategy is like, and I waffled on it. I was like, should I allow them to get an Xbox with Game Pass
as their thing? Cause like, that's a really good option for most people. But I was like,
that's not scrappy enough. And both teams would probably end up doing it. And so we ended up
with Cyberpunk Returnal, Red Dead. Same thing here. I let them pick, I think Linus picked Adventure
Time, Luke picked Lord of the Rings, and I picked Dark Knight mostly because I wanted it to be
possible to do physical media. So you'll notice, and this is in the video, but gaming's piracy is
not allowed. And that was specific. I originally was like, I could allow piracy for everything or
nothing. But I was not going to allow piracy because part of Scrapper Boars is watching people
try to get the deals and try and make deal hunt. And so I wanted to see the different ways you
could get the best value for your gaming dollar. And so I think we actually, this succeeded where
one team bought used games, one team did G2A or whatever to buy the games on Steam so they could
stream them. But this, I allowed piracy. And I was surprised that both teams just didn't take
them up on it. Cause I was like, we don't need games and movies being bought. Like we don't need the scrappiness of both. But one team still did it. And that's part of why I chose Dark Knight
is that I knew there was a billion Dark Knight Blu-rays out there. Like I had two. I remember
the Christmas that it came out. For Christmas, I got two copies from two different people of the
Dark Knight Blu-ray. Nolan's got to make his money back. Oh hell yeah. And so in the rules we have,
yeah, the selection process for this, that was taken out of the video and just put before. And
then some other suggested things because I had talked to Linus about this video a lot. Because
we have a process where we scrum videos, which is basically like a brainstorm session with Linus.
And that's kind of where we come up with the general outline for the rules before I solidify them and send them. And so he had had time to really think it over. And I knew that it would be
harder for Luke to just come up with that on his own instead of like the three or four people that
were involved in the scrum sort of shooting ideas of like what, what it could be. And so I wanted
to give Luke access to kind of that brainstorming that we had had and sort of the idea. So I wanted
to give some suggestions without going too deep into like, here's what I would do. And then
describing what will be provided. So you're allowed to, you're given that room. You're allowed LMG's
tools. And then we, I broadened it so that like, I, they could use their tools from home. And
that's a debatable choice. But I think it's good. The reason I allowed it is I knew Linus's team
wanted to have access to his sprayer, but Justin has an equivalent sprayer. And so I went to Justin's
team and I was like, Hey, would you want to use your spray? And they're like, maybe. And I was
like, okay, then I will allow both teams to use their sprayers. And when Luke said, Oh, so Linus
is the whole house work, that was really funny. That was super, super funny. Because I mean,
yeah, I made the rule that was like, if it's appeared in a video, you could use it. I don't
think I was going to crack down too hard on that. I was mostly just going to make sure that like,
they're not buying or renting tools unless they're using their budget, which would have been allowed.
They're allowed a 3D printer. An unusual thing for scrapper words, I guess. They're allowed
makery stuff and are making capabilities have really upgraded. But I really wanted to see the
ingenuity that the team could come up with. And I think we got a really cool look at that. Like, I really like Dan's speaker mounts. I also liked that it was limited to one. Yes. That was an
excellent choice. Because like, we could have just batched it because we've got like 30 or 40.
And having it limited to one was a great call. And I didn't want it to be like,
filament limited. Like I was toying with the idea of like, here's your spool of filament.
But I think it's kind of a fun extra dynamic. And that's, that's, I'll let you in on like,
part of my decision making process when I'm coming up with these rules is like,
there's one criteria, we'll make good content. And that's interesting to me is like, watching
people that know how to make things make things, obviously certain restrictions that like Dan
says, it's not just like, you know, we're making 30 print 3d printers worth at once.
And there's also no real skill disparity. Because both teams had people who can do 3d printing.
I think if one team had like, somebody who could do 3d printing, the other team didn't.
It would be a little bit like, okay, well, you get a magical tool that you know how to use. And
the other team doesn't. Yeah, yeah, I thought the teams were really, the teams are really good
because there's a lot of specialization on both teams. So it's like, they were very balanced.
And I think in a different year with slightly different decisions, it could have gone either
way. I think the two decisions that hooked you guys Dan was couch and projector. And it's not
even that projector could like had to hoop you. It's just that this time it ended up hoping you
because especially with the ceiling mount, because that occupied 100% of your brain power.
And one of the other issues with the projector itself was it had no internal adjustment.
You know, if we had gotten a projector that had maybe a little bit of pan and scan or something
like that, then the mount would have been less critical. Yep. But other than that, yeah.
You guys considered putting like a shelf up behind the couch, right, for the projector?
What was it always a ceiling mount? I can't remember. That might have been a different
discussion. Okay. Anyways, above the thing was we were it was originally the whole thing
was going to be sponsored by an RGB light company. And so they were going to be each team was going
to be given lights to for their room. It seemed like a pretty natural integration like separate
from their budget. There was going to be like 10 RGB products that they can pick from. I'm kind
of glad that they didn't get that because then the lighting became more of a story. Although
neither team did a ton with it. I think I actually like the lighting in Luke's room better.
I like that. Cosier. Yeah, it's cosier. And I think that Linus's room really needed a lamp
because it was too dark when you put the blue light and bias light on only. Yeah. And I think the
little budget things like $20 bulb really made, you know, Linus freaking out. That was so funny.
I know it's funny how like the littlest things become a story and he's like, oh, that could kill
us. Even just 3D printers to like them having the mentality of oh, we can just print these things.
And then at the end kind of bites them at the end. Yep. Yep.
Well, not be provided. So unlike other years, they don't get like peripherals. Like they're not
just building the tower. It's like the whole experience. And so that was another conscious decision of like, they have to do everything from scratch. And the idea was like, you move into a
new living room, a new apartment or whatever, and you have to from nothing build a home theater setup
for gaming and movies and stuff. And that was kind of like what I was trying to simulate. Obviously,
there's some things that that doesn't work like people could get behind their walls and run wires.
And that was well within the rules. I had clearly established that maybe it was a mistake, but I
I think it's kind of fun that you can do that. And I think it's something you could
do differently in a real apartment. Like you probably won't do that if you're renting where
you're like drilling the holes through the studs and running the wires and stuff. But
it's not so outside of what is feasible that it didn't feel like it was the end of the world.
And then you can pick your teams. And then here's the scoring. And this is important for people
that are going to be watching all the way to the episode four part of the stream. One of the big
criticism is I've seen is that the judges were too light on Luke's team. They are they, you know,
they had a what could be considered an like a fail and outright fail in the gaming department. But
what we didn't really discuss in the video is this part is that the gaming experience was
divided into an objective part and a subjective part. And the subjective part is like,
what's the gaming experience or like, and the objective part is just the benchmarks. And so
that is how they kind of got their five points is they actually won every benchmark. They beat
they beat the PS five in every benchmark by a small margin or by double in Red Dead because
Red Dead is locked at 30 on PS five. And then at similar settings on PC on their shadow PC,
it was like it was above 60 61 or something. And so they get the full score on the benchmark,
which brings them to five, but then they only got one point on the subjective part.
Part of that was me. I can't remember I did give the directive, but it seems like something I would
do be like, Hey, try not to be mean or to like have it be so outrageously blown out where it's
like one team, you know, gets nines and one teams gets threes. And then we know what the
outcome is from the beginning. So I don't blame the judges. I blame me.
But that is how they got their scores is that they won the benchmarking portion,
which was half of the points. And then they lost really bad on the subjective part.
And then the third movie, third atmosphere, and then there's all the standard scrapper wars stuff,
which was sort of like me crossing my T's and dotting my eyes. And then penalties for going
over if you miss the deadline. And then breaking the rules. And then benchmark settings for games,
just a rough idea, although this changed because there was a PS five in play. And so I
made it that the PC was just matching the PS five settings. So it'd be as close to apples and apples.
There was other kind of like other rules that weren't as important. You have to work in pairs
just for the video sake, so that it's not like, mostly logistics, mostly logistics, because we
had two shooters per team. And if everyone breaks into ones, that's we need four. And that can be
a problem. You can modify the room to the same degree of renter with could we didn't super stick
to that. You must have access to the games. And then the schedule. So that's basically
if I can, if I can say I missed the modify it like a renter could rule you and like to be
clear, you asked specifically about running the wires. Okay. Or I just a blur or I gave that
example specifically. Both teams knew they were allowed to do that. And so for me, that kind of
rule is as long as it's fair for both teams, it's not a huge deal. Because like, like I said,
the core idea was to simulate the experience of you move into an apartment and you're sitting
in your living room. And you would not do this over four days. You would take a longer time and
you would wire manage differently, but you could still do it within your walls. It wasn't that far
out of the realm of what's kind of realistic. So yes, about like reusing the plywood or whatever
from of the set use like what is the stuch or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. So originally,
when I got the rooms quoted to be built or whatever, I had asked for it to be drywall
with studs as close to like what a real apartment would be. But the crew that made it was like,
no, it doesn't make sense to that we'll do plywood. But that makes mounting things differently,
because you're going directly into this very thin plywood. And so one of the things was
you can wall mount stuff, but we will provide the wood backing for you because normally you would
just get the the toggles like the drywall toggles or build like a go into the studs. But there's
not that you can see in the shot, those studs are like a freaking half inch, quarter inch.
And the plywood is so thin that you can't do that. So it's that was a we had given people,
we were like, if you need to mount stuff, we will give you the plywood to put stuff. And it also
dictated their orientation, because it was a lot easier to wall mount stuff to
the outside walls than the inside walls. It was basically impossible to do the inside walls.
I just thought it was really funny, like he was asking me if they could repurpose the materials
that made their room. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because we have we had those made just
before. And so there's just all this wood kicking around. And we're going to use those rooms again,
like we didn't just tear them down, they're going to be Labs testing rooms, which is kind of fun.
Like I think that they're already using it as a display room. Yeah. So those rooms don't exist
when you come visit the LTT studio, you can't see can't see the scrapyard war rooms. I'm so sorry.
Okay, video. Let's we're seven seconds in. We got 20 minutes more to go. Oh, no, no, we have
21 minutes left. And we transform. Oh, I like this B roll of James. I'll talk over it a little bit
more. Gaming movie watching paradise. God, that sounds so bad. It's funny. You don't think about
how much just the furniture helps because they didn't really do any sound treatment in there.
They had like the the baffling or whatever you would, but it's not going to do that much. But
just the couch and stuff. We get they're going to be looking at the gaming experience, the movie
experience. And yes, even the vibes, meaning if we fall short, do we ever have on screen like the
the way the score breakdowns? I think we have it in this episode, right? Like it's like a third,
a third, a third. I think so. I think so. It's all a blur, baby. It's been so long.
Rules are mostly the same. No using our influence or connections for deals.
We're only going to do that. I thought about ducking so we can see.
Let's check out these rooms. That's funny. The way I boarded that sounds like you can't
get free stuff, but it's like, of course, you can get free stuff. That's a whole freaking point.
We've got two power outlets and an Ethernet jack. Very specifically, like this is probably what your room, when you move into your living room,
will be like is you might have an Ethernet jack. That is actually probably
it's so funny. Linus cared so much about that transition and like it's funny. But he was like,
that was one of the few things he had as a comment in the first review was like,
we need to make it more like this working more to the episode, make it more like the and I was like, okay, and we barely even did. It's just the musical stinger, but
there's my hand. Wait, let's see if it was
it's funny that it's a they free frame me, but luke is still moving. That's really funny.
I want to see if it's my posts. That's my post surgery one. So I just had surgery.
My cast, I can see it's the better cast. Who doesn't get picked will be a judge for the final showdown. And some of these people look
like they could hold a grudge. It's funny. You guys probably do some people probably do appreciate
the little touches, but I want to point them out. Like Hoffman being aware that like Adam being mad
about the not being picked is important and comes back. And so he does a nice little close-up on
Adam. It's great that Adam did the thing, but like it could have just been a background thing,
but that's the kind of thing Hoffman does. We're going to flip a coin. It's just these little touches. There's actually a lot of really good juxtaposition cuts. I think it's in the second
episode where it's like they're getting scammed or something. And then you like just do a close-up
of a stop sign. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's me talking. Yeah, I love that. That's like the kind of editing
you see in like an artistic piece, not a YouTube video. Oh man, I remember you reviewing that.
You're like Picasso. We'll get there. I'll just point it out when we get there. Oh,
this side way so bad. No response. Yeah, Robert crushed it. We will probably want to repurpose
this. I have to be a little bit different because I don't think we'll do a home theater one.
But I saw someone suggest, I hope they're on YouTube, the idea of doing a dorm room one. So
it's the same idea because I really like the room. I think that's a really strong concept is doing the
whole room upgrade. Yeah, so that's the question. I don't know if we'll do that one specifically,
but I think that's a cool jumping off point is like something that you have to live in
and is more multi-purpose because we've done living rooms, we probably can't do it again,
at least not for like five years or something. And so it would be, you could do like, you know,
the studio apartment where it's like, it has a kitchen, it has everything and you have to like
outfit the whole thing. But I think it's going to be a balance figuring out like the details
that get it right so that there's as much story as possible without it being too contrived or too
hard. Like obviously no plumbing or electrical stuff can be done and like dorm rooms interesting,
but it's probably even more restrictive than renting because you probably aren't a lot. Most
universities won't allow you to paint even, but we could, we could allow that anyways. So I wouldn't
have been concerned about not getting two picks in a row. That's why I said it was fine. I'll do Dan
Bester. Yeah, the team picking could not have gone better. I loved both teams and I think I mentioned
early in the stream, but I think on a different year with slightly different circumstances,
either team could have won. Both teams had so much strength, but that was one of my favorite
turns, isn't the first couple episodes, all the comments are like, team Luke's gonna win because
they have a Dan because I'm not actually confident. Just wait. Adam slowly realizing he's not getting
picked. I like that. Linus says that and he'll pick Natalie who has the biggest smile.
That's a great cut away. He said like he picked her because of the purple thing.
My understanding is that Luke miscounted and was going to pick Adam, but messed up.
And he's like, oh no. Well, it's one of those things that's hard because like
there is literally not a bad person to pick. Every single person that lineup could have been a good
teammate, but like both James, Adam and Emily all have like, I think more generalist toolkits,
whereas like, you know, Justin or Dan or Pankratts or Sebastian or like anyone who was picked,
it's like more clear what their specialty is going to be. So it's kind of easier to delegate
exactly what they're going to do. It's about optimization. Maybe I need a new specialty.
Dan Bessard. I'm going to learn who I learned painting.
You're going to be the Dan tech. Dan paint tips. I'm going to go back to like nails.
Well, but I mean, like, I know you feel like things didn't go as well as they did, but like,
your team would have been so screwed without you. And so you were an essential piece to your team
making it. Sure, bud. Let's go with that. They make it. That's the thing. They finished a room.
Yeah. Yeah, it was really cool. Yeah, we'll talk about the shadow experience and sort of
how that day went because that was probably the biggest bummer of the whole shoot. So
you'll have to stick around to episode four commentary to get that, but we will circle
around on that. Now go work. Since Linus didn't pick me last, uh, he's for the next episode.
Oh, my mic is muted. Oh, very happy with how the ranking order went. This is the exact
do you want like when he's angry? I get so much comments. So is that a typo? No, it's
yeah, no, it was on purpose. I literally, I think when I sent you the list or Robert,
the list, I was like in parentheses. Yes, the missing R is on purpose. Every person in the
review line. It started with me, he's out of typo and then everything. That's good. They're
getting caught. That's true. I'm proud of the team. No one caught Luke's name wrong. Luke's name is
wrong? Like in the first version. That's so funny. Because Angi is such an obvious end,
is an end of the sentence and it's such an obvious there's missing a letter.
But I did that because I didn't want it to seem like I was commenting that he actually gets mad
because he doesn't. He's a chillest dude ever. He just gets kind of violent.
No, I'm getting that. He starts swinging. That is a joke. Very much a joke. And so I wanted to like
soften it because I don't know, I just thought it was funny. Dan is going to be focusing on
it's true. It's true. Although put me in charge of the goat's coach.
I also like how your hair tells the story during the series. I just kind of gave up.
A lot of people notice it is all like something I'm like pointing over the first time, but I
was kind of leaning into it as well. Because you know, like video story, like I'm quite put together
the first day. Yeah. And then you know, it's it's long hours, that sort of thing. And I just
wasn't making sure to comb it, you know, because the first day is like on camera day. Yeah. And
then the rest of it is sort of just existing badly. Yeah. Well, I think the first day is the day when
everyone's on guard of like, oh yeah, I'm presenting myself to the world. There's going to be a million
people that see this. I better be on my best behavior and look my best. It's like the real part
of the video where everybody's like on camera. Yeah. And then, you know, we all devolve out of our
characters if we have any. Yeah, you get so comfortable with the camera, people around,
they're just kind of your buds hanging out, but they just kind of the vibe, right? Yeah, you know.
But as they go into the video shooting, a lot of times they just don't have time to do any other
things. Yeah, I always get to set and I'm like, crap, I didn't do my hair. And it's like, oh,
there's your word. There we go. The other thing the one comment I saw on episode four that I
really liked Dan is commenting on like your descent into madness, but it's like you're
hugging pillows more in the fourth episode. I thought that was very cute.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying to try to keep that descent good on camera. I mean,
yes, it was very stressful. We were very behind on a lot of things and a lot of it was unfortunate.
You know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to defend myself too much.
You don't need to. No, but I figured like moving into the, oh God, okay, we'll just turn up the
jank. Yeah. I'm quite proud of the plastic knives. That was a very Dan solution to a problem.
Hey, if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. Exactly. I'm a big believer in that.
Did it work though? I mean, using a, using a, I think that soldering iron was about two, three
thousand dollars. Shout out to, shout out JBC tools. What does JBC stand for other than junior
bacon cheeseburger? I don't know. It stands for junior bacon cheeseburger. Let's go. That's
what we call it internally. But about the only one who takes each one of those tips for the,
the soldering iron are 90 us dollars. I think that's what I spent on my soldering iron. I spent
it. Yeah. The whole soldering iron. Yeah. The whole thing. The whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, let's continue.
Has worked on home theater stuff. Robert did really did a good job on the graphics on this one.
We will just reuse these next time, I think. Yeah, they're great. They don't need to be.
Yeah. Maybe an iteration or something. Yeah. We're going to save a ton of money.
And vibe commander. There is actually a very significant portion. She has such good reactions.
She does. She's like, like, just weirded out enough. Like, what does that mean?
She's in the camera.
But I like, I like that there's two moments. One is sharing with the audience. Like,
yeah, that's the audience moment of like, what the fuck did he just say? But then there's a moment
in between before she reconnects with her group where it's for her of like, what the fuck am I in
right now? Like, what have I signed up for? Oh, boy. I was in yards there.
And she knew what she was getting into because she was in Scrapperwood last year.
Outside of. I wonder off that. No, Sammy's not feeling well today. So she won't be in,
unfortunately. I have to replace her. Yeah.
Plain 48 hours early per episode. I like that they have matching t-shirts
unintentionally. Like what a, what a sign of things to come. They just work so well together.
Well, not Linus, but the other two have purple shirts. Now we need a plan. Even. Oh, she has
purple stuff too. Whoa. To turn that room into something awesome. A full room. This was also
kind of like the unveiling of David Pankrat. So he's been sort of in a little bit of a few videos,
but this is sort of his big, like coming out party. And I hope that every single person watching
this video loves David Pankrat as much as I do. He is just a gem of a human being. So, so skilled
and like good at what he does, but also just like he's the vibes commander. I'm glad he got a bit
of moment in episode three when we review it that he was in the last Scrapperd war. Oh yeah,
that was so crazy. The thing with David is that he's always like David Pankrat. He's always
doing things and working and tinkering things. So it's kind of hard to find like a bit for him to
fit in during Scrapperd war. Well, it's like he, there's people, you know, that they want to fix
things because things need to be fixed. And there's people that like in their nature is just to
constantly be fixing things. And I'm not talking like tech things, just like there's a problem.
And like David is like seeking solutions all the time. He's just like so great. He's fantastic.
I love David Pankrat. And it's not just because his name is David. Thanks. But I also love the
rest of these people. This is the sleep. It's funny. Before this, I just assumed this was going to be
the like the not messier team, but like the team that wasn't going to get along as well. Just
because I think Linus says the anxious personality more than Luke does when it comes to poor projects
that anxiety more. And so I assume that this team was going to be more exciting. But this was the
chillest I've ever seen a Scrapperd war team the whole time. They were having fun. Big friendly
tech giant is very funny. I think he gave me that one. Yeah. Is I had to do anything to do with the
tech. Yeah. And Natalie, I saw she's she's okay. And I figured you could help. I also was like
saying savage is sort of frowned upon. But that was the one she had given me. Okay. Budgeting.
And so I was like, it fits. And it's like she means it in like the metaphorical sense, not the
I don't know if this joke comes across. This was my joke of like,
like, I want to put my boss, but like, no, he's, he's going to see this. I'll put coolest person
ever. We'll see where Sammy's loyalties really lie. Once we were teammate, Sammy. Now we're bitter
rivals. Sammy Wong. It's so funny. My stupid face gets in the way of this reaction. And go first
things first. We need to have a quick strategy meeting here. Not a ton to work with. It's actually
a good job cutting between the teams. How much can we hear them? Yeah, we can hear them a bit.
Okay, so we're going to cut a hole in the wall. We're filling a field of expanding
foam in a nutshell. By the end of the competition, we're going to have to have a working PC, a working
display, an audio solution that works for games and movies and peripherals that work for the above.
We have to watch three movies and play three games. We sort of been through this strongly
suggested that we add some decor, which we'll start with that. Yeah, that's a problem. Again,
the walls are boring as we were discussing outside. We need something for people to sit on.
I don't think we started with that. Part of the judging was based around like how inviting is it to guess. The lighting was another choice of like, so good. Yeah, how do we make it
realistic? And that's what a lot of people have is just like the sockets. A lot now have pot lights,
but there's not much you can do with the pot light. But so I thought that the socket light
was going to be the right choice where you could potentially do something with it. It took on from that like 90s glass titty like. Oh, that was so good. But I mean, I have a Tiffany
light fixture at home with the glass and glass one. Yeah. And it took us like six months to
find something that wasn't exorbitantly expensive. Because Tiffany's lamps are so fucking expensive.
Oh, not not Tiffany, titty, you know, like the dome with like the literal titties.
Yeah, like actual. Have you seen those? No, I don't think I must have seen them. Come on.
They're like they're pretty standard for just a pair of boobs. Yeah, yeah. It's like a it's like
a glass dome with like the screw connectors. It's not literally boobs. It's just they look like boobs.
Ah, I think I have seen those. We've been through this a third of the experience. But we yeah,
we don't break down that it's benchmarks that are half and subjective as best, but only for
what we pay. So if we can find free trials. Oh, yeah. No. First thing I'm going to do is go.
I hope something is so funny when I'm just like there, like no one probably pays attention to me
other than when you see yourself in a video, you're always like, that's where I am. You're
like, keep it in check. Yeah. But I never react correctly. It's funny. I think I'm being so normal,
but like, what the fuck is like, aren't you on like so much opioids? Oh, yeah.
Wow, this room is really white.
It's a couch here. Why are these people in my living room?
My hand hurts. Poor guy. We wanted to get weird. We could get a crap computer and like G-Force now.
Nothing here says that we have to play even right away. Both teams figure out the best strategy
to save your money on your PC. What I was hoping is that new Linus, based on my discussions with him,
that he was not going to build a PC, that he was going to circumvent the purposefully vague rule.
That's like a F1. Yeah, but I was hoping that Luke would be like, it's still better to build a PC,
and that would have been a really interesting angle is like, is it better to build a PC or like,
in this situation, is a console better? And I think it could have gone either way. Like,
you could get such a good PC at a good price that you could beat it. And then like Red Dead Redemption
2 is a really good chance for PC to win because locked at 30 is not hard to beat. But unfortunately,
both teams saw the open door and went for it. We do need to run benchmarks, but I think that if it
was a console, we would just make the argument that it is 60 FPS. If it runs at that. If it runs at that.
It looks like the games is Cyberpunk 2077, Returnal, Red Dead Redemption 2.
Oh, I don't think half of those are on cloud streaming. Yeah. The movies, which we also have
to be able to play. I couldn't believe that both of them just in pirate. Everything. Either theatrical
or extended cut. Also, I wish that the team that had the projector had done some kind of 3D content.
I tried. I actually downloaded a bunch of 3D movies, but I think we just kind of gave up because of
the mount situation. Fair. And like, yeah, and time constraints. Like, if you had another day to tinker,
maybe you could have made that work. If it hadn't of all kind of come down to me on the last day,
I think it would have been better. And the nuke that Luke got wouldn't even output
multi-channel audio. Like my laptop, the surround sound worked fine, but it just wasn't.
So is that a hardware thing or is it just a configuration? It's like a software. Yeah,
because it's not a hardware limitation that you can't send out enough. I mean, it could be the
driver thing because it had to go through the HDMI. And it was a pretty old nuke, you know,
didn't have very good integrated GPU, that sort of thing. It does have SPDIF on it, right?
Well, I mean, some of the complexity was the amp that we got was only 1080 output. So we had to
use a secondary monitor going to the amp 1080 to get audio to it. And then the other goes to the
projector. So it was kind of absolutely garbage. So the nuke he got, the projector,
the amp, the speakers, everything was just trash. When it's tough, that's like the kind of stuff
that I wish we could fit more into it. Because that is sort of like the gritty of
what, how setting up a living room theater goes on a budget where you get your stuff and you're
like, crap, I have to solve this problem now. How do I do that? But it also doesn't make great
content to have like a person, you know, plugging stuff in and being like, hmm, and then like
opening Windows settings and be like, hmm. Yeah, I wanted more tuning time. Yeah. But you know,
whatever. There was so many reasons that I don't really want to get into why it all kind of went
super wrong the entire time. I wouldn't say super wrong. But that's what happens in competition.
It's true. You know, if everything went perfectly, you know, we would have won. So
that's not how it works. Yeah. And it's, it's always tough because like there's a drama in
failing that is obviously enticing because so many reality shows love to feature big fails.
But I hate that. Like I, when I watched, you know, kick show or whatever, like that's the
example I often give is like, the worst thing in a cake show is when they make a cool cake.
And at the last minute, it falls over. Like that's not good for the competition that sucks as a
viewer because I don't get to appreciate the hard work that went into it. And it's obviously sucks as a competitor when you did the work and then a stupid slight mistake that messes it all up.
I want to see why it failed. Yeah. And like the chain of events. Yeah. And so I, I'm a big believer
in having the two best cakes compete against each other. And also I was hoping we could get to
and when we get to episode four, we talk about the challenges of episode four. We'll get to that.
We forgot to put eggs in the cake.
You set it up like a VM. Gotcha. You could install your own stuff from there.
So we wouldn't be able to have a subscription that gives us Returnal,
but this could still give us a PC. So we could get a computer for 50, we would still need something
that could access it. We can get that for real cheap. Well, apparently you can use just about
anything. Including like Apple TV or something. Already finding some interesting stuff. There's
a $550, 55 inch OLED. Oh, Dan. Oh, you're the episode two person, Dan. So it seems to be the
cheapest on-market place that isn't over. No, no, apparently now with that said, according to the
chat and add to immersion, more than live stream. Sorry, it'll have to be Dan for episode two and
then Natalie for episode three. So I do want to see what we could get around that price for just
over a really big TV. There's not too much to talk about these ones. I might skip through this,
them kind of figuring out. We'll just need Hulu and their stuff or prime. They did find out on the
GeForce now, but they'd already paid for Shadow, which was a bit of a bummer. It's very interesting
as a dynamic because it sucks that Shadow didn't work great, but it is interesting as an
investigation of the state of streaming. But yeah, we'll talk about Shadow when we get there.
Dan, I love that you really went out on the design of what?
Building a little virtual room that you could really see how things fit because I would just
have it on a piece of paper and I'd be like, it looks like it's fine. I asked the dimensions,
it's like doing a room like that's super useful because I was just like, hey, Sammy, what are the
dimensions of the couch? And then I just pop up a square and then I can see if the couch is going
to fit and what it's going to look like and what side the ottomans to go. What piece of software
is this? This is SolidWorks. So yeah, we use that internally and it's so fast. When I was a kid,
one of my favorite pieces of software to work around with was my parents bought me an architecture.
Oh my God, same. Yeah, and you just build your dream house. My favorite thing and you could
render it. The render looks so bad. I think I had the same thing. That was awesome. It was so
fun. So this tickles something in my brain that I really like. Absolutely. I did this for my home
office and my living room to test everything and it's like accurate down to the eighth of an inch
with baseboards and everything. That's cool. Yeah, dude, watching them work like with software,
catting, adjusting. None of it's like my stuff's I think all real time. I don't know how much you
include it, but it's like, oh yeah, dude, it's so quick. It's really impressive. Yeah. But I think a
lot of people feel the same way like when they watch a video editor work and like you're just using shortcuts and it's like, I don't understand what's happening. Like you're just clicking and
doing stuff and what the fuck's going on. Best thing about like SOLIDWORKS is the middle mouse
gesture where you just hold middle mouse and like drag it upwards and then you have a line square
because everything's line squares and circles and then just with the perspective. Yep. Yeah,
that's great. That would probably work. Sir David, can we use something like shadow? Shadow is a
service you have to pay for in the cloud. Oh yeah, that's fine. One of the rules is you have to have
a working PC. But what defines a PC? Like as a Raspberry Pi, a PC. Yeah, next year when we do
this, I will, I'm going to push back harder and make sure that a PC is a core piece of it and you
have to use it as part of your core experiences. Yeah. Maybe not for all of it. We were pretty
pissed off. You just put it in the corner. Yeah. But that's like F1 rules. Yeah, exactly. And like
you didn't say it says right here it has to work. And it would be way worse if we, if it was an
oversight on our part, but it was a purposeful. Yeah, I don't know. We had designed the competition
that you could avoid focusing on your PC. So great. Yeah. That's cool. What's, what will I say
this is? Um, I don't know. It's a projector or something. Yeah. That's what I use for my home
theater. Because you have a projector at home, right Dan? That's right. About 120, 130 inches.
Don't make TVs that big for your house. No, it's an entire wall. That's crazy.
What was that 85? I don't know that particular one. I'm a TV guy now. Like I had a projector
when I was younger. Oh yeah. I mean that computer monitor, it's like a 52 inch LGC2. So that's my
TV. Oh, let's go. Also, it was listed two hours ago. So this might be one of those deals where like
you can just grab it right away. 75 is still pretty good for cyber power. This whole story
as it was developing. So this is them finding the TV on the island. So with that in mind,
it's a multi hour journey just on the ferry on top of like the hour to drive to the ferry.
So it's like, it would have been a whole day to take the ferry, but I was, you know, obviously
plugged in and hearing the story develop like they're going to go to the island to pick up a TV.
And I was so excited because we wanted to have the end of episode one partway through day one of
shooting so that day two could have more content because like day one has the intro and stuff.
So that's already like a built in amount of content. And so when that was a possibility,
I was like, I was already envisioning like the final shot of the video is the ferry leaving or
like them like on the banister of the ferry as you see the dock get further and further away.
And so so sad when it turned out to be a scam. But I don't feel like it can be worth it because
like I feel like to open. So e-transfer is like the Canadian version of Venmo or Cash App or
whatever. And it's a government program that all the banks have to adhere to. And it's there's
no cost. It's supposed to be secure. And it's basically bank transfers to each other. You can
do via email or text. And so it's pretty easy to trace scams. And so I don't feel like it can be
that worth it. And I think to open a Canadian bank account, you have to be here, but maybe not.
Maybe it is not that. But I hate scammers. I don't want to get into a scam around.
And that TV doesn't work. I do need to think about the PC and the console.
All of those games are console games, right? Like we could potentially just get like a PS5.
This is the moment he realized that my Returnal Pick was very tactical.
That was very smart. I would never have realized or come up with that idea.
How many of those games are on Game Pass? Dude, we could finish our whole setup for like 500 bucks and then just bribe every judge with
500 dollars. I don't remember that graphic at all. That's so funny.
Five scams. They all use the same picture. Okay, so 85 inch TV person.
We want to know what the actual model is real quick. And then we want to get in the car.
Like how long does it take to get to the night? Here we go. It's like an hour and a half ferry. Yeah, it's not too bad.
But realistically, the first day, we're going to do a ton of just like there's no waiting at the
ferry and like you don't even guarantee the spot. There's a limited amount of cars that can fit
onto the ferry. They had taken like the Floatplane. Yes, literally.
That would be so good. Literally the Floatplane.
I might suggest that to one of the teams next year. Because I think Linus was saying that a couple of years prior, there was no transportation
budget. So they were considering hiring a helicopter to take them to like Abbotsford
or like Kelowna, pick up the thing for 20 bucks and then helicopter back.
It's been like 10 grand. 10 grand because it would have been Linus's money and there's no budget on it.
Just to save like $150, $200. I would suggest that next year because Linus would
super be down for it because it's such good content. Because people commute to the island on the Floatplane. It's like maybe 100 bucks
and it takes maybe 20 minutes to get there and it drives you right to the port.
And if you don't need your car, there's like a faster ferry that you can take from
downtown Vancouver because the other two ferries are kind of boonies.
And those ones can take cars, but the one from downtown, it's an hour instead of two hours,
but it's only people. And it takes like 90 minutes to drive there though.
82 inch TV on a Floatplane though.
Just buy it its own seat. I guess they might have to buy a seat for the TV.
I mean, they're pretty big. You could cargo it. And it's not that heavy. Like a TV is not that heavy. It's lighter than a person.
So yeah, planes don't worry too much. But does it fit in the door? I don't know how big those float planes are.
I don't know. I've never taken one to do that so bad.
So we gotta hear from this guy. We gotta know if we can pick it up right now.
You wouldn't even ask. Just tell them we're coming right up.
Does the PS5 play Blu-rays? Yes, it does.
I think we can get a PS5 for like a... And that's like, I'm like, maybe we should put it on screen.
It's one of those weird things that's like, the PS5 with a disk drive can play Blu-rays, but the PS5,
not all PS5s can play Blu-rays because they don't come with a disk drive. So it's like, do we need an on-screen correction? Do we not?
And it's always like tough because it's like, it's so lame to just have text on screen that
people will be like, what did it say? 100 bucks potentially.
I feel like they're going to show up to play in terms of the performance of their PC though.
This was funny that Linus was convinced himself that Luke was going to be like so PC heavy.
I'm doing subscription service for the computer.
Again, pointing out the hard work that Hoffman does, that cut,
like that's not exactly at the same time of the day. So the footage doesn't line up. It's not like he like, magically was like...
It feels like magic, like a phenomenal job because yeah,
these conversations are happening at disparate times and they're the same conversation,
but like maybe they were talking about something different for two hours straight, right?
So good. Give it up for Hoffman, everybody.
Video editors are incredible. That's so much work. I hate video editing.
Me too. I used to do it professionally.
I did freelance. Fuck that. The most violently angry I've ever gotten was video editing.
I just like, I had a friend that we worked with on projects or whatever,
and I was video editing and I just like got so f***ed up that I grabbed the keyboard
and I literally smashed it on the table and broke it in two. I was like, I was like, oh, fuck.
And he was like, are you okay? And I was like, no. And that was pretty close to the end of the time I did video editing.
Yeah, no, it happened sometimes. I hate video editing. I love to stop video editing and then you made me edit three short circuits.
It's funny when you started that your job was so different.
Well, I wasn't supposed to be hired. They basically like made up a position for me because Alex was just like the perfect
choice for logistics manager and like, I don't know, we'll figure it out.
But I applied to be a video editor. Yeah, he was trialing out, I remember.
Well, no, no, that wasn't a trial. I was already hired and working here.
I was filling in because you were shorthanded. Oh, wow.
Yeah. I wonder if that was around the time. So I did some video editing too here because hired as a shooter editor.
But pretty quickly, there was more need for shooting. So I just did shooting. But then the next year, I remember after Christmas being like told,
oh, we need more editing, so I edited a couple LTTs in short circuits and stuff.
But I told them pretty quick. I'm like, I don't want to do this. Please don't make me do this.
I applied like a year before I actually started here and got ghosted by the manager at the time
for like a year. And like, yeah, I mean, I've been a professional video editor previously for like seven years
and shooter, like that sucks.
Hoffman, how do you keep your sanity?
I'm still like so tired, man.
Yeah. I think a big thing is we get a little more artistic control here.
Like the short circuits that I was handed become my video.
Whereas the stuff that I was editing before was like four hour live streams and,
you know, doing corrections on seven camera multicams.
It's like, okay, well, I'm gonna unalive small village.
What's the TikTok term like sewer slide? Super slide or something like that.
Yeah, just murder, just violence.
It's tough because like boring. There's a lot of videos we do that like you just have to turn around so quick.
I don't know how you feel, but I much prefer working on projects like this
that require more time and energy. Oh, I love the fast turnaround.
I think like the fast turnaround. Yeah, because there's less room for dithering.
Like I have to make a decision. And so your creative like juices are just like gut and just coming.
It's just great. That's fair. I do like I like time constraints. Like I like on Friday when they're like, oh, we need to make this video next Tuesday.
Can someone do it? And I'm like, hell, yeah, I'll fucking. Oh, yeah.
You already said it. I'm just going to disable the bleep.
Oh, yeah, I'll just do it. Because then it's like, yeah, you're right. You don't have too much time to think about it.
But my favorite projects are ones that feel like they're a big event.
Like you almost like it's not quite the same, but it's like you get to the end of a big theater production.
And it feels like you've accomplished something. Whereas most videos, you know, you turn around and then the next week,
you're working on the next video and you can't even think about the last video anymore.
So what I find is like, there's never a project where there's enough time.
100%. And how I kind of approaches is like every project, not much time, you know,
and then how can we do the best with it? And that kind of, you know, makes us stand out.
100%. I think for me, doing Short Circuits was really nice because we,
because I used to do a lot of live performance and live broadcast.
I basically just watched them like either at real time or two times speed
and just like cut it while I was watching it. Sure. Be, you know, make a multicam and just up, up, and then go back and fix.
So it was like, I don't know. You could edit a 30, 25 minute video in like an hour or something like that.
The Short Circuits, because it is the multicam format, and there is sort of a standard way of doing it.
I would like to move our shooting style for ShortCircuit to Live Switch
so that our editors are handed a pre-cut that then they fix.
They just tweak things. They tweak things, get rid of the flubs, but it's edited and cut live.
And then you just prepare. It would be tough because like, I know for me, when I host a ShortCircuit,
I flub so much and I know that the cut is used to cut it.
I just, it's certainly. No, no, that's what the editor would still do, but they wouldn't have to make the choices of like, go to overhead.
Like you would, you would just look for flubs or something.
That's a way to make it work. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Something to play with.
How far are we? We're not even halfway this week. That's okay. I think, I think we've just got Hoffman for the next hour or two.
Oh! I see. Because if we want it. Yeah, but this is going to 10 p.m. tonight, baby.
Is this supposed to be my slot? I'm here. I'm working on, I'm working on other things.
No, this is great. I'm actually genuinely glad that Dan, you're manning the stream most of the day.
And I'm also working too. So this works perfectly for me.
It doesn't have to be a problem. Sorry, Sammy.
I am. If you want to activate it. But you don't have to buy it from Microsoft.
But remember, this is the subjective part of it. So like, if I'm watching a movie and there's a little activate Windows.
What was that? Hey! Come on in.
I think that's the better seat. It's broken. Sit on the one next to me.
Yeah. It's a party. Yeah! What up, David? We were just singing your praises 20 minutes ago.
Yeah, we were. Yeah. You got a bit of a moment. I love your moment in episode three.
Flashback. What's up, buddy? How you doing? Oh, not too bad.
Come on in a little bit more. Yeah.
Okay, that's his last name.
Oh yeah, sure. The both Davids of LMG are here.
This is David Goche. This is David Pankrat. This is funny that we both have animal names.
You have rats and I have goat. Never really thought about that.
Anyways. Subjective experience of watching this movie.
We can get rid of that prompt. We sure can. We're going to probably skip through these parts.
And the only thing that is explicit for piracy is no, you can't pirate the games.
I have. Yeah, you got a mini piracy. Yeah. So if you spend 50 bucks on the computer, 50 bucks on Shadow,
we're done. We need to get to three games. I'm sure we can.
I feel like before we watch anymore. David, how was Scrapyard Wars for you?
Scrapyard Wars was great. I had actually been going through the compilation videos
for the previous Scrapyard Wars. Oh yeah. And I had been putting together notes for those
so that the compilation could be put together
with some extra graphics and whatnot. So it's a little bit easier to follow along.
And that gave me a bunch of extra prep, I guess.
Yeah. This year it's like research.
Yeah. I had been a fan of the Scrapyard Wars series before as well.
So even before I started here, it's something that I followed along pretty closely with.
I really enjoy going out and doing the deal finding
and trying to put together something that's a good bang for buck.
Well, one of the things I, as I've gotten to know you better too,
I think it's cool that you've wanted to work at LTT
for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. No, I had been looking for an opportunity
for multiple years before I started here.
And I started in December. So we're kind of nine months in at this point.
Yeah. Is it really been nine months? Wow. That's crazy.
I remember, so you actually approached me and you're like,
hey, can I be in consideration for being in Scrapyard Wars? And at that point, I didn't know you super well.
And so I was like, I'll put you on the list, but I don't know.
But I'm really glad that you asked to be on it
because you were such a good part of this and you really rounded out your team really well.
And so that worked out perfectly. But I remember at the time when I got the message, I was like, hmm, I don't know.
I just didn't know you that well. But I'm glad he made it.
Yeah, me too. You are, yeah. The winner. The winner.
One of the winners. It's a team effort. Oh, that's what, that's winner talk.
Fine services for at least two of them. Buy the third, whatever.
Or all of us. Yeah, this one too.
I think couples are kind of fun, especially if we're doing movie experience. Yeah, I would definitely prefer one with a pull out.
This one's pretty nice. Yeah, were you surprised at how hard it was to find cheap couches?
I, we were using my Facebook account for all of the message sending.
