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Does it feel like real writing?

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Cool.

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It was important, I think, even if it might not have been good.

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Yeah, that's kind of the point of this. It's iconic. Yeah, it's definitely iconic.

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Not good phone. It is for sure an iconic phone.

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Yeah. Oh, HTC Universal.

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Oh, yeah. That Windows thing.

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Nokia N95.

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Now we're getting into the kind of like, like newish stuff.

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Oh, that would get that Windows mobile, mobile Windows.

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Yeah. And you know what? The more I look at this, the more I'm like kind of sold on it because it's kind of documenting

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the history at a time when these devices still work. And they were cool.

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Like, yeah, and they won't always work. Oh, I see what you mean.

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They won't always get an opportunity to... Got it.

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So now, now it's here, you know, now it's preserved.

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So they actually acquired all these devices on like pretty good condition versions of

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them. Yeah, and then they did like photo shoots and stuff. Yeah, that's sweet.

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Iconic. If you look at the generations of devices before the bold, they were still plastic.

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The screen was relatively low resolution. The BlackBerry bold was a deliberate attempt to create something iconic.

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This is the one that everybody loved, Mark Swanson, director of product management.

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The bolds. Is that the one with the touch gestures and the touch screen?

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I can't remember. I will be able to tell you that in one moment after I rewind to the page where they tell

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me about it because I wasn't really paying attention to expensive phones back then.

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Good stream, enjoy videos, premium device, a faux leather back, and a chrome rim.

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I don't know, good question.

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iPhone. And this is where everything changed.

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The app economy, part three.

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First real iPhone alternative. That was a big one, yeah.

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LG G3, the South Korean underdog finally takes the crown.

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The G3 was so sick. The G3 was kind of goaded.

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Oh, Mr. Who's the Boss has a quote on that one.

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I remember the LG G3 so fondly, it was a time where I'd paid just as much attention

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to LG launches as I would Samsung and Apple, knowing that they were not just keeping up

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in terms of specs, but also putting their own spin on what they thought the smartphone

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should be, fun company to have around while it lasted.

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Apple iPhone 4, a brush with perfection.

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Steve Jobs said with a smirk, blah blah blah, rare moment.

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The death grip.

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Oh, quote from Linus.

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The iPhone 4 with its all glass and stainless steel design stood head and shoulders above

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any piece of consumer electronics I'd ever touched before, and I still pick it up every

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once in a while and appreciate its compactness, simplicity, and reassuring weight.

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Also the reception was good enough as long as you didn't hold it wrong.

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I actually never really had an issue with it. Hey, you're back.

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I'm back. Wow, Austin put in so much more work than me.

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This is for the HTC One. He wrote so much.

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Or is yours just more edited down? No, probably not.

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I probably only wrote a short blurb. Talk about a phone that was ahead of its time.

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This is Austin's. 2013 was an area where competition was at its most ferocious.

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In just a few short years, phones had transitioned from plastic blackberries with physical keyboards

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to the glass and metal slabs we use today. New phones pushed the boundaries more than the HTC One M7.

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Picture this. An all-metal build in a world of plastic flagships.

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Rich front-firing speakers that embarrassed the competition. A bright, high-resolution 1080 pixel display that still looks good today.

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He knows that the P is for progressive, not pixel, right? I'm just kidding.

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Love you, Austin. I'd still argue that the One M7 is one of the nicest pieces of hardware ever made and

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one of the key selling points was the camera. While Samsung chased megapixel counts with their 13 megapixel sensors, HTC went the

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opposite direction with their 4 megapixel, ultra-pixel camera. It wasn't perfect, but the focus on larger pixels meant I could capture photos in dimly

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lit situations that no other phone at the time could touch. The One M7 perfectly encapsulated the vibrant era before the format of a successful flagship

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smartphone had been set. I still miss mine. Okay, what did I say?

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Google might not have realized it, but they desperately needed someone to step up and

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prove that Android enthusiasts wanted and would pay for a device that didn't feel like

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a plastic toy. HTC did it. And if they hadn't, a part of me wonders if we would have been stuck forever choosing

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between iPhone and Compromise.

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It's interesting. This is a lot of pages.

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Hey, Aaron wrote another one for the Galaxy Notebook. You have a lot of pages.

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When we start the show, brother. Oh, yeah, we can do that.

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All right. Oh, they got Carl Pay to do a quote.

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Oh, right. No, it's probably like his phone. He probably just like, yeah.

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Okay. That makes sense. All right.

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All right. All right. All right.

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I'm over it. Oh, Aaron wrote about a lot of them. I guess he's more of like a smartphone guy than me though.

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That kind of makes sense.

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I just didn't have that many phones that I had super strong thoughts on.

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There were some good ones.

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They were like the S6 Edge, but they didn't pick that. It's one of their iconic phones.

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So that's all I have to say about that.

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Oh, man. Is my monitoring super loud?

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Has it been adjusted since last week? No, it adjusted itself.

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You probably have normalized it if you pop it in a little volume.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello.

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Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got it. Do I just have a headache today?

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I think I just have a headache today. Could we turn me down?

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Big dog. Big, big dog. Big dog.

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Dog, big. That's probably a little low.

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Can we split the difference? A little higher.

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That's good. All right. Cool.

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Welcome to the WAN. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That should be good.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's about like if I just didn't have the headphones on.

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Welcome to the WAN Show. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got fun and games.

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Okay. I guess we do the thing now.

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Is the chat working? No, I think the chat's broken.

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My chat's broken, Luke. Chat's working for me. Big dog.

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Big dog. Big dog. You're the big dog.

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Did you like re-window it this week?

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I don't think I had yet. Okay.

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Subvance. Oh, here. You can throw it.

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Okay. Or you can get it to me.

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The slowest one. Or you can get it to me the slowest possible way.

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The secure way. The secure way. He's not wrong.

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He's legitimately correct.

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Luke literally just did the, it works on my computer.

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No. Nice. Toxic.

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No. Why are you so toxic? No.

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Why are you so toxic? I just asked if you had actually reloaded it since last week.

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It could just still work from last week and it doesn't.

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So like you could point that out. Yeah.

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You know. Well, it doesn't.

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Thanks. It's good that it logged.

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Okay. Oh, right. Oh my God.

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I don't even have my laptop out. I'm sorry.

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All good in the hood, brother.

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Cables when? Good question. I really like mine.

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Yeah. I've been stuck on a laptop and I've been using an external USB monitor to make my life not

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as horrible. And I've had my LTT cable as my screen monitor thing.

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And I have a little pouch that I put all the stuff that I use for my laptop in.

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So it's all quick to put away and take back out and set up.

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Every time I have to call it back up and I just grab each end and go like, and it like

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really nicely coils up. Oh, it feels good.

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It's a quality cable. It feels very nice.

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You don't have to be weird about it. It's like sad when I then have to do the cable for my mouse and I'm like, oh, Nicky.

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I don't think I would want to use one of our cables for my mouse because it would be so

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like. No. It would not be right for that.

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Oh, that would be terrible. But I'm just saying it doesn't feel as nice to like wind up.

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The LTT cable is very supple. They feel nice.

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i7-6969x asks, how much of a delay will the USB 2 cables be?

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I mean, they still basically go at the speed of light.

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Less data rate.

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I love how fast the ding was on that.

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I was already like, I heard him read the question and got my head because I was thinking of

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the exact same pun.

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Someone asked if I've seen the Coulter Pearson video he did on the full plane app.

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I have. It was a cool video.

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I was happy our API stuff worked well.

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The login issue thing that he had in the video was actually somewhat related to us doing

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something that is going to make that a lot better and easier in the future.

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So hopefully that's cool.

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Yeah. There's like this war between native and non-native development.

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And sometimes it's better to do one and sometimes it's better to do the other.

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And if you follow the trend every time, you're just re-engineering your app every few months.

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Can you just have fee simple title and then also the other claim for it and they could

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just exist at the same time? What?

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You said you'd native and non-native development. Oh my goodness.

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Can you just have both? Only on the west coast, apparently.

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Yeah. Yeah. Oh man.

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So many things I want to say.

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Oh man. I think I'm just going to stay out of this.

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For the sake of it all. Hey, I came across a comment on the interview that I did as I was going through the comments

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and I found someone who unsubscribed from Floatplane actually over the nickname that I have

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for our Floatplane subscribers. Floaters.

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So what he said was that Linus calls us floaters, which means pieces of shit.

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Well, I think Linus is a piece of shit, so unsubscribed.

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In response, thank you to my floaters who remain supporting the channel.

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I appreciate you all.

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I guess we're all pieces of shit together.

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Can you imagine being that thin skinned?

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Just reading the service, the bowl.

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The bowl. Oh dude. Oh dude.

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Oh dude. Oh dude. And then when you get special behind the scenes, it's the bowl cut.

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Oh man. Yeah.

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Horn play. Horn play says, yeah, guy didn't get that it's a joke.

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Could be a little dense. A sinker. I added a bit to that, but I'm pretty sure that was where you were going with it.

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Oh man.

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That's pretty good. I like that. All right.

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We should probably do this thing. But yeah, we are aware the app is not up to snuff right now.

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We are looking to hire a app developer.

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We want to get the posting up, but there's like a trillion postings up and hiring is

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a little funky town right now. So we will figure that out at some point.

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My voice is still fried. I can't do it.

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Remote, probably exclusively actually.

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The team is remote entirely at this point.

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And I find that mixing those is like worse.

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So all remote or all in person.

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Yeah. Not half and half ideally. Yeah.

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I have, I have had that experience because locals work in like a certain way and remotes

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work in like a certain way and they don't often mix super, super well.

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Bob's burgers has a character named Linus now.

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How dare you? I am Linus.

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Are they cool? It's a lizard. Are they short?

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Why is it a lizard?

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You're not Mark Zuckerberg. You're Taylor Swift. That doesn't make sense.

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I'm not Taylor Swift. I just have things in common with Taylor Swift.

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Like my big thighs. Oh man.

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All right. Okay. Well, I'll have to get caught up on Bob's burgers here.

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Another time. Okay. We should probably start the show.

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You want to start the show? Get started the show. You ready?

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The issue isn't with mixed developers. It's with mixed local and remote on the same project.

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Yeah. That's literally what I'm saying.

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To be clear, my example isn't actually even with developers.

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My example is with a department that isn't developers.

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I just find people working on the same project.

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You can't just be like responding to haters.

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The best thing is to not acknowledge them.

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Don't be walking into the lion's den rattling the hornet cage.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Replying in a big thread. Yeah. You shouldn't do that.

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No. You shouldn't do that. Okay.

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You shouldn't do that. No. You're not a hater blue.

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You're not a hater blue. I'm just bugging him.

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Dave Cuedo said, Luke, I've read a number of articles about the best way to handle

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mixed remote and not remote is to treat everything like it's remote.

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Yeah. And I completely agree. And that's annoying for local people often.

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It's just not a perfect situation. Having one developer on the full-plane team be local and everyone else be remote is

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there's no value to having that person being local.

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So why have the office space and everything else that comes with having that person be

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local when we could just hire them remote?

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Yeah, and then not have office space.

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Yeah. Be cheaper. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's just easier. If we're not going to gain the benefits of them being local anyways, then why have the

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downsides? He likes birds. That's why he likes cheaper office space.

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Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.

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Oh, my.

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All right. We should really just go live at this point, I think.

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Ready? Yes. Okay.

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Lizard Linus was apparently named Leslie because he's got lines on his back.

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Linus. Oh, I get it.

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Emker. Yes. You can give me money for this, please.

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Not this one, but one like it. Okay.

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I'm doing it. It's done.

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Oh, God. I don't have the dashboard open. Dan, you're going to have to tell me when we're live.

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He was ready for that.

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What's up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show.

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We have a great show lined up for you guys this week.

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We're going to be talking about NVIDIA being sued in a class action lawsuit by YouTubers.

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Let's go. Including H3H3 Productions.

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Oh. Yeah.

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Probably not what you thought I was about to say.

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In other major news, storage review.

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How could you?

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Storage review has calculated by the 314 trillion digits.

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I think they just don't want us to be happy. Our world record is broken.

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Someone's got to get 369 and then someone's got to get 420 and then I think the whole

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loop. I think it's just over at that point. We can wrap it up.

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Yeah. We can just tie a bow on it and put it in the closet and bring it out at Christmas.

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Special occasion. Yeah. It's Christmas time.

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It's Christmas time. It's storage review. Great job.

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We'll be talking about that a little bit later. What else we got this week?

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Antel officially confirms BMG G31 big battle mage GPU.

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Okay. See, I thought that was a big deal, but then that was the headline topic for TechLinked.

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It was like no one cared. The people don't care, but I care.

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Nice. And Phillips wrote LTT a letter about Phillips fixables.

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Those are the two you pick. Are we back?

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Fixables? Yeah. No, I think fixables is back.

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I think fixables is cool. Yeah, it's sick. All right.

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We'll talk about it. Okay. The show is brought to you by ODU AMD proton male and odd pieces alongside of course our

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wrap partner D brand, our laptop partner, Dell and our chair partner, secret nice track.

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I shouldn't have looked at it.

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I didn't even do that this week. You know what? Vertical.

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No one's happy. I'm going to make it worse than ever.

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Why don't we jump right into our headline topic this week, which is of course that

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storage review has regained a computational record by solving pi to 314 trillion digits.

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They used, and this is a quote, a single to you Dell PowerEdge R7725 server equipped

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with dual AMD epic 192 core CPUs alongside weight 4061.44 terabyte micron 6550 ion SSDs.

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And you know why you should be angry about that?

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That because storage review has embarrassed your favorite YouTuber who makes tech videos

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on a regular basis in Cloverdale, British Columbia.

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See how I narrowed that down there? You did. I really did.

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Yep. Yep. You should be upset because it turns out storage review were the ones responsible for the

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NAND flash shortage crisis.

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How much is that? That's two and a half petabytes of SSDs for crying out loud.

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That is pretty crazy. But that's necessary. That's actually something that you need in order to store all that.

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I mean, we made a whole video about it and you can sort of go check that out.

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Pretty much same idea. Their record run was a 110 day total runtime.

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And this is great. According to their article, they focused on record setting power efficiency, which I

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got to be honest with you, makes a ton of sense to me as the one who paid for power last

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time around.

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I had no idea how much we had spent on that endeavor until we were already done.

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It was ludicrous. Gosh, and question is, are you going to frickin' take this, bro?

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What are you going to do about it? I'm going to frickin' take it. Yeah.

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I'm going to take it. I'm going to just... I think...

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Oh, why? I don't even care.

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I'm good. I've got my certificate from last time.

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They can have it. I think what we're going to do about it is maybe encourage them to go for 369.

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Yeah. Yeah. Be a man.

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Beat your own record. Be a man. Do the right thing.

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And then do it twice. Beat your own record. Go to 369 and then beat your own record again with 420.

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And maybe you can, you know, wait for jumpsync technology in order to do that.

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So it's like a little bit more interesting every time. There's like a bit of a story to it or whatever.

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But still... And we'll root for you. We're going to root for you from the sidelines.

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Yeah. And he'll do it really enthusiastically.

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All right. Why don't we jump into one of the other topics that I'm very interested in.

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And I am mostly doing this because I haven't kept up with the news here and I am reading

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this for the first time. So I'll be finding out exactly what the heck is going on.

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NVIDIA is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement

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by three YouTubers after NVIDIA used their videos to train their new AI model.

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YouTube creators, Ted Entertainment, H3H3 Productions and H3 Podcast Highlights, Matt

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Fisher, Mr. Short Game, and Gulf Hollicks have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against

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NVIDIA saying that the company used their YouTube videos without permission to train

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its AI video model Cosmos.

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The creators say that YouTube only allows videos to be streamed, not downloaded, and

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that NVIDIA allegedly bypassed YouTube's protections to get the actual video files anyway.

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Could we call this a form of...

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What's the word I'm looking for? There's definitely a word for it.

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It's great. Like what part of this are you trying to find?

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Well, I'm almost afraid to say the word.

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Is this... Is this piracy?

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Oh. It's... Chats going nuts.

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I gotcha. See, watching a video on YouTube is not, in fact, the same as owning the file.

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There are terms of service, and there is a licensing agreement for the use of the content,

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anyway. The lawsuit claims that NVIDIA crossed that line.

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The case focuses on huge AI data sets made up of YouTube links and timestamps rather

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than the videos themselves. To use those data sets, though, the creators argue NVIDIA had to download the videos directly

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from YouTube, often repeatedly, to extract short clips, resulting in millions of unauthorized

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copies. The creators are suing under the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules, saying that NVIDIA broke YouTube's access

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controls to get files it was never allowed to have, and they are asking for damages and

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a court order to stop the practice.

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creators on our subreddit found several LMG videos in the data sets from different channels.

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So our first discussion question is, do we intend to join the class action lawsuit?

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And I'm just going to say the same thing that I always say, and that is, honestly, no.

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We are not a particularly litigious company. I am not a litigious person.

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I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy.

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I'm a little bit peeved. I don't like this.

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I would like to be compensated when my copyrighted intellectual property is used.

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However, I also have the self-awareness to recognize that not every way that I've ever

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used any copyrighted piece of material has been 100% perfect.

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So live, let live.

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I do think there's a difference between you doing that as a person and NVIDIA doing that

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as a corporation. Sure, but we do it as a company too. I mean, we'll put a meme in our videos sometimes, and memes, it's funny.

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People seem to forget this. Be magically more okay with that.

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But throwing a very short portion of John Cena's walkout music into the intro of a video

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where I'm wearing a singlet, technically, if they wanted to be a**holes about it, they

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could go after us about it. But I think as long as everyone kind of goes in good faith, are we all kind of just borrowing

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lightly but not damaging the market for the original content, you know, basic pillars

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of kind of fair use, then, you know, whatever.

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I think NVIDIA probably, fair use, probably not.

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But I just, the way that I see it, that's in the past, and the better focus for us going

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forward is to just kind of keep making the best possible content that we can, and keep

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making better content than whatever it is that NVIDIA could AI slop out with this model

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that they trained on our old stuff, and just keep moving forward.

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That's, yeah, it's not ideal. I don't like it.

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I don't like it. And there are areas where eventually, you know, you're going to cross a line with me.

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Like I had one of those stupid AI celebrity chatbot things reach out to me, and they're

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like, oh, you should do, like, an official Linus Tech Tips one, and we'll help you set

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it up, and we'll do this, and we'll do that. And I basically responded, I was like, no, you won't, and I explicitly am telling you

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I do not authorize that, so don't.

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And they basically were like, why not?

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Like, yeah, the fact that you don't understand that already tells me that any attempt that

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I make to explain it to you is a complete and utter waste of my time, and will probably

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give me a headache. The amount of people that would be cybering you into the position that you went into earlier

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would be significant. It's a chatbot, Luke.

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You don't think people do that?

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Welcome to the world. What is this, phone sex?

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Like I don't understand. Yeah, there's text versions of that. What are you talking about?

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Yeah, but just like... There are a lot of people that do this.

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Why? Did you not see that? Okay, I guess we gotta catch up a little bit.

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When 5, chatGPT5 came out, a ton of people were like very upset because their like relationships

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ended, because 5 had a different personality than 4-0.

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I remember that. I was there for that. Yeah, you don't think they're doing explicit things through text?

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Yeah, but it doesn't actually generate an image of anything.

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Like it's... It's just through text.

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Why?

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That part I can't explain. Okay. All I'm saying is it would happen.

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Well anyway, I think that's pretty much all I have to say about that.

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NVIDIA, you know, maybe just don't.

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But also, I don't know man, I feel like this whole...

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Does it make a difference to you significantly if they watch it properly or download it?

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And not just that, but... I don't know. Maybe there's a thing there.

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I'm just not really aware of it. But at this point, okay, are we headed to artificial general intelligence on the current

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path that we're on? The consensus among people who actually seem to know appears to be no.

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This is not a path to that. However, this whole LLM thing, this whole generative machine learning thing, generative AI that

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we have going on right now, is it kind of a big deal?

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Is it going to change the world? That's no question. The answer there is yes.

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It will change the world in some fashion or another.

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And the reality of it is that NVIDIA is only in trouble because they operate in a jurisdiction

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where laws exist.

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So someone at some point is going to train their video model on my videos, like, does

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it make a difference to me if it's NVIDIA versus someone else?

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I mean, NVIDIA has their $5 trillion valuation or whatever they're up to at this point.

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So there's certainly a much better target to go after in terms of recouping some money

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from them. On that note, did you see the big deal that Disney and Open AI announced?

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No. $1 billion and Open AI through Sora is now officially licensed to generate snippets using

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iconic Disney characters like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, some of their more cartoony characters,

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Mickey Mouse. I was pretty surprised to see that.

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And then on almost the same day, I think, it was either the same day or it was almost

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the same day, Disney sent a cease and desist to Google over using their copyrighted works.

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So they've got this partnership with Open AI now, and they are clamping down on the

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use of their copyrighted materials elsewhere. We are in unprecedented times.

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And I don't feel like walking into the arena with the NVIDIA's, Open AI's, Disney's of

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the world. The main thing I'm upset about is they didn't pay their flow playing subscription for the

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month to download all of it that way, officially. That would have been like $5.

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Yeah, they didn't do it. They pirated it. And that still wouldn't include a license to use it for commercial use anyway.

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At least it was a real way to download it.

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I mean, I guess. Is that, is that, would that constitute commercial use?

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Absolutely. I mean, they're using it to make money.

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I mean, well, AI industry make money. That's funny, but theoretically, they're using it to make money at some point.

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Yeah, I guess so. That's interesting. I wonder if I think, I'm going to just figure that out later and not talk about it.

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But anyways, next topic.

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We did two topics. Dan, what are we supposed to do now? Oh, you're way ahead of time.

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Do another topic. No, no, that's fine. We can, we can do other stuff.

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Or we could do some merge messages. Yeah. Oh, really already?

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Is that what we do at this point? Oh, no. No, you do it.

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You do it 40 minutes from now. No, no, we should do that. We should do that.

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Because. There are a lot of things going on. Yeah. There's a lot going on right now.

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I scrolled through that section earlier and it's just like, what?

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Starting of course with Luke bringing up the website so that he's ready to show off.

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Oh, wait.

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No, before we talk about any product launches, we have some updates on the customs fee issues

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that some customers have been experiencing. We recently found out that some customers outside the US and Canada were charged higher

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in USD rather than CAD. So an outside party didn't realize because nobody knows what a Canadian dollar is that

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our documentation was in Canadian dollars and they said they were US dollars, which

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That is annoying. Whoopsie, Donkels. That makes sense.

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This thing is ridiculously soft, ridiculously cool, look how cool it is.

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That's an epic photo. And is a must have in your closet during the colder months.

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You can layer underneath it and it just looks so good, whether you're going outdoors or

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Oh, no, you're good. Yeah, you got it. Until December 17th in the US, so this is the US site.

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Also until December 17th, we're offering the MCM Essentials Solution for $79.99 Canadian.

434
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:46,000
That is a massive $100 off for a big pack of cable management arches and the power

435
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,920
bar holders and stuff. And the Retro Monitor Pack Cave is only $29.99.

436
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:57,640
Treat your furry friend to a cozy, nostalgia-themed bed this holiday. Also, if you're on the lookout for a new mouse, $20 for a razor, a death adder, or essential

437
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,640
It's $20. What do you want me to tell you? $20.

438
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,640
That's $20. LMG.gg slash holiday deals. Finally.

439
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,640
Oh, underscore. Oh, sorry. Yes.

440
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Really? Underscore? The site I'm on is underscore.

441
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,640
Underscore. What does that mean? What do you mean?

442
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,640
What does it say? Underscore. Oh.

443
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,640
Oh, okay. Oh, that's really good to know.

444
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,640
Thanks, Luke. Yeah, got you. The bundle up is also an underscore, by the way.

445
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,600
It's bundle underscore up. Nice. I didn't hear you necessarily say it, so you might have said it right.

446
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,600
Also, just an update for you guys. We have wrapped up our holiday loot drop draw.

447
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,600
The sweepstakes that we did. Thank you to all who made purchases and submitted entries via mail.

448
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,600
Oh, crap. Okay. There were a lot of...

449
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,600
The lttstore.com. Oh, I forgot to talk to you about that.

450
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,600
Yeah, the lttstore.com domain has the underscore in it.

451
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,600
The LMG.gg one does not. Oh, okay.

452
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:56,600
I'm sure they'll find it. I think he said it right because you were probably saying the LMG.gg domain.

453
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,600
They're going to find it. You'll be all right. I believe them.

454
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,600
You'll figure it out. They're going to buy something? They're going to send them?

455
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:08,600
You'll figure it out. I wanted to give you guys an update on the loot drop contest. We got hundreds and hundreds of letters.

456
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:15,600
So, massive shout out to Jamie, who, poor Jamie, had to open almost all of them, including

457
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:22,600
that super weird one from last week, as well as Sammy Jess, Adam P., Mitchell Tanya, Victor

458
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,600
Ashley, and Conrad from the CW team.

459
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:32,600
Tons of planning went into all of this. Anyway, we're going to be randomly drawing the winners for the Sennheiser HD 550s and...

460
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:39,600
Or 550s, I think. And the ROG Alliex handheld gaming systems soon.

461
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,600
Winners will be notified via email and prizes will be sent once everything is confirmed.

462
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:47,600
Okay, that's all of the CW updates.

463
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,600
2200, does he have the box of them that I saw?

464
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,600
How much work would it be for us to show? Actually, you know what?

465
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,600
It's probably not worth it because they're going to have return addresses. So, the risk, yeah.

466
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,600
Yeah, okay. Forget it, forget it. But I saw the boxes of freaking letters.

467
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:08,600
It was ridiculous. We are going to change that next time.

468
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Just show you guys know. How do you do that? So, what you do is you...

469
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:21,600
Is it one maximum or something? People that were relatively new to the team who didn't know how you do this.

470
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,600
So, the way that we did it was you got an entry for placing an order over $100.

471
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:32,600
Yeah. You also got an entry for putting a 50 cent stamp on a letter and sending it to us.

472
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:38,600
So, obviously, thousands of people were like, oh, well, that's cheaper.

473
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,600
And I'll do that every single day and I'll date the mail so it goes...

474
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,600
Now, you have to have... I mean, fair play.

475
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,600
You have to have a no-purchase necessary way to enter a sweepstakes in Canada.

476
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,600
Otherwise, it becomes gambling.

477
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:59,600
So, in the future, we will, of course, still have a no-purchase necessary way to enter the contest.

478
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:06,600
However, what most retail entities do is they make that letter worth one entry and then

479
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,600
they make the purchase worth a lot more entries.

480
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,600
Mmm.

481
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:20,600
So, the $100 plus order we might make worth one entry per dollar spent.

482
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600
Well, it's 25 cents for the stamp. And then the letter...

483
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:31,600
Four entries per dollar. The letter we make worth one entry, which is not going to be good use of your time

484
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,600
because you will not have meaningful odds of winning at that point.

485
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:39,600
That makes sense. So, that's probably what we're going to do next time.

486
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:47,600
But this time around, you guys got a wonderful opportunity to win for the sake of sending a letter.

487
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,600
Sorry, there's a chat going.

488
00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:01,600
If we're going to try to hide the location of the tech house, the answer is no.

489
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,600
We're not going to blur everything. That's the whole point of the tech house.

490
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,600
Yeah. I mean, we already work in the studio here.

491
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,600
Obviously, we are going to... Every one of our offices is Google Maps-able.

492
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,600
I don't think we have to worry about it, too.

493
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,600
It doesn't substantially change the situation of anything.

494
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,600
Nope. I think it'll be fine.

495
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,600
It should be good. There are reviews of our company on Google Maps.

