what's up y'all it's pre-show time baby what up gamers are you ready I'm ready
man I'm so ready it's been a heck of a day can't tell you what I was doing but
let's go wait what there is a topic for this I guess we did so we talked about a
little bit nice really didn't put the things in the dock which things there's
secret things to know about I know about I know about everything no you
don't I know all the things was it I'm that's a secret I can't tell you dang
he's right let me get my chat open we're gonna have to start pretty quick here
folks because it's already really late I thought if you know we start after nine
then Wank you go till 1 a.m. I haven't eaten much today I had a nor myself
I've had a single square meal today all right then we're kind of on the same page
here does black coffee count I think so it does what it counts as coffee does
it count as a meal no I don't think so isn't the classic thing you need a
cigarette to black coffee and a cigarette that's if you're French I don't
like either those oh that's a French thing it might be Belgian vids very
European it's like all about my wife
liquid lunch baby all right okay should we do this thing yeah please think about
Europe it's 540 a.m. hmm good wake up and grind gamers wake up and grind are you
telling them to have sex they probably do that before before the table grinding
I was talking about boom get it Europeans it's what's for lunch they're
probably proud of that though so like I don't even feel like that's an insult what are these generalizations about Europeans that I'm not privy to I don't
know I'm just messing around with the Europeans the ones that are awake at this
time would think it's funny so I think I'm good all I know is that they're going
to the bathroom oh yeah yeah okay should we do this thing I feel like we
should do this thing I feel like we should get this thing started I think longer are you sure because I can I do have that power I just you know I feel
like we we got to get I don't think we've had a WAN Show that we filmed in
PST get to 1 a.m. before like we can make it happen no we must have I don't
really I don't know for sure but in like other time zones sorry I just got to
check something a password because I was curious is there a reason yeah he's
clearly he's elsewhere he was busy he's he was gone doing important things and
important things took a long time very important things important things that
are not the switch to yeah I was doing switch to a lot of switch to action
going on I said I thought the switch to is really boring and then people scoffed
at me and then now it came out and everyone's all kind of like oh wow it's
really I don't think it's boring not that different really I think it's kind of boring okay this is all content okay I think I have the list okay I'm gonna
resume the selected let's do this thing okay ready okay make him wait for the
hockey game to be over how's that going do you solve this of course what's the
status
440 T yeah yeah yeah how's the OT going I understand how that works by the way
I'm not I'm just you know are we doing well do you know much about hockey look
yes I had I but you should still be able to answer like just generally like are
in their end a lot it's a it's it's I didn't I only caught the last little bit
of the third period and then just the beginning of OT here I didn't catch most
of the game I was busy all day yeah like how are we feeling right now almost
guys Canadian card pool leave me alone we're feel dude we're feeling good yeah
the cops coming home buddy hell yeah brother don't even question it brother
I've been on that side I've been feeling it this time yeah I think it's
important I think this time they're on it they're on a mission it's time to come
home okay I need the where's like you're away for college and you know you just
graduated but your girlfriend broke up with you and it's just it's just it's just time to go home so time to go home you gotta go home you mean get back with
your girlfriend or sorry I don't follow your analogy home I've been away for two
hours go hang out with your parents get back home feel good figure out what's
going on with your crazy neighbor you can't really tell but you can hear
through the walls that they're just like fighting each other and then one of
the house and rages off on their electric car okay man we lost we lost
slamming down corded phones and now we lost like a cool sounding peel out of
the driveway because you're mad now it's just you hang up like this and then
go and it used to be it was so much cooler we lost that 8 liter v8 that
makes 70 horsepower yeah one gallon to the mile baby it will kill you but you
won't have been moving really that fast oh god okay I figured out the echo
people are like minus looks so concerned there was a double audio on my side that
was very troublesome oh okay okay I'm punching it okay all right can still
slam the door at least me really the soft touch no they're all like empty
corridors like made a cardboard okay do you go get it
hey what's up everybody and welcome to the WAN Show I'm legitimately sorry that
it's late but you guys will understand why and you'll be you'll be you'll be as
excited as I am that's all I can say about it I can't say anything else
actually I can say lots of other things I can tell you guys we've got a great
show lined up for you today the most epic tech bro breakup of all time has been
unfolding in real time this week it has been a sight to behold regardless of
whose side you're on so we're gonna get you guys some of the play-by-play as
well as just we'll laugh together we'll laugh together it's gonna be grand also
another news the switch to is here and spoiler I might have bought one he brought
it with them to are we well yeah well yeah I brought it with me no no no no no
I brought I brought this one with me from home nice what else we got this week
Luke AMD is pulling an NVIDIA with the 90 60 XT 8 gig and YouTube was fighting
Jeff Geerling and yeah they really were that was whack and we'll talk about it
there we go
square space Thoram and AMD with our rap partner dbrand laptop partner Dell and
chair partner secret lab I am 100% not on a secret lab chair this week I wish I
was and my crappy chair is the best part of my setup my webcams on a garbage
bin just to get the height right and to make sure that when I'm typing it's not
little wobbling all over the place so where it's gonna be a heck of a show
folks why don't we jump right into what is of course enthralling the entire
internet the big beautiful breakup this week the future of the EV solar and
space industries is in question after the very public collapse of the bromance
between what do you call himself techno king Elon Musk and US president Donald
Trump on June 3rd Elon called the congressional spending bill known as
the big beautiful bill and abomination if you didn't know by the way the big
beautiful bills not really a nickname it's actually called the one big beautiful
bill act on June 5th Trump said a good way to save money could be canceling
Elon's government contracts Elon fired back tweeting that he could just
decommission the SpaceX Dragon Crew in fact he didn't say he could he said he
would which would lead to the US having to ask Russia for rides to the ISS okay
let's pause for a second here um what can you just is it possible that we are
learning what the negative outcomes can be from having thin-skinned billionaires
control massive parts of like national security critical infrastructure is are
we learning that now yeah legitimately my first most immediate and strongest
feeling that I had when seeing this happening was oh this might actually be
a really good thing for NASA their budgets are probably still getting
slashed regardless which kind of sucks but we'll see but hopefully this was kind
of a learning moment of like oh wow we probably shouldn't have something so
critical almost entirely lean on one very specific external company because
Boeing and Blue Origin really ain't it right now yeah I mean in fairness the
idea was to have multiple options that's where Boeing was supposed to come in
yeah I don't know it would be great if there was multiple options but I also
don't think that in my in my opinion I don't think we should be at a state where
NASA is incapable of doing the thing we should just be at a state where it makes
more economic sense for a you know what a NGO whatever a corporation to do the
thing instead hey look I'm I'm pro-competition right 100 and sometimes
competition can take place between private and public entities and there
are wild kind of competition things that that SpaceX has done which is great so
if they're winning like the majority of the contracts that's fine but we want
super to be in the space we don't want there to be a situation where it is
actually the US asking Russia for rides the ISS again because there's a spat
between a corporate a corporate and the president that's crazy we don't want this
to be a thing it doesn't matter if it's Elon it doesn't matter if it's Trump that's irrelevant to be completely honest I don't want to be a thing ever no the
crazy part Luke is that we're not even talking about a spat between a corporate
entity and the president really it's a we are talking about a spat between an
individual who holds this unbelievable I would say unprecedented amount of
control over the United States' ability to do space yeah this is a super like
nation-level political issue right now because you're you're there's like sort
of a Cold War space race type thing going on between the US and China right
now there's this like get back on to the moon thing that's going on and it's
it's it's interesting how that's gonna be playing out there's there's the draw
back of there's the potential drawback of Artemis which you know I'm really
hoping it's not gonna happen yeah like Drac Ryu in full plane chat said we we
still have the Artemis rockets and it's like yeah but they're trying to pull that program back this is my whole point I I think we should recognize this
issue that is showing its face right now even though a lot of people kind of
knew it existed already and go oh maybe we shouldn't be crushing the NASA budgets
if anything maybe they should pump up a little bit I do support the idea of
looking at efficiencies there and making sure they're actually being properly efficient because there is some question marks like why the heck can't we get
back to the moon right now that's awkward but yeah I think it's it's dangerous
to put all of your chips in one corporation and that's effectively how it
is right now and that's not good yeah I'm hoping that will result in in very
good things yeah let's keep going okay later on June the 5th some random
account told Elon to cool it he listens and walks back the dragon decommissioning
because obviously that was never happening yeah he was gonna do this yeah
that was insane Tesla stock took a dive from the kerfuffle partially because the
big beautiful bill will make a number of things worse for EV makers and EV owners
including removing government incentives for EVs and solar and requiring new
yearly payments from EV owners I know the yearly payments part what I am
extremely confused by by a lot of this it's been it's been sort of mind-blowing
to watch this bromance develop when you have people whose agendas are so
completely opposed to each other and to watch the way that they have publicly
pretended to be aligned like that whole thing where they did they shot a Tesla
commercial on the dude yeah in front of the White House I think it was I think
it was CNN so I got a picture of Trump's Tesla it's just like still parked
there I mean he wouldn't be driving it anyways like he apparently actually
bought it and it's just still there I don't know that he actually paid for it
I would have no way of knowing whether that actual transaction took place or
not but apparently the car is just still sitting there which is hilarious
anyway in the past Elon has actually supported removing all government
incentives for EV and solar but also for oil and gas but the big beautiful
bill keeps oil and gas incentives in place which Elon sees as unfair but I
mean I think the question here is two-fold and I think I've made my
position very clear on you know whether whether I think whether I think Elon
has shown who he is at this point or not he's shown who he is to me and when
people show you who they are you should believe them I believe him he showed
you is but this much is this much I think makes very clear how opportunistic
this whole this whole relationship was how obviously driven by an agenda of
deregulation for his own companies the whole thing was the second that that
kind of fell apart obviously two egos the size of these guys we're gonna
result in this kind of a blow-up it's actually it happened faster and more
explosively than I could have possibly anticipated and I think the the icing on
the cake for me is not actually in our notes but Elon posted the reason that
the administration won't release the Epstein files is because Trump is in
them have a nice day DJT something along those lines and it's like so so you're
cool with them this whole time so you think you're the good guy because you
literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get this guy elected and then
after the fact you're like yeah and like I knew that he was in the Epstein
blogs also I thought everyone knew that for like ages like we know him haven't
known that forever yeah like what do you I guess maybe he's saying that he's in
parts that we haven't seen I don't know I mean I mean they're like I have no idea
yeah I'm not I'm gonna get the details wrong but when the whole thing was going
down with Jeffrey Epstein and Max Max Maxine Maxwell whatever her name was
to Zane Maxwell when that whole thing was going down like Trump didn't even denounce
Epstein right out of the gate like there the whole thing's been so obvious and
ridiculous anyway silver lining Tesla's offering zero percent financing on
cyber trucks if you buy it with full self-driving which amounts to about I
think a $2,000 discount because you have to spend money on full self-driving
which Lord only knows if Tesla is ever going to deliver at this point it was
really interesting watching silver lining
no Riley's just memeing I think okay I think Riley did this topic
yeah it's been it's been interesting watching watching Elon slowly admit the
things that I've been saying for years at this point the current hardware is not
gonna work they're gonna have to like upgrade like millions of cars if people
ultimately demand to have the thing that they were promised that is if they can
ever deliver it with all cameras which I personally do not think they will
good luck everybody and this goes to show why having a bunch of having a bunch of
like rich dudes running everything is probably not the way
I feel I feel for my American friends though I gotta be honest with you
Panda Shoot said Tesla is already using autopilot to deliver cars to buyers in Texas
that's neat that's yeah cool but it's not everything it's super cool but what it isn't
is level four or five autonomy it isn't that it's cool but it isn't level four or five
autonomy and what we've known about Tesla's culture for many many years now is that they
are a culture of opacity they are not a culture of transparency they redact the
all the details of the incidents that autopilot and full self-driving vehicles are involved in
they don't respond to inquiries from media they don't they don't respect others right to have
knowledge and information about the beta testing that they're performing on public roads
putting people's lives at risk these are these are these are things that we've known for a very
very very long time and when somebody breaks my trust I don't trust them anymore like you can't
just keep breaking my trust over and over again and saying yeah but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
show you I'm not gonna show you but it's like it's working really good but I'm not gonna show you
how it's working really good but trust me it's really good it's gonna be ready it's gonna be
ready next year this time like literally right that's what fool me once shame on you
fool me twice shame on me means if somebody shows you who they are believe them
all right so uh yeah anyway well sorry what I was gonna say is I feel for my american friends
because I don't feel like they had a lot of great options um this last election and uh
you know I I'm I'm really I'm rooting for you guys I saw I saw Walmart increase the price of
bananas corresponding to the tariffs and like there's this there's this hilarious exchange where
oh yeah was uh challenging a lick here whatever on like hey yeah tariffs are affecting pricing
he's like yeah but you know like if things are made in america then it's fine and uh they're like
yo you can't grow bananas in america I think the best part was he said um you should build it in
america and they're like you can't build bananas in america yeah just the wording was great oh man
I uh yeah nipolas cage says we don't choose our candidates yeah 100 and look I'm not going to get
into you know the whole thing that happened with kamala right because that whole thing was just
such an epic failure on the democratic party side just the way the whole the way it played out I don't
think anyone got a chance to figure out if she was a decent candidate or not she campaigned for
like six weeks so yeah man um we feel for you guys for what it's worth yeah just as you says tech
please didn't come here for politics you're 100 right it's just that man are they ever affecting
tech a lot right now yeah like I had a really interesting conversation with someone today
can't say who it is because I'm I'm on a bit of a trip right now that's a bit of a secret
but I had a really interesting conversation with someone today and they were talking about a product
that was unrelated to what I'm doing so you know just you know and totally unrelated to what I'm
doing totally unrelated everything but I was just chatting with somebody about a product
that they were working on you know development was done they were ready to deliver it to market
