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Sammy: Where's Plouffe? Where's Plouffe Adam? 2 00:00:05.638 --> 00:00:07.540 Adam: Plouffe's been dead for years, Sammy. 3 00:00:07.841 --> 00:00:08.274 Sammy: *Gasps* 4 00:00:08.274 --> 00:00:09.209 Guy at the back: *Laughs* 5 00:00:09.309 --> 00:00:10.643 Sammy: James, have you seen Plouffe? 6 00:00:11.511 --> 00:00:12.145 James: Uh... 7 00:00:12.479 --> 00:00:13.279 Sammy: Where could Plouffe be? 8 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:15.482 Oh, are those his shoes? 9 00:00:17.851 --> 00:00:18.485 Plouffe? 10 00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:19.652 Plouffe: Hi. 11 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:20.854 Sammy: Hi. 12 00:00:21.087 --> 00:00:21.888 Plouffe: Come on in. 13 00:00:21.888 --> 00:00:26.593 Plouffe: We're going to take a closer look at the secret gaming den, that we created. 14 00:00:27.227 --> 00:00:28.161 Sammy: This is very nice. 15 00:00:28.194 --> 00:00:30.663 Plouffe: Yeah, turned out to be super cozy. 16 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:32.298 Sammy: It's a pain in the ass to get in though. 17 00:00:32.332 --> 00:00:34.367 Plouffe: No, come on; that's part of the experience. 18 00:00:34.367 --> 00:00:35.635 Sammy: Hahahahaha. Plouffe: You got to crawl through. 19 00:00:35.668 --> 00:00:37.670 Sammy: What if you don't have the good knees to crawl through.? 20 00:00:37.670 --> 00:00:38.805 Plouffe: That's your problem. 21 00:00:38.805 --> 00:00:39.606 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 22 00:00:39.606 --> 00:00:41.207 Plouffe: But you know what? Jordan got in here. 23 00:00:41.241 --> 00:00:44.110 So even if you're a pretty big guy, he's like over six foot. 24 00:00:44.110 --> 00:00:44.978 Plouffe: Yeah, Lucas crawled in. 25 00:00:45.011 --> 00:00:45.979 Plouffe: Yeah, Reece. 26 00:00:46.012 --> 00:00:47.781 You know, all the tall people in the office. 27 00:00:48.014 --> 00:00:54.187 Plouffe: So as you come through, it opens up into this amazing space that we've got here. 28 00:00:54.187 --> 00:00:59.492 Um, for our main seat, we've got the giant CPU dog pillow, that- 29 00:00:59.492 --> 00:01:00.493 Sammy: Oh, it's a dog pillow. 30 00:01:00.493 --> 00:01:01.795 Plouffe: Yeah, or dog bed. 31 00:01:01.795 --> 00:01:03.963 Plouffe: This never made it into production; 32 00:01:03.997 --> 00:01:06.366 I took the only one we ever made home 33 00:01:06.366 --> 00:01:08.735 Itâs lived with me ever since. I think the 34 00:01:09.402 --> 00:01:13.039 The bed gaming setup with Colin W was still here 35 00:01:13.039 --> 00:01:15.108 He was like âwell I donât want itâ so I took it home 36 00:01:15.108 --> 00:01:16.943 There's a sprinkler pipe here. 37 00:01:16.976 --> 00:01:18.111 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 38 00:01:18.478 --> 00:01:19.546 Plouffe: Um, and it was ugly as hell; 39 00:01:19.579 --> 00:01:21.614 and we just needed a way to cover it up. 40 00:01:22.082 --> 00:01:25.919 Plouffe: So I found this like cloud LED stuff, on Amazon. 41 00:01:25.952 --> 00:01:31.624 Most of what you see in this room was either fabricated by us, or bought on Amazon. 42 00:01:31.624 --> 00:01:36.362 Cause we just needed stuff here quickly, cheap; you know, get it done. 43 00:01:37.130 --> 00:01:38.264 Sammy: Yeah, I was going to say, 44 00:01:38.264 --> 00:01:41.601 I didn't take a look, but the way this cloud's position is so ugly, 45 00:01:42.001 --> 00:01:44.838 but if it's, if it- But I didn't know that you mentioned it. 46 00:01:44.838 --> 00:01:46.039 Plouffe: It's to hide the pipe. 47 00:01:46.106 --> 00:01:46.339 Sammy: Yeah. 48 00:01:46.339 --> 00:01:49.209 Plouffe: And I promise you, if we didn't do that it would look even uglier. 49 00:01:49.275 --> 00:01:49.676 Sammy: Yeah. 50 00:01:49.676 --> 00:01:51.711 Plouffe: Um, one thing when we're not going to keep permanent 51 00:01:51.711 --> 00:01:53.847 is like all of it, all the way down to the back here; 52 00:01:53.847 --> 00:01:55.515 because if you do, there's a sprinkler, 53 00:01:55.882 --> 00:01:57.550 uh, I don't want to take it down all the way, 54 00:01:57.584 --> 00:02:00.520 because we still need to get B roll, Andy's got to come in here and film some more. 55 00:02:00.553 --> 00:02:03.256 But yeah, we're hiding like a big pipe with like you know, 56 00:02:03.256 --> 00:02:06.759 there's like a, there's like a cutoff valve here or something. 57 00:02:06.793 --> 00:02:10.296 Don't hit your head; I've hit my head multiple times on this, 58 00:02:10.697 --> 00:02:11.731 uh, be careful. 59 00:02:12.065 --> 00:02:17.637 Um, past the amazing pipe that we've got, we put up some fans. 60 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:23.843 These are only intake, because exhaust was doing absolutely nothing. 