So I honestly didn't know how much they were looking around
for couches until I got to my got to my messages
at the end of the day and being like, holy smokes.
At least a dozen different listings. Well, I've never seen the Facebook message of like,
you've messaged too many people. We are throttling you. Yeah, I've never seen that before too.
I showed that to Linus. I'm like, we might have a problem.
We might need to use some more Facebook accounts.
Yeah, it's hard to set up accounts for the contestants.
Yeah, you can set up your own account, but you won't be allowed to reach out on Facebook
until you've like basically proven that you are a real person. ID and stuff like that.
No, not even ID, just like that you've posted enough. And so you need like enough content
that the system knows that you're not just creating accounts to scam people.
And so that's our, one of the challenges is like, we have made accounts for it,
but then we go to reach out on marketplace and it's like, you're not allowed to reach out.
And then we've also used my account, like last year we used my account and Luke's account,
but this year we had David's and kind of all the non,
you know, non Luke Linus people use their accounts to reach out,
which is fine because they're not as recognizable. So it's not as much of a danger for them being like,
David, pancrots, is that the guy from Linus Hectips?
Not yet. Well, the other side with new accounts
is people get sketched out and dealing with a new account.
There's like, you saw with all of our dealings,
there was so many scammers out there. With the scammers, were they accounts with reviews
or was it like as soon as you kind of got the sense you looked at it and you're like,
the first couple that we ran into,
there was a little bit of hesitation on, is this a scam or isn't this a scam?
Then we had the idea to go and take a look at that history, look at the review, see if they'd had previous dealings.
And then we were starting to pick them out a lot faster.
But we ran into so many of them. And what was really interesting is we were talking
with the other team after the fact, asked them about it and they didn't sound
like they had many issues with scammers at all. That's super interesting.
Maybe it was the kind of things you were going for, like PS5 seemed to be a big scam target, big TVs,
because people were like, oh, 80-inch TV? They don't know anything else.
They just know big TV and they're like, cool. It's kind of hard to scam a projector.
There's less people looking for it. When you've got a scam that you're running,
you want people to be hitting whatever ad you're scamming, right?
Yeah, the more people looking at your PS5 ad, the more chances you have to get your $30 deposit
in the name of Jesus Christ. That'll make sense when we get there.
We don't want... That was weird because you would just laugh, but then there was an echo of your laugh.
A paper, a video. Trippy. If we can get a free couch, we should.
You have so much budget, though. Free couch. They don't exist anymore. Is it just like the way of the world is different?
Yeah, no, I don't... Yeah, we both had trouble getting couches. It was like impossible.
Well, and your team made the very brave decision of spending nearly $400.
$400. $480 a year. Team? Team?
Yeah, Dan, tell us how you really feel, though. Team? That $400 couch.
I'm just amazed that we had anything.
You know, if we hadn't cheated, I mean...
Yeah, we had a segment at the beginning where we confronted Dan because they cheated.
They... Their sound system... I think we did accident.
Yeah, we arrived at... It was not intentional,
but they got their sound system from Jamie. Oh!
Yeah. And the subwoofer was mine, so I think that is just like blatant cheating.
And that one is... That one is... There is no mis-entrance. He's friends with himself.
To be fair, it didn't help at all. Yeah, and that's...
But in the end, it doesn't matter, but... Now you know. Because a freak...
Okay, we cheated a little. How much are we looking to spend on PC stuff?
Couches are so expensive. Everything's so expensive. That's something that's sort of interesting.
It's crazy, like, five years ago, $2,000 to do an entire living room,
but it's a lot. So much further. Yeah, yeah. Have you tried not being poor?
It's my favorite thing to... Budget advice.
Spend less on candles. When it's... But people...
It was very frustrating sometimes, because I think we're pretty explicit that it's $2,000 Canadian or $1,400 US,
but all the prices you see when they're buying stuff are talking about it.
That's Canadian dollars. And we didn't want to put in exchange each time they're talking about prizes,
because it'd be so... Yeah. Just... It'd be so encumbering to the video
and it'd be just annoying. And so, but people are like, they spent this much on their projector,
and it's like, well, actually, it's only like $600 and like... $40.
Yeah. And I think people have misconceptions
of how expensive 4K projectors are. Like, 4K projectors are still quite expensive.
1080p is easy to get a... But a good projector is like,
no longer $40,000. It's like a few thousand.
Like, I think the one I have at home is maybe $4,000.
Damn. I should just try not being poor. Well, I wanted a Christmas party.
Oh, okay. But like, you know, five, 10 years ago,
maybe more, that would have been $10,000, $20,000.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember for a long time,
even 1080p projectors, like when I was into projectors, it was like... Oh, yeah. 1080p was crazy expensive.
Yeah, the other thing I noticed is they've gotten a lot brighter too.
You can use them in a room with Windows, whereas before it was like only your basement dungeon.
Yeah. That's why I did my screen in like an off gray,
because if you have some light in your room,
the gray makes the blacks a bit deeper, so it kind of works a bit more.
If you have a super good projector, the thing to do is a black screen.
Black. Wow. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Because you're making your OLED projector.
Yeah. Basically, yeah. Because your blacks are black,
and the whites need to be bright enough to turn that black white.
But if you have a white screen, your blacks are always going to be
as black as the white screen. How long before you like project onto an OLED screen,
and you just like double up the contrast? Oh, that'd be great. Like use the OLED as like a backlight.
Yeah, yeah. Basically. That's a great idea. Video.
Put that in the list. Oh, $150 right now is what it's listed. Yeah, so you were, David,
you were in charge of kind of like the PC option of this.
Phone that in, bud. Oh, man. Yeah.
No, I was really apprehensive about going the console route,
because like I said before, I had been a fan of Scrapyard Wars,
and it's always been about the PC. Like even when I think it was like Scrapyard Wars season two,
they didn't put tons of focus on the PC in terms of its performance, but it was the water cooling one.
It still was about the PC. So like I said,
super apprehensive about looking at the console route,
but it was really hard to find deals on PCs too.
Yeah, but it's not a great time to buy PCs in a rush.
If you have more time, you can find the deals, make a PC,
but it's like when you need to have your PC in two days. Oh yeah, that's one of the things,
there's so much conditions or so much different variables, like one without SSD or something,
and that's another $50. And that's where having the larger budget
can really mess with you too, because you could decide to go all in on the PC
and spend like 1300 bucks if you wanted to, and then just cheap out on some of the other things.
But with the way that the scoring was weighted, this is how our discussions ended up coming down,
is the scoring only weighted at max a third of it to the PC.
If even, because it's like half of the gaming score
was the objective one and half was subjective. So it's like, it was purposely designed
after the discussions we had to have it be that you could do a console.
And it's interesting, I had suggested, one of the things I had suggested was,
why don't we spin this off into like a different series into like room upgrade competition versus scrapyard wars?
But we can't do two of these a year.
I know that you guys watched them and they're super fun.
They are so much freaking worse.
So like we don't have the bandwidth to do two of these a year and stop feasible.
Because basically everything at the company stops for a week and it's just like, do this.
And so it was like, we'll try it this year.
And I think we will do a room again next year, but we will make sure that there is a PC.
I miss the PC part of it. And it's got an engineering sample, i7-12700.
That's so weird, the freaking mobile chip.
Is it like one of those weird boards? No, it's still like a weird... What is this?
Oh, it can't be socketed. One gigahertz. Yeah, so it's like one of those like pre...
What is a mobile chip if it's an H? It's a protective mobile.
A lot of spammers and scammers, depending on what you're looking for.
Like console men, it just seems to be all scam. It's not basically going to be free.
Let's say we're doing this. It's a lot of budget. It's literally...
Yeah, this is where things went down.
Let's say we had 300 bucks for furniture.
The movie experience and the atmosphere together is too...
It is interesting, like because they're such a big budget, there's so much room for interpretation of what matters.
And I think your team did a better job on like prioritizing room
being a complete part of the experience.
But it's interesting because like, yeah, there's like a million ways you could have done it.
But it is interesting that both teams cheaped out as much on the actual performance.
And I wonder if that says something about us as people, or just like the state of things that things are so good
that like you really don't need that extra bit of performance to get a good experience.
When it comes down to it, realistically, this is a space you're going to be in for a long time.
I mean, it's kind of like people looking at their office chair too.
You can spend a ton of money on a good chair,
but you can spend peanuts on something that will just function.
When you're sitting in it for hours though, you're going to thank yourself for spending the money.
Yeah. Although pro tip, buy a used chair because people offload them for peanuts.
Like I got a chair that new is like 1700 bucks for 300 bucks.
Because a person just like, I can't fit in in my space. I just need it gone.
And I was like, okay. Or office clear out auctions.
Yeah, that's a really, really good one. Don't get the $110 Amazon special.
Go find one on Facebook. That's the next scrapper for us. Who can get the best office chair?
Okay, so like we want it to be... Spend it on the projector. We want it exactly.
Oh, dance hairs falling apart a little bit here. Just a little bit. Playing it looks sick.
Yeah. Like the atmosphere goes up. There's some nice mood lighting.
We should do a field trip to the like Bell's office.
Yeah. Pinterest, IRL. We are evaluating your space.
Yeah. So that kind of like... This office doesn't exist anymore.
He also has plants, which means he knows what he's doing.
We should probably get a plant. I like the stack of... What does that mean that he knows what he's doing
because he has plastic plants?
I think he means like, if it was a real plant, he had to take care of it.
So it's alive, but like... I like that. No, no, no, no. He knows what he's doing in context of like decorating a space.
Like if you go to the info room, we have the lights off and it's sterile.
And I mean, the thing is that I didn't know that we could decorate our offices.
I think I asked like Chewy, where did you get all this stuff?
And he's just like, I don't know. I stole it.
We could do that the whole time. I thought he had to like buy all this stuff.
And so I took Lucky. So now the info room just has a dragon
that takes up like 40% of the entire space.
I like that you're overcompensating. You're like, we need decor. So you just got the largest info dragon.
It holds our coats now and keeps us motivated.
I also want to point out me in the background, all painkillered up, just eating Cheetos.
I like the stack of Pukari sweat. I don't think we can recreate that,
but I like it. Little lights on the wall is nice. Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate it. I'm glad we did none of this.
Good job, Vibemaster. You're not here to defend yourself.
180 bucks. It's one of those things that it's just enough money
that you could be like, maybe they just want it gone.
I sell things at a good price because I get access to technology
and I want to give other people access to technology. And so I price things aggressively.
So 130 US dollars, which is like not a lot.
The other side of it with a TV this big, it is frustrating to move around.
So if you've got a lot of space being taken up by something that you're not using
for what you want it for anymore, you just want it gone. Yep.
When it's like, you can't put it in a car. Like there's very few cars that can fit an 85 inch TV.
Like even a pickup truck that's bad. Yeah, you literally have to rent a freaking work truck
to make that work. I uh, it's the same with CRTs.
There's like an inverse proportion. Like the smaller the CRT, the more expensive they've become.
Because yeah, most people can fit a 13 or a 20 inch CRT.
But if you get to the 34 inch, it's like, your whole freaking room is a CRT now.
For 185 inches is too big. And then build around that because that gives us
Is it the same room in the photos? That's right. It is.
TV for 180 dollars. I would want the photo of the people.
I wonder if it's the people in the photo that are in the, the cell phone files.
I mean, it's not necessarily indicative of the things you're in, but literally 1,800 Canadian dollars for like furniture
and a gaming PC or a console. That would have been bonkers.
Oh, I guess we need audio as well. But I think it's going to come down to buys.
You don't have to spend money for audio, apparently. If I could get a Xbox Series X for like 300 bucks,
like that seems pretty solid, right? Returnal is one of the games, right?
That was going to be like the subtle hints. Yeah, yeah, guys. Wait a minute.
It's on PS5 though. Oh, ball sack and PC.
Okay, well that's good to know. This couch, I know you didn't want to pay,
but $10 is... Whoa, that's sick. I hate those.
Where they put it up for $10 and it's like, no, I want 800.
Yeah, 10 is worse than zero because zero I know is a bullshit price.
I know you're just... You set a minimum, right? Yeah. But 10 is like, oh, maybe they just, you know,
want to go on or something, but... Available? I also don't like when people use stock photos for their postings.
And $10? Sure, maybe you can't just look like that at some point.
It doesn't look like that no more. I know. Just to make sure you show up. No, they said free home delivery.
Wow. For $10? No, that's not real. Oh, no.
Internet.
Okay, that's the end of the stream. Okay, bye. I'm not showing drops, so skill issue.
I don't know how they use Chrome today. No, they said free home delivery.
Wow. For $10? Hold on. No. Same talk, it's fine.
Okay, sorry, people are saying ripped. Uh, I mean, normally they say Fs, so we're good.
Cool. Yeah, I might need a refresh. Yeah.
1830s. Yeah, we're getting some oo-oos, so we're good.
It was like, uh-oh. Ro-ro.
Ro-ro! No, shutting us down.
Is our Wi-Fi down? I really don't know. I hate computers.
Computers are the worst. Ping-T8888.
I mean, if you're getting chat, that means we have internet at least. Yeah, I got the Wi-Fi.
No. So, David, what was your favorite part of being part of Scrappard Wars?
Favorite part?
I got you. Other than winning.
Stomping us to death. Literally. Honestly?
To death, bro. I think one of my favorite parts was seeing how the other team did at the end,
and then being able to talk to the other team. I know that that didn't make it into the cut as much,
but going through these videos after the fact too,
and watching their conversations through the process,
and seeing just how different the approach was, and then seeing the similarities of like,
I'm sure that they're going to have some crazy gaming piece.
Someone's asking, what was the worst part of being on Linus' team?
We've been pretty transparent, so. The worst part?
Honestly, filming the second person in the backseat is difficult.
There was so many times where I was trying to do what I could to get lighting better for,
Glenn was our camera guy, and get lighting better for him shooting into the back of the truck.
That was a challenge. And it was tinted window too, so.
Yeah, that doesn't help. Because it's true, I didn't really think about that, but it is pretty dark in those back seats.
And then I had a couple of people comment, just friends comment about how
scrunched I looked in the back of Sebastian's car.
Chevy Bolt not made for someone my size.
Most cars these days aren't. Not in the backseat. Yeah, the backsets are so small.
Yeah, I've actually got a 2017 Civic,
and the back seats, in terms of leg room, it's really good.
But you need to be short to fit back there. Yeah, even, I'm not very tall, but I have a decently long torso.
But those, yeah, back there, it's like my head will brush on the top.
That's not comfy. We don't have internet.
I think then we can. 90 for a grand.
High sense, guy. What? Yes, are you interested?
Yes, I'm interested. Let's f***ing go, boys. I'm going to take $200, because that.
Were you excited to hop on the ferry? Oh, yeah. No, it was one of those things that I had inklings
that it could be bad. Sure. But it was so cool, I wanted it to be good.
I wanted it so bad, man. I wanted it to be good. Yeah.
All I need. It's also pretty sweet when you're getting paid
just to take a ferry ride. Not so bad.
I should take a little more than $200. Just in case we find some other stuff that we want to pick up.
Because if you're on the island and we see something, then we can. There's definitely better Facebook.
Next year, I think I'm going to suggest to one of the teams that they take it.
Like they've really considered doing an island trip, because the deals on the island are so much better across the board.
Like in every category, people are just, there's so many fewer people to buy it.
So they have to be more aggressive on the pricing. I can't remember if it made it in or not, but a little bit later,
like early day two, one of the things that we had to decide right away
was whether we would drive to Vernon to go pick up a commercial display.
That was actually another point that was, it was a lot bigger of a decision for us than what came through in the video.
Because that would have been someone's day. Day two is just driving there and picking up the TV and driving back.
That one was not a scam for sure though.
It was priced more appropriately.
The guy was actually sending real information back and forth.
But then it's like a commercial display that's not meant for a home theater,
and they probably would have kind of sucked. Commercial displays don't necessarily,
they're meant to be on for long periods of time, but they don't necessarily have the same picture quality too.
So that was the other concern, and we didn't have a great sense
of what is this going to look like once we actually have it. I'm sure the motion clarity is not a focus in the design of that.
Yeah, they're meant to be like, they're there for menus.
Heels on the island. So that's something that we should make a key part of our strategy then.
Okay, so I think we are more than likely going to be stuck buying the games.
There is cheaper places to get keys for the games
that we could look at as well too, so. We should absolutely do that.
We could get a 3D projector. Yes, I've seen a few of those. That's the one you ended up with, right?
I think that was a gimmick. Yeah, it's probably like a bad idea. I'm talking anyways.
Can I take a serious look? I like that there's like, the signs were there.
I also did not choose. It's surprising because I thought that would have been like a,
you have final say because you know the most about projectors. Yeah, he did say something.
He did approve it actually. Probably, yeah. You probably like look at it and go, it's fine.
Yeah. I think the big thing was like size versus brightness versus resolution.
It was like a lot of different factors. And I think a bunch of the other choices were
also predicated on the fact that
I thought we were doing more of a big PC at that point too.
You know, and yeah, there's lots of different things.
But I think the projector was suggested. And then I think there's a bias which just like,
okay, I guess we're doing a projector. We won't think about anything else after that suggestion happened potentially.
I think you can kind of see that comes across. And in defense of your group's snap decision making,
both teams had to pick something up on the first day. Like that was sort of one of the
You won that centerpiece. Yeah. Was that mentioned in the video?
I don't know if it was mentioned in the video because it was one of those like behind the scenes rules.
Like you have to move in pairs. But it was just to make sure that we had something on the first day
of both teams going out and getting something. It didn't have to be your main piece,
but you had to pick up something. So we had It's the most important thing.
Yes. Yeah. And so, and I do think it's funny.
The guy picks his nose and then shakes your hand. I did not notice.
Of course not. I don't have been like... That is insane.
Yeah. We'll go point it out again when we get there.
I didn't notice it either to be honest. I don't want to. It looks great. You can see that.
No, no. Wash your hands.
I want to die. Times that by 346.
It's 800. Nerd. It's got to be a bright.
It was not. It's suitable for that room.
Yeah. I'm so bad.
Love messaging. Thinks I'm a bot. I'm a real human.
It might be worthwhile to go to this place called Keep It Green out in Port Coquitlam.
So what they do is all the stuff that's left over from movie sets. That was such a bust.
They are not. It's a cool, it's one of those, the idea of the store is cool enough
that we kept it. And it's like, oh, it's neat. And you can get stuff really cheap
or next enough or free. I've heard of that. Yeah. It's so funny.
Stores like that are so hit or miss. And they close the door. And they'll be like 10 things that are
incredible value. Yes. Similarly, you guys want to re-store. Everyone wants to re-store.
Yeah. Before we forget. It's listed at 900. 800.
Like it off for 800. Oh, it comes with a 100 inch screen. We should take the screen just in case
we run out of budget for the gray paint. Yes. Yeah. I don't know anything about sound.
Yeah. Well, when we get to the pickup scene,
we'll do that. Okay. With that cheap board. That was good.
This was a really smart one. Yep. And then just stick some stuff on it. If we do that, we can do less beauty. He is back from work.
It's true. It was funny, though, letting you in on the editing process of it.
So in the third video, they cut it up and paint.
Paint it. But when Linus reviewed the fourth video, we didn't have that again.
So he's like, there should be a bunch of footage of us spray painting the Sonopan.
That should make it back in the video. And it was like, Linus, it's in the third one.
It was in there. It's in there, buddy. Don't worry.
But it's like, that's just how it is. There's so many things you have to think about on
different days for different projects. No, we don't. But I remember being like, wait, is it not in there?
Check until he is back home from work. What?
So we need to commit and then hope that it's good?
Also, music choices, I feel like are underappreciated. In a lot of LTT videos, there's a rotating cycle of songs
that you hear, but hop in one above and beyond and found really, really good music for this.
Although, we had two different copyright notices for classical music that we paid for access to.
That was very frustrating, because it was like, no, have the rights to this, but it still triggered the content
warning or whatever on YouTube? Get it right, YouTube.
What does that prevent you from doing? It prevents me from getting anything else today.
Yeah, it's just a waste of time. But I guess you guys are on the main lens,
so you guys could pick up anything over here if we find a killer deal. So yeah, and we can still keep looking for island deals.
And worst case scenario, if our TV kind of sucks, I think we just try to make up for it in sound,
and we get like a sick little gaming station and we put it in this corner or something.
Yeah. If you guys find any furniture that you like, but you don't love the color.
Oh, we can spray it. I have like air sprayer.
So we could do like a really nice finish on a piece of furniture potentially.
Getting the material for it though, we'll have to pay for it. Yeah.
Okay, all right, let's go team. If you have tools at home that have been used in LMG videos,
there's a longer part of like the discussion of like, I made sure both teams would basically get an equal share.
And I had Justin, I was like, Justin, do you want to be able to use your sprayer?
And he was like, maybe. So they were both allowed to use their sprayer. So why is his entire house in cross?
Justin's was much smaller. How are we going to have this thing?
Got the truck keys. Oh, you snagged it. Yeah, because his is more like a hobby one
for doing miniatures and stuff. Yeah, we did the arcade machine actually with the sprayer.
So it can do larger things, but it takes a long time to do a larger surface.
Yeah, it would not have worked well for what Linus did, just like spraying all the sun up here.
Dude, they have no truck today. No, I got it for the rest of the day. Well, that's what happened.
Unintentional storyline. Did you find out the model? I didn't find the model,
but he was able to confirm it's 4k. He's asking if we can commit
and he'll pull the ad down for us. Hail Mary.
Let's go for it. Let's do it. Okay, I'll let him know.
I can't believe it. This is the earliest, I think I've ever committed anything in Scrapyard Wars.
They're asking, okay, can you? Wait, was that one of us?
Can you do a small deposit? Oh, no, that was him. Oh, no, that was him. I don't know how to add right now. The rest will be up on cash.
My brain is struggling to figure out where it's coming from. Oh, I pulled down the ad right now.
The rest will be up on cash. Oh, he's asking for the 30 bucks. Yep.
Yeah, that's what you know. If you need a deposit, it's bad.
Like I have offered deposits when I'm picking stuff up and it's like I can't do it for three days.
I'll give you a deposit, but I can only make it Saturday. Just please hold it for me.
But if a seller asks you and you're on your way to pick it up,
nah, it's over. That's a little sus.
That's a little sus. Do you want the good news first or the bad news?
Uh, bad news. Okay, the bad news is... Even like the little things,
like the way that the scene is cut, it's like it almost feels like there's been some time that's passed between the two things,
but it's like they're literally just outside of the, like it's exactly a second after they were before.
Passes of time and editing, it's so weird. The first sailing that has room for vehicles is at 4 p.m.
Ooh. Do you want the good news? Oh yeah, you guys are gonna have to take your... Go by foot.
By foot. So we're gonna have to figure out... How annoying would that have been
carrying an 86 inch TV by foot on the ferry? It would have been doable.
Yeah. No, I know that there's a close-up just in the next couple seconds of my race.
That was my processing face. I'm just like, okay, how are we gonna do this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, let's see. I have to transport it back over the ferry by hand.
There's so many thousand yard stairs in this.
It was my favorite. Look at his face.
Don't worry. How are things on your side? What have I agreed to do?
Pause it for us to claim it. And it could be better for you if you do it now.
So I'm wondering if the other team is messaging. God, I hate you. Do we have an address for this guy?
Yeah, if you have an address. It's like making the world worse for 30 bucks.
No, and like he gave me an address. I know we didn't show the exact spot,
but it was within a range that seemed reasonable from the ferry terminal.
I went and I looked on it on Google Maps and it was like a place.
Sure. It looked like a house. It wasn't just like some random industrial place or whatever.
Well, I think that's an easy thing to fake. Like I could pretty easy find a spot.
But yeah, it's... I wanted it to work.
I know. I wanted it to work. This is so bad. Okay, so this isn't just...
Well, that would have won you the whole competition. If you got a decent 86 inch TV for 200 bucks,
the amount of budget freedom you have. Scammed, hopefully.
Yeah, the address is... Do it. We'll just eat the $30 if we get scammed.
Okay, so he is four kilometers from the Nanaimo terminal.
That's fine. Transportation doesn't count. We can Uber it. So as long as we can carry it over the boat,
I mean, that can't be the weirdest thing they've ever seen anyone carry over the ferry. So this is kind of the weirdest first day
of scrapyard wars, though. This is wild. In the meantime,
do you want to keep shopping for PC stuff? How are you for motion sickness?
I'm generally pretty good for motion sickness. Okay, we can always trade off.
Do you need a truck? Maybe. Yeah, for work.
We don't know yet, but this Keep It Green place usually has all sorts of stuff.
Like I've seen couches full on sets there, like all sorts of stuff.
They took it already? Bastards. Do we know how long they're going to be with the truck?
Who knows? They're going to be a long time with the truck. What if somebody...
I didn't want the other team to know they were going to the island, so I'm like, yeah, you're basically out of luck today.
Oh, so the company has an easy one you can take. I have us, you get home,
and my home is like 10 minutes away. But you're a cameraman, but I'm not driving.
Yeah, he'd go with you. What is the statement? Has about half its bulb light left.
They get dimmer over time. Do you respond? We got it. Okay.
Eight hundred bucks. Tell them that we're on the way now. We've just got something to pick up,
but we're on the way. Many peace.
I can't remember where that's from. That's from Parks and Rec. Yeah, I don't know. I've just adopted that as part of my...
I'm really happy that... It's a Saperstein. Yeah, that's it.
My new focus is going to be home theater equipment.
I kind of want it to be basically hidden away, or like... I'm going to take off my sponsor.
I'm going to get lunch after. I don't want to see this.
The couch. I think the couch is kind of like a centerpiece.
We have at least a $200 budget for couches. We don't have to get something completely junk.
We could probably swing more than that. We just need to get some more ideas
of where we're going to land on pricing on things. Okay. You know what we could also potentially pick up
on the island, Pankrats? Is an audio system.
This is me being focused and frantically searching for stuff.
I wasn't ignoring him. I know that they were coming to me like,
he's prompting for stuff from Pankrats so hard. And I was like, I'm looking for things.
It's so funny because like, I know you. I'm like, of course that's what you're doing. Like, how could anyone possibly think that?
But I guess it kind of does this. Obviously Linus.
They're probably going to really struggle to move it compared to here on the mainland.
So if there's something, that would be a stellar place
to pick it up. We're going to be going to Andy's to get his...
So I'll let you guys know a little secret.
In our review process, someone pointed out, because Dan is driving and he's holding his phone,
which is illegal. You don't have to like touch your phone while you drive or whatever. I was?
Yeah. Oh, that's super illegal.
I was speeding too.
And so we were like, oh crap, how do we do it? And so we kind of edited as if we didn't have
the video footage of Dan. So that's just a little insider secret.
We didn't want to put video proof of illegal activity.
It's also just like not great practice in general. We can't promote that.
But it's hard because like you're in such a rush to get places. You don't think about it.
You're just like... I've also like not really ever done that before,
but I mean, I've also never been filmed while driving.
The interaction isn't shown, but in a previous Scrapyard Wars,
there is definitely a point where Linus gets pulled over and he acknowledges it.
I think there's one at least where it's shot, where he gets in trouble.
It's like a $900 ticket if you're caught touching your phone.
Yeah, you really should never do that. I thought, oh yeah, because everybody in the world
uses iPhones but me. There was a MagSafe mount,
but of course my phone doesn't stick to it. I'm an Android boy too.
Man, I'm dumb. Sorry guys. No, that's fine.
Leave your phone alone. Make it home. One of the things that I think people
that don't shoot videos for a living don't often recognize
is that when you're shooting a video, you have like 17 things bouncing around your mind.
You're not thinking... I've never driven this car before. I'm going somewhere I've never driven before.
Yeah, there's like so many different things. Yeah, and so I'm not mad at you.
I mean, I am. I'm upset with myself. Don't do that.
Yeah, don't do that. That is true though, we shouldn't be doing that. Justin is currently stealing all of the tools from the shop.
It's funny that you don't even use your good audio. And all the batteries.
So the... No, I mean this works. We gotta wait for it. Yeah, it seems like it's like...
You just like bar the shop. I was like the pro-pop picture. Is that the one you use for work?
Yeah, that's it. Remove Seb from his ability to enter the shop.
That's so funny. Is that, Den, you're part of the effort team, so you could potentially like block the keys.
Yeah, I actually don't think that I have that level of admin access,
but we could just make Sean do it. It'd be fine. It would have been funny for the videos.
Luke is the CTO, he could just do it. It would be funny for a bit, but yeah,
if you guys actually did it in a real way that prevented them, I probably wouldn't have expected that. There are so many times that I did that
to kind of just be a dick.
Taking all the batteries, taking the key for the scissor lift,
locking Seb out of the buildings.
No, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. Yeah, it's ridiculous.
It's also like I'm a big believer in bending the rules for the videos.
Like I'm really into the show Taskmaster right now,
which is like if you haven't seen it, it's basically they have five comedians,
they do 10 episodes, and in each episode they do like four tasks,
and they're just very silly things. But the fun isn't watching them do the tasks,
it's reading the rules and figuring out how to kind of circumvent it
and outsmart what the task is. And I love that kind of content,
so I'm always down for people like playing around with what the game can be,
but there's obviously a line you can't cross. That's why I bring up racing a lot.
There was a guy, I think it might have been in the 70s or 80s or something like that.
Might have been oval racing, but there was a limit to the maximum size of fuel tank.
So let's say it's 50 gallons for the fuel tank.
Every race car had to have this much fuel in it, that was all they could take.
So what there wasn't a rule for was the size of the fuel lines.
So instead of the standard like quarter inch fuel line,
he put like two, three inch fuel line.
And then like looped them all over the car. So in just the fuel lines,
he could fit like another 20, 30 gallons. Just nuts.
That's crazy. The same guy also put basketball inflated into his tank
so that when they measured it, it would take up a bunch of the space.
And then when it came to racing, he deflated the basketball
so he'd get some more space in the fuel line. See to me, that's more cheating than the fuel lines.
The fuel line is like a smart workaround, but like... It's not against the rules to put a basketball in your tank.
But you're only allowed to have a certain amount when they measured it. You're only allowed to have a certain amount of fuel
measured out of the tank. But the rule is you're only allowed to have a certain amount in your tank.
Isn't it? Yeah. So he was circumventing that by...
But the tank could only hold that much and they measured it at that much.
And so, you know, I mean there's stuff that is on the line of cheating.
Isn't that the same guy that acid dipped his car
until all the metal was like paper thin? Yeah.
And there was... I know there was a rally team that, you know, are supposed to have a regulation roll bar,
but they're pretty heavy. So they like made it out of cardboard tubes
and then spray painted it silver. I see. I don't like that. And that's cheating.
That's cheating. That's cheating. That's cheating. The car that they acid dipped,
if you put your like hand on the roof, it would have like ripped through the metal.
There was a lawnsia in rally.
The dust got kicked up. And so what they would do is they would say
that they have a problem with their like seat belt on the starting line.
And it would take like 10 and 20 minutes to get sorted out.
And then all the dust would have settled. And then they had free reign of the entire track.
And they were found out, but that's like not sportsmanship.
Yeah, that's not sportsmanship. I think a lot of what we're talking about is sportsmanship
rather than like spirit of the rules. That's fair. It's...
And like there's a difference between a competition like that where there's real stakes and something like this,
where it's just for entertainment. Like it doesn't matter who wins really.
It's fun. But it's not like someone's livelihood is on the line.
Putting a basketball in your tank. Now very sportsman like.
Giant fuel lines. That was the same guy though. Yeah, it's so funny because like they do,
they accomplishes some things with the fuel lines to me feels so much clever of a way to circumvent the rules.
That's what you had. What was funny about the fuel line one too, I know this story.
They were inspecting the tank and whatnot. They found something wrong.
And they didn't know about the fuel lines, but they knew that his fuel tank was empty.
No. And he just drove away.
No, this guy was like, he should be banned. Like I don't care how not in the rules,
like the shit that he tried was just like,
there's reasons why the rules for F1 are like 7,000 pages.
And like all racing regulations are insane.
What's one of those? Because it's tough because it's like, yeah, how much of it racing should be the driver skill
and how much should be the engineers building the cars?
What's the ratio of importance? Absolutely. I think they are going to win.
The team wins. Just like Pankratz's team won, Pankratz didn't win.
Pankratz was the driver. Everybody else was the team who built the room, right?
Yeah. They put a basketball in the back of the house. The team won. That's all that matters.
Yeah. It's true. It's true. Yeah. What are they going to figure out that it was me and no?
Come on. It was an oopsies. The only thing they noticed is that the bulb,
it looks very dindy. It looks kind of scary. I don't think we did anything, did we?
Yeah. You just turned it off. You just changed like a lamp shade. Oh, yeah. That's right.
I don't know how fixtures work. Smash them. Oh, yeah. You guys literally just had it off.
Phillips Hue Bowl. Yeah, at least you had the lamp. The lamp made the road more comfy.
Sure. It's so funny. The directionality of light matters so much.
Where are the lights coming from? It's like above uncomfortable eye level.
Right? Or something like that. Not bad at all. That one looks not good.
Why did you like that couch? Damn.
No. What was that? Not bad at all. There is no reason why I liked this couch.
You're just like, I want a couch. I don't want a couch. Don't think about the black leather couch.
I'm not a gooner. Shut up. So good. So good.
What is up with the lumpiness on this side? Holy shit. That's like there's an animal inside trying to get out.
It was like no money and I wanted to go back and like get back to it.
I would have liked a couch. That's nice. No, it's not.
Sharpie. Look at this thing. This is disgusting. Sharpie. You're just for free, though.
Free is why I liked the couch. Yeah. I'd like to put some Sharpie on that.
See, I'm the same person. You're so consistent. I Sharpied green all over mine.
I got my couch off of the street outside my house. I don't like the look of the blue one.
But it's so, doesn't all look comfy. I also think it costs money.
Oh, yeah, I see. We're not giving you a couch.
No, we're not giving you a couch. That kind of couch is nasty to me. Do you have any rugs or...
Throw pillows. There's nothing in here. No.
It looks like, yeah, they just cleared out. Yeah.
Oh, so we got a bunch of lamps and stuff out here. Okay, but these look pretty old-timey.
Are there any floor lamps? Oh, we got some, we got some, uh, plantage up here.
Oh, these are really short. This looks so good. Oh, what is that?
It's the big peanut, baby. How's that for a vibe? Oh God, that's not our vibe, though.
But that is... See, I feel like I could have done something with that lamp.
That lamp is a choice and you could go really bold with weird things and have it be this eclectic.
Yeah, they had a banana on tape on the wall. That would fit so well.
That's a vibe. Shut up. Yeah, I don't think that either. Yeah, or I'll leave.
All right, on to the projector. I think so. Sucks a little bit that we don't have like our centerpiece couch
because I kind of want to design like a room around that.
That was your job. It's okay.
Damn, you're so salt. Brand new sofas, haven't been used one.
I don't like that. I'm glad you didn't get that couch. I'm gone because we like,
we bought another sofa that we liked more. This girl looks very aesthetically inclined.
Either it's a scam or bedbugs. Yeah, as long as bedbugs don't actively crawl on the judges, we're fine.
I think we brought the bedbugs from the office. Same brain. Really bad.
That would have been hilarious. No. Literally, everyone has to throw out all their clothes, not go home.
Had a fly issue already. Like, yeah. Oh, flies are bad enough.
Oh, they could be like, infect the flies and then like, distribute them to everyone at the company.
Like, bedbugs aren't my worst fear, but they are up there for realistic,
worst nightmares. Yeah, I would lose my mind. Yeah, all your shit in your house has to disappear.
Yeah, I would never sleep again.
Yeah. I mean, I'm going to go. Okay, I'll be back soon.
Just getting lunch. Sure. Sounds good. Did our coffee's ever run?
On a Lenovo business desktop think center,
small form factor with an i5-4570. I said, you listed it for a dollar.
How much do you actually want? He said, 70. I said, eh, I could probably do 50.
He said, I'll do 60 deal. I said, pretty hard on 50.
Can you do that? He said, 55. And I said, I have $50.
And he said, fine. 50 bucks for the whole computer.
I like that. I paid with 50 bucks. Then you animated it to, like, match the, I think that's really something.
Timing, yeah. i5-4750, 16 gigs of RAM, 256 gig SSD,
has Windows 11 on it. I think that should be fine, just for like, as like a thin client
for connecting to our VM. That's on the internet. Yeah, that should be fine.
Can I remember? It's got two display ports, so we have to get an adapter. All those many PCs look so similar.
That's on what we're doing for audio, though. Oh, there's so many of them. The computer does have wine out.
These are all the offices. That's what you have, yeah. But it's something. I want a 7.1 bit stream.
Okay, I guess all the messages. It's actually so annoying, how many small-factor PCs there are
that are totally adequate if you could put a GPU in them. But it's like,
it's like, okay, well, then you have to replace the power supply. The motherboard probably has like,
very little support for anything else. The RAM's not good enough. And it's just like, for that CPU is good.
And in another system, you could keep that going for another five years.
Yeah, I get it from the other side, too, because I came from the business IT support.
And when you're dealing with a medical office or something like that,
they want something that they can just mount behind the monitor and it sits there out of the way.
That's fair. All right, I can tell you to fasten the pace because it's a short-strike shoot later today.
So we have a hard spot at 3 o'clock.
We're an hour behind. We're like two hours behind schedule.
2X? It's almost 12 o'clock. It's almost 12 o'clock.
And we are still at missile one. Okay. So Dan is concerned with computers. Can you please play for it out?
He's unsure about the audio. No. I'm just going to adapt it. Because there are actually some issues there. So I'm yet again on the computer.
Oh, hey, we're here for the projector. Hey, hey, hey. How else are we going to do it?
No!
Okay, this is actually important. Oh, it's a shame Dan just left. Oh, man.
I think he left because of this. I think he knew it was coming up.
Okay, let's find the spot where the guy...
I mean, hey, that lamp fits his decor. It does. The plants.
He knows what he's doing. Moving and adjustment or anything like that.
Oh, yeah. We got focus. It does it.
And you said that there was...
Was it Christmas stuff on his wall? I don't think I remember seeing this.
Does it have moving and adjustment? And you said that...
Yeah, sure. There was a ceiling mount. Makes me feel a little bit better about how long it takes me
to get rid of my Christmas tree in January.
Do you have something? Can't remember. No, there's no seating mount.
Okay.
That was the moment they lost. Scrapyard Wars.
No biggie. Because they could have gotten a discount.
$50 discount or... And I think that's the thing with 3D printers.
Their mind is like, no problem. We can print that, you know? But it's like, if they had two weeks,
no problem they could have done it. But when you're in a rush... So we have a look at visibility to ceiling mount is.
Especially failed prints. That too. Are you okay with this?
No, you guys were able to jank solution around it.
We had our TV stilettos. Yeah. Well, we're probably just going to screw it or duct tape it
to the ceiling anyway. Let's see what Luke says about input latency.
83 milliseconds is probably fine.
Oh, no, not there. Not there. Cool. Oh, he's buying... Happy?
So it's not a nose pick. It's a thumbs up.
It's a pick. Cool. Yeah. Happy? Something on my teeth. I think we said 800.
Yeah, that's fine. Nice. This thing said ceiling mount. Are they bad hagglers?
I laughed so hard hearing that. Was the listing, did the listing have one?
Have a ceiling mount as well if you want. The listing has it. They do want. They picked it up, said that they didn't have a ceiling mount
and they didn't get any discount at all.
Disappointment. He did 100 off already and he signed the film release.
Film releases don't give us more decor.
This guy's getting weirder and weirder though.
He gave me an email address so I sent the e-transfer over
with a security question of what brand is the TV. Yeah.
That should be really obvious. It's Hisense TV. Hisense!
And then he said, please let me know the answer once you're done.
I said, yep, should be there. Should be easy from the question, just a manufacturer name.
And then he said, could you please share the security? What's crazy to me is how indicative this is of how many scams they're running at once.
Oh yeah. Because it's not like he has three. He could check it himself.
He wouldn't ask any questions. He'd get that money be gone. It's in the conversation.
Literally Hisense. It's right there. It's like this guy probably has hundreds of conversations
going at once trying to get one of them to work. And so it's just too hard for him to keep track of anything.
Do you make one an hour? That's... Yeah.
30 bucks an hour is not. That's really good. That's good. And so it's a numbers game.
You just get a million scams going. Cancer for easy confirmation with two.
And he got close. Very close. He could have had his money.
I don't know how he didn't have that money. Honestly.
Yeah. Check marks. And what's the answer?
I'll pull the ad down now. What's the security answer?
We seal the deal away. The rest will be upon cash.
Are we just getting ripped off of $30 here? I don't know. Sure are.
I mean, I tried to look at the guy's profile and it's locked. So I can't see anything more than that.
There was actually like a profile picture and that sort of thing too.
Yeah. It was just taking it out for privacy. The weird thing is the two check marks behind a bunch of the messages.
That just seems very strange that someone would communicate that way.
That's a copy-paste answer. Yeah. To me, a macro, he has like macro keys to respond to certain things.
It is a gamble. Next time. Oh.
I'm not going to lie. We're in rough shape over here. It's hard to find stuff.
Oh man, you guys are killing me. We're starting to cheat through budget pretty quick here.
This is not as much money as it felt like. It's a one-day seven-hour print.
It is a risk. I might torpedo the entire team with this.
How does it- Eat it! We did it. Wow, we were done one episode.
Let's go to the next one. That was fun, yeah. Hop in. I think you- It's been a pleasure.
Thank you so much. That's so fun. I appreciate you. I kept you way longer than I think we planned on it.
No, no. It's been so fun. I'm just glad to be here because number one, it's done.
Yes. Number two. Number two, we're all having fun.
Yeah, it's true. I had a lot of fun with you today. I had fun making this,
but I'm ready for a more regular work schedule.
And you had it way worse than me. Oh yeah. Can't wait until the next one.
Woo! Capital Wars 11. I mean, hopefully this one does well.
It's doing pretty good on YouTube. It's good. But it's always a challenge because it's like
the hardcore audience love it, and we do the Floatplane push for it.
