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And we're live. What's up, everybody? We are here today with a great treat for you.
We're gonna be going through all of these Scrapyard Wars.
I'm guessing at this point, there's probably like 20 people in the chat, so shout out to you for being early.
I'm here with Star of Scrapyard Wars.
Sammy. Assistant. Hello. Assistant.
Assistant Star? No. Star Assistant. Yeah, Star Assistant.
Yeah, to the old man. What was that like being on Team Linus?
It was very chaotic. It was like, I think one of the editors
sent me a message when they were editing it. She was like, it's just like Linus running around
and then me just sitting there like zoned out. I can't even figure out what the hell is going on.
Can I say that? We're not on YouTube, we can swear a little bit.
We're not supposed to, but. Yeah, I will try not to, but like. Let's lower it.
Heck, it's okay. What's the top swear word?
Heck, no, heck's too low.
I can say that at a church. Balls.
Balls. Okay, bye. Bye.
Thanks, Dan. Bye.
Yeah, I think we should just get into it. It's not that long of a stream and these Scrapyard episodes are pretty long.
You should have seen the uncut versions.
Okay, you ready, Sammy? Yes. Let me do this.
I don't know if the stream can hear you guys whisper, but I like it.
This is the kind of stuff my girlfriend falls asleep to. ASMR.
ASMR. I find ASMR a little bit weird. Are you an ASMR person?
No, I'm not. We're gonna go all track right away. I feel like video, I watch for like beauty.
They always be like. Yeah. At the beginning I'm like, okay, like cool.
This is fun. I feel like ASMR has leveled up in the last couple of years.
Like it used to be kind of just like whispery and like crinkly things, but now it's like more percussive.
Like you said, like there's more like fingernails tapping. One of the ones that I was laughing at was like,
the person was like coconut, coconut, coconut, coconut, coconut, coconut.
It's like music class. Like first, like when you're in elementary school
or whatever and they teach you like blueberry pineapples.
Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like yeah, the rhythms or whatever.
So if you're a big ASMR person, please let us know.
Give us your recommendations, big fan.
Anyways, Scrapyard Wars. Scrapyard Wars, where Luke and I compete
to build the best computer on a fixed budget. And this year, it's gonna be interesting
because we get to play with an enormous $800,
including $100 to spend on whatever we want
from our sponsor, Jawa. It was like 135 Canadian dollars.
Say that again. It was like 135 Canadian dollars on top.
Well, that was, it was both budgets. So it'd be 1400 CAD that he was holding.
And then we had the $100 on Jawa, which I think was a pretty cool integration.
Shout out to our sponsor, Jawa, for this thing.
It integrated really naturally. There's sometimes we do sponsored videos where it's like, it feels so tacked on
or it's just like heavy, but this was like, that's pretty natural. We're trying to buy computer stuff and we got it.
So that was a big shout out, big, big, big, big shout out.
Setups will be put through the ultimate gauntlet to find out who wins Scrapyard Wars.
We had a very different intro than, not very different. We had a much longer intro than this where they,
drive away and come back. And the joke is that like we're at the office
and I'm glad we cut it because you don't need that.
It's so funny when you envision things in your head and you're writing, you have a strong idea
of how things should flow. Except for one major change.
But then you see it in edit and you're like, this is all superfluous and totally unnecessary.
That's a, yeah. We still aren't allowed to restart the work plan
off hours. No, I came in like halfway through here. What were you doing at this point in the day?
Uh, sleeping in. Oh, that sounds pretty nice.
Are you a morning person? No. What time does the day start for you?
Honestly, I've erupted mainly at 10.30.
That's not too bad. To wake up and like maybe roll around.
No, it's not a get out of bed at 10.30. You're not building just a computer.
You're doing a full gaming setup for $800. Oh, so like monitor keyboard models?
So as you guys have seen, the kind of stick this year
is that we got them into makeup. And the idea was really so that they could negotiate more
in person and have that lead us with limiting factor.
Although if you've seen the series, it came into play a little less than I was hoping.
But there's some really good interactions,
especially on Sammy and Linus's team,
about, you know, close calls or people kind of recognizing
or something like that. Your team definitely was the better team
for the interactions. Could you lower the audio a little bit on the video?
What do you think for the last name? David?
Yeah, lowering it. I think the one thing about our team was like, we never,
I mean, in fact, we tried to negotiate really hard. And then like, I think for some of the stuff,
we got such a good deal like that, like whatever,
like NAS system. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and it was like 200 bucks. And it was already an insane deal. And then like, Linus talked to him down to 180.
And then he was like, oh, I got someone else offering for 200. Like, you know, even if he showed up in disguise
and didn't get caught, like it wouldn't have done anything because he had other buyers.
And I think, yeah, so that was kind of hard,
especially because now there's like E-transfer. It's not like, oh, I'm short 20 bucks.
Like, that's all I have, right? It's like, well, suck it up. E-transfer, meet the 20 bucks, right?
So I think like the negotiation part was like a little different.
I think Elijah was the only one who had one opportunity where he could have negotiated.
And then he actually did get recognized. And someone was like, aren't you that guy for a multi-team?
I guess I should ask you, have you watched Skapeard Wars? Or were you like, I can't watch myself.
I hate this. I watched it out of curiosity.
And it was like weird to hear my voice. But then I think I kind of got used to it
after the first episode. Definitely was like weird to see myself on camera,
especially because like the different angles and like the lenses that we use or whatever,
like it distorts like, yeah. We're all 30% more attractive in person, OK?
30% more attractive. Please, believe me.
No, I 100% understand. I don't know how you feel.
I hate seeing myself on camera. I wish I could never be on camera.
It's less about the voice. It's more about the like what you look like. Because yeah, like when you're looking in a mirror,
we're going to get into some self-esteem shit right here.
I always find like, I'm like, oh, yeah, I look fine. And then you see yourself in a camera and it doesn't hide anything.
You're like, I look like that? No, I don't look like that.
I sent that photo to my friend. I was like, do I look like this?
And I sent it to a guy. So I was like, because I know, like he's like one
of those people who just like tells you as it is. He's like, no, you don't actually look like that.
And I was like, OK, let's find that. Question for you, was that the right thing in that situation
or should that guy have been like, no, you look so much
prettier real-life? Well, the thing is like I went and I was like, I don't like how I look.
So I already told him like, it wasn't like, oh, do I look like this?
Like zero context, whether I like it or don't like it. And then he's like, imagine if I really
like how I look on camera. And he's like, yeah, you look nothing like that.
That'd be really sad. But since I was like, oh, like I, you know.
Then he was like, yeah, I don't think you actually look like that. You look very like not very different,
but it's almost like an evil twin kind of thing. Yeah, I think the camera captures one kind of part
of your essence, like as a general statement, not you in particular.
And it's like, that's not necessarily how you come across. But I definitely understand.
Like I've been definitely eating healthier and going to the gym more after watching Scrapyard
or so many times. Anyways, let's get back into the video. I actually have two questions.
Oh, OK. Yeah, I have one question here from ZetaZATA21.
How did Java get depart so quickly? So yeah, so the normal process for Java is, you know,
you order and it comes in whatever estimate there is.
Because it was a sponsored thing, we had arranged beforehand to have them expedited.
And so it was a very non-normal process
to get things expedited. And then the one thing we didn't get in time
was the SSD that was ordered NVIDIA 2, I believe, or day 2.
And so that would have had to arrive same day, which is impossible.
Even Amazon stuff. It's like you can only get it same day if you order it in the morning.
And this was like afternoon by the time they had asked. And so that was the one we did a swap for.
But everything we got in time, but peek behind the curtain,
before it arrived, we had found local replacements for everything to make sure if it didn't arrive,
we would have it. And that they could use it immediately
and make sure that Linus's team, like they got a GPU. That's a pretty core component if they wanted to test.
They had something to test with and making sure that it was all good.
So it's not exactly representative of how it would be.
But Java was great working with us. They got it to a super fast. I was kind of surprised the next day stuff was arriving.
And I was like, whoa. But I wouldn't expect that if you're
doing a regular Java purchase. That's the kind of the deal we had made with them
to make this work as part of the concept of the video. What's question 2?
It's for Sammy, actually, from Tommy Blue. Was Linus's method acting a problem off camera?
Sorry, method acting? Being an old person, acting like an old person.
Oh, yeah. It's just the whole time we were driving one time.
And he was just talking in, I think, part of it got into the video.
Or he was just talking into a very southern accent. And then actually, clarification.
He was talking in a southern accent. And I was like, you should take tips from Gary.
And then someone wrote in the comments that I was being super offensive towards Gary.
And I was like, no, it's not because Gary's old. It's because Gary is from Texas.
So. Yeah. Gary's got communication on that show. He has one of those really lovely voices that is very,
and I mean this in the nicest way. I know Gary's not watching this. I know he's not watching this.
He's not. But it's very, like, muppet-esque in the most pleasant
of ways. Like, he kind of. Like, he's high soothing. Yeah, he speaks from the throat, not from the chest.
And it's very, like, light and pleasant. But he's so mean in the nice way that it's kind of unnerving
when you get that beautiful, nice man pleasant tone.
And then he says something so sassy. Yes, he's very sassy. He's probably especially sassy with you.
Well, not you in particular, but because you work with Labs, he has a closer relationship.
But he's not mean sassy. No, no, no. It's funny. Yeah. He's the kind of sassy I like.
Anyways. That did the video. I mentioned offhand a bit ago, some sort of anarchy.
There was, like, Teller, Dax, Morrow. I bet you never watched Sons of Anarchy.
Morrow. I like Duke Morrow. Duke Morrow is a good name. You know what the end result for the makeup is supposed to be.
Have you given any thought to your identity as this final episode?
So booking this makeup was a whole ordeal, because it's not just like they can show up and do this.
But we had tried to reach out a couple of times a long time ago,
and then it sort of fell through the cracks. And it got closer and closer. And instead of the original plan was to go and have their faces
get a mold so that we can get custom stuff. But it happened when we finally connected too late in the game.
So I had to be kind of generic appliances. The usual secondhand marketplaces.
Facebook has come up with a big, well-known product. I don't know if I'm supposed to say the dollar amount,
but the makeup for this video is by far the most expensive thing
I've ever gotten procured for a video.
Like it wasn't even close. Oh, a small request from chat.
Do you mind pausing when we're talking like for a good time?
OK, yeah. The stream is going to now go until 2 AM.
Or the volume maybe. Yeah, but buckle in floaters and twitchers?
Internet people. Chat. Chat's a good generic all around one.
I refuse to use the term netizens. Netizens? That's a thing, huh?
Yeah. That's illegal. I hate it. We refuse.
Like crappy old Lenovo pre-built, they're local.
Honestly, so far, finding the things on Java seems the easiest,
but I'm trying to make sure that I look everywhere. We'll shop around.
A 6,700 XT is like 400 Canadian dollars on Facebook.
Yeah, I've been as low as... I don't really want to pause every time, but I guess we will.
I've been surprised at how hard it is to get used parts again.
Like I want to upgrade my GPU. And I mean, that's a very different category of GPU
than what is in this video. But GPUs have gotten expensive again, and I'm very annoyed.
Guys, we have 240 US dollars on Java.
So it's like 320 bucks. Wow. Oh yeah, aside from pricing, there's a couple of talking points.
Put the market in the hands of gamers. You can find parts, pre-built systems, new end used,
and they've got individually vetted, verified sellers.
So that's probably what I'm going to want to go with so I can make sure that we get it shipped up here in time.
That's exactly right. Are we considering things like shipping costs and stuff like that?
No, no, no, no. We're getting it like expedited, so it'll arrive tomorrow. They're not actually available in Canada.
They're making an exception for us. I kind of wish they would. That's also another part of it.
We can get this right now. Meet your teammate. What's up, brother?
Yes, okay. I'm curious to see what you think, because I allowed it,
but it sort of felt cheating-ish a little bit.
Elijah showed up early every day.
So this day, you know, I think I gave you guys a noon start.
Because you guys were going to go late that day. And Elijah shows up, I think, ten this day.
And the next day, it was supposed to be ten, and I showed up at... He was yelling at me.
He was like, you guys cheated. I didn't like, because we did the whole thing
where we had like the, we sold, we bought parts and then we sold some of them and...
Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then he was like afterwards. He's like, I can't believe you guys did that.
That's cheating. And like, we didn't do that. We thought about it.
And then here he is showing up two hours early. Yeah. And when I was like talking to him about it, he was, I was like,
hey, man, he's like, oh, don't worry.
Don't worry. I'm not, I'm doing this. I'm volunteering. I'm not getting paid for this.
And I'm like, that's not the issue. So I will talk to him later about that when he's here.
I think he's on at like one or something. What's Sammy? What time is Elijah on?
I think he's on around 12. 12.
Okay. So stay tuned for me.
Gotcha. Well, Eli is in chat. He said, he said, bruh, bruh.
So I think he, I think he's getting ready to defend himself.
Be prepared. Yeah. Yeah. It's only taking and it's so not fair.
Yeah. Don't don't do it in chat. Save it for your, for your appearance. Yeah. I also have two more questions for you.
We have one from my tier E. Mytor.
Did no one think to have lines not take his Porsche?
Yeah. So we actually, I actually made that exact comment before we left,
but because we were in such a rush, I like, I had to drive my car
somewhere and then it was like not on the right spot for us to like leave.
And then we had to go, go, go because the guy was like, I need to be like
out by this time. So we just drove the Porsche and I remember like sitting there being like,
I'm pretty sure we're going to get recognized for that. But yeah, it was like, it was because it's so hectic that like, you know,
it just, it just didn't work out to drive my car. So yeah, because like, I don't think people understand or appreciate
how short of a shooting cycle this is. Normally we do scrap your words over five days of shooting and we produce
three or four videos. We did the opposite. We shot it over three days and produced four videos.
And so the time limits were very, very tight. Just for that, like the last day, we essentially had no time to like actually
like buy and procure parts because we had to build the PC by the end of the second day.
So yeah. Yeah, I had sort of done that by design where the PCs had to be ready
on the second day, which is two days less than normal.
But I wanted it so that, yeah, the last day, if you needed to get anything, it could be sort of the easy pickups.
And then people, I kind of counted on people making weird compromises
to sort of make it work. And I thought the setups, why should we can't talk about part four?