it was going to come in at a really aggressive price point and then they looked at it they did all the
math for what it was going to look like with import tariffs and basically it completely killed it
for the us so we can say all day like oh yeah we don't want to talk about politics we don't want to
care about politics right now but they are having a huge impact on the affordability of technology
which I think not I think which I believe is the biggest problem that we have in tech right now
we have cool tech it's just it's getting out of reach
yeah and none of this stuff is helping I think this is a good transition to
said switch to because I I bought one me I got it I'm it's very weird that I got it
because yeah I was going to say I thought you weren't buying one no I wasn't buying one until
I got it from willow but it's weird that I got it from willow already because I didn't contact
them very early about a pre-order and I technically only actually reserved myocard world I didn't
actually reserve the switch because when I called them they're like we don't know when we're getting
the consoles so they called me about my okay we have myocard world and I was like cool I'm
actually going to wait until you guys also have a console and they were like cool yeah we'll let
you know and then like a couple hours later they were like somebody just canceled we have a console
for you no way there was no line yeah and I understand this could be seen as a success
because uh you know they actually made enough which is great but I talked to Nintendo said
they would they said that's what they were going to do they were like we are we are we are pumping
these we are making some consoles here ladies and gentlemen which is awesome except that's our
anti scalping strategy except yeah I talked to the the owner of willow while I was there
picking it up yeah and I asked them I was like what his demand been like and she was like
yeah a lot lower than we expected like a lot lower and she's talking about it's it's for
it's for everything like not a ton of the games are flying off the shelf either the accessory
sales are a little bit lower than expected so like someone might come in and buy the like
cheaper because you want a game myocard switch bundle thing but then they're not buying a pro
controller with it or the the wheel add-on thingy for the new pro controllers or whatever else
um and it's just it's really expensive the economy is in complete shambles right now just
worldwide so like people are not only are they they don't necessarily have a lot of money but
there's also an incredible amount of economic uncertainty so you might not yeah I was going
to say the shambles is not even the entire story of the problem right now yeah it's the uncertainty
like you were you were chatting with um you were chatting with a guy who runs some factories
let's not get any more specific than that sure who basically was like yeah I have multi million
like many millions dollars investments that I was making you know in the lead up to COVID around
COVID after COVID um and then you know during the first um you know big red tie administration
and afterward and and you know I've and right now I'm just holding pattern no investment no plan
no idea because when things change on a weekly basis you can't make a plan you don't you don't
build a factory in a span of of weeks or months it takes years and so when you're planning that far
out and things are changing so fast it's it's devastating to your ability to execute to get
anything done um and to your point about the sort of the economy being really terrifying right now
dude I sent this to the executive chat so I know you've already seen it but Coachella apparently
failed to sell out for the second year in a row which okay you know whatever right like sometimes
a concert doesn't sell out I get it I mean I've never been to Coachella I don't really it's not
really my jam I don't really care so I'm not saying like everyone should go to Coachella or
anything like that it's not my pitch what I'm saying is that that is an unusual occurrence
and the kicker this is the part that really blew my mind of the people that went apparently
half of them about half of them financed their tickets which there's a lot to unpack there right
so one people like need to finance concert tickets or something and two people are making
the financial decision to finance concert tickets yeah because people need Coachella tickets are like
I've never got either but I've heard they're incredibly expensive and even if it's not Coachella
like concerts around here can be really expensive like I can understand someone needing to finance
it if they must buy it but I think traditionally usually people just don't make they don't do that
they don't make that decision so I feel like the big shift is that people are doing it now
I think that a lot of people have given up on just being completely underwater debt wise because
there doesn't feel like there's another route out as far as my understanding goes people have
people are looking at future prospects and this is why stuff like okay also regulation on stuff
like advertising and whatnot has dramatically changed but you see a massive increase in bedding
not just in standard bedding but you've got like crypto it coin bedding and you've got I did press
the thing I know you can't hear you've got you got that you've got sports betting you've got all
the stuff that's taking off right now even though like logically gaming gaming going pure gambling
yeah true logically you should be able to look at gambling and be like yeah this is obviously for
so many reasons just kind of dumb but then people are doing it because while it might not be the
most intelligent there is technically a chance and if you can make your money go boom it's the
only shot you got so people are taking that and thinking that it's like a logical decision I will
I will bet my entire future on this thing because if I don't I fail anyways what future is there
anyway yeah and like oh my god we don't we don't want that society we do we do not want to be in
that situation that is so bad I anyways you know what I just want to say we're going to promote
the store today you know like we're going to promote our new items or our promos or you know
whatever but we have made the very conscious decision to not have buy now pay later functionality
on our shop it would increase sales and while we while we absolutely do obviously support you
know credit cards through our through our store I would implore you that if you're in a position
where you're not buying with a credit card just because you like getting points and you're going
to pay it off right away like that's fine but if you're buying with a credit card because you can't
like afford that LTT Store purchase then I would really prefer that you simply not
make the purchase right now you know get above water get things together keep your head up and
you know find find find little things that you can enjoy you know find find a free to play game to
play find find something else to you know get that hit right
man it's like it's stressful right because obviously like I'm saying this coming from
a position of things have been a little soft on the store like we're we are seeing it and it's not
just the you know the tariff impact right from the pricing being different because a lot of our
prices we've actually managed to bring pretty close to what they were a pre-adjustment and
pre the split between the global and the US store so we're like we're seeing firsthand it's it's
really interesting running a media company that also has these other these other branches you know
yeah people are bringing up that I didn't even know you could do this but apparently you can buy
now pay later through PayPal seriously I didn't even know that was a thing I actually didn't know
that was a thing either I've never I've never really used PayPal heavily here in here in North
America and I know this is like a really foreign concept to some of our overseas community but
here in North America the play is generally to use credit cards that have very generous rewards
programs and then pay them off right away that's like that's like the hack and so other than
forgetting a couple of times in my life since I was 16 and I got my first credit card I have always
only spent what I have in my bank balance and then I have paid it off right away and with that
I've been able to get cash back travel rewards extended warranties on electronics that I've
purchased like there's all kinds of really cool benefits that you can get but it takes strict
discipline and I totally understand why a lot of people make the choice to not use a credit card
and so to use you know something like PayPal instead but I had no idea that PayPal actually
supported by now pay later that yeah PayPal pushes pay in four to six months no interest on purchases
over a hundred dollars yeah I'm looking at it right now paying yeah I'm just checking out the chat
and apparently like someone said I think Apple Pay also does it or something I lost a message but
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple and Google Pay do it this is rough too because if we kill PayPal
people will be pissed oh no there's no way not even because of the pay in four a monthly thing it's
because like you said in some countries it's like and not only in some countries for some people
it's just the only way they pay for stuff yeah and I don't mean the financing part of it I mean the
rest of it so you can't even fully get away from it yikes I mean we could take a principled stance
and we could you know remove it from our store or whatever but the reality of it is that we'd be
hurting ourselves a lot more than we'd be hurting PayPal and I just and we'd be hurting specifically
customers that were using PayPal without that yes so I just I don't think that is uh I don't think
that's a realistic I don't think that's a realistic outcome here um someone said Walmart's physical
checkout has clarinum micro loans built in I know some delivery food apps have it apparently
yeah fine yeah I saw I saw some of the memes about how like when you can when you can pay for a
taco with financing uh that's how we know we've reached the end times it's over man like that's uh
also like
I mean hilariously don't do that just to give you some idea of how destructive it could be to
the customer experience to nuke PayPal um you know there were some high-profile YouTubers who
publicly you know threatened legal action against PayPal that in spite of that very much
still accepted PayPal for their like merch store so like it's just it's not really it's not really
viable because the customer demands it and not just demands it but in many cases relies on it
yeah so oh that is such a great reference drac rayou I wish I could dude how cool would it be if
we had like the ability to give people points in Floatplane chat they could like use it for
like a discount on their next thing or something like on their next store purchase or something
I don't know that's a cool feature idea but um we don't do line of sled development anymore
anyway drac rayou says I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today that is that
what a reference what a reference man I love it that's pretty I would I would love to give you
a point or something I don't even think we have gifted subs yet maybe someday no maybe someday
anyway let's talk about the switch too so yes um luke you you were gonna say something in the
pre-show and I was like ah content but I don't remember what you said oh I was saying when
when the announcement first happened we were talking about on when I talked about how I thought
it was like kind of boring yeah and I still feel that way I haven't even opened the box yet
dude clear I don't even I don't even agree at all I think it's boring I look at the history of
nintendo consoles man it's boring well hold on hold on hold on everybody back up everybody back up
for a second what it is though is what it tries to be it's it's what it is really good at being
boring hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on okay by that logic by that logic let's say
let's say that NVIDIA released a GPU tomorrow that instead of costing 300 cost 450 dollars
and had 4x 5x the performance would that be boring but that that's not what we're talking about
because it's been a decade but it doesn't matter the point is that what we had well hold on what we
had was this what we have now is this times four yeah which is what other consoles do
which is boring it's not what nintendo has historically largely done with almost every
generation for a nintendo console this is boring it's cool I bought one I'm excited about it I'm
happy to go home and take it out of the box I'm happy about the product I still think it's boring
but you're coming at this from the perspective of someone who hasn't even turned it on yet I'm
coming at this from the perspective of someone who has historically looked at nintendo consoles as
almost every single launch is a really exciting experience to see what interesting curious driven
engineers have brought to the table in terms of changing how gaming is done and what I'm seeing
is is a console that's faster a dock that is better and cartridges that don't even have the damn games
on them and that's all fair but let me tell you I spent the 15 canadian dollars on the enhanced
version of breath in the wild and I'm stoked and and in terms of because look look I mean I don't
think I expect gaming hardware to excite me anymore what I expect to excite me is gaming
and maybe maybe what I'm doing is I'm channeling a little bit of you know what David and Plouffe
talking about from the art challenge where they were like okay you know does it like do I
with them they were talking about like pixel peeping you know like do I actually need
better performance and in this case the better performance is not just about you know pixel
peeping a little bit and having like slightly smoother frame rate or whatever it's about
changing the way that I can experience the game and for something like breath of the wild
we're aiming when you're dropping down into frame rates in the low 20s sometimes where you're
getting these like these these stutters um where your display is I mean on the OLED it's beautiful I
would personally take the OLED display over the the HDR non OLED display on the switch too but
especially I mean I played through breath of the wild on the original switch and if you had told me
at that time that I could have a new switch that's just basically everything that was good
about the switch and innovative about the switch but fixed it just like fixed all my problems that
would change the gameplay experience enough for me to be really excited I I feel like I enjoy playing
on it called this a pro or something or I feel like who would have old nintendo like if you look
at some of the ds versions they had where it was like 3ds uh plus new colorful edition whatever
I feel like they would have iterated because like it's I just I don't see a ton of like even with
the game cube it's like okay it was small and they put a handle on it like they tried something
they tried something and with this one it's just like I don't know it's um they did the thing with
the dock that they like obviously should have done the first time um make it higher performance you
mean yeah put a fan on it like just come on it really really wouldn't have taken a lot okay but
tell me this okay a couple of the recent times relatively recent okay I'm old a couple times
that nintendo has taken big risks and done something really different okay so your game cube example
the Wii U they were they got pounded into the dirt commercially for doing that do I would I blame
them at all I don't think I mean that's not your argument your argument is not that it's not smart
your argument is that it's not exciting yeah I think it's decent smart I find I find this kick
stand pretty exciting this is going to change the usability of this device for me I you know what
I'm excited by the fact that they included micro sd express I saw I saw someone commenting on my
unboxing video like why would Linus think it's positive for um nintendo to include this standard
that like no one really supports it because they're forward thinking yeah that doesn't you don't need
the micro sd card today you need it when it's time to expand the storage and micro sd express is
going to be sick and by taking it mainstream dude dude looking at what happened to the pricing of
high capacity micro sd cards once the once the switch supported them it was awesome because it
went mainstream we hit volume production it was great so nintendo helping to drive like industry
standard memory card form factors like micro sd express I love it yeah I'm excited for it I'm
not going to apologize for that this is great yeah I wonder like at the same time I think like
and I don't even know if this is true and I don't want to you know I can need this to pump the boys
but like does the does the kill switch um just have that kickstand
yeah and I didn't the original kill switch passes through oh it just passes through yeah it just
passes this kickstand through because this kickstand is really nice what kickstand did the original
kill switch have the original kill switch or the original switch kill switch I know what the
I can't remember I think it did have a oh it had that weird magnetic it had its own
kickstand and then it became a clip or something remember that there was like an engineering
issue with it and they they had to change how it worked on the back someone in chat will someone
in chat will probably probably let us know I see a thing yeah it has its own kickstand so like that
was I do agree with you that it's it's better I really like the new kickstand but yeah it's not
that you couldn't solve that previously to be clear and I do think I understand Wii U was rough
I think the actual Wii U was great genuinely I think that was purely a marketing failure
in in my opinion oh yeah um so it's that's that's a tough one um and to be clear there are things
that I'm really not happy about you know I am I am not stoked that you know voice chat is going to
like I'm not stoked at the way that Nintendo is paywalling more and more and more of the