So it's like, it doesn't- I think it doesn't perform as well as we want it to
for the amount of effort. It's not a direct relation to it between
how well these video do and how much effort we put in, but it's such a fun one,
and it's one that I think most of the audience love. But if you do really love Scrapper Wars,
make sure you leave lots of positive comments. Spread the love.
Yeah. Yes. Let us know because it's nice to hear.
I think we worked really hard. Yeah, we did. Okay, part two. Let's go.
All right. Bye, Alvin. Bye. Thanks for having me. Who's lined up for part two?
Who's joining? Dan. Oh. So it's still you, buddy.
You can tell me it's done. Well, we're printing stuff. It's finished. Oh, it's longer.
No, we're screwed. It's this time. Yeah, the other ones are like, yeah.
We're already done. Is everything done? It's done. Okay, we've seen this.
Is there any question of what brand is the tea? Easy, cause it's done.
Daunch Christian, givester raise.
I'm not a religious guy. I used to work for a church, and I used to be like a very, very Christian.
But people that use religion as a cover for this
is just especially, especially nasty. I just really don't like that.
Yeah. It's like, what a weird, cruel thing to do to like, twist.
Be absurd. We don't even need to do too much. We don't even need to do too much. May the rippers rot in hell, buddy.
I hope you beat him there, buddy.
Cancel the funds. Yeah. And let's be thankful that we didn't lose $30.
I've lost in one scrapyard wars by margins of less than $30 before.
Yes. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Yay.
That's pretty bad. I like that they put the no-sealing mount into the freaking thing.
That's what we wanted, right? Yeah. Just the screen. Not the roof mount thing, ceiling mount.
Okay. Thanks, Dan. Thanks, Dan. I thought that you had that in a different list.
He's not here to stand up. He's not here to stand up. He's not here to stand up. We can see what we really think.
This is what Justin's for, I guess. We have links for everything from computers
to home theater systems to couches to lamps
to general vibe things to rugs.
We're kind of all over the place. Oh no. What? I got rate limited.
Whoa, because of that guy? I think it's because the other guy is... What's crazy?
This is like three hours into the day.
Yeah, yeah. Because so we have the whole first episode and you'd think, oh, maybe this is like halfway through,
at least halfway through or close to the end of day one. No, this is like three hours into the day
and we're like, this is going to be a problem. Yeah.
And you work around it, but it's interesting. I also wonder if there are more alarms on Facebook's side
going off because messages from different IPs. Yeah. At the same time.
Yeah. But... Back at home. We made it worse. Are you guys in my account as well?
Yeah. Continue tomorrow. Tomorrow?
Duh. Should be fine. I'm using my own, so... Yeah, at least we have two.
This person said no to 100, but they do 120. I think 120 is fine.
That one photo has a massive little stain on it. This person said no to 100, but they do 120.
Oh, it's just light. I think 120 is fine. Oh, that is a little bit... There's a little line that's saying,
oh, I don't want to spend money on a couch. I didn't hate your guys' couch. I thought it was okay.
I like the pull-out. If I was in my real... If that was my real living room,
having the versatility is very nice. Yes. If that middle spot was bad. If that middle spot was bad.
Yeah. Man, people wanting $680 for a 3060 Ti.
Like, come on. That's crazy.
Yeah. That's like $450. What is this? Earlier this year, I landed my nephew a $3070 for $380.
No, that's the appropriate price. So it's... Yeah.
This is crazy. And I'm sure that person has built in negotiation into that,
being like, I'm hoping to get $500. But even that, that's way too much.
It's a bit... Yeah. It's three generations old at this point.
But it's a 3070 system with 64 gigs of RAM for $799.
Even that, that's crazy. Yeah. That's such an old CPU.
This is a fine system. Yeah. Ah, it sucks. There's actually a fair number of 3070-class systems listed right now.
Here's one with a 10th Gen Core i7, a 3070. This one's $875.
At this kind of price, though, is PS5 Pro a legitimate option?
We're getting better than PS5 Pro performance, I think. But what we're not getting is a controller.
Controller can't be that expensive. It's a really nice controller. If we could find a PS5 bundle that had a couple controllers or something like that,
I think it's a pretty compelling offer. Like, here's a PS5 with two controllers.
That's what we ended up getting. Is this one? Which has the stock photo on it.
I know, that's like so troubling. It's like... And to be fair, I've posted things with the stock photo when I'm like at work
and I forgot to take a photo and I just want to get it up and hopefully sell it the same day.
But it depends on the kind of product and it depends on the condition I have it in.
If it's something I've never opened, I don't mind using a stock photo.
But if it's something that is well-loved, I will not use the stock photo.
So $460. Are we really getting that much of a better experience out of this PC?
I think we have to really ask ourselves honestly. Sebastian, that is an interesting question.
Like, would you rather have a 10700 and a 3070 versus like a PS5 Pro?
Because that was $875? Well, that was $875 for the system.
And if you get a PS5 Pro for cheaper, slightly cheaper than that.
But yeah, which one would you rather have for gaming and watching movies? I mean, me personally, I'd always lean towards the computer route.
I have a bunch of consoles at home. I find it hard to finish games on consoles because I'm always spending my time on the computer.
Oh, interesting. Do you game on your computer at the same spot that you work on your computer?
I mean, I don't do too much like work, work at my computer at this point.
But yes, it would be the same spot. The I think the bigger thing for me is usually I like having the extra screen space for doing
something else or having something else up at the same time. Oh, interesting.
So whether that be like I'm playing a game that you don't have to pay like 100% attention to
and then having a movie going or TV show going or being able to have some resources up on a second
screen just when you're going through a large adventure game or whatever.
And you're like, I want to I want to see what I'm potentially missing in the map or things like that.
Yeah, I usually use like a second device for that these days.
I'll do a laptop. I don't like I don't like having my phone open.
And I also find the games I'm playing more I want to be immersed in.
So I want the full screen experience and like no other screens.
So I can like really listen and feel. But yeah, when I play games like I'm playing Hollow Knight silk song right now and that's
a good like I can have a show in the background and like I can still listen to the game and stuff.
But yeah, and there's some games that I've specifically bought on console to get that
more immersion like I bought Horizon Zero Dawn and wanted to play through that on the console
because I didn't want the distractions.
But it is a lot more of a slog for me to go through it there because I'm just not used
to going to my living room and actually sitting on the couch to play a game. It's so ingrained to me to game time, go to the computer room.
That's fair. And it's like it is so much of like what your habits are and what you're used to.
Like for us, it's like our console is easier to game on most of the time.
Whereas my PC is like half work, half game. So it's like I have to do work to get my computer to game.
But man, I'm also just gaming on my Steam Deck these days.
Calling in. Couches are actually looking hard to get.
So we're saying $100. Couch guy is good to go now if we want.
Yeah. So this was basically the decision point. This was the point was like, okay, are we doing PC or are we doing console?
Yeah. And there was one other ad, I believe that I was going back and forth with that was
similar spec and similar price that we had as a backup.
But this was really the tipping point for, okay, what's the direction we're going on?
Yeah. Yeah. I think if there was like a really smoking deal on a PC, I could see going that route.
But like at this price, that's just like not that much PC for that price.
Even just looking at individual video cards, like you're looking at roughly 400 bucks for that 3070
and building the rest of the computer for three to $400.
It's pretty tight. Yeah. Well, and it's so interesting because like I wonder if two weeks earlier or two weeks later,
yeah, you get a cascade of people undercutting each other and then you get like a really
good deal and it could exist. And like it's just, this is a pretty new post 16 hours ago.
It's just what was there and that's always the challenge of going use is like you're
at the behest of what is available. Whereas when you're going new, you can kind of know what to expect.
But I absolutely should monitor chat. We getting in our chat a lot?
Yeah, we're getting in our kind of in the lab. I have the same problem as David.
Which problem is it? I don't remember. Probably gaming on the console.
GrabbyWords has been interested in how I built my last two computers.
I've always been used parts for free from stuff from friends in my building. You see, it's been removed with it.
Well, that's also another challenge too is like, if we were making ScrapperWords 100% realistic, you would have access to your friends.
Because like that's how I would build a GPC is I would either like go to another PC I have
and steal parts from that and upgrade that for more expensive or find a friend who's like,
oh, yeah, I've got that power supply. I don't need anymore. You can give me buy me beer and you're like, oh, yeah, I know it's a lot further ahead.
But that free PC that we had sitting in the corner, that was an eighth gen i5.
It was super decent. And this is the stuff that when you're looking at like a five year replacement cycle
on a business computer, they're just cycling them through.
And we could have totally turned that into a decent gaming PC for like
maybe a couple hundred bucks. Yeah, easily. And yeah, you just swap out a couple of parts, change the power supply,
get an adapter for the motherboard and then new GPU done. Easy peasy.
ScrapperWords isn't perfect because it's not necessarily indicative of exactly how it would
be because often when you're building the GPC, you have spare parts around or
you know someone who does or you can do whatever. You've got the computer hooked up so we're not allowed to do that.
Let's just do it. Okay, we were committing to PC.
I don't know if I like it, but Are we even going to get more after?
Linus is so good at giving reaction like that because like he's really feeling it,
but he's also doing it for the sake of the audience.
Hoffman does a really good job of stitching it together that way too. Oh, a hundred percent.
Yes. With us. Yeah, that's so funny. We are committing to PC.
3070. Then a straight PS5, yes. What does that run cyberpunk at?
The PS5 Targets 60, shifts between 1200 and 1800p.
F***, I think PS5 is going to be cheaper and we can then maybe rent games.
It does say you need one working PC. It does. Oh, I forgot about that.
Okay, f*** it. Let's do it. Let's go. It doesn't say you have to game on the PC.
So you can get like a minute's for it. It just needs to be there.
Oh man. You guys are killing me. That is sad. I think it will ruin the coaster. The TV and audio locked in that kind of gives the range for PC and console stuff.
Dude, we can get some like vile power speakers and stuff.
Those are good. Of the judges. Yeah, they worked really well. Are there any audio files? Let's figure out what's happening with all this stuff after.
James, there's no point in keeping it. That's true. The other nice thing is if we go console, you don't really need any for.
Is it so hard to portray what it actually sounds like? Yeah.
Like I thought our audio setup actually sounded really good. Especially in that dark night scene.
The dark night scene had really good positional audio
and it highlighted kind of the low to the high.
Yeah. It was a good reminder too that like 5.1 isn't as important as just good speakers.
Like I'd rather have really good stereo speakers than crappy 5.1.
100%. And you guys had 3.1, so it's even better. But also the other team really reminded me of how important subwoofers are
because their speakers, before they got their subwoofer from Dan's house.
Yeah, their sound system sounded horrible. I was like, this is like, it hurts so bad.
The highs were so shrill and it just like cut into your ears.
Forget the PC. We're going PS5. Sarah.
The projector is like a very important part of the room. I think the remaining two very important part of the room decisions
are couch and home theater audio. All right. I had to look through these speaker ones.
Yeah. They're just speakers. We need some sort of interface.
A receiver. We need an AV receiver if we're going to do analog speaker.
As a reminder, when we watch the scene, if you missed the beginning of the stream,
this team sort of cheated.
Basically they got the home theater stuff from a co-worker who was like,
oh, you guys want some home theater stuff? And they got him to make a post on Craigslist for free so they could pick it up.
It's a little more complicated than that. You can go back to the beginning of the stream if you really want to get the full story.
But as they're like, oh, we found these speakers. If all hell breaks, this thing has speakers in it.
We're not doing that. That was like the craziest thing I've ever heard Luke say.
Use the projector speakers. Like, have you heard the projector speakers?
I have never heard a good projector speaker. No. And unless it's like one of those like four camping kind of crappy projectors
that's more speaker than projector, then they can be an OK music speaker.
But it's more just like for a light show, not actually for watching movies.
Yeah, we don't want to. You guys already tested this. We know it's going to be OK.
We can dial it in later. Absolutely. Work on the speakers for now. Because once we solve the speakers, we can pick one of the coaches.
Can we fit a 73-inch? Couches. Yeah, thank you. Something like that.
Probably. Probably. The firetruck was funny. The firetruck was funny.
It's funny, so when we did the April Fools, I was looking for firetrucks for months or
whatever. And so I still get firetruck ads on my Facebook.
It's funny. Necessarily have audio come through. Biscend the.
The auto-scratching. The auto-scratching. The skin-inspirational. Because yeah, it's a firetruck.
The truck's full. I'm trying to think of what we could do for sound deadening that would be cheap.
Well, we're going to have a couch. Nothing. And we're going to have a very floofy rug.
I was actually kind of surprised. Nobody went the route of cheap blankets.
Yeah. Did you kind of just hide them places or wherever and just that mass will help
absorb the sound? The Sonopan, I think, was a good one because it was like 30 bucks for the one sheet, right?
Yeah. So you spent like 60 bucks and then the painting, them actually worked really well.
Yeah. Well, it was smart because you already had the paint and then they matched perfect.
Yeah, that was that was really good. And I mean, if you're really doing sound treatment for your room, there's a lot more you want to do.
But for very limited budget, very limited time, that's a very solid place to start.
Yeah. Like you want to basically just reduce all the corners. You also want to like not just deaden the sound.
Do you want to like have baffling so that the sound gets dispersed?
The typical cheap, cheap thing is egg carton. Yeah.
But the mass on the egg carton is not good enough to really do anything.
Well, you need mass to absorb the sound. Like 25 bucks.
Getting actually nice rugs is expensive. Like that rugs is going to do very little.
Other than like dead in the most high end. Everybody with not that nice rugs takes a picture of it on the street for some reason
or in their driveway, not in their house. And when they do that.
I kind of wish we had a more screen cap of that part of like stuff. For other things we're going to have, we're going to have some audio stuff.
So we're going to have TV. We're going to have audio. It might be.
I know, but I love, I love that early on and often uses the shots.
And when they do that, I'm like, yeah. Of the security camera and the camera.
Because it's like, it really gives you a sense of like, this is what they're working with. This is a prison cell.
Yeah. We're going to have some audio stuff. Horrible. So we're going to have TV. We're going to have audio.
It might be worth messaging this console.
The black one? Because then we're going to have audio stuff. If we get a console, we can put it under there.
So our current plan is stop by Home Depot. Get our. I was really glad you guys.
Originally, you guys were going to wall mount to that console.
And I'm glad you decided not to. Because that was what we did. Oh, was it well wanted?
Yeah, it's well mounted. We put in some security. Oh, that's right.
Security feet at the front. Because it's above the baseboard.
I remember that now. Yeah. So it was basically resting on the baseboard on the back.
And then we use those like massive chunks of wood as washers, essentially, for mounting it.
And then we put those, those 3D printed feet are just basically placed underneath.
Perfect. Just adds like a, in case there's any. Yeah, just in case.
Because yeah, you don't. I didn't trust those walls very much. Yeah. Based on what we've seen for TV deals so far,
we may be better off just going to an open box store. All right. Here's openbox.ca.
Let's go. Realistically, if we're spending more than about 500 bucks,
we're probably putting ourselves in a bad situation. We've got to keep in mind there's going to be tax.
Is the team going to pick up with the fire truck? That would have been so good.
That's the cheapest TV. We didn't, we don't have insurance, I think,
anymore to drive it. Yeah. Realistically, on a PS5, are we running any of those games?
Had it arranged. And that's a very funny idea. No. All right.
Then maybe it doesn't matter. Light bleed right side. $299.99.
A little bit of tape could fix that. That, boy. Put some moving bags on the wall of the store.
What are the odds the judges would notice this? The pile's pretty picky.
They could turn them a bit more close. Yeah. $950, though.
I think it might be out of pocket. People take two shillings. Seriously, it's all entertainment.
Who really cares at the end of the day? As long as it's fun to watch. $65 seems a little small, though, doesn't it?
Sometimes people, like, I think, dive into the minutia of the rules and the details
and stuff. And it's like, everyone had fun. The point of it is to have fun and make a fun video.
So it's like, this is the least rigged reality style
content that exists. If you work on reality TV shows, it's all just like,
there's literally someone whose job is to create storylines. You know the outcomes, yeah.
And you can sense the manufacturing of who's
getting ahead and who production likes and wants to give it an edge to.
And we didn't really do any of that. We don't do any of that. It would fill the space fairly well.
But if you want that big immersion, I think we need to get the 75.
OK, we're the only 75 I see here. It's tough, though, because it's like, what is better,
a really good 65 or OK 75?
And that's a real debate. I guess everyone would have to decide for themselves.
Yeah. I mean, at my own place, I've got a living room area that's
roughly the same size. I got the 65 inch OLED instead of the 75 inch QLED.
And you're probably happy with that. Yes. Yeah. 100%. 65 is still pretty damn big.
Yes, it is. Especially that close. Yeah. Is this one for 950 with the panel damage?
There was one way up front. Yeah, let's go look at the one in the front. Realistically, if we're going for pure size,
this 75 inch for 550 bucks with a free soundbar.
It's crazy how cheap TVs have gotten. In comparison to like a six year old PC, like mid-tier PC,
it's like, this is a much better value.
And I mean, even looking at it from the perspective of what
does a high end gaming monitor cost, this would get you like a 27 inch gaming monitor that
is like a high end one. Yeah. Or you can have a 75 inch TV.
Yeah. And like you can pretty cheaply upgrade this
significantly, like get 120 Hertz, get VRR, get proper HDR, and still be under 800 Canadian or whatever.
Especially if you're willing to go open box. It's great.
It's nice that that's the one cheap thing left in the world is TVs.
And TVs have only gotten cheaper. That's the thing is like, everything gets more expensive.
TVs just keep getting cheaper. It's bonkers. But then there's also the high end TVs
where it's like six grand for a TV. And they're better, but it's not worth it.
Is the best thing we've seen so far. Here's what I'm thinking.
This deal is just here. There's no urgency. The free soundbar.
That's such a good response from a different PS5 person.
Oh, OK. I asked for 450. The original price was 500 for one controller and the console.
And he said, yeah, that wouldn't be a problem. Also, we could do 250.
For those speakers? Yeah, we're 16 with the two controllers in the game. So that's for center channel, right and left.
He's got pretty good value for Spider-Man from the game store,
too. Yeah, we got something. We got 14 bucks.
From a game store? That's pretty good. Because normally it's like $4.
I was looking at prices on Marketplace for it. It was like 30 or 40 bucks, but it just wasn't worth the time.
No, no, no, no. Try and get it done. Yeah, you might have been able to get it done
whereas just walking into a store. And that's like the reason they're able to offer the crappy prices.
Yeah. But even if it makes an impact, I think with the way that we did it, too, it made a slight impact
on how taxes worked, too. Because we're taking it off of the bill before taxes.
OK, interesting. I hadn't thought about that. Who's who if Wi-Fi is not available?
Wi-Fi is not available. Oh, this was full RGB.
We can return it tomorrow if it doesn't work today. We have a receipt. Sure.
All right, let's go. Thanks. OK, what else are we missing? First thing they buy, a receiver.
OK, let's get a ballpark for what a receiver is going to cost us.
I found an Ankyo Home Theater receiver. It's a $120 receiver for that price.
Yeah. Well, it's crazy how much more expensive receivers have gotten. I remember getting a good HDMI receiver from a thrift store
for $19.99 like 10, 15 years ago.
And it was like a decent mid-tier Sony one. And it's like, this is cheap now.
$120 is the cheap ones. Everything's too expensive.
It's got 4K, 60 Hertz, 80 Hertz. This is a really good one, too.
Very well-returned. The guy's responding back saying, yeah, 100%. Everything works.
Maybe just offer $100. Can we do $100? Even $100?
Chris Pondo, speaker's guy, says we can either pick up at 9
tonight or 10 AM tomorrow. What would we prefer? Probably 10 AM tomorrow.
Oh, man, this is sob. We're making some big commitments on day one here, dude.
Home Theater guy is firm at 120, but today works for pickup.
OK, let's get on a call with the team and let's strat here.
Here's the situation. Your team was so much better about capturing everything
that happens and telling you a story. I was really grateful.
It's funny, Luke gets into the competition too much and he stops worrying so much about making the video,
whereas Linus can't stop thinking about making the video. And on our side, we've got an AV receiver for 120 firm
that we can go get right now that we think we should probably
take, not because I love the idea of spending a fortune on an AV receiver, but because it supports
arc and 4K, 60 Hertz. So that means we're going to be able to run our PS5 properly.
We also have a set of speakers for 250,
that is center, left, right, and subwoofer,
which gives us about another 100 bucks to do rears and heights.
We could potentially have an Atmos audio setup. That would have been bonkers in the time that we were getting almost.
However, that's going to leave us like 200 bucks
for all the paint, decor, light fixture,
acoustic paneling, which we need. Light fixture, we've basically solved for $17.
This is so funny. The plan is to 3D print some stuff.
And we have a Philips Hue bulb.
So we can basically tune our color and all of that
and then just put a 3D printed light fixture. Can we omit the Philips Hue bulb until the last minute?
Yeah, we could do that. I love that look Sebastian gives.
He's like, omit the Philips Hue bulb until the last minute. Oh, we got it.
Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, I was a little worried that if we're like missing an HDMI cable
or something and we have an RGB bulb, I'm going to feel pretty bad.
This was super stressed about the budget. It's so funny.
Yeah. Now, you guys did well because you didn't have too much left over.
Like you only had the Mountain Dew in the Doritos, right? That makes sense. Yeah. It was nice. Yeah.
We're just about to pick up the couch right now. We're headed to a second location.
I was thinking interesting. Every year there's always someone who's like, there should be points for being under budget to encourage saving.
And I'm curious how you feel about that. Because I feel like the whole point is you have a $2,000 budget
and so you have up to $2,000. There should be penalties for over.
But I don't want to make it so apples to oranges
where there's a team who's like, we're going to spend $400. Yeah, no, I think that that was thought of to some degree
and one of the previous ones. I think it was the one where Austin came out. Yeah, there's one that is priced to performance.
He was trying to go for like, he was thinking about doing like
$50 computer and was like, oh, well, I can just 10X my score and then it will be great.
But I don't think I like that approach as much.
It's interesting competition-wise, but content-wise, it's too hard to like really,
or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's interesting content-wise, but competition-wise, how do you compare a $400 home theater versus a $2,000 home theater?
They're not going to be comparable anymore. Yeah, and it's just like, you can make up a score multiplier,
but what does it mean? Like at that point, it's just the only thing that matters
is what that score multiplier is and then whatever. This openbox.ca place to see if they have like a really rough one
with like some scratches in the screen. That's a great deal. Yeah, let's just do that for now.
Yeah. Whoa, hey, PlayStation 5 with two controllers.
This is the disc version, right? Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's my price on this, boys?
$460 for a PlayStation with two controllers. That's sick, right? We like that deal?
Yeah, that's a good deal. Okay, I think that's the best deal we've seen so far. All right, we'll see you guys soon.
Bye. See ya. I didn't actually clue in that the three games was in that $460.
No, no, that's actually what pushes it over the edge is like having the games
included and the controller because $460 for just the console would be like,
you can get it from Best Buy for close to that. You still have to pay taxes or whatever, but then you get a warranty.
But game and controllers, that makes no sense. Yeah, that's fine. We got to receive. But it is very frustrating that we're five years into the console cycle
and that's the good used price. Is it like? On the price for a new one just went up.
Mm-hmm, it sure did. God damn, it's everything's so expensive.
He's like, you guys buy it? Nope. I'm glad I didn't let them buy that RGB lamp.
Okay, sounds good to me. Okay, I have the 120 here.
This is in good condition, too. Pretty good.
That was happy enough, the couch. Yeah, for the price you paid. For the blog.ca.
I think it's one of those like, it is important in a real room,
but in this judging situation, as long as it hits a minimum threshold,
it's not going to punish you. And I don't think it ended up punishing you. 75 inch, but too much, too much.
The fact that you guys went to three different open boxes made me laugh.
On the last one, I didn't realize that that was the last place
that they were going to go to. I've been to that one in the mall.
It's like Coquitlam, Henderson Place or something like that. It's not like even a real mall.
It's such a small space. I would have just told them to skip it.
It worked because they had to go to the GameStop anyway. That was close to there. That was literally like the only PlayStation 4 copy of Cyberpunk.
It's crazy because I remember when Cyberpunk first came out, they were like giving away PS4 copies
because it was so poorly optimized that it was like 20 bucks for a new game copy.
But now the game has gone back up even five years later. I knew that there was the free upgrade to the PS5 version.
Yeah, that was a big deal because it's annoying when there is a free upgrade,
but the PS5 versions are more expensive.
The 550 is the best that we can go on that one, though.
Linus wanted me to negotiate. I was like, I don't think that it's that kind of store, but I can try.
Yeah, for those of you who have not been to an open box store,
it's pretty much like a retail store, and they just get overstocked from other stores or damaged ones,
and then they sell it. It's a really good... If you're in the lower mainland area, I buy TVs from there.
It's a really good place to buy TVs, but it's not really like a negotiation place.
Damage, it says, minor scratches on the face for 450 for a 70-inch.
Is that interesting? The question is, do we need to save the money?
Because if we don't need the money for something else... I'd be curious to see the TV side-by-side,
because maybe that 70-inch would have been fine. I'm finding a few. Because the TV you ended up with was okay,
but it wasn't even that good of a TV. Yeah. Like, the backlight on it was just one big backlight.
Yeah. And it was a Samsung. My goodness.
Yeah, I'm so... That experience alone was enough for me to highly question ever buying a Samsung TV.
Their new interface is so horrendous.
It's shocking that people allow it. Like, I really respect what ratings is doing,
but they often recommend the Samsung TV, because they're judging the performance of the display.
And the performance is phenomenal. It's a great display, but it's like, it is a deal-breaker for me.
It's genuinely like, I will not buy a Samsung TV until they make that interface better.
Not that LG's is perfect or whoever else's is perfect,
but like, that Samsung was horrible. We have like a high-end Samsung TV in one of our sets,
and using it sucks. It's like, it's so frustrating.
Just to change the input, you have to go to the home menu to just go over it up.
And like, all TVs need to just be able to let me stay on the input.
I know things are plugged in until the signal is sent.
Don't return me to the fucking home menu. I don't need you to decide that for me, okay?
Just stay on the input that I set you two into. You get a freaking signal to display.
Anyway, this is lately. I found a high sense for 600 bucks for a 75-inch,
and I basically messaged them and I'm like, look, I can get a Samsung at openbox.ca for 550,
and it comes with a free zone bar. Can you do like 450 bucks?
So, we might lock in a deal here, but we might not walk away with it today.
Yeah, that would have been so devastating if you guys weren't able to get it.
Get the, if you weren't able to actually get that price
because you'd missed it on the wrong day, that was like, stressful to watch,
even though I knew you got it. It also pulls out. But this is me on painkillers, actually really struggling.
Do you have like points? I mean, I'm not the judge, but yes.
I'm not too sad. Am I breaking it? Yo.
And we just, And I stayed there for half an hour. I was able to get there.
I was able to spend my lunch on the openbox. Minor damage TV, 70 inches for $450.
Oh. I went and took a look at the screen. I couldn't find anything wrong with it at all.
That's not bad. But hear me out, 86 inches for 750.
It's a commercial display. It's a digital signage display.
There is a chat. If I was on the team, I would have been like, no way. Four and a half hours drive.
Because like, bigger is not better. I would way rather have a better signage. Either way, we're not committing right now.
So we should head to go pick up our speakers. Maybe receiver.
No, maybe receiver. Let's go. I'm calling it now. Luke is definitely building a high performance PC.
He can't help himself. And that, that will be his downfall.
Because he's almost certainly going to go into the openbox. Yeah. That's the pro move is if you can just disable
the interface as much as possible, like you turn off all the options and just have it be like, stay on the last input.
Which most TVs have an option where it's like, whenever I turn it on, go to the last input,
then it's OK. As long as you have a separate thing. Oh, you already did? Yeah.
Do you have like a 2.0 compatibility? Oh, but this one is. You know what I'm saying?
This is very good news. The ShortCircuit set, shoot, is on a different set.
Woo. Guys, we're going to fire. This is a series of high-fives.
I was in this one. Because I don't think anyone's coming till for. Oh, OK. Yeah.
Do you want to switch spots? I'll trade over. Yep. Yeah, I guess it makes sense that we can actually use
the proper mic orientation. And you can keep an eye on the chat if you want.
Is there a sandwich on that table?
Oh. That's my gamer tag.
I touched the camera and then mainly came running.
He's just been waiting around the corner. Don't you touch my camera. Everyone, just don't rotate it.
Ready to catch it? Sure. Give Jack the catch it.
That's fine. Can I move this? Or is this good enough?
Actually, somebody's already moved it. So everybody's already pissed off.
I'll let. Oh, that chair is broken.
That chair is broken. This chair is broken? Yeah. So I need like a scientific proof.
I am taller than David Pankrout. Wow.
I will lean away from the mic while I take my bites. Turn down the vid a bit.
All right. Let's drop it by a couple of dB. Duh-duh, but what? Works.
It has HDMI out directly. This is the only one at this price point that I found with HDMI out right.
Do you want to just message him as well? Yeah. Because you'll message him.
Because I already asked him questions. Low ball. You're like, never mind. That one works 50 bucks.
And then I'll come in and be like 75.
It's so interesting to me the dynamic of Luke's team or your team, Dan.
Trying to get a cheap PC for 50 bucks. And the other team just snagged a free PC.
I feel like they got it for free. Yeah, they got theirs for free. And it's pretty equivalent to what you guys got.
Wow. But it's so interesting how price just doesn't make sense at that price bracket.
Where it's just like you can snag a really good value for 50 bucks.
Or you can find someone who's got a crappiest PC that's ever been built. And they're like, 300 bucks.
Oh yeah. I mean, we went into it asking for just, we didn't want anything with Windows.
We said, does it post? That was our definition of a working PC.
And it was like, that's all we need.
I don't think you can even specify that you need Windows.
Did I? No, it just has to be working in quotations.
Yes. You have to pay like a license fee every time you put an HDMI on a device.
And display ports free. And I'm pretty sure VGA is free. He'd take 85.
Yeah, you said that to me too. He said, I'll be away tomorrow. I'll be home after 5.30 on Wednesday, which is like.
Oh, I like this graphic. I don't remember this graphic. This is so funny watching it again.
Even though I've reviewed this like 100 times. The new things that happen at least steps that I don't remember.
But I don't think we can risk that, to be honest. Also, I found a receiver pretty local.
It has a remote. The pictures are. Hey, it's free.
How do I do that? Linus live. Linus. Oh, keep going.
If you want. So this is the start of the fun stuff.
This is Jamie's AV receiver.
Dan. Yeah, it looks like it. Yeah.
Because yeah, the free. It's free. And the the sign is up at the top.
Posted nine minutes ago. Easy.
Because Greglis is so dead. Yeah, we had less luck.
Greglis can be good for some things.
But yeah, often it just kind of like breaks.
Yeah, every scrapyard where someone looks on Craigslist to see if they can find something
and there's usually like nothing. There might be like one old person selling something, but that's usually ridiculously overpriced.
Really good for cars. Oh, OK. I don't know.
The the search results for something like Facebook are terrible
because it's algorithmically driven. Whereas, you know, Craigslist is not.
And you have a whole bunch of filters specifically designed for looking for cars.
So it's way easier to find something that you want for the price bracket you want.
They even give a breakdown chart of how many items are available for what price.
So you can kind of find something that's reasonable. That's interesting how like the decline of Craigslist.
Like Craigslist is better in a lot of ways. And the big one is they never sold ad space.
Like you can buy promoted posts, I think. But they don't it's not filled with ads like Facebook is where.
It's like pre-modern era search, which is so refreshing.
But I think the accountability that Facebook generally provides is what probably did it.
For me, the Facebook messaging system is so much nicer than like emailing.
But also like on Craigslist, people post their phone numbers.
So you just like call them and say like, hey, is your thing available?
And then you also don't get the people who just message, hey, is this available?
And they never respond because you have to like physically send an email
or actually call them or text them. So it's really sure there's a little more resistance, not just an auto response button.
Craigslist is a little more serious. Sure. And I think that for cars, for sure, that's fine.
And like you do your for lots of stuff. I mean, you find stuff that people post on one or the other.
Yeah. Yeah. Look at the drop. Just who's got stuff?
Who's got the stuff? And I think it would do well. It's got some bookshelf speakers.
Freeze and ARM. Part of the whole thing. Yeah, the speakers.
There's stuff before the other team gets it. I never considered that. Yeah.
So like just one of my favorite things to do once I found out that they got in the stuff from Jamie
is to watch closely. One second.
Is to watch closely at Dan's face and see how he feels.
He looks real shifty. Well, we wanted to make sure that it was still, you know, like reasonable for the video.
Yeah. Even though I think that, you know, the idea wasn't to like do this as cheating.
No. And like we said, it seems like at least part of it was a miscommunication.
Most likely you were high on opiates. Yeah.
Certainly possible. $400 on couch is crazy.
It was also like not great. Yeah, it was an okay couch.
Kind of aesthetic, but not a comfy couch. Couches cost a lot of money.
Like I just got a new couch and it was like loads of money.
Well, I've gotten a really good use sectional two years ago for 500 Canadian dollars.
And I probably could have talked to people down because that included delivery.
But it was like a fun color, very comfy, pulled out, had storage.
Yeah, I needed something unbelievably specific. So I got like new from IKEA and I think it was like two, three grand.
Oh yeah, if you go to a new couch, it's so much more expensive. But it needed to be a certain size and a certain shape.
So you could have waited years and years for someone to post that one.
Yeah, it was like not possible because they don't make them in that size. It's like a slightly substandard sectional width.
Oh, that's so annoying. Yeah, it sucked. Looks pretty good. So there's the couch and there's kind of what it's going to be in this space.
I think that couch is great. Yeah. How much are we into? Five budget.
Three 75 lighting. We haven't locked in. That's crazy that you spent more than half your budget on the projector and the couch.
About sound treatment, audio equipment. Five is a hundred.
You know that time they had budget at 150 bucks for their computer. And I most likely need three things to put speakers on the front.
I need five tables. I don't know if we can do that.
Okay, that's ****.
I love this. I'm so glad that we got this. It's like my favorite thing.
It's pretty sweet. Like the physics-defying floating table.
I don't know if we can do that. It's a little bit sad that the person had to give it away because their kid made it.
Yep. But it is pretty cool, but it's not really well suited.
My son made this for what we're doing. It's one of a kind for free.
Definitely did not pass the class.
Hello there. What was the price for this again? Hopefully they didn't watch the video and be like,
I made that. Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you.
We got two five-foot HDMI cables. About 15 feet of speaker wire.
Every time that we tried to pick something up, we were asking, do you have any cables that we could get for free?
That's so smart. And that's a good tip.
That's part of the fun of Scrapper Wars is real-life tips being applied in the world.
And that's a real one if you need cables. Just ask.
If I was selling something and they're like, hey, do you have HDMI cables? I'd be like, yeah, sure.
It just sits in a bin for me and it could be valuable to you. Yeah.
That's not going to get us too far, but it'll be something remote.
A VEC batteries. And then for I.O., this is a whole like very good HDMI receiver.
It's got components on it too. But given that a third of our score is going to be how good the movie watching experience is,
I think it's the right thing to do. All right. So we have a projector on hand.
We have a couch selected, which is like an awesome looking couch.
We have a rug selected. We have. It's pretty good.
Yeah, I don't know what that was. Wasn't involved for most of it.
Dan? No. No, you're Dan. As I checked.
Here are like 100 bucks that have a GTX 1060 in them.
The problem is. That's such an old CPU.
Is that just a Dell case that's been spray painted? I think it is.
That's so funny. What's going on with the front panel thing? Is it taken out or is it taped black?
Oh, and I think that's a hole. No, it looks like some plastic is broken on it.
Yeah, weird. On 100 bucks. $250 like fuck right off.
I know, I know. What a rip off. Extra eight gigs for $20.
You're going to sell me a four Gigabyte system with literally more than 10 generations old
i3 system, a 1063 gig.
But when it came out this computer with $3,000. So I want $2,000 for it.
Shut the fuck up. I know, I know. This PC is able to hold a steady 60 FPS in most titles at 1080p.
In most titles, are you including the entire history of PC gaming?
A Bellatro. Where you only talk really. Yeah, like very good at Bellatro.
Oh, in Wolfenstein 3D it can do 60 FPS. It's pretty great.
Like silk songs now. Yeah, and like there's obviously games that it can do 60 FPS.
But like that's such a disingenuous thing. This couldn't do 60 FPS 1080p in Fortnite, I don't think.
To me, that's like really what you should be advertising on something.
This is like what it can do in eSports. I like the what can it do in League of Legends.
The party popper for the 1060.
Yeah. What does that mean?
1063 gig.
Oh my god. Yeah, that's important. We built a better system for like $69.
Like you can build a better computer for $69.
Crazy. That have. This people are crazy. People are crazy.
The problem is 80 gig, 80 gigs.
Bro, they don't even make stores that small anymore. Both of them don't have an SSD.
So the computer might be creeping up in price. The computer plus shadow might be up closer to $200.
50 bucks at most. And with the amount we just dropped on the couch,
which I think was the right move that makes that a little tight. I wouldn't describe our day as empty-handed.
My hands are full, but I wouldn't say we bought a lot today either.
Wait, what did we get at Home Depot? We got a light, but we had gotten it before you said don't get it, but we can return it.
That is such a funny, such a small part of the story, but it's so funny the dynamic and the way in which it happened.
They just bought it. I was like, don't buy it. And they're like, we got them.
We already have it. Okay, okay. Yeah. No off-camera lineups. It was like, I can't believe they're thinking about spending 20 bucks on a light.
Got one deal maybe lined up for 60 with two DualSense controllers.
Negotiating. That's what they're supposed to discuss. Right. Media console.
No. There's an 86-inch TV that I talked down to $750.
This is why we have the big square. That's 85. Wait, is it a scam?
No, I don't think so. There's that one from a box of games for $550 plus tax.
75 is going to be easy. An 85 class. Displays such good value these days.
Oh, we were not debating if we pick up media or TV stand tonight.
It's 75 bucks. It's got a tempered glass. It's got nice green.
That was a pretty nice. Yeah. Like it's not what I'd pick for my house, but for 75 bucks.
Can't really ask for better. We got a lot done on day one. Yeah. Well, that's, I forgot when I was going into editing on part two that day one in its entirety
wasn't included in part one. Like we made it up just a certain part. So this originally was even longer.
This was like an hour long before we started cutting it down.
And like there's so much that happens. This might be the densest episode because it's also like,
there's a lot of stuff that starts in this episode. Like they've looked a lot in the first episode,
but this is when things are really going. Yeah.
And by three, I think three is the slowest episode in terms of the amount of things that
happen, but even that one's so dense. Like this is such a dense scrappard wars.
The main goals for today is we have to. Is that a little boo boo?
Is that what they look like? Or is this a random hanging thing? The main goals for today is we.
I think it's got the ears of a little boo boo. What?
Where? On her purse or her bag. Start of day two.
The main. Not the one on the left, the thing on the right.
Is that a little boo boo? I don't think so. You don't think so? Maybe.
I don't know. I don't know what the boo boo's look like. I've only seen pictures of them.
Are they like, they're like, I don't want to call it what we do in the shadows.
Where the wild things are. Oh, a little bit. Yeah. But they're like, got weird faces.
I, maybe someone in full plane. You guys can let me know what, what is it?
It is a little boo boo.
Is Sammy here? No, Sammy's in Epi Chat. Oh, the other Sammy.
Because we have to get that couch. We have some audio equipment now.
Good eye, David. Acquired from co-worker.
Did he shut, did he bring them into work or did he go to his house?
I went and picked them up. Okay. Yeah. I did a, I did a proper run. Okay. At least that.
To finalize the audio solution. Shut up. Ideally, we need to finalize it.
Absolutely trash. And we should have not done that.
It's tough because like, once you put the sub in, it wasn't as bad.
The first day before you had the sub, I was like, these are really bad.
One of the problems is that for the judgment, they were in stereo.
Yeah, I remember that. I honestly felt bad for you guys with that.
There's a lot of, you know, reasons why stuff happened.
But, you know, I think we deserve what we got because it's all about the end result.
Yeah. Well, and when we get to the judging, we'll talk about all the, the hurdles
that were faced on the final day. And like, we cut out a ton of Luke trying to problem solve that frigging internet.
Like, we gave him three hours to figure it out.
But we could not. Just need to commit to. Shut up.
I did some speed testing because I have a speed testing service.
Okay. If we get their. Muncherable. Yeah. The Montreal server. I don't know where it was in that box right now.
Okay. Well, there is. Are you aware of what's in the box?
Oh, speakers. I don't want to feel enough things. But we're not going to let them know that.
I do like the song medium. I was going to say that song usage here is like. Yeah.
Hopefully they sound okay. These guys suck. We're probably going to get away with the song. The song. Yeah, I was just pulling you in and then I was going to.
Yeah, it sounds like you're up to, you're up to no good. This is just going to work for us.
We have a pretty good. See, it worked great on my laptop. It's 4k 60 and it seems to be running.
Is it real 4k or is it just like the moving around the sensor 4k?
I think this one was proper 4k. Oh, cool. 4k 60.
I'm really hoping that it's going to work from the ceiling. I'm going to test to see how much.
But they only had vertical keystone adjust. No built-in lens shift.
We do it from the ceiling. It's going to be offensive.
And when it's that kind of keystone, is it just like software adjusted? So you just want a lot of resolution?
Illusion. Voluntary resolution. And that was some of the reason why the mount was pretty bad as well.
If you're not like a projector person, keystone is like when you shoot the projector at the wall,
it'll like make kind of a trapezoid shape because it's coming in at an angle.
So you do keystone adjustments to make it square. And on a good projector, you do that optically with the lens.
So the light is, you know. Physical lens shift. Physical lens shift where it'll become a square image on the screen.
On cheaper projectors, they just adjust it in software.
But they can't increase the resolution. So you have to like kind of crop in and decrease the resolution.
And so you can adjust it and make it straight, but then you lose all this clarity and resolution.
It's like trying to get a square picture out of a fisheye lens. So you can go right to the center of the picture and get that square picture.
Yep. Pretty much. Yeah. That's great. Or like some of the crop sensors.