We can't talk about that yet. I know it's it's hard. I like the setups. Can I say that?
Yeah, yeah, actually you'll be very impressed when we get to part four.
So stay tuned. It's going to be up on full plane as long as everything goes right tomorrow,
but if not Saturday, trust us, it's not for lack of trying to get it to on time.
There's just so much footage to go through. I think we can.
Can we are you comfortable seeing how long the rough cut was?
For which video? Oh, the fun episode.
So, I mean, the first scrubbing through the footage with
Hoffman, I did it was 18 hours and that's just kind of like everything end to end.
Because there's multiple cameras. And so it was long because it was a long day as well of shooting.
The the first like cut cut was about an hour and a half, I believe.
And we're currently the cut I saw two days ago was 50 minutes.
And the aim my original aim was to get it to 40, but it's probably going to be about 45.
And that's because it's great and it's packed full of content.
We don't want to like cut anything out. We did that mistake. That's actually if you guys want to know what happened in the gap between
episode one and two, where we needed an extra week. We had originally a rough cut, you know, 40 minute rough cut.
And I asked for it to be cut to close to 20 minutes.
But what happened was we kind of lost the sparkle. We lost the meat of Scrapper Wars and it was just the story.
We didn't have the character moments. And so when we got deep into review, we realized
we are we are missing it. We're not nailing it.
And so we had to go back a couple of edits and reinserts all the character
stuff and like the comments and like the things that aren't necessarily
the story, but it's the characters. And that's actually what I think Scrapper Wars, what I've learned,
sort of producing this series of Scrapper Wars is it's less about the story
because it's like the story is pretty simple. It's just, you know, building build a computer, though the best computer
again on a budget, but it's always about the people.
Sorry, was I really? Yeah, I don't know.
It's OK. The video is just there to encourage questions.
Look, I'm not in any of these parts. Yeah, kind of sweetest dumb ahead.
Yeah, yeah, we can get back to him later.
The video. Yeah. And, you know,
I also love when you walk in on this video.
It's probably pretty close to this. I should have a quick question from Talaka 1K.
How much how much time did makeup take?
So about four hours per day.
And so have you appeared yet? Yes, I'm a little later, later, later, later, later.
You just skipped over when I walk in. Later. More or we got this.
Sorry. There. It was right here.
Yeah, we I had budgeted about four hours. And so the original start time was eight.
And we were aiming to be out of makeup by 12. So that's why the the assistants were coming in at 12.
So there'd be a little bit of Luke and Linus time getting the makeup, but then we could start the real stuff.
No, well, I just showed up early.
I also showed up on time and then like Linus was still getting ready.
Yes. Well, the big problem was Linus was very late.
Yeah, it was 8 a.m. start, which was funny, because the film industry, these are like the makeup artists are people
that are working in the film industry, not necessarily in makeup currently,
but in different parts of the makeup industry.
And when they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, we can be there early for them.
Early is, you know, 3 a.m. 4 a.m. And so when I told them 8 a.m., they were very pleased.
Yeah, that's a big sleep in for them. But then yeah, Linus just slept in.
So I think it's an extra or something, right, Sammy?
Yes, on the episode one full plane extras,
we have Linus walking in at like nine o'clock.
It's actually not too bad. That's earlier than I remember him being. But yeah, so that pushed everything back.
So I think it was probably about one 30 that people were out because we wanted to shoot and it's funny because it hurt Team Luke as well
because we need to shoot the intro before. So it's not like Luke would get into makeup,
although the second day he did get brightened to make up because we were
shooting as if no time had passed. And so we didn't need for it to be synced up the same way as day one.
But Team Luke was not pleased that they had to wait.
They were like, they should be more punished. And honestly, I'm curious what you think.
And I'm thinking I'm going to ask everybody because watching back everything,
I think it was too easy on you guys. I should have been harder. Yeah, I was surprised with.
OK, so there is like misinterpretation. I thought it was like the last pick up is at six for like the second day.
And then is that genuine? Yes, I genuinely thought like I like because you said it ends at six, right?
So why does it matter where I am? You know what I mean? I said, the computers have to be handed in at five.
So where did this mix up? I like nobody told us that we had to like be like,
I was told that we had to be done the computers at five.
So we were done, right? But we didn't we weren't physically there to like hand it in.
Yeah. But then like, you know, Elijah was told,
like you had to physically be there at five and then like you were done at six.
So that's where that was kind of that was the challenge, because I actually it was, I think, a big miscommunication because
I wasn't sure what I had told you guys. And that's the problem.
Why I was like, I can't remember if I said, like, because we had talked and
like I can't I don't think it made it into part three. But you guys were going away and I I I stepped in and helped a little bit
just by up installing drivers and updating Windows and stuff.
That's just not important for the video. No, but and we also had finished the computer like way before five.
Yeah, it was like three ish PM or something. We were done the piece that we had done assembling.
I think where the miscommunication happened was that I I started to suspect
that you guys had purposefully disconnected the hard drive
because you knew it would lower your benchmark,
because I immediately plugged it in at work and I was like, oh, that's weird.
No, like there's footage of Linus, literally, like, you know, the blocks,
like just trying to shove it. It's a footage. Just a footage. You guys just generated that for the video.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. And so I was genuinely unsure of what had been agreed
because, yeah, I think I one of the big things I learned was
the rules have to be more explicit. I thought that it was going to be on sportsman like
and people are going to have an understanding of things. And I knew that Linus was going to work on the rules.
And that's actually I was hoping he would. I was hoping you'd be in a little bit of cheating.
But it's not technically cheating. It's not technically cheating.
It's just kind of miscommunication. And I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you.
And so that's why I was so easy about that one was because I wasn't
sure what had been agreed upon. I think the other team was a little bit.
Too upset because, like you said, your computer was ready.
You were just making pickups and like we had known we had just like drop it off in the lab at 3 p.m. or whatever.
But then we weren't like, even then, like, even if you said, oh, you had to drop it and buy five, it wasn't clear.
Like you had to be there at five. Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, yeah, if I hand in like an assignment a day early, like, why should I get penalized for that kind of thing?
He he got me with the content line.
And I know he knew that he was going to get me with the content line because he's in makeup.
And so I would way rather you guys be out for an extra hour.
And I have to wait around for you guys one more hour.
If you're in makeup doing pickups, then the next day, like it doesn't.
It's so much less interesting when he's not in makeup. Also, you would have never gotten the thing where like we roll up to
the address and line is like, this is where Luke lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so I think that it's one of those things that, you know, I know
there's there's people that think the rules are the most important part of
the scrapper wars, but I think it's the spirit of scrapper wars. That's the most important.
Yeah, what's up? Oh, yeah, I guess we could go to Y cam.
We did it. Should be like, are we just going to?
And so, yeah, I don't know. I, I, um, I was watching back and I'm going to, I think even ask everybody
if I should have been harder and I expect one team to have a different answer.
I feel like the time penalty should have been a little harder, like
cause we were like, I can't say.
I can't talk about the penalty. Um, but like when we were late, like we were like, we'll take a penalty
and whatever that penalty was, I was like a little surprised that it was like
not like 1.5 times.
So yeah, I was considering doing that. But again, it's just like we are making a video first.
And it's like not that important and it didn't really hugely affect things.
If you guys would have had an extra half an hour docked off. Yeah.
Um, yeah. And I think there was like that one half an hour where there was like all this
content for the last video that like would not, I mean, I don't know what made
it into the final video, but there was like some crazy crap stuff that happened.
And what I was trying to shape more than anything is as much, uh,
trash talk time as possible. So they, in the final video, you'll see this isn't really a spoiler.
But they're going to be on the same set divided by like a curtain.
Yeah. Um, and I wanted as much time of, you know, them head to head as possible.
Yeah. Instead of more driving around. We've gotten two videos, two and a half videos of driving around doing stuff.
And we didn't need more of that content. Although there is a little bit more of that content in the next video.
And so I, I made soft calls for the purpose of content.
I'm curious what you guys think if it was a huge mistake or if you understand sort of the rationale, but we're going to move on in the video a
little bit right now. See some focused GM 550 will not come with storage.
Okay. That's what's missing on this buddy for 400.
All right. Just send in some messages, send in some messages.
Highline it. Never better. Oh God.
Okay. This shot is one of my favorites of the whole thing.
It's like, it's like a horror movie. I don't know why it's like, uh, yeah.
What, oh, smile.
That's the, that's the new poster for smile too.
There's me laughing almost exactly how I just laughed. What the frick is wrong with me?
The reverse of what happened when he shaved his beard off. Honestly, things are going a little rough for team Linus and Sammy.
Okay. I found a couple of pretty good deals. A lot of people make comments about how I keep saying, okay, but it's just
because I didn't know what to say, but I also don't want to just stand there and be like, come on, he's talking.
Well, it's, it's always tough balance too, because like, I actually, there
was a cut early on that had more of you like sassing Linus and it made it very
funny, but it, a lot of it just sort of like slowed the pace down and we're
trying to get to kind of like the end. And so I felt a little bit bad at the later cuts because there's a lot of you
just being like kind of almost seeming lost, even though you weren't like, you
really stepped into your element. And I think you were, you were a fantastic competitor overall, but you were
also like a fantastic on camera presence.
Uh, and I feel like the first three minutes of your appearance, don't do
you justice, although I've noticed in the comments, everyone really likes
your, your, your, your presence. So, well, I mean, I think Chewy filtered in the comments like, she sucks.
I hate her. Never heard about you like, I'm sure somebody somewhere like thought that
like you can't please everyone. Yeah. If you scroll deep enough, there's always bad comments.
Like I always, uh, I have to stop scrolling at about, you know, 100
comments on a video or whatever. Cause then it starts to be the like, it's kind of fucking stupid.
Uh, and the answer is yes. The answer is definitive.
Yes. Yeah. I stopped scrolling after I saw a few comments that were genuinely very comfortable.
Oh, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I just kind of laugh it off.
Okay. I kind of expected it. Yeah. I just like to take it as like a funny thing.
I have some feedback for the, the penalties.
I think most people are okay with it. Uh, it would have been nice if it was laid out prior so then they could have
potentially stride around it, but yeah. I think that's also true.
Yeah. That's one of the things that I was managing was kind of how clear
things should be up front and how much was me balancing the teams.
Cause to be fair though, I think even if you laid it up up front, like Linus
and I literally decided on the full PC before you even sent us the rule.
So we actually didn't read the rule book, which was the point. I didn't want things to be targeted specifically to what we're doing.
And I designed the benchmarks around being all around systems.
You'll see in part four, um, including what the lab's testing is.
Is it just like him? That's there. Oh, then I have to see myself so big.
Um, we, uh, I, part of it is again, Game Master David trying to make
sure that everything's going off. There was a fear, um, early on that one team would get really far ahead or
be a clear winner. And so I wanted to have the tools in my back pocket and I didn't actually
use some of them, um, for auto balancing and making sure that like a team
that's sort of having more trouble is going to. So you're like a university proff trying to like scale Mark Stone.
Yeah, exactly. I was grading on a bell curve. Um, I, uh, I basically just chose who I liked.
Who ever had the better content actually? Yeah.
No, um, and so yeah, it's tough, uh, even like all that you guys don't know
a secret, um, the way that some of the stuff was being scored, wasn't locked
in until later in the competition, because I wanted to have the ability to
make it close until the end. I didn't want it to be some kind of blowout because I don't want to watch
a reality series where it's like, you know, one team, it
wins, they win after the first challenge and then there's seven more challenges. But why am I watching the other ones?
Yeah. And it's like, I, it's like F one. Yeah.
Last season. Sure. I've never watched F one. Are you a big F one person?
Yeah. It was like at one point, like Max Verstappen was so ahead that he could just
like race and like come in 10th. He's got like a Starbucks cup.
He's just like literally, or I'm sure at one point, like he could just not show
up and still win by a mile. Like it was like everybody was making jokes.
It was like, oh, F one is all of a sudden very interesting if you just cover the first, you know, if you just cover the first place and then everybody
else, oh, but now, you know, um, that's what I've always found with sports is
yeah, blowouts are never fun unless it's your team doing the blowing out.
Cause then you're like, yeah, hell yeah. But, uh, in general, making reality content.
And then like I'm being very transparent about this ability for me to pull the
strings and make sure things are balanced. Uh, that's a very normal thing, uh, across all reality shows that they always
have ways to make sure that things get closer.
Uh, and they'll even be, I think more crappy about it.
Like I watch a lot of drag race, like RuPaul's drag race. And you can tell when that, do you want to try a race?
Yes. Well, I haven't watched them like more recently.
Yeah. I do. Can't Canada versus the world the new season. So good.
Um, you can tell when they're auto balancing.
Some wins where it's like, all things are kind of equal and it could be these two
people, but they need this person to get a win so that it's closer later in the
thing, or this person really deserve to win, but they already have three.
And so they're going to give it to someone who has zero so that it's like, it's all closer.
Uh, and I think part of that is, you know, kindness to not have anyone be blown
out, but part of it is TV. You're making a reality TV show.
You're not, it's not the Olympics. It's entertainment and we're back.
Oh, I found one okay deal, but he needs two hours to change the camera for
787 hundred, which is okay.
Yeah, that's like worse than I play games that run on a hamster wheel.
So what I really want is a Ryzen 3000 series.
There's a couple of good deals out there. One of them I can call, but none of this stuff is going to be super interesting.
So I'm going to scrub through this because we're probably getting to the end of our 30 minutes with Sandy.
So Luke is, uh, Eli's coming at 1145. I pushed his time.
Okay. Hey there.
I was just calling. I just heard back from a buddy with the $400, $3,600 machine.
It's got a 1660 super in it already. We could probably flip that for a few bucks before 50 a pro max.
Yeah. This was like mostly Linus because he had spent some time like in the chair,
like thinking about it. And I was kind of like, I wasn't, I figured like he would know better than I did.
So I kind of just like let him do his own thing. And then I was there to like support in that sense.
Like I think, um, I wasn't really short calling or like making any decisions
until like later on, because like this had already been set up and we were on
such a time crunch, um, that I, I, I just didn't think I would know any better.
Yeah. Well, that's probably fair. And it's, we can maybe talk about why I picked you.
Right. Yeah. Someone was like, why'd you get picked? And I was like, I don't know.
And so there was a short list, you know, a few weeks before we're shooting a
figuring out who it's going to be, and we're trying to like have non-usual people.