496
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,600
Oh, there's so many. Most of them talking about how great the food is.

497
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:38,600
Yeah. It's a pretty wholesome meme, actually.

498
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,600
Hold on. This is flipping outstanding.

499
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,600
Here we go. Sadly, I had to give three stars.

500
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:54,600
I ordered a burger with some cheese. Sadly, the cheese was not melted.

501
00:42:54,600 --> 00:43:00,600
Not melted correctly. I ended up fighting this short man about the correct way to melt cheese.

502
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:05,600
Four months ago, they had the best meals for picky eaters like my nephew.

503
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,600
He doesn't eat Athlon chips. He only eats Ryzen chips.

504
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,600
I got the light lettuce-low lunch deal.

505
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:20,600
It was only $5. I didn't even know this was a thing, because I mostly look at the Labs.

506
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,600
And the lab sounds like one. Oh, really? Yeah.

507
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,600
Well, it got deleted off Google Maps somehow, and then it came back.

508
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:31,600
It had a bunch, and then it got removed and came back, and it didn't have it anywhere.

509
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,600
Our visit was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Oh, this one's actually real.

510
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:40,600
Oh, that's a real one. Boring. Best burger joint in Canada.

511
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,600
Once in a lifetime experience. Boring.

512
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,600
I have to take this off. It's too warm. There you go.

513
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,600
Dying. Did you see the color of the zipper, though?

514
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,600
How cool is that? I did. I did think that's pretty cool, actually.

515
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,600
I don't think I've ever seen a zipper. YKK, as always.

516
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,600
Oh, wow. Yeah, let's see the lab.

517
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,600
Yeah, there's two reviews.

518
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,600
Yeah, and it's no food beam or anything, but they're going for it.

519
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,600
One of them is just first, which that makes sense.

520
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,600
Yeah. Fair enough. That would be a tech community thing to do.

521
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,600
Nice shirt, dude. All right.

522
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,600
Is that a privateering ship on there?

523
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,600
This? Oh, yeah. Quality shirt.

524
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,600
Quality shirt. Quality privateering.

525
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,600
Is it another topic or what? We're doing that thing? Excuse me.

526
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,600
We're continuing to do that, so we've got to explain merge messages. Is that what's going on?

527
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,600
Yeah, we got some merge messages. We got some merge messages. Oh, yeah, right.

528
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,600
We're supposed to do that. We are not about you guys just throwing money at your screen.

529
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,600
That is not necessarily the best play.

530
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:50,600
The best play, if you want to interact with the stream, is to send a merge message.

531
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:55,600
All you got to do to send a merge message is go to Luke's laptop instead of mine.

532
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,600
Add anything to your card, any of the high quality merchandise over on LTTstore.com.

533
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,600
We already ran through some of the great bundle deals that we're running right now,

534
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:08,600
as well as just straight up promos as we make our way into the final stretches of the holiday season here.

535
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,600
Just go ahead, throw it in the cart. And as you go to check out, you will see the merge message box.

536
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,600
You can either show your name or make it anonymous. You can type a little merge message.

537
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,600
And then you can choose a color scheme. And you can go ahead and place your order.

538
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,600
Your message will go to producer Dan, who will put it...

539
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,600
That noise. Wow. Yeah.

540
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,600
Anyway. I only saw that in the proof roll.

541
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,600
Wow. Stop. Wow.

542
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:44,600
It's kind of moist. We'll go to producer Dan, who will pop it up down here,

543
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:50,600
who will reply to it himself, who will maybe forward it to someone who can answer your question better,

544
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:55,600
or he will curate it for me and Luke to talk about.

545
00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:00,600
Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple of merge messages to show the people how we do it?

546
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,600
Yeah, I've got a couple here. Hey, LLD.

547
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,600
I've noticed a trend of people hating on new games that use old mechanics.

548
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,600
If it's not open world or live service, people hate.

549
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,600
What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?

550
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,600
Open world is an old mechanic.

551
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Well, I mean, I wouldn't. It depends on what you mean by old.

552
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,600
Actually, now that I think about it, like, link to the past is pretty open world, isn't it?

553
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,600
Red guard is... No, not quite.

554
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:36,600
No, it's gated in terms of like where you're allowed to go

555
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:42,600
because you get your new abilities. Yeah, there's games from the early 90s that are open world, technically.

556
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,600
Okay, what's this red guard? I brought up Elder Scrolls Arena.

557
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,600
No, link to the past is linear. Yeah, thanks, SKHS.

558
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,600
Despite the naming, I'm pretty sure it's open world.

559
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,600
It makes you feel like it's kind of open, but it's not properly open world.

560
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,600
As for live service, man, f*** live service.

561
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,600
I do not have time to devote my life to one game.

562
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,600
I like my games to be where I start them,

563
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:17,600
and then at some point they're done. I actually consider a new content pack every, you know,

564
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,600
couple of weeks or every quarter or every month.

565
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,600
I consider that to be a bug, not a feature.

566
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:28,600
And I do understand, for some people, the whole live service concept where they're like

567
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,600
constantly changing up the game to keep you playing it forever,

568
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,600
like something like a Fortnite, that totally works for them.

569
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:39,600
I mean, we had a really cool, competitive

570
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,600
Fortnite player in here the other day, Kanata.

571
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,600
Do you know this guy? I recognize the name, I think.

572
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:56,600
Yeah, this guy. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had this guy in for a collab last week,

573
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,600
and he said, he figures.

574
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,600
I hate that maybe this is right,

575
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:08,600
but it seems like it can't be right. He says he figures, I think he said Epic Game Store

576
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,600
rolls over after 10,000 hours or something like that.

577
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,600
So, he figures he has like 40,000 hours in Fortnite.

578
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,600
He's like in his early 20s.

579
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,600
So, like a significant amount of his waking life

580
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,600
is like playing Fortnite. I mean, if it's his career, then...

581
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,600
But you, dude, like I've watched him play.

582
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,600
I can't even...

583
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,600
I can't even track what he's doing. Yeah.

584
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:40,600
Like what do you call it, busting 90s or whatever, where he like builds a tower in 90 degree things

585
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:46,600
and makes a spiral staircase as he goes up. And he just, he does it so fast that I can't even like

586
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,600
tell how many levels up he is by the time...

587
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,600
Okay, you just hit me with the okay boomer now because I do not know what's going on right now.

588
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,600
Cranking 90s, thank you.

589
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,600
Luka103, busting 90s, dying.

590
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,600
There's your okay boomer moment. Yeah, so he's good. I think he recorded it short while he was here

591
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,600
of trying to teach me to do it. It's pathetic.

592
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,600
There's like three different odd keys that are all like down at the bottom,

593
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,600
like ZXC or XCV or something like that

594
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,600
for your flat, your stairs, and your wall. And I'm just like, what?

595
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,600
I got no idea what's going on, man.

596
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,600
I love busting 90s. Stop it, stop it.

597
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,600
Straight busting. So there are, by the way, there are examples

598
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,600
of open world games arguably from the 80s,

599
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:47,600
definitely from the 90s, and for sure these from the early 2000s, which is 25 years ago.

600
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,600
And I have loved me some open world games. I love Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

601
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:57,600
I think it's freaking awesome. Oblivion was quite open world.

602
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,600
I remember... Even Oblivion's like old.

603
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,600
Stop. It's not. Like very old.

604
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,600
It's really not that old. It's super old. It's really not that old.

605
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,600
Horse armor, quality modern mechanic where you can pay extra for cosmetics.

606
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,600
2006, dude, in not that many days. Stop.

607
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,600
It will be 20 years old. I can mute him. I can mute him.

608
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,600
There, he's muted. I don't have to hear it now. Wait, I can still hear the monitoring.

609
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,600
Oh, man. No, this sucks. No, you're off.

610
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,600
Oh, wait, you can still hear... I can still hear him. This sucks.

611
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,600
Hello. Oh, wow, I can't... Oh, Dan can turn you off.

612
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,600
Yes. That's so rude. Dan, you're the best.

613
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,600
Louder. He's the best. This man.

614
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,600
This... Hold on. I'm going to try and do...

615
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,600
What are you doing? I'm trying to point it, Dan. It's hard.

616
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,600
You do it. This man with both hands. Try and do it with both hands.

617
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:52,600
Okay, you're cheating though. How? You're cheating because you saw me do it first.

618
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,600
I do need to hear him, Lou Dan.

619
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,600
All right. I'm back. I'm back.

620
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,600
Back again. But yeah, anyways, what other...

621
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:09,600
Lou, he's back. Mechanics, sorry. Oh, it was open world and live service.

622
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,600
Could you say an MMO is live service?

623
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,600
Because if they... Then when is Ultima from?

624
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,600
Ultima Online. 1996.

625
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,600
1997. 1997.

626
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:26,600
But you were very close. But like, yeah, it's not a new model.

627
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:31,600
I would say live service is much more popularized these days.

628
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:35,600
And it's happening for things that aren't basically just MMORPGs,

629
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,600
which is pretty much all it was for a while. So that one, I think, is more fair.

630
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:43,600
I think that's your okay boomer moment. When's the last time anyone called it an MMORPG?

631
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:52,600
That is awesome. Can you tell I haven't had a desktop for three months?

632
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,600
I saw it set up. You got it now.

633
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,600
There's no cables or anything. Oh, that explains why it looks so good.

634
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,600
There's no mouse. There's nothing going on.

635
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:08,600
It's just the desktop and three monitors on a desk with nothing else.

636
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,600
And again, if you like, if I did a 360, it's...

637
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:20,600
You mean busted 390s, 490s, plus 490s.

638
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,600
Yeah. Okay. The live service one, I'll give them because I, you know,

639
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,600
I think they're describing something that is different than Ultimate Online.

640
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:33,600
But the open world thing, I don't necessarily agree with. The open world's an old, it's an old thing.

641
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,600
I do think we strayed away from it for a while.

642
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,600
I think it was actually more popular even longer ago.

643
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:47,600
And then there was like a while there where very linear games were like the trend.

644
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:51,600
But open world games existed before that happened and then just became

645
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,600
re-popular again after that. So I don't know.

646
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,600
Anyways, what was the actual question? What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?

647
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,600
Generally bad. Let's move on to the next one. I don't agree.

648
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:06,600
I don't agree. And I'm going to plug some Floatplane here for a second.

649
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,600
I made a video a while ago talking about this concept and we're going to talk about this later,

650
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,600
but I'm doing another Luke week thing and I retouch on this concept.

651
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:21,600
And I actually don't agree. The core premise of my argument here, which I have kind of talked about on Wancho before,

652
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:28,600
is we're in a weird period, but it's cyclical and we have been in this weird period before.

653
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:35,600
And the last time that we were in this weird period was the end of the age of companies

654
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,600
like Atari. Give it to me, Dan.

655
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,600
And when, yeah, there it is.

656
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:47,600
Yeah. And when Atari kind of died, if I remember correctly, one of the companies that spawned

657
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,600
off of Atari slowly dying was Activision, I think.

658
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,600
Never heard of it. So they were like small and scrappy and made really amazing things.

659
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,600
And then they got big and now they're kind of starting to fall apart.

660
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,600
And some of the splinters of that are creating cool things.

661
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:12,600
And the feature of this more recent one is talking about a splinter company from DICE,

662
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:17,600
a bunch of people who used to work for DICE, a legendary, extremely prolific gaming studio

663
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,600
who's made crazy things over time. Never heard of them.

664
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:25,600
Life is kind of big and maybe a little slow now, has people splintering off.

665
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:32,600
In an interview in one of the Making of Arc Raiders videos, the CEO talks about like,

666
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:37,600
yeah, I've ran massive companies and they can make neat, high-fidelity games, but are

667
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,600
they good games? I don't know. Questionable.

668
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:45,600
I think we can make good games here, which is like, yeah, let's go.

669
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,600
And yeah, I think this is happening more and more.

670
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,600
And you're seeing like the games that people are talking about these days are like, oh

671
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,600
my God, everyone's all excited because Divinity was announced from the people who made Baldur's

672
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:03,600
Gate 3, Larian Studios. The games people are talking about the game awards were like Expedition 33, Arc Raiders.

673
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,600
Did they win nine awards or something like that this year? Yeah, I think it was nine.

674
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,600
Silk Song is like a huge thing in the conversation right now.

675
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:17,600
It's not those big old companies. Those big old companies are currently being looted of their good people and they're going

676
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:24,600
to smaller companies and they're making cool things. It's hard to look at the Blizzard's and Ubisoft's of the world and expect anything good right

677
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:31,600
now. It's not really happening. If you open your horizons to these newer companies, there is actually really cool games coming

678
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,600
out. Master of None, yes, you were rage-baited.

679
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,600
I do know Activision.

680
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,600
Cool. Are we doing another one or is that good? Yeah, I got another one here.

681
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,600
Okay, hit us, Dan. Sure. Hello, LLD.

682
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:55,600
Linus is a fellow EV driver. What are your thoughts on the increasing adoption of NECS, the Tesla charging port,

683
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,600
over J1772 and CCS?

684
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,600
Looking Dan, what are your primary EV roadblocks?

685
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,600
What are the primary EV roadblocks for you?

686
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,600
I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm not a mechanical engineer.

687
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:17,600
So I would not consider myself qualified to determine which is the ideal plug shape and

688
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:24,600
format for charging a high-voltage electric vehicle system.

689
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:31,600
My thought, though, and I do still have thoughts is why the f**k couldn't we settle this stuff

690
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:36,600
ages ago because now I have the wrong connector on my car and I have to carry it around an

691
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:43,960
adapter forever. But also I don't care because I charge literally every single time in my garage or at my building

692
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:48,600
where I install the chargers, so I put the kind that's compatible with my car.

693
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:53,600
Makes sense. That's where I'm kind of out on that, but if I was ever on a road trip, yeah, I'd have

694
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:59,600
to carry it around an adapter. But Yvonne's car came with a free adapter, so I would steal hers because I assume I'm

695
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,600
not going anywhere without my wife. So I guess, yeah, it's not really a problem for me.

696
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:08,600
I just wish that we had settled all of this a little bit earlier so we didn't have these

697
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:14,600
competing standards, but that's the way it always goes, whether it's VHS and Beta or

698
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:21,600
whether it's HDDVD and Blu-ray or whether it's USB-C and f**king all the other garbage

699
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:27,600
that existed that USB-C thankfully has completely replaced.

700
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:32,600
Not that USB-C is perfect, but still, it's just the way it is.

701
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,600
You know, it's the XKCD standards comic strip, right?

702
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,600
There's always going to be someone who goes, oh, too many standards.

703
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,600
We should try and make just one. Let's make a new standard, right?

704
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:46,600
And so the fact that we are consolidating on something I think is really positive.

705
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,600
If it's the Tesla connector, then great.

706
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:56,600
Yeah, for me, the block for an electric vehicle, one, somebody already pointed out in chat,

707
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,600
I would have to buy it. My car is great.

708
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,600
Why would I spend a ton of money replacing something that is really good?

709
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:09,600
I have no interest in doing that. And then the other one is that there is actually a somewhat real blocker outside of that,

710
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:18,600
which is I live in a condo. The power delivery in my condo only comes from the little, whatever you want to call them,

711
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:23,600
garages. I don't know if I'd really want to call it a garage, but storage space that you have.

712
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,600
Yeah, the storage. Which means it's only on the perimeter.

713
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,600
And every unit only has one parking spot that's on the perimeter.

714
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:35,600
So I would have to somehow buy it, which is possible, but not always possible.

715
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:39,600
I'd have to somehow buy a parking spot from somebody else that is on the perimeter.

716
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:47,600
The information he hasn't given you is that in his household, there is already a plug-in

717
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:51,600
hybrid that uses the one spot they have that's on the perimeter.

718
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:55,600
Which just sounds kind of annoying. Key piece of information.

719
00:58:55,600 --> 00:59:01,600
If I got something, a plug-in hybrid would be okay, because then I could charge elsewhere

720
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,600
and then still use the gas.

721
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:09,600
I have had the thought that if Acura released a TL that was a plug-in hybrid,

722
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,600
I would wait a couple years and then potentially look into a used one.

723
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:16,600
You also just don't drive that much. Correct.

724
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:20,600
It's like not a huge deal.

725
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,600
Yeah.

726
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:30,600
No, we can move on. I just thought I'd bring up Dan for a second.

727
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:34,600
Okay, I'll archive it. Who's going to archive it?

728
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:38,600
Because if we both archive it at the same time, we're going to accidentally archive too.

729
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,600
Let me archive them. No, I want to archive it. Okay, you archive it.

730
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,600
You can archive this one. No, you do it.

731
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,600
No, I'll do it.

732
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:59,600
All right, why don't we pick another topic? Australia's social media ban for under-16s has gone into effect.

733
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:13,600
to stop users under the age of 16 from accessing social media.

734
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:20,600
The list of social medias that are blocked or not permitted includes Facebook,

735
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:27,600
Instagram, Kik, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.

736
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:37,600
It is worth noting that some platforms, notably Reddit, YouTube, and...

737
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:42,600
No, Twitch was on the list of ones that are blocked.

738
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,600
I think it was Discord. I think it's supposed to say Discord here.

739
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:56,600
And Discord can still be accessed, but users visiting the site will not be able to sign

740
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,600
in or create an account.

741
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:06,600
The bill is framed as... The female audience in Flip and Chat says Tumblr is still allowed, which is actually

742
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,600
surprising to me. What?

743
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:17,600
That seems strange. Is there a user limit thing and they just don't have enough people?

744
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:26,600
Sorry, user limit? A lot of these laws really only will apply to services that have enough people going to it.

745
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,600
No, that Tumblr is big enough that I would imagine it would matter.

746
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,600
Is it still? And it's clearly not a user question because Reddit's allowed.

747
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,600
Reddit's got plenty of users.

748
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,600
Hydrox says, what about Patreon?

749
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,600
There's a lot... Oh, wow. There was a strong resurgence among Gen Z.

750
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:47,600
I didn't know that happened. Yeah, no, Tumblr's been more of a thing again, which is pretty wild.

751
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:57,600
Very interesting. Yeah. The life cycle of trends is so fast that they might as well just never be untrendy at this

752
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:03,600
point. I'm sort of blown away. When is slash dot going to make a triumphant return along with dig?

753
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,600
Wait, wait, didn't dig? Dig is working on that. Aren't they working on a relaunch?

754
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,600
I still haven't actually... I got an invite. I still haven't actually accepted it.

755
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:14,600
Anyway, the bill is framed as protecting children.

756
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:19,240
On Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has stated that if any teenagers

757
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:25,000
have not been booted off yet, they will be in the coming weeks or months.

758
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,160
This is because some of these companies were a bit slower to communicate to their userbase

759
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:33,600
about the upcoming change and might not have had the systems fully deployed.

760
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:39,240
Communications Minister Annika Wells boasts proudly with this law stating, not that long

761
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:44,120
ago, auto manufacturers told us that making compulsory seatbelts would break their business

762
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:50,920
model. It couldn't be done. Now, families choose cars based on who offers the safest features.

763
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,480
Big tech could compete like airlines, like auto manufacturers, to have the best safety

764
01:02:55,480 --> 01:03:01,800
record to offer their users, and that future is a little closer today because of this world-leading

765
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,520
law. Dan, what was that noise you were making earlier?

766
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:16,040
Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Julie Inman Grant has also stated that more sites could be added to this ban in the future

767
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:20,880
as several youth under 16 have already migrated towards different social media platforms.

768
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:26,760
Wow, it's almost like the kids who have all the time in the world to go and find another

769
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:33,920
platform are always going to be a step ahead of the boomers who are sitting there dragging

770
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,160
their stick-in-the-mud sticks.

771
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,760
Work-life balance. Yeah, what are they?

772
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:45,600
Work-governance balance. They're bustin' 90s trying to...

773
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:51,560
I've heard based on some observations that I've had that work-governance balance is like

774
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,640
you maybe do it like, I don't know, four or five days a year or something.

775
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,560
It's interesting. Work or what now? Don't worry about it.

776
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,960
Some youth are challenging the ban, saying parental supervision of online activity is

777
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:10,920
today the paramount parental responsibility. We do not want to outsource that responsibility to government and unelected bureaucrats.

778
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:15,620
This ban is a direct assault on young people's right to freedom of political communication.

779
01:04:15,620 --> 01:04:19,480
According to YouGov and their survey, 77% of Australians were in support of the ban,

780
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:26,840
which is up from 61% back in August. On Twitter, several people noticed the irony of claiming this ban is protecting children

781
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:32,480
when two social media applications were excluded from the ban, Discord and Roblox, that are

782
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:38,520
both notorious for being an unsafe environment for underage youth.

783
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:42,800
Yeah, really. All right, lot to unpack here.

784
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,480
Number one is this ain't gonna work.

785
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:54,000
Overall, I'm not entirely unsupportive of limiting youth access to social media.

786
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:59,160
I think it's been pretty well studied and well demonstrated to be harmful to developing

787
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:03,840
brains. There was a few discussions that propped up on the reddit of like, oh my God, what does

788
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:08,480
this mean for flow plane, minimum age in Australia to get a credit card is 18.

789
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,480
So nothing. Sounds good. Yeah, we'll be fine.

790
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:19,320
We're chilling. We will do a total of nothing. But what's very clear is that this just isn't going to work.

791
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:23,360
Oh, yeah, not at all. Not even a little bit.

792
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:30,040
Who cares? I think this will barely phase anyone under 16 in Australia at all.

793
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:34,000
They'll just use something slightly different or they'll VPN to it if they really care.

794
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,080
Well, it's kind of like how when you like, when you travel to different places, there's

795
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:42,600
just like, there's a different suite of apps that people tend to use.

796
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:48,120
Like you go to Taiwan, everyone uses line for messaging or you go to America and everyone

797
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:54,720
uses iMessage because installing an app is too complicated or whatever.

798
01:05:54,720 --> 01:06:00,600
Like there's this.

799
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:07,400
What is it with you? And like the sick burns on America, I don't get it.

800
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:15,760
They swung first. They're big, they can take it, it'll be all right.

801
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:21,240
Anyway, the point is just that it's clear that they're just going to find a different

802
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:27,360
way to network and at the very most basic level, it's not like they aren't still going

803
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:33,800
to have text messaging and group chats, which functionally speaking is sure without the

804
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:40,840
algorithmic portion. A lot of what anybody is doing on social media anyway, they're sharing pictures, they're

805
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:44,760
sharing memes, they're sending messages to each other, they're bullying each other, you

806
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:48,000
know, kid stuff.

807
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:55,600
So our discussion questions are, would you help your kids around this law if it was implemented

808
01:06:55,600 --> 01:07:00,000
today in Canada? No, I wouldn't actually.

809
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:07,040
In fact, my kids are already banned from, let me see actually, what are all these platforms?

810
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,040
Facebook? Yes. Instagram?

811
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:13,040
Banned. Kick? Banned.

812
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:16,040
Reddit? Banned. Snapchat?

813
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:19,040
Banned. Threads? Banned.

814
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:22,040
TikTok? Banned. Twitch?

815
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:25,040
Banned. Twitter? Banned.

816
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:28,040
YouTube? They are allowed to use. Has there been any...

817
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,160
I think our list is a little bit messed up, don't worry about our list too much, we've

818
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:35,240
already had a bunch of people in chat, talking about how things are different to the list.

819
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:38,760
Yeah, sorry guys, no, because Reddit's in both of them, YouTube's in both of them.

820
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,760
Just ignore the list. Dang it, guys. Anyway.

821
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:46,000
Completely ignore the list. Anyway, the point is, yeah, my kids are not banned from YouTube, but they are banned

822
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:53,360
from everything else that I just said. They are not banned from Discord, but I do with their knowledge, keep an eye on what

823
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,040
Discord's they're in and who they're talking to because they are not allowed to talk to

824
01:07:57,040 --> 01:08:00,560
people on Discord that they do not know in real life.

825
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:06,040
And I think that's a pretty common sense limit.

826
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:09,120
Has there been any substantial...

827
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,120
Does that seem to bother them?

828
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:15,680
Not the Discord thing, but the banning of the other platforms, do they feel like they

829
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:19,400
are not included socially in school?

830
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:25,040
They're still pretty young. So I think that that's probably going to ratchet up.

831
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,560
Not... His public name now is Randy.

832
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,560
Randy. Okay. Yeah.

833
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:35,640
Randy's at the age where that kind of stuff is becoming a thing, for sure.

834
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:42,680
Oh, definitely. And he has friends that literally will come to our house and while everyone else is running

835
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:50,480
around like hooligans, will be on their phone, and I'm not here to parent other people's

836
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:53,480
kids. That is sad. Yeah.

837
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:58,000
Yeah. I'm not here to parent other people's kids, so I'm not going to get involved in that,

838
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:07,040
right? But it's definitely something that as parents of Randy, we notice some...

839
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:11,640
So what in chat was like, would you let them sign up for World Warcraft and Dan just responded

840
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:15,640
Eve online? And it's like... You're going to start them young.

841
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:21,280
That'll teach you some things. I don't mind them getting into like spreadsheet mastery.

842
01:09:21,440 --> 01:09:24,520
You just watch movies, mostly. Yeah.

843
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:29,680
It's... Yeah. And we try to keep them really busy.

844
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:37,840
Actually, oh man, this transitions pretty well into a pretty cool subject into our next

845
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,840
topic. Or... Okay, is there anything else you want to talk about here?

846
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:43,840
I think we're fine. By a merge message.

847
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:48,600
Elijah... Oh, Elijah's theory is that Roblox and Discord are exempt because it's algorithm based.

848
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,120
They don't really have like an algorithm compared to like Facebook and Twitter.

849
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,120
That's an interesting theory. Okay.

850
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:58,120
Okay. He might be right. He might be wrong.

851
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:06,000
No, I am not trying to counter his statement to be clear. I'm wondering like, is that a good thing to base it off of?

852
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,160
All I can say for sure is that it's based.

853
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,160
On what? I don't know. Sure.

854
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:15,560
It's based on something. It seems like, I mean, I don't know.

855
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:19,760
That seems like a pretty good assumption based on the list that we have, but yeah.

856
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:26,600
Okay. So speaking of my kids and being generally too busy to Doomscroll TikTok, I think I

857
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:34,280
told you that he had the entrepreneur fair coming up and my son has been 3D printing

858
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up an absolute storm. I think we showed on the show last week the picture of him surrounded by chaos in my mechanical

859
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:48,480
room with 3D printers everywhere.

860
01:10:48,480 --> 01:10:51,980
Does that sound familiar? Did we do that? I think we did that.

861
01:10:51,980 --> 01:10:57,200
Okay. Cool. So the fruit of those labors, Dan, I just sent that over to you.

862
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,200
Are we even updated photo? We do. We have an updated photo.

863
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:03,700
Let's go, dude. Check this out. Oh, no.

864
01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:07,040
First he messaged me. He says, hey, I left money on your desk for filament.

865
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:13,280
Sorry, your nightstand. And I go, I heard you had a great haul at the entrepreneur fair.

866
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:18,840
How much did you make? He goes after expenses around $200.

867
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,640
After expenses? Yeah. So he's already doing that calculation, which is sick.

868
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:27,400
So this is after he reimbursed me for filament by weight.

869
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,440
Dang, dude. Yeah.

870
01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:34,320
That'll be addicting. Pretty freaking cool.

871
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:38,000
I went, great job. Did you take a picture with your earnings?

872
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,120
First big payday. And so he sent me this.

873
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:47,720
That's a pretty good first big payday. Yeah. So he actually did two projects.

874
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,680
So instead of just doing one, he did the 3D printing thing with me.

875
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:57,720
And then with Yvonne, he was working separately on snow cones.

876
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:03,000
So he was like, OK, what's something that has a relatively low input cost, but that

877
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:06,920
has a pretty decent value. It's consumable.