So you'll get 1080 full frame. And then they'll crop in just to the little middle bit
and it'll be like the 4k section. Sad.
Sad. It's going to be good too. One thing that we could do is try it on the floor
and then pretend that's the ceiling and then get our height there. I think we're going to do that instead.
It's also a good reminder that for most people, unless you're a tinkerer, getting a projector is not a good choice.
No. The amount of math and setup that I had to do for mine,
because you want it like in the center of the screen.
And I was building the screen for the projector.
So it was very backwards. Yeah. Like you can do it good enough without the math
and just like kind of get it pretty okay. But if you want the best experience,
like you really have to put the time in. And for me, I had the projector already.
If you're like trying to buy a projector, like good luck.
It's really, really hard because you can't like test them. You go to the store and look at a TV.
Yeah. And the difference and the thing about a projector too is like you can see it in a showroom
and it'll look one way and then you bring it home and it'll look completely different. Whereas the TV is going to be pretty damn close.
Yeah, pretty much. And then we'll go map out everything else.
We have a floating side table that we're going to pick it up for free. It's sweet.
It's cool. There's a few other decor things like the rug and whatever that we've set up.
I don't like those chairs though. The blue is like a pool table blue.
Isn't that just reflection? Or is that actually? No. No, that's the. It's like a pollster.
Yeah. Those are for the lure. The lure blue. Oh, I'm going to do it.
Or the rest of the table. That's just. Doesn't work with the room. No. It's like you could you could have that color work somewhere else.
You'd need to do an accent on the table. You guys have some updates for me. He says talking about aesthetics.
Yeah. As for me, I've got a 10 a.m. pickup for our center channel,
our towers, as well as our subwoofer.
Nice. And then. Yeah, they did a phenomenal job. Yeah, it's a much better audience.
Like. Coined it. I think mostly because we spent so much on the couch and projector.
Yeah, it's tough because like I think the projector could win.
The projector on a different like if you got a different deal,
you could have made that work. I think I think the projector could have worked really well.
If it wasn't installed like an hour before judgment.
I think there was a lot of factors that kind of prevented us. Well, and you didn't have time to calibrate the color, right?
No color calibration. Yeah. Because no audio calibration.
Yeah. What's nice. Projector was a good play if I had been able to get it installed.
Yeah, it's the challenge of Scrapper Boys because realistically, we can't add more filming time.
But this year, we actually took one extra day to film.
Last year, we did four videos and three days. This year, we did four videos and four days because we knew
that the rooms were going to take more time. And so this is about the limit of what we can afford to do
and afford to have so many people involved in.
And that's one of the challenges. We'll see when we get to the judging is like, we are just under such serious time constraints.
And we can't realistically have 20 plus people around for another day.
It's insane. Yeah. And so the cost is insane.
Yeah. And so I thought this was going to be enough time because we got the extra day.
But you always need more time. It doesn't matter. You always need more time.
It might not even be that like... I would say that this was enough time for us.
We just didn't do it very well.
Well, and that's kind of yet the other dimension of this is like,
it doesn't matter how much time you are given, you're always going to push it because you're like,
well, I have seven days. I can keep pushing it down the road until the last four hours.
And then you're like, oh, shit, I really need eight days.
Yeah. I mean, I think it was like a time management thing.
You go like, oh, yeah, we can get this projector. We've got three days to get it ready and installed.
Yeah, that's so much time. Something goes wrong. Yeah.
Now you're screwed. Yeah.
We're not even done the second episode. What time is it? Just because I think like one.
I knew this was going to go all day. Oh crap. I got to go to a meeting. The story is deaf.
It's okay. We can... I will miss you. I love having a round. Dan, but we can make...
We can manage without you. We still haven't finished this document. I've been writing since 9 AM.
I was working till 11.30 last night.
This is the lab's writer-clabination one? Yeah, I have no idea what that is.
Me neither. I don't understand anything. Are you going to that? No.
Okay. All right, guys, you're busy, aren't you?
I ain't doing nothing today. Bye. I think that was like...
Okay, let's be here. I'll do that. Just ignore it.
Just show up at his house when we go film there. I really love PlayStation Die is real because you can't afford to not have a PlayStation right now.
Oh, hello. Good. But he didn't pick his nose. Oh, awesome.
That is not the best, but... Faster. Oh, you guys had asked for the speaker cable beforehand?
Been like, oh, you have speaker cable? Because he's like, oh, I was looking for it. It's always...
It's... I think I've given that tip in some kind of Facebook buying video.
It's always worth asking. I know that it can be a little uncomfortable to reach out and like ask a favor of a stranger.
But like, people like to help you and if they can, and it's...
Like, he doesn't care. He doesn't want freaking extra speaker cable. Like, why does he need a bundle of speaker cable?
What about including the things listed in the posting?
Like a projector mount, for example. So that's the opposite of the problem where the guy's like, I got it.
And then he don't. And he just said like he couldn't find it or something?
Yeah. And I had assumed that like, oh, yeah, that means it wasn't included in the price,
which is why I didn't push him on it. Well, I'm like... Because I, you know... Yeah.
I actually understand too, because like, when I go and pick up stuff,
I don't open the listing to be like, what is everything that was said there?
I'm just like, what you got? It was what you got. I wasn't the one to like find the listing, right?
I was just kind of going to pick it up. Yep. So I thought that was quite interesting.
It's crazy to think how different, if just the projector mount had been included,
how different... Sports world, you know, if I had just got that puck, if I had just made this pass, you know...
Yeah, because you could have spent so much more time dialing in the whole setup,
rather than just making it... We lost a whole bunch of time waiting for that print to finish.
Like it was a little square, and the printer was set to silent mode.
So what should have been... Like the design of the mount was suboptimal, because, you know, infill ratio, stuff like that,
just getting a test done. The mount was off-center.
So the projector lists its center of gravity on the bottom.
And the mount was like two, three inches over.
So the projector was like hanging on the heavy side.
So the whole thing... That's one of the reasons I had to do the knives, because like...
So I had to melt and re-drill a bunch of the holes on it.
And it was like chunky and had no adjustment, all that sort of stuff.
So and then, yeah, it was billed to take like 16, 20 hours to print for a square and a post,
which means that we could not iterate on the design.
We lost an entire day. We could not rapid prototype, which is what 3D printer is for.
So, you know, I had originally assumed that's fine, we'll just make a mount.
Because a projector mount is really not very difficult,
because all it has to really do is support the weight of the projector.
And tilt. It doesn't have to support any like side forces,
because you align it with the center of gravity, which is right on the bottom of the projector.
They do that for you. So it's a shame.
Yeah. But it happens. It does.
Love of the game. Yeah. And yeah, it's like sports is like what if man, little things.
If I just hadn't been so hungover. We could have won.
If I had quit the smack 12 years ago.
And I'd never picked up the math. Yeah. Yeah.
Something is better than nothing. Oh crap, I'm so late.
We'll get this off of your porch for your meeting. Okay, bye.
Goodbye, Dan. Back soon. One of these days.
They look like they're in good condition. It's nice to eat sometimes.
Like the kids or animals have poked anything. Yeah, this was a pretty solid pickup.
Yeah. Like you might, if you had a longer time, you might be able to get someone just clearing out an old speaker setup
that's been in their garage for 10 years. But yeah, it's hard to imagine really better.
You spent 250. That's like 175 American. Back from PlayStation 5 guy.
That's pretty good. Whoa, I also found an 85 inch smart TV for $300.
They seem like a real person. Do they though? Stuff's happening.
He has five guys. It turns out the weird text me back from a different number.
Whatever, that's him. So he wants to meet at Goldstone Park, which is about 50 blocks from here.
This is the edit I pointed out earlier in the stream. It's coming back from right now.
Looks like a real person for an 85 inch TV for $300.
They haven't asked for a deposit or anything. And they gave us an address.
Yeah. That's art.
Is the editor being like, no, stop.
That juxtaposition is so good. They haven't asked for a deposit or anything. They're like starting to figure out,
it might be a little suspicious and then just straight up. Should we just go for it?
You can always go to open box anytime and get a TV.
A working 85 inch TV for $300. I don't think you can get much better than that.
Okay. Okay. I'm going to go for Gold. You can't even get that.
Let's go get a PlayStation. Oh my God, this again.
I've replied to the guy with the TV. Sorry, a lot of scams on Facebook do this,
so I don't pay deposits. He goes, I'm a staunch Christian believer and can't scan people if they're harder
than money. God forbid such people. I do understand how painful it's.
The money is just meant for holding then full payment on pickup.
This sounds exactly the same. The same guy. Assuming this next page.
It's crazy that I wonder if it is literally the same person.
It wouldn't be hard to have a computer with 100 Facebook chats open.
That's what you need four monitors for, right?
You know what? We did that video where we reacted to the multi monitors. I wouldn't be surprised if one of those people did that.
Look at this reel. We're going to be in good shape. We will either have or have a real concrete lead on display, sound, gaming device.
The allergies were so bad over those days.
You get beat bad by allergies. I was like, I feel bad for you.
You can even see your eyes are all red. Yep. Yeah, shadow.
I'm like, I'm feeling pretty good about it. It is a risk.
I'm understanding. I might torpedo the entire team. I was so glad.
I love it when people give good sound bites like that.
Torpedo the whole team. Like this is perfect.
I need people to speak like this all the time. What if they start having issues?
What if it sucks?
Hello, I need to do this now. It's funny.
So the shadow problems started really early, almost as soon as they bought it.
And like we tracked some of that a little bit. But I actually, we thought it was like a shadow side thing for most of it.
And I was like, like you're not.
So one of the rules is you're not supposed to use your connections to do stuff. But I was like, Luke, you have full authority to use your LMG email to be like,
hey, we're making a video. We need you to fix this because I really didn't want the end of the video of the series to be like,
sucks to suck, streaming is just kind of crappy.
That's not a good way to have the story end.
Even though that's what it kind of ended up being. And so I think the problem was, is that we didn't recognize that it was a configuration
of our side of the internet that was causing all this latency.
It wasn't just that we were connecting to Montreal versus the Portland one.
It was whatever the configuration. But the good things that Luke is the person in charge of the team in charge of infrastructure.
So it's like, it is what it is.
But it would be a lot more complicated if it was your team with Linus who had been
screwed over by the internet. And then it would be like, well, is Luke responsible for that?
Like how do we judge? But it's like, no, Luke is responsible for the internet and the internet let him down.
So that we okay.
All right. It took a second. We are good. It went to get it back.
After that, it's kind of no on average. Like if you look at the rules, it's really not focused on the computer like at all.
So you could also throw. Well, we went through the rules early on the stream. If you missed it and go back, we kind of, I brought up the document that I sent Linus
and Luke and showed them the exact breakdown.
So if you want a little more detail, it really was more about the experience of the room,
not just specifically the gaming prowess.
Yeah, didn't get used much.
Oh, perfect. Nice. There it is. I'm now the proud owner of a disc edition PlayStation.
It is a big advantage to have his car because you were able to test it right away.
Yep. Not that like it was broken. So it didn't really matter, but it's nice that you were able to test it instantly.
The guy thought that was hilarious too. It is pretty freaking weird.
This is cool. We actually got a few games. Oh, we got two games.
I think he had said there were going to be three games. Well, Spider-Man and Mortal Kombat.
Shoot, I had actually really wanted the hockey game, but I guess we can go with Mortal Kombat
for the two player game when the judges arrived. He had said there was going to be a show.
For later with judging stuff. I was super concerned that the controller batteries would die.
Oh, sure. Well, I mean, because we did not have USB cables and I know how crappy.
So they didn't even charge them at all. We charged them with the USB cable beforehand as a tool.
And then we didn't include them in the setup. Yep.
That was within the rules to use a cable to test or charge things.
You just couldn't have it in your final setup. That's funny.
And yeah, the PS5 controller is maybe five hours when it's new, when it's connected and playing games.
Maybe a little bit more when it's mostly idling, but it is a pretty bad battery life, man.
I like the controller, but that battery life is pretty... Yeah.
So infuriating. That's from the big mini van. And yeah, it's so side topic.
But the the edge, which is the pro controller, has even worse battery life.
And that's so infuriating. Like what a missed opportunity to just put a bigger battery in your stupid fucking controller.
It's... I don't care if it's 150 grams more heavy.
Who cares? Like it's a controller. It's still about the same weight.
Just put a big fucking battery in. Fucking shit.
We can actually test it right now. Okay, screen's on. You ready to find out if this thing works?
Beep's good. Which one's the... Oh! Hey!
Let's go! NHL 22. It was in the console.
Just like that voice. Awesome, Matthews. We got ourselves a PlayStation 5.
Let's go! Heck yeah. I mean, should we list that game? I think we should list that game.
No time. No time, Linus. Is that Willowville?
Such a great story. That's not bad. I want to check out what they have for these movies if we don't...
I'm going to do a full systems test. Start getting these where they need to be.
See if this is going to work for us. And Justin's going to disappear and do the mount.
Hopefully that comes out okay. That's going to probably take a little while. I mean, it didn't work out perfectly,
but it did really impress me how fast he pumped that out. Because it was like such a little small amount of time.
It takes, you know, a day to print, but it's like you don't... You have to just do it in minutes.
Yeah, and he had this one that was going to be better,
but it was going to take too long. Yeah, and they had to compromise.
I think it goes wrong within that time. We might be kind of screwed.
How does it take a day? That's insane. If you can try and get that down to like...
Dan's been like, criticizing the mount the whole time. I wish Justin was here to defend himself.
There's his hair. His hair has gone level three.
Super Saiyan. Fast, you'll get fast, but it might break.
My plan is now, I'm basically making a giant GoPro mount.
Adjustable angle, should print fast. Hopefully we can just crank it down tight enough.
It won't tilt their shift. And I mean, this way we have adjustable angle.
Upgrade? The real question is, does it print any faster? Eight hours, faster.
I have to pull all the tricks out of the hat today to get this to print on time.
I hit Dan's magic number. Six hours and 26 minutes.
That's what, that's all he's getting out of me. One more.
Yeah, versus a day seven.
Then such a compromise on what it was. It's a pretty good condition. There's a little bit of pilling,
but we can snip that off. I'd be stoked putting this in my own house.
Would you guys pay $375 Canadian for that? That's like $300 US.
Would you pay $300? We got the much better couch deal, I think. The deal for sure.
And I mean, it's a big part of the judging, but it's not worth nearly a quarter of your budget.
And that's like, you just throw it out of whack so much.
And it's like, even if it was for my house, I'd, I want comfort more than style on my couch.
I want like a nice cushy couch that I can just like, at the end of a long day, get home and just kind of fall back on.
That one looks like the kind you just sit down straight
and then get uncomfortable and sort of start slouching. And you're just like, my back hurts.
Good job. Cool. Nice. I'm feeling pretty good overall. Not that your couch was very good.
I'm a little anxious about the shadow decision and stuff like that,
but very curious as to what the heck Linus is up to.
Hey, you guys want to give us a hand? Yes. Yeah. All right. Absolutely.
Cool. God, it's awful in here. It's so much better.
Nice, nice. Oi. Oi.
Don't worry, it's not in there. It's starting to get a little freaky. Don't freak me out. Which is good.
Also, you walked in and said it's awful in here. I just wore hockey t-shirts that week.
I like, I like hockey a lot, but it was worse. Also, we can do.
Apparently when I'm on opiates, my go-to is just hockey t-shirts.
Wait, I thought we were taking that light back. It's probably, probably didn't even think about it.
It was probably just whatever was last folded at the top of the stack.
And I just grabbed it off the pile. It's conductive.
It works, it works. Conductive is all you need. I almost got scammed on another TV.
Okay. I think we're basically just going to have to- When these runs are so short too, it's not like it's-
Before we do that- It needs to be great cable to- We're going to do a little video
and get secure our games and movies. Has anyone created an actual checklist
of everything we still need? Why don't- It's so funny.
Your team was so much better. Like, a logistical detail is we have to track all the purchases for accounting
so that we can do the taxes right and if I'll write, your team actually did that.
The other team- Then we were like, hey, can you send this? And they're like, what?
And they had like a document that was three different pay- It was three different tabs and on each page
there was different things that had been bought and some of it was the same,
some of it was completely different. Like clearly it was one was what they had wanted to buy
and the listings and then the other one was some of the things that they bought without the listings
and the last one was just like a budget page. But it was like, what?
It was so clearly they were just stressed and rushed the whole time.
Whereas your team was a perfect spreadsheet accounting was like, we got everything.
Yeah, we had the manual receipts
that we needed to draw up to. Yeah, you didn't miss any other receipts.
Like for weeks after accounting it was like, is there any chance we found these receipts?
And I was like, I'm so sorry, they're gone. We don't have them.
Just logistical details. Let's highlight the absolutely essential things.
Yes, agreed. Cables. What cables do we need? Speaker wire and RCA.
We need the RCA. What was the RCA cable for? Subwoofer.
Ah! Yeah, we got it for a buck. Yeah, perfect.
That's exactly what you should spend. They can get like really expensive subwoofer cables.
You don't need that. Just like a decent RCA cable is fine.
So that's probably like $10, $5 to $10.
Yeah, fastening hardware is expensive.
Yeah, if you go to like resource, sometimes they have like bins for cheap
of like random assorted ones. But it's, I don't want to buy random assorted hardware.
I want to know exactly what it's in there and keep it. You save more time knowing what you have.
If you have to sort it, it's too risky. I don't forget about movie rentals.
Acoustic treatment is a must. $29.50 for 24 by HE. Branden's asking for the receipts in the chat.
Bye, Brandon. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry. 4x it's pretty big. Yeah, this is a pretty big,
horrible, all flat surfaces space. So do we need a rug?
This is awful. No, if you can find a rug. I will say I don't like the rug your team got.
I don't like the teams, the other teams rugs. Because they're just like gray, shaggy, hilly crap.
But it does help a little bit for making it more comfortable to walk in.
Yeah, it was something to fill the space in a hurry, realistically.
Yeah. I think your team spent a fair bit. It was like 80 bucks.
At that point, we have the extra cashier. It's like, just grab it.
Yeah, it's, and it's like, if you, you know, we had an extra day, you probably would have figured something else.
But it's, you're running out of time. You got to make it work. And it was, it ended up being fun.
This is the point of this exercise right now. But I like funky rugs with fun colors.
But I guess it's like your room is already so colorful and that might have been risky. And it would be hard to find something that matched that.
Okay, so we send you guys to Willow video. We can do paint store and TV.
And then we'll get Home Depot. Mountain hardware. And then speaker wire.
Speaker wire. We don't need scout it. If it's there.
If it's there in chief. Great. If it's not.
Oh man. I'm so glad it's only seasonal.
I mean, what's funny? You get allergies during the summer
and then you get seasonal effective disorder to the winner. That's great. The eternal cycle of seasonal misery.
And it didn't fall off the highway. Oh my God. Yeah, it's, it's been actually like very much aside.
I've been noticing the mornings stay dark so much longer
and I'm very much dreading the winter. It's my hardest.
I don't mind the cold. I don't mind the rain. It's the lack of sunlight that gets to me.
It really, I, yeah, I get it bad here. It's like probably one of the nicest coaches
at the office at all. Yeah, we probably will reuse this for sure. Yeah, he's probably well.
It's genuinely like pretty comfy. Yeah. The foam is pretty nice.
375 bucks. Okay. Hell yeah, bro. I don't know who they're trying to convince.
I think they're trying to convince themselves.
What's going on? I think this is the demo. I thought that was everything.
Oh dang, dude. We need to get a sub. But we can get one cheap.
I think I'll make a face when I'm like, Oh God, this is so bad.
Yeah. I heard that from the other space.
And I was like, I think our speakers are okay. Yeah.
Once they put a subwoofer in, it was substantially better.
But this first test was so bad.
You can hear it through the mics. That's not bad. This is no, Luke. That's horrible.
Better than half the nightclub. I'm like, don't say anything, David. You're not allowed to say anything.
Oh, I need some more. Wait, what did I say though? That's not bad.
This is better than half the nightclubs in Vancouver.
I need some more wires. But I think I dropped some at home.
So it's not my sharpest that week. Okay. Also, why am I in the shot?
I don't need to be in the shot. I think I was just trying to like,
plug back into this team because they'd been out of the room for a bit. So I wasn't sure what they were,
what was happening. So I would like go and hang out a bit to like, be able to take notes of what's happened
so I could hand it to the editor to know how the day went.
I think that was just checking in. But I happened to be in this one. And that's being cyberbunked with this audio.
That'd be sick. This is legit. And that speaker's behind the couch.
And we're missing a center channel. It's going to be sick. And then here we're going to do a rug.
I think it was like a fluffy little white rug that Luke found on Marketplace for 25 bucks.
We're going to do the center table here. So I'm thinking we do a floor lamp either here or here.
If we can get a cheap poster that we can hang on the wall,
that would be really great. Right now I'm going to see if I'm good to maybe stop by a Valley Village
or a thrift store, maybe find some new throw blankets
or pillows that are really cheap. There you go. I assume you guys aren't buying a lot of stuff.
I hope it's not this much. It's a thrift store, so. If you guys find really good...
That was so funny. They spent so much money at Valley Village.
The keyboard they got too. I actually saw someone comment positively on the keyboard
and I was like... 51, 51, I think. I won't allow it.
That is too crappy of a keyboard. It was really bad. But it was mostly just because it was crusty and nasty.
Yeah. Used keyboards can be like that.
And it's conditionally like this. It makes sense. But like this one, you can't really take the keys off to clean.
And so it's just crust. They don't have a fixed price. They're just going.
Oh, man. Thrift stores make me so mad these days.
Because like... They're expensive. They're so expensive. Oh, man. Valley Village gets all their stuff for free.
And I know there's real costs like the upkeep of this building and the staff and stuff.
I know there is a real cost to it, but like it feels like such a ripoff when you go to the counter
and like I'm pretty tuned in to the price of like retro games or something.
And they're charging more than what is the going rate for a game that they got for free.
Like they didn't pay for that game. So that's just like they're overcharging
for something that they got for free. And it's very frustrating. We kind of found the hero blankets.
Don't know how the brown would work. This one is really soft.
Oh, this one's $19.99. That's definitely out of our price range.
See. Which is this one. $5.79.
We might have to go with this one. $10 for a hero pillow.
So a lot of time, look at these pillows and blankets. Probably if this was episode four,
I probably would have cut it. I was getting more aggressive with my cutting. But where's this?
I was like, this is fun. Just like hanging out, doing this stuff.
That's a pretty high degree of disheveled.
Dan's definitely starting to lose it.
What? Oh, they added it. My gamer knowledge is more advanced.
Wow. Wow, co-op. So I have bad news,
but hopefully resolvable news. The experience on Shadow right now is just bad.
Yeah, so this is three quarters of the way through video two.
And we know projector's going to be a problem. We know they over sent on couch.
And we know that Shadow is going to be a problem.
Yeah, things are not looking good. This was when people definitely were less positive on this team
after this video. But there were still people being like, nah, they got this.
Is 68. This morning when I tested it multiple times
on multiple devices, it was like nine. 68 also doesn't make a ton of sense just to Portland.
So I did a little try to contact. No, so it's been connected to Montreal.
Big pain. Wow, $54 for Cyberpunk.
That's a lot of money because you spent 32, right? I spent, I think it was 38.
Okay. Which is still crazy. Yeah, for a used PS4 game.
Yeah. Returnal even. It's a PS5 game, but still like several years old.
And it's coming on many platforms. Red Dead Redemption 2, 30 bucks starts to be like,
okay, yeah, this is like a still a very premier title.
It should be 30 bucks for each. Because yeah, that's a fair amount of money.
122 bucks on three games. I don't think that we were much lower than that.
You could buy one Nintendo game with that budget. Yeah, you could get Mario Kart.
Yeah, not with tax, but if you don't know in Canada,
Mario Kart is $115 before tax.
And most provinces have above 10% tax. So stack on another 15 bucks.
Kill me. Pretty fast. And I can still test performance,
but right now the experience is bad. So that's not good.
Okay. What did we get? We got ourselves a razor keyboard.
I've been to this value dose so many times. Speaker wire, a APC power bar extension.
It's funny because they go to a thrift store later. That's literally just across the street.
Well, two that are in the same parking lot across the street. And the Thales used to be the best thrift store,
but now they're like peak overpriced. Everything is ridiculous. That's the one that has the $20 VGA cable.
Who, who priced that? And then the mission one is still reasonably priced,
but they have nothing there. No one's donating to them. Yeah. Well, that's where we got our RCA cable.
Yeah. That's a, that's a perfect thing to get there. Because for a dollar, which is what it should be,
you can get stuff like that. I think they, you got your power bar from there too.
I don't know where they got the power bar from. It was either there or MCC, or not MCC.
Value village. I think it was, I think it was mission though, because the inside looks weird.
Yeah. And I don't go there often because I- That power bar was real sketchy.
Yeah. That was actually a debate of like, do we not show it?
Because it's so dangerous. And we ended up showing- We definitely kept it unplugged whenever we possibly-
Yeah. Because it was genuinely sketchy.
And like, it was suggested that we remove it because it's like lots of, a fire risk, but it's like,
but we're not suggesting people do this. We're showing what you're willing to do to win.
And so I think that ended up trumping it because that's ultimately more important is,
this is the competition and like, this is the power bar you can get for three bucks or whatever.
And I'm pretty sure we kept in the fact that we're like, we're going to unplug this now.
Yeah. But they spent 50 bucks.
Yeah, let's go, let's go back. Because this was shocking to me when I saw this.
What did we get? We got ourselves a razor keyboard on the cheap,
which was pretty sweet. Some speaker wire, a APC.
It's like, okay, that's a pretty decent search protector as long as it's like working fine.
Extension cord for Dan. I grabbed a, this thing has a little bit of texture
and then a darker accent pillow. Hopefully it'll work. It looks pretty new.
Looks pretty nice. We spent $50 just under total.
Yeah, just under 50 bucks.
I also love, I think when it got to the review.
It was already Irish cameraman. And I was like, no, we should put his name.
And I was like, nah, this is way funnier.
Sorry, Andrew.
They spent $50. Right, go into a hotel and steal stuff from the lobby.
All right, Sammy and I are on our way to go get that floating table thing.
Apparently he set it out in front for us to pick up.
Oh, I see it. Okay, okay. This looks cool. Okay, and then we're going to head over.
It is pretty nifty. Get a rug. My problem was that the controllers
weren't previously budgeted for and them dropping all that money.
I know it's only 50 bucks, but we're... That's 2%, 3% of the budget.
I'm freaking out about the PC budget because right now we need a computer.
We need lighting. We need things for the walls. We need controllers.
We need a keyboard and mouse. They have a keyboard. So we need a mouse. Such a good keyboard.
We need cable management. We can do two controllers tomorrow, but they are wired, unfortunately.
I'm trying to get some Bluetooth ones, but those are going to be like 20 bucks each of these people.
Wires might be the way to go. Yeah, we'll see. We'll wait till tomorrow.
I would like a sub, but that's not super important. There's a bunch for like 10 bucks, 15 bucks that we can do.
This is super important. We need shelves for each other.
Yeah. And my point of like, watch Dan now that you know that he's doing free stuff,
sketchy free stuff. That's definitely an example because if he wasn't just going to bring his own sub in,
he would be a lot more concerned. It's true. It's super important.
There's a bunch for like 10 bucks, 15 bucks that we can do. We need shelves for each other on the couch.
I think that's decently important. Yeah, those are 10 bucks, but the thing is like the 3D printers tied up until tomorrow
because I could wall mount the speakers today if I had access to the 3D printer.
There's going to be another three and a half hours to print something that's like an inch tall.
Yeah, I wish we got a discount on that projector mount.
David said that we can run cables through the walls. Okay, if they're not big holes.
So we don't have to worry so much about cable management. Did your team ever consider doing that,
like giving the wires to the outside?
Not with the setup that we had. Yeah, it wasn't worth it. If we were doing height or rears, then probably,
although rears we wouldn't have been able to because that was the sharing wall.
Yeah, one thing that we did do was we moved the Ethernet jack though.
I got Sebastian just to 3D print a blank plate for that.
And then I moved that plate over to where it more suited us.
I vaguely remember that, but it's all all blur. Yeah, that's smart though,
because it was on the far wall from the door. And then you moved it to the wall on the left.
Yeah, we moved it so it's behind the TV console. Smart.
Yeah, because you had a big gap between your speaker and the wall, so I would have seen if a cable was running off it.
Huh, that's smart. Exactly. What's our budget for cable management?
I think you had like 50 bucks or something in here. I sure did.
So that fixes the fuck up. It's funny, like all the little decisions,
like there's a discussion that has to happen of like, well, are we featuring MCM stuff?
Does that count against the budget? Or is it like, do we just give them a care package with a bunch of stuff?
Because last year we just gave them a care package with a bunch of stuff. But I think for this one where you have to buy everything,
it didn't make sense. And it's funny because like, I know everyone feels like
they can change things about scrap paper wars and make it better.
And there's a lot of things that I would do different and do better. But I think one of the things I would implore everyone
who thinks that this season has really big flaws,
not just like constructive feedback or whatever, but is to try and understand how many decisions
and discussions happen beforehand to figure out every little detail.
And we do our best. We really try to think of everything in every possibility.
But there's so many things you can't account for and you don't expect it to go a certain way.
And so unless you do it 20 times and you can nail it,
it's hard. And like this is the second time we've done it since kind of reviving it.
And so I think this season was a lot better than it was the first of the revival.
But there's still little things to fix.
And all of the other decisions, they're made as an audible. So they're made as a quick snap decision.
Yeah, there's a lot of like, you'll look back at it and say, oh, we could have done this different.
100%. And a lot of it is like,
you might have made the same decision in that situation.
But once you know the result, it's easy to look back and be like,
well, it clearly wasn't the right decision. And I make a lot of mistakes. So I'm very human.
Hey, let's go. So we just picked up the rug.
I like that every time this rug pops up. Very fruity.
I like the fruity. Yeah. I think Luke said it. It was pretty nice. We picked up everything.
We don't need three of the tables because I can design the mount. 25 bucks for the rug is the right price.
No, that is a better price. Because we have the screws in here, is I can make a mount that attaches on.
I actually thought his mounts were pretty good. Yeah. And then we just drag all of this hole through the wall.
And then make a pretty pretty nut. One thing that's challenging is for these kinds of things,
if you don't get the B roll right on the day, you can't really go back and get it.
Like we did a little bit of that of the final rooms, but of the install. You can't like really get it.
And I wish we had a little bit more showing Dan's crazy solution.
Like he literally just 3D printed stuff, shoved it through the wall, and then solders it to hold it.
And it's in the video, but I feel like we could have spent more time showing off how fucking crazy that was.
It was melting plastic with the soldering there. Yeah. And it's just like these big U shapes through the wall.
Like it looks so silly, but it worked. It worked.
It's probably not a great long-term solution, but it works.
I think it was a little bit wider. Yeah, his projector screen mount was like stapled.
This could help us down down thinning. It was really. This is the keyboard. It's a little bit. So another thing too, I see is like people complaining that
it's not a realistic way. People wouldn't set this up for a long-term thing.
And it's like, how do we judge that? Yeah. We just let it sit for six months,
and then in six months we come back, and we're like, now we're going to judge.
How did this hold up? We could get money back for Spider-Man.
It's complicated. And Mortal Kombat something.
Does Willow Video do rentals, too? Yes. That's why we're here.
Let's see what we've got. Great story. We're in Langley.
Go to Willow Videos. Got decent prices on used video games.
For any of the things that we're looking for from Willow. People there are just great.
A $15 credit for the Spider-Man game.
They didn't want the Mortal Kombat one because it doesn't have... For a glorified DLC.
That really is not great news. They do have Red Dead Redemption here
and they do have Returnal here. Red Dead Redemption was...
$30. $30. So we could effectively get it for $15
if we take that $15 credit. Returnal is $40.
But we could get PS5 for one month for $25.
That includes Returnal. PS Returnal is not near these popular game, too,
so there's just not as much supply. No Cyberpunk. No Cyberpunk. No Cyberpunk here at all.
I did find a listing for Cyberpunk PS4,
which does have a free PS5 upgrade. That's a good upgrade.
$32.99 for a used copy of that. Oh my gosh.
That's one game, right? What choice do we have? We'll probably have to tax $38. So we get Red Dead then here.
Yeah. All right. Thanks for the update, guys. We're just arriving at the mall
where openbox.ca seems to be. We'll let you guys know what's up.
Bye, gentlemen. Ooh. Is that how we end this episode? Is that I'm finding out that TVV is no longer available?
Probably. Is that you cook with them? So I want to get them to pick it up there.
They want us to pick up... I love this shot. Like, it's like just going down an elevator,
but it's so like... Where are they? It feels like a cinematic moment
because it's like... It's great movement. It's like a crane movement, almost.
Good luck to us. I also love that he's holding up there now.
I don't know why it tickles me so much, but he's like, you call him on it,
and he's like, I know. It was upside down. I know.
I kind of assumed that this location would be like the other ones and have lots of room.
It looks tiny. No. Basically what I'm looking for...
It's more like a phone shop, really. The other location, I think,
They have a couple things there. They might have a good deal on it, but you're not going to have selection.
Yeah, it's a Samsung.
Yeah, to me, this one feels more like a repair store than an actual retail outlet.
Does it have the deal with the free soundbar?
The other two locations did have it. I'm a little stressed.
This really wasn't the deal that I wanted, but we'll get something. We'll get something.
We'll get something if it works. He's pretty flush in this. I didn't realize how ready he was.
I wonder if he was in the sun recently or if he's actually stressed.
They might have walked over from the mall. Oh, yeah. Because Cook-Wetlam Center is just across the road.
That's fair. I was just there yesterday.
Okay, I guess I'll have to go to the other location. Hi there. I was in yesterday and you guys had a $750 Samsung TV
with a free soundbar deal running?
Nobody told me yesterday when I said that I was thinking
I would come back that it was expired. Are you guys still able to honor it?
I just walked in and the rug is down there now.
It's starting to look so good. I remember, first time I watched it, I was like, uh-oh, is that clickbaiting?
Because I knew that they got the deal. But it's like, at that moment, he actually didn't know.
They had to call back. I feel like I've got to take my shoes off before I come in here.
Let me show you right now a setup like this, which is similar to something I've been working for.
I don't know why that she makes me laugh every time. She!
Integrated GPU version. I want to plug it all in. That's a pretty sweet little mini PC.
Video and sound both happen. And if that's true, it will probably be fine.
People keep leaving the door open, and I think one of them got a good look at it,
but I want more of them too. So I'm just going to hide. This story, also funny face.
This story of her hiding the projector was one of the hardest editing debates
there was in the whole thing. So keep an eye on this. It happens in the next episode,
but we had a lot of workshopping how this would work
in such a small thing. And it was a really hard editing detail to get it right.
I don't want them to get any ideas, you know? Because I don't think Linus is going to think
about throw a pillow and blanket. I saw the big ass speakers in front
and a center console down there, but I think it looks very like 2000.
I mean, it would make sense, because Linus is team so. Yeah.
So he is such funny. He's putting up a mini PC to the receiver
and wherever the projector is.
I'm going to try to get it all kind of running and then I'm going to call Dan over
and we'll try to figure it out.
Well, step one complete.
We don't actually know where the projector is, so we can look up the screen.
But I turned the computer on and all the speakers just played the like
Windows really sound. So clearly at least that part's where it sounds.
The music often picked is so good. I just love all the classical stuff,
because if you've been watching since the beginning of Scrapper Boards, that was a very common thing to happen early on
was it would be like classical music remixes and that sort of just faded out.
And so this one, I actually specifically wanted to do more classic sort of Scrapper Boards vibes.
So that was one of the touches that I'm really happy he did.
One of the things that didn't make it was I wanted to do the earlier style,
next time on Scrapper Boards, where it's like one real thing,
one sort of ridiculous thing, and then one like absolutely ridiculous. Oh, like Nicky V-Color.
Yeah, exactly. But then I was like, are people gonna like that?
Or will they get it? And I think some people would, but then I was like, oh man,
I should do that for just Floatplane. But then I was like, ah, I don't think it's worth it.
No one cares, but let me know in the comments or the chat if you want to see them in the next one.
They're like, next time on Scrapper Boards, Linus drops a computer, Luke poops his pants,
and Godzilla eats the town. Oh, I'll have to wait.
That was a really good example, though. That's because of your support. You're gonna run Shadow on it.
There's, we love those. Yes, more Nicky V.
Let's do it. Well, it won't be Nicky V. We're not gonna bring in Nicky V just to record that.
Probably be Riley or someone, maybe me.
Well, is here's, let's rate this hair disheveledness.
I think that's like a five out of 10, but that's better than it was
in that last shot. Might be under this box.
Or are you doing it two months? I don't think so. Maybe Justin has it.
All right, trying to go hunt down half our budget. It's only $40.
I don't even know what to say. We can't find the projector.
That was her chance. I know, I know, I noticed that too.
What a state. They don't have it.
Do you have it? Do you find it?
Handle the side here is so good.
Nobody listen to me when I talk. We need that projector. He needs to test this.
We're running out of time. We're running out of budget.
That was a pretty good outro. It was such a good outro, but I had big trepidation about it
because I know that they find the projector. Like I was there when they shot it.
And so I was like, is it too click baby? Is it too much?
But then part of the thing in my head was like, we used to do these crazy things
where like something absolutely bonkers happened. So like, is that okay?
But this seems like it's promising big drama about the projector.
And so in the next episode, we had a certain way it was cut
to kind of make the experience feel like a bigger thing to get there.
And it worked, but it was really confusing, but it felt like a big, big deal.
And we had to kind of workshop it a bunch and figure it out. And then it was actually Linus in his review.
He figured out how we did it where it's clear, but it still feels like it's a story without
like just solving. I didn't want it to be like, you would finish this episode and then you'd start the next episode
and then it's solved. Yeah, it's just. The sound bar deal seems to be expired
between these games and not having that sound bar to potentially flip.
We're in a little bit of trouble here. That's a real phase.
All right. Yeah. Davey wants to stick around until the next person gets here.
I'll hold down the fort until someone's here. Hell yeah.
I can trade out and have lunch. Yeah, go have lunch.
What's up? How's it going? Doing pretty good. You're going to take that seat.
Cool. You ready for some scrapyard wars?
Thank you. See ya. See ya.
Everyone say hi Natalie. What do we call float players, floaties?
I think I used to do floaters, but I think there's something else.
Yay, people are saying hi.
How's your day going? Not bad. Busy, busy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are you working on that you can talk about? Spending Linus's money.
Oh, that's the best job there is. Heck yeah. Spend as much money as you can.
Oh, that's so good. Did you watch all of scrapyard wars
or did you like, was it too traumatic? Oh, good for you. I watched the extras too. Oh, really?
I haven't watched all the extras too. I'm like too tired of scrapyard wars.
Fair enough. I've watched some of it and made sure I write the comments for any really,
like, oh, is there anything really bad? Right.
But. It's a lot. I had to review each of these videos like five times.
I'm really up to date on these videos. Nice effort. Not be all cool.
Okay, we've seen this intro a million times. This is episode three. Yeah.
And I mean, even the little edit details in this,
it's like, you have to work pretty hard to make these work, tell the story of what happened,
but then also continue. The earlier recap versions were much longer.
And we had a lot more, but then it was like, no, it's too long. I thought you'd be looking at the gaming experience.
I remember, like, I'm sure Hoppin has been told this many times, like props to him for like doing so much of this.
Oh, so, so good. It's crazy. And actually this float playing version
is different than the YouTube version. We cut after the $1,400, I believe,
in the YouTube version, at least on part four, but I'm pretty sure part three as well,
just because it's too long, especially when it goes right into an intro.
This, it's like, we're going to be like 45 seconds
in before we're actually like getting any content. Yeah.
Oh, actually we should, because this one doesn't have the teaser, too.
I'm going to YouTube.
Part three. Because yeah, so you saw that intro. This intro is actually way better
because it has- Dan? Dan. Dan. It might be a little crooked.
It's not level. Jump! Never, why would you put it?
You're freaking me out, Dan. You're freaking me out, Dan.
I love this. That's such a good joke. So that happened, like,
with couple hours before float playing version. We was like, if we want to go with the title
we want to go with on float playing, we need to have like a little teaser bid.
And so we added that and it's so fucking funny.
It's not level. Like, Dan is so funny.
That's so, such a vibe. And Hopin, it's such a good-
The hand, it's his hands shaking as he's trying to catch it.
Like, he's like- Dude, I felt it. Just watching it, I feel like I'm the one
about to drop the projector, too. Yeah, it's so like, ah! I think she's losing it.
My god, that's crazy. Yeah, back to float playing. Because I don't think that- I think that's the only substantial change.
I didn't even notice it different. I think I watched all the episodes on float playing.
Sure, yeah, because it came out pretty early.
And I think that's like, the only major change. There was always the possibility of like,
if float playing uncovered something really bad and we needed to change, we could over the weekend for the Monday release.
But luckily, there was no major changes
that don't happen. Yeah. I saw it this morning when Dan was testing things on it.
You're freaking me out, Dan! It's so funny watching the other team,
like on like the final version, because I don't know what they're doing the entire time.
What did you think was happening on the other team? Like, did you think they were doing well,
or did you kind of get a sense that they were- I think they're doing well. Okay. How wrong you were.
It's like sometimes we pass by each other and we're like, oh my god, like, you know, I'm gonna-
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't look at my room, we're not gonna look at your room, and it's like, you do your own thing.
So I had no idea what they're up to. So like, watching their like side and the perspective,
like through the edit version, I was like, interesting. Yeah.
Them losing the projector is actually kind of funny. It's actually not me. It's so funny.
Well, it works because like, they actually, it sort of did become a big deal.
Because I remember, yeah. I would be freaking out too. Yeah, it's half their budget.
Yeah. Their whole strategy. No, it is. My announcer in front of everyone.
People keep leaving the room, and I think- I love this flashback.
Oh, it's so good. More than two. So I'm just gonna hide all over the board.
What's going on? Oh, we're hiding it? It's funny that he even, what, I like-
He said it! He said it. Oh, we're hiding, okay. Yeah. Hide the-
But I mean, okay, with all the chaos that's happening, right, I totally understand like, you would forget something.