And so Elijah actually wasn't really in the short list until late in the game.
And it just made a lot of sense. But it's surprising.
I'm not even on the website. Um, really?
Yeah. Like I requested to not be on the website because I started, um, like, yeah, I started
at a certain time and, um, I was like, I didn't really like, I just don't really
want to be like out there, to be honest. Like generally speaking, I just didn't want to be on the website.
Do we have a veil, uh, Sammy? I mean, I've gotten to the point where like, I was like, yeah, I can be fine on the
website, feel more comfortable with it. But then like we stopped doing like the monthly shoots or whatever.
So then I was like, I just didn't get a chance to be on the website. Um, but yeah, then there was like a bunch of comments.
Like there, I think there was like a Reddit post and like the forum post and like a
bunch of people were like, where is she? Did she get fired? Like, did she quit?
And I was like, I was like, you know, it's like fun, not fun, but it's like,
interesting that like people, you know, care or whatever. But, uh, I guess they were just curious as to like what I do.
Cause I think we don't really go over it. Yeah. Yeah. We, we didn't do like, hi, my name's Sammy.
Like I do crafts and I do data viz. Um, but yeah. So people were probably just curious as to like what my title was or like what I do.
Well, what is your title? Use your chance to clear the air data visualization specialist.
I make like charts. So I designed like the charts for web, uh, sort of for videos and I also for like
the Labs website and, um, for internal reporting stuff as well.
So, um, yeah, that's what I do. But like some people, I guess, were curious about it and could find me on the
websites and like, oh, I guess she already left like weird, like before the video
coming in, like that's fair. Cause like, I see like 99% of the company is on there, but I'm like one of
like the five people that are, yeah. But someone like wrote like, oh, put her on the website.
She was in scrapyard wars and like, how could you leave her off? And then someone was like, it's by choice.
Like she chose not to be there. I am so grateful for the fandom's enthusiasm, uh, and support.
Yeah. I was like, I also, I also. I also think, uh, you need to recognize that we're regular people with, uh, regular
constraints and sometimes we don't want to do things exactly, uh, the regular way.
And you can also chill, but I thought it was cool.
I was like, oh, I didn't think people cared enough. Like, you know, um, but yeah, only care.
I got two questions here. Uh, first one is various people asked us.
So, uh, I'll just generalize it. Um, they wanted to, uh, if you had to choose the next console for scrapyard
wars, uh, what would it be next concept? Yeah. Like, we don't, we don't have the promise that it's just, you know, if you could
make a concept and it was approved, what would it be? Uh, one billion dollar scrapyard wars.
Um, that's not a really scrapyard wars. That's like, okay.
No, you buy a whole scrapyard. That's the point. You don't have a look in line is like doing the actual like building and stuff.
You just have them like as like almost advisors. And I think that idea was like thrown out and literally like during the thing where
it's like, you know, instead of having one assistant, you have like a team and then
like the mentor, it's like, it's like, uh, the voice or whatever, kind of like that.
So like people still watch for the celebrity judges, but they also get to meet new people and then you don't have, like, then you get more negotiation and
fun stuff, but then you won't get the cool interaction. So that's like kind of 50, 50, um, whether that would work or not.
But I think it'd be like more interesting in terms of like chaos.
Oh, a hundred percent. You're more constrained and you have less like expertise, I guess.
I, I, if I was to make changes, um, the one thing I learned from this one is
that keeping it simple is the best. Uh, we've tried to like, you know, change it up a little too much in the past.
And it's interesting as a thought experiment, like the one where they, their travel was part of the budget.
It's an interesting thought experiment and it's interesting for, you know, people
that are using public transit to get their bus or their computer parts, but it
makes it that so much of the drama is, uh, is limited to, yeah, like the transit.
And so it's cool one time. Um, and so if I were to do it again, I would want to keep it simple.
And this time the stick was basically to allow us to bring it back to basics.
You know, it's the makeup is very expensive, but it allows for the human
interactions again, not everyone to be like, it's Linus.
And so what I would want to do is still keep the regular constraints of scrap rewards.
I think I would drop the setup again, just tower.
But I think one thing we've talked about in the past and I've seen comments about, I think Sammy even sent this one is doing it in a different place.
We've done LA, which was good. And we had the teams, um, I think it was Paul and Kyle for that one.
But I think it would be really fun to go somewhere really unknown and try
and just like make it work. Maybe have a local guide person to help you do it.
Um, I think it'd be really fun to do somewhere that's not like maybe the first
time somewhere easy, uh, like a English speaking European country or something.
But I think the ultimate would be somewhere like Taiwan or, uh, South
Korea or something. And just like the basic concept, but it's like a lot more about a travel vlog.
But again, that it's, it's hard to know. Another note about the makeup is I saw, I think there was some feedback about how
like, oh, the disguises, like some, some people thought it was good.
Some people thought it was like, Oh, I could still tell it's Linus and like, you know, it was like, you know, whatever.
Um, and I think part of the problem is like when we're watching the video and
you're like clicking on it, it's like, this is an LTG video. You expect Linus to be in it, right?
But if you're just a kid, like selling a computer part, you do not expect Linus,
like Sebastian to like walk up to your door and like, I want to buy this
like random PC part really, you know, um, and I think that, that, that's actually
what happened like with, um, or like in our side.
Um, like there's, uh, one kid, he was like, you went to his house.
Yeah. We went to his house and then like, he like recognized Linus after Linus was
like, you know, would you recognize him if you saw him in person? Kind of thing. And he's like, wait a minute.
Right. And it's so bad for him. He reaches out to shake his mind and lives his life.
I don't know. Merch message only then you can shake my hand.
But yeah, I think, I think it's like the context of it really changes whether
you recognize them or not. I see a lot just right here. What's up Elijah? He looks mad.
Yeah. He's like, you want to interrupt and then everyone started talking.
Elijah, oh, to defend his honor. I am.
And so we're not going to finish this video. We can scrub through.
They got their makeup shopping part. Oh, I love your shopping part.
Yeah. People like you. I like the 30 70. Oh, we can do, um, true.
Uh, 45.
Okay. I don't have the button for it.
We're here at Valley Village. Linus gave me $50 in cash. I was tasked to.
This is actually the first part I was actually on camera for, like other than the I met Linus, like a meaty, like this is the first time I was actually
talking to the camera. Oh yeah. We'd like sent you. Yeah, you do a great job. You're, there was one line here that I was like, Hoffman, if you take it out,
I will, I will scream. Yeah.
You know, the camera guy Andrew, he was like, I actually want that afterwards.
The sweater. Yeah. It's a nice sweater. It looks very, very much like him.
But not like a real adult. I think this one is more fitting of a boomer man with a daughter-at-law who's 23 years
old, how much is this one? 799 would be really funny if we had a fedora.
His head's kind of small. I didn't, you know what?
I don't think I remember or notice that that was just like a thought.
It was edited as a thought. Yeah, I mean either 799.
Well, it was an actual thought I had. Yeah. But like that's smart because we were struggling to condense all the good
stuff into a short amount of time. So having you look at it, stealing the audio from somewhere else,
making it a little echoey, makes it, uh, that you, you're implying that.
As I'm looking at it, yeah. It's like you're thinking about it. Yeah. I actually apologized to Linus after I was like, I'm sorry,
just keep roasting you. Just kind of happens. He's like, oh no, it's good for content.
And I was like, yes. Oh, Linus has the toughest skin of anyone here. You have to go with a cap then.
We'll go with this one. It's very beige and sad.
Like, you know the sad beige like children toys? Like that was like a meme, but like nobody understood it.
If you were like, oh, it's not that bad. It's like, you like, I have something. I was like, no, like it's like, it's a, the people that like paint the toys.
Yes. The toy and all their toys cannot have color and their clothes are all
beige and sad. That was a joke. I like, I'm not, I like to be not super judgmental, but I think there's
something really strange about not wanting your kids to have bright colors
because it doesn't match your house. Yeah. Like brother, a child, they should be enjoying bright colors.
Yeah. Anyways, don't paint your kids toys beige.
Yes. That's all I'm saying. Is there hard? We were also, sorry.
Now you're good. Oh, we were also trying to hide the camera from the workers.
So it was like really awful. Yeah.
Cause you had a camera here. It wasn't a phone, right? Yeah.
We had a full camera, like a rig. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, he's like, he's so short.
So I think getting shorts is like the safer option here.
Kaki might work. Like he goes boating and fishing every once in a while.
He sold his house for $3 million, even though he bought it for 150,000.
It matched. Okay, can I clarify this one?
So some people thought he genuinely sold his house for that much.
No. No, the joke is like his stereotype archetypes would have done that.
And people are like, oh my God, like, yeah, haha, funny. This is like an exaggeration, funny.
No, like my, my mom, I went to brunch with my mom and her friends like two
weekends ago and or like a few weekends before like that.
Yeah. And that's why I made that joke, because she, she sold her house for that price
after buying it for 150 million, 150,000.
And she's like, I'm just retiring. Like anything is like, that's not even like special.
Like that's just normal here. I wish. And I'm like, oh, we're buying these houses.
We probably shouldn't get too much into that. No, no, no, no, no, you don't need to apologize.
I'm preparing, I'm prepping myself and my mouth not to go into it because I can
rant nonstop about this, the state of the world.
But I think that it is such a funny little comment about, you know, the boomer culture
or whatever. And we're creating this caricature of what an old person looks like.
Yeah, it's not a dig. Like, I mean, it's smart, right? If you're, if you have that value and you need the money, like and your kids moved
on, whatever, like sell your house, right? But like it was just to clarify, this was supposed to be just like what I imagine
he would do and would look like and, you know, fit into the outfit as well.
And yeah, yeah, well, part of the problem is the, the boomers aren't selling their
houses and so sell your house, please, please.
We're good.
You look like that could just be your. I like this interaction.
I wish we had more coverage of Luke and Linus before James seeing them.
Cause it's actually unclear what you're coming into until after. And it works.
I think it's a place for a laugh. But that's the challenge of one shooter per team is that it feels like there's
a lot of interactions, like little details that we're missing.
But it's crazy that your hair is like grown back, Elijah.
Yeah, it looks good. How much it's grown already.
I just look older and like I had some bad decisions. Great decisions.
This actually might be my favorite part of this video. This, cause this video is barely scrappy at wars.
It's mostly looking up stuff, hanging out, and then the reaction to each
other's makeup is what makes me the most happy in this video.
Like I love that shot. I think I actually, that was me that had a camera because I think Andrew was
still out at this point. I think it was me shooting that. So that's shot of the series.
Do you want to say I was out with Andrews? Yeah. Wow.
Genius. Actually, there's one shot that I will point out when we get to it.
That is my shot of the series. Um, make your guesses in the chat flow plane.
If you guys are just joining, we're doing basically director commentary. Not really.
We're just hanging out. We were just cutting. That sounds emo.
Well, we weren't supposed to like talk over the video, but then we have so much to
say, we just, we all like each other's companies. We're all friends here.
That's part of joining. You sign a waiver would have been better that like I'm reviewing the
video that I'm not really in so that I can stop yapping.
I would never like stop. Like there's so many things that like had more contacts and then like, it's not
that it was like taken out of context completely, but there wasn't like the
full context. Yeah. Well, that's always the challenge, right? Is sometimes, you know, you have a one minute scene of like getting, you're
getting to the point, uh, but it doesn't play super well.
You need it to be 15 seconds of lead up. So you have to cut away all the like stumbles that sort of point your
brain towards what they're saying. And then it has to be a very specific thing.
And it's not the full picture, but, uh, I don't think you said anything too bad.
What was the worst thing you said in this video? In this one, yeah, it was probably either like the boomer comment and it's great.
I give that a 10 out of 10. I was a little worried that like people wouldn't get what I was saying and like
wouldn't find it funny, but apparently people found it really funny. I laughed so hard.
I feel like you've maybe got a bit of an advantage here because people will be like nice to the old grandpa trying to buy a computer for probably one of
us. So that was that was actually a big thing early on. If we were to do this again, I could see us doing the makeup thing again,
but we would do it a little bit differently. I wanted to have it be that the teams could pick what their disguises were.
But again, I just got too close to the end of the line. Yeah. And these were two disguises that they could confidently do without
measurements or molds. Yeah. I just wish that, um, I don't know.
It was like a little weird that, uh, yeah, I, I, I, how do I explain this?
Uh, Linus was my father-in-law and then like, not, not, not like, I'm uncomfortable
at work, but it was like, I was like, uh, I don't know how to like act around that.
And then we definitely got like quite a few, like you see Elijah and you see Luke
together and you're like that they would hang out. They, they could be like, you know, like hanging out.
And, but then people like would see me pick things up with Linus and they'd be
like, yeah, like, what are you doing?
And would make some, you know, give us like a few looks and just look at him
and look at me, the Porsche, you know, um, and assume certain things that I
probably shouldn't say all I have to, but, um,
yeah, I was curious what you thought. Cause at one point, one of the questions, and this, if you don't want to answer
this, it's totally fine. Um, one of the things that come, that Linus makes a joke about is that like,
you could, uh, bear his children or something.
What did that feel like at the time? Okay.
Yeah. So it's like, I know for some people, like having, I said, let me clarify.
What he said is you are biologically capable of having a baby or something.
I mean, I, you could say that like, it's a slippery slope.
You know what I mean? It's like a weird, I mean, I could, like, there's 16 and pregnant
as a show, that's what I'll say, right? Like, you know, not to like make it weird, but like you're 16 and pregnant
as a show. And so like, yeah, theoretically, I could have like had his, see, this is weird.
This is weird. Yeah. I think it's the, also because he's my boss and I'm like, uh, and also
like if you do the math, like, I mean, I guess like it could work.
But yeah, it was just like, uh, but then there was no other like explanation for
it, right? Cause I was like, I'm his adopted like daughter.
That would be a, I think a further stretch. Yeah.
Cause then I'd be a little too young.
Yes. To be hanging out with a father-in-law.
That's a little bit weird. Yeah. To be like, I think to be hanging out with a father-in-law without like my
theoretical son or with my theoretical husband is like also a little weird.
So like, I don't, I think like, yeah, they're definitely a lot more looks and
like for some, like for some of the interactions, like, I don't think they
recognize Linus, but they definitely cut like every single interaction.