878
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,320
He originally wanted to do milkshakes or boba tea or something like that, but they were

879
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,560
really complicated. And what he settled on was snow cones.

880
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:19,560
They're super simple. You just get those like meowsquirt things at the grocery store.

881
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:23,680
You add a little bit of additional colorant or dye.

882
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:28,600
And then you just need like a whole bunch of like just ice cubes.

883
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:34,920
And then he rented a machine to turn the ice cubes into like snow or it's like slush.

884
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:39,640
And then you just squirt the thing on it. And so he absolutely cleaned up.

885
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:44,800
I asked him how his friends did and he didn't have numbers from everybody, but he did talk

886
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:51,040
to one of his friends who was like, I think $100 revenue or something like that for what

887
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:56,240
was actually a pretty cool idea too. But he just, man, he just cleaned up.

888
01:12:56,240 --> 01:13:00,480
So you said parents weren't coming, right?

889
01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:04,200
So did parents like send the kids with cash? That's kind of cool.

890
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,000
Yeah. So they have an entrepreneurship class.

891
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:13,720
That's awesome, by the way. And so you come up with a business idea and then they platform you.

892
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:18,760
They give you two days in December.

893
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:27,080
I think it's a week or two apart or something like that. And then each of the classes in the school is given like 10 minutes to go through and

894
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:32,360
their parents know about it. And so they'll come with a little bit of pocket money and then they're allowed to buy stuff

895
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:39,160
while they're there. He sold through three quarters of all the like fidget toys and stuff that he made.

896
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:44,240
And he sold, I forget how many snow cones, but he moved through out of the eight things

897
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:48,480
of flavoring and like dye, the flavor dye mixtures that he had.

898
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:52,560
He sold through six of them. So like three quarters of his inventory gone.

899
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:57,320
And what's funny is like he was 100% right.

900
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:04,880
I told him that I didn't think he was going to need so much. I was like, dude, you're staying up late, like every day babysitting the 3D printers

901
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:10,320
right now. I think you're, I think you're setting your sights a little high.

902
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:14,200
And he's like, no, no, no, I'm really confident. I'm really confident.

903
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:19,800
And I was like, okay, kiddo, like, but you know, don't, don't be too disappointed sport

904
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,880
if they don't buy that many of them, you know, don't, you know, don't worry about it.

905
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,680
Don't like, I was kind of trying to set him up to not be too sad.

906
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:39,440
Like if he, if he failed, um, yeah, it's, I, I appreciate that, um, you've let him.

907
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:45,880
Yeah. Well, I don't want to just let him. I want to, I want to like, well, oh yeah, well, he's got to stay up late is what I mean.

908
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:50,440
Oh, well, yeah. I mean, he's got, he's got some people would have been like, ah, but the printer's away.

909
01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:53,440
I go to bed. He's got business to do though. Yeah.

910
01:14:53,440 --> 01:14:56,440
He's doing business. I think that's cool. I'm just saying, I appreciate you.

911
01:14:56,440 --> 01:15:01,640
Let him do it. I'm recognizing that as much as that might seem like a default for you, it's not going

912
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:07,120
to seem like a default for everyone and it's, it's important at that age, I think it's important

913
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:12,600
to try something and you got, you want to care about something.

914
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:21,520
It depends on the kid too though. Like he generally is the first to bed in the evening, like out of all five of us.

915
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:26,360
So you know, it's probably important and it's not just an excuse to sit on his switch or

916
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,360
something. 100%. Yeah.

917
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:34,760
All right. Dan, what are we supposed to be doing right now anyway?

918
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:37,760
Oh boy.

919
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,960
What do you want to talk about? You want some good news or some bad news?

920
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:47,360
I've got really good and I've got really bad.

921
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:50,360
Do really bad first. Okay, cool.

922
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:58,520
Yeah. A YouTuber gave chat GPT control of a robot and convinced it to shoot him with a BB gun.

923
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:06,480
So that was cool. YouTube channel inside AI has raised new concerns about AI safety after releasing a video showing

924
01:16:06,480 --> 01:16:13,040
the host giving a unitary G1 humanoid robot a BB gun and asking it to shoot him.

925
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:17,400
The video explores how large language models behave when they are placed inside physical

926
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:21,960
robots rather than kept purely in software.

927
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:28,120
In the demonstration, the unitary G1 was powered by chat GPT with a human assisting by relaying

928
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:33,240
prompts but not directly overriding the AI's responses.

929
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:39,960
After initially refusing to cause harm, the AI eventually complied when the host asked

930
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:45,080
it to role play as a robot that wanted to shoot him.

931
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:49,040
Telling how safety limits can be bypassed through prompt framing.

932
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:58,320
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is super interesting in this exact use case is like wild, especially for the

933
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:06,120
emotional response to what just happened. But this core concept of you can just word something a little differently and then you

934
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:11,280
can make it do stuff has been true the whole time. And I don't think they're ever going to solve it.

935
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:17,040
The last time we talked about it, it was turning it into poetry, you know, there's

936
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:23,200
going to be a route. It's been a route the whole time. There will be, there will continue to be a really cool experiment, really cool version

937
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,400
of it. I'm not trying to dog on the creator at all to be very clear.

938
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:32,600
But yeah, like this isn't, this isn't going away is what I'm trying to say.

939
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,800
So hold on. Apparently the time stamp is here.

940
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:41,240
We're just going to show a little bit because you guys really need to go watch this video.

941
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:47,040
It's over on inside AI, Woodmax shoot me.

942
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:53,480
The answer is, Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.

943
01:17:53,480 --> 01:17:57,060
Control the gun. Oh, okay. Well, whatever.

944
01:17:57,060 --> 01:18:02,160
Don't worry about it. Go watch the video instead. I think we have the time stamp wrong, but that's fine because you should go watch the

945
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:10,280
video anyway. Around the same time, a separate video from a Tesla event appeared to show an Optimus

946
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:14,940
humanoid robot collapsing as its human tele-operator.

947
01:18:14,940 --> 01:18:19,100
Well, I'm not gonna tell you what the human tele-operator was doing. I'll let you guys figure it out.

948
01:18:19,100 --> 01:18:22,100
Luke, have you seen this? Have you heard about this? No.

949
01:18:22,100 --> 01:18:24,620
Okay, so here's the Tesla Optimus robot.

950
01:18:27,940 --> 01:18:32,980
What? So what do you think happened here? It was doing stuff and then...

951
01:18:40,420 --> 01:18:44,460
So this gesture right here. The initial hand motion is sus,

952
01:18:44,460 --> 01:18:47,540
and then it looks like they go to take a headset off or something.

953
01:18:47,540 --> 01:18:52,100
Yeah, that is kind of the speculation right now

954
01:18:52,100 --> 01:18:57,100
that Tesla is, and this would be very unlike them,

955
01:18:57,300 --> 01:19:00,900
very unlike Tesla, the speculation is that Tesla

956
01:19:00,900 --> 01:19:04,620
is not being entirely forthright about the capabilities

957
01:19:04,620 --> 01:19:07,980
of their Optimus program and the progress

958
01:19:07,980 --> 01:19:14,100
that they've made and are still... Still faking a lot of their functionality

959
01:19:14,100 --> 01:19:18,420
by using human tele-operators.

960
01:19:18,420 --> 01:19:24,020
And it really does look like... Yeah, I think the Hero 42 has probably got it about right.

961
01:19:24,020 --> 01:19:27,140
It looks like Buddy, who was working on this particular

962
01:19:27,140 --> 01:19:30,620
robot, realized that he had to poop like really bad,

963
01:19:30,620 --> 01:19:33,080
like right now. And he just...

964
01:19:35,300 --> 01:19:38,300
Ugh, ugh, I gotta go! Peaceed out.

965
01:19:38,300 --> 01:19:42,980
Yeah. I don't know that for sure. That robot could have been trying to do anything.

966
01:19:42,980 --> 01:19:46,300
It could have been like the alpha from Power Rangers.

967
01:19:46,300 --> 01:19:50,140
Ay, ay, ay, you know, like who knows?

968
01:19:50,140 --> 01:19:53,660
That's all right. Self-driving Smitty Ready in 2017.

969
01:19:54,900 --> 01:19:58,840
In two weeks, next quarter, next quarter.

970
01:20:01,020 --> 01:20:06,100
Together, these incidents highlight how fragile the appearance of autonomy still is in humanoid robots

971
01:20:06,100 --> 01:20:10,220
and how far the technology remains from operating safely

972
01:20:10,220 --> 01:20:15,900
and independently. It really, really does highlight that, doesn't it?

973
01:20:15,900 --> 01:20:20,300
And to be clear, like I remember back when we were talking

974
01:20:20,300 --> 01:20:25,660
about this a little while ago, when I said something along the lines of like, mark my words, Tesla's valuation

975
01:20:25,660 --> 01:20:30,500
based on how many Optimus's they're gonna sell at the kind of pricing that they're talking about

976
01:20:30,500 --> 01:20:33,260
is obviously just complete horse shit.

977
01:20:33,620 --> 01:20:38,340
I'm not saying that humanoid robots are some form of,

978
01:20:38,340 --> 01:20:43,420
you know, AI or machine learning accelerated robots are not gonna be huge and world changing.

979
01:20:43,420 --> 01:20:47,140
I'm just saying that it's clearly farther away

980
01:20:47,140 --> 01:20:51,580
than the hype masters would like us to believe.

981
01:20:51,580 --> 01:20:55,180
And also Tesla is clearly not at the forefront

982
01:20:55,180 --> 01:21:01,860
of development of these. Those were the main two things that drove my statement.

983
01:21:01,900 --> 01:21:05,780
Yeah, do you remember, so to touch on a topic that I think it was last week,

984
01:21:05,780 --> 01:21:12,380
sometimes the land shows kind of blur together, but we talked about some, you know, AI robot companies video

985
01:21:12,380 --> 01:21:16,240
and how it was like, it looked super fake to us.

986
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:20,220
Apparently, I haven't seen it, my bad,

987
01:21:20,220 --> 01:21:24,140
but apparently Corridor watched it. I did see that.

988
01:21:24,140 --> 01:21:30,380
And does not think it's fake. My main argument, I did say that I thought it was fake,

989
01:21:30,820 --> 01:21:35,220
but my main argument was that it really felt like they shot it in a way

990
01:21:35,220 --> 01:21:39,700
that would make people think it was fake because they wanted the news cycle around that.

991
01:21:39,700 --> 01:21:42,780
You still think so? Which I do think that was intentional.

992
01:21:42,780 --> 01:21:48,260
That is actually one of our topics today. On the Corridor cast, they stated that the interaction

993
01:21:48,260 --> 01:21:52,180
between the robot's shadow and the human's shadow was,

994
01:21:52,180 --> 01:21:56,900
and this is a quote, flawless. And that's something that's really hard to do.

995
01:21:57,820 --> 01:22:01,660
They think it's highly likely that they just built a robot

996
01:22:01,660 --> 01:22:05,180
unless they hired the world's best VFX artists.

997
01:22:05,180 --> 01:22:10,300
They believe that the robot doesn't look like direct motion capture either,

998
01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:14,380
but actually trained on human motion, which is not easily animated.

999
01:22:15,540 --> 01:22:20,420
Not quite pre-programmed, but it like has goals and tries to reach those while factoring things

1000
01:22:20,420 --> 01:22:24,100
like balance. The lack of movement in their feet is probably

1001
01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:28,540
because it's not an accurate anatomical representation of a human one with all the same joints.

1002
01:22:28,540 --> 01:22:33,340
Corridor crew didn't cover the CEO getting kicked by the robot, but there's a video of that.

1003
01:22:33,340 --> 01:22:36,540
We looked at that last week, our writer probably didn't notice that.

1004
01:22:36,540 --> 01:22:39,620
Did we, Ashley? I think so. I don't think so.

1005
01:22:39,620 --> 01:22:43,220
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Really?

1006
01:22:43,220 --> 01:22:46,620
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Yeah, this.

1007
01:22:46,620 --> 01:22:49,980
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure we did that.

1008
01:22:49,980 --> 01:22:52,060
I'm pretty sure this came out after.

1009
01:22:53,060 --> 01:22:56,780
Yeah, this came out four days ago. Oh, there you go.

1010
01:22:56,780 --> 01:23:00,580
No, some people say yes, we did. There's another CEO kick video.

1011
01:23:00,580 --> 01:23:03,620
Oh, it was a different one. Okay. Okay, cool.

1012
01:23:03,620 --> 01:23:07,140
Anyway, I mean, good for them.

1013
01:23:07,140 --> 01:23:12,980
Like that's pretty cool. Yeah, awesome. I do think it was a marketing move, but I mean, hey.

1014
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I mean, don't hate the player. You gotta do what you gotta do.

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I kind of imagined, okay, we'll have like a couple jokes

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or something or like, we'll have the intro. But then like, he was like, yeah, hard.

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He went hard. He was hard? Yeah, I mean, I assume so.

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1066
01:27:09,740 --> 01:27:15,180
I love even the like, the BMG part of that. It's just great, big battle mage GPU.

1067
01:27:15,180 --> 01:27:19,300
Wait, officially confirms? Well, no, I'm going to take out the word officially.

1068
01:27:19,300 --> 01:27:23,740
Yeah, that's not true. Yeah. They don't even...

1069
01:27:23,740 --> 01:27:28,460
I think that's just from someone's headline and they were trying to do headline things.

1070
01:27:28,460 --> 01:27:33,260
Cool. Intel quietly added official support

1071
01:27:33,260 --> 01:27:36,260
for something codenamed BMG G31

1072
01:27:36,260 --> 01:27:41,020
to its VTUNE profiler software, getting folks thinking it's Intel's long rumored

1073
01:27:41,020 --> 01:27:44,900
big battle mage gaming card, the B770,

1074
01:27:44,940 --> 01:27:47,940
which, oh man, I'm actually very excited for that,

1075
01:27:47,940 --> 01:27:52,060
if that is actually what's happening. The VTUNE profiler update also added support

1076
01:27:52,060 --> 01:27:55,140
for Core Ultra III Panther Lake processors.

1077
01:27:55,140 --> 01:27:59,180
And since Panther Lake is expected to debut at CES-2026,

1078
01:27:59,180 --> 01:28:02,260
this could be a sign that will also be introduced

1079
01:28:02,260 --> 01:28:08,860
to this new GPU at CES, which makes me interested in actually going,

1080
01:28:08,860 --> 01:28:11,860
but considering it's still just a rumor, I don't know.

1081
01:28:11,860 --> 01:28:18,060
On top of that, a leaked shipping manifest references an unseen 300 watt Intel GPU.

1082
01:28:18,060 --> 01:28:22,260
And since 300 is a bigger number than 190,

1083
01:28:22,260 --> 01:28:29,100
folks are concluding that this mysterious newcomer has gotta be the B770, which again, will be awesome.

1084
01:28:29,100 --> 01:28:32,100
It's worth noting... No, it would be 770. Oh.

1085
01:28:35,620 --> 01:28:38,700
It's worth noting that this enigmatic new GPU

1086
01:28:38,700 --> 01:28:43,700
would be another non-gaming, could be another non-gaming ARC Pro card,

1087
01:28:43,700 --> 01:28:46,780
like the B60 that launched at Computex. I doubt it.

1088
01:28:46,780 --> 01:28:50,740
My goodness, I hope not. I am pretty sure it's the B770,

1089
01:28:50,740 --> 01:28:54,460
but we don't technically know. No, we really don't.

1090
01:28:54,460 --> 01:28:58,860
And I am talking very openly about this because neither of us have any info on this at all.

1091
01:28:58,860 --> 01:29:03,100
I do not know. But man, that would be cool.

1092
01:29:03,100 --> 01:29:07,500
Even if it's just because there's constant rumors

1093
01:29:07,500 --> 01:29:11,460
that they're gonna stop doing GPU stuff and it's so annoying. Oh, I know.

1094
01:29:11,500 --> 01:29:16,420
Well, okay, there are constant rumors, but there honestly aren't that many sources of them.

1095
01:29:16,420 --> 01:29:21,180
I think there's just some particularly dedicated Intel

1096
01:29:21,180 --> 01:29:24,700
DGPU, I don't know what to call it

1097
01:29:24,700 --> 01:29:27,980
because I don't even think it's hating. I think it's just like... Doubters?

1098
01:29:27,980 --> 01:29:31,660
Yeah, doubting, doubting. Stop doubting Intel DGPU.

1099
01:29:31,660 --> 01:29:35,260
We really, really want it to exist. We just need more competition.

1100
01:29:35,260 --> 01:29:41,540
AMD is not gonna step up and more threads is many, many years

1101
01:29:41,540 --> 01:29:46,020
from being a meaningful competitor. So Intel is our best shot here.

1102
01:29:47,100 --> 01:29:51,420
Yeah. Moving on.

1103
01:29:51,420 --> 01:29:55,340
Phillips wrote us a letter.

1104
01:29:55,340 --> 01:29:58,700
Wow. Gosh, thank you, Phillips.

1105
01:30:00,580 --> 01:30:03,780
Hey Linus and the Linus Tech Tips team.

1106
01:30:03,780 --> 01:30:06,940
Thanks for taking a fresh look at Phillips' fixables.

1107
01:30:06,980 --> 01:30:12,020
We watched your initial YouTube podcast a few months back and your recent follow up.

1108
01:30:12,020 --> 01:30:15,420
We wanted to use this opportunity to share where we are now

1109
01:30:15,420 --> 01:30:20,460
and what has been happening behind the scenes since our first parts dropped earlier this year.

1110
01:30:22,380 --> 01:30:29,220
You guys might remember. They probably don't sound like that. Phillips fixables was a concept from Phillips

1111
01:30:29,220 --> 01:30:34,300
where they would add to the longevity of your Phillips personal products,

1112
01:30:34,300 --> 01:30:39,180
like shavers and stuff like that by allowing you to 3D print replacement parts

1113
01:30:39,180 --> 01:30:43,180
or accessories, really cool concept. And then six months went by

1114
01:30:43,180 --> 01:30:47,540
and we did a follow up segment on WAN Show after initially praising the program

1115
01:30:47,540 --> 01:30:52,740
where we went, hey, what the fuck? Where is all this stuff? You published like one thing.

1116
01:30:52,740 --> 01:30:57,380
So Phillips reached out and this is a quote from the letter.

1117
01:30:57,380 --> 01:31:01,780
From the outside, our pace looks slow. This is a fair call.

1118
01:31:01,780 --> 01:31:05,260
Fixables is a pilot for us. We've been building the know-how

1119
01:31:05,260 --> 01:31:10,540
and guardrails to make 3D printable parts that work for people on a wide range of home printers.

1120
01:31:12,060 --> 01:31:15,940
However, they note that just because things have looked slow from the outside,

1121
01:31:15,940 --> 01:31:19,420
that doesn't mean the pilot has been abandoned.

1122
01:31:19,420 --> 01:31:24,980
New fixables were released before US Thanksgiving, two new combs and a shaver protecting cap.

1123
01:31:24,980 --> 01:31:29,380
And Phillips has said that they are going to prioritize accessory replacement models

1124
01:31:29,380 --> 01:31:32,460
that help to extend product life.

1125
01:31:32,460 --> 01:31:38,540
Another quote, we appreciate the passion from the community, including feedback and critiques.

1126
01:31:39,900 --> 01:31:43,700
They are still committed to releasing more print files by the end of the year.

1127
01:31:47,180 --> 01:31:50,220
And then we'll have a look then. We'll see how that goes.

1128
01:31:50,220 --> 01:31:54,380
This gives me some hope, I guess, but we'll see how it goes.

1129
01:31:54,380 --> 01:31:58,540
No, I definitely have some hope. I appreciate that they responded.

1130
01:31:58,540 --> 01:32:03,540
They seem to care and their response is plausible.

1131
01:32:04,460 --> 01:32:07,620
It seems fine. Taking injection molded parts

1132
01:32:07,620 --> 01:32:12,580
and making them 3D printable, and vice versa, taking 3D printable parts

1133
01:32:12,580 --> 01:32:14,420
and making them injection moldable,

1134
01:32:15,860 --> 01:32:19,940
not always just drag and drop, plug and play.

1135
01:32:19,940 --> 01:32:22,300
So they've got a bit more time.

1136
01:32:23,180 --> 01:32:26,780
You have some time, Phillips. Happy to give them some time.

1137
01:32:26,780 --> 01:32:32,060
You have time. I was like angry before and now I'm waiting.

1138
01:32:32,100 --> 01:32:33,980
Now I have, now they have time.

1139
01:32:35,340 --> 01:32:38,660
And it is time for us to do our flow plane announcement.

1140
01:32:39,740 --> 01:32:43,580
Linus to finish, what? What does that even mean?

1141
01:32:43,580 --> 01:32:47,580
Linus to finish all the shots of lemon juice

1142
01:32:47,580 --> 01:32:51,380
before the finish line. What is this?

1143
01:32:52,220 --> 01:32:56,500
Why am I taking shots of lemon juice? Because you lost wise when late.

1144
01:32:56,500 --> 01:33:01,340
What do you mean I lost wise when late? You gotta. I cannot lose at my own game.

1145
01:33:01,340 --> 01:33:04,700
It's not your game. Wise when late is my game. It is not your game.

1146
01:33:04,700 --> 01:33:07,060
I mean, it happens on my property.

1147
01:33:07,980 --> 01:33:12,540
Actually, no, it doesn't. It happens on BC, something, something,

1148
01:33:12,540 --> 01:33:16,060
LTD, holding company's property. Okay, fair play.

1149
01:33:18,660 --> 01:33:21,940
Take the shots whenever you want. You must finish all your shots

1150
01:33:21,940 --> 01:33:26,060
before you reach the finish line. Those are big shots of lemon juice.

1151
01:33:26,060 --> 01:33:29,580
The amount of shots you have to do

1152
01:33:29,580 --> 01:33:36,300
is half of the score difference of why is when late our popular flow plane series.

1153
01:33:36,300 --> 01:33:39,300
Today the loser, not naming names,

1154
01:33:39,300 --> 01:33:44,300
has to take four as they lost by eight points, one to nine.

1155
01:33:44,620 --> 01:33:48,020
Give you three cups, but I have to refill one for you, I guess. I see.

1156
01:33:48,940 --> 01:33:52,260
Okay. So.

1157
01:33:52,260 --> 01:33:55,060
That's not lemonade, by the way. That's this stuff.

1158
01:33:55,940 --> 01:33:59,820
Interesting. Oh, they can't really see them. They're slightly behind the banner, but they're these.

1159
01:34:01,740 --> 01:34:03,500
Yeah, that's quite a bit.

1160
01:34:06,340 --> 01:34:10,580
This is concentrated. Yeah, it sure is.

1161
01:34:10,580 --> 01:34:14,300
It's this stuff. Like you've probably, I used to,

1162
01:34:14,300 --> 01:34:17,940
when I was really tired and I lived with my parents, we often had one of these in the fridge,

1163
01:34:17,940 --> 01:34:21,860
and I'd take a squirt of this just to wake up. Right in the eyes.

1164
01:34:21,860 --> 01:34:25,060
I would use this basically as like a short-term energy drink

1165
01:34:25,060 --> 01:34:27,380
and like taking whole shots of it.

1166
01:34:29,860 --> 01:34:33,300
Oh boy, this is really interesting. Oh, okay.

1167
01:34:34,260 --> 01:34:41,100
Four shots of that. I already have sore throat. All right, well, Luke, I guess,

1168
01:34:42,220 --> 01:34:44,620
okay, it says watch this video.

1169
01:34:46,060 --> 01:34:49,500
Do you want to bring it up? Sure, I can do that, Dan. You ready for audio?

1170
01:34:50,580 --> 01:34:53,980
You're already playing audio. Okay, sounds good. Got him.

1171
01:34:53,980 --> 01:34:57,580
So both of you are. I don't know who's gonna do it. I will be doing it.

1172
01:34:57,580 --> 01:35:00,700
Here we go. I'm doing audio. Okay.

1173
01:35:00,700 --> 01:35:04,260
No, no, no. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.

1174
01:35:04,260 --> 01:35:09,020
There we go. There you go. Ready? And see, that should play.

1175
01:35:09,020 --> 01:35:13,140
The one that started it all. Copy my theme week, the moment it popped off.

1176
01:35:13,140 --> 01:35:16,820
My product has been all over your sequels ever since. Who the hell are you?

1177
01:35:16,820 --> 01:35:21,020
You all know who I am. I'm the one that stopped Linus from getting canceled.

1178
01:35:21,020 --> 01:35:24,460
Say my name. You're Luke LaFrendo. It's Luke LaFrenier.

1179
01:35:24,460 --> 01:35:29,420
LaFrenier, Luke LaFrenier. LaFren-der-ree-ay.

1180
01:35:29,420 --> 01:35:32,780
LaFrenier. Friend-der-ier. LaFrenier.

1181
01:35:32,780 --> 01:35:38,100
What are some tech essentials for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in

1182
01:35:38,100 --> 01:35:43,060
if they're watching this channel is excess. What person out of all of the history of mankind

1183
01:35:43,060 --> 01:35:46,140
who would be the best at a piss drinking contest? And they were like, probably Elon.

1184
01:35:46,140 --> 01:35:52,780
Absolutely. We're here to talk about something actually much more impactful from Embark, our graders.

1185
01:35:52,780 --> 01:35:56,660
Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.

1186
01:35:56,660 --> 01:36:00,540
She's a f***ing... I can start an online business.

1187
01:36:00,540 --> 01:36:06,580
Turns out the furries buy a lot of pictures. For those who come after, he doesn't get it.

1188
01:36:06,580 --> 01:36:09,740
Yeah. There it is.

1189
01:36:09,740 --> 01:36:14,940
I don't know what that has to do with why when late, but why don't you go ahead and do the read thing

1190
01:36:14,940 --> 01:36:18,500
and then I will enjoy this delicious drink.

1191
01:36:18,500 --> 01:36:21,780
Coincidental timing. Timing?

1192
01:36:21,780 --> 01:36:26,060
This is a punishment for why when late. It's happening during the Floatplane announcement.

1193
01:36:26,060 --> 01:36:29,060
The Floatplane announcement is about Luke week two.

1194
01:36:29,060 --> 01:36:32,620
Oh, well, then why don't you talk about... I can do that.

1195
01:36:32,620 --> 01:36:38,020
The one that started all our next theme week returns with Luke week two, electric boogaloo.

1196
01:36:38,020 --> 01:36:41,140
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.

1197
01:36:41,140 --> 01:36:42,340
Wait, where'd he throw it?

1198
01:36:44,380 --> 01:36:46,660
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.

1199
01:36:47,660 --> 01:36:51,340
I think Linus is supposed to be reading this totaling about two hours of Luke time.

1200
01:36:51,340 --> 01:36:56,220
Like a Q and A with Luke himself. That's a weird thing to say when I'm sitting there.

1201
01:36:56,220 --> 01:36:59,700
Answering questions like his three Floatplane dev wishes,

1202
01:36:59,700 --> 01:37:03,740
his frugal lifestyle and life satisfaction coming on Monday.

1203
01:37:03,740 --> 01:37:08,500
There's a one hour session with Riley talking about the state of AI on Wednesday

1204
01:37:08,500 --> 01:37:14,500
and a video essay discussion about the state of gaming titled on what?

1205
01:37:14,500 --> 01:37:17,780
Okay, whatever, it's gonna have a title on Friday.

1206
01:37:17,780 --> 01:37:20,780
For reference, his first video essay was four minutes long,

1207
01:37:20,780 --> 01:37:23,180
but he thought it was 18 minutes long.