61 00:02:23.877 --> 00:02:24.310 Sammy: Hahahaha. 62 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:27.614 Plouffe: We had all four blowing air out and it just wasn't going anywhere; 63 00:02:27.847 --> 00:02:29.382 Plouffe: but now it's working pretty good. 64 00:02:29.415 --> 00:02:29.749 Sammy: Yeah. 65 00:02:29.749 --> 00:02:33.319 Sammy: I think the reason why I knew this existed is because of those intakes. 66 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.422 Plouffe: Yeah, you can see, you can see the RGB shining through, Sammy: Yeah. 67 00:02:36.422 --> 00:02:38.191 Plouffe: like the fan vents from the outside. 68 00:02:38.191 --> 00:02:38.558 Sammy: Yeah. 69 00:02:38.558 --> 00:02:41.828 Plouffe: Originally what we were going to do was you can buy these, 70 00:02:41.828 --> 00:02:50.203 um, like home HVAC, like grates that actually have fans built in 71 00:02:50.203 --> 00:02:52.005 and they push more air out of it. 72 00:02:52.038 --> 00:02:55.175 Um, you can just buy those, but we thought that was kind of lame. 73 00:02:55.375 --> 00:02:55.742 Sammy: Mmmm. 74 00:02:55.742 --> 00:02:57.777 Plouffe: Uh, so we just put some computer fans in. 75 00:02:57.777 --> 00:02:58.778 Plouffe: What else did we do? 76 00:02:58.811 --> 00:03:00.580 We built these shelves, these drawers. 77 00:03:01.014 --> 00:03:01.881 Sammy: You built those? 78 00:03:01.915 --> 00:03:03.183 Plouffe: Yeah, so Sebastian did. 79 00:03:03.183 --> 00:03:04.817 Plouffe: This whole thing was a giant team effort; 80 00:03:04.851 --> 00:03:06.786 I cannot take credit for all of it at all. 81 00:03:07.086 --> 00:03:11.191 Alex Dick got the contracting done to help move the wall; 82 00:03:11.191 --> 00:03:13.126 because where Sammy is right now, where he's filming from, 83 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.697 that all got pushed back; so we didn't have all that extra space at the start. 84 00:03:17.730 --> 00:03:21.401 We had to tear down the wall and move the whole kitchenette back, 85 00:03:21.668 --> 00:03:22.969 and it was totally worth it. 86 00:03:22.969 --> 00:03:26.806 Cost a good amount of money, but it was totally worth it. Sammy: Hahahaha. 87 00:03:26.839 --> 00:03:29.275 Plouffe: Um yeah, we've got a bunch of storage drawers back here. 88 00:03:29.275 --> 00:03:32.178 Cause we had no idea what to do with the weird triangular space? 89 00:03:32.845 --> 00:03:34.113 As the angles kind of meet. 90 00:03:34.147 --> 00:03:37.150 Um, we're just like, well we can put decorations in there, you know; 91 00:03:37.183 --> 00:03:41.487 but it's kind of boring, so Sebastian had this great idea of putting in drawers. 92 00:03:42.388 --> 00:03:45.191 So he built up those and installed them, and they look great. 93 00:03:45.458 --> 00:03:46.526 Sammy: Yeah, they look really good. 94 00:03:46.559 --> 00:03:48.194 Plouffe: Yeah, they look really good, they function really well; 95 00:03:48.228 --> 00:03:51.531 there's a bunch of stuff in here, chips, controllers, stuff like that. 96 00:03:51.564 --> 00:03:54.767 I've got, I threw a sleeping bag in the bottom one for a little added touching. 97 00:03:54.801 --> 00:03:58.738 I mean hey, Sammy you know, if you're stuck here; 98 00:03:58.738 --> 00:04:02.242 you get locked in the lab for whatever reason? And you can't go home? 99 00:04:02.375 --> 00:04:03.610 You can, you can sleep in here. 100 00:04:03.610 --> 00:04:06.279 Sammy: They look really good. Plouffe: You can even use, you can use my sleeping bag; 101 00:04:06.312 --> 00:04:08.548 and you can sleep in here, because we put gym mats on the floor, 102 00:04:08.548 --> 00:04:13.753 so it's a lot more comfortable than when it was, just concrete? 103 00:04:13.753 --> 00:04:14.320 Sammy: Mhmm. 104 00:04:14.354 --> 00:04:16.389 Plouffe: And then the gym mats looked kind of ugly, 105 00:04:16.422 --> 00:04:21.361 so I found a rug that fits the space almost perfectly, and put the rug over top. 106 00:04:21.394 --> 00:04:23.496 Um, so yeah it's actually like pretty comfortable. 107 00:04:23.863 --> 00:04:25.265 Like I walk around- 108 00:04:25.265 --> 00:04:28.401 I crawl around in here to do a bunch of finishing touches, 109 00:04:28.434 --> 00:04:30.870 and it was like totally fine; my knees did not get destroyed. 110 00:04:30.870 --> 00:04:33.806 Crawling in and out of the space at the start absolutely sucked. 111 00:04:33.806 --> 00:04:34.307 Sammy: Yeah. 112 00:04:34.707 --> 00:04:36.209 Plouffe: Even without the dishwasher door, 113 00:04:36.242 --> 00:04:37.677 uh, kind of taking up some space; 114 00:04:38.144 --> 00:04:41.014 your knees, man, I'm telling- Oh my god, it was really brutal. 115 00:04:41.014 --> 00:04:45.618 Um, we put a hook up for hanging stuff; backpack, hanging the day pack. 116 00:04:45.652 --> 00:04:46.452 Pass me my backpack. 