functionality of their console behind Nintendo online um I've talked in the past about how
on principle I refuse to subscribe to Nintendo online because they don't allow you to back up
your save games to the micro sd card that is obvious functionality that is just obviously
Nintendo holding hostage your ability to keep your games safe yeah which on which on a portable
device is particularly offensive um I like I'm and so I'm frustrated because even though obviously
like I want to acknowledge my privilege here for a second I can afford Nintendo online yeah for sure
no problem maybe a couple of them but I shouldn't have to to have basic functionality like that so
I won't and the more and more that they lock behind it the more degraded and like a second
class citizen I'm going to feel like with this thing I paid 450 us dollars for so yeah it's
expensive so I'm not happy about that apparently the joy con tear down was not good and they are
it looks like we don't know for sure because we have no way of knowing for sure until it
actually happens but it looks like stick drift is just gonna continue to be a problem and I
think I have either four or six joy cons in my house I forget I think we had six at one point
I think we're down to four now of of the joy I think it's four of the four joy cons that I
took on my last trip though so those four three of them have severe stick drift and one of them
has moderate stick drift and our consoles are not even super heavily used like it's like it's
bad it's not a matter of if it'll fail it's a matter of when it'll fail which is really frustrating
this is like breaking so it's fine that it wasn't in the topic to be clear just in case anyone's
reviewing this but in full-point chat people are talking and they linked me to a toms hardware
article that for you mr. Linus I linked in the bottom of the the Nintendo switch to topic thanks
bud but I'm gonna share my screen now hackers discover Nintendo switch to x plate one day
after launch minor hack allows running custom code on top of os no way that's crazy man
that is they got it to run a uh like frame buffer check already
I saw I saw that somewhere else that's probably the reddit thread that people are linking I'm going
to not share my screen before I click on the reddit the the reddit link that people are posting
oh no right that was something there's a lot more for us to talk through here either way
at least partially jailbroken already which is wild but yeah keep going yeah in addition to the
joy cons being potentially susceptible to failure I fixed it gave it a three out of ten
repairability score the og was four out of ten in part this is due to a ton of stickers that have
to be destroyed to access the screws the battery being glued in and the usb ports and game cartridge
slot being soldered to the main board joy cons are apparently even harder to fix as well
how do they get it so early day yeah so that was one of our discussion questions is what is your
take on nintendo opting to not send out review units does that communicate that they felt they
had something to hide or does it communicate a deep level of confidence in this product
I could see it both ways man I could absolutely see it both ways I don't think nintendo
much likes the media I could put it that way I mean I could see why they don't like me much
yeah yeah that makes sense it's not like they didn't give it to any media they were just
obviously extremely selective about who they gave it to yeah curiously like I saw I saw some choices
that were like non gamers and I'm like I yeah they nintendo wants to be lifestyle even though it's
gaming um yeah that's always been a weird one to me yeah it's like here's an alarm clock yeah by the
way this alarm clock will mean nothing to you and you won't care about it at all unless you are 100
percent a gamer yeah uh jeff jk says quit whinging and y'all will get one oh dude it has nothing to
do with whining and everything to do with a not many people getting one and nintendo's choices being
baffling and b to do with the fact that we openly talk about emulation like let's be real here
yeah and we criticize nintendo's one of those companies is very much like apple um that the
way that they work is they engage with media that align with their vision and um nintendo
surprisingly does engage with us to a limited degree from time to time they'll you know answer an
email I believe we got a review unit of the switch light actually in fact we might have
even gotten a review unit of the switch back in the day so they they do engage with us from time to
time um they're not just radio silent like apple but um I I suspect that there are folks at nintendo
who would just kind of rather not talk to us or acknowledge us and I get that I get that
I know I know I've been harping on how it's boring I'm just I'm just sitting here trying to think of
like like I know they did they did kind of the joy cons with the we and then they expanded upon it
with the we you and they had the joy con plus or expansion pack or whatever it was called and then
now we have the little switch joy cons and I have the newer switch to joy cons or whatever
it would have been kind of cool to see them go back pretty far um and go to like a glove or
something like a haptic glove would have been sick or I mean or something I know they're like
they're again they want to be lifestyle they want to get people outside if they embrace to this
you know ne attic just sold itself to some terrifying company um but I have loved this
concept where like I'll play pokemon go for hours and no one will have any idea because I'll be
walking around a park or something and I've got my little dongle thing in my pocket and it's just
buzzing away catching pokemon and I'm walking hands-free playing a game without looking at a screen
it would be cool if they tried to get people outside or something but while still playing
their games like I think there's opportunities that they could have taken and they just went
yeah it's faster we don't know that they won't do stuff though I mean I don't think anyone saw the
cardboard kits coming with the original switch that's very true the labo yeah yeah that's
come on don't count them out that's very quirky ideas like it's still nintendo and it's it's the
switch but it's like way better on it and like dude I haven't played much Mario Kart World yet
because um I they made me go shoot other stuff okay I shouldn't say they made me go shoot other
stuff when I was doing my ShortCircuit unboxing was that yesterday good lord yeah yesterday
yesterday morning I was shooting the unboxing and I got to one level or one one track that has
like a wave racer section where you're like on CDs and oh dude it's like freaking awesome
um so like I haven't gotten to play much because I finished that shoot and then I went straight to
one on upgrading the storage of non-upgradable max we had a guest come in really excited for
you guys to see that video I actually got to upgrade the storage on a non-upgradable like
soldered motherboard Mac myself with tools that we have in our shop so I thought that was pretty sick
and then I had to go home and pack and then I've been busy all day so I haven't and now I'm
doing my show so I haven't really gotten a chance to play but the little bit that I've played dude
the controls feel so good the bigger joysticks are more than welcome the bigger face buttons are great
the big screen the screen is great and when you compare the size the thickness the weight
the general chunk of this device to PC handhelds that have a similar size of screen or similar
class of screen when I first saw leaked images of the switch too I was like oh my god it's too big
it's ridiculous forget it it's basically a handheld PC they've completely lost track of what it means
to build a handheld console like the the Nintendo of the of the DS light days would look at this
and cry for shame but now that it's in my hand I really like it we have some more discussion
questions about the switch one of them is what is your prediction for lifetime sales of the switch
too and related related will it end up being to your point more of a switch pro with the og
continuing to sell well alongside its successor like is this going to be a ps2 where Nintendo
just can't discontinue that damn first gen switch and I'd love to hear from you guys in the comments
as well I would actually say yes because the price delta between the two is so enormous
that there are going to be many people that just can't afford it and it'll be much more affordable
and still a cool experience to try to being so old to have an original switch so
it just it'll be what it is I don't know
jacks raise jacks raises a really important point around this launch not going to give them any my
any of my money if they threaten to brick my property because they somehow happen to learn
I emulate or whatever stop giving them coverage is my suggestion so the first bit yeah that's a
really good point Nintendo's changed to their terms of service allowing them to remotely brick
property that you paid for unacceptable absolutely well what we need though is legislation making
that illegal because companies are just going to keep pushing the envelope on this and I don't think
that Nintendo is unique in that regard as for your suggestion that I just stop covering things
it's not really an option there were a lot of suggestions actually on the unboxing of the
switch like more than just a couple that we just shouldn't be covering it and I don't really know
I don't really know how to address that because you see NVIDIA stuff too yeah I don't really because
it's my it's like what what should I cover today then you know it's like actually my job anymore
and it's not just my job right like it's all the people who work here it's our it's our job to
to cover this stuff and to do the best job that we can and at the same time to highlight
the things that are not great about these releases and and and do our job as as members of the media
to educate people on what's good about things and what's bad about them so to me it almost feels
like it's like when you ask the um you know the ethical person that works at a government agency
who resigns because they were asked to do something that was not okay it's like it's like being happy
when they resign knowing that ultimately they're going to be replaced by someone who just does
whatever who won't fight against those problems like if I'm sitting here you know working with
you guys and and wanting to hear from you guys you know hey what are the things that are that
are obstacles for you like I've been reading the comments on that video extremely thoroughly
making sure that when we do our review on LTT that we are addressing these concerns and and
helping to make people broadly aware of them right like that's our job I think that you know
giving that kind of feedback to someone who is to a group right like we're a team over here
to a team that is that is trying to take your feedback that we can take right the feedback of
you know how do we cover this in a way that addresses the community's concerns right
giving feedback like you should just not cover it I think is really it's really self-destructive
in my opinion oh absolutely I mean this is the same thing as some members of the audience trying
to shout for every single conclusion of every single review from every single creator to be
exactly identical it's like it's not even kitty kitty kitty kitty makes a good point you say that
it's unacceptable then then you accept it by buying more nintendo products you can't influence nintendo
other than with your wallet and you know what that's a really good point that's a super good point
and I acknowledge that straight up head on in my first leak summary video of the switch too I don't
like a lot of this stuff I really want to play nintendo games I'm human and what I want is
better long-term solutions because again I don't think nintendo is unique in bending customers over
and I don't think that anything is going to get any better without legislation but you're right
you're right to call that out John Deere is completely trashing farmers we all still buy food
I don't think that gaming is comparable to food but I also don't think that your example is as
ridiculous as it might seem on the surface because well sort of like I do think that happiness
is essential and I do think that a lot of people derive happiness from gaming I think the audience
that I'm talking to can probably relate to that pretty decently you know I like nintendo products
because of the demographic within my life that I get to play them with
yeah and that is not necessarily true for like almost any other type of gaming that I do we've
had discussions on me and nintendo going back like pretty much the history of wanshow where I've
talked about like I speak pretty big about most things but nintendo is just like unfortunately
this annoying company that I will just keep buying their stuff which sucks because there's just yeah
again there's that demographic in my life of people that I can play nintendo games with
that don't really want to play anything else and I'm not giving up on those people in my life
because they're important to me so that's a nice hat asks someone help me out here what's the
concern right now the concern is that nintendo's terms of service changed recently giving them
theoretically the right to brick your console remotely if you do something on it that they
don't like like alter it we've got some more discussion questions are you mad that there's
no OLED at launch it's just an upcharging idea for later so I can eventually drop the price
of this current one and release an OLED version at this price or higher that's my theory so
here's the thing we know that the OLED would cost more right because an OLED panel will cost more
people are already outraged at the price what would you have had them do would you have had them
release two consoles side by side one at 450 one at 500 or 550 with maybe more storage and an OLED
would have had nintendo do here people are saying bad take but I'm not I'm not giving you a take
I'm asking a question what would you have had them do it is a fact it is a simple fact that
an OLED panel costs more than an LCD panel at the same size especially if it's a brand new form
factor and and this is I'm not aware of any other device that is using an OLED that is this size and
aspect ratio so it would be they would have to do tooling for a new display
what would you what would you have them do given that people are already outraged about the price
rightfully so um t lewis says didn't valve do that for the steam deck wasn't their base model
IPS and a higher end model with more storage and was OLED yes later steam deck OLED didn't exist out
of the gate it came later not because valve was just trying to bulk people and and squeeze more
money out of them with an OLED upgrade later but because it took a little while for the technology
to catch up and for them to be able to integrate the OLED panel and they came at it with a I think
a pretty reasonable upcharge um and we weren't mad about that so I just want to know what's different
here what do you think Luke um I think people are just going to be mad regardless I think yeah
I think if they weren't if they weren't breaking people's switches that tried to mod them I think
people would be mad I think if it was more affordable and they were breaking people's
switches that modded them people would be mad um I think the only way that people wouldn't be mad
with this launch is if it was significantly cheaper and they weren't doing the uh brick your
console if you try to utilize hardware that you purchased in a way that you want which is like
obviously BS and the game cart thing is a big oh I forgot about the game cart thing that's also
the game cart thing is a big one and the price of the games um I don't want to spoil too much
but I will tell you guys the premise of the video uh one of the other videos we shot this week
was me giving my son his birthday present see he had his birthday a while back and he's not a
super materialistic kind of guy and so but one thing that I know he likes is he likes his Nintendo
and so I said okay son um happy birthday I got you a switch too and he's like oh where is it I'm
like well it's not out yet what do you what do you think I'm magic um I'll give it to you when it
comes out and so for a video concept slash just an interesting exercise because I was really curious
to get just you know an average gamer's perspective on it um I brought him into the studio and the
intro of the video goes happy birthday son here's your switch too is what I would say
if I wasn't worried that you're making the greatest mistake of your young life you haven't even seen
what else is out there yet why would you just settle for the first thing actually I didn't do that
like why would you settle for the first thing you meet angle that's really funny I should have
done that for the intro anyway the point is I kind of pull the switch two away and I go
wait a second try you haven't tried anything else yet and so we got a whole roster of other
handheld gaming devices ally ally x uh legion go ianio 3 uh the MSI claw um I'm sure I'm missing
something but uh and then also we had the we had the switch too in there and basically I made
him a deal I said you can have your switch too for your birthday or you can try all these other
ones and if there's anyone that you like better you can have that instead and I'm not going to tell
you guys what the conclusion is but what I will say but what I will say is that because I kind of
trickled out the information about each thing oh yeah ps portal was one of them because he was like
stoked on the ps portal but then I was like okay there's a catch see that playstation over there
like that's what it's running off of and if you're too far away from your playstation it doesn't work
too good he's like oh okay because I was willing to offer a playstation five plus a portal because
realistically it's not even that far off the pricing if I like pick them up second hand or
whatever right um so anyway the the funny I wouldn't say the funniest moment because there's one