I couldn't think straight that entire week.
I was just like, such a blur. I think at one point, we were hiding stuff too,
but like, from hiding stuff from the other team as well. But like, our stuff was pretty big.
So we hit it under a tarp. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, on the side of the room.
Yeah, that's pretty funny. And it's not a bad strategy at all. Like, it's also nice because then you can go in
and out of your room easier. If you shove everything in your room, it's hard to move anything around.
Yeah. Plus, Lana said paint. Oh, yeah. She had to move everything. Oh, yeah, that's this episode. I was like, yo, we can't let any of the other team
like, see our stuff. Although, like, yeah, it's just fun not to know what they're doing until the last moment.
It's way better. Yeah. It's funny.
This was like another point of debate. It was like, Lana said it was like funny,
but he thought people would think that it was people being really mad.
And so he was like, we have to put a disclaimer that like, this isn't real.
That was a little smart. It's like... Yeah, but why would you put it in?
Check under. We need that projector. He needs to test it. But it makes also, it's so funny.
It's like, out of context, that cliff was so useful in another place.
Yeah. Sounds like he's really losing his shit.
Oh, no. Yeah. What was this moment like for you when like,
you might not get the TV you thought you were getting? Like, I walked into like, when we got into the Henderson
malls, I didn't know what to expect. I thought, I saw the store at first. I was like, oh, like, I've seen this place before.
Like, it shouldn't be bad. And the line was like, oh my God, like, what is this?
Yeah. It was kind of like, a little bit stressed, not as stressed as Linus.
Sure. Because I'm like, we have other options. Yeah. Because I wasn't really looking
into like the TV marketplace. So I had no idea. This is the best deal that there was,
but there was other good deals to have. Right. So that's fair. And it's good that you were chilled because he was not.
But yeah, that, it's interesting. The shot where you can see the store for the first time
and it's like, oh, that's not the same as the other ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair enough.
Yeah. I'm glad we went through with it though, because that sambor that we spent $400,
that we would not have, we would have been over budgeted enough. Well, yeah, it's essentially you paid $450
for this very decent TV. Yeah. Because we had like what, $3 left over at the end
and we sold that sambor for $100. Yep. Yeah. And I dropped by. Yeah, you would have not been able to get the Mountain Dew.
It's a very closer to home. The rug that was so expensive. I think we'll get to that later.
The rug. Yeah, yeah, we'll get to the rug when we get there.
We went over it with David a little bit of like, that was a bad deal.
I think your team didn't do anything really poorly. And like, it doesn't matter because you did well everywhere.
So you can afford to have one really overpriced thing.
Yeah. But $8 for that rug was not a good thing.
Location, can you guys do it?
Yeah, this worked out really good too in terms of like story content wise where it got dragged out where,
okay, we have our choice. We want to make it and then it's like, actually real drama.
We might not be able to get it. And it was real. Like this is not at all dragged out in a staped way.
Okay, we can do that first. Yeah. I was like, should we just like pretend that HQ said yes?
And then we just go like, I don't know. Don't do that. Don't do that. Yeah.
Good fallbacks. I mean, we uncovered some cheating on the other team.
Oh. I kind of, I was listening to you earlier. I was like, hmm.
So they got free stuff from Jamie and Dan brought some stuff from home.
I'm dead. Yeah. But it doesn't matter. You guys want to do it? There's some paint.
There's an Ethernet cable if we need to come back. $5 for Ethernet cables.
I think that's what we bought, right? I don't know. I hope not. Was that expensive?
That's really expensive for a crappy Ethernet cable.
$5 Ethernet cable. Oh, yeah.
It's not unreasonable, but it's like,
if you looked at more places, you could probably get one for $0.50 or whatever. That's for media.
Right. I think that was, David was at Tabetop for Humanity?
Yeah. I really like that store, but it's super hit or miss.
We're not having a great day so far here. We haven't actually been to the paint store yet,
so I don't know how competitive those prices are. As for the Ethernet cable.
Have we hit the value village yet? Not yet. Do you guys want to swing by?
Otherwise, I do think $5 is probably as cheap as retail is going to be.
They've got a whole bunch here, too. Just make sure the deal doesn't expire today.
Dang it. I love your laugh. I laughed at the same time I had you laugh.
That's so good. We're in a little bit of trouble here. GameSwap is the worst store in the whole world now.
Is it? It's like they sell 10% of their stores,
actually, video games, and the rest is just like... Nicknags. Nicknags. I go there for a Nicknags.
Sure. I mean, like, there's nothing wrong with the Nicknags or whatever, but it's like, every time I go in,
I'm just like, everything's way more expensive than it is online. I feel like the only reason I go is for convenience.
Right. But once in a while, there's weird clearance stuff.
Like, I got a magic playmat for half of what it's online,
and I was like, I'm sure it's cool. It's not what it used to be, kind of thing. But a Canadian guy bought all the game stops in Canada.
Okay. So they're going to be EB games again. So it could be interesting. He's a guy who runs a toy empire,
so I think they're going to lean more into the Nicknags.
But we'll see. Theoretically, we can upgrade our PS4 version of Cyberpunk
to a PS5 version. This is what we're here for.
Yeah, I had no idea what he was talking about in terms of PS4 to PS5.
I was like, I'll let you do your thing. But that's the strength of...
We talked a little bit about it in the first episode when people were being picked is everyone on the teams
that were picked have specialities, whereas the three people that weren't picked
all would have been good team members, but they don't have a specialty. They're all kind of generalists.
All-rounders. Yeah, exactly, which can be super, super useful.
But it's better to have people that know their thing really well, and you can kind of rely on them to do that.
As long as the TV that you're calling is $1,000 in a book.
Oh, the one that I was talking about was so sad. The way the story just kind of keeps evolving,
I really liked it. I think this one should be fine. You can come to our story store and then...
The dude's probably looking on a computer at what the actual profit on the display is
and sees that it's plenty versus the cost of the soundbar. He's like, yeah, that's right.
It's one of those things where if you ask enough, they will honor it for you.
Yeah, the employees can't authorize that deal, but these people can be like, okay, yeah,
there's $103 of profit on the TV, and the soundbar only costs us $30, whatever.
So this was two different tactics I was thinking about. It was either you're very polite and kind about it,
and they'll give it to you, or you had to be super mad and then give it to you. Yeah, I always default to super polite.
It's very rare that I make them play in it any other way,
because generally being polite gets you pretty far.
But you guys didn't use any Linus weight, hey?
You weren't like, I'm Linus from Linus, don't you know who I am?
The key thing is we didn't... No one told us that it was going to expire,
because we thought we'd just come back the next day. Yeah, actually, I'm curious if it says it on the sign.
I never really... What was the first... It was David, it was Pankratz,
and Linus that first saw the deal, I think, right? Yeah.
There's no indication on the sign that it is an expiring deal,
which I don't think it has to have. No, it's at their discretion.
Yeah, but it's also like... He went on the 16th, so technically the deal ended on the 15th,
but I also wonder if... Yeah, which is weird, because... I think I wonder if that person was just saying that it ended on the 15th,
because she didn't want to deal with it, and didn't actually know.
And the other one still had the deal, and they were just being like,
I think that location was just like a third party, like... Yeah, it doesn't feel like a real open box, that's the idea.
The idea is download Shadow, get in a game...
I love how he's whispering. So quiet. Download Shadow, get in a game...
It's doing like an ASMR video or something? That's so funny. But if I ignore the input latency, if it looks good,
if the video encoding is good, outside of input latency, if it's good, then this is...
This is such a good editing moment, too, because look at the progress bar on Shadow Start Now.
Yeah. So it's like... It goes down. It goes down.
Like it actually goes down? Yeah, it's like, oh, it's gonna be all good.
No. Yeah, it's still going up, still going up. And then as soon as he's like... Outside of input latency, if it's good, then this is about...
If it's good? If it's good, uh-oh.
Starting stop, starting stop. Yeah, oh, we're so screwed. Let's start now again.
Oh, no. Okay, this one's $5, wireless mouse.
Sure, that's fine mouse. I'm just messaging a bunch of them,
because there seems to be a bunch of really cheap wireless mice, to be honest.
It's working great.
I also don't know if that's what it was actually on the screen when he said that. Like, I doubt it, but just a good editing moment.
I believe it. I believe it. This is so bad. It's working great. It's working great.
That's right, he might just be, uh, sarcastic. Yeah.
At least the couch you're waiting on is nice. Okay. Is it $400 nice?
Pretty, that's pretty okay. Yeah, I was surprised that they spent so much on a couch.
I know. It's hard being the game master and, like, not trying to pitch in,
because I'm like, I want to be like, guys, don't spend $400 on a couch.
You're going to lose. You're going to lose the second you spend $400 on your freaking couch.
But that is not my job. But I don't know if, like, budget was their problem, though.
It is definitely part of it.
But you're right. It's like, they got a complete room. They didn't have enough budget to paint,
but you didn't necessarily need to paint. Yeah. But, like, projector and couch alone is $1,200 of their budget.
And the projector was not worth $800. That couch is not worth $100. And you probably could have made it work elsewhere.
And also, they cheated and got a free sound system.
So that's kind of where they covered a little bit of their ground.
But, yeah, I don't know. I just feel like, get a $250 couch and $150 more for decor and other things.
Yeah, I don't know. I just would have done it so differently.
It's nice having the teams side by side, because it's like the dynamics are fun
when you're going in and out of the room. And you can trash talk and stuff.
But it's an important consideration is, then they're going to be quiet!,
because they don't want to hear what the other teams do, or they don't want the other teams to hear what they're doing.
And that just makes it for, like, weird content, because if you don't understand that they're side by side,
you're like, why the fuck are they whispering? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What, in the sandhill?
They were cheaper, but we couldn't get better. We didn't get the acoustic panels because we're...
We have one shot of the Sonopan, and we use that shot seven times on this video.
That's hilarious. It's really funny. We're thinking we're going to put some... Movie magic.
Yeah. I think it's like, we use it twice, and then in the review process, at different points,
people are like, can we see the Sonopan so we know what they're talking about? Right. And so we just kept adding the shot back in later today.
I called in earlier about the 75-inch open box
with the soundbar bundle. So you have the 5-inch, right? Yeah. And they're just saying you own the other soundbar.
Just give them the soundbar. Yep, that's a television. What's the soundbar worth, anyway?
We have it, I think, for $199. It's a pretty sweet soundbar.
Okay. Not as good as your actual sound system, but like, for most people in their home,
that would be very... I'm supposed to put that small room, too. Yeah. I don't need much.
Nice. What were you going to show us? Pull it off. And it's like, that's a good one,
because it was a real drama, but we're six minutes into this video,
and that's already paying off. And I found a free chair and free...
I'm so glad Sebastian agreed to this. He was actually the most hesitant
to participate in all of Scrap Air Wars. Really? Which like, to me, if someone asked me to be in it,
no hesitation. I'll do whatever the heck you want. But he was...
He didn't know his teams. He thought it was just going to be like him in one person.
And so he was like, I don't know if I want to do that. But then, as soon as the full teams,
you're just part of it, he was like, okay, yeah, I think I can do it.
I'm very glad he was part of it. No, I was happy that he was on my team.
Yeah. Yeah, you're too... Oh, God.
Your team had good vibes. You're trying to catch it with your one ARM. With one ARM, yeah.
At the end of the day. She was like, why does this don't look like her?
I didn't try that hard. I was like, oh, buddy.
We sweet talk them. It's so funny. Like, sometimes I can catch myself
and I just look high. Oh, my God.
You are on your pain meds, right? Hey, guys. She's talking free sound bar.
Into this free sound bar. More sound. Retail, $200.
So we should probably get this listed ASAP. The sound panels? Yeah, the fact...
It was... The ASAP. There it is. $30 for two, right?
We were thinking, we'll pivot to these. We think these will probably do a better job.
I'm glad you didn't pivot. It's about the same. There are so many options.
Yeah. If we're buying... But sound treatment's a weird one where
there's a lot of options and... Not yet. There's a lot of them that suck.
And so, like, those ones, they don't have enough mass that they don't actually absorb
any real amount of sound. Whereas the Sonopan has weight
and actually, like, will deaden the sound in a real way. It's not ideal for everything,
but it is more... It would accomplish more than those really foamy ones.
Those ones do nothing. Yeah, I think the reason why people would go for that
is just easier. Yeah, 100%. You just stick on to the wall. And they're kind of aesthetic
in their weird way. Like, most people might not like it, but some people kind of like that
accurate look. Oh, yeah. Do you guys want to go get that PC? We really don't want to pay for that,
especially considering what it is. What is it? An old AMD AP?
That's not the one you ended up with, right? No. We need some sort of power. We went for... We ended up picking a free one.
And you find something in the travels? It was a pretty good computer, too. This is really... I was surprised when I looked at the specs.
I was like, yeah, it's okay. I'll have a look at some distance. 350 to 500 square feet.
That's not cheap for, like, off-shoot crap.
Yeah. They were clear... I was kind of stressed picking out the paint,
because, like, obviously, we had, like, no options. Especially going to... This is our first spot, right?
For paint. But I was so glad one of the... Like, one of the teams painted, because if they were both just white rooms,
it'd be a lot less visually distinct. Whereas now, it's like, there's, like,
the fun 90s room, and then there's the boring Airbnb room.
I just got a message for the sound bar.
Looking for a hundred bucks on it. I'm just going to run it past the group,
but I think that's a good sale. Quickest turnaround. Yeah, that was crazy.
Anything that's in a box is so much easier to sell. Because it's right in. People just, like, hop on it.
People are like, yeah, I don't have to worry about it. I would rather buy something that's in a box
if it's used. Oh, yeah, for sure. Do it. Because someone has to be pretty shitty
to, like, be missing an accessory if it's in a box.
Like, it feels like it's... You're pretty guaranteed to get everything you're supposed to get.
Yeah, only for 10 bucks. Okay. Like, okay. There it goes. Oh, yeah, I like the price.
That's a better price. Here's a... That can is seen better days.
Well, I don't know. I want to know what happened. Is this someone who dropped it?
Yeah, my guess is it, like, yeah, it fell off a truck or, like, it got squeezed in a door or something.
That's a pretty strong door. Yeah. I think I got a big garage bay door.
There it is again.
Are you feeling this? Accent? That's actually nice. That's like... It's one of those things that, like,
the shooters can never get enough B-roll.
Not because they did a bad job. They all did a really, really good job.
But, like, you think... You get the shot one time and it's like, why have the shot of the sauna pan?
Why would I need four shots of the sauna pan? But, like, sometimes you get to editing
and it's like, it would be nice to have four shots of sauna pan. Because I think at the same time, like,
because I've talked to, like, during my AMD upgrade where, like, Andrew was shooting.
He's like, he doesn't want to shoot too much. So I understood, like, two perspectives from it.
So it's like, yeah. Yeah, it really is a balance. And it's like, we struggle a little bit when they're
adjusting the projector and they're welding the plastic knife.
I asked the shooter something, like, did you get a bunch of footage of the plastic knife?
And they're like, oh, yeah, I got plenty. And so we get to editing and, like, we have one really good shot of it.
And it's like, I can see how, like, we got the shot.
We have it. But, like, it would be nice to have, like, five. Because, like, this is, like, a big part of their story.
And, like, you just don't think about that. You're like, I got it once. That's all I need.
Yeah. But, like you said, on the other hand, you don't want to have the editor now
have to sort through 17 shots of, you know, a sauna pan.
There's always so many dynamics to making this amount of video.
So we found a buy. Oh, we have a buy. So hopefully this guy shows at $5.30
and then we've got an extra $100 box. Oh, poor David. This allergies look, he looks.
Dude, I was dying too, I think. Yeah. Oh, was it allergies? Well, I said, like, the first three days.
That's basically our... Yeah, it was, like, peak allergies.
Yeah, right there. Like, we would have had nothing left. I'm starting to feel pretty good about our setup.
Now I'm a lot less upset about, like, blowing $20 on some garbage PC, you know.
I still don't love it. I don't know why we're so adverse to spending $20 on that garbage PC.
That's such a good cut, too. Because those aren't happening at the same time.
But Linus being like, I don't love it. Why we're so adverse to spending $20 on that.
That's a good way to, like, cut to the other team. Yeah. I mean, we're getting the $100 box back.
Yeah, I think, like, people think that everything has happened chronologically,
but the editor's job is to, like, lay it all out, connect the stories.
Not just the events. And there's, like, a real art and a skill to that.
And so another shout-out to Hoffman, and he crushed it. Are we that stretched now that we've
plus the extra $100 box coming in from December? It's not that we're that stretched.
It's just that I'm worried that every last dollar is going to count here.
Like, Luke will be calling every little mom-and-pop
computer store to ask if we have, like, a garbage e-waste. Not even once.
I just want to make sure that we're being as hungry as the other team here.
I agree, though. Do you know that route? Do someone... He's like, if, I think, from Linus' perspective,
like, he knows that we can get something for cheaper. For free? Then he's going to, like, push for it.
Try that first. There's no reason not to. Like, that's the whole point is to do everything you can
to get it as cheap as possible. I just think it's really funny that he's like, Luke's going to be, like, working so hard
getting such a baller PC. And then he's like...
Other than me, try calling my... It's funny, this is the second year in a row
where, like, Luke has to shoot Scrapper Wars a week after getting back from a big...
Or, like, a big workshop. Really, last year, too? Yeah, and so he comes back sick and then, like,
barely recovers just enough to shoot. And so it'd be nice...
He's now lost twice in a row. It'd be nice to have him in top shape.
I might make that more of a consideration when we schedule next year.
They typically did have a bunch of stuff that was just going to go get recycled.
All right, let's give it a shot. Do you have any computers that you'd be going
to eWaste or Recycling that boots into Windows,
but we could pick up off of you for free?
You can tell that he's, like, uncomfortable asking,
but, like, some people just make it happen. And I appreciate that about Sebastian.
He doesn't really want to be like, can I free PC? But he's like...
It's the calling's idea. I get that, too. I hate calling.
Oh, I hate... I don't mind calling as much as I hate picking up.
I would wear other call somewhere, then... And, like, know who I'm going to get through to,
then, like, pick up a random number. I'm always like...
For me, because I know most of the calls that I'm going to pick up are scams.
So I already know what I'm going to say. Okay. So when I'm calling someone, though, I'm, like, before I call, I'm, like, rehearsing it.
But then when I actually say it, like, I say it wrong and I go, God.
You're going to hang up and you're like, ah, I've got to prep myself again.
I've got to change my voice.
Hello.
He looks so uncomfortable. He said it pretty good, though. I would have messed that up so bad.
Well, it's... Your team was team chill. Like, everyone in your team is like,
kind of mellow. I feel like you're a higher energy person than either Sebastian or David.
But, like, your whole overall group was very mellow.
Just stay calm and get it done. And you can see that, like, this is him just
staying calm, getting it done, even though it's making him uncomfortable.
He's just like, it doesn't matter. I'll just get it done. And he gets it done.
I'm picking up a free one tonight. Well, if it doesn't work out. Whereas this team is like...
Yeah, we'll regret that tomorrow. High energy. Oh, God! Everything's on fire all the time!
I found two side tables.
Where is the side table in this picture? It's the floating one. It's the floating side table.
Yeah! Okay, good. It's cool. I was very confused. I thought it was the one that they ended up picking up.
And I was like, what the fuck am I looking at? I'm looking at the wall. Yeah, yeah. The side tables.
Okay, that makes more sense. Oh, I think it sold. Sorry. Once the mount print finishes printing,
I'm going to start the speaker mounts. Okay.
So the front three will be wall mounted, so that shouldn't be too much of a concern.
One of the issues that I just realized is because we flipped the room around,
the projector needs to get mounted in the center.
And Dan, I didn't understand what he meant by this. The center? Because wasn't it always going to be in the center?
What do you mean? Because the projector screen is on the outside.
These are the two... Oh, I see what he means. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Now I understand. It's like the middle wall, not the center.
Because it was always going to be in the center of the wall, but he means next to the middle wall
that is the shared wall between the two spaces. Originally, we're going to put the projector here
and have the screen here. And so... Oh, those are the two rooms.
Oh, I see, I see. And then we would just do that right here. But now we have to...
Not a... Not a helpful...
Also, now it's peanut-shaped. It's all the way to the middle of the two.
Oh, so it's not a cable-on thing. It's a difficulty thing. It's a difficulty thing.
So I'm going to go check on that. I understand this does not solve your problem. This is so funny.
Do you still have the scissor lift? I didn't know all this was happening. Maybe I was...
We're doing it with the scissor lift. That's so funny.
I forgot that he... We have this little montage of him stealing the key.
That's so funny. No one else can use it. No one was ever going to use it.
It was just going to be him, but he's like, nah. In case we ever needed to, that would have been hilarious.
Yeah. As I ran, Shadow would check how the... I think they were feeling burnt from the first day
because you had taken the truck and they needed it.
And it was gone to the island as far as I knew.
And so I was just like, it's gone all day. And so I think they were mad. And they felt like that was the thing.
Because then they started hoarding stuff. They started hoarding tools too.
At one point I had to be like, hey, I need these tools back. And they're like, really?
And they had hid the batteries and stuff. And I was like, this is not part of this.
Does that make for content though a little bit? A little bit, but it wasn't like that funny.
It was mostly just like they had put them in bins sort of in weird places.
And it was like, we could have probably made more of a story out of it.
Especially I forgot that that little montage was in there. But it was mostly just the way they played it off to you.
And maybe I'm not being charitable in my reading. The way they played it off was like, oh, no, no,
we just think we're going to need this stuff. Right. But whereas I was like, no, you guys are stockpiling.
Do you think you would change the rules a little bit for the next one? Whereas if you only have one work truck, how would you?
So I think I would wrench a truck the next time. So that there's the work truck and then one U-Haul small cuban
or whatever. But the big change is I would make building a PC a more integral part of it.
Set up a PC in the corner. Yeah, like we discussed on the stream earlier
that it wasn't just like an oversight of the rules. It was by design to allow people to not have to focus on the PC.
But I think next time I almost want to do the exact same concept
because I think it's a really good concept. But with now you have to play the games on the computer
or you have to do this on the computer or whatever it is. No console kind of thing. Yeah, because I think it's interesting the console.
And I think Shadow is also interesting, but I would have wanted one of the teams to build the PC.
That's what I think what I was hoping for is that one of the teams was going to build the PC.
And then it would be kind of like PC versus console. And the PC team spent 700 bucks on their PC
and the console team spent 400. Like is the price to value like is it worth the performance bump
for the price bump? But instead we just got, hey, having your games
located on a console, it's probably going to be better than streaming.
Which is less interesting of an outcome.
$120 computer from that place you recommended. It's one generation.
If you need to have a computer at home, these are not bad.
7th gen is pretty old though. 8th gen for $200. Okay, that's such not that good.
Never mind. I dig it back. Fairly caring about needing to do.
Yeah, it was at like 30% usage. Yeah, it'll be fine.
So it should be fine. Their PC was not their issue. It was fine. This is what we're looking for.
Back to the front. This one at least is a different shot.
Yeah. Oh my goodness. This is longer than the TV Natalie.
That's crazy. I can try and shove it a little further.
How about now? Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah, we're good. The second one.
I was actually surprised I've banned FIX. Yeah. Although it's flexible.
So it's a little bit more light as it is. Yeah. Yeah, it's well over you.
Yeah, it's. Basically, I don't get to paint till tomorrow. Which is.
Power. So this was the end of the second day? Yeah. Yes.
Yeah, yeah. Just line this panel on the third day. Yeah. On the Wednesday. Yeah, that's right. Maybe I can see why they.
That's. That's crazy. It should be criminal. $20 for a used VGA cable is like criminal.
$20 for a VGA cable. This, their story used to be the best one.
It's so crappy to go there now. This just seems out to lunch in terms of pricing.
You need paintings here? Wow, is that actual film from like?
So I'm curious if he thinks that that's like a negative
from the shooting of it. Because it's likely just like they from a movie theater run.
Like that's the film that was projected in the theater.
And then they just instead of destroying them, they cut them up and then put them in this promotional poster.
Oh, I think so. It's five bucks. We'll think about it. Here.
That was funny. Come back for it. Still remember. No, that was a disappointment.
It's totally like for a store central over there. There's another one right there.
Are they close? RIV. Six minutes.
Actually. I swear every time I go to the thrift store, it is always closed.
It doesn't matter what time of day, what day of the week it is, it's just always pretty closed.
It's not meant to be. Yeah. Let's go. That's great news because we arrived at the thrift store
five minutes after it closed and we do not have an Ethernet cable.
That's sub and a half, baby.
It's still weird seeing another David in the company. I'm like, I'm like, why is my name?
Thankfully, there's no other Natalie. Not yet. Yeah. Now you've doomed it.
Hey, look at that. It's all working. So I know it's so loud. There's no way.
Again. Yeah. I think this is what underneath. Do these sound okay?
Yeah. I was lucky for six and a half years. I was the only David. And mainly the roll off on the subwoofer.
What about the guy who's buying the soundbar? He's about 10 minutes away.
Okay. And we've got that free computer. We got a free computer. That's true.
Yeah. So pushing was good. We should shut them out. Who are they?
Stratum systems. Stratum systems. Luke used them last year with Elijah.
I walked him out. This was a mind blown for him. Right? This was crazy for me.
Because David didn't say anything about it, which is crazy.
It was just when I went to look up the footage to show.
And I was like, is that David?
So like what? You can't see it.
But it says this is David before he worked at LMG. This is just where he was.
That's a full circle. Yeah. So full circle.
Awesome. Thank you. Got the deal done. That is a fast turnaround.
That was the same day, wasn't it? Yeah, same day because we went in the morning.
It's always a risk to buy stuff with the intention of selling it.
Because if you have a week, you could probably do it. But you just don't know what is likely.
But it's really cool. Does it work yet? That was a cool find.
Well, the free wall thing? Yeah. It's crazy how much bigger it was than we expected though.
That was wild. I love it when they're whispered.
60 average on the dot. Because I'm pretty sure even if they were talking normally,
we would not have heard them through the walls. It's only when they're screaming or if they're blasting your bass,
then we hear them. And if you can hear them talking, that doesn't mean you can understand what they're saying.
It's just funny though. And it's also like, I guess they don't know if
you're the type of team that's putting their ear against the wall to be like, what are they doing?
Started bumping music while I was there.
Their sub is awesome. Their speaker setup is probably very good.
I'm going to go pick up that free sub after one. Was this Jamie's listing?
This one, no, this one's even worse. This is Dan.
That's his subwoofer. He brought that from home.
Yeah. Because you can tell, oh, hey, they at least made it longer this time.
The other one said nine, like the post was made nine minutes ago.
This one they had up for a couple hours at least.
The guy from the controllers said no to the 60.
Should we have four controllers? Like. What up, Dan? I think we're going to blow our budget out.
Yeah, I would rather three.
Is three 60 bucks? That gives us a little bit of. I think your mic is hot.
Yeah, they're 20 bucks each. I think I can hear him. I had a crunch.
We also found like a whole set of free like the wood and metal materials
to go pick up tomorrow as well too. None of them are replying in the one guy who replied
said there's other people wanting to pick it up already. Oh, okay.
Something to seriously consider. We don't have that much time left though.
Where are we at on the lighting side? Oh, I see. I'm hoping this guy will reply soon.
I message him now for a full price. Okay. Hello, can you?
Oh, yes, they replied. That's for the lamp? $30 lamp.
Tomorrow between two to four. Tomorrow, I think we actually need like two groups.
I actually like the lamp that they got. Like it's not my style, but it suits what they were going for.
Also with your computer guy, we might be able to save tax if you pull the old cash thing
because I know a lot of like small computer stores will do that. I think that's just the offer.
Look what I got. We got... Hey, Dan's hair is back to... I know what I was saying.
Look how slick it looks again.
You got a good night's sleep. I had some more speakerware. No. I do have some good news maybe on the computer.
We were just talking about it. One generation behind the one that I tested with that we had here,
but it has the same generation of Intel QuickSync. We got a DVD drive.
We're never going to use that. So I don't know what that means. This came out to final price $110 after tax with the cable.
It's not bad. It's not great. So that's just like a PC. Oh, working PC.
Yeah, it's just a little working PC. And it's been changed because they didn't have other changes in that.
And to be fair, they more follow the spirit of the rules because their PC was an integral piece of their setup.
I have the lamp lined up. Does that make up for all the cheating?
It's warm bulb. Yeah. Doesn't make up for the sucking though.
Oh, I like that shirt, Dan.
Thank you. Yeah, it's my diet shirt. I bought that for the Larian after party down at Nordstrom's in Seattle.
What's up, buddy? I bring good news. Yeah?
The portion where Alliance reacts to the Luke's room and Lula will be coming out after this
live stream. Oh, so the longer we live stream, the longer we push it back.
I'm not going to purposely push it back, but I really would like to not.
I'll stay here by myself. I got enough O.T. the last couple of weeks. Okay.
I'm so tired. I heard that. I heard that.
Oh, I see what that was. Speaker wire. I actually think you did pretty good on these speaker mounts, Dan.
I know they're not perfect, but I think you did pretty good. With the timeframe that you guys had, I mean, that's pretty good.
Yeah. These are designed to print like immediately. You can see they're like three pieces.
There's no support material needed. Did you fully design this or did you find it on like fingers?
Fully, fully designed by myself. Pretty damn impressive, dude.
Through the wall and. And they worked pretty good. Like obviously they weren't, you know, fully adjustable.
I made, I made one mistake, which was the base needed a little piece, but I basically just
throw it on the bottom. And then what was the design around these used is just to get a bunch of length
so that like the leverage. Yeah. So I wanted them chunky and long so that they could stick through long.
That's my stripper name. Sorry. Only fans.
I didn't want the projector mount to fall down and kill one of the judges.
I think we would lose points for that. So yeah, I wanted them to stick through and keep the like moment of inertia as
close to the wall as possible. They ended up working amazing, like a thousand times better than I was expecting them.
Like they were not janky at all. It was only really possible because the walls were super thin though.
Yeah. And the like the fact they had full access to behind them.
Like you couldn't really do that if you had to cut a hole in the wall.
We couldn't use toggle bolts and I didn't know that plywood would be provided for us.
Otherwise I would have just done it traditionally. You don't know that. I feel like I told both teams a hundred times.
Maybe I just told Luke and he just never forwarded. I could have been maybe out or something like that.
It's possible. There's a lot of stuff that I probably did because I wasn't sure of stuff.
Probably including the cheating. I don't know. I mean one of it like the subwoofer was definitely pretty blatant.
Yeah. But I think we had also assumed that Linus would be cheating constantly too.
They didn't do too bad. I think the apparently he always does in every scrapyard wars.
So maybe Luke was a little bit.
I think the big one was he used Wi-Fi to set something up when that was explicitly not
allowed if you wanted to use Wi-Fi. I thought the setup was fine.
No. No. No you were not. You were not. You had your reason at Jack.
But I don't think they ended up doing it. I can't remember what it was. But I remember at one point Justin came out to me and he's like,
Hey, did you know that Linus cheated? And this was after I found out that Dan had cheated.
And I was like, brother, let me tell you about what I know about cheating.
Oh yeah. I mean, part of cheating and bending rules is never ever complain about any other team.
That's like, that's like how it works. You just keep it, keep it to yourself, dude.
No. Yeah. Come on. No. Yeah. Buddy.
It's hard to cheat in these because everything is recorded.
But I don't think we were trying. I mean.
No, I think what we agreed on is just like there was a miscommunication where I think
you guys were trying to be subtle about it and then I didn't prod deep enough.
So I'm going to blame the opiates. Yeah. A lot of the blame falls on me.
But then the subwoofer, no. The subwoofer is way over the line.
I don't want Guy and Langley who's got the subwoofer. The guy's me.
I'm the guy. Yeah, this is dumb.
But you needed the subwoofer. I don't think so. Your sub was not good until the sub.
The sub helped a lot. It may be. You could have probably found like a cheap sub, but it probably would have been 50 bucks.
We look really hard. It was like couches and subs and audio and stuff was few and far between.
Yeah. That's always the challenge is like we're just at the mercy of what's available at that time
and you can't plan for it. You can't be like the third week of July.
There's a lot of used couches on that week. Well, I mean, like, yeah, first of the month, I have to move.
And I'm just before the end of the month. Dumping everything, yeah.
First of the month can be good for free stuff. Just before is good for slightly nicer stuff that people still want to get money for.
Big problem was the individual speakers sounded great when surround sound was working.
Yeah, because there was like a PCM thing versus like Adobe 7.1.
And the tiny computer that Luke got could not do the proper audio transport control that we
needed. Yeah. And my laptop was fine. So, you know, preliminary testing.
Everything sounded great. Looked great.
Next year, baby. If I'm invited back.
Oh, I want you back. Oh, geez. I've learned a lot.
Hopefully it doesn't come crashing off the wall. We'll see. Something else came up though.
Yesterday. So hopefully that works. It was a hefty. Hopefully it doesn't fall on people.
Not hefty enough to know where the places that it counts.
Dan, did you ever see the YouTube cut of part three?
Just the Floatplane one. Maybe one. There's the intro that is making you the star of this one that is so funny.
It showed it to the stream, but I want you to see it. Oh, okay.
Oh, I forgot I went on the roof. Oh, you did include that.
You're freaking me out, Dan. I love that. It's great. It kills me.
But then it brings us back to here.
Which are we good at? Spoilers. Yeah, there's hi David again.
I look more in worse than this one.
That's such a good one. It'll be okay. It'll be okay.
I try to emote as much as I can.
It's great. The eyes and the eyebrows and the concern and the looking around.
You did a really good job. I got yelled at when I first started for
even the camera. So I try not to. The thumbnail really.
What's my face? Is it so weird on that music?
I think we usually just cringe at our own faces when we see it.
I just want to miss the drop because that's the most.
I didn't tell Luke about that. I could have destroyed it literally everything.
That could have been game over. Oh yeah, I could have destroyed the projector, all the audio.
I might have.
I think I would have gained something that allowed you to get your budget back,
which maybe could have saved it for you. I don't think so.
I mean, maybe we buy a TV or something or like use one at the lab.
I don't know. I don't know what I would do. I'm glad we didn't have to do that.
I mean, if you crash your car when you're racing, you don't get another car for like insurance.
It's just, yeah, one of those like the series is kind of done at that point.
If like you. The problem is the video would be. Yeah, the video because competition wise,
it would be super unfair. But I think I would have to be like,
you get your 800 bucks back, but you lose a point at the end or something like or two points or something.
You're at a deficit. I don't know. Don't have to worry about it.
Thank God. I've been so.
It's such a good drop, though, because it happens in stages.
Oh, I'm so excited to get to it. It should be long enough. I don't think I lost it.
Not for really funny. Yeah. Just what your ARM does because it's like on the back of your ARM.
Yeah, I can't wait. I tried so hard to like because I fell.
I fell onto the amp as well. Like it would have destroyed literally everything.
Oh crap. The truck limitation is dumbass.
Yeah, I think two trucks next year will be fair.
Maybe even rent in two. So it's like both teams have the exact same work van.
But yeah, rent a couple of vans. Yeah, panel van. Do you know where I found a good place to rent vans from?
Home Depot. Oh, yeah. Cheaper than Newhall. Really? Yeah.
And they don't care about the condition of the van.
So I went there to rent a van to move a couch or whatever.
And you sign the paperwork and they walk you out to the car to inspect.
And you know, normally when you go to a rental place, it's like these pristine, beautiful, shiny cars.
This one, the bumper was ripped off. The side had a big dent in it.
And I was like, oh, thank God. I don't have to have to worry about like getting a scratch on this.
It's like they don't care. And I'm a little concerned that it's just like for the HDMI cable is not working.
That's sad. Yeah.
It's on a van. It's fun when I don't have to like do anything.
And I just be weird. It's kind of fun. I like that a shirt kind of matches the sun.
Like not exactly, but pretty damn close. Seb is so cool.
Yeah. Some people are just like so good at the details.
I remember like I shot. Was I the writer or a shooter for?
I think I was a writer for his AMD home upgrade. And he had just done like little project things where I'm like,
if I did it, it would take me 10 iterations to get it this precise.
And he's just like, oh, yeah. I just like model it and it worked perfect the first time.
And I'm like, God damn. Engineers are on a different level for real. You know what's interesting about Sebastian as well.
We kind of talked about this before. Like can you guys rotate a cow in your mind?
Yeah. I'm sorry. What? Rotate a cow? Like visualize a cow and then.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seb has the no internal.
What? Yeah. That's crazy.
It's pretty rare, but there's a bunch of people that have either very basic or none.
So he can't pre-plan anything in his brain.
So he has to like all work it out. Yeah. But they will like draw it or like model it.
And he can see that it's wrong and then fix it, which may explain why some of the details are so good.
Because he actually looks at them whereas like myself and other people are just like,
concept box done because your mental projection of that is not quite good.
That's so interesting. It's amazing. I have, I don't have an internal voice.
Like I don't hear a voice in my head. That always messes me up.
Yeah. And I know that like a lot of people do. I know that's a more common one than not being able to do like the projection in your mind.
Yeah, because there's different levels of the projection. Some people will dream in color, but they can't mentally project in color.
Some people it's all like black and white. Some of it's quite fuzzy.
For me, like I really struggle with visualizing faces and things like that.
For me, it's very much like systems. So if you were to like, I can intuitively picture most of the wiring in this building,
which kind of lends really well for doing audio engineering because all of it is like
abstracted wiring basically digitally and physically.
And then yeah, pretty, pretty detailed cow rotation.
Interesting. And then moving into details gets better.
Otherwise it's reasonably fuzzy. And some people are like incredibly intricate pictures in their mind.
So there's like different levels to it. Like when I upgraded my garage, I pictured it exactly as it ended up being.
Like I knew exactly what it was going to look like inside my mind. I can, I could picture every detail.
So I have a very vivid imagination, which I think is good creatively.
But then on the details, that translation from the outer to the paper
and the actual execution of the details. So poor because I'm like, oh, I'll figure it out.
It was one does matter. Yeah, exactly. No, I'm a freaking idiot.
Free eighth gen computer. What? Eighth gen? Yeah, it's a really decent computer for free.
And it's also like a nice mid-sized tower. So you can actually do something in there.
But we didn't. That dust has got to be so cancerous.
Like, uh, no, really. No, it's like fibrous.
No, not like, breathe it in. Yeah, I mean, yes, it's so bad.
Right. Green lug depth. I huff it for fun.
Yes. We also need control. If somebody was commenting on the way that he was holding the wheel,
it's like, I think he's like, I think he's using his other hand off camera.
But it looks like he's just like driving with one finger.
That's this was so funny. Like you look right into the camera.
But I might fall and die. So I gotta be careful.
Okay. That's why. Yeah, that's how it works, Daniel.
Should really test to see if they work. And this mount as well.
This one doesn't have the screw in it. Oh, we need to, we need to buy screws.
Do you want me to tell them? The one at my desk has a screw. We have like two screws.
Well, at least try the screws. I'm whatever you're going to find some screws in your house now.
Oh, I actually, I took them from the 105 shop.
And then I had Justin buy the same screws from Home Depot.
That's easy, man. That's that's within the rules. You were allowed to use stuff.
Because the point was to, I can't explain this up.
I think that was just cheating.
I'm rusty too. Next year, if you are a part of it, we're going to have to have like someone on you.
No, no, you will not. We've got a drone following Daniel.
Oh, shut up. I'll be very honest. We're going to do our best with it.
And overall, I think the effect will be better than if we just left it.
I blame Luke. Luke enabled it.
Big moment. He's done this before.
The painting, yeah. You did a pretty good job. It's like these walls sucked.
And like there's a really, he did a good job explaining where he paints it.
And then there's just like a white line. Are you allowed to paint if you're renting?
Yes. Has he lost his damage deposit? That should come out of his.
You should have damaged deposit. That would be so funny.
A landlord comes in. You are renting if you change this
outside of your legal rental agreement, you lose 200 bucks.
That would be an interesting dynamic. It's like kind of like a list of things you can change that cost money.
To be fair, as long as you repainted it back to white when you're done, that's fine.
We definitely go beyond the like, what a normal renter would do. I'm not allowed to crawl around in the wall.
You can't go behind the walls. I live in your walls.
On the roof. But the idea was like we didn't want people,
the guy was going to allow as far as like replacing the light fixture.
Like you were allowed to replace the light fixture. You just weren't allowed to like add a window or something.
I don't know. Yeah, that would be fun.
I don't think this is included. Wait, maybe at the beginning, but when we switched the light switch cover,
it was cracked on ours. I've switched it.
I don't think anyone noticed because like no one's looking at that. You switched it with mine or what? Yeah.
He's like, hey, ours is cracked. I don't think we got footage of that. I know Peter was filming for us.
I didn't even know that happened. It was there somewhere. That's so funny. I do remember that happening, but I totally forgotten.
Because everything that's not in the final edits is like, doesn't exist in my mind.
I don't even remember filming any of it so funny.
Damn, it was busy following. I just dissociated the whole time.
I also love that the fire truck is just there. You look through the door and there's a fire truck.
Where are we going to put it? Yeah. I wonder what the plan is with that.
Like we wanted to do more content with it, but I'm just not going because of how rough the ball is. It's just been like performing okay.
It's just so much fucking work. Yeah, that was the perfect little demo.
Like I don't know if you knew that's not bad. Oh, I guess you did because it was already short.
So just painted plywood? Is that what it is? Yeah. But I'm doing my best with it.
Yeah, it's definitely a rental. Yeah. Well, that's what I, when it didn't come out perfect,
when I first saw it, I was like, it's not perfect. And I was like, that's exactly what a rental would be.
It wouldn't be perfect. It would have all these issues.
And it's definitely not the worst one, you see? No. That's really decent side tables, I think.
40 bucks. Yeah, for two. It's not what I'd pick, but.
Yeah. This one, I think we put on the side. I wanted five.
You wanted five side tables? Yeah. Why? We're now going. Surrounding sound.
It's sort of a secret. Decoration, like unity, that sort of thing.