117 00:04:46.886 --> 00:04:49.722 Pass it to me, we put this in the video but it's going to, I'm going to do it again. 118 00:04:49.756 --> 00:04:50.189 Sammy: Hahahaha. 119 00:04:50.189 --> 00:04:50.890 Plouffe: Look at this. 120 00:04:51.457 --> 00:04:52.558 Plouffe: Ba da bing. 121 00:04:52.625 --> 00:04:54.227 Sammy: Wow. Plouffe: Ba da boom. 122 00:04:54.294 --> 00:04:57.397 Plouffe: There's probably a better thing to hang it by, but you know, whatever. 123 00:04:57.397 --> 00:04:58.698 Sammy: Great product placement. 124 00:04:58.731 --> 00:04:59.599 Plouffe: Yeah, great product placement. 125 00:04:59.599 --> 00:05:00.533 Sammy: Hahahahahaha. 126 00:05:01.167 --> 00:05:02.769 Plouffe: Um, all the RGB signs. 127 00:05:02.802 --> 00:05:03.836 Sammy: Yeah, I was just going to ask about that. 128 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:08.641 Plouffe: They do light up, but you have to do it in a specific sequence; 129 00:05:08.641 --> 00:05:11.978 because we're maxed out on power, 130 00:05:12.145 --> 00:05:12.645 Sammy: Yeah. 131 00:05:12.679 --> 00:05:14.547 from all the USB power banks that we've got. 132 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:17.050 Sammy: I was going to say, there's a lot of um, cords up there. 133 00:05:17.050 --> 00:05:18.084 Plouffe: Yeah, there's a lot of cables; 134 00:05:18.084 --> 00:05:20.286 cable management could have been a little better. 135 00:05:20.620 --> 00:05:24.457 We we're really running out of time, and this was a long project to be clear; 136 00:05:24.457 --> 00:05:27.627 like we had a lot of time to get all this done, but um, 137 00:05:28.061 --> 00:05:30.096 it was kind of happening in the background for me, 138 00:05:30.430 --> 00:05:33.633 because I was doing the CPU reviews during all of this. 139 00:05:33.700 --> 00:05:36.602 So it kind of got you know, delegated. 140 00:05:36.636 --> 00:05:38.705 But they did a really good job otherwise. 141 00:05:38.738 --> 00:05:40.707 But yeah, you've got to turn them on in sequence; 142 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:46.679 so you turn on like for instance, the star has to get turned on first 143 00:05:46.679 --> 00:05:48.981 and then you turn the brightness, like all the way down on it? 144 00:05:49.015 --> 00:05:51.084 Then you can turn on the other two; 145 00:05:51.384 --> 00:05:54.354 because we can't run both the game on sign, and the controller sign, 146 00:05:54.387 --> 00:05:57.256 and the star sign all at full brightness? It just won't do it. 147 00:05:57.256 --> 00:05:59.359 There was a power outage over the weekend, so they all turned off 148 00:05:59.559 --> 00:06:02.729 and I haven't had time to like properly power them all back up; 149 00:06:02.762 --> 00:06:03.796 same thing with these ones. 150 00:06:03.796 --> 00:06:08.301 I think you turn the question mark block sign on first, turn it all the way down, 151 00:06:08.434 --> 00:06:10.670 and then the arcade sign, and then the bullet bill sign. 152 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:11.137 Sammy: Hahahaha. 153 00:06:11.137 --> 00:06:13.639 Plouffe: Same with the shy guy actually, the shy guy can be turned down as well; 154 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.541 so you've got to like turn them all down. 155 00:06:15.541 --> 00:06:19.946 Any, any that can be adjusted, turn them all down; then turn the others on. 156 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:22.215 We had a few more RGB signs. 157 00:06:22.248 --> 00:06:23.750 Like there's this empty space here? 158 00:06:24.083 --> 00:06:27.420 and I really wanted to put just one or two more signs there, but we just can't. 159 00:06:27.887 --> 00:06:29.889 It's just, we literally can't. 160 00:06:31.324 --> 00:06:33.559 Threw a nice GPU poster over here. 161 00:06:34.794 --> 00:06:35.428 Sammy: Is that even out? 162 00:06:36.028 --> 00:06:37.230 Plouffe: Yeah, we sold those. 163 00:06:37.363 --> 00:06:38.364 Sammy: And then we have the- 164 00:06:38.531 --> 00:06:41.901 Plouffe: We have the Samus Aran poster that I stole from the lounge. 165 00:06:41.934 --> 00:06:43.936 Sorry Chase, I needed posters. 166 00:06:44.270 --> 00:06:47.607 This is my poster I took from home; that's just from a band called Sales. 167 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:49.742 And then, okay, what else? So we did the sound panels. 168 00:06:49.909 --> 00:06:53.079 These, you know, Origin sponsored the video; 169 00:06:53.112 --> 00:06:56.182 Corsair owns Origin, or Origin owns Corsair. 