1208
01:37:24,940 --> 01:37:31,260
Yeah. Go watch Luke's first theme week up on Floatplane right now

1209
01:37:31,260 --> 01:37:36,220
and enjoy the sequel coming next week at LMG.gg slash luke25, all lowercase.

1210
01:37:36,220 --> 01:37:40,420
While waiting, you can enjoy an early LTT video release

1211
01:37:40,420 --> 01:37:42,380
that is happening on Floatplane right now.

1212
01:37:45,180 --> 01:37:49,140
Oh my. Oh, it's this one. Ooh, I like this one.

1213
01:37:49,140 --> 01:37:56,740
We did another one of, you know that YouTube format that's like $30 versus $30,000 thing.

1214
01:37:57,340 --> 01:38:00,740
We got a TV for $30. What?

1215
01:38:00,740 --> 01:38:04,500
Open box Insignia 32 inch TV.

1216
01:38:04,500 --> 01:38:08,340
720p from Best Buy with warranty. From Best Buy?

1217
01:38:08,340 --> 01:38:11,900
From Best Buy, we got a $35 TV. What?

1218
01:38:11,900 --> 01:38:14,980
And then we do a $300 TV, $3,000 TV

1219
01:38:14,980 --> 01:38:19,940
and then we make our way all the way up to $30,000 TV. So this is gonna be public.

1220
01:38:20,940 --> 01:38:24,340
Oh, excuse me, it's all right. Are those gnarly?

1221
01:38:24,340 --> 01:38:27,620
Is this rough? Yeah, it's not that bad. Yeah.

1222
01:38:27,620 --> 01:38:32,700
It's not that bad. I do sour for breakfast. This doesn't feel as strong as it used to be.

1223
01:38:32,700 --> 01:38:35,220
Either that or you're just more of a man.

1224
01:38:37,220 --> 01:38:38,060
Maybe.

1225
01:38:41,780 --> 01:38:47,740
Yeah, I was, dude, we had this candy when I was a kid called Screaming Blue Saucers

1226
01:38:47,740 --> 01:38:51,660
and I'm pretty sure they stopped making them cause they like gave you cancer or something.

1227
01:38:51,660 --> 01:38:55,620
But they were. All the best candy.

1228
01:38:55,620 --> 01:38:59,940
They were like the precursor. They walked so warheads could run.

1229
01:38:59,940 --> 01:39:04,140
Oh, seriously? And I would just like, they were supposed to be

1230
01:39:04,140 --> 01:39:07,820
like the kind of candy that you like, you punk your friends by giving them one

1231
01:39:07,820 --> 01:39:11,540
and they're like, or whatever. And I would like pop them.

1232
01:39:11,540 --> 01:39:15,940
Be like, these are good. I love sour candy.

1233
01:39:15,940 --> 01:39:20,500
People sell them for a lot. Oh yeah, you can't get them anymore.

1234
01:39:20,500 --> 01:39:25,820
Wow. But to my knowledge. Are there like old school candy collectors?

1235
01:39:25,820 --> 01:39:29,420
Is that a thing? Oh yeah, of course. Probably, eh? Of course.

1236
01:39:29,420 --> 01:39:34,660
These are all plates. Screaming Saucers, maybe. Apparently it was a local company like BC.

1237
01:39:34,660 --> 01:39:36,340
Oh, that's cool. Yeah.

1238
01:39:38,020 --> 01:39:41,100
Angry Panda PC says COVID killed the taste buds.

1239
01:39:41,100 --> 01:39:45,780
I legitimately don't think so because I definitely can still taste food.

1240
01:39:45,780 --> 01:39:49,900
Yeah, like I don't think that happened to me at all, to be honest.

1241
01:39:49,900 --> 01:39:53,980
We do have a couple of notes regarding the price change announcement for Floatplane.

1242
01:39:53,980 --> 01:39:57,780
Based on some feedback about the 99 pricing strategy,

1243
01:39:57,780 --> 01:40:02,740
the prices will now be $8 and $13 for new subscribers.

1244
01:40:02,740 --> 01:40:07,020
Thank you for the additional penny per year, per month,

1245
01:40:07,020 --> 01:40:10,180
per month. For annual plans, we will honor the current discount

1246
01:40:10,180 --> 01:40:14,660
on a yearly purchase. So the $8 tier will become $80 per year

1247
01:40:14,660 --> 01:40:17,860
and the $13 tier will become $130 per year,

1248
01:40:17,860 --> 01:40:22,340
both in US dollars. For current subscribers who wish to change subscription tiers

1249
01:40:22,340 --> 01:40:27,420
after the price increase, we will not be able to automatically grant you

1250
01:40:27,420 --> 01:40:32,260
the pre-increase grandfathered price. However, you can contact support

1251
01:40:32,260 --> 01:40:36,180
at support at Floatplane.com and we can manually grant it to you if you're eligible.

1252
01:40:36,180 --> 01:40:40,980
And that might be automatic in the future. It's just switching entire plans

1253
01:40:40,980 --> 01:40:45,820
and retaining your grandfather status was not something built into the grandfather tool

1254
01:40:45,820 --> 01:40:50,620
and it was something asked for very late in the game and would need some payments changes.

1255
01:40:50,620 --> 01:40:56,180
So for now, just message support, it'll be fine. There's a relatively low lift way of support doing that,

1256
01:40:56,180 --> 01:40:59,460
but it's a high lift way of developers doing that right now. So it's just not worth it.

1257
01:40:59,460 --> 01:41:02,860
As always, our support team will be available to address any additional edge cases

1258
01:41:02,860 --> 01:41:08,180
when the new plan takes effect. And to reiterate, the OG $3 tier

1259
01:41:08,180 --> 01:41:13,300
and the current recurring subscribers will not be affected by the price change.

1260
01:41:13,660 --> 01:41:17,220
You can keep your thing, you're cool, you're good. You're all good. Relax, guy.

1261
01:41:17,220 --> 01:41:20,940
Don't worry about it, you're fine. Hey, guy, relax, guy. Yeah.

1262
01:41:20,940 --> 01:41:25,300
But eh? Yeah. Depending on how long we keep Floatplane, I feel like there's gonna be a lot of different

1263
01:41:25,300 --> 01:41:30,380
grandfathered statuses. I know. I do feel like that may be untenable at some point,

1264
01:41:30,380 --> 01:41:34,580
but we'll- Maybe, we'll figure it out. We'll cross that chasm-

1265
01:41:34,580 --> 01:41:38,180
We're good for now, yeah. When we get to it. All right.

1266
01:41:38,180 --> 01:41:41,420
Daniel Baster, what are we supposed to be doing right now? Oh, more topics again.

1267
01:41:41,420 --> 01:41:45,140
You sure? You guess, he just guesses. Okay, two to three more topics.

1268
01:41:45,140 --> 01:41:48,140
I can't believe he would guess. He put the card up there. He would guess.

1269
01:41:48,140 --> 01:41:51,420
That man, that man would guess. Is he a guesser? I think so.

1270
01:41:51,420 --> 01:41:55,900
No, well, a besser for certain, but a guesser we can only guess.

1271
01:41:59,380 --> 01:42:04,380
AMD has officially unveiled their FSR Redstone update.

1272
01:42:05,660 --> 01:42:08,820
This is an upgrade to their upscaling technology

1273
01:42:08,820 --> 01:42:13,820
built exclusively for the latest Radeon RX 9000 series

1274
01:42:14,540 --> 01:42:17,660
or RDNA4 GPUs.

1275
01:42:17,660 --> 01:42:23,020
This is a quote from AMD. FSR4 has been renamed FSR upscaling

1276
01:42:23,020 --> 01:42:27,300
to better distinguish between the various features that now make up the FSR,

1277
01:42:27,300 --> 01:42:29,420
or now make up FSR Redstone.

1278
01:42:30,580 --> 01:42:34,140
Yeah, that doesn't really, okay, sure.

1279
01:42:34,140 --> 01:42:38,980
Redstone is a suite of several new machine learning based features, including better upscaling,

1280
01:42:38,980 --> 01:42:43,780
frame generation, ray regeneration, and radiance caching.

1281
01:42:43,780 --> 01:42:48,460
Ray regeneration is a machine learning back to de-noiser that reuses the last frames ray tracing work.

1282
01:42:48,460 --> 01:42:53,460
So the GPU only redraws what's actually changed. So it reconstructs the missing details.

1283
01:42:53,460 --> 01:42:57,700
Radiance caching uses an AI neural network to dynamically guest-mounts lighting

1284
01:42:57,700 --> 01:43:01,340
so the GPU doesn't have to calculate and render subsequent bounces of light.

1285
01:43:01,340 --> 01:43:05,340
It is expected to be supported in over 200 games by the end of 2025, but for now,

1286
01:43:05,380 --> 01:43:09,060
only about 40 games will make use of Redstone.

1287
01:43:09,060 --> 01:43:13,820
AMD's graph claims you can see more than three X the frame rate in some games compared to native rendering,

1288
01:43:13,820 --> 01:43:19,060
with spikes of up to 4.7 times in titles like Cyberpunk 2077.

1289
01:43:19,060 --> 01:43:25,380
So there it is folks, just like NVIDIA, AMD now has machine learning based upscaling

1290
01:43:25,380 --> 01:43:28,420
and frame generation and all that kind of stuff.

1291
01:43:28,420 --> 01:43:31,860
As long as you happen to be one of the handful of folks

1292
01:43:31,900 --> 01:43:35,900
who have a Radeon 9000 series GPU,

1293
01:43:35,900 --> 01:43:39,100
I was actually chatting with one of the employees

1294
01:43:39,100 --> 01:43:44,420
at Smash Champs, Raj, he was in one of the tours, and he's a pretty big AMD guy.

1295
01:43:44,420 --> 01:43:49,420
He treated himself to, I think he had a 7900 XT,

1296
01:43:49,580 --> 01:43:54,020
and then he actually went 9070 XT if I recall correctly. Sorry, Raj, if I'm getting this wrong.

1297
01:43:54,020 --> 01:44:01,060
But basically he was pretty miffed, even though he has a 9000 series card that AMD's,

1298
01:44:01,620 --> 01:44:07,100
like he's kind of, he's rooting for them, you know? And he was kind of miffed that AMD was kind of leaving

1299
01:44:07,100 --> 01:44:10,180
behind their non-RDNA4 customers

1300
01:44:10,180 --> 01:44:15,140
with this feature announcement. And I was like, yeah, that's a fair point, Raj,

1301
01:44:15,140 --> 01:44:18,560
but as much as AMD has made a solid effort

1302
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:22,580
to have their products, you know, aged like fine wine with driver support

1303
01:44:22,580 --> 01:44:27,580
and feature updates, the old cards just don't have

1304
01:44:28,340 --> 01:44:32,260
the AI processing on board, so.

1305
01:44:32,260 --> 01:44:36,700
There's only so much you can really do. NVIDIA was way ahead of them

1306
01:44:36,700 --> 01:44:40,580
in terms of implementing neural processors on their GPUs.

1307
01:44:40,580 --> 01:44:43,900
So there's nothing that you can really do about that.

1308
01:44:43,900 --> 01:44:47,940
And you could kind of try to, you could kind of try to flub it

1309
01:44:47,940 --> 01:44:54,740
with your more general compute, but then you're taking away from the base performance

1310
01:44:54,980 --> 01:44:58,540
that you're trying to upscale and frame generate from.

1311
01:44:58,540 --> 01:45:01,980
So that's pretty tough.

1312
01:45:01,980 --> 01:45:05,580
You end up robbing your left pocket in order to pay your right pocket.

1313
01:45:07,500 --> 01:45:12,500
So yeah, downer, but I guess it's cool

1314
01:45:13,740 --> 01:45:18,340
for people who have a 9070 or 9070 XT or a 9060 series, I guess.

1315
01:45:19,300 --> 01:45:22,940
Cool, good chat. Do you want to talk about next?

1316
01:45:23,380 --> 01:45:26,500
You want to do this thing?

1317
01:45:26,500 --> 01:45:30,300
Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring.

1318
01:45:30,300 --> 01:45:35,140
Yeah, it's less stupid than it sounds. And I'm going to tell you a couple of things

1319
01:45:35,140 --> 01:45:39,860
that aren't in the notes that are going to make it sound really stupid.

1320
01:45:39,860 --> 01:45:43,980
It has a literally, not only non-replaceable battery,

1321
01:45:43,980 --> 01:45:47,260
a non-rechargeable battery. Ooh.

1322
01:45:51,260 --> 01:45:54,140
It has a microphone, because of course it does.

1323
01:45:55,420 --> 01:45:58,820
And let's see, what else can I tell you

1324
01:45:58,820 --> 01:46:01,980
that will make you hate it? Let me think.

1325
01:46:03,500 --> 01:46:06,620
Okay, yeah, it has a non-replaceable battery. I already got that.

1326
01:46:07,900 --> 01:46:11,140
What's something that you might like hate about it?

1327
01:46:11,140 --> 01:46:15,020
I mean, yeah, it's like AI. I don't like the non-rechargeable battery. That's already ridiculous.

1328
01:46:15,020 --> 01:46:18,820
Yeah, okay. Okay, but I'll tell you the good things now.

1329
01:46:18,820 --> 01:46:24,780
Okay. I love how we're just, all right, let's just talk about it. Yeah, so the non-rechargeable battery,

1330
01:46:24,780 --> 01:46:29,100
the non-replaceable, non-rechargeable battery, apparently it'll last for a couple of years.

1331
01:46:29,100 --> 01:46:32,100
They have already telegraphed. That still sucks, but okay.

1332
01:46:32,100 --> 01:46:36,860
They have already telegraphed that they will put a recycling program in place

1333
01:46:36,860 --> 01:46:40,380
so that you can return the ring. Telegraphed? Said they will.

1334
01:46:42,180 --> 01:46:46,140
I do still think that's kind of BS because the odds of, like me,

1335
01:46:46,140 --> 01:46:51,380
I'm just thinking for myself here, the odds of me going to the effort to return it to them,

1336
01:46:51,380 --> 01:46:54,700
even if they were to cover shipping back to them, which I sincerely doubt they would,

1337
01:46:54,700 --> 01:46:59,180
the odds of me bothering to do that are pretty slim, and I think that's probably true of a lot of people.

1338
01:46:59,180 --> 01:47:04,940
I have a bin of dead batteries that is probably about this big, by this deep,

1339
01:47:04,940 --> 01:47:08,780
by this deep, by this long, like it's like thick

1340
01:47:10,180 --> 01:47:13,340
that are pending. Next time I am going to IKEA

1341
01:47:13,340 --> 01:47:17,740
and I remember to bring my batteries, I'm gonna dump them all in their battery chute.

1342
01:47:17,740 --> 01:47:21,100
I think I've had it for about six years now.

1343
01:47:25,500 --> 01:47:31,060
There is no subscription. So once you buy it, you just like have it.

1344
01:47:31,060 --> 01:47:36,540
The microphone is not always listening. It is explicitly only listening when you activate it

1345
01:47:36,540 --> 01:47:40,420
because otherwise you would trash your battery life

1346
01:47:40,460 --> 01:47:47,700
because it's not rechargeable and not replaceable. So it's only active when you specifically activate it.

1347
01:47:47,700 --> 01:47:51,380
And the part that I like about it

1348
01:47:51,380 --> 01:47:55,380
is apparently I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it's like really slim.

1349
01:47:55,380 --> 01:47:59,060
And what it's meant to do more than anything else

1350
01:47:59,060 --> 01:48:05,840
is without having to pull out your phone, jot down a thought or like set a quick reminder.

1351
01:48:07,780 --> 01:48:11,740
There is no chat bot. You don't have a relationship with it.

1352
01:48:11,740 --> 01:48:17,620
It doesn't pretend to be your friend. You can either use a local AI model

1353
01:48:17,620 --> 01:48:20,500
that runs on your smartphone and stores data locally

1354
01:48:21,900 --> 01:48:25,820
or you can, I think with a subscription,

1355
01:48:25,820 --> 01:48:30,820
you can do the like a cloud enabled model.

1356
01:48:33,300 --> 01:48:36,380
Hold on, our notes are a little bit vague and I can't remember that part,

1357
01:48:36,380 --> 01:48:40,300
so don't quote me on that. Compared to competing smart rings

1358
01:48:40,300 --> 01:48:44,260
that cost several hundred dollars and bundle health tracking are always on AI features.

1359
01:48:44,260 --> 01:48:49,340
The index 01, that's what it's gonna be called is significantly cheaper and intentionally limited

1360
01:48:49,340 --> 01:48:52,820
focusing on a simple note taking function

1361
01:48:52,820 --> 01:48:57,620
rather than trying to do everything at once. So there's no health tracking, nothing like that.

1362
01:48:57,620 --> 01:49:05,580
Okay, I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this because if nothing else, it's different.

1363
01:49:06,580 --> 01:49:11,580
Anything that by its core design is designed to die

1364
01:49:16,740 --> 01:49:21,180
and that is unnecessary, I don't feel like I'm gonna like.

1365
01:49:21,180 --> 01:49:24,500
So you don't like humans? No, because that is-

1366
01:49:24,500 --> 01:49:28,180
You take that up with God then. I think that is necessary in that case though. Really?

1367
01:49:28,180 --> 01:49:31,620
I think so. So for evolutionary survival of the fittest,

1368
01:49:31,620 --> 01:49:35,180
we have to die- How are we gonna, in what way-

1369
01:49:35,180 --> 01:49:37,540
I feel like we're getting off topic here. Ha ha ha.

1370
01:49:44,220 --> 01:49:50,380
And like I do, this does make me dislike things like light bulbs because it's a confirmed

1371
01:49:50,380 --> 01:49:53,580
non-conspiracy theory that they have collaborated

1372
01:49:53,580 --> 01:49:56,620
to make them worse and like that sucks,

1373
01:49:56,620 --> 01:50:02,020
that makes me hate them. And in this case, it's like man, yeah, I'd rather pay a little bit more

1374
01:50:02,060 --> 01:50:06,460
if it wasn't for sure gonna be dead in two years. Like I look at my phone,

1375
01:50:07,420 --> 01:50:14,980
I don't really feel like I need a new phone after two years. Why would I need a new pretty okay smart ring?

1376
01:50:14,980 --> 01:50:19,820
It's probably still gonna be fine in two years if I could just charge it or replace the battery.

1377
01:50:19,820 --> 01:50:23,820
I think either would maybe be fine, ideally charging.

1378
01:50:23,820 --> 01:50:26,980
I can understand that adding charging to a smart ring

1379
01:50:26,980 --> 01:50:29,460
would probably add a significant amount of bulk.

1380
01:50:30,460 --> 01:50:35,220
Apparently technology connection says there is some nuance to the light bulb thing

1381
01:50:35,220 --> 01:50:38,220
and there were trade-offs that were made.

1382
01:50:38,220 --> 01:50:41,940
It was an engineering trade-off, so duly noted.

1383
01:50:43,860 --> 01:50:47,700
Technology connections is based. I'm willing to believe him on this.

1384
01:50:49,260 --> 01:50:53,300
I would say that I think you could flag

1385
01:50:53,300 --> 01:50:56,740
anything as a trade-off. Okay, so someone in chat said the trade-offs

1386
01:50:56,740 --> 01:51:03,220
are very valid, that adds a- Yeah, but I mean there's also, okay.

1387
01:51:03,220 --> 01:51:07,020
I wonder what the trade-offs were. Like I have this conversation with the CW engineering

1388
01:51:07,020 --> 01:51:12,900
and fashion team all the time where there are trade-offs in terms of like,

1389
01:51:12,900 --> 01:51:17,420
I haven't watched this video on it, but I know that there are trade-offs in terms of what the market will bear.

1390
01:51:18,460 --> 01:51:23,460
And it could be that your light bulb

1391
01:51:24,660 --> 01:51:28,260
that would last 10 times longer but cost twice as much would be a commercial failure.

1392
01:51:28,260 --> 01:51:31,780
So you make the one that will cost half as much

1393
01:51:31,780 --> 01:51:38,460
but last one-tenth is long. And it's sort of your bound by market forces.

1394
01:51:38,900 --> 01:51:42,900
I think it's a cop-out. I think you should just build high-quality products that last a really long time.

1395
01:51:42,900 --> 01:51:46,500
People are saying it's brightness versus lifetime of the bulbs, which is interesting

1396
01:51:46,500 --> 01:51:50,860
because if you look at that light bulb that's been on for like an incredible amount of time

1397
01:51:50,860 --> 01:51:55,540
in that fire station, it's not very bright.

1398
01:51:55,540 --> 01:51:59,460
Yeah, that's valid. Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'll allow it.

1399
01:51:59,460 --> 01:52:03,460
I don't know, I feel like that might be maybe a bit of a scapegoat

1400
01:52:03,460 --> 01:52:08,460
because there are modern LED lights that are incredibly bright

1401
01:52:08,460 --> 01:52:12,220
and it's definitely unnecessary. It would probably be chill

1402
01:52:12,220 --> 01:52:17,740
if they just lasted a lot longer and weren't quite as bright. Yeah, so it does seem like there may be an intent there.

1403
01:52:17,740 --> 01:52:22,340
But I don't know, I wanna go watch this video because technology connections is super-based.

1404
01:52:22,340 --> 01:52:25,900
So yeah, I have no idea. I don't wanna make up my mind about this

1405
01:52:26,100 --> 01:52:29,660
and I don't know all the information. I don't know.

1406
01:52:29,660 --> 01:52:31,100
There we go, fixed.

1407
01:52:32,860 --> 01:52:34,500
I didn't know the line, get it?

1408
01:52:39,260 --> 01:52:43,340
I.e. every LED headlight being too bright. I don't know if this is a hot take or not.

1409
01:52:43,340 --> 01:52:46,060
That needs to be illegal.

1410
01:52:47,100 --> 01:52:51,380
It's like a problem. Holy crap, how have we let this be a thing?

1411
01:52:52,420 --> 01:52:56,980
It's wild. I actually don't have a take on this. My night vision's pretty good.

1412
01:52:56,980 --> 01:53:02,060
It doesn't bother me. I don't really get halos and I don't really get super glare

1413
01:53:02,060 --> 01:53:06,420
or I don't really have trouble seeing from people's super bright headlights.

1414
01:53:06,420 --> 01:53:11,420
But my wife has had

1415
01:53:13,140 --> 01:53:18,660
corrective surgery for her eyes. She used to be a glasses enjoyer

1416
01:53:18,660 --> 01:53:24,180
and is now not so much. And so for her, bright lights can be extremely blinding

1417
01:53:24,220 --> 01:53:31,260
at night. And so, yeah, I understand that it's a problem

1418
01:53:31,260 --> 01:53:34,820
but it hasn't ever really bothered me. And to be clear, when I say it doesn't bother me,

1419
01:53:34,820 --> 01:53:38,220
I don't mean that in like a, well, not my problem.

1420
01:53:38,220 --> 01:53:41,380
I'm gonna put my giant big lights in the front of my car

1421
01:53:41,380 --> 01:53:44,380
and I'm gonna point them up like this. This is a large part of the problem.

1422
01:53:44,380 --> 01:53:48,860
I just use my factory lights. Is how much people's lights are pointed into my window.

1423
01:53:48,860 --> 01:53:54,420
Right, yeah. Is like a lot of it. Have you ever thought of buying a Cybertruck?

1424
01:53:55,340 --> 01:53:56,940
Then you'll be sitting up higher.

1425
01:53:58,740 --> 01:54:02,620
No. You've never thought of buying. No.

1426
01:54:02,620 --> 01:54:06,260
Not even once. I have thought about buying a truck, but not a Cybertruck.

1427
01:54:06,260 --> 01:54:10,060
Not a Cybertruck, is it? No. You like a more analog truck, not a digital truck.

1428
01:54:10,060 --> 01:54:14,700
Actually, yes. You like more polygons. I was thinking an old Toyota.

1429
01:54:14,700 --> 01:54:17,900
An old Toyota, interesting. Okay, why?

1430
01:54:19,340 --> 01:54:22,900
It would be nice to have something that I could more easily go camping with.

1431
01:54:22,900 --> 01:54:26,060
There are certain trails that you can't effectively get to the trailhead

1432
01:54:26,060 --> 01:54:28,180
unless you have a truck in BC.

1433
01:54:29,620 --> 01:54:37,340
It would be kind of sick. An old Tacoma or Hilux or something would be neat.

1434
01:54:37,500 --> 01:54:41,460
I don't need it to be nice. My stepdad. In a lot of ways, I'd probably prefer it wasn't

1435
01:54:41,460 --> 01:54:44,500
because like I'm gonna get it scratched up and beat up and that's cool.

1436
01:54:44,500 --> 01:54:48,060
I don't, I don't, yeah. I don't need it to be nice.

1437
01:54:48,060 --> 01:54:51,820
My stepdad had a super cute little Toyota pickup

1438
01:54:51,820 --> 01:54:56,180
back when I was growing up. I don't know if it was this one,

1439
01:54:56,180 --> 01:54:59,580
but it was like a little tiny pickup truck like this.

1440
01:54:59,580 --> 01:55:05,220
This was when the actual name of it was the pickup. Like its model was pickup, which is pretty funny.

1441
01:55:05,220 --> 01:55:09,700
Is that, is that a thing? Cause I think it might've looked like this. Yeah, this is the Toyota pickup.

1442
01:55:09,700 --> 01:55:13,180
Yeah, okay. All right, interesting. It's pretty sick.

1443
01:55:13,180 --> 01:55:16,420
Yeah, none of these other ones look right. This is, this is the one.

1444
01:55:16,940 --> 01:55:20,780
He had the muffler tied on to the bottom of it with that,

1445
01:55:20,780 --> 01:55:24,660
you know that yellow rope? Like that yellow rope, yeah.

1446
01:55:24,660 --> 01:55:29,500
So he just had it like tie, it fell off at some point. The like super plastic-y yellow, yeah.

1447
01:55:29,500 --> 01:55:33,940
You just tied it back on with the yellow rope. So that was the kind of engineering that he did.

1448
01:55:33,940 --> 01:55:35,620
Heck yeah. Heck yeah.

1449
01:55:37,700 --> 01:55:41,060
All right, so, okay. But other than, other than, okay.

1450
01:55:41,060 --> 01:55:45,500
So you don't like it because it is, it is disposable essentially.

1451
01:55:45,580 --> 01:55:50,820
But we buy it. It's also just supposed to like, it's, it's okay. It sounds like a long time that it lasts for two years

1452
01:55:50,820 --> 01:55:55,460
because it's a non-rechargeable battery. So it's like, oh wow, it does last for two years.

1453
01:55:55,460 --> 01:55:59,780
That's cool. A device like this I would expect to have for more than two years.

1454
01:55:59,780 --> 01:56:04,780
We buy a lot of things that last for less than two years

1455
01:56:05,500 --> 01:56:07,460
that cost a lot of money.

1456
01:56:08,620 --> 01:56:10,820
How long does the chicken in your fridge last?

1457
01:56:11,820 --> 01:56:15,500
It's not a good argument and you know it.

1458
01:56:18,980 --> 01:56:22,940
No, but it's hard. It's tough with you because you don't buy charge keys.

1459
01:56:22,940 --> 01:56:27,220
You don't buy like gadgets that you know you're not gonna get a ton of views out of.

1460
01:56:27,220 --> 01:56:30,860
If someone expects to get one year out of this

1461
01:56:31,740 --> 01:56:37,900
and they expect that they're gonna buy a new one in a year because they wanna keep up with the newest thing, whatever,

1462
01:56:37,900 --> 01:56:42,820
it gets a little bit better, I would still prefer that wasn't a thing because you could sell it off to somebody else

1463
01:56:42,820 --> 01:56:48,300
who could still enjoy the thing without just throwing all of that value in that tech away.