Instead of a couch, just more side tables. Yeah. Because we need to go to Pencilado. Go straight to Pencilado, because Dan is currently
just working out what hardware he needs. Oh yeah, do you know what's the, somebody pointed this out,
but I have a pencil in each ear.
And I'm holding a pencil. No, I'm good.
Yeah, and there's one under each ear as well. And I'm like, yeah, I know what I'm doing.
I'm not sleep deprived.
That's so funny. Yeah, somebody found it on Reddit.
Just turn up the weird to 11 team.
You look like you're genuinely upset here. Like some of it, I can tell you're like,
you're playing it out for the camera. It's real, but it's like, you know, you're making a face,
but this is like, this is sad Dan. Yeah, yeah.
The emotions there, it's just like, I don't know. I would say Dan plus plus, that sort of thing.
I think that's what most of us do here. A hundred percent. Like I don't, yeah, I don't feel like I act.
I just allow myself to portray the feeling stronger
than I probably would normally. Yeah. And like, I would be probably making that exact face,
but at my desk. Yeah. You know, yeah.
Yep. It's about it. Yeah, projector's not mounted.
I think we might be a little cooked.
This is a little farther ahead. I'd be stressed.
You can get going with this.
The thing is that like I'm working most of day three by myself.
Like most of what I had to do kind of just like all came together.
Like you can see most of this is just me alone.
Working on working on the projector, working on the speaker mounts.
Yeah. There's like no one else. That's what Justin complained about,
was that I allowed your team to go off and individual sometimes,
which you did. Yeah. Yeah. What do you mean? Just like if they asked,
we wanted everyone to move into Paris, so it was easy to shoot. Yeah. But I said under certain circumstances,
I would allow people to go off and individually so that they can get what they need or do what they need.
And he complained about that. And I was like, okay, whatever, cheater.
But then it's also like you were by yourself the whole day. Oh, I thought we just had to go like out when we bought things in Paris.
It's supposed to be like all the time you're in Paris so that there's people to bounce stuff off of, but it works because we're watching you descend into madness,
so it's better that you're by yourself. It's still very frustrating to have like no help.
But I mean, what could have other people have done? Like the mount wasn't ready.
Like it's bad, it's bad.
You did a great job, Dan. I tried my best, just maybe.
So we don't have to do like five though. We're getting three, but 20 bucks each, that's meant.
We are picking up sound paneling. It should have an aesthetic nature to it as well,
ideally, because I think it has like wooden slats.
I'm going to let someone just use her department.
Okay, I'm going to take a look.
Yeah, this was actually a good choice. I think aesthetically this added a lot to the room.
We were looking at those too, but. I think I did some color comparison in my model.
I think that one's the closest to the table. Or the top one, if they don't have that in case.
Okay, bye bye. Then those were more expensive. What was the pricing and sizing again?
So we got a foot wide and my foot's feet feet tall. Yeah.
And each panel is 40 bucks. Oh, okay. The listing had said 30. I want some of those from my house.
Sick. Oh, okay. Are you sure the ones there are not from your house?
We can just go with the light. Shut up. Shut.
Okay, I got this couch from my house. This pocket of the money.
Yeah, I paid myself for the stuff. That would be, see, I think that would be less cheaty and more.
You're going to get, you're going to get. Just actually dishonest. Yeah.
Just awful. Yeah. Okay, so we have the sound panels.
They're in the back and luckily they're actually probably going to be safe.
We have to go back to the office now to drop them off.
I'm getting Fs. One sec.
Oh. I'm not showing any drops. So.
Oh, I can see the stream. She was frozen on our end.
Yeah, that's. It's back.
You're back. We back. And we back and we back.
But our stream is not. Don't refresh that page.
Oh, when Joe.
Oh, yeah, there we go. Yeah, cool. They're good.
Then go get controllers and go to Princess Auto to get.
I kept trying to unpause the video.
That's so funny. Good job, Daniel. What do you do for a living? You're using some form of disaster.
This concerned me when I saw it at this stage of the room. Well, I'm going to add that part.
Only now you started getting concerned. Oh, no, for them because I was like, the paint looks horrible.
And he's like, I'm running out of paint and I was like, oh. Yeah, I was kind of stressed. This isn't the painting.
Oh, it's gone. So uneven.
Oh, yeah, the triangles. Until painting's done. I don't want to alarm anyone.
That's the pile of stuff that they were hiding.
Or no, just, no, even here, just behind the tarp.
That you were hiding from the other team. Yeah, I always tried to not look because I didn't want to look.
No, we didn't have a problem with that. And it's also like, I don't think it's fun content to like have people snoop.
Probably would have been better for next year to have the doors on opposite sides.
It was kind of fun. Because it made it difficult. Yeah. But I like, I didn't want to surprise spoiled for myself.
Yeah, it was, we had. Sometimes it's hard to just not catch a glance.
Yeah, it was one of those weird, cool concerns that we had where we talked about,
is it better to have on opposite sides so that they won't see each other or is it better on the same side so there's more likelihood for shenanigans.
And I'm a shenanigan and an anizer. And we're also repurposing them.
So it might make more sense to have them on the other sides. Yeah, I haven't been back inside of them for a bit.
I want to go see what the work has been on them.
I want my speaker wire back.
So part of part of it was that I knew that I would never get any of this back.
Yes. Yeah. So this was completely understood.
It was kind of fun. Sometimes when I walk by, I'm like this.
Like, yeah, I did this. No, it's pretty funny.
Painting is done. I don't want to alarm anybody, but I might be running out of this blue paint.
Yeah, there's like, it looks so uneven in the corners. I was like, oh boy, we're there.
So who even if we have budget left over to buy a brand new kind of paint,
this is a mist hint. They literally can't make it. Yeah, I wonder what this paint now that it's all dry looks like with good light
because there's only that one dingy light. Yeah, it's very dark.
And you said it's a blue and it's like you can't see it's painted all. But I wonder like with bright light, it would look really bad or good.
This was the most sketch purchase. It's genuinely dangerous.
Don't buy UPSs, no, not UPSs, it's just surge protectors that are this damaged.
Did we take it out? We just got scammed at a thrift store. No, I think you show it.
We bought it. Yeah, they'll be a close up. 250, whatever.
We got scammed at a thrift store.
There's sort of a pattern. The mission thrift store is the Christian thrift store.
So that would have been like the third time you got scammed by Christian people.
That's pretty funny. Dang.
That looks so... Oh, God. Oh, shit.
I was surprised they put that on the shelves to sell. Whoever put it on the shelf did not see that.
There's almost no way. But I mean, we bought this. Yeah, you know what?
How much did you pay for it? A dollar 50?
It's on sale. Yeah, that's about right. It's burned by itself. I wonder if it's on sale.
That's fire sale.
Yeah, even the fact that... Yeah, it's just that is... That is a friggin' judgment.
Let's... It'll be fine. We just needed to... It'll be fine. It will be fine. She should go find it.
And make sure no one ever uses it. So we hid...
Oh, it's this. Linus ought to be a good one for, I think, to win James's points.
Five bucks. This is kind of cool. Oh, one bucks. These actually a dollar 30.
Well, the streaming is not ideal on days when I had to communicate with a million people.
That's pretty cute. Hey, it matches the cat. That was very cute.
I really like that figure, bro. I love how every, like, small P.L.A. is working together.
Marvel P.L.A. is so nice. I want to see how much paint I have left.
That's it. We're pretty lucky we got this done. Time to switch over to red.
Oh, it's really nice. It's one 30 already. Oh, red haven't changed. Yeah, it doesn't look like red. By the time we got to here, it was already like, okay.
Dried nice. With that? It's a pretty fine looking color.
I'm very happy with the colors. Yeah. They're not for everyone, but I like them.
Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't do this in my own space, but because I want something more fun.
Yeah. Like, I was like, let's go for it. Should we light it?
Oh, yeah. We went back to have it. And then only one of them work.
Yeah. Scammed again. Scammed.
This is habitat for humanity. Let's do it. Where's the humanity, bro?
Where's the humanity? And then possibly you go pick anything in the room
other than paint. Man, I'm close, you guys. I'm sorry. I'm working.
I'm going to go get the wall art from one of five. You're going to total up money and spend all of it.
There is a little bit of money that needs to go to other David for the PS Plus subscription.
So yeah, we allowed them to use credit cards
if they weren't buying stuff online, but then they just have to give me the money.
This, Natalie, you're doing. Minor logistical detail. Yeah. Do you want to pick up?
That is a good free find. That frames pretty nifty. I messaged so many free art work people,
but none of them really got back. Yeah, but it's sort of like, it is one of the flares of your rooms there.
And like, yeah, blue and purple on everything. And then there's just this one wood thing.
Dan truly is the star.
That's probably.
I forgot that I could just melt them into the back of it. Oh, heavy.
And I made these print fast. There's some rotation when they kind of sag down a bit.
So I just kind of locked them together. This is why we do rapid prototyping.
The position is pretty set now. Make them print quick. Then iterate as fast as possible.
Yeah, that makes sense. Just barely. God, those are so pretty. The right channel.
Yeah, those are sweet. For 30 bucks? It's really not bad. Don't touch it.
Yeah, don't touch it. That looks great, Dan.
Thank you. That seems like you've. I like the wireless look.
Like this. Yeah. If I had like another day, it would have been mint.
No.
Okay. Are we leaving again for controllers and stuff? Controllers, Princess Otto.
All right. What are we getting for Princess Otto at this point?
I feel like you're a bigger character in this episode, Dan, than Lucas. Luke seems to deal with the computer.
Well, because I was trapped in the room working by myself. That's fair.
This is very, very, very good. Because all the stuff that I had to do would not allow us to.
Do set deck. Like we couldn't do vibes because.
Oh yeah, I needed to be like up in the ceiling. And like terrible.
And did we get the other screws? Which other screws? The ones that Dan needs for the speakers.
Oh, this is where you got the replacement, Dan. Yeah, I made sure that they were identical
so that we actually spent the money on them. But for the video to succeed, I needed them now.
Valid. Yeah, I figured that would be fine. I don't know, that's fine.
I talked to Sebastian about that as well. So we were kind of aligned that was okay.
See, you're just pushing through. That looked pretty cool. I'm smart.
It works. It works. Stupid doesn't work. So good. It sounds stupid.
I was really impressed. Yeah, you don't have any issues.
The only issue, when we went back to shoot some of the B-roll
of the final setups, we got shots of the movies playing on the projector screens.
And it was so misaligned because the knife was not meant to
last for any length of time. And so they just got so good. Got even worse.
Got really bad.
The B-roll makes it look worse than it was on the day. I think that's better, though.
Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. I like that. That is, unfortunately, doesn't come with a bulb.
That's minor detail. We want one to match. Bulbs are cheap.
Did you guys buy the setups, people? Yeah.
Oh. You guys didn't change the ceiling one, though.
Because I don't remember. Yeah. Dad, did you not change the ceiling one?
Huh. This is an episode four. But I think that the projector on the ground.
One more time. That's just the funniest shit.
I was concerned I was going to fall through the wall. Step one. Oh. Step two.
Jesus. You can see how it only gets dropped from waist height.
Yeah. Yeah. You did a good job slowing it. Like, say, when you try to catch something with your foot.
Yeah. Yeah. Except a knife. But you can kind of see what I'm doing.
That is so good. And then there's the thumbnail face.
That's good. That's good. Poor dad.
But the projector is safe. Yeah, the projector crushed my finger against the wall.
But you can kind of see what I was doing. I was trying to make sure that the center was aligned.
Yeah. Done. I'm like dinner. This is our room. Fuck you, Linus.
Yeah, it looks pretty good. Now it's like a little bit dry. I bled for our room.
We still lost. That line is not good. Oh, that's really not good.
But it doesn't matter. Because when it's so dark, you can't tell.
That was right after you fell down. Renters.
We have never. Oh, that was my gun.
I heard that too. We're going to do our practice panels with the pink because we've got lots of it.
They put down cardboard. Why is the entire parking lot pink?
God, that was such a great idea. The new parking space now is just the pink and the blue.
Did they buy this on a pink? Yeah, we bought it. Two sheets for 60 bucks.
I want to do my ceiling in it. You get it from Home Depot? Yep. OK.
You'll need a pretty big vehicle to move it around. All right, we got the work truck.
Oh, yeah. And Lord of the Rings. I can't read sideways.
Oh, wait, look. Lord of the Rings.
No, that's Twilight. Oh, OK. $9.99.
Is this the place I'm like? Oh, yeah. That's Valley Village. Valley Village.
Oh, my God, the rug. Dude, I messaged so many people on Marketplace,
but none of them got back to me in time. And people were like, oh, no, they won't negotiate.
And then it was funny because even after Scrap Mirror Wars was over,
I saw the people who I tried to negotiate with drop their prices. I'm like, bro, you said you wouldn't negotiate,
but you're dropping it now. I'm like, OK. Yeah, I don't understand people who put stuff on Facebook
and don't expect to drop their prices. Remove it if you sell it.
Yeah. Buddy, I tried to buy a car the other week.
It's been listed for a month and his phone number's there. And I'm like, I am the one person who would like to buy your car.
What kind of car is it? It was a 2012 S660 Mercedes.
Oh, OK. Which is like V8 twin turbo, 12 grand Canadian.
Is that a good deal? Those cars are like $130,000.
Damn.
Very. And it was a terrible posting. I had like one picture from like three-quarter
and all of it was listed wrong. And I'm like, this is why you go on Craigslist.
A marketplace for people who have made their posting so incorrect.
No one will be able to search for it. Yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of funny. If you know enough, it's good when people put the wrong information
because then you're like, no one else will know to spot this.
Yeah, I've never paid over 10 grand for a car before. It was kind of nuts.
Anyway.
All right. Am I a guess? 30. Oh, 15 bucks.
Why is that 180, dude? Let's look. The same colors are four, though.
Oh, nine bucks. Just, we need a bulb for this.
Yeah. Theliz used to be a good choice. Currently, 3D printed light fixture fixed the lighting.
Oh, okay. If we're good on lighting, I don't have to worry about this anymore.
Get your shit together, Theliz. I was kind of stressed because like we only had that one bulb.
So like all of these lamps had no bulbs. So we were going to spend another 20 bucks on one bulb.
One bulb, yeah. But we didn't. It's more expensive than marketplace.
But at this point, we had money. We kind of ran out of time. And yeah, yours out of time.
What was that? My Linus. Oh, let's go.
Where'd that come from? It's so cute sitting on the ground with these like pink triangles.
This is adorable sometimes. Real Linus moments of like, how much you spent?
How much was it? Guess. 40 bucks. Higher.
60. Higher. What?
Yeah, he's like this. Yeah. I was the one who threw the rug.
So I'm not going to sit here and be all like, New Ferdinand done that. He's just a boy.
It is a pretty quality rug. All right. I don't think you could say that.
Look at this. Oh, wait. This is coming. I think it's a specific reference to something
that I don't know what it is. Do you see that room? Oh, man.
And how are we streaming the movies again? We've got Blu-rays for the two movies.
Let's go. And then we can do Adventure Time on Prime. Let's go.
I stole everything. We've got a better idea.
I'm on a private tracker. The Lord of the Rings was 80 gigs or something?
No wires anywhere. Damn. That's actually like wild.
Oh, yeah. The bit rates are crazy.
I just expected everyone was going to pirate things because I didn't allow it for gaming,
but I pretty much just say, hey, go ahead and pirate in the video section.
Yeah. Games are a little spicy. Videos like we're not even going to watch the movies.
Well, yeah. And it's like I wasn't even that worried about the legality of it.
It's more I just wanted to have a certain amount of content where they're where you're trying to find deals.
And I was like, the deal hunting on video games is kind of more interesting than the deal hunting on movies.
I would definitely say so, especially as physical media is kind of imploded.
Yeah. But it is an interesting dynamic of PC versus console
where they used their console, which won't play pirated movies
unless they set up a Plex server or something. Well, I was thinking just USB stick,
copy them onto the console. I don't think the console will play them that way.
That's crazy. I might like I just think back to my like PS3 fat
that had an SD card reader. Yeah, those those were the days I might be wrong.
Hey, chat, maybe you can let us know, but I don't think you can do that anymore on a PS5.
Just like bring videos over, but I might be wrong.
Why? Because they don't want piracy. They want you to buy stuff from the marketplace.
Dumb. Dumb. Hey, Kurt. That's why it's all happening. I also agree.
My crap. It is why I'm pirated. I did not bottle that kind of thing. Allegedly.
I've never pirated my life. Show this pin at 20 megabit per second.
It goes up to 70. We're good then. Yeah. Hello.
We're good then. Be very careful of the front three speakers. They're kind of precarious.
Fibes are improving. I'll tell you that. I think we're doing. I think this was the last minute we're playing song
because of the copyright. I think we're missing a few components. Strike, but I'm not sure. I really wish that I had a little bit more time
to maybe paint the walls or something, but. I can tell Justin's been in the room because it's prime.
I really wish that I had a little bit more time.
He would have had to buy that, right? No, not with a budget.
But we have so much red bull. Prime's just watered.
There's no energy in it. There's a prime energy drink, but that's not.
That's just like the data rate, basically. That's the guy that fights old people, right?
Yeah. He just finds them on the street, just fucking knees in the balls.
We got a lot to do and we don't have a lot of time to do it. Biggest thing we got.
Actually, it's the brother that doesn't fight, but it is one of those two brothers, I think.
I don't know. Who cares?
He's back on. I was glad he did the sizzle lift. It was very fun.
I love that zoom shot of dance peaking over things.
Justin, power! I spackle my hand. Push the power.
What hour? I'm going to need a stick. Oh, the power.
Thank you, Alex. Alex made me a stick with a little hook.
That's very nice. I don't know too many tenants
that are allowed to do their walls. True.
It's a thing that I've not observed before. Are those cables fire rated?
Yeah, the hole in the wall is hilarious. It's not even a hole.
Yeah, well, it was funny. One thing that didn't really make it in,
and I probably should have fought harder for it, is when the room is dark,
all of those holes have a bunch of light shining in. Oh, yeah. So you get these shots where there's just like
a projection of what's outside on the wall from all these holes.
And they fixed it. They put tape over it or whatever, but we should have shown more.
Because we show a shot of it open, but it's light inside, so you don't get the full effect of how really bad it was.
I can imagine it though. This also was so fun.
Such a good idea. Yeah. I was so optimistic. Unbelievably smart.
Dude, I did not think. That dust was crazy. Like, it almost looks like a friggin after effects,
like, add in. Oh, probably pollen. Yeah, that looks like you just added smoke.
Yeah. God, is this funny? It's great.
Yeah, for a second, you don't see anything. And then it's just like...
Luke and I saw you bring those flowers in, I think.
We saw you do that. And we were like, God, that's such a smart idea.
Now we can't do that. Yeah, yeah, you didn't just copy it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we saw it. The fun thing is it didn't make it... Genius. Didn't last the next day,
so they had to redo it. Do it anyway. Episode four.
Yeah. It's not level.
It's a few inches out as well. If I like melt the mount and hold it,
the stress me off. The projector mount, because it was centered over the...
I think I'm going to start bringing some in. I don't know if we'll have time to put any of it. Like, center of the projector.
Like, he centered the hinge. Projectors do not weigh the same thing on both sides.
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. And so it was like pulling itself down.
We're just going to put screws. Just like wood screws into the drywall, just... It's not elegant.
How much would buying a ceiling mount have cost? Probably like... They're pretty expensive,
because they don't sell that many of them, hey? Yeah, there's not really much projector stuff
that isn't online these days. Like, you can't really go to a Best Buy and do that,
because most people do not do projectors. They're an extremely niche product,
which is why you can get some really good ones on Craigslist and Marketplace.
They're very, very difficult.
I have like 20-foot ceilings in my place, so I managed to get a wall mount that hangs.
That's pretty sweet. And so it was a little bit easier
than doing something in the ceiling, but still incredibly specific,
positioning down to like quarters of an inch
over like 35 feet.
Like, it has to be perfect. It's also... Isn't that specific to the projector it's all to?
Absolutely. Specific to your projector, specific to your space,
specific to so many different things. There's some universality in these mounts
where like the screws will kind of slide in a slot or whatever,
but it's like... It is... They're picky. You gotta get it right. You gotta get it right.
But it will be the least bad.
I thought it was really cool fitting the panels in the wall.
Oh, yeah. You guys are just absolutely killed it.
That's what the banging was. Oh, that's so smart.
So we have to do this whole thing in the boxes. Melted.
Yeah. Oh, that's the JBC hot air station.
Yeah. What do they do on Wanshow that they have
like 100 crusties on their screen? Do they eat?
That's live. Linus does. He doesn't get dinner.
So it's... Because he's working like 12, 14, 15 hours on Fridays.
Yeah. Those are tough days. That hot air station is $3,500 US dollars.
And he's just like holding it. That's like a...
It just melts. A really slow but really hot...
Very blow dryer. Yeah. It's basically a blow dryer with variable temperature, speed, and very, very special.
So it allows you to like do soldering, but like on a larger scale. SMD rework.
You got it. Yeah. Okay. That's what you were using to melt your... Oh, let me see.
No. We have a different one that's more like $5,000.
It just goes up. Yeah. I don't have a hot air station. $9,000.
$9,000. Never mind. Uh, $180. Can I go ahead?
You ready? And he's just like holding it.
At this point, there's no knife. You're just trying to melt the stands to work.
That's only with this. Yeah. Without having it delaminate.
Okay. It's like terrifying. Oh my God. And that looks so slick, you guys.
That does look pretty damn good. It doesn't look too closely. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny.
It's funny because Sebastian's like not happy. He's like, just don't look closely.
And everyone else is like, buddy, they nailed it. Oh my God. And that looks so slick.
An artist hates his own work always. Just don't look too close. Yeah, just don't look.
Actually, because it was left outside. So it was kind of like...
I'm glad they still work. I was worried, like...
Good job. Good job, guys. And is all the gaming stuff working okay?
All our games are running. We might have HDR support if we went through the TV,
but then we'd potentially be introducing audio problems. I mean, we've got two hours to try it tomorrow.
More meetings. Oh, God. Yeah, we do have an extra if you might get one.
All right, rock on. What time are you guys done? Three? Uh, after you finish the next one?
The next, there's one more episode. Okay, I have a minute. There's gonna be Adam. I don't think so.
All right, is it on? Okay. Okay. Oh my God, this is actually gonna be working.
Right here's Luke. That's nuts. The bath dirty.
Oh my God, it happened. Bath dirty. Luke. Yes. We can use plastic knives.
Pick them up there and then just melt them in to adjust the fine tune.
I mean, sure. I don't think anyone's gonna say, ah.
Okay, that's it. Pencil's down. Pencil's down. End of Wednesday.
Everybody's sweaty.
We technically got the 3D print started for the Xbox controllers.
For all of it, the thumbsticks and the battery backs? Battery backs.
Okay, thumbsticks should be really fast, I assume. I'll be fast. We can do those in the morning.
I'm not worried about that. Technically, they'll work without those. It's just.
It's a nice to have. The Xbox controllers do work. They connect to the shadow.
That's all good. The computer is theoretically working. That actually did a pretty good job on refurbishing
those controllers. It was pretty cool. In the morning when I. And it's smart because it's like three controllers
with 60 bucks is a good deal. Like, you'd get one PS5 controller for 60 bucks.
They're so expensive. They're so expensive. It's so frustrating.
Even just like, I know the new price is high or whatever, but it's like, yeah, you go to Walmart.
Literally 95 for the basic one and like 100 Canadian dollars
plus tax for the fancy colors. I mean, same as before, just stopping poor.
I think. Dan, how do you get away with like that kind of sardonic
anti-poor stuff? I think most of it is, it is so obviously not a viewport.
Like, like. Yeah, it's not actually what you. Yeah. We should just eat all the homeless people.
It's like. You heard it here for.
You heard it here first. We heard it here first. Yeah.
Exactly.
That kind of humor kind of does work sometimes. It's very important to get it right.
Yes. There is like, absolutely a fine line that has to be,
I guess, handled, especially when somebody's complaining
about their budget and you are literally just telling them
to stop being poor. It's the kind of joke that I feel like in person,
I could totally get away with. You have to do it in person. It is not something that you can say online.
Yeah, it's like, people are like, how could you? Yeah, that's something to say to a person during a conversation.
It's very reminiscent of let them eat cake, but ironic.
Yeah. You need to recognize the irony.
So it needs to be in person. Yeah. I got a dip.
I'll be back later. Thanks, Dan. Bye, Dan.
You're almost done too, Natalie. It's all going late.
I can't get it going through the amplifier. So I will try and do it through the TV and see if we still have sound problems
because that's what we had when we were trying to run the sound off the TV.
Okay. But audio works great when it's running through the amplifier. With our $19, technically we can still shop tomorrow.
Snacks, snacks for the judges. Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Okay, okay, that's a must, that's a must. Either that or theater snacks.
Popcorn. Is a microwave a tool? I think so.
Okay, so we pick up some popcorn, some Doritos and Mountain Dew. Can you get that for $19?
Yeah. You would think so.
Yeah. Do not, not with groceries the way it is now.
No bad news. Yeah, at that point we had, yeah, we had spent everything.
I was pretty happy because like I was, no, it's accounting. Yeah.
I'm like, okay, we spent everything. We have all the receipts and everything. I'm like, pretty good.
Oh yeah, I forgot that you're not accounting. That's why your team's accounting was much better than the other teams.
I heard there was a lot of missing receipts on the other team. I'm like, I'm glad.
There was actually a part I think during day two or three
where we actually had to go to Linus's place to get cash. Because we left a bunch with Sebastian and Kankratz.
So when we did get the cash, I was like, okay, there should be no problems reconciling it.
At one point I was like, do we have enough money? I was panicking internally because I was looking at the sheets.
I was like, I'm a little worried. I'm, I don't think we have enough money, but it ended up messing correctly.
So I was like, this is fine. That's good. Yeah, but I was a little stressed.
Well, good. Let's finish the pile of sadness. Are you putting it on today?
Oh God. Wait. Come down.
That hurts. Even though I know it didn't break it.
I was there when I was watching from outside. I saw, I saw it happen.
I'm like, oh my God. How did the police come down to the wire like this?
But it wouldn't be an LTT video if we didn't drop something.
Yeah, for real. Well, in this one, this one is, I mean, that drop is technically part of the next video,
but this one has the best drop of the series. Like, get out of town with this dandruff.
Unbelievable. Oh man. I felt so bad, but it was also so funny at the same time.
I was like, I should, I don't know if I should be laughing. Oh, definitely laughing.
It's, I feel like I understand being frustrated about that day when you're kind of like
left to do it all yourself. And it's like, most of it is fine to do by yourself, but some stuff, it would be a lot
easier to have a partner. With an extra hand. Yeah.
Because it must be like 33, 35.
Did I already miss it? No. Oh, no.
One last time. Play it again, Sam.
I felt every moment of that. It's just like in so many steps, like from there to there.
To. Oh, no.
Oh, it's so good. All right. What was the highlight of being in Scrapyard Wars for you?
The highlight, just being there for like four days, not at my desk.
Interacting with people that I don't usually interact with. 100%.
Like I spoke to the editors quite a bit. It's like, I usually don't.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. The four.
What up, Adam? How are you? Adam's here. The time away from your regular tasks, it's like, it's still work, but it feels almost
like it's not. Yeah. And so, yeah, I'm a big fan of getting tasks that are not part of my regular every day.
Yeah. I mean, I still did like a lot of OT after it, but I was happy. I was satisfied.
That was fun. Hell yeah. Yeah. All right. Adam, where's Adam?
Yeah. Adam, where'd you go? You were literally right there. Is there another mic? I know you're replacing.
No, you're replacing me. Oh, okay. What was the trip now? Leave us fully logging off.
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Bye. Bye, floater.
See ya. Thank you, David. Thank you, Natalie. I won't say hi to Adam, our angriest judge.
Yeah, apparently, apparently. I know we have, probably the biggest complaint is, well, the two biggest complaints are,
why do they not have to build PCs? And then I saw a lot of people complaining about the judging.
And we sort of briefly chatted this morning a little bit about it. Yeah. I feel like, I was like coming in here, I'm like, I need to defend all of the judging.
But yeah, I think that on one hand, it comes down to partially how we decided to determine
what the rules were in advance. But also, I think that it comes down to the editing.
I'm not trying to throw any of the editors under the bus. Kaufman did an incredible job on the whole series.
It's just really hard to encapsulate. We spent 30 to 40 minutes in each room, and that was filled with discussions.
And then we also deliberated for about 10-15 minutes afterwards.
So there was a lot, a lot of opinions that just couldn't make it in.
So that was, I think, kind of part of the difficulty. So you only really got to see either the most interesting comments or the funniest bits.
And sometimes it wasn't like, it wasn't really the full story.
And one of the big challenges too is because of the nature of production,
there's a fair bit of content, but it would be nice to have so much more where you don't
actually have to produce content while you're judging. You can literally just feel everything, look at everything, inspect.
But there's no time for that. Because there's 10 to 20 people waiting for you to move on to the next step.
Yeah. And I think also, I don't know, I've heard that in other reality TV shows where there's
judging, apparently in RuPaul's Drag Race.
The judging, it's edited down to be about a five to 10 minute section,
but each person receives 30 minutes to an hour or something of judgment for them.
And feedback, it's much, much longer.
And obviously, they've been doing judging and hosting that show for years and years and years
and have a whole team of people who've been at the forefront of reality TV.
But yeah, it's very difficult. And even just trying to encapsulate all of the thoughts that I had about each room was difficult.
A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah, and it's, like you said, part of it is the way the rules are laid out,
where it's so meant to be very subjective.
And that's a hard way to judge, because then it's just like...
And then another, I know big people think that we were too generous to Luke's gaming score.
But one thing that wasn't in the video, because it didn't really...
I didn't think that it was super, super important was that half of the gaming score is benchmarks
and half of the gaming score is subjective. And they won all the benchmarks.
So they had to get the full benchmark scores. So they start at five, and then you get sixes.
And then they got ones. So they got one. They got ones on top of a 50 percent.
Yeah. And so when you put it that way, it sounds super reasonable,
but that's not how it's explained in the video, because it's like, this is already a 40 minute video.
Am I really going to take 40 seconds to explain this tiny little minutia?
And in the end, it is just fun. And it's like, I think we get there.
And I think that that's the fun. But this one was one of the most challenging episodes,
not just for the editing, because it came to me pretty chronologically edited.
And then the stories were all kind of jumbled. So it needed a lot of work there.
But Luke's room had critical failure.
And the streaming was a really big challenge. And we gave them hours, hours to fix it,
because they identified their issue fairly early in the day after the pencils down moment.
And we were trying to be as accommodating as we possibly could
and figuring it out. But it's like, we can't have, I think on that day,
there's 30 people working on it. Like we can't have 30 people idling to help them have a better chance at making it work.
And the story is that streaming kind of can suck.
And it's not as satisfying as two teams giving us their best versus their best.
But that is the reality of the story, is streaming can do this to you
and they knew that it could do it to you. And we can't have 30 people idling for another day.
We can't stretch this another day. And it's already like 5 PM. We're already stretched.
And I know that some people. This is like an all hands thing. We had every shooter plus almost all,
I think every single editor shooter on the shoot already.
And we don't typically expand our teams for these larger scope shoots.
We just take people that we already have.
And that means that there's also the normal usual workload for those editors.
The people that had to also shoot that video and take time away from editing, then had to go back and edit video.
So it was like, it's quite a challenge.
Yeah. And so it's always a balance of we want to get as much stuff shot
so that we can decide and post what we can cut out.
And there is a lot of stuff that's cut out. So if you haven't watched the extras on Full Plane, please do.
And as soon as the stream ends, I think Sammy's posting Linus and Luke reacting to each other setups.
Because I wanted that originally in the video. That's a classic scrapper worst thing is them reacting to each other's room.
But it's already a 40 minute video.
And so it got cut pretty early in the process of like,
this is not integral to the story. And they have their like hanging out after,
which to me is like the actually more important is the like,
we were just having fun. Like it's like, it's no one's got bad feelings.
They're just like, I wish we could combine our rooms. But I say we get started.
Yeah, let's watch.
Or let's not.
This is also the wrong thumbnail, but it's full planes. I don't care.
You look so hot.
Scabby wars. I think I'll be back in like all hands on deck.
That's a brutal.
It's not as crazy that they were like, yeah, let's put it on there.
Like they couldn't find like anything else.
You're right. They probably could have found something else, but they're not allowed to take anything
that isn't part of the things they've paid for. So they can use tools, but they're not allowed to like get
anything.
Okay, we don't need to see this.
Even though we've procured all of our stuff and it's mostly in the room, we haven't figured out.
So I'm not going to lie. I haven't actually. You don't watch it. Watched all of this. Okay.
And I'm not going to skip ahead as much as I've been doing the other ones to catch up on time. First thing in the morning?
Yep. I've read the comments. That's for sure. I've read the comments.
The line after line is, a man after line is a star. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to hang on you to help me with the aesthetics.
Oh yeah, I'll be back with that. Natalie's not even. That's an interesting one because I think if I was to do it again,
I might actually have part three end at the end of the last two hours.
Instead of having video four just be the entirety of day four,
I might just start at the judging. But I don't know.
It's like, I don't know if that's actually better because it is kind of interesting to have like final touches in the morning.
Yes. This is one of those things where it's like also like when you look at like other reality series, they often have far longer editing periods.
Yes. Editing times. Like this could have been, this might have been like the first revision for the other series.
It's often a six month lead time. Like I'm always baffled by how skilled everyone,
you're just being able to get something so great together so quickly.
They were at Valley Village a lot.
This team, I don't think was as frugal as they needed to be.
I mean, they got a better deal on the rug than the other team, but that's about it.
Wait, so how bad of a deal, how bad, they had a $400.
$375. Yeah, that's.
It's interesting because a lot of the times it's like couches
are like the exact kind of thing, couches and rugs are the exact kind of thing that you can
get for free really easily, except for it's all about the right time.
And so not like, I don't, not having it at the right time, like not being able to hop on
that one thing is like, it's gnarly.
It's one of those challenging things where like the $400 couch is nicer than Linus's couch,
but did it get them four times the points than Linus's couch?
And there's sort of like a, there's a calculation where it's like, yeah, that is a nicer couch,
but is it worth the, the point difference that it's going to end up being?
Stuff, I did get that. Sure.
Random painting. I do like that, although it's like the thermoelectric fridges that really suck.
The co-fridge was so funny. It's also so loud.
Things that we're watching. It's the wrong kind of, it's not like, it's the shitty kind of fridge.
What's it, technology connections? He would hate that fridge. Yeah, he would hate that. He would hate that.
He would hate that. Conniption. Is that what he says? Just a bunch of different snails.
I don't know. I just like the, the conniption is just a great word. It's a very funny word.
I have a better one. We'll explain that later. This is probably just a good little setup for later.
Oh yeah. The mouse. It's like actually pretty good. That mouse was actually pretty fine.
High buck. How long is this? Did you ever see the footage of Dan dropping the projector?
I did see it. Okay, that's the only clip you have to see from the other one.
I'd never noticed Sammy's face. Probably a while, unfortunately.
So if you can see it, it's fine. She looks incredibly concerned.
Yeah. This is something that I think also the judges kind of caught
flack for was like, they were like, we didn't talk about their sketchy projector mount.
We didn't see it. Yeah.
Like we just didn't know. And that's the thing is that there's a level of like,
there's a dramatic irony that the audience receives because they get to see everything that like,
we're just like not privy to. I kept trying to swing by the set and be like,
hey, David, what's going on? Can I see it? And David would be like, Adam, go away.
You're not allowed to see it. I was like, but I really want to know. Yeah, it's tough because I think both ways could be right
because it might be good for you to understand the process
so you can judge it more holistically. But there's also an argument to be made of like,
you should only judge the final product and like what you see should be what you get.
Because I also considered telling you guys, be like, look for this, look for this, see this.
But then it's also I'm influencing the judging.
And it's like, that has its downsides too. And so it's just know when you, before you comment
that we've had these discussions, everything you think of when you watch Scrapper Wars,
we have spent evenings and nights discussing these things.
Yeah, yeah. There's very few things that are like, oops.
Everything is like, this has this upside,
this has this downside, this has this upside, this has this downside. I guess we're going to roll the dice and choose this one.
It is crazy to see with two hours left how nothing,
how little Luke's team has. Linus' team is like, the room's been painted.
They have that like DIY shelf. Yeah, they're just like redoing their cabling,
basically. It's so budget. And it's like, we arranged the chronology of this day
so that the things are more tightly integrated story wise, but they did only have two hours.
So at the most time you see on Luke's team was two hours left.
It's hard to tell. Yeah, did we ever get proof that Linus' PC actually worked?
Oh, no. That's crazy. He could have just. He could have just seated.
And it's like, I'm glad you guys punished him for it. I think that's the biggest change I would make to next year is
the PCs have to be more integrated into the setup and you have to like hit a minimum threshold of actual PC-ness.
But again, that wasn't a snap decision. That was a discussion that was had many times.
We should plug it in on a WAN Show this week. We should bring it on to WAN Show and plug it in and prove that it works.
That's actually a really funny idea. Or if it's just the crappy panel.
But I don't know if you, oh, you heard that Dan cheated. Dan cheated.
Dan cheated. So Jamie was giving away, Dan gave the team,
sorry, Jamie gave the team their audio,
their AV receiver and the speakers. And then Dan brought the speaker wire and the stuff from home.
Oh, well, yeah. No, I feel like the Jamie one is like borderline
because we found out that like they kind of asked, but they were so vague that I didn't prod deeper,
which was my mistake. This is crazy. The subterfuge.
The subterfuge. The subterfuge.
Yeah. But the him bring the sub and speaker wire from home is definitely,
uh, no. Yeah, let's do that. Let's put it back on. Okay.
I'm pretty sure this is on. Okay. They're just working on their HDR. They're working on it.
There we go. Yeah. This was so bad. That looks. And it's an interesting thing because you saw their adventure time
and it looked horrible. Yeah. But it's not necessarily their fault,
but the other team suffered from bad internet,
which is more Luke's fault.
But so it's like both teams got punished, although the team got punished slightly less because I think they had two of three movies
that presented well. Yeah. I didn't like, I mentioned, I brought it up,
but I don't think like maybe we'll talk about it more when we get to the judging section,
but I don't, I didn't really ding them that hard for it.
I think it was just a matter of like if it's one of the,
it was like, yeah, because it was like one thing, right? It was one thing out of the three things that they ended up getting.
Well, and I have way more personal experience with streaming being good,
like video, video streaming being good than game streaming being good. I've had way more times where game streaming has been less fun than just local streaming
or local gaming. Whereas yeah, I watched most of my videos via internet somehow.
The trial is SD. It shouldn't be. Should we put a Blu-ray in to check and make sure the audio is working and then maybe you can.
Grab Dark Knight. Sure.
Did you have a Dark Knight Blu-ray back in the day? I still have a Dark Knight Blu-ray.
Oh really? Yeah. I was talking about how I got two. I got two for like Christmas from different people.
Oh really? Yeah. In 2008 or 2009 or whatever. I have all of the Nolan films on Blu-ray.
Oh really? Yeah. What's your favorite Nolan film? It's the art of like his whole movie or like just out of Batman.
Well, okay, Batman and then all. Inception's like my favorite movie.
Really? I love it. Okay. It's not the best movie of all time.
No. But I think that the way it's like got this like it's a really cool heist movie.
It's kind of like I think I fell in love with it in high school because it's a little bit
pretentious. Yeah. It tries to be a little bit smarter than it is. Yeah. But it's so slick.
The stuff like the floating in the hotel room is so cool.
And honestly from like minute 40 to like the very end is like you're just stuck to your seat.
You cannot peel your eyes away. It is a really good.
I'd call it like one of the most spectacular films of all time.
Even though it's yeah it's not one of my favorites. It's not even my favorite Nolan film. Yeah.
But I feel like it might be Dunkirk which seems to have really taken a dive in people's opinion
in the last couple years. I thought Dunkirk was like good. I just think it was so visceral in the same way that like Inception's
spectacle is its strength. I think Dunkirk's immersion and viscerality really got me.
But I haven't watched it since theater. So maybe I'll watch it again and I'll be like. Yeah.
I haven't returned to Dunkirk yet. Maybe it's just a good theater watch and it's not a good home watch. It's like an avatar where it's like the fun is.
The avatar was so cool in theaters. And then you go home you're like yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It's never worth it. You cut these into something and basically precariously balance the TV on this.
It should be good enough right.
And this is our new feat. It's so bad.
They had no they didn't have any more material. The TV is just going to rest on.
I feel like it would have been better to make a square.
It's not going to be super cool. A square. What do you mean? Like just to take that same material and make smaller squares instead of making it because
because the real issue was that it was this narrow. So the TV like could be like one off the side where I'd rather have like the TV like.
Yeah. I mean I guess they have the like toddler danger but like.
I think if I was to do it I would also want to like I would basically create like a hole the
size of the TV stand legs to dip a little bit into it so that it's not sitting right on top
so we can slide out. That's ultimately what's going to happen is that they sit on top and then it like.
Yeah. They'd miss the lines.
Scrapper doors is really easy actually.
You know. Got two hours left. Yeah. Your 3D print failed.
Like come on. Weeks after the thing and I'm thinking of all of these smart solutions.
This is so easy. Yeah. I'm really Sebastian. Captain Henson.
Hindson. This is my best work. Oh dude this is sketch.
It's so sketch. But like yeah like you said it's just you're out of time.
And like now it's so easy to be like you could do better.
Okay. So let's just give it some sharpie and then. Sharpie and. Yeah. Pen is allowed.
Oh god. Oh. Are you putting it on sketch?
Oh god. Are you stripping this screw? No. Can I work? Yeah the version of this part.
Yeah. The first version of this part that I saw was so different.
This flows so much better. I'm actually pretty happy with the way the part four turned out.
This looks okay. It's kind of. It's very very droopy.
Say. It's upside down. Now it's upside down. Cut all that out.
You're too far to the left. Yeah but if I manipulate it any more I'm concerned the mount will like snap.
Uki.