170 00:06:56.215 --> 00:06:58.351 I love these panels, they do work really well; 171 00:06:58.618 --> 00:07:03.156 but when you're putting them on the ceiling instead of on the walls, 172 00:07:03.156 --> 00:07:06.759 and you can see this if you've watched like any of our office tours where we look up, 173 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:10.563 Plouffe: they don't stay stuck vertically very well. 174 00:07:10.563 --> 00:07:11.264 Sammy: Oh yeah. 175 00:07:11.264 --> 00:07:12.899 Plouffe: So like this one is empty. 176 00:07:12.965 --> 00:07:15.768 That one's empty, and it's just like- Yeah, it's right here. 177 00:07:16.369 --> 00:07:17.203 They fall down. 178 00:07:17.336 --> 00:07:20.006 That's with whatever it comes with, 179 00:07:20.039 --> 00:07:23.109 plus the double-sided tape that we put on after the fact. 180 00:07:23.309 --> 00:07:23.810 Sammy: Yeah. 181 00:07:23.843 --> 00:07:27.947 Sammy: I was going to say, there's one just kind of chilling. 182 00:07:28.114 --> 00:07:28.548 Plouffe: Yeah. 183 00:07:28.581 --> 00:07:30.983 Plouffe: But this actually helped quite a bit. 184 00:07:31.017 --> 00:07:35.421 Originally, when it was just concrete and drywall inside here; 185 00:07:36.522 --> 00:07:39.792 it echoed so bad, the audio in here was terrible. 186 00:07:39.826 --> 00:07:43.930 Now it's like not bad, especially with like the cloud, with the foam, 187 00:07:44.030 --> 00:07:48.167 and with all the shelves and stuffies, and other just whatever- 188 00:07:48.201 --> 00:07:50.169 The big pillow you know, all that stuff really helps 189 00:07:50.203 --> 00:07:53.139 kind of just deaden the sound quite a bit, so that was nice. 190 00:07:54.073 --> 00:07:55.575 Plouffe: What else do we do? 191 00:07:55.575 --> 00:07:58.644 Sammy: Can you tell me about, anything about why it's like this? 192 00:07:58.678 --> 00:07:59.278 Plouffe: Oh yeah. 193 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:01.647 Sammy: Like why is it a steel case, not like a regular case? 194 00:08:01.714 --> 00:08:07.320 Plouffe: So originally when we, I also got sick during this project 195 00:08:07.353 --> 00:08:10.923 and the contractors came when I was out basically all week. 196 00:08:10.923 --> 00:08:12.792 I was either taking the day off or I was working from home, 197 00:08:12.825 --> 00:08:15.995 and I wasn't around to like answer any questions for them; 198 00:08:16.062 --> 00:08:19.532 so two things they did that could have been slightly different. 199 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.337 I was hoping to have these vents up a little higher, but we also thought it was for exhaust. 200 00:08:24.337 --> 00:08:30.543 So it actually kind of worked out once we switched it to intake, but then the bulkhead over here, 201 00:08:31.077 --> 00:08:35.681 we originally thought that they were going to just put a box above the plumbing; 202 00:08:35.715 --> 00:08:37.283 because the kitchenette still works. 203 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:37.750 Sammy: Mmmm. 204 00:08:37.783 --> 00:08:41.053 Plouffe: Like you can go and turn the tap on, use the microwave or whatever is out there. 205 00:08:41.087 --> 00:08:42.788 The electrical and the plumbing all work still. 206 00:08:42.855 --> 00:08:46.058 And that's just below where the computer sits now; 207 00:08:46.292 --> 00:08:48.828 and so we thought they were just going to put a box over that stuff, 208 00:08:49.061 --> 00:08:51.130 and then not go all the way to the ceiling. 209 00:08:51.931 --> 00:08:54.567 But then they went all the way to the ceiling, and so 210 00:08:55.368 --> 00:09:00.139 we wanted to reclaim some of the space, and we actually ripped out. 211 00:09:00.606 --> 00:09:04.644 We drilled, did a borescope or something to see what was inside and where the pipes wer; 212 00:09:04.677 --> 00:09:09.982 and then drill, I don't know, Alex Dick cut out a bunch of the drywall 213 00:09:10.049 --> 00:09:13.753 to then put the computer there, to save more space. 214 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:15.688 Because if we didn't, where would the computer go? 215 00:09:15.721 --> 00:09:16.122 Sammy: Yeah. 216 00:09:16.155 --> 00:09:18.991 Plouffe: Right? It would go like here, which I mean, it's not- 217 00:09:18.991 --> 00:09:20.092 I don't know, there's not enough space. 218 00:09:20.126 --> 00:09:21.327 Plouffe: Right now, it feels roomy. 219 00:09:21.727 --> 00:09:22.428 Sammy: It does, yeah. 220 00:09:22.495 --> 00:09:23.963 Plouffe: Like it honestly feels pretty spacious. 221 00:09:23.963 --> 00:09:24.330 Sammy: Yeah. 222 00:09:24.730 --> 00:09:27.233 Plouffe: We could fit more people in here, and it'd be pretty comfortable still; 223 00:09:27.266 --> 00:09:28.434 at least one or two more people. 224 00:09:28.501 --> 00:09:30.069 And you could game in here, no problem. 