toward the end that's like really good but one of the funniest moments was when I kind of sprung
on him okay but here's the thing about the switch two while the pricing might actually be cheaper
than some of these like pc handhelds the games are really expensive like I'm talking over a hundred
dollars to be clear I'm talking Canadian dollars um which they are that they're over a hundred dollars
for AAA games and yeah he goes he he responds he goes for each game
especially he's completely used to like steam pricing 100% dude he's he was completely
taken aback by it yeah wouldn't you mean for each game like he couldn't it's one of those things
that you can't act he just was mind blown by it like what yeah nintendo games really don't
fall in price much no they don't it's wild dude it's wild but no he's 100 right like that's a
major that's a major issue with this platform is like nintendo is trying to eat their cake and
have it too here where they've been up front that they're trying to make money on the consoles
which fair enough you know um but they're also charging so much for the games that I feel like
it'd be pretty nice if that game was subsidizing the price of the hardware a little bit you know
yeah it's kind of rough
all right um I feel like I've said everything I have to say about the OLED version okay our
last discussion topic here for the switch to is what are you most excited to play
uh I am very curious about my current world I have intentionally not looked into it very much
it's the only game I have currently I didn't buy anything else for it well technically you have
all your old games too yeah the upgrade packs are 15 canadian which um I don't love but I don't
hate I think it's somewhat reasonable yeah um I do hate by the way this is wild um your old
carts are still locked at 30 FPS so aside from not getting the HDR or any enhancements or whatever
they still they run at a solid 30 FPS but it still is frame rate locked at 30 FPS that's
ridiculous if I have more powerful hardware to just run it more FPS anyway garg sorry yeah
based computer guy take um yeah I think my current world I don't want to know too much
about it if you if you have if you like played it and you enjoyed it like that's cool but I don't
want to I want to I don't want to know way too much about it it sounds really weird to me um
and I'm interested to experience the weirdness see how it goes cool um yeah so anyway guys we're
going to have we're going to have lots of coverage of the switch to coming up we're going to have the review on LTT we're going to have that shopping video with my son that's going to be great and
hopefully it has a very long life and who knows maybe comes down in price at some point along
the way gets an OLED variant and here's a question I have for you actually yeah um would you have
bought a switch to for yourself if you weren't planning on playing games with like little man or
others if it was purely just for you well hold on by just for me am I what if it wasn't for me
and my kids what if it was for me and like entertaining because there is there's no better
machine for hooking up to the rec room tv when we host a party than a switch yeah and for that I mean
you know what a you know frame rate image quality you know enthusiast I am you know I I like to have
a really great gaming experience and so to me the new switch is Nintendo's asking for $450
for me for the first time in eight years assuming I didn't buy an OLED right which I did but like
they're not actually asking for our console worth of money from me that often and so yeah it would
just be part of my it'd be part of my setup for when I have friends over like play mario party or
whatever I okay and that and that is in my opinion the correct way to answer that question but I
want to move the goalpost and ask again what if it was just for you no entertaining just for you
that'd be tough I thought I was going to play tears of the kingdom I bought it and then I got like
15 minutes into it and I was like okay yeah I didn't buy the breath of the wild expansion
and I don't need this breath of the wild expansion either I know there's the building mechanics and
all that but it just felt it felt too similar to me what I loved about breath of the wild was that
it was so different and um you know and maybe maybe I'm making your same argument about you know
where I'm trying to say the switch choose exciting and you're saying it's iterative and I'm kind of
making the same argument because people are going to be like yeah I played tears of the kingdom that was so different there was so much that was different about it how can you how can you possibly
say it was iterative it's emotional it's gaming you know it's not objective it's not it's not
FPS and frame times it's uh it's gaming
I haven't gotten into a Mario Kart since Mario Kart DS
I don't think that if it wasn't a launch a launch title for a console that I ultimately
decided to buy you know anyway I don't think I would have just gone out of my way to get into
Mario Kart again because Mario Kart DS it was a very different stage of my life I was taking
public transit a lot and um like I just had like downtime you know I don't even think yeah like DS
light would have been what I had so I didn't I don't even think out of smartphone yet like
that was kind of what I did when I had idle time so I don't think I would I would pick that up again
I'm gonna totally dodge your question again I would buy it again but I would buy it for the
same reason that I bought this one to try it and then if I don't end up caring about it
put it in the lounge at smash champs so what I've decided is I'm either going to keep this
and put my switch OLED in the lounge at smash champs or I'm going to decide I just don't care
that much and I'm not going to use it and I'll borrow my sons if I really need it and I will put
this in smash champs and then either sell the switch OLED or hold on Twitter put it in the theater
something if it was just a game just handheld I probably wouldn't bother because I don't
I have so many games that look really appealing to me in my backlog that I haven't had a chance
to finish that I just don't see the need to buy hardware to finish them this is see this is the
answer I was looking for because I think because you want to talk about a game you finished no
because ultimately I think we kind of bought it for similar reasons
right and it was not necessarily just us it was the like the social ecosystem that this
brand very unfortunately seems to be able to bring together sometimes like I know it wasn't
they they advertised as if it was going to be and then I don't think it was quite as much but
like we parties were a thing oh yeah 100 switch parties I don't know by the way guys I have
spoiled nothing because I'm talking about the rationale for purchasing it what yeah what did
they think you were talking about well that I spoiled my son's choice oh no yeah because I made
the decision before you even came in to shoot the video yeah anyway sorry carry on I think that's
just people misunderstanding but um but yeah it's it's it's a thing it's a bringer together of people
yep and nobody else does local gaming the way that nintendo does with that said
there's a lot more on steam these days than there used to be like I'm I'm finally playing
unraveled to Yvonne and I are almost done and it's great it's fun it's it's not you know super
challenging like if you're if you're an old school gamer or whatever you know it's it's it's
kind it's very much it's like it takes two for me beautiful environments less fun gimmicks like it
takes two I had a lot of different gameplay mechanics that unraveled to doesn't really
but it's like beautiful environments and you just hang out and you just play a game and you just
enjoy each other's company and and chill on the couch you don't have to like think super hard a lot
of the time um and and that is getting better on the pc side but I don't think anything is quite
Mario Party yeah even though Mario Party kind of sucks now it's still it's still works somehow
anyway is it's is uh I thought the latest one fixed the unskippable nonsense that I had with
the one that I bought I'm not actually sure I don't even know there's been one since then so yeah
there has that that one that you and I played together for a little bit or like tried to play
together but it was like unusable because of how impossible it was to skip anything that was
and what killed me about it was how fixable it was oh yeah like you yeah okay well we're getting
uh it screamed at by Dan Besser to explain and do two merge messages how dare you
oh sorry but I have said no words you know over an hour
he did the extremely loud action of putting the little thing on the corner of the tv
I'm massively mischaracterizing his actions right now but it's funny to me so I think that's okay
uh okay I respect that do you want to do you want to do them this time
sure I just got to get something related to the thing that I was doing today to people who
are working on the thing I was doing today sure uh merge messages are a thing you can get them by
going to LTT Store finding a product that you're interested in like oh my goodness tall pants whoa
what that's crazy adding those to cart and then going and looking at your cart and then in here
you can see the big bonus bin banner or sorry actually that's cool too you should do that as
well but that's not what I'm talking about the merge messages banner and click this checkbox
it says you want your message to appear on the stream and then you can uh decide if you want
to be anonymous or show your first and last name and then type some content like hi Dan
smiley face uh and then pick whatever style you want it to be in like swamp uh and then uh
when you check out it'll go to Dan and then Dan can either respond to you directly with the tippy
tappies at his on his desk and then you'll see it in the bottom of the screen over there uh or
he will curate it for um Linus and I and sometimes himself to respond to uh through the vocal cords
later on in the stream that's how merge messages work and now we're going to do two of them
where you're going to do one and then you're going to we're going to do one of them and then we're going to do some other stuff we're going to follow instructions for a change Luke we're
going to follow the bloody instructions that's what we're going to do no I don't like this
can we not do that yeah we should do it slightly wrong yeah let's read one and a half merge messages
and then move on hello lld I will protect breadasaurus at all costs Luke as a single developer
working on an app how should I go about security been looking at Firebase authentication tips or
tricks don't we don't need to know your relationship status there are you can you can you can get
someone else to roll your auth for you um I don't remember the names of them but there's
some services that you can just get that'll do it it depends like um are you uh are you are you
pre revenue do you do you have money backing you um pre revenue I like that term I remember when I
was pre revenue pre revenue pre idea I think that would that would have been such a that would have
been such an like oh that would have been such a hack thing to call it you know when I was this is
a talking to you about it this is a startup thing oh I'm sure it is I just haven't heard it before
that's great are you pre revenue are you pre investment are you pre team are you pre idea
pre idea is my favorite one pre competency we have a fantastic team we poach them all from
you know they're all like ex-googlers ex-microsoft whatever we're currently
pre revenue pre idea but we're gathering funds uh you know it's great it's great but yeah you could
you could um get a subscribed off so just like pay somebody else to handle your auth for you
um I don't know how much it costs and I don't know example companies because we've never done
it but I know it's a thing um someone else should do it basically yeah maybe if your idea is really
good and you want to get it to market uh things move really fast these days you might not want to
make it yourself when we first started flow plane the amount of things we had to make ourselves
was crazy if we were remaking all the flow plane right now uh we would not have to do as much of
it ourselves I'll say that much um yeah anyways all right I've got another half a merge message
hey tips from tech building up for the new hoodie any possibilities for a cross body bag or strap
how about some announcements wait what did I just sorry hold on what did I just hear I was I was I
was following up that thing I'm done now we're breaking the rules we're breaking up uh we're
breaking up the merge messages so you'll get the second half after you've done the announcements
nice uh sorry what did I hear about a cross body bag you're gonna do the announcements you'll get
to know we gotta do the announcements announcing the breadasaurus hoodie uh this hoodie that Linus
is wearing right now uh did you get yours yes I forgot oh yeah maybe you should put it on I'll
read it you put it on okay this hoodie is so cool it's so cool okay it features a new printing
technique for us with an embossed breadsaurus that is subtle I don't know that it's that subtle
but it's adorable making it easier to pair with other clothes and show off how cultured you are
it also has a great tactile feel to it so it's like raised can you guys see the breadsaurus ah it's
so cute um like most of our other hoodies it has a secure pocket for your phone or earbuds to make
them less likely to fall out um and also has custom baby version of our chunk draw cord with
LTT stamped metal tips um it is super comfy super soft on the inside and you look amazing you both
look amazing thank you don't lie to me in public dude they nailed the color on this one they did
such a good job the team just crushed this product yeah it's it's it's very it's very very comfortable
um yeah it's the baby versions of the whatever these are called again draw string tips um are nice
yeah yeah so uh we we made our own draw cords for I think the super soft and so we called them the
chunks um and because they're metal at the end and they're like a nice thick weave so these are like
that but they're baby ones they're small so they're still metal but they're they're not like ridiculously
huge yeah so they're baby chunks yeah it's very comfortable the embossed logo thing is really cool
get yours at LMG.GG slash breadsaurus yes um panda asks is this a permanent product or limited time
who knows with us ultimately and it's not because we're trying to be mean or anything
but a lot of the time the first order we're testing the waters if it doesn't sell it all guess what
it's limited edition if it sells really well guess what we're going to reorder it we're we're still
in the grand scheme of things a really small company um there are things about us that are
kind of on the bigger side like we sell a lot of screwdrivers uh screwdriver has been an absolute
smash hit for us but on the clothing like the apparel side we're still a pretty small company
and we run up against challenges where minimum order quantities are just like not doable for us
very regularly that's a thing uh so we're going to do our best with it and if we can you know
bring in more of them we'd love to but if you really want one you know yeah but if you can if
you're in a position where you can afford it right now I wouldn't say don't buy it um someone asks
why no restock of the firewall shirt because that was limited edition that was a print to order
where we only made as many as people ordered so that's that's how many we're selling of that it's
it was to celebrate our April Fool's joke it wouldn't make sense on the store forever
I would say this is um on the heavier side for hoodies would you agree with that Luke
versus like the super light this is a warm this is a warm hoodie yeah it's a warm one it's not to
be fair I am a warm boy and I'm sitting here and I'm fine it's not you're not gonna like absolutely
roast but it's yeah this isn't bad medium this would be nice in like the fall
or evening outside fire yeah this is a great summer fire side yeah this is really really nice
yeah all right what's next well do you want to do another one or do you want the rest of that
merch message weekend mckum uh excuse me weekend mckum mcm okay oh sure no I'm I'm doing
you're doing that of order loop way to go loop well I think they're cheating because I don't
think they're supposed to get two announcements so maybe it's not out of order you're in charge
yeah weekend mcm deal also this weekend save when you buy two individual mcm components
two for 2499 usd on the us site and two individual mcm components
two for 2499 usd on the us site and two for 3499 cad on the global site this includes arches
power bar keys power brick holders and cable tie holders oh that's really aggressive
shop oh wait no no no okay no no it's not as aggressive as I thought it was uh okay wait
what oh no that's really aggressive I'm getting two for 2499 click through and it'll be clear
oh you should probably screen share just an idea so it's not really it's not really individual
components oh it's a bogo it's packs basically it's a it's a buy one get one cheap but it's buy a
pack yeah get one cheap yeah this was worded uh not good be nice yeah these are your colleagues
you're talking about that's true okay um it's just it's yeah it's because it's an individual mcm
components but it's it's individual packs so because that's yeah anyways uh shop mcm at LMG.gg
mcm bogo b o g o let's go okay cool did you show them the site and show them how to like add the
things I will do that again in the meantime Dan do you want to hit me with a merge message
sure hey tips from tech building up a new hoodie uh any possibilities for a cross body bag or
strapped for tech sack maybe would be useful for my future activities when the computer this is the
thing you read before I read half of it yeah no he wasn't asking for a strap yeah it was just
trapped for his tech sack I'm tethered here um so I'm not sure how far away I can get there we go
no I could unplug more like behind us what is he doing I don't know anymore man screaming okay