There's a double take. And it was like, is it a, the recognized line is double take?
Or they were questioning whether like what, what is this like 20, yeah, 20
something year old, like, you know, um, so that was weird.
But sorry, uh, uh, I just want to make sure I'm going to respect Eli's time.
We just want to swap you for Eli. Thanks, Sammy. That was so much fun.
Yeah. Got big shoes to fill. You lie. I know, right?
By big, you mean small because I, my heels don't even touch the ground.
Like when I sit, like, like, like, it's just my toes.
Is there like a Luke club? No, it won't. It's, uh, yeah.
My feet are like swinging. Oh, wait. Everything is like adjusted to like an awkward height.
Enjoy. Thanks, Sammy.
Everyone say bye, Sammy.
Heck yeah. What's up, Elijah? How you doing, buddy?
I'm, I'm, you know what? It's a day, another day, another dollar. You're coming off a big, uh, stream, that 150 hour stream.
How was that? Uh, it was fun. Yeah. You know, scrappy, scrappy.
Yeah. Scrappy was more fun, I think. Do you think it was more fun?
Yeah. It was stressful. The hundred fifty hours scrappy, scrappy words was super stressful.
I, uh, man, like it was, it was so much fun though.
I had a blast. I think the reason it was stressful was because of time. It was like a day and a half.
Yeah. So it's one of those.
Oh, what's going on? Sammy, what are you doing? Oh, there we go.
Wow. Breaking everything. I'm in control. Um, yeah, you are great.
I always love you on camera. I think that the, the audience sentiment mirrors mine that you are such a joy to
watch on camera. I think you have a sense of, uh, fun and bubbliness about you.
Uh, and you don't take yourself too seriously, which I think is the key to
succeeding in our channel. 100%. It just, it, you have to be able to like look at yourself and laugh and have a
good time because people will look at you and just make the worst assumptions
about you and the worst comments about you. And so you need to be able to look at that and go, that hurt.
But also if I said that to myself, would I laugh?
Yeah. All right, we're good. Well, and a big thing that I had to realize at some point, uh, I don't know when I
realized this, but, um, if you don't have haters, you don't matter.
Like that, yeah, like it's you, the most likable people, the best people on this
planet, you know, like the Dolly Partons, uh, the other Dolly Partons, she's the
best Dolly Parton to Dolly Parton to, um, the Dolly, but the, the, the two L's are
like a Roman, Roman too. Um, I thought you were talking about the AI image generator for a second, the Dolly
image generator. Hey, that's a good one. That's, um, there's haters.
And so, you know, you reach a certain level of, uh, vision, visibility, and there's
people that will just not like you. And obviously neither of us are as good or as likable as Dolly Parton, but not yet.
I think that like it doesn't matter what you do at a certain level and a certain
level of exposure, there will just be someone that looks at your face and is
like, I don't like it. I just don't like them. 100%. And I, it's funny how that actually changes per channel.
You know what I found? I found that very interesting. So on LTT, there's definitely a higher percentage of, yeah, this guy's cool versus
I hate this guy on GameLinked. There is a much higher percentage of, I hate this guy versus, and I was like, I
find that so interesting how like at the same, like we aren't, there are different
channels, I get it, right? But at the same like company, I can go on a different channel and get different
levels of comments. And it's, it's tough to remember that they might have a different audience
than LTT, because I just always am like, oh, if you watch GameLinked, you have
to watch LTT, but it's very possible. They're just completely different.
Yeah. And like there's obviously some sharedness over it, but like tech link and
game link in particular, they've been running long enough and are big enough that they do have their own 100% and even if, you know, they started on LTT,
there's a lot of people I've seen comments, uh, especially over the last year
where it's like, I don't watch any LTT anymore, but I still watch tech link for
Riley or whatever. Uh, but then it's also like, uh, you're going up against Riley and that's a
very likable person. Yeah, yeah, like how do you go up against that?
Especially when he writes the jokes in the way he would speak it. So then I have to try to perform that.
I'm like, ooh, okay. Well, and it's so funny.
Like we, we experienced this that yesterday. We were two days ago, we were shooting that pickup for Scrapper Wars four.
And it's like, it's my words coming out of your mouth. And it's just so much harder to read someone else's jokes.
And 100% the, I think the opening of that one was like some stupid
joke or whatever. Yeah, that's right past me. I think is what it was because it's like, it'll pause the video.
Uh, and you're like, thanks, Java or whatever. And then yeah, he cuts to the pickup and it's like, that's right past me.
And to me, that's, I don't think I'm, I'm not saying this for
personal requirements. I don't think I'm the best joke writer there is, but I think I'm a good on
the fly expression kind of guy. Like I can use my tool set to increase stupid shit to be funny.
100%. And so that's the kind of stuff that I can do. That's funny.
Whereas as a joke, it's a low quality show, especially when someone else
who has not seen it has to read it. Yeah. I like, and that's, I think that goes to back to some of my strengths
that you were talking about earlier on camera, just the natural banter that I'm
able to have with whoever my co-host is. Um, I think is my biggest strength.
I think that's why the AMD upgrades are my biggest strength is just like me and
Linus can, for the lack of better words, bully each other jokingly on camera of
like, well, you're an idiot. You drilled an extra hole, right? And like it still is able to, I'm able to play off that and be like, yeah, at
least I don't have a dent in my floor, you know, like just things like that.
Yeah. You, I've done a really good job with those Andy upgrades. I like the consistency of having you there.
Whereas before it felt so disparate. Uh, and I think you've, yeah, you've done a really good job elevating them.
I just watched what would probably be the final pass of Collins.
I was laughing for like 80% of it.
I audibly out loud. Well, no, no, no shilling. No shilling.
It was so funny. You guys are going to really enjoy it.
I'm going to shill. I'm going to only scrap your words.
This is, this is, let's, let's go back to, I should have a question from
Dan F jumped a video too, I guess. Sure. I should have a question before we go through that.
Yeah. Uh, how upset was the wife, uh, about the eyebrow slit?
Oh, she, she didn't care. She thought it was funny. She, she, she's someone who's also very much like you do, you for content.
Um, I don't really care overall. I think if I had shaved my eyebrow off, she probably would have divorced me.
Um, but I actually asked her like after a day or two, I was like, what are your,
what are your thoughts? She's like, just once it grows in, do the other side.
I was like, oh, okay. So I think she just, she doesn't mind the eyebrow slit. And I think it doesn't look bad from like a distance.
You can kind of see on camera. It's like kind of okay. Well, it's so trendy, but like, I think I just need to do the other side now.
I see, I like it with the one side because it feels like it's more like it
could be a scar. Yeah. Oh yeah. She doesn't want both. Oh, she just wants, once this one grows in, just do this side.
Oh, just the right side will look better. I, is your face really asymmetrical?
I don't think so. I mean, I have my birthmark on my chin. So that like also contributes to it, but I don't know.
Am I asymmetrical chat? Like you look pretty symmetrical. I'm pretty, I'm pretty wonky donkey because my nose goes more to one side.
Uh, so like on my profile is very different depending on the side you look at.
Like my nose used to curve to the right, but that was because I, when I
spot in gymnastics, you always get kicked by kids.
So my nose actually grew to the right for a while. Yep. If you guys want to know something impressive about Elijah at our last
writer party, he can do a standing backflip. He did gymnastics and coached it for many, many years.
Floatplane's been wanting me to do a backflip for months. Sammy, make the extra happen.
No, Linus, every time Linus hears about it, he's going to break my knees.
He's like, don't you dare do a backflip on company time? Cause if I get hurt, I'm screwed.
That's how you do it. It's, it's been denied by three. Colton denied it.
HR denied it. You can do it on my channel.
Scrapper Edwards, uh, 10, you have to do a backflip for every dollar you want.
You earn like three dollars. I had to do a hundred a day.
That's wild for like months. How many do you think you could do now?
I could probably do, I could probably bang out 15.
Still, I would, I would struggle and I would feel it the next morning, but I
could probably bang out 15 because you still have that explosive power. Like I was really impressed because so much of it is just getting the vertical
to get over. Like it's not about the immediately spinning. It's about getting high and then flipping.
And so seeing you just like float, fly, I was very impressed.
So that's, that's one of my fitness goals is to get back to being able to do
that kind of explosive power. So just so we don't just talk for half an hour.
Well, we can just jump around the episode two and just find parts.
Eli wants to talk about our watch. I haven't watched episode two.
You know, can I be honest with you? We've only seen episode one.
Yeah, because I wanted to make sure I knew episode one was going to be the most important episode one and episode four are the most important.
Yes. Um, two and three. I was like, man, in my opinion, I did watch episode three at 10X speed.
10X platform. Can you watch it at 10X YouTube extension on Chrome?
So I was just like, all right, we're going to watch this at 10X. How do you process anything at 10X?
I got, I got most of it. I understood Linus cheated a lot.
I don't think he's cheating. The one second, let's see.
I'm curious what you think is cheating. So for me, I remember asking you and Luke, if we were allowed to go over budget.
Yeah. And then get back under budget. You asked only Luke.
I swear I asked you. There's footage. I checked that. Did you?
Yeah. Okay. Cause I was like, they didn't, they didn't ask me. They just did it.
Oh, because I probably would have allowed it because I think it's
interesting because then if we go over in the end, it's like, they did ask me. There was footage of me being like, I didn't, I didn't hear anything and it's
interesting.
we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't do that. And that, and when I, when I did watch through and found out they did that, I was
like, God damn it. Yeah, we can't use spoilers for part four and the results and stuff, but it'll
be interesting how it all plays out. I was just like, ah, man, that's like, because like, yeah, there was the thought
process of buying full systems and then trying to part it out to get it back under.
Right. Like if we had bought a computer with another graphics card, for example, like
a 10 50 or something, we could have theoretically sold that 10 50 to throw
the 30 80 in whatever the combination of crap could have been.
But I think if they were trying to do, you know, doubling their budget so they
can part it out and sell it, like I would have been less into that, but because
you could justify it as they were just releasing their Java budget into their
regular budget and I don't know, man, it goes out on your credit card.
But I mean, like if you order on Java, right, you put the purchase through on
your credit card, the money's not there anymore. Yeah, but you guys got to switch your Java thing too.
That's true. But because Java had the return thing, return.
No, actually, you can't do that. I specifically had to cut it.
If you guys order on Java and you change your mind, that is not a thing.
Don't change your mind. We did it because we're making a video, but they have a great customer
satisfaction promise about, you know, the reliability, that stuff.
So thanks again to Java. Is there a specific part that you want to watch, Eli?
And that was all right. Sorry.
So this one starts with them getting their first system.
There's some pretty good stuff. So the one thing I think Linus's team did better than your team was getting
close calls with being recognized. Sorry, just change his scenes, please.
I don't have it on my stream deck. I'm too scared to press anything and break it.
So you do have it. You're just scared. Yes. I'm too scared.
Classic Sammy. Classic Sammy.
And so, yeah, like they had a lot of interactions where people would recognize
them and it's not quite fair because Linus is the most recognizable.
100%. Like it's like, I know you get recognized.
I was shocked. I got recognized. That was awesome.
I was so, dude, that was like one of those moments where I was like, like, I was
like, the dude was genuinely chat. That video was like five minutes long on my phone.
That guy was bouncing up and down with excitement.
And I was like, oh man, this is, this is so wholesome.
Like this is so cool. Yeah. And the first cut that I saw of part two, it didn't make it.
Not that it wasn't going to make it. It's just like your footage hadn't been put in yet.
Yeah. And so when it made it into a later cut, yeah, just made me smile.
It's like genuine joy that he gets to be part of this video.
And he had no idea until I showed up and I was going to talk him down.
I remember getting there and I think we had agreed on 170 was the price of that
system and I was going to go for 150, which would have, I think been fair.
Yeah. I was going to get there and try to be like, Hey, 150, but he kind of was
hesitating a bit and I noticed he was double looking. And so I didn't want to ask because I was like, if he even subconsciously knows,
does that count as cheating? So I started overthinking it in my head.
And then by the time it got to that moment, it was too late. And he said, do you watch YouTube?
And I was like, what's YouTube? I was so close to doing that.
I was so close to being like, but I just basically was like, oh, yeah.
Like a couple of channels. He's like, why are you buying this computer?
Trying to build a computer, you know, just trying to have a good time. I have a funny story of the first time I thought I was getting recognized.
Well, the first time, but one of the first times I thought I was getting recognized. I was at a restaurant and I was just like eating dinner with my partner at the time.
And there's like a kid at another table and they're kind of just doing their own thing, but I noticed he's kind of staring at me.
And I was like, I wonder if he knows I'm from Lannis Tech Tips.
And later during the dinner, whatever, the mom comes over and she's like,
it's like, are you on YouTube? And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, I am.
And she's like, are you name of a channel I never heard of?
And I was like, oh, shit. Nope.
So funny. Oh, my goodness. I remember feeling really big because that was probably like the
second or third time I'd ever been recognized. And so I was like, oh, man, yeah, I'm real popular.
No, I was mistaken identity. So if that moment's in here, that would be probably one of my favorite.
Oh, yeah. I don't know if that was the order part three. I think it's this one.
Yeah. Because yeah, this one includes you and Sammy going overnight to get stuff.
Oh, God, that hair cut.
Oh, I forgot how red that looks. You're protecting. It's not that bad.
Everyone commenting on my bald spot on the top of my head. It's a calyx, isn't it you?
It's just where the hair folds. My hair is very thick.
The one we're getting recommends a seven. Luscious even. For a system with one.
I don't know if I got that far. Um, quickly without storage.
So I like this all the stuff. Yeah, so much text on screen.
I didn't originally wasn't like that, but the notes were like, we need to put
everything in. I remember. I did actually watch the original cut that because I remember on Wansho
Linus had announced needs a little bit more time in the oven. You know, it needs to cook a bit more.
So I actually did go back off hours, which I probably shouldn't have, but I
couldn't sleep. So I went back and watched the original cut.
And there are some things that I actually would disagree on needed to be changed.
I still think this cut is the better cut.
Yeah. But there was some moments that was talked about.
I was like, I don't know why we're changing that. I think like I personally, for example, the first original edit had, um, uh, way
more cuts back and forth between us and, uh, team Sammy Linus.