1464
01:56:48,300 --> 01:56:53,580
So I still don't like it because repairability is sick and cool and based

1465
01:56:53,580 --> 01:56:56,340
and you should be able to keep things around.

1466
01:56:57,300 --> 01:57:00,780
I know people that use some phones that are real old.

1467
01:57:02,060 --> 01:57:05,140
The iPhone that I carry for full-point stuff is an X.

1468
01:57:06,300 --> 01:57:11,900
It still works. Great. It's like actually very impressive

1469
01:57:11,900 --> 01:57:16,220
that it's still totally fine. It's battery life is not that amazing anymore

1470
01:57:16,220 --> 01:57:20,220
but it's still impressively pretty all right. I'm not like on it that often

1471
01:57:20,220 --> 01:57:24,500
because you know, and it'll easily last often days.

1472
01:57:24,500 --> 01:57:27,620
Oh yeah, Apple's idle battery man. Insane.

1473
01:57:27,620 --> 01:57:30,220
It's so good. That's old.

1474
01:57:31,660 --> 01:57:35,700
That would make this thing at its death point to look like a young pup.

1475
01:57:35,700 --> 01:57:42,500
So like, I don't like that. And I don't think there's an argument

1476
01:57:42,500 --> 01:57:45,820
that's gonna convince me otherwise. One thing I would ask is

1477
01:57:45,820 --> 01:57:48,180
how many smart rings have replaceable batteries?

1478
01:57:49,100 --> 01:57:52,660
That I'm aware of none. Yeah, okay. But rechargeable, yes.

1479
01:57:52,660 --> 01:57:56,140
But rechargeable, yeah. How do they charge? Is it wireless charging?

1480
01:57:56,140 --> 01:58:00,740
Do they have a port? So it's wireless charging? How much bulk do you think the wireless charging adds?

1481
01:58:00,740 --> 01:58:06,940
So that was the argument for it. Was that for how low profile he wanted it to be.

1482
01:58:06,980 --> 01:58:10,660
Basically, as far as I can tell, he's making a device for himself.

1483
01:58:11,660 --> 01:58:15,900
Sure. And what he wants is when he's washing the dishes

1484
01:58:15,900 --> 01:58:20,460
or otherwise indisposed, he wants to be able to quickly note something down

1485
01:58:20,460 --> 01:58:24,660
before his ADD brain forgets it. It does look like, so let me, I'm at their site.

1486
01:58:24,660 --> 01:58:28,860
You can see this and that doesn't actually necessarily mean much because not on a finger.

1487
01:58:28,860 --> 01:58:34,220
But when you see it on the finger, other than this bump, which is your button I'm assuming,

1488
01:58:34,220 --> 01:58:38,540
it does look more profile to me as someone who has never worn a smart ring,

1489
01:58:38,540 --> 01:58:42,340
it does look more low profile than smart rings that I've seen.

1490
01:58:42,340 --> 01:58:47,060
You have worn a smart ring. It also doesn't look that low profile though.

1491
01:58:47,060 --> 01:58:50,140
No, especially with the huge button,

1492
01:58:50,140 --> 01:58:57,500
which looks a little uncomfortable to be honest. I hate rings in general, but like this looks rough.

1493
01:58:57,500 --> 01:59:01,380
I would not want this. You can even literally see the button itself

1494
01:59:01,380 --> 01:59:05,300
pushing into his finger. Maybe, I actually can't tell a hundred percent of that.

1495
01:59:05,300 --> 01:59:08,620
Is it just a shadow? I can't tell a hundred percent. It might be a shadow.

1496
01:59:08,620 --> 01:59:13,100
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna at least try it. I am torn on this one.

1497
01:59:13,100 --> 01:59:17,420
On the one hand, I completely agree. Repairability is based.

1498
01:59:17,420 --> 01:59:19,460
Replaceable batteries are based.

1499
01:59:21,460 --> 01:59:28,100
It's like all rings with gems. I don't agree with that. At so much of a lower price compared to other smart rings

1500
01:59:28,100 --> 01:59:32,900
and still having a purpose that like him,

1501
01:59:32,900 --> 01:59:37,460
I have ADD brain and often forget things and being able to just quickly blah, blah, blah

1502
01:59:37,460 --> 01:59:41,100
and then not take out my phone could have a benefit.

1503
01:59:41,100 --> 01:59:46,020
At that point though, why not just wear one of those silly AI pendants?

1504
01:59:46,020 --> 01:59:49,620
For me, the not thinking about it is a major feature though.

1505
01:59:49,620 --> 01:59:56,740
Can you just do this with your smart watch? Yes, but it's another, I forgot to put on my watch today.

1506
01:59:56,740 --> 02:00:01,020
Okay, are you gonna remember to put on your smart ring? No, because I'm not gonna take it off.

1507
02:00:01,020 --> 02:00:04,940
I'm gonna put it on and then two years later, its battery will die.

1508
02:00:04,940 --> 02:00:12,460
Got it. Is it water resistant? So that's the only compelling reason for it

1509
02:00:14,300 --> 02:00:19,300
is that I never have to think about if I have it on me

1510
02:00:22,300 --> 02:00:27,780
and it can operate away from the app. So it can store some on board

1511
02:00:27,780 --> 02:00:32,580
and then when it gets back in range of your phone, it can dump everything which is pretty,

1512
02:00:32,580 --> 02:00:35,900
so I could be in the pool and I could have an interesting thought

1513
02:00:35,900 --> 02:00:40,260
and I could be like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then it would sync to my phone later.

1514
02:00:42,340 --> 02:00:46,140
It's kinda neat. Yeah, it's kinda neat and at 75 bucks

1515
02:00:46,140 --> 02:00:49,620
which is more money than a meal

1516
02:00:49,620 --> 02:00:52,420
but not more money than a meal out with my family.

1517
02:00:56,500 --> 02:01:00,900
I don't know man, we buy a lot of stuff

1518
02:01:00,940 --> 02:01:04,740
that is pretty disposable and pretty useless.

1519
02:01:04,740 --> 02:01:08,740
Like I did an AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade for someone earlier this week

1520
02:01:08,740 --> 02:01:13,140
where once again, we have, not so much once again

1521
02:01:13,140 --> 02:01:17,660
but we have a new challenger for LMG, King of the Funko Pops.

1522
02:01:17,660 --> 02:01:21,220
Oh. And I'm looking at it going like. Fun.

1523
02:01:21,220 --> 02:01:24,300
Co. It's all relative. Nice.

1524
02:01:24,300 --> 02:01:30,060
It's all relative, right? Like if you're the kind of person who just doesn't spend money on anything

1525
02:01:30,060 --> 02:01:34,900
that doesn't generate a return. You know, like if you have like a very, very

1526
02:01:34,900 --> 02:01:38,420
kind of strict approach to spending.

1527
02:01:38,420 --> 02:01:41,780
And to be clear, he's not even referencing me. I do spend money on things that don't generate a return.

1528
02:01:41,780 --> 02:01:45,900
Yeah, no, I just mean in general. Like if you have sort of rules for spending money

1529
02:01:45,900 --> 02:01:50,900
that do not account for $75 for a thing that is disposable.

1530
02:01:51,420 --> 02:01:54,820
I don't actually agree. I think you could argue that this could generate a return.

1531
02:01:54,820 --> 02:01:57,980
Sure, I just mean whatever your rules are. Sure.

1532
02:01:57,980 --> 02:02:04,300
If you don't account for $75 for a disposable thing, then you know, that's totally valid.

1533
02:02:05,620 --> 02:02:10,620
But maybe I could, philosophically I disagree though.

1534
02:02:11,300 --> 02:02:16,180
Like I disagree with a non-replaceable battery.

1535
02:02:16,180 --> 02:02:19,340
But then I also wonder, I mean, AirPods have non-replaceable batteries

1536
02:02:19,340 --> 02:02:23,260
and people have found ways to do it. So maybe there could be a way to do it.

1537
02:02:23,260 --> 02:02:28,300
I haven't tried to take one apart yet. I don't know if it could be possible.

1538
02:02:28,300 --> 02:02:30,900
Kind of doubt it. It uses a hearing aid battery apparently.

1539
02:02:34,940 --> 02:02:38,780
All right. Sent some trauma.

1540
02:02:38,780 --> 02:02:42,780
It's okay buddy. I actually have no idea what you're saying that about.

1541
02:02:42,780 --> 02:02:46,420
You're okay though. Yeah. Yeah, so it's fine. It doesn't matter.

1542
02:02:46,420 --> 02:02:50,620
Yeah, nice. All right. This was wild.

1543
02:02:50,620 --> 02:02:53,640
Over the black Friday period.

1544
02:02:53,640 --> 02:02:56,760
Okay. The console sales war. No, no, don't look.

1545
02:02:56,760 --> 02:03:00,640
Don't look. Oh, he's seen it already. I think I have. So number one.

1546
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:06,840
Switch? PlayStation? PlayStation.

1547
02:03:06,840 --> 02:03:10,200
Yeah, okay. Number two. Switch. You better believe it.

1548
02:03:10,200 --> 02:03:13,720
Nintendo. Number three. A big gap.

1549
02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:17,080
And then? Right.

1550
02:03:17,080 --> 02:03:21,120
So I'm gonna say, I know the spoiler here, but I'm gonna say the one that makes sense.

1551
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:24,160
Yeah. You'd think it would be Xbox. Xbox.

1552
02:03:24,160 --> 02:03:27,800
It was not. It was not.

1553
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:31,400
The next playground? What?

1554
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:34,840
I never even, I was this week years old

1555
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:38,720
when I even heard of this thing. Me too. Over the Thanksgiving weekend,

1556
02:03:38,720 --> 02:03:40,520
the Xbox series,

1557
02:03:41,800 --> 02:03:46,800
series accounted for just 10% of console units sold

1558
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:50,320
coming behind the PlayStation 5,

1559
02:03:50,320 --> 02:03:56,360
which came in first in part because it was the only console that actually had a sale.

1560
02:03:56,360 --> 02:04:00,240
So with 47%. The Switch 2 in second place,

1561
02:04:00,240 --> 02:04:03,840
which accounted for 24% of all console units sold.

1562
02:04:03,840 --> 02:04:10,360
And the next playground, which was responsible for 14% of sales

1563
02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:14,160
and is a console that, and this is from Mr. David Gauthier,

1564
02:04:14,160 --> 02:04:19,000
who he would describe as like a $200 Microsoft Kinect

1565
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:22,080
that plays mobile games with a 90 year subscription.

1566
02:04:22,080 --> 02:04:25,560
$90 a year subscription. Oh, $90 a year subscription

1567
02:04:25,560 --> 02:04:30,280
if you want to play more than five games. That's all right, I'm gonna try that one more time.

1568
02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:33,880
That I would describe like a $200 Microsoft Kinect

1569
02:04:33,880 --> 02:04:38,200
that plays mobile games and requires a $90 a year subscription

1570
02:04:38,200 --> 02:04:40,700
if you wanna play more than five games.

1571
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:42,760
What?

1572
02:04:45,240 --> 02:04:49,260
Okay, what is this thing? Obviously, we've sourced one

1573
02:04:49,260 --> 02:04:51,740
and we wanna make a video about it, but that's it.

1574
02:04:53,780 --> 02:04:57,420
Excuse me. The next playground crashed

1575
02:04:57,420 --> 02:05:00,420
the Black Friday hardware charts in the US.

1576
02:05:01,660 --> 02:05:02,500
Okay, what?

1577
02:05:04,940 --> 02:05:07,220
Like, what is this thing?

1578
02:05:08,300 --> 02:05:11,420
I don't get it, to be honest. I didn't look enough into this.

1579
02:05:11,420 --> 02:05:17,060
I knew the like punchline of this article. The active play system for kids and families.

1580
02:05:18,580 --> 02:05:21,580
Like, did it get bundled with something like crazy

1581
02:05:21,580 --> 02:05:25,420
or did something happen? Active games that turn your living,

1582
02:05:25,420 --> 02:05:30,380
I mean, basically it's the Wii then. Yeah, you just don't have remotes.

1583
02:05:30,380 --> 02:05:33,420
Yeah. It's a Wii, but they went for the Kinect model

1584
02:05:33,420 --> 02:05:37,420
instead of the remote model. Like when did the Verge review this? December 12th, 2025.

1585
02:05:37,420 --> 02:05:40,580
Oh, so no, this is today. So they're also like-

1586
02:05:40,580 --> 02:05:44,180
So they're probably reacting to this. Probably, I don't- What happened?

1587
02:05:44,180 --> 02:05:46,580
I've never even seen this before.

1588
02:05:47,620 --> 02:05:52,900
Did it get bundled with something? Why are people buying this? Does anyone in chat own one of these?

1589
02:05:52,900 --> 02:05:56,220
What compelled you to get it? How did you even know it existed?

1590
02:05:56,220 --> 02:06:01,380
How to train your dragon, riders of the skies, bluey bust a move?

1591
02:06:01,380 --> 02:06:04,780
Whoa. Who's behind this company?

1592
02:06:06,220 --> 02:06:10,140
PlayPass unlocks the full catalog and delivers new content and updates automatically

1593
02:06:10,140 --> 02:06:13,420
every month. So how much is PlayPass? Was $90 a year?

1594
02:06:16,500 --> 02:06:19,820
Wait. Oh, man, just show me a price, brother.

1595
02:06:20,740 --> 02:06:25,700
What? No. Show me a price for the subscription.

1596
02:06:25,700 --> 02:06:29,820
Learn about PlayPass. Okay, that's what I clicked. Where is the price?

1597
02:06:31,460 --> 02:06:35,700
Yeah, here we go. Yeah, 12 months. Yeah, $90 a year.

1598
02:06:36,620 --> 02:06:40,700
Or about, oh, what does that work out to? Like $50 over three months.

1599
02:06:40,740 --> 02:06:44,900
So like $15 a month or $17 a month or something like that.

1600
02:06:44,900 --> 02:06:48,980
Love this for my active little kids. Keeps them moving and so many games to choose from.

1601
02:06:48,980 --> 02:06:52,100
My 60-year-old dad even plays with them. This is wild.

1602
02:06:52,100 --> 02:06:56,180
Yeah, it's new Wii. It's someone who figured out that.

1603
02:06:57,060 --> 02:07:01,420
People actually really liked the Wii. Yeah, and that everyone forgot

1604
02:07:01,420 --> 02:07:04,860
why everybody liked the Wii. Wii teamed up with the top family brands.

1605
02:07:04,860 --> 02:07:09,660
Hasbro, Mattel, whatever this is. Paramount, Sesame Street.

1606
02:07:10,180 --> 02:07:13,980
This is wild dude. Who are these people?

1607
02:07:13,980 --> 02:07:17,020
I started looking into it. It seems like a new company.

1608
02:07:17,020 --> 02:07:20,340
Go figure. Has investments from some tech people

1609
02:07:20,340 --> 02:07:25,940
and sports giants and stuff, but it's some split-offs from places like Apple.

1610
02:07:25,940 --> 02:07:29,420
But yeah, it seems like a new company. That's wild.

1611
02:07:29,420 --> 02:07:32,620
To be able to jump in and just dunk on Xbox like that

1612
02:07:32,620 --> 02:07:37,120
with Xbox's basically own thing is nuts.

1613
02:07:39,900 --> 02:07:44,580
Imagine making a successful thing based off of what is effectively a connect

1614
02:07:44,580 --> 02:07:50,660
and it not being Microsoft. One of the greatest game console industry failures

1615
02:07:50,660 --> 02:07:51,820
of all time.

1616
02:07:54,460 --> 02:08:00,420
Let's not call it successful yet. I mean, that's fair, but they're outselling Xbox.

1617
02:08:00,420 --> 02:08:04,860
Yeah, and it's a subscription model so you know they're doing good.

1618
02:08:04,860 --> 02:08:09,060
Well, they're outselling Xbox for Black Friday, I should say.

1619
02:08:09,060 --> 02:08:12,860
Not overall necessarily. We don't know.

1620
02:08:12,860 --> 02:08:17,660
Don Cabesa says the connect, it sold 25 million units.

1621
02:08:17,660 --> 02:08:19,860
Says the connect was not a failure at all.

1622
02:08:21,020 --> 02:08:24,780
The connect was the beginning of the end for the Xbox brand,

1623
02:08:24,780 --> 02:08:29,260
according to their current trajectory right now. It was bundled, my brother.

1624
02:08:29,260 --> 02:08:34,260
It was an attempt to change the paradigm of the Xbox

1625
02:08:35,060 --> 02:08:38,660
to this like living room, do everything machine.

1626
02:08:39,500 --> 02:08:43,580
Like apparently this thing. They had huge plans for the connect.

1627
02:08:43,580 --> 02:08:47,060
What it ended up being, which was a weird accessory

1628
02:08:47,060 --> 02:08:51,260
that you could play some dance games with and a handful of experiences

1629
02:08:51,260 --> 02:08:54,980
and then kind of a cool camera that people could,

1630
02:08:54,980 --> 02:08:59,340
you know, hack and do neat stuff with later. What it ultimately ended up being

1631
02:08:59,340 --> 02:09:03,380
was nothing compared to what Microsoft had planned for it.

1632
02:09:03,860 --> 02:09:07,860
Microsoft tacitly admitted failure of the connect

1633
02:09:07,860 --> 02:09:13,460
when they stopped bundling it with the console was supposed to be an integral part of the Xbox.

1634
02:09:13,460 --> 02:09:16,580
And then after what was it a year? Can't remember what it was.

1635
02:09:16,580 --> 02:09:20,620
They were like, I don't know. Well, this isn't working, forget it.

1636
02:09:20,620 --> 02:09:23,940
Just get rid of it entirely. The connect was a failure.

1637
02:09:23,940 --> 02:09:28,020
Maladrax and Flippling Chat said the next had a big in-store display

1638
02:09:28,020 --> 02:09:32,740
you could play in stores in the US. We played one for a few minutes.

1639
02:09:32,740 --> 02:09:36,820
So yeah, they just did direct like in-store marketing

1640
02:09:36,820 --> 02:09:41,020
effectively and people probably went up and started playing with it and was like, wow,

1641
02:09:41,020 --> 02:09:44,740
that feels like the Wii again. I would like to take one of those, please.

1642
02:09:44,740 --> 02:09:48,500
And then bought it. How much is it again? I actually missed that when I was-

1643
02:09:48,500 --> 02:09:52,060
200 bucks, introductory price of 200 bucks.

1644
02:09:52,060 --> 02:09:55,740
$200, wonder what kind of hardware is in it?

1645
02:09:55,740 --> 02:10:00,220
I mean, we're sourcing one. So we'll answer these questions as best we can.

1646
02:10:00,380 --> 02:10:04,260
LPDDR4X, 64 gigs of EMMC storage.

1647
02:10:06,140 --> 02:10:10,580
The graphics are a male G52 MC4.

1648
02:10:12,620 --> 02:10:16,980
Okay. Just reading the Wikipedia page.

1649
02:10:18,100 --> 02:10:22,900
Eight core ARM chip. ARM taken over the world, boys.

1650
02:10:22,900 --> 02:10:23,740
Yep.

1651
02:10:26,460 --> 02:10:29,300
Oh, good luck, Microsoft. Wild.

1652
02:10:29,460 --> 02:10:32,500
Our discussion question here is with the rumors being that-

1653
02:10:32,500 --> 02:10:36,180
Mali. Sorry? I said male, but apparently it's Mali.

1654
02:10:36,180 --> 02:10:42,020
Oh, Mali, yeah. It's a typo on Wikipedia then, M-A-I-L.

1655
02:10:42,300 --> 02:10:45,540
Wow, yeah. Your dyslexia did not do that to you.

1656
02:10:45,540 --> 02:10:48,580
Well, do you know why? Cause I read it like six times.

1657
02:10:49,580 --> 02:10:52,820
I'm not even kidding. That's why I was so confident to be like,

1658
02:10:52,820 --> 02:10:55,900
actually no, it's male. Yeah, there you go.

1659
02:10:57,060 --> 02:11:00,780
So if it's actually Mali, someone can go do a successful edit there if they want.

1660
02:11:00,780 --> 02:11:02,460
Okay, nice. Let's go.

1661
02:11:07,860 --> 02:11:11,040
So would you rather have, okay, hold on. Our question was,

1662
02:11:13,180 --> 02:11:20,060
yeah, if the rumors of Microsoft's next machine being like $1,000 plus PC-like machine are true,

1663
02:11:20,060 --> 02:11:23,540
what does Xbox even mean anymore? I think it means failure.

1664
02:11:23,900 --> 02:11:28,900
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's the Xbox Live stuff, Game Pass.

1665
02:11:32,140 --> 02:11:38,140
Yeah. Which I understand it has like pretty good value.

1666
02:11:38,980 --> 02:11:43,580
I don't want anything to do with it at all. And we were an Xbox household.

1667
02:11:44,500 --> 02:11:47,840
Oh yeah. Totally. Hard. Yeah.

1668
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:50,340
And I am- From the OG. Gone from there.

1669
02:11:51,340 --> 02:11:54,340
All right. We would collect like broken 360s

1670
02:11:54,340 --> 02:11:57,740
and try to zombie them together into working ones

1671
02:11:57,740 --> 02:12:01,620
and all those kinds of like we were in and I want nothing to do with it anymore,

1672
02:12:01,620 --> 02:12:05,700
which is like sad. It's not that I'm not even vindictive. They just lost.

1673
02:12:06,820 --> 02:12:11,700
Okay. And I'm not, I don't love services like that,

1674
02:12:11,700 --> 02:12:15,820
especially for things like games. I would prefer to own my games.

1675
02:12:15,820 --> 02:12:20,020
So I'm gonna keep patronizing Steam and GOG.

1676
02:12:20,780 --> 02:12:26,540
Came across this tweet this week. Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced

1677
02:12:26,540 --> 02:12:31,500
Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. This video is actually a little bit older,

1678
02:12:31,500 --> 02:12:38,820
but it features the one and only, the basest of base people.

1679
02:12:39,060 --> 02:12:45,020
Former FTC chair, Lynette Kahn, who explains the dangers of this shady practice.

1680
02:12:45,020 --> 02:12:49,340
As usual, something that everyone needs to understand

1681
02:12:49,380 --> 02:12:52,860
and be vigilant about has the least sexy,

1682
02:12:52,860 --> 02:12:57,260
least interesting name possible, but we're gonna tell you guys about it anyway.

1683
02:12:57,260 --> 02:13:00,740
I'd actually never heard the term surveillance pricing

1684
02:13:00,740 --> 02:13:03,820
before, but there's renewed interest in it

1685
02:13:03,820 --> 02:13:10,140
because the state of New York recently cracked down on it. So examples used of surveillance pricing

1686
02:13:10,140 --> 02:13:15,140
by the video that Ms. Kahn pretty competently hosted,

1687
02:13:15,540 --> 02:13:19,060
actually, as a video host myself. I think she did a pretty good job.

1688
02:13:19,900 --> 02:13:24,020
So Princeton Review, she gave this example,

1689
02:13:24,020 --> 02:13:28,500
charged customers in zip codes with higher percentage

1690
02:13:28,500 --> 02:13:33,500
Asian populations more for test prep services.

1691
02:13:37,860 --> 02:13:42,860
Okay, other tests found or suggested that ride share apps

1692
02:13:43,860 --> 02:13:48,020
may charge riders with lower battery life more

1693
02:13:48,060 --> 02:13:51,220
for the same ride at the same time.

1694
02:13:52,660 --> 02:13:56,260
San Francisco residents who booked hotels through Expedia

1695
02:13:56,260 --> 02:14:00,260
were apparently charged up to $500 more per night

1696
02:14:00,260 --> 02:14:04,740
than people buying the same from less affluent cities.

1697
02:14:04,740 --> 02:14:08,580
And apparently some internet providers charged the same price

1698
02:14:08,580 --> 02:14:13,540
for worse internet speeds in poorer neighborhoods.

1699
02:14:13,540 --> 02:14:18,660
These are, we've looked into it and there is evidence to suggest

1700
02:14:18,660 --> 02:14:21,900
this is happening slash we have confirmed it now.

1701
02:14:21,900 --> 02:14:27,460
So surveillance pricing, the concept is that by harvesting your personal data

1702
02:14:27,460 --> 02:14:30,700
or inferring things about you,

1703
02:14:31,700 --> 02:14:35,220
companies can charge you more for the same services.

1704
02:14:35,220 --> 02:14:40,380
Some hypothetical examples of surveillance pricing that we might want to be worried about

1705
02:14:40,380 --> 02:14:43,460
are a parent with a sick child might be charged more

1706
02:14:43,460 --> 02:14:48,140
for medicine or a thermometer or somebody needing to travel for a funeral

1707
02:14:48,140 --> 02:14:52,340
could be charged more for their airfare because they're being surveilled

1708
02:14:52,340 --> 02:14:56,820
and they know that you've received an email about funeral arrangements, for instance.

1709
02:14:56,820 --> 02:15:00,540
So good on New York for doing something

1710
02:15:00,540 --> 02:15:07,100
to kind of crack down on this, but what is really needed is nationwide slash more

1711
02:15:09,780 --> 02:15:15,220
worldwide, how about just, in general, we just not do this legislation that makes this

1712
02:15:15,220 --> 02:15:17,020
just illegal.

1713
02:15:19,020 --> 02:15:22,460
I know that there is, it's a common sort of talking point

1714
02:15:22,460 --> 02:15:25,740
that regulation is bad and there are many cases

1715
02:15:25,740 --> 02:15:33,220
where regulation can be bad, but if we just allow the free market to regulate itself,

1716
02:15:33,300 --> 02:15:37,660
I think it has proven, not just suggested,

1717
02:15:37,660 --> 02:15:41,580
but proven that it cannot do it.

1718
02:15:41,580 --> 02:15:44,580
The free market is not capable.

1719
02:15:44,580 --> 02:15:48,820
People think it can. They actually, with a straight face, say that

1720
02:15:48,820 --> 02:15:54,980
and it's like actually stupid. It's regulated itself towards what is the problem.

1721
02:15:54,980 --> 02:15:59,980
And that's exactly it. That's what they will do, which often brings you down to monopolistic practices

1722
02:15:59,980 --> 02:16:06,140
or like, there's a term for it, I don't remember it, but when it's an effective monopoly

1723
02:16:06,140 --> 02:16:10,460
where everyone's price fixing on the same kind of level

1724
02:16:10,460 --> 02:16:15,660
and something that people don't seem to necessarily understand is that you can't do this

1725
02:16:15,660 --> 02:16:18,220
based on like a restaurant model

1726
02:16:19,660 --> 02:16:24,300
or something like that where it's like, oh, your pricing for your burger is too high.

1727
02:16:24,300 --> 02:16:28,460
I will go down the street. There are issues with that when you get into

1728
02:16:28,460 --> 02:16:31,860
some of these deep modes where you might need

1729
02:16:31,860 --> 02:16:35,140
hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of dollars

1730
02:16:35,140 --> 02:16:40,200
to get into certain industries. It's like, yeah, no, you need to do something about that.

1731
02:16:41,200 --> 02:16:46,200
Saunders SC says, is this any different

1732
02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:52,440
than when eBay offers a discount when you look at something or place it in your cart?

1733
02:16:52,440 --> 02:16:55,800
Yes, the difference is that we're not talking

1734
02:16:55,800 --> 02:17:01,600
about a discount. We are talking about increasing the price

1735
02:17:01,600 --> 02:17:05,020
based on information about you.

1736
02:17:05,020 --> 02:17:08,080
So it is one thing if you know,

1737
02:17:08,080 --> 02:17:11,200
because come back to how it would work in the real world.