I don't actually know if I'm supposed to be leaking this already already I think I might
have talked to nick about it I can kill the feet if I can't remember already I saw already
talked about leaking I can kill it if you need something what is it what's that well I don't uh
I want already to know what it is what is that it's a cross body bag oh cool he he
he oh it's like a little one
nice is this like tech sack so around
kind no I wouldn't say that I wouldn't say that compared to tech sack already already it's very
angry oh it's body bag oh he's typing he's typing all caps screaming oh okay should I not show it
anymore well why would you show it in the first place oh he thinks it's fine yeah he said I warned
you dog you did it's sad face I told you about stairs why are you people even talking about I
told you about stairs what does that even mean it's a sweet bro in hell he's not angry okay well
anyway um he's not angry he's just disappointed I told you here's how the switch two goes in
we have like a screen safe um flap here so it's got to be bigger than yeah so then there's um
yeah it's bigger than the tech sack I think there's another screen safe pocket
here so it's the other side of the same screen safe one uh see like that so you could put like
a phone in there or like a hand holding a really small tablet um and then over here you've got
these are tbd but a couple like elastic kind of thing so you could put a thing in there
maybe a charger you know whatever I think this zipper pocket might go because you'd probably
just use the exterior one if you wanted to use that volume right um this will probably change to
like webbing over here so this is pretty early but the goal we were targeting switch two
don't don't like say things will probably change because then what if they don't
they will yeah yeah no because I had my meeting about this already okay uh this is this is pretty
far away like whether we're still these are there's this is still very much subject to change
so we were targeting switch two but we also wanted to be able to do steam deck
so you can see it's uh it's a pretty tight fit but who knows because the subject to change
yeah it's it's the idea is like a gaming handheld cross body is what we're what we're kind of
targeting here um yeah it fits ally lix as well nice what other handhelds do I have with me I have
my ally but that's about that's about the same size if it fits the lix it'll fit the ally because
I can't really ask is it subject change but I was going to say what's the branding like on it
is it the square that's on the tech sack or is it something else no it's the it's the
little tiny hold on let me just see if I get my preview up here oh man I don't even look
it looks pretty like sleek and stealthy there you go oh yeah oh it's the little those are
black on black from the commuter yeah that's the only branding that we have on it right now
that's pretty sick yeah dude every time I see a complaint about like our branding being too
garish I'm just like no no I actually cannot take you seriously as a as a as a human being
no one outside of our audience knows about the store because there's like no branding on anything
it's not too garish we've cost ourselves probably a lot of sales by having such subtle branding over
the years yeah because we're trying to be cool man because I think it looks great yeah um Yeti
Wrangler asks any chance of an LTT camera bag in the future I gotta be honest with you guys a lot
of um wow it's a space I don't personally understand really well and it's one that we
definitely do have thoughts on as a team but I have a hard time imagining what the identity
of our camera bag would be that is substantially different from what others are doing really well
in the space we really try to find areas where we don't feel someone else is already doing an
outstanding job because if they are then we should just buy their product I'm not saying we'll never
make products that are just about sort of enriching the portfolio and broadening it and making sure
that you know we have a solution for every customer but it's not really our we all we have such
limited resources right now we really want to focus on the things where we can really do something
different yeah and then we got of course it will be big enough to fit the charger mind paradox
that's like that's our whole jam is making sure there's room to actually put chargers in our bags
for the devices you're carrying is the official switch to charger less annoying than the switch
one uh it's uh it's detachable so I consider that a plus both from like uh right to repair slash
like serviceability standpoint as well as just a like a usability standpoint I like being able to
take like oh okay it's uh it's powering my setup right now so I can't show it to you now but
I like being able to take my like sick coming soon lttstore.com you know chunky LTT long usbc
cable and use that for my switch if I'm you know sitting in bed in the hotel and the and the plug
is far away or whatever right like I like having that flexibility for sure we'll be able to hold
an iohio or virginia class submarine that's a good yes and oh good finally that's a promise as
as long as you 3d print it small enough as long as you 3d print it small enough then it'll hold it
just fine always the asterix got him that's how they get him and uh floor plane yeah
wait no we have to do another merge message we have to do the second half of that merge message
you just did that was that I read them both together because I'm in control wow
fascinating for the first time what even is this WAN Show what is any WAN Show ever yeah they're all
like that's fair floor plane announcement smash champs is finally open we have an exclusive video
of what happened during the launch day everything from setup mini games not being able to cut the
ribbon itself uh to what oh that was that was cringe dude if you're okay no you got it you got
to bring this up bring this up on the screen show bring this up on the screen show if your
entire if your entire bloody job is to rent out novelty sized scissors okay those have one purpose
to cut ribbons at grand opening ceremonies whoa they're huge so if you're if you're novel yeah if
your novelty scissors okay get find find the clip find the clip it's probably toward like the the
back half it'll be pretty obvious all right before that uh before that before that
keep going oh keep going there we go okay this is this is a fiasco so it's me and the mayor of
Surrey and Yvonne okay we're trying to cut the we're trying to cut the ribbon look at this
pathetic pathetic i think it goes further back than that too oh it goes a lot further oh you're
just standing there no mind yeah yeah yeah don't worry about it just anyway we're we're very happy
to be working more closely with the city of Surrey and uh you know trying to get stuff done uh i feel
like we are very close to getting everything rounded out for for whale lands in the future
i i don't want to here i gotta find some wood to knock on because things can be challenging
but for everyone who was trashing on me when i was talking about the the the the fire code
nonsense i was right by the way um so thank you for not believing that i know anything about a
building project that i've been sorry what were you right involved in for years uh i was right that
the the issue with the egress uh distances was misinterpreted by whoever was looking at it
and that none of it mattered because people were really upset that i was like questioning fire egress
standards i wasn't i was questioning improper interpretation of them i'm not just a completely
uneducated scrub coming into this is not my first rodeo that's how you worded it at the time yeah
what did i say exactly i don't remember what i said i said it was bs yeah it was bs and it was
stupid i don't know if you said i think the interpretation is bs though it doesn't matter
it was it was wrong all right people didn't ask you know who was opposing it they didn't ask what
the actual issues were they knew nothing about the project they just assumed that i didn't know
what i was talking about but a hundred percent did and i was a hundred percent right so that's
resolved now and we will be able to have proper security at our lens which was really important
to me um and we will be able to have totally proper egress for in the event of an emergency
everything's fine so i'm really happy that that ultimately got resolved with the engineer yeah um
you just i don't have my button man i don't have my button don't think i don't see you
don't think i don't see you uh what do we do yeah dude it's been it's been such a nightmare i mean
we were talking about this after our trip to uh to Taipei just like i don't think that necessarily
places of business should just have alex showed me this hilarious picture of this restaurant
that just had a couple of like panel style breakers just like mounted to the wall and just like wires
going into them and then it's like going off somewhere like i don't think that that's necessarily
how i would want our electrical code to work here but i do think that we have reached a level of
control and a level of regulation that makes it ridiculous to try to get anything done there's
lots of examples of this yeah if approvals were fast and if there was like a a common sense
application uh or an application of common sense in um in dealing with these problems
and it was it was speedy like i i think it would be it would be fine but man we've got
we've got a lot to we've got a lot to figure out and i think there's got to be a middle ground
somewhere i was talking to the mayor and her her new kind of slogan is siri's open for business
and she's you know she's open to feedback about this stuff and i definitely have feedback about
what we can do to make it easier for businesses to operate um like i've been one of my favorite
stories that i've been telling people lately is that because we don't have two sinks we are um
not allowed to even do so much as like microwave a hot pocket and hand it to you um and it's like
yo oh my god who cares um but i also don't want to yeah it's it's weird it's it's a it's a push
pull because like obviously that's ridiculous but then screwing with food you can't have any random
yeah you can't have any random just serving food yeah right so it's like oh man but then
yeah we should be able to just like have a microwave i don't know it's a sports facility people could bring like it's it's almost like a potential cost savings for people i don't know
like it's uh jerald says probably food prep sink versus dirty sink and you're 100 right
except i don't need a sink to make a hot pocket so like yeah i also don't need to wash any dishes
i can just hand it to you on a paper plate and you can throw it away like that's the that's the
whole thing is like there's yeah i know crystal says expecting common sense in regulations is an
exercise in futility i know i just i'm a i i like getting stuff done you know i like i like doing
things i like doing cool stuff and i like i like moving forward i like finding solutions and as
long as everybody is working in good faith to move forward and find solutions it's usually fine
i'm happy i'm happy you know because i get it there's sometimes you know stuff is challenging
i get it but when we're not working forward in good faith when we're not trying to find solutions
that's when i just i kind of lose it like i i don't know how to deal with that
yeah i'm gonna steal a comment from binky in full plane chat but i i do agree with you we
should drop all regulation the children year in for the mines we should we should let them go back
finally someone said it start start getting that coal they you know they're tired they're
tired of their switch twos they're tired to bring it these boring new video games okay they've got
20 dollars before now they've got like three or four dolls and it is clean coal so you know we're
good the day of course course you'd never have not clean coal the children year in for the clean
coal um should we talk about cool at the century all of that on a shirt
should we talk about AMD pulling in a video with the 90 60 x t
sure about something else yeah cool the 90 60 x t is out and AMD has copied NVIDIA's idea to
continue selling an eight Gigabyte version of the 60 class card it's got our dna for 20 48 cores
it has 128 tmu 16 gigs of GDDR 6 v RAM on 128 bit bus or uh eight gigs on 128 bit bus the 300
dollars for the eight Gigabyte version or it's 350 dollars for the 16 Gigabyte version the 16
Gigabyte mind that the difference in price is like a few bucks yeah which is around these days
the craziest point to me just makes a good one yeah like yeah oh man so much dude this is like a
huge part of why we even build some of the products that we do on LTT Store because the other options
honestly are like fine or they could have been fine if they just spent another like 73 cents
like the the difference in cost between making the cheap crappy one and making the good one
is so so small sometimes it drives me bananas anyway sorry carry on yeah no big time though
seriously um and like really like going through the work of having multiple skews and multiple
marketing and everything for this like really really i don't know the margin is way better on
that eight gig crappy one yeah because the difference in cost is like a few bucks and the
difference in actually no that doesn't make any sense no the margin is way better on the other
one so what did they even bought i i get okay we're making it more accessible at a lower price
point to to gamers who can't afford 350 dollars and that's a justification but like oh my god you're
this is like well what's that the famous thing with the boots the rich men and the boots and the
poor men boots rich poor something something boots boots theory boots theory yeah boots theory of
socioeconomic unfairness they are selling poor people crappy boots that break down and i hate it
crappy boots that break down because you can't play games that would fill the frame sure okay
yeah yeah because they because it's not gonna last as long cards yeah okay sure yeah it's not
future proof whereas the the rich gamer can afford the more future proof card and they don't have to
upgrade as soon this is totally boots theory yeah yeah i feel like you're giving me a hard time
about this but i don't understand why this is Dan back me up here i think it's just like i think
yeah like if you really stretch it yes absolutely yeah yeah because you're only saving 50 dollars
that's the thing is you're not even saving that much for the amount of time less that you're
going to get out of it 50 dollars is quite a bit it's quite a bit 50 dollars okay yes but it's
relative we've had this debate in before haven't we 50 50 dollars is one seventh of the price of
this product and that's where you get into boots theory is because and that's where you get into
boots theory yeah because if the one that cost 50 dollars more can last for being a seventh more
expensive or a sixth more expensive if it can last 30 percent or 40 percent longer then that's the
better value and that's why the person who can afford more today ultimately gets screwed over
less that's boots theory i think i think the reason why the boots theory thing starts to break down
for me um i get it what is he gonna say because he probably knows no i no i was gonna say i get
it the boots theory breaks down because that's the whole boots theory is that they break down
promoting i don't even want to like i genuinely don't want to explain anymore not because like
oh he cut me off or anything but just because that was actually like so good that i feel like we should
just move on that was actually great and i was just okay with it and we should move on this wins
wanshow again that was actually fantastic i have to win something today i think i'm losing something
else based on luke's secret topic but let me get through this one first you were also late as well
yeah see maybe you lost twice taking those l's
that's why they call me l sabastian
no bell for you that time actually because my name's Linus oh god despite reception and recent
praise for AMD when it comes to gamers or at least the vocal ones apparently none of the other ones
they have lackluster uh yeah exactly they have lackluster graphics card market share
according to the steam hardware survey the first discrete AMD GPU to appear is the rx 6600 one
spot below the rtx 4090 AMD claims that the rx 9070 x t's week one sales beat previous jens by
10x but a couple months later it's still not even on the steam hardware survey and video is also
claiming record gaming revenue but it only accounts for 8.5 percent of their total revenue
as data center sales have just completely taken off oh we don't need to see the graph again i've
seen the graph enough yeah and Intel's not even we're not even talking about their inclusion
sadly uh NVIDIA is also claiming record wait yeah you're wrong line uh discussion question will we
ever see reasonably priced gpus again here are the price categories from anantex whose idea was
this because this was brilliant uh from anantex 2008 GPU holiday buyers guide adjusting for inflation
130 then would be 194 now and 300 for the stunt in category which i'm going to share in a moment
would be 447 today and then check out this screenshot this is wild the people's performers
at 100 to 130 dollars which would be under 200 today let's ridiculous ridiculous 130 to 180
i remember trying to build a computer when i was probably like yep i don't know 14 or 15
and i remember having a conversation with a guy that i worked with because i had jobs from when
i was really young um about components and he was like all the important components
and what i think he meant was like you know CPU GPU um probably drive at that point in time
he was like spend about 100 bucks i still i'll never forget that conversation because he wasn't
even that far off um and that's just impossible now but yeah it it caps out at well not really
because it says plus but stuntin is 300 plus and it says single and multi GPU graphics solutions
yep 2008 baby what a time to be alive it was a good time now you literally cannot get anything