And I actually preferred that because as a, I think maybe this is just
Zoomer brain rot, but as a Zoomer brain rot, if I'm watching one thing too long
and they don't make progress, like in this case, they're just like talking
about the computer and opening it up. I was kind of like, Oh, I don't know. But the cutting back and forth made it seem like things are happening in
sync and we're both going along. Right. That was kind of the original idea.
And I think they're like, I don't want to get too inside baseball, but we have
a part of our process late in the game that Linus reviews the videos.
And it's supposed to be basically 100% done and he watches it and it goes.
And so that's what happened with part two is it hit LMG review.
It wasn't 100% done, but there was an understanding that everything's kind of rushed, but then it was like, Hey, this isn't ready.
We need to go back to the drawing board a little bit and do that. But the one of the challenges is one of our greatest Ben, one of our greatest
ball lengths as a company is Linus time. And so he often watches videos at faster speeds.
And I 100% talked to Sammy about this.
And I think that's where the issue was. I think so too. And I think that like it's not a bad cut, but if you're watching it at
1.5, 1.7 times speed, it would be really fast.
It would be very discombobulating. I actually watched the cut.
I think the first bit was a little too fast, but I think after it was fine.
Yeah. I think the beginning is way better in the second version.
We really fixed it up and massaged it and move stuff around in a way
that makes it way better. But I released the Snyder cut.
Well, they are saying the Horner cut right now. The Horner cut, damn.
I'm not going to read that one. Never mind. The horny kit. Yeah, that's exactly what I wasn't going to read.
Okay. That was my high school name. I got beat up every day called Horny Horner.
Oh, we actually have somebody, a geeky vapor said the shaved
sides wasn't that bad to kind of suit you. Yeah, I didn't think it was that bad.
Oh, I have one validation. I think it's one of those things that if you had the wardrobe that matched
that style, you could pull it off. But you have, you know, geeky YouTuber wardrobe.
Yeah, I don't know. I didn't like it. Looking back at that haircut is rough.
I like kind of the style it is now. Yeah, I need to go get it trimmed up a little bit more.
But I want to, I think the mullet staying. I think like the curly mullet is pretty sweet.
Like some pretty cool people like Curtis Conner has a curly mullet.
Yeah. And so there's a lot of people here who have it now.
So I've got a little bit of a mullet. Yeah, Adam's got it. I don't have curly.
I got straight.
Yeah, my curls and yeah, I'm a little bit jealous.
All right, let's let's resume the video than I initially. Yes, I just want to hang with the leisure.
When we get to hang out, we're just doing videos now.
I remember when you actually asked me to film this because at the time
I had a whole bunch of other videos on my plate.
And one of the metrics, I'm not going to go to a detail, but one of the
metrics that we do kind of based some of our videos on is performance
and sometimes just community engagement like likes and whatever.
Right. So one of the things I remember David asking me, he's like, if you do this
shoot, I'll make sure I share the likes with you because we do have a system where it's to encourage collaboration as well where like, Hey, David,
I'm going to help you get this video across the finish line. Okay, we'll kind of share some of the engagement analytics that way.
It makes both of us benefit from it. And I remember you being like, I'll make sure you get likes from every part.
Yeah, it was definitely a tough call. So I, you weren't on the short list immediately.
Yeah, you came into the conversation later for being a participant.
And it was a pretty easy like, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Like you have the technical knowledge to help look out.
You're great on camera presence. Like there's just everything kind of fit.
But I remember having to swallow my pride a little bit because I knew that
it wouldn't be fair to ask you to do it without sharing the likes. But I'm like, if I get a nonwriter, I get a host and I don't have to share my
legs and I was, I was 100% expecting to not be in it because of like just time
and things like that. I'm a big believer that the long term good choice will pay off.
And it's like, yeah, maybe I could have stolen more likes for myself as a metric.
But it's like, what's more important? Having the video be better, having everything kind of like work together
in unison or, you know, me getting whatever, just a little extra.
And so it was a bit of a tough call, but it was, I'm not, I'm not one to
make that kind of short-sighted decision. I'm a big believer in the long term.
Very hard for them to not recognize us. Oh, that was the knock to a family.
Oh, yeah.
AMD Ryzen 5 4500. Stupid name. Oh, I love it.
Do you think if we say, hey, no hard drive, no quadro, no power supply in a case?
No case. Basically, like, give us everything you can afford.
Like 125 bucks posted 18 days ago.
That's a long time ago. Why isn't it? I can't believe they ended up getting this one.
That's crazy. Yeah. It's one of those ones that's like, it's not a good system.
It was such a good skeleton though. It's such a good skeleton.
Yeah, I would not run that as is, but those, just those fans, it's $200 worth of fans.
Like, yeah, could have sold those. Yeah. And he made the right choice, keeping the 3600, not the 45.
Because like, I wouldn't know what a 4500 is. I would have assumed that it's like some APU piece of crap.
You don't happen to have the mounting hardware. The dog is very cute.
It is very cute.
I promise not to knock on your door again. I'll ring the bell.
I'm surprised I didn't believe it. It has more cores and more threads.
It's a Ryzen 717. That's the one we ended up going with. First-gen Ryzen.
That's pretty good. But it comes with the motherboard, 16 gigs of RAM.
That's pretty good. That's pretty good. $750 watt. That's pretty good. That's amazing.
Yeah, that was my favorite. Loot part. When with. Is this available?
I can. Wait, what are we looking for again? Oh, you picking up the stuff. Yeah, I think it's actually in the next, it's either near the two-thirds mark
or probably near the end of this video. I don't know. I thought it was earlier, but I didn't watch it.
I think it's early on when it's like, you're coming back, and you're like, this is what happened.
You know, but like, we haven't even picked it up yet. We're talking about picking it up. Well, no, no, you picked it up yesterday.
No, because this is still day one. Oh, crap. This is still day one.
You're right, you're right. In terms of filming. You're right. Yeah, because we didn't pick it up yet,
because I didn't do all the driving. So yeah, it's still day one.
It's all still day one. Is that you?
That's you. He just read it right now. I watched him pick it up now.
OK, day two. Oh, yeah. That guy, I got the GPU yesterday,
and I got the full tower. That was a long drive. To recognize me, which was fun.
The haircut did work. He was so happy, man. With $1.70, that's what you were doing.
Sammy, is there more of this interaction that made it into the extras?
Sorry? Is there more of this interaction that made it into the extras?
No. Man, I have the full video.
It's good, man. The dude was just so happy. I would try to like, start the conversation
about the video. I'd be like, well, we're going to pick up this. And he's like, no.
I'm like, OK, my bad. Like, let me talk. Like, I can't believe this is happening.
So I'm not using my influence to get a deal. Dude, I can't believe this is happening.
He was so happy, man. Oh. I thought you were coming.
I mean, we bought it for you. It's those interactions that make this job sometimes just
the greatest job in the world. To know that you, someone's chewing in the mic.
Sammy? Sorry, I could hear it.
I was like, it's not one of us. Sorry, I was hyper-sensitive to that.
It's those interactions that just make it incredible. I remember going to the Vancouver car show a couple
months ago, and there was a whack ton of people wearing LTT hoodies and stuff.
And then they would like, kind of hang out. And they knew who we were, but they
didn't want to come talk to us. And I remember several times looking, I'm like, just come up
and say hi. Me personally, this is not going for everyone
here at this company. I will never, ever say no if you want to come up.
And say hi. There's, I think, the preferred way of doing it.
And it's, you walk up assertively, and you're like, hey, I'm a huge fan.
100%. I, like, I watch all your stuff, whatever.
Whatever is true. Don't make up some total bullshit. 100%. And then, like, can I get a photo?
Yes. 100% of the time. That is the best. You will get a.
Yeah, sure. That is the best option. Whereas, if you just stand there awkwardly, it's way worse.
Don't think we don't see you.
There was at least a dozen people that would follow us through the car show.
And it's because they just didn't have that either courage or they weren't sure.
Whatever it may be, that is a way worse option than just
coming up and saying hello. I think even people who don't want to be approached
would say that that is a better option than you standing
there awkwardly. Especially, yeah, people of our level of recognizability,
where it's like, it's not happening all the time. At certain events, it happens more than others.
And it's just like, keep it brief. Make it not a big deal in terms of like, yeah,
hanging around is the worst. Yeah, no one's going to leave.
But other than that, I'll never. That's a big one. Yeah, once you've gotten your photo,
don't just keep hanging around. It's weird. Do you know what I used to do? What's that?
So I don't do it anymore. So don't you dare approach me with this idea.
I carried stickers. And so the thing I would do is I'd say,
thanks for stopping by. Before you leave, here's some stickers.
So then the moment I give them the stickers, they're like, thanks. And then they leave because I've told them that now they
have to leave. I don't carry stickers on me anymore because I ran out.
So I need more. It's going to carry $1 bills. Thanks for the time.
You're going to get mobbed. I didn't see the comment.
I didn't see the person comment on this. So I'm sorry for that. But they're wondering if Eli read the comments for episode 2,
even though he didn't watch it. Yes. Classic.
Yeah, I know, right? I have a problem.
I read every, every comment on every video.
Why? Why did you do that to yourself? On every channel. Why?
It's in a, it's, this is going to sound really weird
for people who don't have to do it. It's an addiction.
It is 100% an addiction because all I want to do
is I want to make sure that everyone is enjoying the content. Interesting. And I want to know that it's going well.
I've talked to Linus about this. I've talked to everyone. They're all telling me, you got to stop, but I cannot.
Huh. I can't, I can't. It's just one of those things of like, I'll wake up at three in the morning
because I get about two to four hours of sleep at night. I'll wake up at, I'll wake up at three in the morning.
Literally the first thing I do, I roll over
and I refresh comments. That's horrible. Horrible, yes.
I feel so bad for you that that is a horrible addiction
because it's like, when did it start for you? Was it kind of like instead of social media fix?
Because you're like active on Twitter, but you're not like a super social media guy.
Yeah, no, I'm not a social media guy. So do you think this is kind of like replacing that in your life
or filling that gap or? I think for me, I think a lot of it
is I just worry about if something is happening
that I'm not aware of. So like, let's say like, I don't know,
I made a comment that I didn't even realize made it into a video.
And now people are using it to hold my family hostage.
I know that's a completely exaggeration. I know what you mean. That's where my brain goes, right?
And so I immediately, I'm just like, OK, I got to look at the comments. I got to make sure everything's OK.
I got to make sure nobody's saying anything bad about me. I got to make sure nobody's saying anything bad about David
or Sammy or anyone because everyone here is so important and amazing.
And so it's like panicky. I think this is really fascinating.
And I kind of want to dive deeper into this.
The podcast. I don't know if this is the place, but we can. So just like, when did it start for you?
Because you started in logistics. Were you reading the comments that much in logistics?
Or was it when you made the jump to writer? I'd say it started when last August.
Oh. Did something happen last August?
Don't know what you're talking about. I was trying to, I was trying not to say that
because I didn't want anybody to obviously like use that in a context. But 100%, that's when.
Interesting. That's when it started because I'll have you guys.
I want to know a fun story. My first month here, there was three times where I was like,
do I have a job next week? The weekend before I started was the week
that someone posted all the stuff on Reddit about not
being great. The next week, Linus, quote, did the hard R, quote,
on WAN Show. Obviously completely joke. But I remember waking up and seeing moist criticals video
that said Linus ruined his career. So I was like, what happened?
It felt like a big deal at the time. Now we can laugh about it. But at the time, it was like, two weeks later, we got hacked.
So like for me, my first month was like.
And so I think just any big event like that, that happens. I get a little bit nervous.
That's fair. It's interesting. I wonder if your reaction is better.
My reaction was turning it off.
I used to read more comments. And now I limit myself to about 100, 150 comments.
And I will stop. And I only read LTT comments.
I don't read ShortCircuit. I even go back and read comments. Really?
So like Ariana's upgrade had been out for months now.
I booted up last week and I refreshed. And I'm like, oh, there's 15 new comments.
Does it feel good? Or is it just like a need to do it?
Or is it a habit? I think it's a habit and a need.
Like it's like my body needs to know. I'm going to ask this in the nicest way
without trying to be condescending. Have you considered therapy?
Yes. I'll have you know, yes. OK.
I just want to update, make sure that we actually do get some watching time.
I guess. I'm sorry, Sammy. I'm sorry. The next guest is coming soon.
And everyone on the floor, I'm sorry that we're just talking about this.
Let's keep going. Sammy's got some good expression.
I like this one. Vine booms? Before we can even sell anything, though.
We don't even have storage. I don't even. So we're going to pick up storage. Fit in the computer case.
That I'm not worried about. We can always make things fit. The power slide that comes with it. That spacing makes it look a lot bigger than it had.
It was pretty tight. Yeah, I remember seeing that. We're pushing the limits here on if this GPU is going to.
The GPU is nasty, by the way. Because you didn't get to test that when you picked it up,
right? Yeah, so it was just faith.
Yep. It's a little crappy that people do that.
Be like, oh, it's fine. And he knows that fan is messed up.
Yeah. It kicked off a lot of dust. Yeah, that knocked you a fan was rough.
To be fair, though, I've had two knocked to a GPUs. That fan has failed on every single one of them.
Really? Yeah. The Wattua or Zotac? Zotac. Zotac.
Sorry. Sorry. Thank you. OK, awesome.
Thanks. My 1080 Ti was a Zotac. And it was supposed to be all copper,
but there was clearly aluminum somewhere in it, because it was doing a galvanic erosion.
Yeah. Go look there. Maybe they have that hair. Might want.
I don't hate it. RAM, CPU. But I think it's just, yeah, you need to complete the look.
Wasn't this one that the shot of the show is? I think it's this one. So I took the RAM out.
It actually does support up to 3,200. So we could just enable XMP and hopefully.
Did you ever try and push it higher than 32? No, I was too scared.
This computer was on hopes and dreams with a 750-watt power supply and a 3080.
Yeah, it was. Blasier asked if they can see the part where Team Duke
messaged Team Old Man accidentally. Oh, yeah, sure.
Let's watch that. I think that's about. I think that was a little bit before this.
Check Facebook page. How would you know you never watched? Well, in terms of, I lived it, Sammy.
I can still understand the timeline.
I also love that face you make here. Oh, check Facebook message.
Check Facebook message. Which one, which one, which one? That's actually one of the things that Linus has complimented me on before.