Luke. Yeah. I need you. Okay so I'm going to do like a 2004 video game.
I can't be able to do this. This sounds like an excite truck.
Yeah. Sounds like the opening of the excite truck. At a certain point we're just going to do the same thing. I'd like a paintball.
Plastic collars to the rescue. FB. That's our one shot that we have of a certain point where we're just going to.
Projector knife. And it's this is one of those things too where it's like.
People watching the video are like how could the judges not know that that was there.
It was 11 feet up. Yeah and it's dark. And it's behind the projector.
And I got the rest of the room to look at. You should you should have seen the giant arrow pointing at it.
Okay Adam. I okay. Text beside it. I didn't.
I did think I was like wow it's right above my head. I did think it was sketchy just as a location in general.
Yeah. But I didn't even yeah. That's the knife is so funny.
It's so funny. It kills me. I wish we had a few more shots that are close-ups but it's like.
They just did that. The bend in the knife is the craziest part.
Like that's so dangerous. That was literally above your head. And that would really hurt if that landed on your head.
Wait that was like the that was like a linchpin. Like that's holding it up.
No it's it's I think holding it at the right angle. Yeah.
So it's actually going to fall in. It just would have like swung.
The knife would have flung out. Yeah.
Somehow just Sammy. That lap was a Justin.
Plastic knives to the rescue. Sammy.
I had no idea he was laughing. Could be me on opiates too.
That's good for this part. We're going to move the couch back. All right let's get those out of here.
Dan we're all set on cables. Anything extra I can take out? Start finishing it off.
Yeah I don't know how to mount it. Do you know how to mount this stuff? Yeah yeah. So one here and one there.
Yeah. Okay.
Sebastian do you want to get Nat to help you with the wall panels? I trust you should weigh more than I do.
Mounting photos. I trust either. Or mounting pictures to the wall and at
like at a brushed pace. Oh. Would suck. I just hate mounting pictures in general.
Yeah exactly like just base level. It's just like it sucks and then also like you
screw it up very slightly and then you'll notice it forever even if no one else does.
Yeah. But then doing it with like a time pressure. That would test the patience of even of Gandhi.
Yeah.
I've switched to using command strips for most of my
hanging stuff but even that it's like it's just annoying. I hate hanging things man.
Yeah. For us. I want to be rich one day so I can pay someone to hang things for me.
For the controller? Or do we need Wi-Fi? It says it doesn't need Wi-Fi and it has a remote.
What does that mean? Description. Norish.
What do you think that means? I don't know. I don't. I have not shopped at restore personally.
Maybe it's like who it the. It might be the organization that benefits.
Maybe. Yeah. Yes. I'm on this then after I'm done sharpening.
That looks so much better though. It doesn't really like stand out anymore.
That's crazy. This was. You know what. They did a good job on this on a pen. It's not bad.
The screws were such a mistake. Or something because this looks like butt. It could use like tape.
Yeah. Except I guess like they'd have to buy the tape
themselves. Tape would take way longer. Yeah. But this is quick.
And then they covered in paint. That's matching paints anyway.
But it. If this was a long term deployment I would not want to do that.
Yeah. Oh man. There's so much compression blocking.
I know. Can we see the blu-ray again? I should have put text. Being like which version we're watching.
Yeah. Keep this. Don't you love watching your own videos back?
It's a little softer because it's. Oh. This is wanting to change everything.
Yeah. Yeah. So many tiny things. Maybe but it is. These ones especially because like by part four
Hoffman and I are so fucking tired of editing these.
And it's like. Yeah. We know we have to review them multiple times.
Get through them. He's 10 times when we're tired of looking at these
stupid clips than I am. And it's just like you just. Yeah. You're a little bit compromised by the end of it.
And it's like it was good. So this one. Halfway through I think Connor did the editing for the last part.
And Hoffman is fantastic and did a really,
really amazing job with every part that he did. But I could tell that the second part of the video was
done by a fresh editor because they had a little more to give.
It's so tough working on such a long project. Especially like you had multiple cameras,
multiple days worth of footage. Yeah. And then and then all doing all the and the fact that we
don't use boom microphones. Yeah. We didn't have like boom operators and stuff that makes.
Editing way harder because you have to adjust. Yeah. Everyone's mics in the conversations within the
same room. We have to switch audio tracks and stuff. We have more like assistant editing happening these days
where someone else will sync and do it all. But there's so much friggin work to go through.
And like it's just five weeks of it's five weeks of releases.
And then we've been editing for like three, four weeks before. And it's just like two months of nonstop this.
Yeah. It's like impossible if you need like a two week
vacation in the middle of it. Obviously, but it looks pretty good. A couple of them had like ruined thumbstick tops.
Both the top left. That's you think they did a pretty good job on the specific.
They didn't look or feel perfect.
But the controls weren't too grody. Like they were like a little bit.
So they like a wipe and then the new buttons or the new sticks.
I don't know the double A's were good. Yeah. They're double A's. Okay. These are honestly not getting any cleaner.
Into the wire basket. I think the controllers would have been noted more if we had.
You used them. Spent more time playing games. In place. No, I needed in place.
Yeah. That's the problem. Okay. They only got they got the five on the benchmark and the one
on the the subjective. Watch the projector.
Yeah. Sorry. Being held in my hopes and dreams. Tilted now.
Oh, I'm sorry. This is the we're making design.
Every time it cuts to this team and they're just chilling.
It's so much. The difference in stress levels. Yeah, it was so fascinating just to see Luke get overwhelmed
by the anxiety of the people in this team. How's the clap edge right now?
You can get the door. I think it's actually bouncing off the ceiling.
Yeah. The fact that they have time to be like, what are some extra final touches we can do?
Okay. You know, let's just fix the feeling. I would. I would love to maybe just like a couple bigger shapes.
Forty five minutes. Four or five minutes. Sebastian, I have good news and bad news.
Bye, Rihanna. Bad news is the remote is not in there. Then we need the app.
That's fine. The app. App uses Wi-Fi. Can you use it to set it up and then?
Wait, is this one sealed? Hold on. Hold on. Maybe this one has a remote.
Oh, no. You know what? Yes. That was the good news. But no, you're not allowed to do that.
We can set it up now because we're allowed to use Wi-Fi for setup and then it's.
That was never allowed. But it's not the worst cheating that happened.
It also, that's like such a minor one.
We should have. It kills me. She's like, oh God, no.
What's happening? What's happening? It was a different plan.
We should have like punishment for discovered cheating.
Like if it's caught during the process.
Like you know how in like Big Brother, they have to like eat slop or whatever.
I think we should give them that. I think that's a good idea. I think I'm gonna have it more structured next year.
I think I'll make it more. I mean, we don't know if we're doing Scrap Your Words.
So share it with your friends. If you want more Scrap Your Words.
You make it get more views. And if you hated it, share it with your enemies.
Okay.
But I think we could probably play up the Dan storyline that he got caught cheating and be like,
sort of update the YouTube people because they won't see this. Although I'm sure someone will share it on the subreddit.
But yeah, have it like, if you get caught cheating, there's a severity.
And depending on the severity, you get a different punishment. And if you get caught cheating twice,
it's like a multiplier. There's, I don't know. I can come up with the system.
Hey Sebastian, want to play your favorite game again? Even the Dwarf.
No, there's good news. Bad news is this strip doesn't work.
The good news is this one does. Oh, we have one strip. We have one strip.
Do we want underglow on the couch? We're bias lighting on the TV.
TV. I think TV. Yeah, underglow. Why would you want underglow?
Underglow on the couch is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You know what?
That's, yeah. I think I was standing around for that one. I was like, underglow on the couch.
Onto your like shag rug that you got from the thrift store?
Like it doesn't seem like a really nice. The right call? Yeah. Hey, you know what?
It's not that it is bias lighting, improve the mood and the vibe. No, no stupid questions.
Yeah, it's true. It's supposed to improve the person's contrast. It's funny because this is the only person we would speak of
so negatively as Linus. Everyone else is like, we're going to buffer ourselves and be kind.
I'm also just surprised he would ask that question. I've never even like heard of somebody doing underglow on their,
that's like the worst place to do underglow. It's just dirty under there. I think if it's like a high end gaming room
where it's like everything is clean all the time and it's just like a showcase piece,
I could see that looking cool. Yeah. But then that is not what they have to know. You're really gaming.
If your room is that clean. If there isn't at least like a layer of dust and everything.
Yeah. Friggin gaming. And fair point.
That is funny to try not to knock this TV over. That would be actually be disastrous right now.
I need you to go to the other side. All without knocking over the TV.
Oh, wait. Shoot, we're over these cables. I got to hand it to you through the cable.
It's funny that both teams drop their displays. No, it has to go under this power cable.
I can get behind. I got this other side. It's really bad.
That one's not the bad one. Dude, honestly? I got my side.
His hand grabbing the side of it. Looks like more brutal.
Like you look at that whack. Oh, God. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Both of them. Both of them. You got it? Okay, I got my side. Yeah, it's the other drop that's worse.
This next drop is way worse. Because this is the one that it makes us the best.
Oh, and you get all the way up to like the like middle of the left side of the TV.
There is that is enough drop. It could have. Yeah. That could have busted the display.
We need an MXC impact replay on that.
Okay. Oh, I didn't go for it back enough.
It's really bad.
Okay, is she still stable? Ish. No, we're good. How does it always come down to the wire like this?
Yeah, he's like, it's coming down to the wire.
It's better than I was concerned we were going to be at like half an hour ago.
If I went to an Airbnb and it looked like that one, I'd be okay with it.
I honestly think.
I was sitting, so I was reviewing another video and I kind of saw it as being edited
like a week ago or whatever that one was.
And it was for the first time that I saw Linus' room with normal lighting and not set to blue.
And I was like, it looks so much better without blue lighting.
That's fair. I like the blue lighting, but I think part of it is I know what it looks like when it's lit.
Yeah. And so that like that combo works fine.
He also just chose like there's a reason why that paint was cheap and that's because no one's
buying those colors and also you might be using those for like accents.
Yeah. That's it. Someone said Cineplex in the 90s and that is pretty damn spot on.
Cineplex is a Canadian movie chain that had arcades and stuff in the 90s.
Very tacky arcade stuff.
I was trying to, I think someone says that in the video, I was trying to find a good photo
and I could not find for the life of me a good photo of a 90s Cineplex.
We still need to clean the TV and clean the console. Not even the inside of like the Langley one?
No, I didn't. Okay, I didn't look that hard.
I was sitting in the chair next to the editor and I spent probably five minutes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know those. Those kinds of Google searches. Just checking to make sure that all the channels are working properly.
Dollarama, baby. I'm glad I got it. So you can get those little snacks from Dollarama.
What's not nice is that Dollarama, things aren't a dollar anymore.
No. You can't call yourself Dollarama if your things don't cost a dollar. Yeah, I will say this is not financial advice.
I bought Dollarama like a year ago. Yeah. It's gone up like, it went from like 90 to like 180 dollars.
I was just like, you know what? Fuck it. The economy's on tough times. People are going to the dollar store.
That's crazy. They don't, big time. Don't buy individual stocks.
And this is not financial advice. And I also only, I sound really happy, but I only bought 100 dollars.
So I'm like, you know. 80 bucks. Yeah, that's not bad.
Hey, 80 bucks, that's a personal game. Yeah. I think I had like the perfect amount.
You know how much stuff you can get at Dollarama for that? 60 things.
You could get like 80 sheets of construction paper.
Yeah. I once went to a Dollarama, because my girlfriend saw on TikTok or something,
that they had Princess Bride dolls. And so I went to, I was killing time or something.
And I was like, oh, I'll go to a couple of Dollaramas and see if they had any. They didn't have any, but they had these like Seth MacFarlane dragon toys
that are like 80 dollars. And somehow they ended up on the Dollarama shelf.
And they, when I brought up to the front, I was like, fuck it, I'll pay five bucks for it.
Seth MacFarlane? Not Seth Mac, Seth Mac Garland.
Seth, who's the toy maker guy? I don't know.
MacFarlane is the... That's family.
Yeah, that is that. Toys?
It is MacFarlane. Oh, okay. It's just not Seth MacFarlane.
Yeah. Whoa, Seth MacFarlane had a dragon toy?
Todd MacFarlane, Todd MacFarlane. So he said, these are dragons that are probably like,
they're not worth money, but it's like 50 bucks or whatever.
And they were, they didn't have a price tag on the thing. And I was like, I'll buy one of these.
I brought it to the front and they didn't have them in the system.
And so I was like, they're most expensive in their thing in their stores, five bucks.
So they sold it to me for five bucks. That's crazy. But I don't think that they were meant to be there
because like they weren't in their system. I mean, sometimes they do liquidation. It's true, but it was one dragon totally out of place.
Yo, it's crazy. Bianca Amours opened like literally like,
I think three days after Shrapyard Wars, it was filmed. There's a Bianca Amours in like low heat area.
Yeah. And I was like, that would have come in so clutch. So clutch.
Got to love Bianca Amours. I think that's in the States.
I don't know. I don't know. It's like a liquidation center. And it's like just random junk from other stores.
I like McFruigles. I'm a big fan of McFruigles. Similar idea.
Just like all the stuff other stores can sell ends up there.
I bought like slush puppy syrup for 22 cents.
Whoa. Yeah. I was like cheaper than sugar. Yeah.
I said, I've not opened it. That was three years ago. Oh my God.
I mean like does it, does it spoil?
I don't know. I'll find out.
Drink it tonight. Oh God. I've been like, I'm going to get vanilla ice cream and I'll put it on.
And then I'll be very nostalgic because I'm very nostalgic for slush puppies.
But like, when are we going to have freaking vanilla ice cream?
Do you buy vanilla ice cream? Sometimes. Just vanilla?
No. I mean, like if you're having like a, if I'm like hosting people, if it's like, Sure.
Thanks to Apple Pie or something. Yeah, like Thanksgiving will get vanilla ice cream just to serve with the pie.
But I'm not going to, if I'm going to buy it. So Thanksgiving could be the day.
Thanksgiving could be the time you have a slush puppy. Thanksgiving 2025.
Yeah. That's only in like a month.
Canadian Thanksgiving. Canadian Thanksgiving is in a month.
I like the modern art. I thought that was really funny. The banana? Yeah, it was very funny.
I like that they put a little effort into getting it right too.
Even though the point of the piece is that it's effort, it's like stupid.
Another thing I noticed was the shadow art. I thought the point of it was that like anything can be art if we decide that is art.
I mean, that's like true.
And it's like, they, they, they refresh it, right? So it's, I don't think they like try and get the tape exactly the same.
Is that the point is like, it is, the art is the idea, not the like.
Yeah, it's a context. They fix it art. Yeah. Which is interesting.
I'm not going to buy it. I'll buy a banana. Oh, this is a, a Selmar in the chat brings up a really good point.
Ducktape would count as consumable and therefore would need to be bought.
Or is it counted as a tool? It would be consumable. They, they, if I don't know if they bought it or if it was just taken from the office,
it's such a minor thing that even if they had one, I probably wouldn't have made a
stink about it. But technically they should have.
Unbelievable. They should have procured that with their own budget.
I hope this team loses.
It used to be set to like 20 or it's 30. The banana is going to do it.
I saw an interesting thing that someone was saying they should have just messed around
with the bit rate gotten at lower because they might have had a more consistent experience.
But who knows what it could have should have. Yeah.
Really easy. Two months later. Yeah.
That is a frigging sweet thumbnail or background.
What is the song? What's that voice?
Yeah. I don't think I picked up on that.
Yeah. That's not a thing that you should say. Yeah. I like that music cut though.
He's fine. I love the classical music. Does he like somebody who paints like an entire canvas in red and you're like,
I could do that. But it's actually about like the way that you like use the brush a bajillion times to
make it perfectly red. I'm not an art major, but I'm trying my best to like notice the little details like where
the duct tape goes. Oh, I think it's ripped. I'm pretty sure the tape is not perfect.
It's supposed to be ripped. It is a living art piece though. They literally update it all the time.
Do you guys like the media on here or should I lose it? Would it be better if they were tucked straight?
Straighter. The angle's fine. I think the angle's fine. Oh, the flowers kind of died overnight, didn't they?
We can go over the last minute. That's pretty sad.
No, that's pretty sad too.
Rassier? What the f***? Where's Sebastian? Do you want to go pick flowers?
He's picking flowers. Okay, I need him to cut this. I don't wear the size.
He's picking flowers. Yeah, no, it makes sense.
That's such a good cameraman moment.
Sebastian, I need another cable management hider. Can we just break it in half?
Yeah, I'll show you, I'll show you, I'll show you. We've got some grass for touch grass.
Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go. Linus, what do you need? This I could sharpie for a very short distance.
Okay, yeah, and then I can sharpie the other side and we can put it on the other side of the thing.
Oh, we still have to wipe down the TV. Action drops, packet loss.
Why does the office's internet just suck so much? Okay, that's all holes.
It would be much worse if it was not the person in charge
of the info team who's internet had let them down. It would still help you with things if you asked nicely.
Hey Dan, you're up. You know, I just need to basically adjust.
Yeah, I don't even know what was happening that day. That was like specifically that day.
So what they figured out after is that the way it was,
it's routed through our office might be causing a lot of the issues
because it's got to like bounce through a bunch of touch points or something.
And so it's like, there was no hope. Our internet was never going to do a good job for this.
And it's a good reminder, like when we do streaming stuff, we generally don't use regular internet.
We go to a backup one that is more direct. Yeah, we have a specific network that isn't going to bounce
through a bunch of different campaigns and relays and stuff.
And so I don't think we got a conclusive answer. It's all like, I think.
But I think that was a big part of it is that our office internet
is not well designed for this. But who knows better about our internet than Luke?
Yeah, you're going to have to kind of really scrub it. Just in the bottom.
Maybe 10. Yeah.
Okay, good. And then as soon as we're done wiping the TV, pancrats, I guess you get content on it.
Yeah. I will continue sharpening. Okay, I think it's pretty good.
Okay. It's like a mode right here.
So the base sounds like, but whatever. We've got like no time left.
So I give up. Dan, I need the room for the last five minutes.
We're done with audio. We're good. Okay.
That was dirty at it.
I love that. It sounds like you stooped. I'm so bad.
It's good with audio. We're good. Okay.
That's very scary. Careful. Yeah. So this is one of the shots that I most wish I could get a
different B-roll for because you can kind of understand what's
happening, but if the room is dark and the outside is light, you can see all this light shining in and it's a much more
obvious of like what they're doing. Blocking that light. That's scary. Careful.
That was very smart of them to block it though. Yeah. I think that was me telling them, you guys going to do
something about that? Because at this point, I was like, I need you not to suck
that bad, which I shouldn't have done. I should have let them find where they needed to.
Guys, be careful. Yeah. Projector is moving. Yeah, I'm coming down now.
Okay, final stage. It's together.
Room temperature now. The projector shifted, but the roof hole seems to be covered.
The banana is on the wall. The room is together.
Oh, hey, there's still light coming through that hole. Yeah, right there. I'm trying to make it so that the games are at least in like full
screen before they get here. Luke, does that work?
Yeah. Okay, at least you get that. Guys, quick.
Covers or naked? Oh, naked. Let's do it.
Every time. Quick. I know he doesn't do it, but every time he brings this
Sharpie up that close to the TV, I feel like he's going to Sharpie the TV. Covers or naked?
Oh, naked. Let's do it. Naked was the right call. One minute.
One minute. Oh, wait. One last question. I like the covers. You like the covers?
Yeah. It's a metastatic balance perspective. It's just very neutral. So I guess it's like if you want to notice the speakers
or if you want them to blend in. I think for that, for the sake of this competition,
I think it probably makes more sense. I don't want to be like, look at these. Yeah, that's fair.
I keep the covers on at home because I don't care about
what my speakers look like. I just want to be immersed in the TV.
You know what? No, let's have it on. I think this is more welcoming.
Show the autos on the news. Six, five, four, three, two, one.
Okay. I'm stoked to be right.
This is fire. That shot, I go, it's so much better.
That's because it's bright. You can see the colors. It's inviting.
And then he's like, what if I made it dark blue?
Yeah, I get why you, during the movie watching experience, you would turn down the lights.
But you're right, they should have turned down the lights
for the part. But the app was on his phone, so it wasn't as easy.
They would have had to have Sebastian around. Yeah, he would have like flipped the lights, which like five times to like reset the thing.
Yeah, for the sake of filming, we didn't want to have
the full team plus the judges. Because there's just so many people in those rooms,
and it's just hard to communicate. And it's way better if it's just judges
plus the one team leader. That's four people. That's still a lot of people.
Plus I was in the room. I think to clarify to Pepic, they didn't,
Luke's team doesn't use Wi-Fi. No. They use an Ethernet jack that was provided in the room.
So that's why they didn't have to buy an access pointer or anything like that.
With the rooms ready to go, it's time for the most important part of the week. The judging.
Linus, seeing as you got to pick your teammate second, would you like to be judged first or second?
What do you want? I want to be judged.
This exchange is cute. Second. I want second.
That's how it's going to be. You know what? Why don't we flip for it?
Sure. I actually baited you to exactly what I wanted, so I did not want to coin flip.
I wanted you to go. You to go first or second? Second. You want me to go second?
Oh, I want to go second. I have been baited.
That was great. I don't want to make the full on joke.
You want to get halfway there. They get it. Yeah.
So I was glad that, Sammy. He said manipulator. Let's get the judging underway.
Hey, that guy. I like him. Yeah.
That's pretty sweet.
That's sick. For something we shot in seven minutes. Yeah.
I was in the office for like exclusively that. I know. I felt so bad because you were supposed to come
in to shoot the animal stuff that day, but we had a power outage. Yeah. So that shoot got canceled.
So then you ended up just coming for this. Well, I always had to pick up some stuff. Okay. I had to be here anyways, like regardless to pick up
some stuff for the shoot that we were doing at the dome. At least that.
Yeah. Because I was like, I border, borderline. I was like, I don't, I can just deal without it.
But then I was like, no, I'm going to screw the editor over because then you won't have time.
Because you weren't in for the rest of the week either, right? Yeah. I was like, I had two on location shoots
and then I had, and I had a couple of days off. No. So it was like, it was then or never.
So I was like, I can't. No, we got it. We got it done. Yeah. We got it done.
Having seen the rooms as they were before,
very impressed. That cable management is so bad.
Yeah. That corner was just gnarly. It's tough.
Just time. It's like, what do you send your time on? And for them, they couldn't even do anything
because Dan needed the whole room to kind of work on the projector because they can't step in front.
So it's like until the end, they couldn't really detail orient anything.
Truly like the lesson that was learned is that there's a reason why no one wants projectors and no one
wants to do games and like people don't like game streaming. That's that they're finicky and unreliable.
And they learned that the hard way. Yeah. And it's like on the best day, this could have
been the better setup. Yep. Yeah. But it's not going to be the best day most of the time.
I do like that fridge. I like the, I dig it. It's like, it's cute.
It's cute. The off center of the logo is so annoying. It is. That's fair because it's like it's centered to the door.
Oh, yeah. But it's not centered to that total unit.
Also, let's rank these snacks. Oh, rank this now. Day whoppers, five out of 10.
Oh, no. Should we just rank like a number order? What do you want to do? Okay. My number one.
Okay. No, what's the worst? What's the worst? The worst one here is Swedish berries.
Oh, opposite. That's my number one. Really? Yeah.
Oh my God. We're going to be opposite. That's my number one.
I don't like Swedish berries. I love Swedish berries.
My least favorites probably Kit Kat.
That's my second lowest. Yeah. Kit Kat's like, okay.
Yeah, I don't know. It's like. It does nothing for me. They improved upon it with the Kit Kat chunky.
Yes. That's just a better canyon for me. I agree. The ratio of the Kit Kat is just too much wafer.
Yeah. I don't love Twix. It's okay.
I like milk duds and whoppers better than both those choco bars.
If they're, these are peanut M&Ms. That might be my number two.
Yeah, I respect that. They are Mike and Ike's number one. No, it's Swedish berries.
Mike and Ike, no, Mike and Ike's has got to go lower. Mike and Ike's are fine, but.
I think. Above Twix is probably. Howdy here. I think peanut M&Ms.
Number one. Number one. That's a fair choice. Twix number two, whoppers three, milk duds four, Kit Kat five.
Main Swedish berries. Number seven. Yeah.
Or whatever number. And don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't have me.
Don't get it twisted. Do you not get it twisted? Swedish berries are still good.
Yeah. It's still candy. I just think that everything else in that thing is better. Do you like Swedish fish better than Swedish berries?
No. That's just that red flavor. I don't mind.
I don't like the texture of Swedish berries. Oh, I think that's what I like about them.
Do you like winegums? No. It's my favorite candy. Do you like jujubes?
No. See, I like jujubes. Oh, that's so funny. That's the line.
That's the line that we crossed. The perfect amount of chewiness. We have a disagreement.
That's so funny. Yeah. In varieties of places. Yo, last whoppers.
Digital B, I will not stand for malt chocolate ball standard slander.
Okay. I like, I like. I love malt teasers and stuff too. Yeah.
They got that crunch. It's not something I crave, but I very much enjoy it.
Also like malt chocolate, like have you ever like a malt chocolate milkshake?
Yes. So good. I have a very specific memory.
This is going to be very Canadian, but of the Zellers diner going with my grandma to like,
no, Kmart. It was, I don't know anymore. Now I'm.
I don't know if Kmart was ever in Canada. That wasn't in Zellers, but they had the diner and going to get.
Zellers, I think. A milkshake or whatever after and being like grandma, what's a chocolate malt?
And she's like, it's like chocolate, but different and I had it.
And it was the best thing I've ever had in my entire life. Like a beer after taste.
I think now I would guess that that's like, there's probably, you know, maltiness.
But, but when I was a kid, I had no idea what malt is. She's like, it's like an old timey milkshake or something.
And I was like, sure. And it was the greatest milkshake I'd ever had in my life.
Yeah, I believe it.
That is a pretty funny joke. Yeah. I do like the use of the acoustic paneling to like.
Was there two camera people in the room shooting with us? Yes. Yeah. So yeah, I couldn't be in the other corner.
I was going to check if the surrounds are.
Yeah, it's funny how much the lighting really does change because like the top down lighting, good choice.
I have it off. It would have been nice if they had a shade, but the lamp makes it such an inviting.
Yes. And more comfortable space just to be in it. And crooked.
Looks great. Welcome back to this. Hello, Dan.
Thank you. Hi. Hi.
Where are we? We're at the judge's judging.
Yes. We're going to be done before five, like four thirties going to be here.
Sure, bud.
I haven't streamed for so long, too. I'm surprised that I'm still alive.
That was funny. That doesn't look too bad.
No, your room looks fine.
It has a less, I think, distinct identity.
But the appearance wasn't the reason you guys lost. Yeah.
Yeah, just literally everything that was important. Yeah, well, the vibes was it was its own category.
And I think I would, as I said, I'd much rather spend time in this.
I felt vindicated by Linus who was like,
you did a really nice job with like the white room.
Yeah. Yeah. And it is really a, the decor is always subjective.
And there's a lot of people that would prefer this white room, too. That's a zero. That's like the zero gravity table thingies.
The cable, that's cool. I didn't know that. It's neat. It's not ideal for a home theater set up.
No, it's not. It's not a good table. It's a good thing to look at. That tape is crazy.
It's so funny. I don't think I did that. I think that's Sammy when the light was leaking through.
That is, we weren't, we weren't judging. That's not a danger. I think I literally specifically said,
don't judge the outside. The outside doesn't matter. Did you like the cable-less look?
Oh, yeah. I appreciated that. I couldn't see any cables. Yeah, it's pretty nice.
Except the problem is, then you have this corner of cables.
Yes. 3D glasses? Well, you put a blanket over it. So you can wash the room.
Let the whole thing overheat. No.
Yeah. Did you get a three, did you get us 3D media to test with?
No. I like this. I did though.
I did. The, like, the freaking, the, like-
The horror movie, like- The new metal, like, the Apple movie. Oh, is that what it is?
Or the, like, yeah. If you look up, like, new metal bows, it's like,
you got, like, Serge Tankian, and you got, like, Frickin' Limp Bizkit.
Sure. In my head, it was, like, the horror movie when they're, like,
going through the walls. Like, the poltergeist are, like, reaching through the portraits or something.
Hmm? Don't worry about it. Sorry, I zoned out and started reading chat because somebody said, hey, Adam.
And then I was like, Oh. Is there a chance that my partner Shea
will come back for a secret chopper or something? I don't know.
Oh, no. It's just, like- We usually don't use the same secret agents
for a secret chopper. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe she'll make an appearance at some point on the channel.
Yeah. Maybe not. And it's also, if you want more secret chopper, go watch that video 10 hundred times.
Yes. Because the numbers of this season were, or series or whatever we call them.
I'm working on that right now. On secret chopper? Dance, dance botting.
Dance botting. Oh. No, I have spent the last two weeks
investigating why views are down. Okay. That's all I do.
Thanks, dyslexic story. Those ones were down. That was before this current trend of down.
That was just like, it didn't perform as well as it had the years before.
It wasn't part of this like summer slump. Yeah, that's right. Pre-August, right?
Yep. Yeah. I think so. This is kind of an interesting line of like,
when we get to get back to the video is like,
the Airbnb aesthetic. Like I called it rental core. Yeah, rental core is exactly.
Which is like, what it is. But it is also like, just a nicer space to be in.
I think honestly, on camera with the narrower lens,
the amount of space that is empty feels far more burdensome
than it does in real life. Yeah, it doesn't feel particularly empty.
I prefer Linus's vibe for a gaming room.
Like I like the kind of kitschy, like I'm embracing my nerdom over this.
But if this was not my gaming room, this was just my living room.
I might lean a little bit more towards this. Although if you've seen a video of my house,
I have crazy colors and with Stereotree and I have weird nerdy stuff everywhere.
So maybe I'm not the best example. And I did like, I did like that Linus fully,
they went for that vibe fully and I respected that.
I just was, I would just rather be. If you had told me that those colors
were picked by colorblind person, I'd believe you.
It looks like they were picked by a guy who was trying to get the cheapest paint possible. Yeah, then surprise it is.
Did I mute it? Yeah, exactly. And then the person in the middle is just the king.
Just enjoying life. If you're really desperate, technically,
I think it's like every six days, you're supposed to eat the banana and replace it. Honestly, it looks nice,
but it is the vibe is rental property core. Or hotel room I just got here.
Feels like an Airbnb. Yeah. But it is like really clean and like then tasteful.
Like look at this damn base. It's one of those things it's like, it's for everyone yet for no one.
I think the thing is it's got the bones of something nice,
but it has none of the human touches of somebody of like living somewhere.
Yeah, I think this is something that Chad's saying. It looks like no one, it clearly no one lives here.
If the walls had like, you know, family photos. Yeah.
Like vacation church keys, stuff like that. That might be enough. It would like bring it alive.
I think this does look like if you're going to present your, like if this is a good real estate open house.
House Stagers first home, their first assignment.
It's a really clean and nice and modern space. Well, I think it's time that we move on
to the movie watching experience. I will say right now,
projector not even close to a line. It's not even close. It's at an angle for a subwoofer.
Yes.
Fuck, that sucks.
It looks much better than the team. So maybe I can get Marceline to write a song with me.
I've seen enough. So what resolution is this projector?
4k. Is this 4k content?
Yes. But no HDR. Projector can do HDR.
I don't think the nook could or whatever it is. Oh.
You decided there was no media, software or controller for the computer?
Some sort of software interface that if I wanted to have a more couch like TV like experience.
Definitely considered it. Probably a very reasonable upgrade to go into over the next little while.
I like this though. Brings back to my college days. Oh yeah, totally.
Should we just have the lamp on instead? How accessible is that?
Oh my god. It's um. That really changes it. Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Yeah, that does change things. I think you just aren't gaming. Wouldn't have it on when you're gaming.
No, you don't have any smart bulbs or dimming bulbs.
It's such a weird. Luke.
So this is to give Luke some context for some Luke lore.
I think he had slept like six hours this week. Oh yeah, that's right.
And there was like stuff.
Also, Adam, I'm not sure you are aware of this, but we were talking about this earlier.
The computer that Luke bought wouldn't do digital audio out.
So the whole system was in stereo instead of being in 6.1 or 5.1.
I was testing with my laptop post filming and like the audio quality that I could get
when I switched it into the correct mode was like at least 10 to 20 times better,
even just in stereo, which was really, really interesting.
But I mean, I didn't have any time to tune.
I didn't have any time to mount the projector properly.
You know, excuse, excuse, but it was really interesting to.
I mean, like if everybody had enough time, then like you wouldn't have any competition shows.
Like British Bake Off wouldn't work if you were like, and then you, oh, you screwed up.
Try again tomorrow. Yeah. Oh no, you made a mistake that ruined your entire thing.
You know, we were talking like in sports, like, oh, if I had just made this pass,
if I had just, you know, dipped when I should have dodged.
So it was quite interesting. But yeah, stereo, PCM, not full digital.
Very interesting. You had a projector.
Which I think is funny because I think we'll probably talk. Fucking trash. Like, do we talk about the sound?
I think we like. You said you've heard enough.
I think you probably talked a little bit more about sound. I remember thinking that was like, yeah, it's got 5.1,
but like it's amazing like what a placebo it can do.
When I'm just like, yeah, there's five speakers. It sounds like it. And if it had relatively decent positional.
Well, like there still is some positionality and you're probably more aware of it
because like stuff's going left to right and you can really feel the left to right
because it's all around you. But testing, testing the movies,
like after the judgment had finished on my laptop,
it was 5.1. And the way that I had adjusted the left and right speakers,
which are right next to you, were way lower than the fronts.
And like it was a pretty balanced system. It still sounded like absolute trash.
The speakers are just not. Because I didn't have any, I didn't have any time to tune the crossover
either into the subwoofer. Fair. So, yeah. Just on the knob with the AVR.
Yeah, do you have a remote for the volume? Volume can be done here.
I did it with the knob, but you can do it with the controller. I like that.
He specifically says you can do it with the knob. You can use the thing on the front of the AV receiver?
What were we trying to do? This was such a bummer. I was so stressed on this day because like,
I want everyone to put their best foot forward
because that's such a more intrusive competition. This is game streaming, right? But it just like, we gave them hours to try and sort this out.
Like we paused everything and like called lunch early
and had an extended lunch so that we could give them a chance
to figure this out. They had the whole info team. Luke called the whole info team over to like,
emergency try and figure this out. Yeah, AJ and Sean were working remotely to figure it out
because testing it over LTT or like externally, it was fine.
It was an issue with our like building.
But also part of the problem. He just, there he is. And he wasn't allowed to hotspot
unless he had bought a phone and a phone plan. It would have been interesting to...
I don't know. I probably would have. We're having some office level technical difficulties
that are making that our streaming service for games is not going to work.
So what we're going to do is we're going to run the benchmarks in front of the judges to give them an idea of what the
performance should be like on a good day. And we're going to have...
Reminder for the people that are like, how could they possibly get the scores they got?
Half the score is the benchmarks. And so the Luke's team actually had the better benchmarks.
So their scores start at five. I think really that's the biggest issue is that that's a holdover
from the PC focus. Yeah. Scrapper doors. So the benchmark was supposed to be half.
And then the rest of it was the gaming experience. The other team used a console.
And but also neither team made a computer. Yeah.
So it kind of... The benchmarking didn't make sense.
Yeah. And the fact that it didn't work is also a problem
that people might have. Yes. And if it happened to us and we couldn't fix it
with four system administrators...
Yeah, but no one... Good luck. Everyone else. Like no one... It's not going to be this bad for people who want to know more
on the freaking internet. Why not? Because you don't have 17 million access points.
Super busy Wi-Fi for staff. You don't have it going through a bunch of relays.
You have your like ISP router.
Right? Like the odds that like requiring massive...
We have 10 gigs symmetrical and everything is saying that it's okay.
Like very... I don't know.
As I'm saying, like you'd be at the whims of your ISP or whatever the network conditions are
in your house. It would be simpler problems, but you're still... You're still correct in that assessing that it's like...
It is just... You might just have problems that are outside of your control.
We also have three ISPs. Yeah, like I have days on my internet that is...
Like the best and days where it just fucking sucks. That's so annoying because like...
I just want my internet to work in. I hate computers. I know I hate computers so much.
Networking's awful. Oh, it's the worst part. I'm going to move to New Zealand and like farm goats here.
I've been saying that for like a decade now. It would be pretty frigging sweet.
I don't even want to farm, man. I just want to sleep.
I'd end up automating most of it.
Do you work with computers again? No! Damn it, moved to PLC.
How old was the person who painted the one? That's so funny.
Eight or 80. Eight or 80 is really funny.
Is this spray paint? Don't touch that too hard. What the?
Oh, this is so you could get your center speaker there, huh?
That's so sketchy. Because the shelves from this unit turned on and to jack up the height of the TV.
That is so sketchy. That is sketchy as well. It's so funny.
It's so sketchy. I appreciate the purpose of the space. They actually included books.
But no extra lighting, so you're... It's a test turn. Well, no, that light is adjustable.
Is it RGB? It's RGB. Why are they like Wi-Fi light?
Why can't I control it right now? I like that little lamp right now.
The shade is a nice little... Oh, there you go. Cockature.
Cockature. I was just kidding. You kept it. I don't recognize that.
Amazing. Twice. I did twice. Twice. Good, good, good, good. Oh, it's called love seat.
Because we're all just moving in. You know what it is? It's called love seat.
If you could move from only... Oh, it's a sleeper. You sound so impressed.
Oh, it's a sleeper. It's like honestly the worst... It's going to be the worst couch in the worst bed.
This is like... That you would have to... This is good when you're in university and you're going to crash at someone's house.
It's nice that they have that instead of just the couch. Oh.
The chair makes sense. But also I think that that is a cockature.
Key elements was how inviting the space is. We felt that having two controllers is far more inviting than one controller.
Or a place through golf. He mentioned that like... Okay, so I don't know if this comes across in the edit.
He mentioned the number of controllers that they had. Like seven or eight times.
Yeah. Did we only have one controller? No, you guys had three or three or something.
Three. Yeah. But he thought that two was like such a killer thing.
He was like, we have two controls. So if James just gets to sit there...
James will call him on it. Yeah. Because he's going to talk about it at least one more time in the video.
She wouldn't want to get up to change the volume.
I really like the choice to do an accent wall. You had blue walls and then one that is a different color.
Backlighting also think is... I'm not going to say classy, but it's nice.
It does have a particularly kind of 90s vibe.
It's got sit-a-plex arcade energy. Oh yeah, you said that. The Doritos match the wall panel.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Really totally bringing it together.
I do like Winston Milky. The PC is a sleeper because they don't even turn it on.
Literally sleeping. Arbitrally stops, but maybe they just ran out of panels.
We felt that the room was a little tall and almost aquarium feeling.
So it was a conscious decision not to put the sound panels
off any higher than you normally would with about an eight foot ceiling.
We found that acoustically, the ceiling panels made an enormous difference,
even though there's not that many of them. Do you make the frames? No, this frame was free.
That reeks of free. See, I just agree. I think it's yeah.
I think so. It's pretty alright. I was like, that's pretty nice. They just didn't really have good stuff to put in.
Yeah.
That has an actual film strip from the film. Wow.
It's like such a garbage film.
Wow. Oh, I'm just sitting on a little...
Oh, the la, the, uh, Ikea basket. Convenient little basket to the back table.
I like the, the pullable side table. It's a little high.
Is it not compatible with this couch? Works perfectly until you go to pull it out.
So we positioned it here. Let's try.
So the idea is that it can... There you go.
It goes in about that far. It's just like, that's why we had it where we had it.
Michael in the office with the TV. It's like, if it gets too crowded, you can put it.
Yeah, it does not move even the slightest.
The cuts are pretty clean. When you get the ones close here, it looks pretty dirty.
But when you're far away, it just looks cheap.
Adam, you're pretty good at this. You should do this professionally.
Yeah, I'll, I'll judge you.
Can't be worse than me. I think we can hold two things in our minds at once.
You have a PC and a PlayStation.
We do. We have a working PC. It's not plugged in.
Nope. I was saying, Dan, that they should plug it in live on the WAN Show
to see if it actually functions. That's a not a bad idea.
Because we've never, to find out if you've fully cheated or not. It's bias-plating.
So it's intended to improve contrast. It's not for vibe.
I'm mostly such... Such bullshit.
Yeah. I love lighted usage of bullshit. It's so funny when it goes in a bullshit mode.
With the budgetary constraints. Like, oh, we thought that we wanted to, like, lower the room
by, like, not having stuff go up the wall. Yeah, you're just short. Thank you.
And it's like, okay, you wanted to, like, lower the ceiling. You have to make the ceiling dark.
Yeah. You don't make, if you make it white, it extends the ceiling. Yeah, do, like, basic colors.
Trims. Yeah. The first one was a no-brainer. We could have surround.
Also, that is... He was going to do 5-1-1. He just ran into budget and time.
Yeah. The other person here, but if we had questions all over the place, you'd basically just be sitting...
It's, it is fine in the space. 3.1 is totally fine.
But it's not because of it. No, yeah, yeah. Do what I did that didn't work at all,
which is just turn down the back speakers until they're really quite quiet.
And then you still get that separation. I also think that, like, for the room,
like, the speakers that they got. Way too big. So big.
Yeah, and you say, like, they sound shouty. I think both of us should have had a middle ground.
Yeah, yeah. Too small versus too big. If you guys could, like, have it, you'd have great.
They were good speakers, though. Just a lot for the space.
Is there no control for the light? There is.
How do you control it? With an app. Oh, wait, well, yeah, you can turn it off.
Sure, yeah. On and off, by all means. Let's see if it off for now, because we had it on last one.
You sure? Oh, okay. The film greens aggressive.
And I'm thinking of this processing on the TV. We ended up turning it off.
I don't think we include that we turned it off. Yeah, I adjusted the settings to make their TV look good.
It was so bad. How are you guys enjoying the size of the TV? They're, like, contrast and sharpening
are both, like, cranked to the top. You can see it in that shot. Oh, my God.
Yeah. If you just ignore how it got to that. At least it wasn't crooked.