that is branded gaming so i'm talking rtx whatever um like you can get cards that are gt
whatever but you're not going to get the x on it you're not going to get the like gaming class
cards the way that they um categorize them for less than what would have been stuntin in 2008
do you know what the to the east side references i would i think is east side just more expensive
in uh new york probably i would assume i'm just guessing in new york interesting
the jefferson's great guy yeah the upper east side is known for old money glamour with higher
price tags apparently it's a reference to the jefferson's oh all right never mind then cool
good chat cool but yeah crazy crazy screenshot really cool that uh whoever wrote this topic
included that i thought that was cool good idea clubs this youtube takes down jeff geerling
self-hosted video self-hosting video more than a year after it's released and then i have a bit
of a spoiler that apparently it's back now which is good jeff geerling's but the way it came back
i'm not stoked uncomfortable definitely yeah let's get to this jeff geerling's concerns about
youtube in his 500th video special a couple months back uh were apparently uh prescient
prescient prescient earlier this week his video about rolling his own apple tv alternative
published in may of 2024 was taken down by youtube for promoting dangerous or harmful content
if you guys remember that's exactly the same justification that they provided for taking
down our video where we showed how to add block on youtube yeah which is uh live on flow plane
uh piracy in his in his video oh no i can hear Dan he's upset no he yelled correct no i'm i'm
literally with you 100 on that and we'll defend it to the death yeah you can do it we'll show you
how to do it you can decide that it's fine yeah my god back in my day we thought pirates were cool
what's wrong with this generation uh in the in the video jeff demonstrates using open source
software kodi and libra alec on a raspberry pi five for 4k playback of legally acquired
content stored on his local nas geerling uh appealed the community guideline strike on the
grounds that a it's been up for more than a year without an issue b it's had more than 1.6 million
views and see the video doesn't promote or even mention copyright circumvention tools or techniques
the first two are pretty weak yeah that last one pretty strong a big deal yeah that appeal was
rejected in response jeff has posted about the situation on his blog and on x and potentially
elsewhere and has uploaded the video to his flow plane account let's go um x itself and the internet
archive which was a bit of a gamer move and he he donated some money to the internet archive
alongside that this isn't in the notes but i'm pretty sure that happened just to support them
which i thought was extremely based team youtube has acknowledged jeff's comments on x
such a terrible name on twitter whatever and a response from others on the platform
to their response has been largely negative which is good
uh geerling speculated that there may be some word on a new internal ban list that has triggered
the takedown but notes that uh in quotes there's no transparency about the exact issue youtube
reinstated the video around at around 240 pacific time today jeff speculates that he made enough
noise to trigger a human review process although i don't think that saved um our video um jeff has
received a community guideline strike before on a video about jelly fin that video had been on youtube
for over two years before being pulled for harmful dangerous content that video was also restored
on appeal i shouldn't have said also this one wasn't restored on appeal but that video was
discussion question how can youtube create a more equitable content moderation system
they can't hot take yeah i i don't think they can i don't think they can nobody's gonna nobody's
gonna agree and i don't think it's really a question of equitable here i mean it's youtube's
platform ultimately there's no legal basis that we can use to force them to have any content on
their platform that at their own discretion they choose to not have there i mean i said very much
the same thing back when they nuked our video even though i strongly disagree that my video was um
dangerous or harmful to anything other than google's bottom line which again you know fair enough
that's uh i understand why they don't like it um i mean honestly most of my objection was like you
guys have my phone number why didn't you talk to me about this um versus just like ripping it down
and then telling me like later common theme eh anyways um i mean it's like i was saying earlier
look i'm all about finding solutions and working working together to move forward in good faith
i am all about that um but you know that to me was not them doing that that to me was them just
arbitrarily enforcing this because the thing is we have tons of content on our channel about piracy
whether it's you know media backup or whether it's game emulation or whatever else things that
i would classify as piracy and the first time they've ever cared we literally once our 90 day
probationary period was up we uploaded a video on how to get Windows for free they didn't care about
any of that they only cared when it impacted them so it's like whatever you guys this is not about
policy to you this is just about youtube ads yeah and again fair enough that is they're right
that's they're right yeah doesn't mean i have to like it
what should we do speaking about not liking it uh we have a topic in here that is titled float
plane limits downloads how dare you what uh i'm gonna read the comments on this and then i'll talk
about it afterwards a user posted on reddit this week asking Floatplane limits its downloads
after they had a please wait five minutes pop up after downloading two shorter videos the answer
yes Floatplane has had a download limit for actually a really long time there was some
commenters being like what they changed this and no we've had a download limit for like a super
long time um i elijah asked me about this and i i i said to him that i think it was like the last
five or so years but honestly i don't remember but it's been a long time this is not a reason to
change do you want to talk through some of the technical reasons why we allow mass downloading
but not in this way 100 well i'm gonna i'm gonna get through this first but yeah i want to talk
about this more um uh when we have mentioned in the past uh that we are okay with mass downloading
it has always been and you know we might not have vocally asterisk this at the time but
what we've been talking about is through kind of like tools not you just sitting there and
clicking download on every single video we are expecting people that do mass downloading on
the platform and trust me people do uh to use a tool there's a variety of community made public
tools there's also some people that have gone through plex and done it that way um but yeah uh
i will i will now talk about why uh we are not an enormous company flow planes actually a very
small company and the impact of someone just going through and clicking download on a trillion
videos all at the same time is extremely high compared to someone just sitting and watching a
video like the the difference is enormous not only because it's happening simultaneously but
also because download rates versus just watching a video etc you could like if we opened it up you
could effectively uh smash the platform now it's not that we don't want you to be able to download
a bunch of videos just like please don't just sit there and click download a million times so again
use something like like a plex and it doesn't have to be plex there i as far as my understanding goes
there are these scripts on a variety of plex like tools and if you don't want any of that at all
there are some again community members that have made um larger downloading scripts available
for full plane and please feel free the point isn't that we don't want you downloading a bunch of
videos the point is that we don't want you crushing our service because we are not we are we are
genuinely not like that huge we can't just absorb you downloading all of our stuff well we could
we can't absorb you and a whole bunch of other people doing it as well um maybe we can someday
but but not yet but yeah download to your heart's content um just use something that will help us
help you in kind of trickle downloading it over time um you know your subscription's going to
last for at least a month if you set one of these things to our rate limit for at least a month
you can download a lot of videos you can download a ton ask me how i know people do it all time
it's fine it's totally fine yeah yeah hands done it i didn't know that we could have that bypassed
for me so i was doing it with the rate limit yeah yeah so like i don't know it's a thing there's also
there was a cut that thread man every once in a while you people drive me nuts uh that that
thread there was somebody commenting about how like oh yeah well i wonder if i can find it
let me search for my name because i think i can find it that way
should i talk about the new there are a lot more data conscious in the last few months
definitely not true uh they implemented a quality switcher on the Floatplane streams
that we did a while ago and luke said something about that everyone always uses the highest
instead of the one appropriate for their window size um i don't think we even have metrics on
that so i don't think i would have been able to say that but if i did say that i mean you might
have said that at some point but certainly you don't always say it i can tell you that much for
yeah but we actually we implemented the quality switcher because people were complaining that
the auto tool that we had was setting it too high for them we we did it for the opposite reason
we did it so that people could turn it down because they wanted to not because we wanted to do it for
them um yeah i don't know that's definitely not to the uh were a lot more data conscious
the last few months definitely not not only is this download limit rule like super old
but the the Floatplane uh quality switcher thing was because people were annoyed that it was too
high so like no we're we're chilling this is this is not about limiting the data overall it's about
limiting the momentary the spikes the spikes are the entire problem um yeah yeah like we we already
have a a like global time zone spike because we have more users in north america than elsewhere
luckily uh north america is pretty cheap to serve to actually um the problematic zones are
germany because your isp's just fight each other all the time and australia because
internet in australia is just a problem um got them don't forget about antarktica when we had
that one person that was uh put that we fixed it for them camp there yeah yeah that's pretty cool
heck yeah like the like one time that was awesome uh um speaking of things that are pretty cool new
eu rules for smartphones and tablets smartphones and tablets that go on sale in the european union
on or after july 20 of this year will be subject to new requirements devices must be designed to
resist accidental drop scratches and dust and water ingress batteries must withstand at least
800 charge discharge cycles while retaining 80 percent of their initial capacity producers must
make critical spare parts available and provide repair information to professional repairers
for seven years after the end of sales for the product model that part is super cool and super
important this should happen after the product is no longer on sale and the reason for that is that
you can say hey we're going to do seven years of software for this um and that can be on day one
and then you could have that product live for three years and then someone buying it at the three
year mark is only getting four years of support so they're basically saying no no no no no no if
you're going to say seven years of software support that means seven years for everyone who buys it
based not for the first people who buy it the regulations clearly lay out parts and information
delivery timelines what repair information must be provided and includes provisions to
ensure equitable access to qualified repairers os upgrades must be provided for at least five years
from the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model this is super cool
why is the eu so based i don't understand it but they do it and i'm into it i like it keep going
also i want to jump back to the the full pentopic for a second i saw my god discussion question at
the bottom is this what it's like when i'm responding to people's stupid comments and yeah
no i saw the discussion question at the bottom at this end using usually honestly the flow plane
users are like yeah cool i don't know it's fine it because again none of this is new anyways um
discussion question is with the obvious in verification of flow plane happening right now
how much of a raise can our shareholders expect and the answer is immense amounts we are saving
so much off of the people downloading being now rate limited that we are increasing bonuses for
full plane executives by at least 40 percent um the next line is can you talk about what do you get
a Floatplane bonus i don't think so no cool nice uh all right 40 increase approved yeah that's always
so easy um okay can you talk more about the challenges you have learned about data limits
and bandwidth costs from developing flow plane even on simple things like quality control settings
for live video uh the quality control settings for live video honestly we don't know a ton about
because we like didn't care and then people were annoyed because they wanted it they wanted to
change it themselves so we made it so they can change it themselves and we didn't remeasure uh
live has been a challenge maybe a loss leader maybe a neutral leader the whole time we like
don't make money off of live um yeah it's it takes i bet i think we could argue that we do if we
factor in merge messages if we consider the ones directly attributed to WAN Show completely
completely part of live we could probably make the argument i don't think they are but
merge messages have nothing to do with flow plane well they don't not i mean they don't have nothing
to do with flow plane flow plane is certainly a mech mechanism by which we like execute on
merge messages like it's it's a promotional mechanism for merge messages
how because some of those audiences that are some of those audience members that are paying
for merge messages are watching on flow plane like that's where they're that's where we're
going to them they're they're bringing us that business so it's like a promotional mechanism
okay like i said i look i told you it was i told you it was a stretch
i'm just saying i'm just saying if people are watching on Floatplane and they're buying a
merge message we could attribute some of that revenue to the fact that we were delivering the
message to them live that's all that's all i'm saying okay nice um but yeah the amount of
development time that it's taken to support um like the chat and the chat tools and and the live
player itself because it has been very disproportionate to the value that it brings i'll
say all right fair enough but the the um talking about data limits and all that kind of stuff and
someone to shrink it hooray let's go um it it has been interesting i do remember many a year back
when we when we did originally decide to do the download thing it's because there was a script
there was a script somebody had put up on github and they were sharing it on like reddit and the
forum and stuff like that that just zirged the heck out of download remember that and it was
like actually severely impairing our ability to serve videos like it was a problem because a ton
of people were just hammering the download service all at the same time um and they were doing it
through it was it was script kitty rife right like you didn't have to know what you were doing
you could just download this thing off github and it would do it for you so we were getting
crushed because again we're a relatively small company so we had to start implementing limits
but if i remember correctly at that time we reached out and we're basically like yo we're not mad
this is what we're setting our limits to if you could just adjust the script for people
so they can keep using it but it just doesn't crush us that would be awesome and if i remember
correctly they just yeah they just changed it so that it just sat right outside of our rate
limiter and then it's like okay cool the people still have their tool the site doesn't go down
because of it sounds great um so it's been it's been interesting live data is really expensive
wildly cheaper um yeah anyways we can move on get that good low latency yeah
what do you want to talk about now Intel draws a line in the sand that's right a sand line
CEO of Intel products michelle johnson holthouse announced at the bank of america's global tech
conference that Intel will only be approving new projects if they can in at least 50 gross margin
adding on that this is something we probably should have done before
while also clarifying that future operations including panther lake and nova lake
are currently expected to reach a 50 gross profit number the push comes from Intel's new
ceo lit butan who is reportedly laser focused on making this happen including potentially
canceling or changing unprofitable deals with other companies holthouse predicts a tug of war
with an Intel to get aligned on this mission i um i don't like it to innovate sometimes you
have to make low margin products and make big investments and i really need you guys to keep
doing dgpus so that's what i have to say about that not cool yeah mind you i don't need Intel
losing money either like that's also not constructive um but i think realistically at a time when
your sales overall are suffering um and your brand reputation is that your products are at
least on the consumer side not a good value right now at least on the CPU side i think
battle mage is awesome um i think just like focusing on a margin target is just making
me wish gelsinger was back so please don't stop making arc gpus please please that's all i have