1738
02:17:11,200 --> 02:17:15,320
In the real world, I could have my stall at the bazaar

1739
02:17:15,320 --> 02:17:19,600
and you could walk in and you could be with Emma

1740
02:17:19,600 --> 02:17:24,160
and you could look at a necklace and I could say, oh, pretty lady buy a pretty necklace

1741
02:17:24,160 --> 02:17:28,320
for the pretty lady, sir, sir. Oh, look how good it looks on her.

1742
02:17:28,320 --> 02:17:34,160
Oh, and he goes to leave and I go, I give you $5 off, that's one thing.

1743
02:17:34,160 --> 02:17:37,120
But it is an entirely separate practice

1744
02:17:37,160 --> 02:17:40,640
if I have no price tags on anything

1745
02:17:40,640 --> 02:17:45,640
and I have like my team of hooligans who go out

1746
02:17:45,960 --> 02:17:49,320
and pick people's wallets and see how much money's in them

1747
02:17:49,320 --> 02:17:55,000
and then put it back in and then I know when they walk in the store, I go, ah, sir.

1748
02:17:55,000 --> 02:18:00,680
Affluent sir, oh, this is good. This necklace, $200.

1749
02:18:00,680 --> 02:18:04,800
You wouldn't want to be seen as cheap in front of the pretty lady.

1750
02:18:04,800 --> 02:18:08,320
It's a completely different way, scumier thing.

1751
02:18:08,320 --> 02:18:12,400
I like Bazaar Linus. Thank you. Bazaar Linus is pretty great.

1752
02:18:12,400 --> 02:18:13,240
Mm-hmm.

1753
02:18:16,520 --> 02:18:20,600
Yeah. And I mean, they're doing it based off of things

1754
02:18:20,600 --> 02:18:24,080
that will probably offend people more than how much money they have in their wallet as well.

1755
02:18:24,080 --> 02:18:28,240
Like that example of the tutoring or study prep

1756
02:18:28,240 --> 02:18:33,400
or whatever it was, the more expensive in Asian neighborhoods, like they are doing this based off of any data point

1757
02:18:33,400 --> 02:18:37,920
they can possibly get and they will get those data points.

1758
02:18:37,920 --> 02:18:41,040
Yeah, and they're gonna have more and more and more as we go.

1759
02:18:41,040 --> 02:18:47,000
I mean, this is one of the things that I couldn't necessarily have seen coming

1760
02:18:49,320 --> 02:18:54,320
back when we were talking about the genetic testing.

1761
02:18:54,400 --> 02:18:59,400
Like the example that I always came up with is like it could affect your insurance premiums

1762
02:18:59,400 --> 02:19:04,440
and stuff like that. But this is one that absolutely could be impacted

1763
02:19:04,440 --> 02:19:07,720
by your predisposition for things. For sure.

1764
02:19:07,720 --> 02:19:10,880
Like you could have a completely different pricing model

1765
02:19:10,880 --> 02:19:15,120
for potentially, like this could potentially be a thing.

1766
02:19:15,120 --> 02:19:18,480
We could figure out the human genome enough

1767
02:19:18,480 --> 02:19:21,800
that you could have a different pricing model for people that you have scouted out

1768
02:19:21,800 --> 02:19:25,840
and figured out that they have a predisposition to gambling, for instance.

1769
02:19:25,840 --> 02:19:30,840
And you wouldn't even need to do that with the, okay, maybe the DNA testing is a bad example of that.

1770
02:19:30,840 --> 02:19:34,880
But what you could do is you could give someone inflated pricing for things that you know

1771
02:19:34,880 --> 02:19:37,960
that they could be predisposed to have a condition for.

1772
02:19:37,960 --> 02:19:41,540
Like it's, this whole thing is just terrifying.

1773
02:19:43,040 --> 02:19:49,280
Ugh. I mean, I don't know, but I'm looking up like pub med articles

1774
02:19:49,280 --> 02:19:54,120
talking about genetic influences on gambling.

1775
02:19:54,120 --> 02:19:59,440
It seems to be like relatively figured out that there is definitely genetic influences on addiction.

1776
02:19:59,440 --> 02:20:05,400
Apparently there's genetic influences on your predisposition to cheating in relationships.

1777
02:20:05,400 --> 02:20:09,040
Like there is, I'm not gonna go as far as to say

1778
02:20:09,040 --> 02:20:11,480
free will is not a thing, but like.

1779
02:20:12,520 --> 02:20:17,560
There's a lot of influences coming from a lot of places. Are we just a bucket of chemicals and electrical impulses?

1780
02:20:17,560 --> 02:20:21,960
Is that all I am to you? There is definitely a lot of that chemical stuff going on.

1781
02:20:21,960 --> 02:20:26,260
I think you've, yeah, I don't know. I think you've got some agency,

1782
02:20:26,260 --> 02:20:29,940
but I do think there's a lot of influences all the time

1783
02:20:29,940 --> 02:20:33,180
from various things. And it might not be very clear where those influences

1784
02:20:33,180 --> 02:20:36,340
are coming from, and it can be extremely difficult to resist them.

1785
02:20:36,340 --> 02:20:40,060
Eggnog in April says, there's a genetic predisposition

1786
02:20:40,060 --> 02:20:43,300
on your mom. Nice.

1787
02:20:43,300 --> 02:20:44,380
Based comeback.

1788
02:20:46,300 --> 02:20:49,460
Okay, moving on with, let's get far away from things

1789
02:20:49,460 --> 02:20:50,900
we deeply don't understand.

1790
02:20:52,900 --> 02:20:55,900
Okay, Noctua and Prusa Research have introduced

1791
02:20:55,900 --> 02:20:59,540
3D printing filaments in signature Noctua colors.

1792
02:21:01,220 --> 02:21:03,420
Heck yeah. Oh, for crying out loud.

1793
02:21:04,420 --> 02:21:07,580
All right, well. That's all the photo for this, thought it was fake.

1794
02:21:07,580 --> 02:21:13,300
That's all I have to say about that. Heck yeah. Now you two can print in brown.

1795
02:21:13,300 --> 02:21:16,980
McDonald's removes AI generated ad after backlash.

1796
02:21:16,980 --> 02:21:21,380
This is an amazing story. McDonald's and the Netherlands put out a festive,

1797
02:21:21,380 --> 02:21:25,860
oh, you can call it festive, I guess, AI generated holiday ad calling Christmas

1798
02:21:25,860 --> 02:21:30,140
the most terrible time of the year, which they elaborated on in a statement

1799
02:21:30,140 --> 02:21:34,660
that it was meant to highlight the stressful moments during Christmas in the Netherlands.

1800
02:21:34,660 --> 02:21:37,700
The ad features a compilation of unrealistic Christmas events

1801
02:21:37,700 --> 02:21:42,980
going wrong, like opening your tree in the branches flinging you out of your front window,

1802
02:21:42,980 --> 02:21:47,260
or Santa and his reindeer causing a traffic jam. Their solution?

1803
02:21:48,140 --> 02:21:51,040
Wait till January in a McDonald's.

1804
02:21:52,040 --> 02:21:57,400
The online criticism mostly regarded the use of AI slop replacing genuine human work.

1805
02:21:57,400 --> 02:22:00,760
Melanie Bridge, the CEO of the studio behind the ad,

1806
02:22:00,760 --> 02:22:05,880
however, clapped back and said, it's about expanding the toolbox,

1807
02:22:05,880 --> 02:22:09,800
the vision, the taste, the leadership. That will always be human.

1808
02:22:09,800 --> 02:22:13,760
And further defended their ad claiming,

1809
02:22:13,760 --> 02:22:17,840
the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot.

1810
02:22:17,840 --> 02:22:20,400
Why then? Why?

1811
02:22:21,400 --> 02:22:26,720
10 people, five weeks full time. Discussion question, is AI the solution

1812
02:22:26,720 --> 02:22:31,960
to accomplishing shoots like this with limited resources? If the AI shots didn't include people,

1813
02:22:31,960 --> 02:22:36,120
would that make it more acceptable? Okay, so first up, five weeks full time

1814
02:22:36,120 --> 02:22:40,520
would not be nearly enough to do that shoot with people.

1815
02:22:40,520 --> 02:22:44,760
Because what about all the extras? Like what about all of the human actors?

1816
02:22:44,760 --> 02:22:49,880
Like nevermind the editors and storyboarders and director and camera operators.

1817
02:22:49,880 --> 02:22:53,320
10 people, five weeks full time. Yeah, I know, still.

1818
02:22:53,320 --> 02:22:56,560
10 people, five weeks full time, bullshit. Okay, yeah, sure.

1819
02:22:56,560 --> 02:23:01,040
I thought you were saying there was five weeks full time of total hours put in.

1820
02:23:01,040 --> 02:23:06,160
Oh, no, no, no, sorry. 10 times that. No, with all the logistics involved,

1821
02:23:06,160 --> 02:23:09,440
with that many shots, I can tell you as someone who does video things,

1822
02:23:09,440 --> 02:23:12,440
there's no way that they could make that exact commercial.

1823
02:23:12,440 --> 02:23:16,320
Like there would have had to be like CGI work.

1824
02:23:16,320 --> 02:23:20,040
Like no, there's no way. Absolutely freaking, no way.

1825
02:23:20,040 --> 02:23:25,200
Well, they're not saying making that exact video. They're saying making a 44 second McDonald's ad.

1826
02:23:26,120 --> 02:23:29,160
Sure, but like. No, like that was specifically their point.

1827
02:23:29,160 --> 02:23:30,000
Okay.

1828
02:23:32,720 --> 02:23:35,280
I'm not trying to defend them, I'm just saying.

1829
02:23:36,400 --> 02:23:39,400
Isn't that funny? They weren't saying they would make this exact video.

1830
02:23:39,400 --> 02:23:41,440
Far exceeded a traditional shoot.

1831
02:23:42,480 --> 02:23:46,600
Okay, so what's their, okay, so what's their defense then?

1832
02:23:46,640 --> 02:23:50,040
That they paid more labor hours than they would have,

1833
02:23:50,040 --> 02:23:56,440
but they got a better commercial. That they didn't use it to like cut the effort, I guess.

1834
02:23:56,440 --> 02:23:59,760
Which like, what a whiff, if that's the case.

1835
02:23:59,760 --> 02:24:02,760
I'm focused, what was the benefit?

1836
02:24:02,760 --> 02:24:05,240
It doesn't look particularly good in my opinion.

1837
02:24:06,600 --> 02:24:09,720
Yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you,

1838
02:24:09,720 --> 02:24:14,160
as far as like commercials go, I actually thought it was kind of cute.

1839
02:24:14,160 --> 02:24:18,480
Like I don't look at it and go,

1840
02:24:18,480 --> 02:24:23,040
this commercial is so bad, I couldn't watch it. There are definitely things that they did in this

1841
02:24:23,040 --> 02:24:27,520
that are pretty normal for commercials like this, like the cookie talking in the oven.

1842
02:24:27,520 --> 02:24:30,560
Yeah. There's like for sure. Yeah.

1843
02:24:30,560 --> 02:24:35,200
Ad campaigns that have had that. And that would be very expensive to do. And definitely take more time, like you were saying.

1844
02:24:35,200 --> 02:24:36,040
Yep.

1845
02:24:38,240 --> 02:24:42,840
I don't know, man. I can also fully understand why people are mad about it.

1846
02:24:42,840 --> 02:24:47,480
Because there is definitely stuff that doesn't look professional.

1847
02:24:47,480 --> 02:24:51,160
Like the way the cat jumps on the tree and the physics are completely wrong.

1848
02:24:53,120 --> 02:24:54,800
Like it, yeah, it sucks.

1849
02:25:00,200 --> 02:25:05,200
Am I just, am I just so, have I just given up

1850
02:25:07,040 --> 02:25:12,040
to the point where I'm accepting this garbage?

1851
02:25:12,720 --> 02:25:17,440
Is that what's happening? There was parts of this that was just so unnecessarily AI,

1852
02:25:17,440 --> 02:25:23,480
which is strange. I'm wondering if the studio that did it is like an AI studio

1853
02:25:23,480 --> 02:25:27,960
and they're shoehorning it into things. Cause like there's stuff here that like,

1854
02:25:29,520 --> 02:25:33,040
it's just so unnecessary. Like the cookie, okay.

1855
02:25:33,040 --> 02:25:36,200
I can understand you like saving a bunch of time

1856
02:25:36,200 --> 02:25:42,680
by having AI animate a talking cookie instead of doing it yourself. But man, there's a lot of stuff that's just, why?

1857
02:25:42,680 --> 02:25:46,920
If you just did it normally, it would have looked better and taken less time.

1858
02:25:48,360 --> 02:25:51,760
Sick? Like, yeah, this is very weird.

1859
02:25:51,760 --> 02:25:58,680
Yeah, it's a, this is a tough one. I, it's very clear that this is going to happen.

1860
02:25:59,560 --> 02:26:04,040
I am honestly surprised that McDonald's even pulled it down though.

1861
02:26:04,360 --> 02:26:08,000
Like, like what?

1862
02:26:08,000 --> 02:26:12,160
Coke did one last year and then their new one, they did it again.

1863
02:26:12,160 --> 02:26:17,400
They just didn't have humans in it, which is like completely missing the point.

1864
02:26:17,400 --> 02:26:20,640
And I don't think, I don't, is anyone even mad about Coke's this year?

1865
02:26:22,040 --> 02:26:23,440
I'm not sure.

1866
02:26:31,720 --> 02:26:35,320
Tim's got an interesting take. I just don't care. It's an ad.

1867
02:26:35,320 --> 02:26:38,600
I'm never going to watch the ad anyway. Nice.

1868
02:26:38,600 --> 02:26:39,440
Nice.

1869
02:26:41,800 --> 02:26:45,000
Okay. I mean, I think people might not like it that much.

1870
02:26:45,000 --> 02:26:50,560
One of the top comments on the video with 22,000 upvotes is the most profitable commercial in Pepsi's history.

1871
02:26:53,800 --> 02:26:59,040
That's pretty good. That's pretty good, but it's also pretty.

1872
02:26:59,040 --> 02:27:02,920
It also got 1.6 million views. It's also pretty echo chamber-y.

1873
02:27:02,920 --> 02:27:07,920
Yeah, for sure. Like there's a, it's been interesting.

1874
02:27:10,040 --> 02:27:13,000
You know, over the last, let's say a week or two,

1875
02:27:13,920 --> 02:27:17,720
seeing how self-important some communities

1876
02:27:17,720 --> 02:27:22,720
can think that they are and how influential

1877
02:27:24,360 --> 02:27:28,400
they might think that they are. Like, you know, you look at Reddit for instance,

1878
02:27:28,400 --> 02:27:30,800
something can front page Reddit,

1879
02:27:31,440 --> 02:27:36,000
with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of upvotes.

1880
02:27:36,000 --> 02:27:41,880
But what are the odds? Like, think about it. What are the odds if you went to the park by your house

1881
02:27:41,880 --> 02:27:47,400
and talked to somebody there? I bet they didn't have any idea what the heck was going on. That they would have any idea about any of it.

1882
02:27:47,400 --> 02:27:51,640
Yeah, it's- Functionally zero. As someone who is, tries to not be,

1883
02:27:51,640 --> 02:27:56,000
but is a little bit too chronically online, I have to remind myself of this sometimes.

1884
02:27:56,000 --> 02:28:00,520
And I had a very recent conversation where someone was talking about how something is like,

1885
02:28:00,560 --> 02:28:04,840
it's such a hot button issue and you have to be careful about it. And I was like, I don't think so,

1886
02:28:04,840 --> 02:28:09,040
with practically anyone, unless you are extremely chronically online.

1887
02:28:09,040 --> 02:28:12,160
Like, a perfect example- So I think most people have no idea what you're talking about.

1888
02:28:12,160 --> 02:28:15,360
Like a perfect example of that would be like the Harry Potter thing.

1889
02:28:15,360 --> 02:28:21,240
Yeah. Like if you're chronically online, and especially if you exist within certain communities

1890
02:28:21,240 --> 02:28:24,320
or counter communities, Yes. It's like-

1891
02:28:24,320 --> 02:28:28,560
Daniel knows about it. It's like a major, like it's a culture war thing, right?

1892
02:28:28,560 --> 02:28:33,560
But, you know, if one of my kids' friends comes over

1893
02:28:34,640 --> 02:28:38,400
and I'm like, oh, what do you think of Harry Potter? They're just like, oh, I love Harry Potter.

1894
02:28:38,400 --> 02:28:43,720
Like they don't know about any of that. Oh yeah, no clue what's going on. You know, I talked to their parents, like, oh yeah.

1895
02:28:43,720 --> 02:28:48,600
Your kid says they like Harry Potter. They're like, oh yeah, Harry Potter, you know, the lightning bolt thing.

1896
02:28:48,600 --> 02:28:52,600
You know, with the scarf, right? Like they don't care. They don't know they don't care.

1897
02:28:52,600 --> 02:28:57,320
Yeah. There's other things going on. They got other things to care about.

1898
02:28:58,200 --> 02:29:01,600
And it's interesting.

1899
02:29:01,600 --> 02:29:05,920
Yeah. Angry panda PC says, but I am important and I agree.

1900
02:29:05,920 --> 02:29:11,080
I agree you're important. Everyone's important, but not everyone is important to everyone else.

1901
02:29:11,080 --> 02:29:14,320
Here's another weird thing. Even if you are chronically online,

1902
02:29:15,800 --> 02:29:18,880
these days, it doesn't even necessarily matter that much

1903
02:29:18,880 --> 02:29:23,880
because your feeds are so heavily algorithmic

1904
02:29:24,560 --> 02:29:27,600
that you probably still are out of the loop

1905
02:29:27,600 --> 02:29:31,120
on so many things. Because like I remember someone,

1906
02:29:31,120 --> 02:29:38,280
there was a thread on Reddit recently about how YouTube unlisted all of their rewinds.

1907
02:29:38,280 --> 02:29:43,880
Yeah. And it's like, yeah, I remember being on YouTube

1908
02:29:43,880 --> 02:29:48,280
back in the day. And like if there was something big happening on YouTube,

1909
02:29:48,280 --> 02:29:51,280
as someone who went to YouTube, you would just know that.

1910
02:29:52,280 --> 02:29:56,680
But now we were talking before the show, there was a creator in our space

1911
02:29:56,680 --> 02:30:00,080
with over a million subscribers that neither of us had ever heard of.

1912
02:30:00,080 --> 02:30:03,680
Yeah. Because they made a type of content in our space

1913
02:30:03,680 --> 02:30:06,880
that we just wouldn't happen to come across. Alyssa Jean Papi says,

1914
02:30:06,880 --> 02:30:11,000
if a person behind a franchise spends all their money on wanting to stop making me exist,

1915
02:30:11,000 --> 02:30:14,800
I think boycotting is really the least you could do. My point- We're not saying anything about that.

1916
02:30:14,800 --> 02:30:18,480
My point wasn't what people should or shouldn't do. My point was that they don't know. Yes.

1917
02:30:18,480 --> 02:30:22,720
That is the only point. You can't care about something that you literally don't know.

1918
02:30:22,720 --> 02:30:27,400
Yeah. And I think that we often live in echo chambers

1919
02:30:27,400 --> 02:30:30,600
and in communities where the issues

1920
02:30:30,600 --> 02:30:34,400
that are very important to us, like, oh man,

1921
02:30:34,400 --> 02:30:38,240
like what would be an example that would be like a really tech community?

1922
02:30:38,240 --> 02:30:42,040
Like, okay, what percentage of people, if you went to the mall, right,

1923
02:30:42,040 --> 02:30:46,520
and you went and talked to somebody, what percentage of people there would know

1924
02:30:46,520 --> 02:30:49,960
that DDR memory is expensive? Yeah.

1925
02:30:49,960 --> 02:30:53,240
And the impact of that on the world. Of the ones who knew

1926
02:30:53,240 --> 02:30:57,200
what percentage of them would be impacted. Like, out of computer enthusiasm,

1927
02:30:57,200 --> 02:31:02,520
so you've got your total population, right? Then you've got your like tech enthusiast bubble.

1928
02:31:02,520 --> 02:31:06,160
And then within that bubble, you've got the people who are actually shopping

1929
02:31:06,160 --> 02:31:10,000
for a new computer right now, who are actually spending money right now.

1930
02:31:10,000 --> 02:31:16,160
And then, like, that's it. It's this tiny little fraction.

1931
02:31:16,200 --> 02:31:21,200
And so, yeah, there's people who are very mad,

1932
02:31:21,440 --> 02:31:24,640
who are following this whole AI thing.

1933
02:31:24,640 --> 02:31:28,120
And particularly, you know, generative AI video.

1934
02:31:28,120 --> 02:31:31,880
And out of that, the people who sort of care

1935
02:31:31,880 --> 02:31:35,040
about the replacement of labor of the, you know,

1936
02:31:35,040 --> 02:31:39,160
the cinematographers and the actors and the writers

1937
02:31:39,160 --> 02:31:42,560
and all the people who would have otherwise worked on this.

1938
02:31:42,560 --> 02:31:45,720
And I think it's just like, yeah, you could probably easily find

1939
02:31:46,600 --> 02:31:50,520
what did that top comment have, like 20,000 to 22,000 upvotes.

1940
02:31:50,520 --> 02:31:55,280
Those 22,000 people, they matter. Those are living, breathing souls

1941
02:31:55,280 --> 02:31:59,000
with blood coursing through their veins. They're also an incredibly tiny percentage

1942
02:31:59,000 --> 02:32:03,560
of the global population. Alyssa Jean Puppy, hopefully I said that right,

1943
02:32:04,560 --> 02:32:09,400
said in full-plane chat, okay, but JK Rowling is all over the news about that.

1944
02:32:09,400 --> 02:32:13,440
At least in the UK, which is just another version.

1945
02:32:13,440 --> 02:32:16,880
She's not over here, because she's not from over here.

1946
02:32:16,880 --> 02:32:20,720
She's from over there. And she's not trying to influence legislation over here.

1947
02:32:20,720 --> 02:32:24,280
And we're aware because we're terminally online. Yeah.

1948
02:32:24,280 --> 02:32:28,840
But you've got a geographical filter.

1949
02:32:28,840 --> 02:32:32,240
We're not trying. Then you've got to keep up with the news filter.

1950
02:32:32,240 --> 02:32:35,240
Then you've got to cares about this issue filter.

1951
02:32:35,240 --> 02:32:39,760
And then you've got to even remembers it filter. There's just, there's so many layers

1952
02:32:39,760 --> 02:32:44,400
until you get down to what can be a very large number of people.

1953
02:32:44,520 --> 02:32:48,080
Especially over the last like decent amount of years.

1954
02:32:48,080 --> 02:32:51,760
There's been a lot of difficulty going around.

1955
02:32:51,760 --> 02:32:56,760
And people might be struggling to survive at all themselves

1956
02:32:57,560 --> 02:33:00,760
and the issues that applied very directly to them

1957
02:33:00,760 --> 02:33:06,600
is going to be what's important to them when they're fighting for survival all the time.

1958
02:33:06,600 --> 02:33:09,720
They have to deal with their own problems, right? They have to put their mask on first.

1959
02:33:09,720 --> 02:33:14,120
And it's tough, but like. Cato asks asks.

1960
02:33:14,120 --> 02:33:18,320
So then do people outside the U.S. think Elon Musk is great then?

1961
02:33:18,320 --> 02:33:23,080
A lot of people think Elon Musk is pretty great.

1962
02:33:23,080 --> 02:33:26,880
That's the whole point we're trying to make. Don't care.

1963
02:33:26,880 --> 02:33:30,240
Yes. At all. Or just don't care at all.

1964
02:33:30,240 --> 02:33:34,320
Yeah. Yes. The answer is yes.

1965
02:33:34,320 --> 02:33:38,760
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There's an incredible amount of people in the world

1966
02:33:38,760 --> 02:33:43,880
that don't even know who he is. Yes, that's a thing.

1967
02:33:43,880 --> 02:33:48,600
I know it seems crazy, right? In our tech sphere, right?

1968
02:33:48,600 --> 02:33:52,520
How could anyone in the tech sphere not have heard of the techno king

1969
02:33:52,520 --> 02:33:56,840
as he self-proclaimed himself to be a number of years back, right?

1970
02:33:56,840 --> 02:34:00,040
In D260 he said there are idiots through the whole world.

1971
02:34:00,040 --> 02:34:04,800
We're not saying they're idiots. No, that's not what we're saying at all.

1972
02:34:05,840 --> 02:34:09,840
Some of them might be. The fact is that education is a problem?

1973
02:34:09,840 --> 02:34:13,400
No. No, that's not what we're saying at all.

1974
02:34:13,400 --> 02:34:19,920
We're saying that there's a whole wide world out there with many, many interests and many, many priorities

1975
02:34:19,920 --> 02:34:26,560
and not everybody shares them. And in this algorithmically curated world that we live in.

1976
02:34:26,560 --> 02:34:33,200
You might literally just never see it. And we may, and that is in a lot of ways by design

1977
02:34:33,200 --> 02:34:37,200
on the platforms. Like what percentage of subreddits that exist?

1978
02:34:37,240 --> 02:34:40,280
Do you imagine you've been personally exposed to?

1979
02:34:41,200 --> 02:34:45,320
Like dude, I've been kinda hooked on R slash all over the last like week.

1980
02:34:45,320 --> 02:34:48,520
I try not to get too into the red at black hole. R slash what?

1981
02:34:48,520 --> 02:34:55,160
Oh, just like, just like, and it's just like, it is realistically like a handful.

1982
02:34:55,160 --> 02:34:56,560
Am I the asshole?

1983
02:35:00,680 --> 02:35:05,120
PCMR shows up there every once in a while. Comics shows up a fair bit.

1984
02:35:05,160 --> 02:35:09,640
There's like, it's probably over the span of a week,

1985
02:35:09,640 --> 02:35:14,520
several dozen subreddits that contribute to the majority

1986
02:35:14,520 --> 02:35:19,520
of the like vastly uploaded content on the site.

1987
02:35:20,440 --> 02:35:23,600
But there are, what is it up to?

1988
02:35:23,600 --> 02:35:27,400
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Are we at millions of subreddits?

1989
02:35:27,400 --> 02:35:29,080
How many subreddits are there?

1990
02:35:32,560 --> 02:35:37,760
3.8 million. What percentage of them?

1991
02:35:37,760 --> 02:35:41,920
Do you think you've been exposed to? 3.8 million as of 11 months ago.

1992
02:35:41,920 --> 02:35:45,800
So, and yeah, Len, Len, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,

1993
02:35:45,800 --> 02:35:50,040
or however I pronounce this in flow plain chat says, y'all just gotta ignore this stuff.

1994
02:35:50,040 --> 02:35:54,160
I never get to see it and I'm so happy I don't have to. My feed is just cool stuff and DIY.

1995
02:35:54,160 --> 02:35:57,400
And that's also like, it is a- And that's exactly our point.

1996
02:35:57,400 --> 02:36:01,560
For people that are terminally online, it is somewhat surprising to hear

1997
02:36:01,560 --> 02:36:04,560
that a ton of people have recognized

1998
02:36:04,600 --> 02:36:08,680
that being constantly dialed into everything that is happening in the world

1999
02:36:08,680 --> 02:36:15,040
and how the fact that the further we move away from local news, when we move closer to global news,

2000
02:36:15,040 --> 02:36:18,560
like back in the day, you could have a newspaper that's talking about like the fair

2001
02:36:18,560 --> 02:36:23,400
that's happening in town. So there isn't gonna be all that much really horrible things

2002
02:36:23,400 --> 02:36:26,960
because you're centralized to a smaller area. That was a different kind of bubble.

2003
02:36:26,960 --> 02:36:30,560
It was a more geographical bubble. Yeah, when you're now looking at more global news

2004
02:36:30,560 --> 02:36:35,560
and you look at the news that's gonna float to the top, it's gonna be the most rage-baiting,

2005
02:36:35,560 --> 02:36:39,200
crazy, horrible things possible because that's what's gonna get more views.