Your face? I like to bug you because you make really good facial expressions.
I'm like, all right, sure. It's true. They're bite on the Corsair case.
I thought the case was going to be hard to sell. You must have taken.
Them selling a processor has me pretty concerned. OK, so it's before this. Oh, yeah, it's right here.
Post-sards can't be real. I can reply to multiple people at the same time.
They're bite on the Corsair case. Someone have a timestamp?
If you're in chat, give us a timestamp. The idea was a timestamp.
Lodge is reading the comments. Again, classic.
This was on a YouTube video, too. No, I'm just joking. Eli, I put the iPad there so you can read.
It's off. I thought it was just a show. I texted you the password.
Don't show the password. Deal. OK. One, two, three, four.
Oh, here. OK, I found it. I found it. OK, I'll just close this then.
Yeah, I just want to say Luke is coming in three minutes. It's just the CPU.
So it's like we need to find the rest of the platform. Let's go. I found a motherboard for 120, which would put us at 185.
So we'd be $10 for RAM and power supply.
Like maybe if I talk them down. Which we could have done by going to that tech shop
by one minutes ago. Messaging to talk them down. It's worth it's worth it.
We don't have any four minutes ago. Should have given it away from everything. Not looking back at it now.
This is probably not noticing that. Yeah. Hit on our listing.
Which one? Which one? On the CPU. Already?
They're friends with 18 people, including your wife, on Facebook.
Wait. It's Luke. Duke Morrow. Yeah. It's Luke.
What a piece of shit. God damn it. I couldn't believe that we did that. Nice try, Luke. Yeah, I got him.
Yeah, they really. Oh. OK. I messaged the CPU guy.
And I said, hey, I have cash and can pick up tomorrow. He just responded with nice try, Luke.
Wait, but now he knows his time. My brain hurt when I first did that.
I was like, who could this be? Because in my head, it couldn't have been them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so for a second, I was like, is someone at the company
selling this and going, ha ha, no, you can't,
because you guys are doing Scrapyard Wars?
It doesn't show in the edit. It was probably like five minutes before we realized it was Linus.
We were like, howdy.
We're mutual friends. OK, what the? I hated it.
Hated it. Yeah, we cut that down, but it's very funny, though.
Who is John? Who is John? This guy. Wait, John.
It's funny. So Linus used my account, because we couldn't change his.
Right, yeah. And so my account was John of the Last Suck.
And I got so many requests from random people.
Oh, did you? Yeah, I can't use his. I have not accepted a single one.
And I will not. Isn't that Linus' name?
He saw it, unlucky. We should have wasted his time. Oh, that sucks.
I thought we had a real bite. How is? I wonder if he doesn't even have it yet,
and he's like pre-listing it. That would be so bold.
Dude, I thought that because I was like, because this was still day one.
This must have been day, no, this was still day one, because we were still sitting there,
and we hadn't gone and picked up the computer yet, which was at the end of day one. You're right, because it's the first pickup.
So in my head, this was probably like what, 3 PM? 3 30 PM?
Something like that, because Linus was back at 5 on this day. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like,
there's no way they have this already. How on earth, because they didn't leave until noon.
Later afternoon. I was like, how did they have this? So I thought he was pre-listing,
because he's like, gonna go pick it up. But he's like, I know I need to sell it. So he took the exact same photo.
That'd be such an interesting strategy. Because what's the worst that happens is you don't get it,
and you're just like, Oh, sorry, someone else picked it up. Someone else picked it up.
Oh, no, sorry, it's not working, I can't sell it. There's a lot of ways around it.
It's not, you know what? When I'm in Skapper Wars, I'm gonna try it.
Is that confirmation it's coming back? No. Okay, I know, I'm just teasing.
The nice thing was, I think that this one was enough of a success in the sense that shooting it was fun.
And it wasn't too much. Like I mentioned with Sammy at round,
normally we shoot it over five days and get four videos. And this one we shot over three days and got four videos.
Oh, that's the timeline for this was nuts. Yeah. So I know as a competitor, it was probably too intense.
There was several moments, I think on both teams, where we were just like, there's no way we're doing this.
There's no shot where either gonna have a computer here. Yep.
Because it was just too close, I think.
And then you both had banging computers. They were like, they were pretty sweet.
I would have been happy with either system. And they're being given away.
So if you guys check out the John giveaway, you can actually enter to win those systems.
You're probably not allowed. There's probably small tax of like employees and friends of employees are not allowed to win.
I'll read it and confirm and then I'll enter. And they quit so I can win.
I'll just take a vacation. Right, that's how that works?
Extended leave. Extended leave for 12 hours. 12 hours while I pick it up and then...
All right, it's 12.30 and our next guest is here.
Woo! Wow, all right. Who did it?
Who do you think the next guest is? It ain't me. Oh, it's Duke! It's Duke!
It's actually kicking around somewhere. Because they don't want it back.
So we have like just this rolled up beard,
but no glue and no skilled technicians to apply it.
Yeah, that probably wouldn't go very well. That'd be weird.
They were pretty instrumental to that. How comfortable was it?
Or how uncomfortable was it? It was actually like, and I told both the people that worked on me
because I had a different person each day. I was very surprised at how fine it was.
The only thing that was annoying was eating.
Because there's just so much air.
But like, I had prosthetics on my nose.
My whole nose was covered. I had eye bags. I had, they call them 11s, where like...
Oh yeah, that gives like the wrinkles here? Yeah, yeah. I had all of that.
And once it was on, I basically didn't even feel it. Oh, even every once in a while,
go to like scratch my nose and go like, oh yeah. Like it was very, very well.
You would like move your face and it would feel like everything's pulling? Huh, maybe that's the difference between like the pros
and how we would do it, where it would just be so much glue that it's like one solid piece
just yanking around your face. I was even worried, because like the very few times
that I've had to be in some form of makeup in the past, I found it very frustrating.
Cause I don't like things touching or on my face at all.
Yeah. Like ever. It drives me insane.
And it was fine. So like, I think that's, it's probably a skill issue.
Yeah. Cause they were like clearly really good.
And probably the product too, it probably has like as good a hold, but it breathes better or something
and like a bit of stretch. I don't know. Yeah, cause she was describing,
one of them used to work for the person who made the like nose.
Oh yeah. And she was talking about how great
that company is and yada yada. So it's probably a combination of all the parts.
Yeah. Some of all parts. So I had mentioned earlier in the stream
that originally we wanted to do like have more time with the prep of the makeup.
And so go like, you guys would have gone in to get molds and we could have done something more custom.
If you could have done any disguise in the world,
what do you think you would have done? Oh dude.
Hmm. That's a tough one.
I don't know. My problem is that a lot of what gives me a way is my voice.
The laugh for sure. Because like the disguise itself,
like when people would see it, when I wasn't wearing the glasses in the hat,
it like didn't fool that many people. But once I put the glasses on the hat on,
I think I'm genuinely pretty hard to recognize once that work has been done.
But then I start talking and you can almost immediately see them go like,
what? Well, you don't have like a tough biker guy voice.
No. You have a nice like soothing voice, calm voice.
And so it's weird to have that come out of, yeah, what should be like,
oh, hey, get on my bike. Smoking two packs a day for 20 years.
Yeah. Only two, that sounds great.
Yeah, I think you did a great job with this.
I think you guys had more,
we can't talk about episode fours. We can't talk about the results or anything.
But how do you feel about the fact that Linus went over budget
and did a little cash money management exercise?
So I didn't know about this.
In my opinion, that is straight up just not in the rules.
Yeah.
That's right. Yeah. Because that allows you to do things mechanically
that if this was real, like my idea on,
because the scrappy noise is my idea. My idea with scrappy noise is it was supposed to mimic
in a really short timeframe what Linus and I used to do when we were younger,
which is like when I built a computer, I'm not just buying parts in the store, right?
I'm trying to wheel and deal. I'm trying to do stuff like Linus fairly famously
used to flip GPUs almost every generation.
Because he would follow the news cycle, know when the next GPUs were coming out.
And he would sell. Sell his, wait a couple of weeks, buy the next previous generation.
Is that insider training? A little bit, maybe, yeah.
And I used to do this stuff too. But when that's happening, when you're a kid
and you make your money from whatever, I mean, the first computer that I bought
was mostly from paper routes, refing hockey.
This isn't when I can hold a normal job yet. I have a very fixed budget to the dollar.
I think that's fair. I mean, I can remember the time when it was not uncommon
to see single digits in my bank account.
Yeah, oh yeah. And so I think when you argue it that way,
I think that's a fair point. I think why I allowed it,
because I was aware that they were doing it.
And I felt bad after because Elijah asked you if you were allowed to do it and you said no.
And so when those things are side by side, it feels kind of crappy.
But why I allowed it is I knew that it wasn't very much
going over and the job of money, if it was unlocked, would have been enough
to cover the difference. And then I also am a fiend for content.
And I like clever rule breaking. And I'm not necessarily the best game master
because I like cheating. I'm a big fan of people breaking the rules
and coming up with clever things. As long as it's justified and genuinely good content,
it's not fun when someone is just like being too competitive
and like they're gonna be really weird. We made decisions that I didn't think were
the most strategically sound because I thought it would be more interesting.
So like I get it.
That is a rule that we have not allowed to pass in the past.
There was even one season that was largely based around selling things.
And even then, you weren't allowed to go over and then sell later.
So like it had been aligned previously.
So that's why I thought it would be. It'll be aligned in the future again unless we specifically allow it for a certain reason.
I'm just in my headcanon that we just want because he got DQ'd, but that's fine.
I feel like both teams got a little bit of, sort of a little bit of not rule bending,
but just favor, because I'm not interested
when I watch reality TV. But my whole idea on this is I'm talking like
all the rule bending that we did is okay.
And the rule bending that he did made us win on the whatever the second day or something.
Yeah, immediate disqualification. The second he goes over lights, cameras, we win.
We should have. I should have called the camera people right there
drop the camera now.
We're two days into this. We're only gonna get one and a half episodes,
but you know, we're not even gonna publish it. The rules matter more than the video.
So yeah. And so yeah, it's a tough one.
I have to admit, and I've talked about it a little bit on the stream,
the game master balance of it all, trying to keep it all going and it's everything auto,
like on a level playing field so that we get to the end and it's close.
Cause Scatter Wars is often effectively impossible
without some form of bending.
And like in previous seasons,
one of the things that we've done is active negotiations. So like we would have to call each other
and be like, hey, I like need to do this thing.
And then you can like let them kind of go with things
knowing that you might need a lifeline in the future. And if you allow something,
they'll allow. And usually I think we've been pretty good about stuff.
That's a fair point. Yeah, I had sort of stepped in the middle as the arbiter,
but maybe next time it would be better to allow that.
Cause I enjoyed that in the past when it's like, when it's like, yeah, you're making a deal with him
and he can be as much of an asshole or as nice as he wants, but it will probably come back to bite him later.
And that's always a fun dynamic. Yeah. At the same time though,
having the change of having a game master,
I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. It's just different. Yeah.
And I think part of the challenge with this one was we did it in three days.
And normally it's a full week of shooting and it's like we have so much more time to do stuff.
And so a lot of the little things that were changed
were in favor of getting it done. And we got it done.
And those systems are so good. Yeah. Yeah.
They're, they're, it's very impressive. I didn't think we were gonna be able to get quite a few
of the things that we got for the price that we got. It's interesting seeing like the,
there's a bit of an inflection point when the, when AMD got like good at making processors again,
you can see the beginning of that, the price drop of that era is like super hard
because those are actually pretty old now, but those are really good platforms.
Oh. So it's like. Yeah, I feel like, like we can talk about
what's in your system. 1700 and that's in these videos.
And like you can still game on that. Yeah.
Like it's like, yeah. Okay. You're rendering video, probably not your best choice,
but for 60 FPS gaming, like you can play cyberpunk.
Which is insane. Yeah. Like just that's crazy.
The fact that you can go out and get, how much should we end up getting that for?
170 for that whole system. Like. That's, that's Canadian.
So it's like 130, 140 US dollars. Insane.
Yeah. If you, if you went with like, yeah, we went with an absolute God tier GPU,
but if you didn't, you could have had a whole gaming system
that's really good, able to play all current games respectively
for like under 500 bucks. One thing I found really interesting is,
I'm currently on the market looking for an upgrade to my GPU. I have a 3080 and it's so interesting
how hit or miss finding deals really is. Like you, you got one for 500 Canadian.
That's like 400 and a little bit US.
They are still being sold for a thousand dollars.
And it's like, how, how does someone who doesn't know what they're doing
get into the market and figure out what a good deal is?
That's a tough one. Yeah.
We ended up soaring and I'm very happy with how we did.
But at the beginning I was quite sick
and my energy was pretty low. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
So I was like kind of dying the first day. Like after Linus was reviewing some of the footage
and he's like, you didn't go out on the first day. I was like, I know.
Being like high energy for the shots was enough.
But how was I going to say? Yeah, so that plus the timeframe,
plus trying to get really good deals leads to some weird things.
Like I don't know if it's shown up in the footage yet, but we had one of the fans kind of ticked on our GPU.
Like if we had more time, that's something that you can resolve actually.
Cause this person was like, oh yeah, I will screw you when we reached out about it.
But you can bring something I've legitimately done
is like meet up at like find a place that has power plugs
that you know about Starbucks, McDonald's or something like that, bring a system
and just be the weird guy bringing a computer to McDonald's and actually install it and like make sure that it's fine.
Because spending like 500 bucks. Oh, blind.
Site unseen. You have no idea if it even functions
when you bring it home is scary. So I understand why there's that barrier there.
And for things that like normally sell for a grand right now, getting it for literally half that price
might leave you wondering why is it half that price?
So it's worth looking into. How thorough are you in your regular every day
testing the stuff that you're buying on Facebook? Quite actually. Really?
Yeah. Good for you. I'm a, I hope I'm lucky this time.
Like the something I even should have done during this crappy words, but didn't think about it.
And this was, I wasn't feeling very sick at this point in time.
So this is just a blender, but there's a, there's a keyboard that we got.
Oh yeah. Yeah. The one that ended up being 30% broken or whatever. Yeah.
I should have just brought a laptop. That's not in this episode.
But like it's, it's, I should, yeah. I should just brought a laptop and plugged it in
and then yeah, that's right. There's stuff that is easy to test
or like visually inspect. But I've, what I've, I found is my balance is
there's some stuff that I won't buy used because it's too hard to test.