225 00:09:31.537 --> 00:09:34.140 You could save more space with a smaller chair too, but I don't know; 226 00:09:34.140 --> 00:09:36.442 I thought this fit really well. 227 00:09:37.209 --> 00:09:39.312 But yeah, behind that, this actually swings open. 228 00:09:41.113 --> 00:09:42.848 Sammy: Oh, noo! Plouffe: Don't worry about it. 229 00:09:44.650 --> 00:09:45.251 Sammy: Ooh! 230 00:09:45.251 --> 00:09:47.186 Sammy: That's cool, whoaaa. 231 00:09:47.253 --> 00:09:49.722 Plouffe: Yeah, so Sebastian did this as well. 232 00:09:50.056 --> 00:09:56.362 He took the Origin logo and cut out some just scrap aluminum we had, 233 00:09:56.395 --> 00:10:01.634 and built this cool swingable aluminum door, so we could fit our PC in there. 234 00:10:01.634 --> 00:10:03.402 Thanks, Origin, for sponsoring the video. 235 00:10:04.070 --> 00:10:04.904 Sammy: Not this video though. 236 00:10:04.937 --> 00:10:05.605 Plouffe: Not this video. 237 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.075 Sammy: That's really cool, I didn't know it was going to open like that. 238 00:10:09.075 --> 00:10:09.642 Plouffe: Yeah, right? 239 00:10:09.675 --> 00:10:10.509 Plouffe: No, so it's easy access; 240 00:10:10.509 --> 00:10:12.945 and we put all the IO on this side to make sure you can just like 241 00:10:12.945 --> 00:10:14.947 plug and play whatever you want. 242 00:10:14.981 --> 00:10:18.417 The only thing is the power switch is kind of on the other side. 243 00:10:18.451 --> 00:10:20.987 So you've got to like pull the computer out a bit, get your ARM really in there 244 00:10:20.987 --> 00:10:22.321 and then turn it on; 245 00:10:22.688 --> 00:10:24.223 which I had to do today, because of the power outage. 246 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.196 For who did everything, like Justin did a lot of this. 247 00:10:31.664 --> 00:10:32.198 Sammy: Shoutout. 248 00:10:32.231 --> 00:10:33.232 Plouffe: Yeah, shoutout Justin. 249 00:10:33.232 --> 00:10:37.036 He helped quite a bit with basically everything, like all the wiring, putting the RGB up. 250 00:10:37.069 --> 00:10:40.773 Same with Reece; Reece helped a lot with the RGB signs and stuff like that. 251 00:10:40.806 --> 00:10:43.676 And just like mounting the monitor to the wall, 252 00:10:43.709 --> 00:10:46.012 we used French cleats to get it as close as we could. 253 00:10:46.078 --> 00:10:48.648 We originally wanted to cut into the wall, 254 00:10:48.681 --> 00:10:52.018 and mount this so it was like flush with the drywall. 255 00:10:52.051 --> 00:10:52.952 Sammy: That'd be really cool. 256 00:10:52.985 --> 00:10:54.120 Plouffe: We realized a couple things though. 257 00:10:54.153 --> 00:10:58.524 One, the studs back here are probably structural, because it's a staircase, right? 258 00:10:58.591 --> 00:11:02.662 So we couldn't really cut into them without risking anything. 259 00:11:03.729 --> 00:11:09.001 And the drywall alone was only going to save us like a quarter inch, half inch at most. 260 00:11:09.035 --> 00:11:11.170 To get it actually flush, we'd have to cut into the studs, 261 00:11:11.203 --> 00:11:12.204 and we weren't willing to do that. 262 00:11:12.204 --> 00:11:12.638 Sammy: Yeah. 263 00:11:12.672 --> 00:11:15.107 Plouffe: So we used French cleats and we got it pretty close. 264 00:11:15.141 --> 00:11:15.775 Sammy: Still cool though. 265 00:11:15.808 --> 00:11:17.043 Plouffe: Oh yeah, it's still super cool. 266 00:11:17.076 --> 00:11:18.911 And like you know, unlike a normal monitor ARM, 267 00:11:18.911 --> 00:11:23.215 it's not like out another like a couple of inches or whatever, because of the giant mount. 268 00:11:23.949 --> 00:11:24.717 Works really well. 269 00:11:25.017 --> 00:11:25.951 Holds a ton of weight, 270 00:11:25.951 --> 00:11:28.320 I think our cleats were rated to like a hundred pounds or something. 271 00:11:28.988 --> 00:11:31.290 As for what's left, it was mostly decoration. 272 00:11:31.323 --> 00:11:36.228 I just kind of, you know, I've got a ton of plushies. 273 00:11:36.262 --> 00:11:38.597 We have a bunch from work, like- 274 00:11:38.931 --> 00:11:42.735 I don't know, tiny CPU pillows, the bananas, the ShortCircuit bananas; 275 00:11:42.768 --> 00:11:44.603 I thought that really helped tie the room together, 276 00:11:44.670 --> 00:11:47.807 almost as much as the rug really helped tie the whole room together. 277 00:11:48.607 --> 00:11:52.645 And then the shelves that Sebastian made, that are above Sammy. 278 00:11:53.612 --> 00:11:54.213 Sammy: Yeah? 279 00:11:54.213 --> 00:11:55.314 Plouffe: Do a weird thing to show them. 280 00:11:55.414 --> 00:11:56.649 Sammy: Oh, I'll put B-roll there. 281 00:11:56.682 --> 00:11:57.383 Plouffe: Show them the- 282 00:11:57.450 --> 00:11:58.451 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 283 00:11:58.451 --> 00:11:59.685 Plouffe: Yeah, there you go, the shelves. 