to say about that this smells a lot to me like the Intel that sat on its laurels for a decade and
lost every lead it had um which like if you want to keep doing that right now uh i guess you can
just die so i don't think they're just going to die because they made major investments into
products that are turning out to actually be pretty sick like without spoiling anything the claw
got a long look at least um when we were looking at that when we were looking at all the handhelds
with my son uh is the claw a ai plus or whatever available i don't know if that's actually out yet
hold on here it is best buy uh is this pre-order still i know people are buying it
yep it's available it's really expensive but it's it's good
i wonder how the handheld market outside of the steam deck and switch is doing
i i gotta say i or i gotta think it's really small yeah to be honest with you and there's a
lot of players but like with that said dude remember when we did whale land how many people
had flippin yes steamed x but they were also like rog allies and stuff no there were a couple
allies more than a couple are you and whale land yeah like the test the test no no no no no no
whale land at ltx oh yeah like they're the video was sponsored by ASUS so i was acutely aware of
like whether there was ASUS products that the ones we were showcasing not because i wasn't
going to showcase anything else but because i figured i should at least throw them a bone here
and there um and it wasn't hard there were allies all over the place i was very surprised
interesting
very interesting i mean i you know i don't want Intel the die i hope they do well it's just yeah
i i hearing this it gets me concerned about stuff like their gpus and like
what an incredibly complicated market to try to get into with two generations
yep like you gotta give it a while this is this this is a a market segment that leans a lot on
trust and experience and you really haven't been in the game that long and your last gen was like
not that purchasable this new gen is purchasable but has some asterisks on it like you're making
fantastic progress uh and don't underestimate the funnel of getting people familiar with the
product in their gaming rigs and they tinker around with a little bit and they maybe they
learn a little bit of ai on their Intel GPU and then they become uh the purchasers yeah exactly
you had them for years on the CPU side it's worth fighting for it but it's just stuff like this
just it makes me concerned that's all all right microsoft wants to save us from usbc confusion
beginning with Windows 11 24 h2 pc makers will need to include a number of previously
optional features including dp alt mode which allows you to output DisplayPort over your
USB-C port pc i e tunneling and Thunderbolt compatibility which are um basically the ability
to run pc i e lanes through your USB-C port and must use Windows built in usb driver stack in
order to be compliant with the Windows hardware certification program w hcp the changes are
meant to ensure that usb 1 2 and 3 peripherals will just work for data transfer charging and
display on any USB-C port on certified Windows 11 devices systems supporting usb 40 gigabit per
second must also be fully compatible with usb 4 and Thunderbolt 3 peripherals device makers can
make use of microsoft's mutt usb test tool and Windows hardware lab kit to ensure their devices
comply these requirements however don't apply to desktop pcs at this time overall overall this is
a w um and our discussion question is what does microsoft gain by doing this i get it and i think
i think they gain their computers not being super confusing apple computers have their confusion
like oh this one can support this many displays and this one can support not as many displays
like they definitely have their issues but generally speaking the hardware for the macbook
is way less confusing to buy than the hardware for a Windows laptop and i think microsoft is
really starting to look at the share that they've lost to apple over the years and go okay holy crap
no no whether it's partnerships with qualcomm for ARM processors or
whether it's you know finding ways to reduce the friction of the Windows pc buying experience
we have got to deal with this yeah i mean uh the Windows laptop ecosystem has always been
kind of a mess um yep with a lot of just kind of junk in it and i think this is a good move
from microsoft to try to clean up their space and make them look more uh serious and professional
to be honest because usb has been kind of gross for a long time now like USB-C is
just very annoying to deal with um and yeah i think i think it's a good move to be honest
all right our last topic before we get into after dark is the recall ai thumbnail yesterday
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it is worth checking out and getting subbed to Floatplane for some juicy extras highlights of the
upgrade for me was definitely getting the broken 12 12 pin power connector out of his gaming rig
seriously it had a broken clip it wasn't the like latest one that has the biggest issues but like
still so we replaced that with a 90 70 xt that has working clips on its classic not for melting
power connectors just eight pin PCIe power connectors you'll love to see them my favorite
part was Linus barista tips oh dude i look okay i actually was pitching to sammy that we should
do this as a whole series on Floatplane person x does thing y that they've never done and like
try to find stuff that most people have done uh like whether like it like elijah learning to
ride a bike for instance i just have never made coffee before and as someone who doesn't drink
coffee i have no idea what you know you do to make coffee taste more better or more worse or
something i would request out of that i love the series idea something i would request out of that
series is to have someone that knows how to do it do it afterwards because i saw you make that
coffee and it seemed completely fine and then he was like oh it was like my uneducated young cousin
did it and i was like what would the chain what would the difference be what makes it i think you're
supposed to i think you're supposed to wet the coffee grounds before pouring everything through
that's one thing um but like but that's let me catch anything else have someone that knows it
do it afterwards i don't know anyway what like in a french press i don't know what it was dude
you're asking me like i don't know it was a mocha who knows i don't know mocha pot that's advanced
no i'd know i that wasn't that i don't i don't know what it is neither of us have any idea what
you're talking about i'm trying to come up with like fake terms and i just my brain my brain is
goop all of that was actual but i just want to say i know french press is real i've heard of that
before might as well good news by the way for everyone tuning oh question for Linus and luke
who would you choose if you could give someone not from work an AMD upgrade
oh that's a good question i mean i i think doing your dad's would be pretty cool he's actually
working on a super cool right now he needs a system i feel like an AMD upgrade would go a long way
towards making that system done at some point yeah you kind of got there before me um i would be
saying the same because he needs he has he has his cases like almost finished but he needs all the
components he doesn't any components anyways that'll be my job that sounds like uh it sounds
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are you ready to just get it over with and tell me you finished final fantasy six
hey i saw your secret topic final fantasy six i knew it kefka and it was amazing i took a bunch
of screenshots and i sent them to riley because i wanted him to put them in the dock but i didn't
want to put them in the dock early uh so that you didn't get uh informed i saw luke secret
secret topic i knew what it was also the enemy that you were complaining about the other days in
kefka's tower there's other points in the game where that happens uh yeah but i i knew that you
got hit with bad breath in kefka's tower okay but there's other points in the game where bad breath
happens yes but i knew you were in kefka's tower ah this guy uh i took some some screeny
shoddies let me see if i can bring them up uh they're not in the secret topic right i can't
believe i lost this do you know how close i am no i am super close i was pretty sure i i was having
a conversation with a friend where they were like oh man you're sick again and i was like yeah and
it's horrible but also a blessing because i would not i would not have been done by today
to finish last night i would not have been done by today if uh if it wasn't for being sick if i had
pulled it all night or last night i could have finished last night too i didn't i am i am done
my color i need to shoot clear uh Dan can i send oh really so you're like one pass from done no uh
it's multiple coats of clear coat but like you can go at it pretty quick clear coat goes on real
fast compared to a lot of the stuff that i've been doing like i can probably finish it in one
long evening of of painting now all three of those yeah if you wouldn't mind
where are you gonna put oh at the top cool so i will share these one this is just a random thing
that i noticed um somewhere that i was in the game you're you have to go through all these
different sections collecting these little things to fight this guy um it's like fog of war except
the minimap fully works uh hello that i think is that i think that's broken i don't think there's
a minimap in the original game so that's uh it's one of those little enhanced edition things that
just like really you guys yeah i was wondering if this was a pixel remaster thing yeah i noticed
that and was just like hmm okay um and then minimap is hacking i so another thing that i was going
to say is that i didn't do everything that i wanted to do because i i let two things
kind of defeat me but i did go very completionist on this um i noticed with gau i went to his
his father's house without him and then later on i happened to go there with him
just not unplanned i thought i forgot what it was and i wanted to check what was there
and he was in my party and then the whole thing happened yeah and i was like oh no there's a
ton of content hidden behind having the right person there at the right time so then i went
around everywhere with trying to bring different people and i tried to do it somewhat logically
so i didn't technically do every person everywhere but i would like okay is this person relevant to
this area um sure so i think this one with the minimap actually i had to take uh the painter girl
and what is his name stragg realm and strago or whatever his name is yep i had to take them to
i think it's thomasa or something but that mass made relevant sense like okay that was reasonable
so there was a few of them where and i i think i did you stay in all the ins with shadow
oh no oh you get his whole backstory if you stay in every in with him in your party
i did some ins with him but i didn't do i didn't do all of them i got a lot of the content though
the two things that are you know and there's probably more than this but the two things that
i know of that i didn't end up being able to chase all the way down uh was the cursed shield and
lord help me i tried it says there's the one hint that i was able to find about the curse shield
at all i didn't find any outside of that was that it requires a long battle
so i tried like i even i i i got into a fight that i was able to sit in infinitely oh no no no no
no you have to fight 255 battles so after the way to the way to hack it as you go to cells is
starting island in the world of ruin and you just like you just put a weight on the a button
and then you just like um leave them walking back and forth on the island all night and
then it'll turn into the paladin shield yeah so i i've never actually done that because that's
lame that sounds really lame i i we had agreed i would follow no guides so i ended up googling it
after i won because i was so curious uh because again the topic says something about or the the
hint because my note is the hint something along the lines of a long battle or something like that
so i tried one that was like i think it was at least 10 15 minutes long i walked away from the
computer and then came back and then killed it and it still didn't uncurse itself so i gave up
and then the other one was was an esper and i'm confused because
it said i i got an achievement i got an achievement for unlocking all the espers
but there's a blank spot on my espers list uh no you probably got them all then i don't know what's up with that but either way okay
here is the state i was in when i went into the final battle
oh my goodness so every character except for edgar is blinded and silenced and almost everybody
is dead nice but uh so this was my second attempt because i i died the first time which i yeah i'm
not even shamed to admit um because i'm pretty stoked that i somehow scraped by on the and i
have my winning screenshot which i'll show you in a second and it's close uh but i somehow beat
it my second attempt um the first attempt i got i got raffle stout but i i your your characters
come in in a queue and this is all of my original four so i made it with the first four that i
attempted to go up with which was cool um but that's how the game ended absolutely insane
three characters at one hp that is that's unreal incredible and i i took these screenshots because
when i when i took this first one i was like you know i'm gonna he was talking at this point in
time so it was fine it doesn't show any dialogue on the screen but he was talking at this point in
time so i i knew i was safe to take the screenshot but i was like i want a screenshot that i got
here and it was so close and i expected to attrition through a bunch of units and stuff
but then i realized uh when i think it was go go died yeah i was like oh yeah somebody will
die and then i'll cycle them out right it didn't cycle go go and the second he died i was like oh
no um and this is after actually i think a fair amount of revives um and then i i started
realizing that i should use the the phoenix magic the re-raise or whatever yeah because
kefka brings you all down to one hp and then yeah i was trying to heal everybody up frantically
afterwards and i was like it's actually easier to just yeah bring them back up afterwards um
and oddly enough my the like two primary carries i had for most of the game ended up doing
probably a minority of the damage and edgar just jumping repeatedly for so long is what ended
up killing them because the primary characters yeah yeah yeah i ended up doing dragoon for edgar
and i would cycle it on other people but edgar was the main one because he seemed to just do so
much damage yeah because he can use pikes yeah yeah and there's there's only a couple i think mog
and maybe one other that can use pikes um gogo i didn't like it first and then my my main character
i can't remember what her name is supposed to be uh tara uh tara yeah my main character she gets this
scroll thing that gives her dual cast and then uh it like happened by accident i didn't realize
gogo would gain the dual cast so i would cast ultima twice which ended up casting ultima four
times yep and then every fight was just like over yeah which was amazing but that's one of the fun
things about old games is that you can get these broken builds that just yeah just just crush the
game yeah because sellus um i at first i was building her as a caster but then i liked the idea that the
she was like more melee focused and then my tara was more magic focused um so she had the
what is it the um oh man i can't remember the name i think it's the genji glove which lets you do
the offering and the offering is it offering lets you hit four times yeah and then you pair those
two together and you hit like eight times or something it's crazy lock with the genji glove
and the offering is one of the like oh i never i liked mug it was fun stealing items but i never
really used lock much one thing that i realized afterwards was one of the times that i played
and then stopped playing for a long time right when i stopped playing is right when i unlocked gao
so i never really like figured him out because when i came back i forgot what i was supposed to do
so he was like worthless on my roster and then my googling afterwards was like okay apparently
he's amazing yeah he's one of those ones where you have to like really make a serious investment
in him and then he's like completely OP but i never really liked the random characters and the fact
that i couldn't select what he's going to do on his turn i've just never gotten into that play style
yeah i i was really excited to get the yeti and then i realized that he just like does his own
thing and i never really used him because of that um gogo i didn't even really like much i only
really started using him once i got that dual cast thing and i realized how overpowered it was for
him to be able to mimic it but i didn't really like his character until that moment and i actually
didn't really use him much i only used him here because i knew it was so overpowered right and
i just wanted the power to kill the boss but i didn't find it fun yeah no i i agree i like i've
always preferred to be able to actually control my characters one of the ones like this and i i
know one of the reasons why i liked him was because i actually really enjoyed the key inputs
but sabin was probably my favorite character of the run and a bunch of people
when i said this a long time ago when we talked about fun and fantasy a bunch of people told me
that he uh why didn't you heal before not that it matters but still what do you mean no no he had
already won he had just been slammed and he was just like there was one more hit than he he won
yeah this top screenshot you just went through like a huge gauntlet like yeah there's a reason
i got here beat up and then down here the game just ended yeah um but yeah people were like oh
sabin sucks sabin sucks sabin's awesome and sabin was awesome the whole way through and again i