Like I'm not going to do use TVs. I've kind of drawn a line. I'll do open box.
So cause like burn in and stuff? Burn in. What I found is it's easy to cover issues
with the right demo footage. So I've seen like, like I got a,
I traded a lens for a tablet or something.
And I didn't really want it, but it was a student and they were poor and I was like, whatever,
I don't really need this lens. And they, they bought the, it was a Surface Pro,
whatever generation. It was like a pretty fair trade. Man, you're doing it out of the kindness of your heart
and they screwed you over. Yeah. And he's like, it's great.
It does this, this, this. He plays video, looks great, good screen.
And then I get a home, put a white screen on and there's just like a big discolored circle.
And I was like, you mother lover.
Did you reach out? I did. And he was like, oh, I didn't know. And I was like, uh-huh, uh-huh, impossible.
And I was like, okay, whatever. And so I found that displays are hard.
And like maybe I should have been like handed here. I'm going to go to a white page
and see what this level is or gray or whatever.
But TVs, yeah, it's like, it's too easy to hide. Like there's obviously things they can't hide,
you know, a crack in the glass or you know, that LCD is all messed up.
But I feel like it's too hard to know.
Even computer components, if it's not, if it's so expensive that I can't do,
that it wouldn't be okay losing like the $30 or whatever. I'm scared because I can't do a full test on a GPU.
Like I can't sit there for 30 minutes and like stress test it until the point of failure.
Power supply, no way I would do used on like a high end power supply.
I would do like my cheap home theater one. I would get like a decent CSONIC or whatever.
There's some, and I understand you're probably concerned because of the potential risk of other parts in the system.
But there's something like, if I remember correctly, I don't know this. I think CSONIC warranties transfer ownership.
So like if you are currently the person who owns the power supply, it's under warranty
even if you bought it used. I don't know that, go look it up.
So we had them sponsor, yeah. It's 12 years extended on a bunch of stuff
and it's transferable. But I think you still need like original proof of purchase.
Okay. So you'd have to have communicated and gotten the receipts.
I think, I'm not 100% sure. But it is 12 years transferable. Shout out to sponsors, CSONIC, not on this.
That's actually insane. I'm not trying to, this isn't, this stream isn't sponsored by them, so like who cares?
But that is actually crazy. And if you know that going into it,
ask for the proof of purchase. These days, proof of purchase is very easy to retain
because it's often in people's emails. Yeah, that's fair. So just get them to like look it up
and they probably still have it and then get that sent over and you might have 10 years left of warranty
on the power supply. That being said, as I just said, there could be a risk to components down the line
beyond the power supply. Would you care? So I think part of the reason why I'm so bad at the testing
is I'm such a people pleaser that I like no conflict. I like just like getting through things.
You're a direct person, hey? Yeah.
Yeah, basically. Cause I don't feel like it's sliding necessarily.
I don't like haggling so much in certain scenarios.
This season definitely had the least haggling from me. I think some of that was the energy issues from being sick.
But I don't, I'm not a huge,
if I think the price is pretty good, I usually just want to take it.
I don't want to mess with them too much. Cause like, if I think like, oh, this is quite fair,
then it's like whatever. I'm doing pretty okay.
So I don't want to like, oh, I ain't gonna be five blocks tall.
Like I'm not really into that. But if I feel like they're trying to pull the wool
over my eyes by hiding some defect or something.
It's like, well, no dude, like come on.
So like I've bought storage, like I bought a bunch of hard drives.
Whoa, that's risky. Yeah. But I brought a computer and plugged them all in
and ran diagnostics on every single drive. Good for you.
How long did that take? A bit, to be honest. But I told the guy I was gonna do it before I showed up.
Cause like I didn't want to be like, hey, I just happened to show up with my computer. So I was like, is there a spot I can plunk this down?
Can I plug it in? Do you have a monitor for me? Can I test all the drives? Yeah.
And genuinely as someone who, as someone, as myself,
I consider myself a scrupulous seller. Like I, if I sold you something that broke,
I would actually refund you. I way prefer when people test something on the spot
than just like take it and go. Cause I'm like, I think it worked when I tested it,
but like I would way rather just like no for sure with you here and like not have to now be like,
it was working and maybe you're trying to scam me. That's part of the reason why I even do it
is because I'm almost letting them off as well.
Cause like if I test it myself and I think it's good
and it's a hard drive and then I drive it home
and then now it doesn't work. Maybe it's, I didn't store it properly
while I was driving or something. Like now it's on me because I decided it was good.
So I like being very sure and then never going back to this.
I think that's fair. And I think like that's probably the way that this kind of interaction should be.
It's sort of, there's a big thick gray line now
because of Facebook making it a non-anonymous thing
where like there is some accountability whereas before it was like, as soon as it's in your hands, that's your problem.
And some people still treat it that way. I don't, I think that like,
if I sold you something that's broken, you have the right to reach out to me and I should make it right
because that's like the social contract. But I like, you know what, I think I'm gonna test stuff more
because I'm realizing as a seller, I like it when people test
and it's not actually that imposing. It's also to me, it's like, if they're like, no,
then it's like, maybe I just dodged the bullet anyways. I've definitely done it
where I have no intention of testing it, but I say that I will. And I gauge that reaction to no.
They're like, yeah, of course. Then it's like, it's probably working.
I'll just pick it up anyways. And they're like, well, no, it's not set up.
Well, we can set it up. Yeah, exactly. It shouldn't actually be that hard.
I guess we should get back to this video. Please, whoa. But you know what?
I have two questions I should wanna throw to Luke. Dan F. asked,
where am I reading? You thought about now even using a case for this
and screen components into desk. What other ideas were on the table that didn't make it into the video?
And what would you rate this? Oh, sorry, from Roe Drosenberg.
What do you rank this for, like all the scrappy awards?
Where would you rank it? I'm gonna, a lot of people think this is the best one ever.
And I totally understand why. I think it's going to be functionally impossible
for anything to dethrone season four in my memory.
Is that the LA one? No, that was up here with Rod and Bob.
Oh, yeah. I made that computer that was literally on fire. Yeah, that was a good one.
We went to a scrapyard in Scrapyard Wars
and built a computer using like automotive parts and lit it on fire.
This is nothing against, this season was amazing.
I don't think anything's ever gonna beat that. It's like one of my favorite computers I've ever made.
And it was for Scrapyard Wars, so that's gonna be tough.
But yeah, this was probably second to only that.
This was very, very, you did a great job, especially for someone that it was your first time
doing a Scrapyard Wars. Well, I had shot the last one.
Yeah, but you hadn't ran it. Yeah, I've never ran it. And like, that is some experience
that I'm sure that helped a lot, but running a Scrapyard Wars is like weird.
And like coming up with the rules and stuff is hard, making it interesting, but workable,
because you have to try to predict what we're gonna be able to do in three days. And that's actually really,
you don't know what the market's gonna be like. Like the only piece of feedback I think I would have
is that I think the budget was too high. But I understand why you picked it at that rate,
because you didn't expect us to get so many things
for free and stuff. And we have such a short timeframe.
And like, I... Yeah, originally it was gonna be 500 Canadian
just for the computer, and then 200 for setup,
and then 100 on Java for whatever you want. But originally it was also gonna be,
you were locked into buying a specific thing on Java with that money, but it was too restrictive.
It's like, it's way better that we allowed it to be free. But at the last minute, I called it audible
and just loosened up the budget. And then it's like, all of a sudden, instead of having $200 for your setup,
you have 700 for everything. And that made it that the systems went up
and tiered so much. And that's what I think was a bit of a challenge
with the benchmark levels as well. We can't talk too much about that because that's the next video.
But everything was set for a $500 computer,
not an $800 setup. But another part of the consideration was,
we knew we wanted to put a certain amount on Java
because they were the sponsor. And I didn't want that to affect things too much.
I didn't want to be the game breaker. It really didn't feel like it did.
Like the pricing on Java, this is not, again, this I don't think this stream is sponsored by Java.
The pricing on Java was solid. Like there was actually quite a few different things
that made a lot of sense for us to get on Java. Well, I think your monitor has arrived
at this point in the series. Like the monitor you guys got, it was a great deal,
better than anything that you could get locally. Yeah, this is clearly show up in the video already,
but the GPU that both teams thought to get was just a really good price.
There was a lot of, and there was other things on there, I don't remember all of them,
other things on there that came up as ideas for things that we could get that I don't think
ended up in the video. I think at one point you considered getting the whole system on Java.
Yep. Yeah, just getting a pre-built. Yeah, because the idea was actually
to take the spare cache that we had and just inject all of it into Java
instead of buying it off Craigslist. That was one of the concepts that we had
and it ended up not being worth it, but the pricing on that system was actually really aggressive.
The problem was that we were paying for Windows, we were paying for assembly,
we were paying for all these other things. But the part pricing, once you priced the build out
and separated everything, the pricing of all the parts included
was really aggressive. Yeah.
I don't know. Were we doing, was there another question there
or something? No, those are only two questions I picked out for you.
I just wanted to know if you saw us six more minutes until it's one o'clock. Yeah, 30.
You like to say he'll come back a little later. It's a solid one.
Is it ending at one or two? I scheduled it for one,
but we can go a little longer. It's up to you. I don't know why it's not solid wood.
Oh, I saw that one. Those are MDF desks. You know what, at this point,
I think we might just have to go with it though. Yeah, he's like, his mouth is like.
Yeah, yeah. That's what I didn't even think about that. That is okay.
I mean, we might as well. If we don't want it, we can find out. Those chairs are gross. So I need to go get that.
It's cool that there is free chairs and desks. And I think desks, I'm more likely to pick up a free desk,
but something about chairs is really intimate. Chair and chair, it's like buying a used toilet seat.
But I guess you wear, you wear pants, but I don't know, it's weird.
Same with, you know what? I don't really like buying used as controllers.
They're kind of gross. I agree with that completely. Like I've cleaned them up, you know, you open it up.
It's super possible to disinfect it. And on retro stuff, that's the only option there is.
But like, sometimes I get a lot of controllers and it's disgusting.
And I don't get grossed out easily. I have a high threshold of gross
and it pushes me to the edge. The chair problem, in my opinion, is the armrest.
That's a fair point. If they have fabric armrests, and this is a chair someone's been using for years,
it's like, ugh, there might literally be like biological organisms in the armrests.
Like I don't want my chair to be alive. Yeah, a sea monkey colony.
My goodness. And controllers, yeah, because especially,
usually they're two plastic pieces, like the face and the back,
and there's components inside and they're pressed together. The groove? Yeah.
Disgusting. Yeah, and like it's funny. It's rough.
Cause like sometimes you can look at it, not really notice it,
but as soon as you tune your eyes to see it, it'll just be like a solid brown thing
that like fills out what the gap is. And it's like, just so nasty.
Ha! Places gonna know my voice though,
cause I've definitely. Do you want me to do it? Do you want me to do it? Bloop, uh, Duke?
So the, that's the classic.
The Duke. The Duke.
I think that's, that's gotta be one of my top five moments of the scrapyard ones. The worst part here,
I don't know if this got covered in the, in the video, but my caller ID says Luke.
Yeah. So they're just like.
What? I think we live in an era where if someone,
caller ID said Luke, and on the phone they said they were Duke,
I would just be like, that is their right to choose that name. Sure, yeah.
I would be like, okay. But I also said Luke first,
which makes it, cause like I agree, but now I also said it and then corrected to,
and the name's almost exactly the same. So like it's.
Do you know if your caller ID says your last name to you? It definitely does. Okay.
So they could look you up pretty easy. Yeah. You didn't get,
it's like the tech shop. I did not get recognized in this moment. Yeah.
And even the tech shop that you did end up going to, you didn't get anything that good. No.
But you got like some stuff, you got the extra power supply. I don't think we used.
You had a mouse, but it wasn't, didn't end up getting used. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't spoil anything. That's in part three, dude. How's it? Well, it doesn't make you sure.
It doesn't make you sure. It was nice to have those things.
Yeah. But like, especially as it comes down to the wire,
knowing that like, you don't have to go and get other things.
But yeah, there was nothing there where there was,
there has definitely been scrapped at wars where, I think the LA one in particular,
you and Linus go to a tech shop and get so much free stuff. And you, I think you even do the like,
the motion of, you know, you wouldn't give this to us if,
or like, you're not giving it to us because we're influencers. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no way.
But it's like, yeah, okay, sure.
Maybe statute of limitations on this one is passed. I definitely agree.
Yeah, I remember it, there's the like. Yeah.
You would totally do this for anybody, right? Totally. Yeah. Yeah.
Say that to the camera, please. Sign this paper.
Yeah. So rule bending is part of the scapula, right?
Okay, awesome. Thanks. Sorry for, sorry for being difficult here.
Yeah, she was so nice. She was super nice. That whole company was fantastic.
Because that's the shop. Shout out to, I don't even know if we include their name.
How are the listings going? I might have a buyer for. Right.
Nice. Oh, we're almost at my shot of the show.
There's a shot of you in the car. It worked.
You're doing the makeup. The old one. I don't know.
Cause that's literally my favorite shot of this whole thing. No one probably cares at all.
Do you ever have that where like, there's like a little detail where you're like, this is the best thing I've ever done.
Why didn't you do it? But the best thing ever. And then no one, no one will even realize.
I think it might be in part three. They never, we never dealt with AMD
when we built the systems. Unless they're.
Oh, I saw the flow plane navigation. I thought it was in the video.
I was like, what? This is so weird.
Sorry. Why'd we do that?
I can, I can stay a little bit longer.
That was so funny. And then we went inside and he handed me the.
Maybe it wasn't the last one. It doesn't.
But this was. Yeah, they, they recognize you pretty quick, right at this one.
So it was like, it wasn't immediately. We went into the shipping container
and then I think I was doing pretty good for a while,
pretty good for a while, pretty good for a while. And then he looks at me and he goes like, look away.
But it wasn't a full double take. It was like a.
And then you see him just like almost, almost like he leaned in, but probably by like millimeters.
But you can tell there's like, like he's rolling perception in, in Baldur's Gate or something.
Like he's like something's weird. And I'm trying to figure out what it is.
And then there's this like light of recognition that happens.