284 00:11:59.719 --> 00:12:03.989 The shelves that Sebastian helped me, uh- Helped create and install; 285 00:12:04.123 --> 00:12:06.225 we put a bunch of just old consoles up there. 286 00:12:06.258 --> 00:12:09.495 Linus wanted, I think what was his, what was his instructions? 287 00:12:09.528 --> 00:12:16.535 Kind of maximalist with some like 80s - 90s teenage bedroom, basically. 288 00:12:16.535 --> 00:12:19.939 So through a bunch of plushies, and through a bunch of old consoles, 289 00:12:19.939 --> 00:12:21.807 throw some like fake Pokemon cards from a bunch- 290 00:12:21.807 --> 00:12:25.911 I basically just went over to our set deck area over in the studio, 291 00:12:25.945 --> 00:12:28.447 grabbed whatever I thought worked, plus my- 292 00:12:28.481 --> 00:12:32.384 I took a bunch of stuff from home, like a bunch of this stuff is mine. 293 00:12:32.551 --> 00:12:36.322 So I don't know, take, take whatever you will from that. 294 00:12:36.455 --> 00:12:38.290 Um, but I- 295 00:12:38.290 --> 00:12:40.726 I just came in, finally you know set up the last few stuff, 296 00:12:40.760 --> 00:12:43.429 made sure that things were placed thoughtfully. 297 00:12:43.462 --> 00:12:48.033 So for instance, the couch master here, wireless peripherals by the way, 298 00:12:48.067 --> 00:12:49.368 just to make your life a little easier. 299 00:12:49.401 --> 00:12:55.574 Um, it fits perfectly on the bottom shelf, right in between all the plushies. 300 00:12:56.275 --> 00:12:56.909 Sammy: Like here? 301 00:12:57.042 --> 00:12:57.343 Plouffe: Yeah. 302 00:12:57.443 --> 00:12:58.077 Sammy: Oh. 303 00:12:58.911 --> 00:13:03.349 Plouffe: So you can put this away, and then easily go up and grab it 304 00:13:04.350 --> 00:13:05.317 when you want to game. 305 00:13:05.851 --> 00:13:07.019 Sammy: That's cool, this is really cool. Plouffe: Yeah. 306 00:13:07.052 --> 00:13:07.820 Sammy: I think this is really cool. 307 00:13:07.820 --> 00:13:08.721 Plouffe: Right? 308 00:13:08.754 --> 00:13:10.523 Sammy: I was, I was, I remember we planned this like last- 309 00:13:10.523 --> 00:13:11.657 Basically last year, right? 310 00:13:11.657 --> 00:13:15.961 Plouffe: Yeah, so okay, so my one... my one big annoyance with this; 311 00:13:16.595 --> 00:13:18.430 that, you know, we're not going to say in the video, but for float, 312 00:13:18.464 --> 00:13:19.565 for Floatplane, we'll tell you guys. 313 00:13:20.065 --> 00:13:22.701 Yes, of course we saw, I can't remember who did it, 314 00:13:22.735 --> 00:13:26.672 but that video with the under the stairs, um work area or whatever? 315 00:13:26.705 --> 00:13:27.506 Do you know what I'm talking about? 316 00:13:28.007 --> 00:13:28.407 Sammy: No. 317 00:13:28.574 --> 00:13:31.610 Plouffe: Okay well, buddy did a really good job, 318 00:13:32.978 --> 00:13:35.548 and it was frustrating because we had planned this 319 00:13:35.581 --> 00:13:37.616 like months before his video even came out. 320 00:13:37.616 --> 00:13:38.250 So we probably- 321 00:13:38.284 --> 00:13:39.985 Honestly, cause that probably took him a long time; 322 00:13:40.019 --> 00:13:43.289 we probably both had like that exact kind of stroke of genius moment. 323 00:13:43.322 --> 00:13:46.058 And we're like, let's put a gaming set up under the stairs. 324 00:13:46.225 --> 00:13:49.161 Uh, but his came out first; because ours kept getting pushed back. 325 00:13:49.195 --> 00:13:51.964 Multiple reasons, Origin took a while to give us the computer. 326 00:13:51.997 --> 00:13:58.404 Like I said, I got sick at one point; CPU reviews, all the hardware started coming out, 327 00:13:58.437 --> 00:14:02.041 so I was busy with reviews, and it just kept getting pushed down the road. 328 00:14:02.107 --> 00:14:04.176 Contractors had to come in, move the wall. 329 00:14:04.210 --> 00:14:05.945 Like all this stuff took so much time, right? 330 00:14:05.945 --> 00:14:06.312 Sammy: Yeah. 331 00:14:06.512 --> 00:14:11.183 Plouffe: Um, so I'm, I guarantee you when the video goes up, 332 00:14:11.217 --> 00:14:12.418 I'm going to see a bunch of comments who are like, 333 00:14:12.451 --> 00:14:14.987 blah, blah, "this person did it first", blah, blah. 334 00:14:15.054 --> 00:14:16.255 They did. 335 00:14:16.322 --> 00:14:17.489 Sammy: Well, they didn't invent it. 336 00:14:17.523 --> 00:14:19.058 Plouffe: Shoutout, shoutout to them. 337 00:14:19.091 --> 00:14:19.525 Yeah. 338 00:14:19.692 --> 00:14:20.426 Well, they did a good job. 339 00:14:20.459 --> 00:14:21.927 I can't, I wish I could remember who it was. 340 00:14:21.927 --> 00:14:25.865 Um but yeah, otherwise I'm pretty, I'm really happy with it. 341 00:14:25.898 --> 00:14:27.399 I'm honestly super jazzed with how it turned out. 342 00:14:27.433 --> 00:14:32.137 It's very comfortable, like even with the giant dog bed pillow; 343 00:14:32.171 --> 00:14:37.243 like my feet, like I have, like they're barely touching the wall and I'm like 5'7''. 