Oh, I remember seeing this. This looks pretty nice. Yeah.
The sub sounds so much like it is over there.
Like sitting position. It might be better when you're closer to the corners.
I didn't notice that. For me, I was just like, wow, that is where the sub is.
I was surprised at how the directional audio came through still quite a lot, even though there is no surround actual.
But the zip line seems specifically. I don't hazard to say that these speakers might be a bit too
much for the room. There's times where it feels almost, like, shouty.
Like, there's some very noticeable peaks for me. It was definitely better.
Like, I would much prefer this sound system. Yes. All right. All right.
That's not first for Nolan. That's. But also, like, we had to give control event to give critiques.
And also, we weren't. It doesn't sound like you think they only. I think another thing is that we weren't giving critiques.
We weren't supposed to talk about this room in Linus's room. Yeah.
You weren't supposed to compare. Even in the final judging, it's like, we don't want it to have it all be relative
because it doesn't cut together nearly as nice. You want it to be standalone.
And then there can be maybe one or two references to the other. But that's one of the challenges is like, it's so human nature to compare things
all the time. But then it's hard to play with that in editing
because you have to just be the way they said it. Yeah. Because you might start with audio in our room,
go to Linus's room, talk about audio, then talk about something else,
and then go back to our room talking about that thing too.
Like a non-chronological, right? Yeah. Yeah. And video flow may have been better from a, like if we wanted to do Linus's room first,
we wanted to be able to have that option. So there's stuff that like, I think, again, this is just like one of the difficulties
of making content is like, we wanted to give ourselves those options.
And then what we had does make it sound like we're only offering critiques to Linus.
But I had to give, I was critiquing a system that on the whole, I think, was better.
Yeah. But pretty undoubtedly, like, yeah.
Yeah. But we, yeah, the point is to offer critiques. And like, it's tough because there's also just a part of the video where it's like,
we can edit it and make it clear that Linus won from the beginning.
But it's like, why would you watch this video? Yeah. And there was a lot of people that just like skip right to the announcement of the winner.
We can't all play together. That happens to, but we want to like, pull out the drama a little bit.
Also, no stick drift. What does that mean? It's PlayStation.
PlayStation controller stick drift. Yeah, they're not Hall of Effect, I don't think.
Nope. This game came out on the PS4 and it's locked at 30 on the PS5.
I'm glad you said that. Rockstar S move. Rockstar S move. The next 25 minutes.
Yeah. All right. Is there another game?
It looks like a good experience. It was made for this console.
Yeah. It's funny, I find in this scene, you speak my mind the most.
I think, I feel like there, my tone sounded like really dickish, but I have more of this like, that wasn't like supposed to be,
that was supposed to be like a relatively neutral statement. I was like, that's one of the benefits of like,
like having a console exclusive. It's made for you. It's made for it. And so, yeah, it's going to be a clean experience.
We don't need to watch. We'll be announcing this stream. Four week results. I want to tell you about a footage of all the content of the plane.
What was that? Hey, that's the video we're in now. That's literally what we're watching.
Sounds like it needs a prescription for it. Oh, I'm going to have to get that cut out of the video.
The box. Really accessible and I would say well decorated space.
I like everything that's in there. I think most people would think it was pretty nice.
I think we just don't go back and cut those things out. The stylistic design is both bland.
It seems like, I don't think it's like effective. We've seen like long-term videos. It doesn't really seem to affect it.
It's like the ship storm stuff. It's a well-thought-out space. It really is. Yeah, I noticed. I watched a video that had the ship storm stuff in a song.
I was like, oh, very well accessible. It is a little bit bland. Because any of you had, you cut it out.
Okay. So I was like, then you cut it out and you have to change all the timestamps for everything.
Super annoying. So I was like, oh. It's something that doesn't automatically fix itself.
And it's also like, it never is seamless. And so it's always like, what happened?
What? And none of our content gets views anymore, anyway. Yeah, I know, right?
It was the point. Yeah. Six out of 10 for vibes.
I'm giving VibeMax a seven out of 10 for vibes.
I'm giving VibeMax an eight. Okay, what would I give?
Dan, what would you give? It's difficult in relation.
Okay, yeah, it's pretty sterile. I completely agree with the staged living room thing.
I was really hoping for some more comfy, homey touches.
I think both of you have seen My House, which is in that happy middle ground.
I'm not a kitschy collector type person, but it's purposeful and kind of minimalist.
Yeah, you just have a bunch of broken products on top of your bathroom.
Yeah, exactly. Dan, yeah, he's not a kicker. And a bunch of hobbies.
Yeah, exactly. It's a real space, yeah. It's a real space, but there was no kind of...
There was no real cohesion. One of the things that I wanted was the five end tables,
so that there would be some symmetry. And then you would have more of a hidden style setup,
so your center speaker would have been on a table.
Then you could put knickknacks around it or have something centered.
Your remotes and your things could be centered underneath the giant screen,
because what you want to do if you have a giant screen like that is frame it with
something that's a little bit more neutral. Like I've got the ladder to the right of mine and then the console underneath,
and then the left-hand side kind of disappears. So having those vertical slat things really kind of broke up that space,
because it's a giant blank square. It's a little nicer than a big black kind of square, which would be your TV.
But it's still... It was unbalanced, I'll put it that way.
There was just kind of nothing in the front. I don't know if the carpet was any good or anything like that.
I don't know, three out of 10. You would give it a three out of 10? Yeah, like Linus's space not too much higher.
I think that's a little bit too maximal for me.
Yeah, the accent wall is great. Love accent walls.
I mean, let's pull up the criteria.
I've never seen the judgment criteria. It's funny because there was a lot of comments.
So atmosphere was what we called vibes. So decor, aesthetics, comfort is an inviting to guess.
Flexibility of the space, tidiness, vibes, ease of use, extra features, creativity.
I think I would... I'm not sure what number I would give both rooms,
but I would probably give a one-point edge to Linus's team.
For decor? Yes, aesthetics is very, very difficult.
I would probably also give that to Linus. Comfort, I don't know, Linus is...
You can't touch... Couch kinda sucked. Can't touch the TV, couch kinda sucked.
I mean, I wasn't sitting in there. It has a cuck chair.
It is inviting to cucks. Inviting to guests, I think so.
I think the age demographic of the guest is going to be quite different.
Sure. I think the people that you would have over into our space are kind of lame.
And I wouldn't want to do drugs with them.
Tidiness. I think your room is probably more tidy, but it's like...
But tidy and I like a therapist's office kind of tidy.
And it's like they don't have any catastrophic corners of cable tangle.
Yeah, like the tissues in our office would be for people who are crying
rather than Linus's, which would be for something else.
That was kind of the tidiness. Vibes, I think for the use of this space, it's not a living room.
It's a theater room. It's a gaming room. Linus wins. Ease of use.
Linus, 100% extra features.
Linus, creativity. Linus's room fell apart in the details, but had more stuff put into it.
What's the term? Something like that.
The other thing happened, whereas the inverse in the previous room,
where the inverse was like not enough was done, but what was done was executed well and tastefully.
But what Linus did, he did more, but then he put children's books up on display.
Yeah, that wasn't even, do you have my hat? And then he put screws in the sauna pan, and then he chose like bad colors.
It was like, it's like...
There was better execution on the design elements that were present in Luke's room.
And Linus's room had better baseline elements,
but they were all ruined by a rush, lack of attention to detail.
I think that's fair. Like he did more with less, and we did kind of what we could with the amount of budget.
Yeah. And I said this earlier. I don't know if you're here, Dan. I don't know.
I'm saying that the Luke's room looks like it's a place that's ready to be moved into.
And what was missing is it had nice, it had nice bones,
but what it was missing was the personal items that like make a home a home.
I would have preferred to like, you know, I think...
I said to Linus after he said you did a really good job with just having the white bare walls,
because I grew up in a house that all the walls were white, like completely.
They were just blank white. It was very much similar to both my house now, as well as our version of the room,
where it's just kind of clean and not minimalist, but like, you know,
middle of the road kind of thing. But yeah, nothing really lived in.
And it's not set up for the purpose of the room, right?
There's none of those like usability features like wireless keyboard.
We had controllers and stuff like that, but it's a PC.
So that's kind of going to suck.
I think Luke's room was offensively inoffensive, and Linus's was earnestly cringe.
That's such a beautiful way of putting it. Absolutely, I like that take as well.
So I think you ended up giving Luke the higher score on vibes, right?
Yes, I think by one point. And I would be the opposite.
I'd give Linus one extra point in vibes.
I also think that the projector honestly made the like having a projector instead of a TV
and the big speakers just made the room feel bigger. Hours? Yeah.
Well, those because you get to have up to the wall in space instead of the console.
And that's another thing what I was talking about of like the framing of the projector screen.
Because like those vertical lines of the panels break up the room.
And so it feels larger.
It's true. I didn't really think about it, but this room does feel way bigger. The other one was quite claustrophobic.
Contrast not exciting, but you know, it's okay, I guess.
We did you dirty on this edit because like it's way funnier when I can see you.
Oh, I loved your read of this. It's like we just have to compress it.
And so it's like we want to show what you're talking about. Great ideas, but ultimately turned out to be the downfall of this setup.
The projector colors were super in the reds.
People's skins look overly. Yeah, that's skins crazy. Yeah, I didn't have any bloody well time.
I think we hadn't purchased any of the vibe stuff until like the night before after work.
And we had a person whose name was vibe Max or or whatever.
Vive Commander. Vive Commander. And we bought nothing or Luke bought most of it like the night before we were supposed to finish.
I had no time to test anything.
Yeah, this is like bad. We just did an awful job, but I don't think you did it.
And so I'm amazed that we managed to pull it together and like score any points to be perfectly
honest. I don't think you need to be at all embarrassed. Like you definitely lost, but it's not embarrassing.
Is this the projector? Yeah, crazy frame with the
Riddler asked in the Chai's, was the projector actually watchable with the lights on though?
It was watchable in the literal sense of the word.
It was watchable. Oh, yeah. You could see the content.
The fact that it was off-sender, I would have given it a zero.
The B-roll you're seeing, the video was shot later and the projector has become
more misaligned than it was on the day of judging. It was not perfect. You can hardly tell.
It was not perfect. It's dark. It's not that big of a deal. You once you start watching the movie for a split second.
Yeah, like it's not end of the world. I thought James' comment about it all sounds like it's coming from one side.
It's like extremely reasonable, probably because it was.
Because it was in stereo.
I would expect to play normal PC games rather than just console games.
Obviously, when we did do the benchmarks, we'd had good frames overall, but it was ultimately
unplayable. Yeah, I know some people are like, they were, no, we'll get to one.
For gaming, I'm giving Luke's team a six.
Even though it didn't work so well, you gotta get points for the flexibility of the system.
It is a PC gaming. It doesn't always just work, but you get more flexibility and freedom.
So I like the spirit of the idea. You encapsulated my thoughts perfectly, and I also gave them a six out of 10.
You both said exactly what I was going to say. It's also a six out of 10.
Oh, okay. They all got one on the subjective part.
I could have been worse. All right.
Then you always have the best reactions.
One extra point for Dan.
More than you think. This is where it gets really tough because while Luke's team went with a really kind of...
That's such an unflattering photo of this base or video.
Like this just looks not nice with this lighting.
Gland, soulless. Also, the way it's framed, you get so much vertical emptiness.
Whereas if you frame for the couch better, the whole thing kind of feels more filled in.
It doesn't feel like it looks. Yeah, it's so hard to...
And I think if we were going to redo this, we should have made the rooms like four or five feet
wider. We decided the room size in our old office space by drawing a square on the floor,
and that was a mistake. We should have been in spaces that were that big, and then how does it feel?
I mean, did you build it off of the lounge? Was that?
Did you build it off of the lounge, or did you just create? We were like, originally it was going to be 10 by 10.
We're like, that's a little small. 10 by 12. Okay. And then I was like, 10 by 12, and they're like, how do you want the ceiling?
And I was like, I don't know. 10 feet? 10 feet was a row. It was just a nine.
Why? I'm dumb, okay?
Have you been in a building house before? My house is like 10 to 15 foot.
Yeah, I can't talk. I live in a garage.
It's like, come on. You have like a vaulted garage. Yeah, it's like, it's like, what, 20, 20 foot?
Yeah, that's like eight foot to nine foot ceilings.
And I have an 11.1.4. Like those upfires are doing nothing.
They just dissipate into the air. They go up to like, and since it's like an angled ceiling,
it just launches in a different direction. They're like, no, that angled, but there is some run to them.
Yeah, they just go straight into the bathroom that doesn't have a ceiling. That's so funny.
Well, whoever's pooping can hear the movie. That's good. Yeah, it's practical.
Yeah. Yeah. You have land soulless, but accessible to everyone,
whereas Linus's team took a stance. You might not like it. Yeah, I much prefer.
I prefer this. I might really like it. Like you said, it's not cohesive.
Why are their children's books? Other than they look kind of cool. Like the light's low.
Like they're kind of cute. They look cool. I mean, like they are. They feel in the space.
They feel in the space. Yeah. Yeah. They're colorful and bright. Way better than having empty things on that shelf.
It's a play to the judge's strengths, because I also like acoustic treatment.
So I didn't mind the Doritos shaped things all over the place.
And then like the acoustic treatment, the same thing, it was like kind of dorky vibe, but you committed to the bit.
But you did choose one of the most uncomfortable couches I've ever been on.
And even though you can sleep on it, I would feel like that was a punishment.
TV was precariously set. Was that real life or was that the real life?
That's a real life train. That one feels closer than usual. Yeah. That was weird.
Upon pieces of MDF. No, that's just kind of how the microphone's working here.
Oh, OK. They get out. I'd rather spend time in a space that can be bright lights
that doesn't feel like an eight-year-old's dream room. Jeez.
Little long train. Well, walking into Linus's room, you knew exactly what it was going to be for.
You could tell. It's the garbage of crazy. Open of Closed Mountain, dude.
Yeah, that's crazy. So funny. There were books available, but also no way
to turn on the light more than it was. I guess it's like those books were probably a dollar
versus getting actual art, which might cost like $2.99. He should have just gone to one of those libraries.
The last thing I'll say is. Like tiny libraries. Oh, and just take it.
That's so funny. Just a real evil move.
There definitely was points changed based on that fact.
Let's go, dude. I'm giving them a seven.
I respect the commitment to the bit. Not my vibe. Five out of 10.
Five. I gave them a two-point difference. I gave them an eight out of 10. So I'm so far in alignment with James.
I probably would have done six and seven. I might have done seven or eight if I was feeling generous.
Just as in Luke's room with the gaming experience. I also like this music.
Feels very, like, taskmaster-y. Just as in Luke's room with the gaming experience,
Wi-Fi reared its ugly head. We saw the lowest res copy of Adventure Time on In Existence.
And. Well, that wasn't Wi-Fi. We were on the wire.
So we would have had the same issue. Still, like you. So it's more. But you also had a computer that you just chose not to use.
I was glad you guys pointed out. Because, like, it's within the rules, but it's like.
You could have maybe taken that computer and put a Plex server on it.
Had some other home theater PC. Instead, you decided to look at the letter of the law
instead of the spirit of the law. And you brought a working computer and ignored it.
At least Luke had to use his computer to stream his games.
I'm just saying that copy of Adventure Time is not low res.
Oh, it's HD. But it looks pretty bad. You are game run fun too.
Yeah. Sure, bud.
The experience was way better in Linus's room. It was the right choice to just do 3.1.
Linus was bang on when he said that this round just had too many extra waveforms fighting each other.
Would have liked to have seen some treatment behind the speakers themselves.
Not just above it on the side walls. But hey, for the display, the color accuracy was actually,
you know, acceptable. Yeah, it's not like distracting like the projector
where the skin just looks weird. Yeah. It's not it's not a good TV.
It's fine. You're typical projector. So that means it's really good for the projector.
Yeah. And it's like they paid 550 bucks with the
and they got a free soundbar. Like that's pretty damn good for that price.
Soundbar 550. Yeah. And they sold it for 100 bucks cash. They thought we could have gotten more.
They sold the soundbar for 100 bucks cash. Linus sold the soundbar. 550 for a used TV.
I'm not sure if it was used. It was from open box or whatever. 550 is like new TV price now.
Oh yeah. Go to Costco. Yeah, but it's going to be this TV.
If it's a better TV, it'll be like a worse. You can get like there's no you won't get a dimming zones.
You will not get proper HDR at that price.
So you have to jump to like 700, 800 bucks to get TVs that start to have that at that size.
Yeah. Like there is good 75 inch TVs at 800 Canadian dollars.
But that's tough. Yeah. Watching an HDR. Yeah.
I have to say the TV was the first thing that I noticed with the movie experience.
Yes, it wasn't the best TV in the world, but to normie eyes.
The 75 inches is also part of the problem. 65.
Also, I don't know. Maybe I really I literally recalibrate fixed the TV.
Yeah, you had to do that. I think it made it look better. Did you did you do that to our projector?
Exactly. I did not. But I was like, I was like, there's no way this is intentional.
No, the grain was crazy in Lord of the Rings. The only thing to note with the movies was no 4K.
They went for the Blu-ray options, which was a good option.
But on the PS5, there was no HDR points out. I'll say this 1080p Blu-ray is better than 4K streaming.
If it's streaming, yes. What about 4K HDR Linux ISO?
If you pirate your ISO. I was going to say, if you pirate, it's a better file. But like if you if you have 4K Blu-ray, it looks great.
All right, sorry. 1080p Blu-ray still looks good. The there is some services that I find do more with a lower bit rate,
because like I got Paramount Plus for a little bit, so I can watch Shelf Park because I've been watching other Paramount Plus stuff.
It's the ugliest fucking service I've ever seen. The video looks so bad.
Whereas I find Disney Plus is the best looking 4K stream,
at least for me, where I'm like, this looks okay. It's not as good as a 4K Blu-ray, but it's like, it's not bad.
But my home theater at home is really good. I'm giving them a 7.
Sure. And I am also giving them a 7.
Okay, what would I, for Linus's team?
I'd probably give a one point add. I might give a two point edge to Linus on this one.
The thing is that like for a while, I used my PS4 as my media server,
because it can have Plex on it. So like you get the best both worlds, where you know,
you can have that 1080p 4K playback from a media quote unquote PC console,
watch whatever you want. I don't know if the PS5 does HDR, can it do HDR file playback?
Yep, and the PS5 can have Plex on it. Like I use Plex on my PS5 all the time.
Yeah, yeah. And so in a different kind of competition, where you're allowed to use Plex stuff that
you didn't set up in the video, that's a really good option too.
I'd probably go with Linus's. Yeah, like I think for a lot of people that is a better option.
My like media PC in my living room is also my machine learning server.
So it's like awful.
I thought that I was wondering if one of them would go a console route and do like a PS4 pro and then
be interesting and jailbreak it. You can't jailbreak a PS4 pro, only base PS4.
You can jailbreak a PS4 pro. What? You just have to have the right OS, the right, I haven't updated mine, mine's jailbroken.
I thought that the PS4 pros were like they came with firmware.
When they came out, they were broken, but then they got cracked.
Yeah. Okay, that's cool to know. I didn't jailbreak a PS4.
Yeah, you dog. That's cool. I should do that to mine.
When's the last time you turned it on? Long time. Then you might be safe.
Unless it like has Wi-Fi enabled. Is it plugged in?
Maybe. Because it might be in the mode that checks for updates.
I'll see what it recommends. To say no to the updates.
Yeah, pretty much. The final category is game mode. Yeah, I think I'd give Line as a two-point edge in this one.
I would definitely say Line.
PlayStation is just so much easier to use. Oh my god. However limited the PlayStation may be, it was a very smooth experience
and it felt great to play on that TV with its game mode on.
Yeah, PCF, PCS has such a bigger library than on console.
Yeah, but the effort goes like. Yeah, to further that point. I find myself using my consoles more and more as I use PCs more at work.
And I enjoy the activity of tinkering with PCs less.
Yeah, you got like three or four honeys over. You're not going to be wanting to like play with PC.
You just want to like console and then not watch the movie. We're not working with the fuck.
You're not going to watch the movie anyway. So like that buddy. There wasn't even a mouse to keep working in the room.
I don't think I'd see one. And with locked formats at 60 and 30 for Red Dead, that was pretty painful.
I do want to ask. The gaming is actually the thing where I think I disagreed with you guys the most online.
I think you all get pretty low scores. How many controllers did we have in line?
Didn't I get like a nine? More than one. Oh, you gave a nine and took one away.
How many controls did we have in Luke's? But I think like I gave the point away overall. Emily gave a six because she was like, I can't play Counter Strike.
We didn't. Overall, though, I'm calling this a wash.
A six again. Yeah, I disagreed with that. Yeah. I was pretty won over by the PlayStation.
No, Linus is like. I was disappointed by the lack of a PC,
which is why I gave it a nine out of 10. Except I told Linus at the start that for not picking me, he loses a point.
He made no effort to make that better. So he gets an eight out of 10.
And yes, it was a tough call. Both rooms are basically exactly the opposite.
No, it wasn't. Stop lying to me. I love this. Yeah.
This bit was an eight.
Oh, OK. I was wrong. OK. Because I probably give it the eight and them if six is the minimum score because they won
the benchmarks, then I would give Linus an eight. But if it was all subjective, if it was all subjective, what would you give?
What do you mean all? Like if there was no like benchmarks, didn't matter. If I had to do it.
Yo, Seb, what up? Hello. You're the last guest of the day.
No, for the last five minutes. The last five minutes. You were just waiting for it to almost be done.
So you don't have to be here too long. Exactly. So we can share a mic.
That chair is a little. What's the technical term?
A chair. Fucked up. Oh, yeah. I think that's what the term that they use.
Yeah. Say hi to Flo Plain. Hi, Seb.
Flo Plain, say hi. Yeah, because I think.
So I game.
If excluding the benchmarks, I probably would have given Luke's a one.
But just because it's like a fail. He could have played Solitaire without streaming.
It would have been hard, though, because like the mouse. It was a one. It's a one because either I couldn't play it or.
But like in theory, it works in theory.
Yeah. Maybe I would have given up one pity point. Like it's tough because I'm like.
I guess the discussion that we could we could have had on the day is like, if Linus's PlayStation five didn't work, what would we have done?
I think we would have done the same thing if there was a surge overnight and it couldn't turn on the day of the.
It'd be tough if if it was an office thing that killed this PS five,
I probably would have swapped it and I would have been like.
You wouldn't even said anybody. Yeah. I would have been like, yeah, we had a power surge and, you know,
something happened or, you know, the cleaners came in and they broke it.
Yeah. But if it's the competitors that did something that killed it,
if it was your power bar, that really janky power bar that killed it,
then it's more complicated because it's like you did this. If Seb was trying to hang the PS five off of the ceiling
and then dropped it on your media console and it didn't work anymore.
Seb, have you seen the clip? Well, you dropped the TV off at stand crack.
So glad it didn't. But have you seen the clip of Dan dropping the projector? Yeah, that's the most.
That's my favorite clip of all of Scrapper Wars. I think that's kind of where the that's like kind of the rub and maybe
something, the lesson that we learned. And I think from the takeaways, sometimes we need to show less.
Sure. And do more movie magic. Like we could have just been like,
I mean, I know that we said that there was time constraints, like time constraints, but we could have just been like, yeah,
we need to get a proper functioning version of game streaming so that we can have, give it a fair evaluation.
And if we don't show it not working, we just go like, yeah, and it works.
I do remember on the day of one of the things that was interesting was
we got docked for streaming. We got docked for streaming quality while they got docked for gaming.
Experience. Yeah. But it was kind of the building coming further.
Yeah, I would have been perfectly fine with saying
internet issue that's not team based. Yeah.
Wait till it's resolved. I think if like Dan had gone and like cut the internet cord, that would be different.
Yeah. But if it was like. I only cheated a little.
Yeah, I heard about that, Dan. Yeah. Did you hear that? How Danchi did? No.
So Jamie was giving away home theater stuff,
like an avi receiver and speaker. And they got them to post it on Craigslist so they could pick it up.
There was a bit of a miscommunication on that part where it's like, they thought they had my permission, but I didn't understand what they were asking.
But then Dan also brought a subwoofer and speaker cable from home.
I think there was not necessarily the intention to absolutely blatantly cheat like that.
I think it's maybe way outside of the spirit of it.
But I mean, you know, we kind of went down to the level of,
yeah, we used screws from the building, but we went and purchased them.
Be pretty easy to just blatantly cheat.
I think it's probably way far outside of the spirit of the rules and sportsmanship.
And at the end, it doesn't matter because the one team lost.
Yeah, but we might have lost to find more.
That's fair. I had a, I've always wanted to, no, I'm not going to say it.
I'm going to save it in case I get picked for next year's Scrapper Wars.
Yeah. It's just the way I would cheat.
We'll shoot an interview before you shoot the next Scrapper Wars so we can have that clip.
Yeah. There's a bunch of stuff I think from like a, are you good at doing a home theater?
Or are you good at doing it in a competition style thing?
Which is like, okay, yes, the projector was a great idea.
But are you evaluating the criteria of if this fails or we have this misstep initially,
like our team did, will this idea sink us?
Whereas with a TV, it's by TV, put TV on shelf.
There's don't drop TV, don't drop the projector, right?
But those are always a consideration. So are you doing the effort to impact calculations properly?
Yeah. And the risk assessment is a good competition skill to have.
Because like in the ideal scenario, your projector could have been a game changer.
I think it would have been, in my opinion, all of the pieces were there to make it an incredible
home theater experience, not doing it in two hours.
Because that's about how long I had to make it work. It's also tough because I think at the budget, it's like, I think I would rather have
an $800 TV than an $800 projector. But at $2,000, then it's like, okay, there might be a projector that I want more than a $2,000 TV.
But it's also, at that point, you're into OLED territory and it's like, that's going to be hard to compete with.
It is very difficult. I think there is a lot of complexity.
I know that I could have executed the home theater setup quite well.
Yes. Given that I had three days to do it, which is what we expected, right?
Yeah. Not two hours. I had two hours to make it look nice.
Yeah. He's tough. The score is tabulated and out of a possible 90 points,
there is only a difference of five. Crying in the background.
No. You literally look like you're crying. That's the winner of Scrapyard Wars 2025 is...
Nobody. Goodbye, everybody.
Even that's a pretty low score. Like that's just above two thirds.
Well, I mean, okay, so Matt,
numerically, that's what happens when you divide a score across 30 points and three people.
That's true. Right? It's just that if I give something a nine versus a six, that feels a lot larger,
but that comes out in the wash when there's one or two point differences across everything else.
So you're going to have a bell curve that's far more representative. Or even things that might seem substantially different
are still within a standard deviation of the mean. That's fair. I know it doesn't feel that way, but it still is a substantial difference.
And also, me taking away a point from Linus, if it was actually close...
No, yeah. That's why I would have done it. I also figured that I didn't know if the nine was like 100% genuine,
or if the eight was always the real score. It was a nine.
It was a nine? It was a nine, and I took a point away because I said it was.
But it didn't matter at that point. We all knew Linus was winning.
Yeah, yeah. I knew as soon as I saw the back of his speakers by accident outside.
Well, you guys were so down on your own team, even like so early on,
and I was trying to hype you up. I appreciate you bringing that to my attention,
because it was coming across on camera, and I did not want that.
You know, we've talked about that, but it's like, I don't know. That can happen.
I'm not going to comment on that at all. One of the interesting things was I personally don't like how our room looks.
Like, it's not my vibe. No. But that was the thing.
That was what we wanted to do, right? Yep. I would have much rather lived in Luke's room.
Sure, but it's this very subjective thing.
It's you have to pick something and go for it, even if it's not what lines up with your personal.
That's how we ended up with a projector as well. It was just like, that's what we've decided immediately.
We're doing this now. Yeah, because your room clearly had a vision for what it was trying to do.
Does it accomplish it? Maybe not. Whereas the other room was clearly we're out of time.
We need to hit. Actually, I think that was quite a vision the whole time.
I don't think there was ever a plan to paint, because you can do a lot with white, right?
So that kind of aesthetic was sort of what we were targeting. Okay.
That's one of the reasons I didn't do any cables, and I wanted things kind of minimal and like presented like that
and like neutrals and couch and things. I probably would have. But we didn't execute on that properly either,
because it was all done the night before with the judgment.
What I thought probably was. Just the whole thing was just half-assed. What I would have considered is,
instead of getting the screen, although it was included, paint the walls. I had suggested that immediately
to do a gray screen. You want, I think it's like bare silver screen
is the color that you want. Okay. And you just paint a square on the wall,
and then it's perfect. And we still would have been absolutely ruined,
because of the mount. Yeah.
It's a bummer. It makes the content better, because there's an interesting store to follow.
Oh yeah. But it sucks competition-wise. Like I've been on the other side of that competition
where it's like, that is where it all started
to go south. And it's like, you just get so mad at the thought of it.
I know, I think Luke and Luke and I were talking
about this on The Land Show last week, where it's like, for me personally,
I didn't even know that there was a trophy involved. But like, we're still wanting to win really bad.
And it's like this inverse relationship. Like if it had been the prize had been $1,000,
I probably would have cared less than if the prize was like a firm handshake with Linus.
And I think I said like- I still haven't gotten one of those.
If the prize was like a firm handshake with Linus, I probably would have killed on camera.
Like, there's this weird proportion, which-
No, Ploof just won in a future video that's- Oh, I don't know, I can't say anything.
Oh yeah, yeah. Ploof didn't do anything.
We've never shot another video ever. Yeah, I forgot that video had a prize.
What would be like a realistic prize for a scrappard wars
that would make you like cut throat?
What happened? So you keep all the stuff you buy. No, this trophy, the trophy that we won
is what gets everybody to try. Like Luke and I are just like,
you can see how stressed I am and why I'm working so unbelievably hard
by myself in that room. Because winning is the goal,
it doesn't matter what the prize is. And again, there's an inverse relationship.
If I want a dumb trophy that sucks,
I mean, they were handmade, that's kind of sick. And Jordan did a really good job. They're incredible.
I think we say it in the video, but it kind of gets missed because there's so much happening. But Jordan did a really good job.
I've kept every trophy from every video that I've won. I didn't know there would be trophies.
And I'm still competing as hard as I can. I'm going to have to stop writing the videos that give away trophies and be in a video that gives away trophies.
I just want to shout out Rod in the chat who was Rod from scrappard wars season four.
Yeah, the one and only. And he was just talking about, he just made a comment about how the trophies have improved.
I also really liked Jordan's loser trophy.
Yeah, the F. The F. Oh yeah, I just said that.
Do you still have it in? Yeah, I think it's on Thomas's desk.
But yeah, I mean, I think the fact that the prizes are like nothing or cool trinkets
no matter what, you also have to remember
that yeah, we're characters on Linus Tech, but we're also coworkers.
And I think if I had lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of free stuff,
because my teammates let me down,
there would be animosity forever. It's true because I was going to say,
I think like the realistic prize I would probably slash someone's throw for is just an extra week of vacation.
But yeah, if that was a real prize, everyone would be so cruel to each other.
Because that's like. Heating would be like actually important.
Because you are now trying to win. You are no longer trying to come in first,
which both teams were. And that makes us try really hard.
Because, you know, we want to win. We don't want the prize.
No. And I think with if you actually want to win
for money and stuff like that, if Dan had like cut off access to buildings.
Yeah. Then that you didn't say that was not allowed.
But then that becomes something that you would actually get mad about.
As opposed to in this case, if Dan had cut it off, I'd be like,
there is a rule specifically in the rules. It's like, don't be a dick.
And it's a very broad rule. Let's see if we can find it. But even then there's like,
there's a balance like even if Dan had cut it off. Don't be a dink. There it is.
I go to Dan and complain and be like, hey.
Close to selling. You've got to be like. Yeah, like I stole all the batteries
for all the power tools. I stole the keys for the lift.
And then I was also talking about locking you out of the building so you couldn't build anything.
None of none of that was true. But you know, it's still funny.
It's still funny. Yeah. But it's the tone is playful competition.
It's not a survivor. If it was a competition, I would do that
because you said we could use the tools. I'm using all of the batteries.
They have been in videos. I'm within my right to use the tools.
We don't do that because it would be a lot harder job to be the game master of something
where people are gonna use 100% of their brain to win,
not just 70% of their brain make a good video, 30% of your brain win.
I'm a co-worker. So like Seb would be angry at me forever.
Yeah. Yeah. They're cool. Those are cool.
These are like the best friends we've yet. Oh yeah, I love it. So it's funny.
It was tough deciding after this part
if we should have the teams react to each other's setup. And I think we did a little bit of that.
But we mostly had lines on loop react to each other's setup. There's just so many people.
I wonder if they were like. So to have eight people in each room
together in each room is impossible to shoot.
We have another 20 minutes of everybody giving reaction.
Yeah. And so they we've now at least cut together the
Luke and Linus reacting to each other's room. There might be.
I haven't seen this. I've been streaming all day if you don't know.
Luke and Linus reacting to each other's room. So kind of like having the fun debrief part
because we have a little bit of that right at the end of this. Half of my time. Which is important.
But shadow issues. We did not win. We will put it live after this.
It looks like it's ready to go. Live on Flow Plane, baby.
And if you're watching this, then you have access to that. So have fun.
Thanks for supporting us. Yeah. Although I think that's actually going to be going LMG clips with a little call out
from me at the beginning to be like, Hey, there's way more scrappier wars on Flow Plane.
So I think it'll be on our things because this
this is to me one of the most essential pieces of scrappier wars is them.
And like talking about that playful competition is the clearly they don't have any bad blood.
They're not like actually mad at each other in any way. Our coach looks a little bit disappointed in himself
because that's two years in a row. He's lost. And yeah, we're still salty about that.
I wanted to get an Xbox Series X, but Returnal is still exclusive to PlayStation and PC.
By design. That would have given me cheaper controllers too. Ours were pretty banged up.
We had a three print battery holders and thumbs. This song is so much better than the first.
We had like an anime song for this part and it was so bad for the controllers.
This is like cheesy. To our sponsor.
That's why I enjoy scrappier wars. Music and videos have been like my like.
You're hilted on my bugbear lately. Yeah. And it's it makes such a difference.
Like the scrappier wars is way better for having the playful, fun music.
Yeah. Sometimes it the video. Some videos I like allow the editor to have their choice.
But if I can tell that they just like went to a full a folder of songs that they've already used
and they're just like then I usually want to make it make it better.
That's that's that's my thing. I feel like every so often like Linus has been Linus
will get on like things and you'll notice them in videos if you're paying close attention.
I noticed them because from the production side. Yeah. They'll tell us. He'll be he'll be doing a thing and it'll get into a thing
for about a year. I think they're fat.
They cycle faster than that. It's like four months of like one thing
and then by the end of the four next four months he's onto something new. And so I'm in my music.
More music cues era. It's important.
It is. It is. So it's like it's just like the thing that I'm like and then I like will watch a video.
I was like I should not have focused so much on the music because I missed the other thing.
Now I have to edit it one more time or review one more time. Is it Tantacruel that has a video on like sad piano.wave
or something talking about sort of music designed to exhibit emotions.
That should be like required reading for. It sounds like a Tantacruel type video.
I know when I made a lot of like more artistic stuff. Yeah. It's like the most important part of editing is the song choice.
If you're making a short it's like you can your whole short can be good if your song is good.
Yeah. It's like sad.mv3. I'm looking forward to music videos.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
But then now we're just talking inside baseball. Now we're just talking inside baseball. Now we want to be outside baseball.
Would you do it again? Yeah.
Yeah. I find whenever I'm on videos
it's very different from my every day.
And it's fun and I'm very happy I'm done with it.
Yeah. Do you find it really stressful to be on camera or is it just uncomfortable?
It's more uncomfortable but it's also it's just it's tiring.
It's a different type of tiring. For sure. Like I'll do a normal day here and it's just you can do that every day
for every week all of that and then you do the AMD upgrade
and it's like I'm I'm spent. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to go to work tomorrow.
Like it's just and yeah it's it's different. After a WAN Show I go and stand outside by myself for five 15 minutes.
I always cry a little. I always did that after every single show.
Well the amount of intention that I have to pay to so many different things simultaneously.
Like you know in your position David you have to be aware
of so many different things sitting on camera.
You know after after this I would just go and sit outside.
No I I totally be alone. I will probably disassociate tonight.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go all the way in the brain all over like forever.
We've been going since 10. You've basically seven hours of this.
You basically dissociate right. You dissociate all day when you're in this mode.
Yeah. And that is very taxing being on.
Yeah. I'm hoping I'm hoping nothing is required of me tonight.
The only thing that's required is to not think relaxing.
Actually we're doing another stream after this. Let's go. I'm starting my stream.
Are you ready to do the BTS now.
My partner is starting a podcast she's recording with their daughter because they it's more of like a catalog
for themselves. But I was like should I start streaming so I can promote
their podcast again. But no I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to stream. The biggest thing is you turn your things the things
that you were doing for fun and to work. That's 100% what happened. I stopped enjoying gaming because and I wouldn't play
the games that I want to play when I wasn't streaming because I'm like I should stream that.
Instead of just enjoying video games. Should just never enjoy anything.
You should monetize all of the things in your life. If you're not monetizing your hobbies are you even doing
a hobby. Do not be me. Do not do what I did and went into the dream career that
was also your hobby. And then did that for 10 years and now you work for
some dumb youtuber. Well now we're so. You're preaching to a choir. Yeah.
I think a bunch of people who had hobbies who. Well it's funny before. That's how we ended up here because we
all monetized our hobbies. Before becoming a professional videographer and
photographer how much more I enjoyed videography and
photography. And then once it became your once it becomes your job
it's your job and like why would I do that for fun. Yeah. And so.
That's why I use video editing for evil and make ultra high effort ship posts now.
You do make high effort ship posts. My goal is to spend four to five hours on a video that
makes somebody lightly exhale through their nose and then move on.
That is my my vibe. If you can get their mouth to slightly curl.
No just. No just. Next. I think it's even better when someone looks
unimpressed. Oh yeah. Unimpressed smirk.
Exhale through your nose slightly scroll. Yeah I want to make something that like keeps their
attention the whole time but they just go oh. Yeah that's it.
Adam gets it. Yeah. Adam gets it. Oh that was.
Someone who watches all the way through and then is disappointed they watched all the way through.
And leaves thumbs down. That's a bit that's a bit baity.
It just absolutely not worth engaging with.
Just moving on. I can't relax. I might actually put a thumbs down on something.
It has to be like a horrendous opinion like such a bad
take where I'm like or.
All of our videos. Yeah actually that's that's what I'm going to go do
tonight. That's what I do for hobbies. I just scroll the LTT catalog on a new account and
just download. I almost I almost exclusively do it for like algorithmic
purposes. Yeah I want to tune my algorithm. You know what if I just like a video because I don't
want to see videos like it. There's a lot of videos where I'm like I hate the
video but I don't mind. So for most things I just click away and I know
that algorithmically that that is enough of an indicator.
I don't know anymore. I'll let you know in a week.
Which they ignore. But it's yeah something else to like actively make me
unhappy for me to dislike it. It's not like a this isn't very good.
This is very good just gets a click away. But if it's actively stupid it makes the world
worse. Thumbs down. We got any chats.
Any super chats. Let's get the hype drain going.
Who we raiding boys. Sub-a-thon.
Who we raiding. I don't get going because I raided on Floatplane.
Is there anyone else streaming on Floatplane. No I don't think anybody has it activated.
It's just it's really expensive. Any voice does get thumbs down.
Yeah actually that's a fair point.
I just want to make YouTube worse so I was upload them. I I still think about that short I saw that had
the subway surfers plus video but the video was muted and it was the sound from the subway
surfers. It's like the best subversion on media I have
ever seen. I I often grapple with even with what we do but
with a lot of what YouTube is. How it's actively making the world worse by
engaging the worst parts of our brain and kind of growing that part of our behavior and I try to
actively make videos that don't necessarily do that and that's I hope we accomplish that.
This is a very serious topic. But I hope we accomplish that a little bit with Scrapper Doors where it's fun.
But it's it's human. It also made the world the worst place. No a slightly better place.
Just at least didn't go into the bad content
type of stuff. I think like there's a human element to it that
is fun to explore and will hopefully make people happy.
Not just pacified. I agree. Eight hours of react content on it.
Let's go. Yeah this react content definitely made the
world the worst place. There's always a yin and a yang.
I didn't think about that. Boy got it. This is the worst type of content. I'm so sorry for subjecting you to this.
So I thank you for being here. Genuinely thank you for being with us this year
on Scrapper Doors. This is the last piece of content for Scrapper Doors for this year.
If you want more please let us know. Not just comments but cash money.
Snail mail. Yes genuine these snail mail.
Mail us a pizza roll. Send us a snail mail just in general if you're
appreciative of something. I don't know. I don't know. Our shredder is hungry. But do it soon because Canada Post.
Strike on Dan. I don't know. I feel like every day I log into my banking
every single day I log into bank. It's like your service might be disrupted.
And I'm like don't I've asked you to never send me letters in my entire life but there's
still a lot they're like please. I think we've had the banner on LTT Store
for like six months now. Yeah yeah I just assumed it was like
easier to assume. An old thing that we hadn't updated because it was like.
No I think it was. It's an ongoing threat hell yeah. Linus and Luke reaction is coming out
after this stream. I can set it public now if you want. Sure set it public and then go right there
and want exclusive reaction. Linus and Luke. And then we'll be back about 20 minutes later
reacting to that. Yeah this is all we do now. We got to claw our way back.
It's a content or a Boris okay.
I eat your ass you eat mine. That was a joke inside from Bo Burnham
when he's like reacting to the reaction to the reaction. Oh that was so good yeah.
But now you can't do it because he's done it. I like to film people's phones when they're filming stuff at concerts.
It's a nice sort of story to memories. So I have videos of.
Let's see I did one reason. That's it's just fun.
We're gonna end the stream. Linus and Luke reaction stuff.
That's gonna go live now. Thank you. Bye.
We appreciate you very much. I genuinely appreciate you watching all the scrap this scrap yard stuff.
You did a good job. Okay. Goodbye.
Bye everybody wave to the people.