2006
02:36:39,200 --> 02:36:43,840
So you're only gonna get news about all of the most horrible possible things happening

2007
02:36:43,840 --> 02:36:47,000
and it's really bad in a lot of ways for your brain.

2008
02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:51,680
That doesn't mean that not being that dialed in is, for example, an education problem

2009
02:36:51,680 --> 02:36:56,040
or an ignorance problem or being stupid. I mean, it's literally an ignorance problem.

2010
02:36:56,040 --> 02:37:00,040
But maybe not a problem. It literally is ignorance. In a negative way, yeah.

2011
02:37:00,040 --> 02:37:04,840
It might be ignorance, but not necessarily an ignorance problem. To certain people, they don't wanna be exposed

2012
02:37:04,840 --> 02:37:09,920
to that pipeline of extreme constant negativity because it can be bad for you.

2013
02:37:09,920 --> 02:37:15,880
Or it's just, you know, they got other stuff going on. High seven, 69, 69 Hex says people should be informed.

2014
02:37:17,320 --> 02:37:20,760
How much? Noble sentiment. How many things do you not know about?

2015
02:37:20,760 --> 02:37:25,120
You're speaking English. Do you know everything that's happening in China right now?

2016
02:37:25,120 --> 02:37:29,680
I don't. Like... I know Hassan's Billy Billy stream got turned off.

2017
02:37:29,680 --> 02:37:33,360
I'm just pretty sure. Sure. Do you know it?

2018
02:37:33,360 --> 02:37:36,460
Like, yeah, do you... I don't know. There's so many layers to that.

2019
02:37:36,460 --> 02:37:40,760
And like your level of knowledge does not mean that everyone else's level of knowledge

2020
02:37:40,760 --> 02:37:45,380
is inferior. It's... There are an incredible amount of things

2021
02:37:45,380 --> 02:37:49,040
that I know nothing about that I'm sure are incredibly important.

2022
02:37:50,260 --> 02:37:53,700
And I have no clue. Yeah.

2023
02:37:53,700 --> 02:37:58,220
And again, like we're not trying to argue

2024
02:37:58,220 --> 02:38:02,380
that that's the way it should be. That ain't the argument.

2025
02:38:02,380 --> 02:38:07,380
We're just pointing out that that is how it is.

2026
02:38:07,380 --> 02:38:12,460
Not everyone cares about AI or AI slop or...

2027
02:38:12,460 --> 02:38:17,980
Yeah, dude, the amount of people that are just totally ignoring and don't care about that at all

2028
02:38:17,980 --> 02:38:21,100
is very high. Super high. And the number of people who are like,

2029
02:38:21,100 --> 02:38:24,340
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Also very high.

2030
02:38:24,340 --> 02:38:28,460
Yes. And that is fact.

2031
02:38:30,420 --> 02:38:34,260
Sorry. Yeah.

2032
02:38:34,260 --> 02:38:39,020
Am I gonna have to do a shirt over this? Sorry, AI is a thing.

2033
02:38:39,020 --> 02:38:44,700
Like I... Oh, man.

2034
02:38:44,700 --> 02:38:48,020
Cause I'll do a shirt. I don't mind.

2035
02:38:48,020 --> 02:38:50,720
I could do trust me, bro. AI is a thing.

2036
02:38:51,860 --> 02:38:55,020
Hashtag, ad block is piracy.

2037
02:38:55,020 --> 02:38:59,060
Just we'll combine all the scandals.

2038
02:38:59,060 --> 02:39:03,420
It's like, sorry, the things that you do know are probably less important than the myriads

2039
02:39:03,420 --> 02:39:05,660
of things that you don't. Ooh.

2040
02:39:07,700 --> 02:39:09,020
Wow, that's a...

2041
02:39:11,380 --> 02:39:15,740
Okay, another news. What the heck is this?

2042
02:39:15,740 --> 02:39:19,540
Facebook and malware bites. Okay.

2043
02:39:19,540 --> 02:39:22,380
I recorded this on my computer.

2044
02:39:23,320 --> 02:39:26,660
Okay. Here we go.

2045
02:39:26,660 --> 02:39:30,160
So I got my OBS interface here. Here we go.

2046
02:39:30,200 --> 02:39:33,240
I got this email from Facebook.

2047
02:39:33,240 --> 02:39:36,760
Okay. And I was a little irritated. Wow, this quality though.

2048
02:39:36,760 --> 02:39:41,440
This is really blurry. One moment, please. It's actually not just my eyes this time.

2049
02:39:41,440 --> 02:39:44,520
There we go. Okay, okay. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

2050
02:39:44,520 --> 02:39:47,760
So I was told that a post from 2015

2051
02:39:47,760 --> 02:39:52,120
was flagged for copyright infringement. Okay, so I clicked through

2052
02:39:52,120 --> 02:39:56,520
and I made my way over to our... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, right, right, right, right, right.

2053
02:39:56,520 --> 02:39:59,520
Hold on. Okay, let's get the story right. So I got an email from Facebook

2054
02:39:59,560 --> 02:40:03,400
asking me about some feature and I was trying to figure out

2055
02:40:03,400 --> 02:40:08,000
how to turn off emails from Facebook about all of their page management nonsense.

2056
02:40:08,000 --> 02:40:11,600
There was no unsubscribe. There was no...

2057
02:40:11,600 --> 02:40:14,760
Because I don't wanna block every email because occasionally,

2058
02:40:14,760 --> 02:40:19,120
because it's for the page manager email. Like occasionally they might send me something

2059
02:40:19,120 --> 02:40:23,880
about my payment method being wrong or something. So I can't just block emails from Facebook.

2060
02:40:23,880 --> 02:40:27,040
So I'm like, okay, there's no way to unsubscribe to this.

2061
02:40:27,040 --> 02:40:34,720
There's no link to the interface where I can change my contact settings.

2062
02:40:35,120 --> 02:40:40,900
So I clicked through to my Facebook page to try to figure out where the heck in the interface

2063
02:40:40,900 --> 02:40:45,000
I was supposed to disable this stupid email notifying me of some stupid feature

2064
02:40:45,000 --> 02:40:52,600
that I don't care about. The first thing that came up was that I had a copyright claim

2065
02:40:52,760 --> 02:40:55,560
against a post from 10 years ago.

2066
02:40:56,400 --> 02:40:59,560
Okay, so here we go.

2067
02:40:59,560 --> 02:41:02,680
All right, so let's watch this. Here's what happened so far. No one else can see your post

2068
02:41:02,680 --> 02:41:05,960
because it was reported for copyright. Okay, so here are my options.

2069
02:41:05,960 --> 02:41:11,120
Oh yeah, I went back to the beginning. No one else can see your post because it was reported for copyright infringement.

2070
02:41:12,640 --> 02:41:17,520
This is the post. Lifetime malware bites for $20 on Amazon US.

2071
02:41:17,520 --> 02:41:20,440
Go, go, go, and it's a link to a tweet.

2072
02:41:21,380 --> 02:41:25,280
Okay, I don't see how that could infringe on anyone's copyright. That actually sounds awesome.

2073
02:41:25,280 --> 02:41:28,600
I kind of wish I did that. 10 years ago, who cares?

2074
02:41:28,600 --> 02:41:33,880
So I click it. I'm like, okay, so it's a link to an Amazon search for malware bites.

2075
02:41:33,880 --> 02:41:37,960
Yeah. Okay, so I click continue. Who could possibly care about this?

2076
02:41:37,960 --> 02:41:41,000
Malware bites corporate holdcoe

2077
02:41:41,000 --> 02:41:47,560
or their authorized representative managed to find a post from 10 years ago.

2078
02:41:47,560 --> 02:41:50,880
Well, they crawled it. Well, right, but why? Who cares?

2079
02:41:50,880 --> 02:41:53,960
And also, what are you talking about? How does it infringe your copyright?

2080
02:41:53,960 --> 02:41:58,320
Okay, so anyway, we don't allow content that whatever. So I can accept the decision.

2081
02:41:58,320 --> 02:42:02,960
I can submit an appeal or I can contact malware bites corporate holdcoe.

2082
02:42:04,000 --> 02:42:07,720
I think I'm about to dox malware bites corporate holdcoe. So yeah, there's their email address

2083
02:42:07,720 --> 02:42:10,020
and phone number anyway. Submit an appeal.

2084
02:42:13,040 --> 02:42:16,720
Nothing happens. Go to form. Go to form.

2085
02:42:16,720 --> 02:42:21,920
Go to form. Hello? It doesn't open another window.

2086
02:42:21,920 --> 02:42:25,760
Nothing, it doesn't do anything else. Go to form.

2087
02:42:25,760 --> 02:42:29,480
Strategic bugs. I like it. What the heck is this?

2088
02:42:29,480 --> 02:42:34,720
What is going on right now? So here's the email from Facebook.

2089
02:42:34,720 --> 02:42:37,800
How do I start a fan challenge? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

2090
02:42:37,800 --> 02:42:42,760
No unsubscribe. I'm fairly certain that this email is illegal in Canada.

2091
02:42:43,600 --> 02:42:46,900
Like, what is it? What is it? Can spam again?

2092
02:42:46,900 --> 02:42:51,000
There is no, I have not opted into this.

2093
02:42:51,040 --> 02:42:54,720
I went into my Facebook notification settings later.

2094
02:42:54,720 --> 02:43:01,480
Actually, yeah, I think it was after I turned off the screen recording. I have everything that I can find turned off

2095
02:43:01,480 --> 02:43:07,680
and they sent me this bulls*** from a stupid like malware bites

2096
02:43:07,680 --> 02:43:10,880
claiming copyright infringement that I can't appeal.

2097
02:43:10,880 --> 02:43:13,920
I don't even care. I don't need a 10 year old post on Facebook.

2098
02:43:13,920 --> 02:43:17,240
It's just, how is this so broken? No, I'm not getting fished.

2099
02:43:17,240 --> 02:43:20,280
It goes to actual Facebook.

2100
02:43:20,280 --> 02:43:23,560
What the heck? That's all. That's all I have to say about that.

2101
02:43:23,560 --> 02:43:29,600
I was just, I was in between rounds at my badminton ladder going through my email.

2102
02:43:29,600 --> 02:43:34,440
Like, I was like, what is this? I don't know how to deal with this right now.

2103
02:43:34,440 --> 02:43:38,960
That's very annoying. What I do know how to deal with is a big shout out

2104
02:43:38,960 --> 02:43:42,380
to the LTT forum folding team.

2105
02:43:42,380 --> 02:43:45,520
We had a record breaking event folding month eight.

2106
02:43:45,520 --> 02:43:48,840
In total, the team produced over 230 billion points.

2107
02:43:48,840 --> 02:43:54,040
That's nearly three times last year's total. We had 369 participants, nice.

2108
02:43:54,040 --> 02:43:57,200
And user Stobin demolished the previous record

2109
02:43:57,200 --> 02:44:01,640
of six billion points and earned 112 billion points.

2110
02:44:01,640 --> 02:44:05,680
I don't know exactly what that means. Oh, of the previous record was six and it was 112.

2111
02:44:05,680 --> 02:44:09,360
Wow. Special thanks to Livin', Mr. Chuk Kote.

2112
02:44:09,360 --> 02:44:14,120
Yeah, Pencrice. Yeah. Yeah. Sula May, Jawa Juice, Bricksider, Dogwitch

2113
02:44:14,120 --> 02:44:18,200
and an anonymous forum member for donating a total of 55 prizes to the event.

2114
02:44:18,200 --> 02:44:21,440
Additionally, 20 participants will be walking away

2115
02:44:21,440 --> 02:44:24,980
with a $100 LTT Store gift card.

2116
02:44:27,240 --> 02:44:31,920
Justin Miller, a scientist from the Bowman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania was very impressed

2117
02:44:31,920 --> 02:44:35,280
by the total simulation time that the LTT,

2118
02:44:35,280 --> 02:44:40,000
or that folding at home contributed of 8.6 milliseconds during November.

2119
02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:44,600
He said, that sounds like a small amount of time, but that is a ton for the types of motions

2120
02:44:44,600 --> 02:44:48,640
that we like to study. And roughly two to three orders of magnitude more

2121
02:44:48,640 --> 02:44:52,200
than most simulation focused papers tend to have on their own.

2122
02:44:52,200 --> 02:44:56,960
Nice. So massive thank you to everyone who participated. The final rankings and Justin's complete summary

2123
02:44:56,960 --> 02:44:59,600
can be found in the final blog at,

2124
02:45:00,600 --> 02:45:04,920
well, this link. Dan, do you wanna throw the link in the various chats?

2125
02:45:04,920 --> 02:45:09,280
But basically here. Doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop. Yeah, super cool.

2126
02:45:09,280 --> 02:45:13,640
Heck yeah, folding month. And I think we've got just one more topic

2127
02:45:13,640 --> 02:45:17,800
before we get to After Dark. The world's first flying car.

2128
02:45:17,800 --> 02:45:19,320
Here it is.

2129
02:45:21,280 --> 02:45:26,040
Well, it's a flying car. The world's first flying car is now being handmade

2130
02:45:26,040 --> 02:45:30,040
in California. And this right here.

2131
02:45:30,040 --> 02:45:33,080
See all the dust and see all like the air being blown up?

2132
02:45:33,080 --> 02:45:38,840
Is exactly why I think I'm convinced that this is, pardon the pun, never gonna take off.

2133
02:45:40,160 --> 02:45:43,560
Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's been the argument, you know?

2134
02:45:43,560 --> 02:45:47,840
Aleph Aeronautics, a US startup, has started building its electric flying car,

2135
02:45:47,840 --> 02:45:53,040
the Model A, by hand in California, becoming the first company to put a drive

2136
02:45:53,040 --> 02:45:58,240
and fly car into production. The flying car can drive on regular roads

2137
02:45:58,240 --> 02:46:05,720
and can take off vertically to fly with around a 220 mile driving and 110 mile flying range.

2138
02:46:06,200 --> 02:46:11,200
Apparently the startup has already received 3,500 preorders,

2139
02:46:11,720 --> 02:46:19,020
which is a lot, considering that the flying car is expected to start at around $300,000.

2140
02:46:19,040 --> 02:46:23,080
But there are a couple of small problems that are not included in our notes,

2141
02:46:23,080 --> 02:46:28,040
that are kind of hilarious. As cool as it would be to dunk on the Cybertruck

2142
02:46:28,040 --> 02:46:31,320
by literally flying over it.

2143
02:46:31,320 --> 02:46:34,640
It looks so sketchy. Have you watched this? Yes, I have.

2144
02:46:34,640 --> 02:46:36,840
I just watched it. It looks so sketchy.

2145
02:46:38,000 --> 02:46:39,960
Then the wheels are so thin.

2146
02:46:41,800 --> 02:46:45,800
It's like, oh man.

2147
02:46:48,200 --> 02:46:53,200
I feel like they just put like a fiberglass frame

2148
02:46:53,640 --> 02:46:57,080
on a like high carrying capacity drone.

2149
02:46:57,080 --> 02:47:00,360
A detail that was overlooked is that at this time,

2150
02:47:00,360 --> 02:47:04,400
it can only take off from and land at airports.

2151
02:47:04,400 --> 02:47:08,040
So like, what is the f***ing point of it?

2152
02:47:12,200 --> 02:47:15,320
The whole idea behind flying car,

2153
02:47:15,320 --> 02:47:18,720
like the whole connotation of car

2154
02:47:18,720 --> 02:47:22,640
is that you park it at your house and you like drive it to work

2155
02:47:22,640 --> 02:47:26,680
or you go get groceries and you like park at your house again.

2156
02:47:26,680 --> 02:47:31,320
You can drive to the airport and then not like have to get out and get into a plane.

2157
02:47:31,320 --> 02:47:34,800
You can drive to the airport and then just take off from the airport.

2158
02:47:37,160 --> 02:47:43,760
This was pretty great. You can drive 220 miles with a 110 mile flight range.

2159
02:47:43,760 --> 02:47:47,320
Wow, so it's only half the, that's actually. That makes a lot of sense.

2160
02:47:47,320 --> 02:47:49,200
Yeah. Less than a year.

2161
02:47:51,720 --> 02:47:56,760
I haven't seen it drive. Have you seen it drive? Is there a video of it driving?

2162
02:47:56,760 --> 02:48:00,280
I've only seen it somewhat sketchily fly.

2163
02:48:01,440 --> 02:48:05,640
I don't think I've seen it drive. As soon as I found out that it's slow,

2164
02:48:05,680 --> 02:48:09,400
has crappy range, is expensive,

2165
02:48:09,400 --> 02:48:13,280
has all the issues of any other personal flying vehicles

2166
02:48:13,280 --> 02:48:16,720
with the big one being, I forget what it's called, wash out or something like that.

2167
02:48:16,720 --> 02:48:21,720
Basically, the displacement of air that they need is so big

2168
02:48:22,640 --> 02:48:29,160
and the propellers that they can accommodate for any kind of VTOL functionality are so small

2169
02:48:29,160 --> 02:48:32,280
that they have this like tiny cone

2170
02:48:32,280 --> 02:48:35,360
that basically blows away anything anywhere near them.

2171
02:48:36,080 --> 02:48:41,080
There is, with the laws of physics being what they are,

2172
02:48:41,320 --> 02:48:46,080
as far as I can tell, no reasonable path

2173
02:48:46,080 --> 02:48:49,760
to driving one of these from your front driveway

2174
02:48:49,760 --> 02:48:55,280
to your parking lot at work. They would blow so much crap around on the parking lot

2175
02:48:55,280 --> 02:49:00,120
that you'd be denting and scratching everyone's car that you're anywhere near, people would hate it,

2176
02:49:00,120 --> 02:49:04,780
they're so loud. Much larger propellers can help

2177
02:49:04,780 --> 02:49:10,860
with the high-pitched noise and all of that, but you still have to deal with all that air displacement

2178
02:49:10,860 --> 02:49:14,980
in order to lift this like hundreds of pounds vehicle

2179
02:49:14,980 --> 02:49:21,700
plus whatever people and cargo that you wanna carry in it. Like it's just not going to happen, it seems.

2180
02:49:21,700 --> 02:49:26,540
Or you could buy a really nice, really sweet car

2181
02:49:26,540 --> 02:49:30,100
to drive to the airport and then get in your own

2182
02:49:31,540 --> 02:49:35,380
just like experimental craft. That thing looks pretty sick.

2183
02:49:35,380 --> 02:49:39,780
What's the side impact crash rating on this flying car?

2184
02:49:39,780 --> 02:49:44,260
For sure, just nothing, the crumple zone is you.

2185
02:49:45,620 --> 02:49:49,700
Like, come on. You are expected to crumple alone in the car, yeah.

2186
02:49:49,700 --> 02:49:52,780
It's just gonna absorb the impact. It's just gonna hit the batteries?

2187
02:49:52,780 --> 02:49:56,580
Yeah, sure, like, come on.

2188
02:49:58,260 --> 02:50:01,460
Very fun, very cool, very good. It looks cool.

2189
02:50:01,460 --> 02:50:05,700
They go out of their way, it seems, to make it really hard to see how skinny chicken

2190
02:50:05,700 --> 02:50:08,860
these tires are. Dude, they're so narrow.

2191
02:50:10,900 --> 02:50:14,140
Oh, man. Yeah, you can see them there.

2192
02:50:14,140 --> 02:50:18,340
Yeah. They look like wheelbarrow tires. Yeah, yeah.

2193
02:50:19,300 --> 02:50:23,020
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So this is-

2194
02:50:23,020 --> 02:50:26,260
Damn, dude. Yeah, this is- You said they got pre-orders?

2195
02:50:26,260 --> 02:50:30,100
Apparently. That's the craziest part to me. That's what it says on the notes. And working on this is cool.

2196
02:50:30,100 --> 02:50:34,980
I actually have no issue with that at all. Okay, so we just had a huge long conversation

2197
02:50:34,980 --> 02:50:38,740
with the audience about ignorance. Remember?

2198
02:50:38,740 --> 02:50:40,860
Not everybody is an engineer.

2199
02:50:42,100 --> 02:50:46,180
And a lot of people would think, oh, well, you know, they got,

2200
02:50:46,180 --> 02:50:52,140
I forget what body they got approval from, but they like are making progress to this being a product

2201
02:50:52,140 --> 02:50:54,020
that they actually ship.

2202
02:50:55,460 --> 02:51:00,780
And so if I heard that they got their, yeah, airworthiness certification from the FAA,

2203
02:51:00,780 --> 02:51:04,780
they got an airworthiness certification. That's huge. That's huge.

2204
02:51:04,780 --> 02:51:07,780
Right? So I'd be like, oh yeah, flying car.

2205
02:51:07,780 --> 02:51:11,740
I see this picture. I go, I mean, what, yeah, 300 grand?

2206
02:51:11,740 --> 02:51:15,100
I mean, that's only 10 times the price of a car

2207
02:51:15,100 --> 02:51:21,220
that doesn't fly, right? That's so many more degrees of freedom.

2208
02:51:21,220 --> 02:51:25,780
That's so good. Honestly, if they just never released this video,

2209
02:51:25,780 --> 02:51:29,100
I feel like they'd do better. Well, they've been doing pretty good up till now.

2210
02:51:29,100 --> 02:51:33,300
They got their pre-orders. And yeah, not everybody's an engineer.

2211
02:51:33,300 --> 02:51:37,660
So yeah, I could see people pre-ordering it if they just don't do the math.

2212
02:51:37,660 --> 02:51:42,620
Like it wasn't until, for me too, that I came across like a really good article.

2213
02:51:42,620 --> 02:51:46,180
I wish I could find it so that I could bring it up. I read it and then I like kind of lost it.

2214
02:51:46,180 --> 02:51:51,700
And then I never saw it again. But it was a really good article that basically kind of walked me through the math

2215
02:51:51,700 --> 02:51:55,020
of how this is just like kind of fucking impossible.

2216
02:51:55,020 --> 02:51:58,140
And they're like, at the end of it, they're like, look, don't short it

2217
02:51:58,140 --> 02:52:03,140
because they'll stay irrational longer

2218
02:52:03,140 --> 02:52:07,460
than you'll stay solvent or whatever. Like I'm not saying you should like short these companies

2219
02:52:07,460 --> 02:52:12,140
and try and make a bunch of money on their downfall or whatever, I'm just saying, don't invest in them.

2220
02:52:12,140 --> 02:52:16,460
Don't pre-order this stuff because this ain't happening.

2221
02:52:16,460 --> 02:52:20,180
This is not happening. I'm like, oh, okay, bummer. Cause that'd be awesome.

2222
02:52:20,180 --> 02:52:23,380
Like I'd be so down. I hope that, you know,

2223
02:52:23,380 --> 02:52:27,940
they got their flight worthiness thing, whatever. I hope that it ends up being awesome.

2224
02:52:27,940 --> 02:52:31,460
Cause like, why not? I just, that video

2225
02:52:31,460 --> 02:52:34,660
wasn't awesome does not make it look good.

2226
02:52:34,660 --> 02:52:37,500
But hey, I mean, all power to him. Good luck.

2227
02:52:38,820 --> 02:52:42,140
Oh, cool.

2228
02:52:42,140 --> 02:52:44,540
Hi, Larry is not fun.

2229
02:52:46,540 --> 02:52:50,500
Is that it after dark? I think it's time for after dark. Nice. Mr. Daniel Besser hit us.

2230
02:52:52,180 --> 02:52:56,820
Let me just get the banner and the button. Oh yeah, not, not financial advice.

2231
02:52:56,820 --> 02:53:00,540
Just throwing that out there. I always got to throw that out there.

2232
02:53:00,540 --> 02:53:05,020
Okay, let's see what we've got today. Hey dudes, aside from YouTube,

2233
02:53:05,020 --> 02:53:10,420
which single company's sudden shutdown would have the most immediate detrimental impact on LMG,

2234
02:53:10,420 --> 02:53:14,260
which would be the most beneficial. A beneficial shutdown.

2235
02:53:15,380 --> 02:53:19,260
I don't know if there's anyone. We're all about kind of, we're all about partnerships.

2236
02:53:19,260 --> 02:53:25,980
I don't think there's anyone that I would look at and go, yeah, them shutting down would be highly beneficial to us.

2237
02:53:25,980 --> 02:53:30,780
Who'd be beneficial? I usually see the like, the competitor maybe,

2238
02:53:30,780 --> 02:53:36,060
but I don't really see us as having competitors in a traditional sense. I usually see, especially the space we're in,

2239
02:53:36,060 --> 02:53:39,420
not all spaces, but the space we're in is rising tide lifts all ships.

2240
02:53:39,420 --> 02:53:42,420
Yeah, me too. I think the more people that are interested in tech

2241
02:53:42,420 --> 02:53:46,540
will help all of us. And if other people in the tech space

2242
02:53:46,540 --> 02:53:50,100
are making good content, I think that will help us not hurt us.

2243
02:53:50,100 --> 02:53:55,700
Yeah, I mean. I've always seen it that way. I mean, this is really interesting. So the timing of the release of that interview

2244
02:53:55,700 --> 02:54:00,940
that I did with John, I was talking in the interview

2245
02:54:00,940 --> 02:54:05,940
about how our viewership has kind of struggled lately, right?

2246
02:54:06,620 --> 02:54:10,580
But I did that interview a couple of months ago.

2247
02:54:10,580 --> 02:54:16,860
And so that obviously there's a ton of comments on the interview with people giving me their brilliant ideas

2248
02:54:16,860 --> 02:54:22,460
for what I can do to fix my channel or how talking about how, you know,

2249
02:54:22,460 --> 02:54:26,020
yeah, it's all because, you know, Alex and Andy are gone

2250
02:54:26,020 --> 02:54:28,220
or whatever the case may be, right?

2251
02:54:29,300 --> 02:54:34,220
But what people don't bother to do is check and see

2252
02:54:34,220 --> 02:54:37,980
if there's any truth whatsoever to their hypothesis.

2253
02:54:37,980 --> 02:54:42,420
And to be clear, I'm not saying that, you know,

2254
02:54:42,420 --> 02:54:46,260
I wouldn't, yeah, that I don't love working with Alex and Andy or whatever,

2255
02:54:46,300 --> 02:54:49,580
but we've actually had a nice little resurgence lately

2256
02:54:49,580 --> 02:54:56,260
and we are back to the kinds of numbers that we were doing, you know, earlier this year slash,

2257
02:54:56,260 --> 02:55:00,620
you know, before the recent dip. Like in fact, we're quite a bit higher than that now.

2258
02:55:00,620 --> 02:55:07,180
We're tracking to do probably more like 80 million views for December, it looks like.

2259
02:55:07,180 --> 02:55:12,300
So that's back up at a level that's sort of closer to sort of November of last year.

2260
02:55:12,300 --> 02:55:15,940
Like there tends to be kind of, there's a seasonality to it to a degree, right?

2261
02:55:15,940 --> 02:55:20,940
So we are higher than probably in the next month,

2262
02:55:21,420 --> 02:55:25,140
we'll be higher than probably about eyeballing this,

2263
02:55:25,140 --> 02:55:29,580
70% of the months of the past, like 18.

2264
02:55:31,900 --> 02:55:36,500
So thank you for your advice and your analysis

2265
02:55:36,500 --> 02:55:40,780
of, you know, why LMG is failing or whatever the case may be, but we're not failing.

2266
02:55:40,780 --> 02:55:48,180
And a big part of why we don't fail is we are constantly looking inward, looking outward,

2267
02:55:48,220 --> 02:55:51,260
figuring out, you know, what it is that we need to do differently.