344 00:14:37.243 --> 00:14:38.878 I'm like Linus's height, I'm not very tall; 345 00:14:38.911 --> 00:14:43.616 but um, I'm also you know, not sitting, like I can go way back more. 346 00:14:43.616 --> 00:14:46.485 Um, just tons of room. 347 00:14:46.485 --> 00:14:47.219 Like, I don't know. 348 00:14:47.253 --> 00:14:50.189 We, we originally thought that we were going to have way less space in here; 349 00:14:50.990 --> 00:14:55.327 but like even filming, we were worried about filming in here because of uh, 350 00:14:55.327 --> 00:14:57.429 just how limited all the space was. 351 00:14:57.463 --> 00:14:59.365 We thought we'd have to get a different lens and all this, 352 00:14:59.498 --> 00:15:01.267 and uh, no, it turned out to be totally fine. 353 00:15:02.635 --> 00:15:03.836 And of course we've got our mini fridge. 354 00:15:03.969 --> 00:15:05.571 Sammy: Oh yeah, is there anything in here? 355 00:15:05.571 --> 00:15:06.839 Sammy: I never opened it yet. 356 00:15:06.839 --> 00:15:07.573 Plouffe: There's Red Bull. 357 00:15:07.606 --> 00:15:08.440 Sammy: Wha!? 358 00:15:09.174 --> 00:15:10.609 Sammy: So this is where they all went? 359 00:15:10.643 --> 00:15:11.277 Plouffe: That's where they all went. 360 00:15:12.311 --> 00:15:13.612 Sammy: Hahahahaha. 361 00:15:13.612 --> 00:15:15.347 Sammy: Wait it's lukewarm 362 00:15:15.381 --> 00:15:16.749 Plouffe: That's because the power was out! 363 00:15:17.349 --> 00:15:18.617 Plouffe: I just turned the fridge back on. 364 00:15:18.617 --> 00:15:19.151 Sammy: Oh, okay. 365 00:15:19.151 --> 00:15:21.453 Plouffe: The power went out on Saturday, it's been out all weekend. 366 00:15:21.987 --> 00:15:24.456 Plouffe: Luckily it was just RedBull in there, so it's not going bad. 367 00:15:24.490 --> 00:15:26.592 It was you know, no one left their lunch in there or anything, 368 00:15:26.625 --> 00:15:28.560 but no, it's honestly so good. 369 00:15:28.594 --> 00:15:30.462 Uh, everyone comes in here and they just love it. 370 00:15:30.596 --> 00:15:30.930 Sammy: Yeah. 371 00:15:30.963 --> 00:15:35.935 Plouffe: Um, I haven't yet, but I am probably going to bring my laptop in here 372 00:15:35.968 --> 00:15:39.738 and just like work at some point? because why not? It's pretty great. 373 00:15:39.738 --> 00:15:40.539 Sammy: It's a comfy space. 374 00:15:40.539 --> 00:15:42.374 Plouffe: Yeah, it's comfy, cozy, I love it. 375 00:15:42.374 --> 00:15:44.476 Plouffe: Um, we're not tearing it down. 376 00:15:44.810 --> 00:15:46.812 Sammy: Oh yeah, I was going to ask if we're ever going to tear it down. 377 00:15:47.079 --> 00:15:49.048 Plouffe: We're probably not going to; at this point, 378 00:15:49.048 --> 00:15:50.916 I'm going to take the stuff that's mine back. 379 00:15:50.916 --> 00:15:51.383 Sammy: Of course. 380 00:15:51.450 --> 00:15:53.585 Plouffe: So like there's some fake plants up at the top; 381 00:15:54.253 --> 00:15:58.090 I use those for basing in, uh, like Warhammer minis. 382 00:15:58.123 --> 00:16:01.727 I've got a bunch of the plushies; those are mine, so I'll take those home. 383 00:16:01.894 --> 00:16:05.798 But otherwise, like all the RGB signage, the like LED cloud stuff 384 00:16:05.798 --> 00:16:08.467 aside from you know, where the sprinkler is; so about there we'll chop it. 385 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:10.636 Um, everything's going to stay. 386 00:16:11.770 --> 00:16:16.108 And if anyone wants to use the room, for whatever they want, 387 00:16:16.141 --> 00:16:17.643 you know, game on your lunch break, 388 00:16:18.344 --> 00:16:21.280 hang out and do some work from a nice cozy environment. 389 00:16:21.347 --> 00:16:25.117 It's really like comfortable, like the fans actually push a pretty good amount of air. 390 00:16:25.117 --> 00:16:25.551 Sammy: Yeah. 391 00:16:25.584 --> 00:16:29.755 Plouffe: Um, you know, feel free; go ahead and use it. 392 00:16:29.822 --> 00:16:32.324 Just leave your shoes at the door, please; cause it's a shoe free zone. 393 00:16:32.358 --> 00:16:33.192 Sammy: Oh, I did not know that. 394 00:16:33.192 --> 00:16:34.093 Plouffe: You took your shoes off. 395 00:16:34.126 --> 00:16:34.793 Sammy: Well, I saw it- 396 00:16:34.827 --> 00:16:36.161 Cause I did it cause you did this today. 397 00:16:36.195 --> 00:16:36.695 Plouffe: Yeah. 398 00:16:36.729 --> 00:16:37.730 Sammy: I came in here a few days ago. 399 00:16:37.763 --> 00:16:38.130 Plouffe: Yeah. 400 00:16:38.197 --> 00:16:39.398 Sammy: To take a picture. 401 00:16:39.465 --> 00:16:41.600 Sammy: I didn't, I didn't react to anything but I had my shoes on. 402 00:16:41.834 --> 00:16:42.868 Plouffe: Okay, well. 403 00:16:42.901 --> 00:16:44.236 Sammy: We should put a "no shoes". 