don't know maybe i just didn't use because i didn't realize gao was really good or whatever so maybe
i didn't didn't realize that certain things are really strong but sabin was the first
character for me to get to capped damage right and then once you get whatever it's called razor
gale or whatever he i was i was having him hit for three to four k per target multi target
and hitting capped damage on single target way before anyone else sabin sabin is awesome
but he's like he's not cool to like basically is what it comes down to oh because he because he
doesn't cap out as high in the end game as some of the other guys that's all got it well it's just
like whatever whatever okay i don't care about that at all and i i enjoy like i know you're like a
backstory guy as well yeah his story is cool yeah yeah i don't know he was awesome i really i really
liked it i also really liked that it was kind of refreshing that you get to the end and you
have to kill kafka and kafka is just evil oh yeah he's like it's very clear he's my favorite
video game villain for sure he's just he's just such a jerk like the speech at the end
where he's like why are you even alive if you know what's going to end and like all this kind of
stuff is like yeah this guy sucks oh he's such he's such a crap head which is great because
then you fight him and then and then it's such a like it's a brutal fight he's constantly just
flips you to one hp he does that thing where um he blinds and silences you i'm pretty sure he did
that as well i swear and then he just hits you so hard that he'll just one shot one of your guys
randomly so you're like trying to keep your team alive and he's just like that one's dead that one's
dead you have no idea how much hp he has because the game never tells you which is so frustrating
so it's like very likely that i had him like one hit from dead for a long time because i was just
trying to keep my team alive when i could have just one shot him because it was so tense the whole
way and then i beat it with three characters at three hp ah man it was uh it was great i'm glad
you enjoyed the game i'm really glad you enjoyed the game i um i have an update for you as well
i sent it to Dan oh i think i did oh did i not oh hold on did where the heck is my attachment
but i'll say this much i was never that into even the idea of final fantasy games and now i'm like
i'm worried that you gave me the one that i would like like the most uh so it's just downhill
from here but i am can't wait for you to try 10 i am more interested in other final fantasy games
now okay i will get you well hey there's the um there's the war of the lions um i'm definitely
going to check that out it's a very different game no it's probably a better game oh cool it's
really good yeah i have i haven't played any of the i haven't actually played the war of the
lions version i've only ever played the psx like final fantasy tactics version um okay Dan go ahead
and share that sorry the file share i didn't go through before oh uh could this go in the dock oh
no it's just a picture yeah sure yeah i hated the final fantasy combat style before i started
playing and now it's like totally fine ready to see this look uh yeah i'm ready oh they're
starting to look good though circles wheels done oh that's awesome actually it helps having the
the middle bit be black yeah that was a lot of work because painting a candy coating evenly
um like this is really hard we had to find a way to spin the wheel while holding the gun stationary
in order to get it like even and we had to find exactly the right angles to kind of hit it from
to get good coverage uh we masked it up uh the other night and um and did the black it looks
incredible in person i'm actually pretty excited for i'm pretty excited for when it's done someone
asked uh why paint where the tires go it's not it's like not done well like that'll be covered uh
don't worry about that yeah yeah yeah because i'm i'm spraying right so it's not like with a brush
yeah um the kid across the street asks couldn't you dip it i can't um i don't know how i would
dip a two tone like this i guess you could dip it like if you painted it i guess you're
asking if i painted it black and then like i dipped one side and then dipped the other side
that's not so um but the but the pink is not a solid color it's a candy coat it's translucent
so it had to be painted over white so this has this was blasted primered white multiple coats
of primer multiple coats of white then two coats of pink then one coat of pearl then masked then
two coats of black on those parts then it will get clear coated for the whole thing so it's uh
it's a it's a super multi-part process and i got as far as not having done the black yet having
done two coats pink two coats candy i think i did that time and it was a disaster i had to
completely redo it so both of these have actually been fully stripped twice and redone it's been an
absolute nightmare uh this project i am i am so so done um anyway i think like one more big session
also i can clear coat just this and the frame and they can start assembly and then um i can do the
rest at my leisure especially now that i lost the challenge no but uh it's pretty good because it's
kind of motivated me to keep working on it so and now i'm close enough that i can just get over the
line i'm hoping to ride this summer i um i'm happy with how i approached the game i think i got a
lot more out of it playing it the way that i did like no guide and like oh definitely experimenting
with things and trying things and stuff but brother that was a long game it is a long game
like i i don't know if i've played almost any game that took me that long to actually get through
the story like whoa yeah and the world of ruin maybe morrowind the world of ruin is really not as tight
as the world of balance so i think i told you that the game was supposed to end at the world of balance
that's supposed to be the final fight and then we have room on the cart let's just keep making the
game yeah yeah it uh there's and you know there's definitely like oh uh that tower there was a lot
of unnecessary rooms and stuff oh yeah there was also like there's one room in particular i can just
talk about fun fancy forever uh there's one room in particular where i just got roasted i i don't
remember um i was quicksaving fairly often and it was like one small room and it's the only place in
the entire thing that i ran into this one mob oh dude quicksaving such a hack there was no quicksave
when i played that game but sure okay really i did okay so i did only save the save points i did
noticed interesting okay oh it was brutal i misinterpreted that then because i noticed the
save points so i i i assumed that they're oh interesting dang yeah that would have been
a lot harder in mostly just an annoying way for sure oh a hundred percent the way i thought it
worked i never really paid attention the way i thought it worked was that you had to because
there was times where it wouldn't let you quicksave but you didn't always have to normally save at a
save point yeah so i thought quicksave um like wouldn't stay if you close the game
oh no no i thought that i thought the save points were still valuable because of that but i guess
they just literally were meaningless because i think it's more that you can you can use them for
sleeping bags intense i didn't know that really oh i almost never used sleeping bags intense
oh yeah tents are good oh i will say another another thing that i want to praise it for
is that the like how it teaches you how to be self-sufficient within the game is really interesting
i i'm assuming everyone goes through this where like at the start you're dealing with ins and
sleeping bags intense and potions and the economy is rough you don't have all that much money and
you're spending it all on potions it's like ah this this is sucks and then you start getting
healing spells you know like okay i can heal but then i run out of mana and that's an issue
and then you get um whatever it's called um or or osmos uh yeah and then you can yeah sorry
osmos not rasp rasp damages their mp yeah so you can you can now pull mana from monsters now you
now you can pull mana and you can heal your team so if you find a fight that's not that
hard you can like bring everything back up and like all it's it's very cool it's really well
thought out game anyways uh i think it's time for after dark i think so
yeah i would recommend you play it if you haven't there's probably not that many people that
haven't but i would recommend you play it if you haven't and um i don't know if it's better
following with the guide but i really enjoyed the search um i thought that part was actually
very fun and very rewarding i think one of the problems with with enjoying the search
is you end up searching in a bunch of games that have nothing um and a lot of my favorite games
actually have stuff like morrowind had stuff if you looked things were there and i found in this
game if i looked stuff was there and very rewardingly there sometimes and i swear a lot of these
were not required sometimes i would go find something and it would take me like a day
there's no way this thing was like necessary but it was awesome uh like unlocking um i don't even
remember but unlocking like certain people's abilities or getting little things that like
definitely weren't necessary but you know made the game a little easier whatever added flavor
added character story um there was so much to it that like i had to dig pretty hard for
which yeah there's interesting ways that they ARM you to do that because i used the
bestiary to find parts of the game that i had never found was the bestiary in the original
version no okay well all right either way um because i would look and because if you highlighted
a question mark question mark thing on the bestiary it would show you where it was but it
wouldn't show you what it was oh that's interesting so i could look at an area and be like i haven't
been here how do i get there um there there was a few different ways there was the dots on the map
not going big if you hadn't actually found the thing so realizing they're like okay something's
there and i can't get there yet and then also that's a new creature comfort as well so i would not
have found anywhere near as much stuff if i didn't have these tools and honestly that's a good thing
though because it was easy to miss a lot of the content in the game in the old version so there
are certain things that are really good yeah um but yeah i thought the bestiary was was awesome
okay Dan want to hit us with after dark yeah sure i got some rich messages for you here
sure hi wan.dll Linus noticed almost all the t-shirt designs were taken off the store was
waiting for a bunch to restock what's the reason for the purge love the designs and then i'm excited
to see more soon i think we're kind of refreshing everything it's been kind of a nightmare between
just supplier challenges and tariffs and um implementing like new colors and our tall blanks
and also just the the relatively low volume of our printing partner um which is not a
criticism it just is a thing that is um so doing the same kind of volume of t-shirt designs that
we used to do has been a real challenge it's something that we do have plans to fix but it's
just it's like anything it's going to take time when do you guys think we will ever see a time in
gaming where we will try and make sure it works properly versus just dropping it and hoping to
fix it later i really hate the state of most ah ah games that's triple a and quadruple a
i don't see that getting better anytime soon i mean now that games as a service is the new meta
i i just don't i don't i don't foresee that being a thing that's going to happen i think that we
just have to kind of um wait invest in games when they are in a state that we believe is
finished enough for us to enjoy and hope that the devs of the games that we love are going to
you know continue to invest the time to get them to a working state in fairness to devs
the hardware variants that exist today or variations that exist today are much much
broader than they used to be optimizing a game is harder than ever and that shouldn't just be a
crutch that shouldn't just be an excuse for poor quality work or for you know a publisher or
management forcing something out when you know everyone knows it's not ready but it is also a
reality ltd store underwear is my favorite is it coming back love from australia yes oh thank
goodness that's a question i've had actually thank you for asking that yeah did they come
in upside down though um i don't know we have some really cool designs coming up though there's
this one with like pixel art australia and one with pixel art like potions and stuff on it
like kind of gamer gamer underwear i'm pretty stoked i'm sorry luke hi wanda tlo i've been
watching for about three years now and you have always been my mentor throughout my it career
who are your mentors and what did you learn from them oh i mean i've had a lot of mentors i guess
um you know one of them i hired as our ceo taryn taught me a lot um my other boss at ncix taught
me a lot jack um you know externally i i have been really impressed by people who came before me
in tech media like chris perillo i just thought his professionalism that time that we had him on the
WAN Show was big time unreal yeah very inspiring i i don't know if i described that as mentorship
because i don't like know him super well like we've hung out a few times but other than that
but inspiring but definitely inspiring yeah um was this question specifically for you
i don't think so um i've used i've used wendell
just i think a fair way of saying it yeah he definitely would qualify as a mentor for you
hundred percent yeah wendell's been huge for me actually because um when when i started doing
float playing stuff i didn't i didn't know a lot of people that were like managing
software teams or anything um or building software not even not even managing software
teams i knew very few people in that industry at all and he was extremely helpful extremely
understanding generous with his time and extremely generous with his time like and still is i still
go to him for stuff now um but especially back there it was like actually a genius so oh just
dude yeah he's fantastic i very much enjoy just hanging out with him and then at this point it's
mostly hanging out with him and then there are tidbits that he'll like say something and i'll
be like oh okay i'm gonna note that down it's less like direct question and answer and it's more like
osmosis just being near him for a while is like uh helpful i don't know about mentorship but i've
talked before about taking a lot of inspiration from um Noctua's leadership and how they approach
product development um same with framework i i love that they're staying true to their mission
even though you know they've taken vc money and it can be really tempting to just do whatever it
takes to make a buck in order to generate a return for your investors
yeah investment disclosure hit me Dan hello land duke and dynas what is your biggest distraction
during the workday getting in the way of getting things done also more bretosaurus merge please
interruptions i mean many notifications because of yeah too many incoming communications
on too many various communication platforms yeah i think that's a really good way of putting
it i second that motion ding hit me Dan it's a huge issue ding but it's your phone this time
what watch is Linus wearing i noticed it during this switch to unboxing i think it's a
i think it's the two r from one plus so basically doesn't even know it's fine i guess uh i don't know
whatever the new thing from rolex is i don't even care at this point oh my god i just have a guy buy
people like who watches a lot takes my maybach down and goes picks up the new release
oh you're still driving around in a maybach oh oh jeez why do i talk to you i only just found out
what a maybach is don't even give me that i did yeah i found out like a week ago me too doesn't
have the new endangered seal seat covers yeah it's not letting me use the menu i'm trying to
navigate to the find out what model it is um not a very glowing but it's not on my wrist and it
keeps locking sorry one sec uh yeah i think it's the two r honestly i just use it as pretty much
just to watch these days i've just found that it's so tedious to interact with my wrist compared to
just pulling my phone out that i can't get that into it it's all i got that's all you got okay all
right well maybe i actually get to eat a meal for the first time today i wouldn't even bother at
this point yeah i think yeah it's the two r it's the two r um no you should eat oh hey i'm getting
braces oh nice okay and that's the end of the show we'll see you again next week same bedtime
are you getting a visa line or the metal ones um i am okay those were options cool options good
options solid options third option um but i couldn't resist the 3d printed option oh so there's this
like new one where they 3d print the brackets specifically for your teeth um so that they
don't have to like remove them and like replace them i just wanted to i just wanted to try them
huh that sounds cool let me know what that is i want to try that too yeah i've never even heard
of that yeah they look like the train they look like train tracks but a little more clear i guess
and uh maybe i'll regret it because in visa line is a lot more there's a lot less noticeable
but i don't know dude you got to get frosted tips and no it's actually more and train it's actually
it's actually more expensive than in visa line but i just got dined by like a by like a couple
hundred dollars or something not by like a huge amount given the total outlay um but i was just
like how can i resist the 3d printed brackets you got to get a hot topic shirt ginko jeans oh my
frosted tips caesar cat
i have to tell you we accidentally we accidentally made like ginko cut
LTT cargo pants once oh they probably would have sold those off they probably would have
sold like crazy um i'll i'll wear them i'll wear them for you let's go okay all right see you again
next week same bad times in that channel bye
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