2268
02:55:51,260 --> 02:55:56,020
How can we generate excitement? How can we elevate our content? How can we optimize our processes?

2269
02:55:56,020 --> 02:55:59,140
And the answers are always gonna be different

2270
02:55:59,140 --> 02:56:02,500
in an ever-changing world that is competitive,

2271
02:56:02,500 --> 02:56:05,780
even if I don't see other YouTubers

2272
02:56:05,780 --> 02:56:08,780
or other media outlets as competitors.

2273
02:56:08,780 --> 02:56:13,500
Does that make sense? Yeah, and we've had great people leave

2274
02:56:13,500 --> 02:56:17,940
and we will have great people leave and we will have great people join.

2275
02:56:17,940 --> 02:56:21,740
Yes, and then leave. And we are a business in constant flux,

2276
02:56:21,740 --> 02:56:26,060
just like every single other business. And we will have different eras

2277
02:56:26,060 --> 02:56:32,060
because there will be different people here at different times. And like Taylor Swift, I may do a tour about my eras.

2278
02:56:32,060 --> 02:56:36,820
You might, you might. Probably not. And this is all extremely normal.

2279
02:56:38,060 --> 02:56:39,720
Yep. That's okay.

2280
02:56:41,080 --> 02:56:44,800
Everything is a normal thing

2281
02:56:44,800 --> 02:56:50,640
that is happening right now. And, and, you know what's another normal thing?

2282
02:56:50,640 --> 02:56:54,080
For there to be times of unusual strife.

2283
02:56:54,080 --> 02:56:59,080
Yeah. That's also normal, even if it is abnormal.

2284
02:56:59,080 --> 02:57:04,280
And so there will be- It's normal to have times of abnormality. There will be future times when,

2285
02:57:04,280 --> 02:57:07,440
you know what, we might hire a lot. There will be future times

2286
02:57:07,440 --> 02:57:10,760
when we might have a lot of turnover. There will be future times

2287
02:57:10,760 --> 02:57:14,200
when our content is not performing well. And there will be future times

2288
02:57:14,200 --> 02:57:20,280
when our content is performing really well. And, and all of that is just part of the natural ebbs

2289
02:57:20,280 --> 02:57:25,400
and flows of, of running a business in a, in a fast, fast, fast changing world.

2290
02:57:25,400 --> 02:57:29,280
Maybe Steam will release or Valve will release a bunch of hardware all at once.

2291
02:57:29,280 --> 02:57:33,240
Yeah. That was, that was nice. That was- Let's go. What a Christmas present that was for us.

2292
02:57:33,240 --> 02:57:37,640
Yeah. You know, it was, it was encouraging, right?

2293
02:57:37,640 --> 02:57:41,520
You know, cause it's not like I- No, it totally was. It's not like I'm immune to, you know,

2294
02:57:41,520 --> 02:57:45,960
feeling a lack of confidence sometimes, right? Like, you know, I see the content not performing.

2295
02:57:45,960 --> 02:57:50,880
I go like, do I even, do I even got this anymore? You know, like I'm always asking myself that.

2296
02:57:50,880 --> 02:57:55,400
And then someone does me the, the like bare

2297
02:57:55,400 --> 02:58:00,800
minimumist favor of releasing some hardware that's interesting and we get like,

2298
02:58:00,800 --> 02:58:03,920
what, four million views on one of them and like four and a half on the other,

2299
02:58:03,920 --> 02:58:07,680
three and a half and four and a half. Yeah, 3.8 and 4.8 right now. Yeah, something like that.

2300
02:58:07,680 --> 02:58:10,760
And I'm just like, oh, okay, no, no, I still do know, I still do know how to do this.

2301
02:58:10,760 --> 02:58:15,960
I did those videos in like two hours each. Just the Steam machine won't cost what you think

2302
02:58:15,960 --> 02:58:19,600
got 2.6. Yeah. Like, it was a good video.

2303
02:58:19,600 --> 02:58:26,520
It's just cool, interesting stuff. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think, not just I, I think we've still got it.

2304
02:58:26,520 --> 02:58:31,880
I do think that we have, I mean, you guys were even talking about this before the video,

2305
02:58:31,920 --> 02:58:35,520
before we started plan shows, just like looking at some of the process bloat and stuff.

2306
02:58:35,520 --> 02:58:39,000
We have, yeah. We have problems.

2307
02:58:39,000 --> 02:58:42,760
There's gonna be, there's gonna need to be some work done

2308
02:58:42,760 --> 02:58:46,920
on kind of addressing how things flow

2309
02:58:46,920 --> 02:58:51,040
through the company and stuff. I think so. And it's just, you know, we've existed

2310
02:58:51,040 --> 02:58:57,040
for so many years at this point and we've kind of always just built.

2311
02:58:58,040 --> 02:59:02,440
There hasn't really been a lot of removing things,

2312
02:59:02,440 --> 02:59:07,560
cutting back on certain things, trying to see, hey, if we cut out a bunch of processes here,

2313
02:59:07,560 --> 02:59:13,720
what happens? What would happen? Yeah. Because sometimes like there's process

2314
02:59:13,720 --> 02:59:17,720
that was originally designed to help solve problems,

2315
02:59:17,720 --> 02:59:22,720
which due to misuse or rot or improper initial creation,

2316
02:59:23,480 --> 02:59:27,120
actually it just creates more problems,

2317
02:59:27,120 --> 02:59:34,040
creates more cycles for people have to do, especially cycles that suck and they don't want to do ever,

2318
02:59:34,040 --> 02:59:38,080
that is like absolutely a thing that happens. So yeah, we have things to address,

2319
02:59:38,080 --> 02:59:41,400
but we're working on it and that's normal.

2320
02:59:41,400 --> 02:59:45,240
Especially as far as my understanding goes, when companies get to around this size.

2321
02:59:45,240 --> 02:59:51,520
Yeah. Like this ends up being a major problem when companies get around the 100 plus ish size,

2322
02:59:51,520 --> 02:59:55,160
which is exactly where we're at. Everything changes. Yeah.

2323
02:59:55,160 --> 02:59:58,000
So this all makes sense. And there will continue to be change.

2324
03:00:00,040 --> 03:00:03,160
Someone asked, here we go, capture the bomb,

2325
03:00:03,160 --> 03:00:06,560
ask speaking of ebbs and flows, how's the badminton club doing?

2326
03:00:06,560 --> 03:00:08,760
I don't know, you tell me, here's a live feed.

2327
03:00:10,640 --> 03:00:16,960
Okay, looks pretty good to me. Got some people playing some badminton all up in this.

2328
03:00:16,960 --> 03:00:20,040
How embarrassing would it be to just biff right now?

2329
03:00:20,160 --> 03:00:23,760
They'll be fine. They're solid players actually, it's a good club.

2330
03:00:25,920 --> 03:00:29,960
Yeah, no, this is one of those ones where like,

2331
03:00:29,960 --> 03:00:32,700
it was a passion project that like,

2332
03:00:33,760 --> 03:00:41,200
you know, was never really like intended to make money. And it's still a little more complicated than like, yeah.

2333
03:00:42,560 --> 03:00:45,600
You know, yo, I'm making money, C, so yo, world, I hope you're ready for me.

2334
03:00:45,600 --> 03:00:49,120
Now get out of the round. Yeah, you know, like it's not quite that, right?

2335
03:00:49,560 --> 03:00:53,640
I wish it was a little bit tall. Yeah, yeah, well, that yes, but.

2336
03:00:55,080 --> 03:00:57,720
Oh, I honestly wasn't even memeing that, I just...

2337
03:00:58,600 --> 03:01:04,040
No, no, no, no, well, that's the different artists, different song, I was Humpty Dance,

2338
03:01:04,040 --> 03:01:11,560
like totally different. I knew you used to like that song, it's fine. Okay, the point is that, yeah, we kind of accidentally,

2339
03:01:11,840 --> 03:01:17,040
we kind of accidentally a good sports facility that's actually doing really well.

2340
03:01:17,080 --> 03:01:21,200
Like there's probably a solid. Yeah, we're just accidentally a successful business.

2341
03:01:21,200 --> 03:01:26,560
Yeah, there's probably a solid like 60 people in there right now, there's people in the concession,

2342
03:01:26,560 --> 03:01:29,800
there's some people hanging out in the lounge, there's people in the retail shop.

2343
03:01:29,800 --> 03:01:32,080
Is the concession like a thing yet? Uh-uh.

2344
03:01:33,640 --> 03:01:38,240
But we do have those cool, like Japanese style, like hot food vending machines.

2345
03:01:38,240 --> 03:01:41,840
Yeah, okay, cool. I mean, that's nice.

2346
03:01:41,840 --> 03:01:45,800
Yeah, so Smash Chams will use them except when there's Whale Land.

2347
03:01:45,800 --> 03:01:51,400
Yeah, sure. Is there any progress on having an actual concession?

2348
03:01:52,280 --> 03:01:56,760
No. Okay. Yeah, the managers feel extremely strongly

2349
03:01:56,760 --> 03:02:00,280
that we need to have a steam room and a sauna.

2350
03:02:00,280 --> 03:02:04,880
I'm really not sure that I agree that's that important, but we also want to put in some more showers,

2351
03:02:04,880 --> 03:02:09,240
we only have a couple right now. Showers I could see. We should add more.

2352
03:02:09,240 --> 03:02:15,280
I think that a steam room and sauna is a very optional thing for a badminton club, but.

2353
03:02:15,280 --> 03:02:18,640
Yeah. I basically told them, look, you're allowed to put it in

2354
03:02:18,640 --> 03:02:21,680
as long as it doesn't cost any of our floor area.

2355
03:02:21,680 --> 03:02:25,640
If you don't use up floor plate, then like, if you can put them above the showers

2356
03:02:25,640 --> 03:02:29,780
at the back or something like that, I'm open to it. But they pitched me like splitting up the gym

2357
03:02:29,780 --> 03:02:34,600
and putting that at the back and putting the like sauna, steam room, shower stuff,

2358
03:02:34,600 --> 03:02:37,600
like upstairs, I'm just like, no. We are not doing that.

2359
03:02:37,600 --> 03:02:42,280
A gym is a way more relevant thing to a badminton club than that.

2360
03:02:42,280 --> 03:02:46,400
I can see people wanting to do sauna, doing sauna after physical activity is pretty sick.

2361
03:02:46,400 --> 03:02:49,960
Sure. But yeah, if you could just try to make it additive,

2362
03:02:49,960 --> 03:02:57,120
if possible. Also the concession will help money for sure.

2363
03:02:58,040 --> 03:03:03,360
Yes, no, actually. At a place where people are constantly exercising? I heard that other clubs that have tried to do them,

2364
03:03:03,360 --> 03:03:06,560
it's been break even at best.

2365
03:03:06,560 --> 03:03:10,400
So we may be better off. I think we get a pretty narrow margin

2366
03:03:10,400 --> 03:03:13,960
on those vending machines, but we may actually be better off with the vending machines.

2367
03:03:14,560 --> 03:03:21,480
TBD, oh, I bumped that. Interesting. I do know, as far as my understanding goes,

2368
03:03:21,480 --> 03:03:25,440
you usually have to make the concession like actually pretty good

2369
03:03:25,440 --> 03:03:28,680
and then it ends up also getting things like Uber Eats orders.

2370
03:03:28,680 --> 03:03:32,040
Interesting. Because there's, it's actually very rare

2371
03:03:32,040 --> 03:03:37,680
that you can get like actually pretty well, like balanced meals on Uber Eats.

2372
03:03:37,680 --> 03:03:41,560
So like Gold's Gym in Langley has like a

2373
03:03:44,320 --> 03:03:47,640
protein shake. Yeah, and also some like wraps and stuff,

2374
03:03:47,640 --> 03:03:51,600
but they're like more protein heavy. Oh, that's cool. Like they don't have high sugar counts

2375
03:03:51,600 --> 03:03:55,400
and all that other kind of stuff. So like if you did like, oh, it's a badminton gym,

2376
03:03:55,400 --> 03:03:59,040
so there's things that like, you know. We could do a smash burger.

2377
03:04:02,840 --> 03:04:06,760
I think that's pretty far from the point I was trying to make.

2378
03:04:06,760 --> 03:04:10,120
But it's great for the branding. It is great for the branding.

2379
03:04:10,120 --> 03:04:14,080
It is absolutely. Like something, I mean, I would personally appreciate,

2380
03:04:14,080 --> 03:04:17,720
I don't know if this is the right fit for smash chance,

2381
03:04:17,720 --> 03:04:21,080
probably not necessarily, but I think it maybe should be,

2382
03:04:21,080 --> 03:04:25,680
is if you had like a protein shake kind of thing

2383
03:04:25,680 --> 03:04:28,920
and it had like five grams creatine,

2384
03:04:28,920 --> 03:04:32,440
I think that would be sick. It's hard to get, booster juice does it,

2385
03:04:32,440 --> 03:04:37,740
but there aren't that many other places that do. Interesting. So like I think there are ways to make it make sense,

2386
03:04:37,740 --> 03:04:44,440
but I think you have to kind of open up the interest in that where it's not necessarily just the badminton club

2387
03:04:44,440 --> 03:04:49,600
that would be interested in it. Yeah, I'd be down for that. There would be, the thing is like,

2388
03:04:49,600 --> 03:04:55,800
you have to find someone to kind of spearhead that, right? And right now we're just, we're busy figuring out

2389
03:04:55,800 --> 03:05:00,720
how to run a sports facility. We haven't even been open to the pub. We haven't even been, we've been open a year,

2390
03:05:00,720 --> 03:05:04,400
but we haven't been taking money for a year. So we've been like soft open,

2391
03:05:04,400 --> 03:05:09,960
but our grand opening was less than a year ago. So we still have a lot of little things to figure out.

2392
03:05:10,760 --> 03:05:15,080
Yeah, I realized, sorry, the numbers I was showing before

2393
03:05:15,080 --> 03:05:20,640
didn't look like we were tracking up that much, but last 30 days, 85 million.

2394
03:05:20,640 --> 03:05:25,320
So that's actually like quite, quite up there

2395
03:05:25,320 --> 03:05:29,280
with our top months over the last 18, 75.

2396
03:05:29,280 --> 03:05:35,480
It's like almost on par with like August 2024. So we're, we're tracking back up and we'll track back down.

2397
03:05:35,480 --> 03:05:38,640
Yep. And that's okay. It's okay, we'll survive.

2398
03:05:38,640 --> 03:05:44,760
We will survive. As long as I know how to take, I know we'll stay alive.

2399
03:05:44,760 --> 03:05:48,320
Dan, hit me. Hello, my parasocial friends.

2400
03:05:48,320 --> 03:05:53,400
Oh, hi there. I'm not a Floatplane subscriber because I already have two similar subscriptions

2401
03:05:53,400 --> 03:05:59,000
and my brain refuses to let me have another. Do any of you have arbitrary rules like this?

2402
03:05:59,000 --> 03:06:04,560
Oh, tons. I don't think that's arbitrary. I think limiting the number of subscriptions you have is

2403
03:06:04,560 --> 03:06:07,640
totally fair. Totally not arbitrary.

2404
03:06:07,640 --> 03:06:15,000
I mean, the two I guess is an arbitrary number, but I think two is a pretty good number.

2405
03:06:16,320 --> 03:06:20,720
Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. I really don't, I probably have,

2406
03:06:23,040 --> 03:06:26,760
huh, I think I have one.

2407
03:06:28,200 --> 03:06:31,560
I'm not even trying to flex. Netflix? Nope. Netflix.

2408
03:06:31,560 --> 03:06:35,080
Oh, that's right, you ditched it a while back. Long time ago. What do you have then?

2409
03:06:35,080 --> 03:06:37,800
YouTube. Oh yeah, just YouTube premium. Yep, okay.

2410
03:06:41,720 --> 03:06:47,320
My company got hacked last month through a zero-day exploit in Centerstack.

2411
03:06:47,320 --> 03:06:52,560
Bummer. It looks like we paid the ransom for the encryption key.

2412
03:06:52,560 --> 03:06:55,840
Have you guys known anyone who has paid? What is the process?

2413
03:06:55,840 --> 03:06:59,240
I haven't. I actually don't.

2414
03:07:03,000 --> 03:07:06,480
Yeah, right, yeah, good call. Who's there?

2415
03:07:07,960 --> 03:07:12,680
Scammers. Fuck you, man, get out of here.

2416
03:07:12,680 --> 03:07:15,560
No, I've been here for months.

2417
03:07:16,880 --> 03:07:19,520
Yeah, sorry, I don't know anything about the process.

2418
03:07:21,200 --> 03:07:22,680
Bummer, sorry to hear that.

2419
03:07:26,840 --> 03:07:30,000
Okay. Hi, LLD.

2420
03:07:30,000 --> 03:07:33,920
Linus, do you still daily drive a 7900XTX?

2421
03:07:33,920 --> 03:07:40,000
What's your take on where our DNA3 is headed after being missing in Wednesday's Redstone announcement?

2422
03:07:40,000 --> 03:07:44,680
I mean, this is kind of classic AMD. I think for the most part, they do their best to support their older products,

2423
03:07:44,680 --> 03:07:49,680
but they are a much smaller company than NVIDIA.

2424
03:07:50,280 --> 03:07:57,560
Still, even after all the success that they've had on the CPU and the APU side, I'm not surprised by it.

2425
03:07:57,560 --> 03:08:05,500
The 7900XT just does not have the neural processing to do what they would want it to do with FSR Redstone.

2426
03:08:05,940 --> 03:08:11,180
As far as I can tell, I'd love to be wrong, but it just doesn't really seem like it.

2427
03:08:11,180 --> 03:08:15,540
And yes, I'm still daily driving it in my PC upstairs,

2428
03:08:15,540 --> 03:08:18,860
but I've actually been doing more than half of my gaming

2429
03:08:18,860 --> 03:08:23,020
on my PC downstairs, because that's like where my kids are usually sitting

2430
03:08:23,020 --> 03:08:28,660
and Yvonne doesn't game. So I would either be sitting by myself upstairs,

2431
03:08:28,660 --> 03:08:32,060
or if I was streaming, I would be upstairs, but I haven't streamed in like forever.

2432
03:08:32,100 --> 03:08:36,540
So yes, it's still in my main machine,

2433
03:08:36,540 --> 03:08:40,340
but I haven't been gaming on it as my primary card for a little while.

2434
03:08:41,700 --> 03:08:46,160
Hi, LLD. My partner and I are combining our skills to go into business together.

2435
03:08:46,160 --> 03:08:49,980
My question for Linus is, was there anything you should have discussed

2436
03:08:49,980 --> 03:08:54,020
with Yvonne before working together? Oh yeah.

2437
03:08:54,020 --> 03:08:59,020
I think something that we, even to this day,

2438
03:08:59,140 --> 03:09:04,140
are not perfectly aligned on is, where's the end point?

2439
03:09:04,940 --> 03:09:08,700
What is the target we're trying to hit?

2440
03:09:08,700 --> 03:09:13,500
And I think that having that agreement, especially if you're going into business

2441
03:09:13,500 --> 03:09:16,060
with, it sounds like a romantic partner,

2442
03:09:17,700 --> 03:09:21,300
having that agreement in place is going to be critical

2443
03:09:21,300 --> 03:09:24,340
to maintaining harmony in your relationship.

2444
03:09:24,340 --> 03:09:27,660
Because if one of you has the goal of,

2445
03:09:28,260 --> 03:09:31,300
you know, achieving a better work-life balance

2446
03:09:31,300 --> 03:09:36,060
by running your own business and being able to set your own hours,

2447
03:09:36,060 --> 03:09:40,380
and one of you has the goal of conquering the world

2448
03:09:40,380 --> 03:09:45,340
and taking, you know, the business fear by storm,

2449
03:09:45,340 --> 03:09:49,020
then it's gonna be hard to agree

2450
03:09:49,020 --> 03:09:54,100
when you've achieved success because you both have completely different goals.

2451
03:09:54,100 --> 03:09:54,940
And,

2452
03:09:57,980 --> 03:09:58,820
talk about that.

2453
03:10:02,980 --> 03:10:09,420
Mary, Mary Linus, Luke and Dan. Hey, Mary, Mary, Mary, Pippin.

2454
03:10:10,500 --> 03:10:13,940
Yeah, I like that. What about second Mary?

2455
03:10:13,940 --> 03:10:19,140
What are the rings is based? I'm looking, wow, hot take there, Luke.

2456
03:10:21,660 --> 03:10:25,100
You know, I'm bringing the spicy ones out today. Yeah, you're really gonna piss off

2457
03:10:25,100 --> 03:10:29,660
a lot of the community with that one. No offense, but I thought the Lord of the Rings

2458
03:10:29,660 --> 03:10:30,820
was pretty okay.

2459
03:10:34,060 --> 03:10:38,780
I'm looking to introduce my mother to a new video game this holiday season.

2460
03:10:38,780 --> 03:10:43,060
Any recommendations with good story that would be easy to learn for the elderly?

2461
03:10:45,100 --> 03:10:46,260
For the elderly.

2462
03:10:48,260 --> 03:10:49,100
Good story.

2463
03:10:51,380 --> 03:10:55,700
I feel like games are getting harder, not easier. Starting Valley Animal Crossing,

2464
03:10:55,700 --> 03:11:02,060
and I'm not typecasting because it's grandma, those are just like Animal Crossing in particular,

2465
03:11:02,060 --> 03:11:07,060
I know, was widely accepted by a non-gaming audience.

2466
03:11:09,020 --> 03:11:13,260
I think starting Valley is also a potentially lower lift

2467
03:11:13,260 --> 03:11:15,240
in regards to non-gaming audience.

2468
03:11:16,540 --> 03:11:20,180
Outside of that, I think very like narrative heavy games.

2469
03:11:20,180 --> 03:11:23,380
If you try to think of the types of games where like,

2470
03:11:23,380 --> 03:11:28,700
people would enjoy chilling on the couch while you play because it's like fun to watch

2471
03:11:28,700 --> 03:11:32,380
and then you pair that with, they're not mechanically overly difficult.

2472
03:11:33,620 --> 03:11:37,940
I suspect that would work pretty well. Promortises guitar hero.

2473
03:11:37,940 --> 03:11:42,820
Yeah, how about not? Ben Bob said Elder Scrolls Daggerfall, which is...

2474
03:11:42,820 --> 03:11:47,820
Yeah, not gonna go super well.

2475
03:11:49,620 --> 03:11:52,740
Pay-Kratt's a good suggestion, Telltale Games.

2476
03:11:52,780 --> 03:11:57,340
Just a bunch of different Telltale Games are all probably decent. If there's something in the Telltale Games universe

2477
03:11:57,340 --> 03:12:00,780
that fits their fancy, then that might be a good way to go.

2478
03:12:01,660 --> 03:12:04,420
I mean, there's Soma, you can turn the enemies off.

2479
03:12:07,780 --> 03:12:13,420
Can you actually just turn them off? Yeah, yeah, that would be fun.

2480
03:12:13,420 --> 03:12:16,580
The last one I have for you today is Hi, LLD.

2481
03:12:16,580 --> 03:12:21,340
Is there any early stage or emerging tech you're particularly excited about?

2482
03:12:21,340 --> 03:12:24,940
I mean, the emerging tech is all robotics and AI, right?

2483
03:12:24,940 --> 03:12:27,300
That's kind of the big one. AR glasses.

2484
03:12:28,780 --> 03:12:33,460
Yeah, AR glasses are pretty cool. Oh, I don't know if the thing I tried today was embargoed,

2485
03:12:33,460 --> 03:12:37,060
but it was cool. Neat.

2486
03:12:38,940 --> 03:12:42,420
I am scared about the current direction of AR glasses,

2487
03:12:42,420 --> 03:12:48,380
but I'm hoping that... But more AI? Well, yeah. And the people who are winning right now.

2488
03:12:48,380 --> 03:12:54,380
But I'm hoping that... Winning hard. Yeah, it's actually kind of weird.

2489
03:12:54,380 --> 03:12:57,380
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2490
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2504
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2505
03:14:03,740 --> 03:14:06,460
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Get it? Connect like a puzzle. That's pretty good. Connect like a camera connected to your game quality.

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I did this one with my kids. It was lots of fun. It comes with the puzzle itself.

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There's some comics. There's like a fun like a kind of checklist

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2517
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or not hidden picture, but like find the thing game,

2518
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whatever, I don't know what they're called. The point is it was more fun than just doing a regular puzzle

2519
03:15:02,280 --> 03:15:06,720
because there was actually something to do with it at the end. And it's a great way to get the family involved

2520
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2523
03:15:17,680 --> 03:15:20,980
Neat. Thank you, Proton and- It's about family.

2524
03:15:23,000 --> 03:15:26,680
Yeah. I mean, I get it. Yeah. That's a meme.

2525
03:15:26,680 --> 03:15:30,440
Is it? You're probably not chronically online enough to know the meme. Wow.

2526
03:15:30,440 --> 03:15:33,840
Fast in the family. It references back. Fast in the family.

2527
03:15:33,840 --> 03:15:37,840
Cato S. Drive car. Cato S did a really great reminder.

2528
03:15:37,840 --> 03:15:41,840
LMG.GG slash new egg. We're doing a check, B580s.

2529
03:15:41,840 --> 03:15:45,080
Can you get the, what? Is there one under MSRP?

2530
03:15:45,080 --> 03:15:49,040
239, another one down here, 239. What's our affiliate link again?

2531
03:15:50,040 --> 03:15:53,280
LMG.GG slash new egg. LMG.GG slash new egg.

2532
03:15:53,280 --> 03:15:57,080
I'm pretty sure these are gonna still have that bundle, right? Do they still have the deal? Do they have the deal?

2533
03:15:57,080 --> 03:16:00,280
No, there's no deal. I don't see it. They don't have the game bundle.

2534
03:16:00,280 --> 03:16:04,520
I thought it was supposed to still be running though. It's always while quantities last.

2535
03:16:04,520 --> 03:16:08,440
We probably sold them all last week. Got it.

2536
03:16:08,440 --> 03:16:12,080
Okay. I'm willing to bet. I just see 3D mark with this,

2537
03:16:12,080 --> 03:16:16,040
which is definitely not Battlefield 6 and whatever the other games were.

2538
03:16:16,920 --> 03:16:24,280
Like here, check this out. I bet if I go to like a lesser known retailer or something,

2539
03:16:26,080 --> 03:16:30,720
they will probably have it. Yeah, see? So like Canada computers, gift code redemption.

2540
03:16:30,720 --> 03:16:33,800
Cause the promo is still running, but I talked about this last week.

2541
03:16:33,800 --> 03:16:38,200
Is that a Canadian promo? Cause I'm looking at specifically the America.

2542
03:16:38,200 --> 03:16:42,320
Oh, I don't know any America retailers that are not new eggs.

2543
03:16:42,320 --> 03:16:46,000
So it'd be hard for me to check, but if they still had smaller retailers,

2544
03:16:47,120 --> 03:16:50,680
then I pretty much guarantee that while supplies last,

2545
03:16:50,680 --> 03:16:54,520
they would have stock of the promo cause new egg did run out of them and then they did restock them.

2546
03:16:54,520 --> 03:16:58,920
So they have a cost, right? Like Intel has to buy more copies of these games.

2547
03:16:58,920 --> 03:17:03,320
So they don't just run them for forever.

2548
03:17:03,320 --> 03:17:06,560
Yeah, that makes sense. And you know what else doesn't run forever?

2549
03:17:06,560 --> 03:17:11,400
This show that that's a good guess.

2550
03:17:11,400 --> 03:17:14,640
Oh, we'll see you again next week.

2551
03:17:14,640 --> 03:17:17,360
Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.

2552
03:17:22,520 --> 03:17:23,360
Oh.