404 00:16:44.236 --> 00:16:45.371 Plouffe: Yeah, I should put a no shoes sign. 405 00:16:46.305 --> 00:16:51.176 Um, the dishwasher door that was, God whose idea was the dishwasher door? 406 00:16:51.210 --> 00:16:55.314 I can't remember, all I know is we had to make a decision. 407 00:16:55.948 --> 00:16:58.851 Plouffe: The dishwasher was already just not working, and so 408 00:16:58.851 --> 00:16:59.218 Sammy: Yeah. 409 00:16:59.718 --> 00:17:02.054 Plouffe: we weren't worried about destroying it, cause it's already broken. 410 00:17:02.087 --> 00:17:06.592 Um, but it was either take the door off and crawl through the door, 411 00:17:07.092 --> 00:17:11.463 or cut the back out and crawl through the whole dishwasher. 412 00:17:11.463 --> 00:17:13.766 Linus kind of wanted to crawl through the whole dishwasher, 413 00:17:13.766 --> 00:17:14.767 but we talked him out of it. 414 00:17:14.767 --> 00:17:15.801 Plouffe: It would just be so uncomfortable. 415 00:17:15.801 --> 00:17:16.268 Sammy: Yeah. 416 00:17:16.268 --> 00:17:18.570 Plouffe: Like, cause we can't, you know, we could pad it a little bit, 417 00:17:18.570 --> 00:17:20.773 but then it's like, it's just hard to work with as well. 418 00:17:20.806 --> 00:17:23.242 And you get a little more constricted in terms of the space. 419 00:17:23.275 --> 00:17:23.709 Sammy: Mmmm. 420 00:17:23.742 --> 00:17:28.814 Plouffe: Um, but one of my favorite parts that Justin took care of, 421 00:17:28.847 --> 00:17:32.551 we went to the foam store, we bought some extra firm foam 422 00:17:32.584 --> 00:17:37.322 and then we upholstered it to both uh, go on top of the dishwasher door 423 00:17:37.389 --> 00:17:41.326 and then in the entryway after; so you don't just destroy your knees as you crawl in. 424 00:17:41.326 --> 00:17:44.530 Sammy: I was going to ask you what like, is there anything cool about these Windows? 425 00:17:44.530 --> 00:17:45.030 Plouffe: Oh yeah. 426 00:17:45.064 --> 00:17:47.299 Plouffe: So Linus had, he wanted- 427 00:17:47.332 --> 00:17:49.935 god, he was like, I want like five things; 428 00:17:50.069 --> 00:17:53.906 I want like five things that we can show the people, that are like either techie, 429 00:17:53.939 --> 00:17:56.608 or like space saving or whatever. 430 00:17:56.642 --> 00:18:00.512 And so one was the drawers, one was the shelves, 431 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.983 one was the door for Origin, one was the door to get in; 432 00:18:05.017 --> 00:18:07.486 that's kind of, and then the French cleats was another one. 433 00:18:07.486 --> 00:18:08.620 So that was kind of enough. 434 00:18:08.620 --> 00:18:13.625 Um, but what he really wanted was some window that he could look out. 435 00:18:15.227 --> 00:18:19.465 So we got this like window tint that is switchable; 436 00:18:19.465 --> 00:18:23.702 you just run a voltage through it and then it becomes clear or opaque. 437 00:18:23.735 --> 00:18:24.336 Sammy: That's cool. 438 00:18:24.369 --> 00:18:25.904 Plouffe: Yeah, I think it becomes clear when it has voltage 439 00:18:25.904 --> 00:18:27.306 and opaque when it's not powered? 440 00:18:27.639 --> 00:18:32.678 And so, we click a switch up there and then you know, you take the flap out. 441 00:18:32.711 --> 00:18:35.514 cause without, with the- Without the flap, 442 00:18:35.547 --> 00:18:38.250 the ton of light just goes through and it just looks weird. 443 00:18:38.383 --> 00:18:41.587 Um, but you do that and then you can look through it as a peephole. 444 00:18:41.820 --> 00:18:48.026 The one problem was you know, a random gray square in the wall just looks stupid. 445 00:18:48.026 --> 00:18:48.494 Sammy: Yeah. 446 00:18:49.228 --> 00:18:50.863 Plouffe: Like what would you think if you saw that, right? 447 00:18:50.896 --> 00:18:55.267 Plouffe: Uh, so someone else, I don't, I can't remember if it was Alex or Justin, 448 00:18:55.801 --> 00:18:57.936 um, or Reece or someone else entirely; 449 00:18:58.103 --> 00:19:04.376 who thought, hey we should put like LTT Store products around the TV that's out there. 450 00:19:05.110 --> 00:19:07.679 And then this gray square looks like PTM7950. 451 00:19:07.713 --> 00:19:08.547 Sammy: That's pretty smart. 452 00:19:08.580 --> 00:19:10.516 Plouffe: And then bada bing, bada boom, there it is. 453 00:19:10.516 --> 00:19:13.752 So now it actually looks, it doesn't look stupid when you look from outside. 454 00:19:13.752 --> 00:19:18.390 So there you guys have it, a closer look at the crawl space gaming den 455 00:19:18.390 --> 00:19:21.860 or whatever we're calling it, a gaming setup I don't know, secret room, whatever. 456 00:19:21.894 --> 00:19:24.696 Uh, if you want to check out other closer looks, take a look at David's; 457 00:19:25.264 --> 00:19:28.634 when he checked out physical versus digital games; there's a lot to them.