And I was like, oh no. And then the next step was going inside
and him handing me the screwdriver. So it was, it was, it was.
It was after a pretty considerable amount of stuff had happened, but probably at about the like one third mark
is what I'm assuming of the meeting over. I love that about humans that were so perceptive
of like little changes in that person. Because you notice it right away.
It's just like, and it probably wasn't like a, huh? No, no, it was minor.
Yeah. And like, we just feel it. Like there's, there's something about it.
There's like conversational and movement beats where you like, you get used to how a person talks
and moves and stuff like that. And then you'll notice something out of rhythm. Yeah.
And it's like, okay, that means that they probably reacted to something in some way.
And in this case, the reaction was staring at my face.
So it was like, it's probably this stuff that's going on.
Yeah, it's fair. You've established the pattern of, you know, the normal behavior and then something steps out of line.
And it's incredible that like, it all it takes is 10 minutes to establish a pattern of, of understanding what that is
normal for that person. Cause yeah, someone's staring at you. Some people just kind of look at you right in the eyes.
And you're like, okay, yeah, I guess this is what this person does. And you're like,
I'm being perceived. Yeah. I don't like, I don't exist.
Yeah. Wait, just a quick aside. Did I ever tell you, I went home.
I think it was the second to last day or something.
I don't remember what, but I went home with the, the tattoo still on.
Oh, I don't think you ever told me about how about that went.
My like strata council manager came to my door and I forgot.
So I answered the door and had an extended probably like
15 minute conversation with him about some stuff that we've been trying to figure out.
I never noticed the like thing that I noticed
with the other guy at all. And that night as I went to go to bed,
I saw my tattoos in the mirror and was like, oh, so I sent him a message and was like,
yo, so I didn't just randomly do this.
Oh, cause he knows you from before. Yeah. So I was like, I didn't just get a large amount of face tattoos overnight.
And he was like, oh, I didn't even like notice. Both my sons have a bunch of tattoos
and it didn't even phase me. I was like, wow. I wonder if that's true or if he's just being polite.
Yeah. Cause I can see it being either. There is some people that like genuinely aren't noticing that.
Like they, they, they see life. Everyone sees different things about different people.
And it's the same with like someone has a face and you'll notice one thing about it at a time.
And like the longer you look at the face, the more things you'll notice. But some people like kind of never progress
beyond item one or two. And he might just be one of those people
that doesn't notice beyond, you know, eyes and hair.
Rhett from Rhett and Link calls it a wife head.
What does that mean? I don't know little minutia things.
Like I'm not going to know if she changed her hair. I'm not going to, I just, I recognize.
Wife. This is wife. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny.
It's funny. I'm a big a Good Mythical Morning fan and I didn't know he had said that. Nice. Yeah.
I don't watch it all the time, but I've seen that clip and it's very good. I used to watch them a lot.
It's just, you know. Get older, you know. Ebs and flows and content consumption.
That's always how it is for me. What's, what are you watching these days?
Oh man. Am I watching these days?
LTT. I just can't stop. Yeah. I definitely watch all of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube videos.
Let me bring up my, my YouTubes and see what's on here.
Are you a video essay guy or are you a short form? Yes. Okay.
Dear God. Yeah.
I don't know. The USA's too. I have a quick question where you're looking that up
from Rod Rosenberg. The other people in your personal life see the tattoo
and how do they react? Yeah.
Emma, my, my girlfriend saw it and liked it too much.
That was a, that was concerning.
Do you have any tattoos as is? No. Okay.
I've thought about getting tattoos in the past, but my dad gave me this, this rule that I,
or this idea of a Rosa rule until I became an adult
and then it, it's now my own rule. But it's, if I, if I think that I would want a tattoo
that I would want to keep, he was like, get it in like henna
and keep reapplying it for like a year. And if the effort of reapplying it is worth it,
and if you still want it permanently at the end of the year, go for it.
I understand the logic of that. I think that the, it's, that's more of a deterrent tool
than a test as to if you really want it because getting it applied,
that's a lot of time and a lot of work. And it's like, I don't even want to get the tattoo done.
I just want to have the tattoo. I've also never felt very strongly about having one.
There was one that I wanted to get, which was the, the like septum dragon logo
from Elder Scrolls and I am since happy that I did not.
Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. I think that a good rule is you should wait one year
from the time that you decided you want a tattoo and if you still want it, then you should get it.
I think that's a fair rule, but I think have no apply it is one step too far
for me personally. But I think that you probably shouldn't,
same week that you think of something, you shouldn't get it that week. Yeah, I do agree.
My Emma again has on her, on her foot
in her late grandfather's writing supersonic day
because whenever he would give her notes or whatever,
he would always sign it with have a supersonic day. Oh, that's cute.
So in his writing and in a place that like people aren't going to see all the time and stuff like that.
I think that's really cool. I've always liked that one, but yeah.
I'm a big fan of yet personal tattoos. It can be a fandom thing.
Like you can be like something you love or it can be notes or people.
I find human faces are always really risky. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Even names and stuff is risky. When it's family, it's not as bad.
If it's like, you know, you're deceased grandpa, it's like, yeah, unless something horrific comes out
that it's probably fine. I thought about getting my deceased bird Tequito
he used to sit on my shoulder all the time. So I thought about getting his feet,
but they just looked like weird wise. Yeah. So it looks like if you see it and don't know the context,
it looks like I have like an emo stitch tattoo.
Oh, because it's just too like wise.
Yeah, that's fair. So I was like, I'll remember him in different ways.
What's the, is that the tattoo you've been closest to getting?
Probably. Okay. Because it wasn't like, the original idea
was the septum logo and then I eventually decided like, yeah, it should never be brand related in my opinion.
Sure. And then there was that one and I went to the point
of like, I didn't get henna, but I just drew it on myself.
Oh yeah. And was like, nah, it doesn't really work.
Yeah, I wonder if like the idea more than the reality. Yeah, cause it's like, you could get really detailed
like footprints where it's like, you can kind of see a little bit of detail in the foot and it might be more clear.
But I think it would just, yeah, it would look strange at a distance and so. Bird feet without a bird attached to it
are kind of weird. Yeah. Yeah. Do they only have three toes or two toes?
Budgies have three. Three. Well, they have like a, a book on the back.
Yeah, it's like, not really worth it.
Get birds now. Yeah. Okay. Would you suggest having birds?
Yes and no.
They're like, they're weird, they're like that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
So again, in tattoo form. That would be weird.
So birds are a lot more work than people think and they're very expensive.
Oh. They are extremely cheap upfront costs.
Yeah, cause it's like, what, 50 to 70 bucks for a bird? Super cheap.
And then the vet bills will destroy you because birds like my budgies are 30 grams each.
And while humans are most, we're not even talking about scavengers, while humans are mostly made of water,
yeah, birds are mostly made of air. So any pollutants in the air
will just kill them or make them sick super fast.
They are also prey animals, budgies are.
So they will try to hide their sickness. Oh, instead of being sick.
It's not obvious when they're sick and then the vet bills are really brutal.
Also, because they die so easily and you can't like have traditional house cleaners
or cook with Teflon or any of this other type of stuff, it's really hard to just like leave them
at a friend's house while you go away for a while. So you have to leave them at the vet.
So again, expenses ramp really quickly. So it's surprisingly very expensive.
They're quite intelligent though, right? Yeah, so they're very fun to like have around.
But then that's another thing, I would stick to very small birds,
even though they're way more fragile. My reason for this is personally,
I'm not okay with having a flighted animal that isn't allowed to fly.
So I'm gonna let them out of the cage as much as possible. But in that case, they're gonna fly around and poop.
So if you have a big bird, then it's big, slimy, when it's a budgie,
there are little dots that solidify almost immediately
and are extremely easy to clean. Vacuum or whatever. Yeah, no problem.
Really, really, really easy to clean, really, really easy to get off of things, et cetera.
And then you see others that are just like...
Yeah, because some of those ones in like the Parrot family, like they're so intelligent and that fascinates me,
like the fact that they have some semblance
of self-awareness and like language understanding
blows my mind. I can communicate with my birds. That's so cool.
But it almost makes me not want them as a pet because I feel like I'm unable to give them the attention
and the time they deserve. And it's the same reason I don't have a dog. It's like I would want to make sure
that that dog had a friend all the time. And I can't imagine just like leaving my dog at home
for eight hours when it's sad and depressed because I'm not there. The animal that I want the most right now is a dog.
I will never get a dog as long as I live in an apartment. Personally, I grew up with dogs
and I'm not gonna want a tiny little one.
I'm probably gonna want one that I can wrestle with to a certain degree. And if that's the case, it needs a yard
if I'm ever gonna go to work ever. Yeah, I have the same hesitation.
I'd way rather have a big dog, but a small dog is so much easier
because even like you get home and it's like you're tired. But I'm not judging you guys. No, no, no, no.
Everyone has their different lines. But like I get home and I wanna not spend an hour
walking a dog, but it's if you have a big dog, you need to take them for long walks.
Or else they're gonna get sick and sad and depressed.
And it's like, no, I don't wanna do that to an animal. Yeah.
So there's a lot of those problems that come with birds. I'm very happy with my birds.
They're great. I just wanna make sure that people don't go into it
being like, oh, it's small and it doesn't cost very much. It's probably really easy. Well, and they're always like next to the hamster cages.
So I think people without doing research would assume like, oh, the hamster bird
about the same level of difficulty. Yeah. It does not.
Yeah, not so much. All right, it's 111. So I just wanna make sure I became Luke
has anything else to do. I'm still good. Make a wish, everybody. 111, this is my wish.
Eli's here for the last stretch of the stream.
Yeah, I'm sorry. Hopefully people aren't too upset that we didn't talk too much about scrapper wars.
I'm a people person in the sense that I find the characters
behind the story is so interesting. And so I think in a sense by talking about, you know,
things that aren't directly really just scrapper wars, you've gotten more insight
into the characters of the video than you would have otherwise.
Yeah. Yeah, come on. Come over here. No, no, you're not interrupting.
Join us. I think they've given up on watching scrapper wars. We've made it.
I can mute it and just play to the background. I broke these and then Dan messaged me.
What was the worst thing about being on my team?
Answer immediately. The haircut. Darn it.
I feel like that's almost a dodge, but I'll give it to you. That was a good response.
There you go. Hey, like I'm perfect height here. There we go. Yeah, I feel like I'm glad we came up
with the compromise of only shaving the sides. I'm a little bit sad we didn't get the full head shave
for the content. I was willing to when we had first talked about it.
I was like, I will shave my head for content. I am also very happy though
that we did only go as far as we are. I feel like you have a good head.
You would have. A headphone dent that you could ramp a skateboard off of.
It's so bad. Let's try it right now. No. Where's the tech deck?
It's pretty brutal. So I like going bald would,
I would never hear the end of it. Be like, oh, no wonder he wears a helmet. He's got a dent in his head.
He has both have good hairlines. I hate you so much. Have I ever shown you mine?
No. You see it?
Oh, what is that? It's a dent in my head. Have you guys seen it?
It's really bad. Can we change the webcam? I gotta get it on the right angle.
Oh yeah, you can kind of see it. It's right here. What is that from?
Knuckle sandwich. So you were talking about stories of the people behind the thing, whatever.
So I'll go into this. When I was, my mom was at the doctor's office for her.
She was sitting up on the doctor thing, whatever, getting checked out.
I was sitting on a chair in the room and I had grabbed between my legs.
I had grabbed the chair. Like, you know that the plastic chairs
that like lip down before the end. So I had grabbed the end of that
and was rocking back and forth and rocked too far.
I just went whack, smacked my head on the floor.
It split. I have a dent. The doctor just went whoop and dealt with me right then
because why not? So I ended up being fine. Of Canadian emergency room time.
Yeah, but I always find it fascinating because like, yeah, it's not that obvious.
But when I frown and in certain lighting, this lighting not so much because it's filling the room,
but if it's in top lighting, you can almost see it shadow slightly.
No one ever comments on it. I never noticed things like people don't comment
on facial features much anymore. Oh, they super do.
It depends on what they are, I think. What are you expecting? What the hell is wrong with your face?
What in the crap in it? The face cream scooped to that. Holy, what are you expecting people to say?
Yeah, I have a big bump on the top of my head from probably around the same age as that, like five, six.
And I was, you know, mom's unloading the minivan and you're kind of just like hovering around
and then slam right on the top of the head and was bleeding.
So I always wonder how intelligent I would be. Me too.
Yeah, yeah. I actually saw a great hypothetical situation
speaking of staying on track. Hypothetical time.
You get, I think $5,000, let's say $10,000
for every IQ point you drop. So you hit a button, you lose one IQ.
None, dude. I would get zero. I would buy them. I can't go lower, like without functioning as a human.
I don't think I can go lower. So if they, I would do it
if they could erase my memory of having done it. But knowing that you are dumber than you were
would be unbearable. Wasn't it like one IQ point per memory?
So as long as they remove that IQ point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Sure, sure, sure. See what I mean? I can't remove it. What the heck?
I'm a big fan of hypothetical situation Reddit.
It's like my favorite. Although most of them are really bad. It'll be like, would you face a minor inconvenience
for unlimited money? Other like, would you stay in this cabin for a month
for a million dollars? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah?
Yeah, I saw one the other day. I'm planning to and spending money on it.
Yeah, exactly. What do you mean? Yeah, would you spend a week not talking to anyone
for $100,000, you're getting paid? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get to sit home and play video games and get paid for it.
Amazing. I'll finally beat Final Fantasy 6.
16 is coming out on PC. Yeah.
Highly recommend. Challenge me to start it. Beat it before I do.
Yeah. Are you playing an actual Super Nintendo version?
No. Oh, are you playing the Pixel remaster? Oh, yeah.
Are you doing like double speed or whatever? No. Oh, good for you.
That's how I had to beat it was I did that.
Oh, you're at the part. I just noticed. Sorry, going back to scrapper.
You're actually at the part of my old job. Like, well, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, from here on, if he offers anything, could you just pull a screen?
Then we can. I'm going to have to say. Look at the hair. We've got an old, out for man,
300 block. The guy who's in the video. I think this is like an IBM think pad that was.
He messaged me after. So all we need now. Technically is a keyboard, audio solution, and a chair.
An audio. So like, realize. Yeah, see, it wasn't immediate. He genuinely didn't know it was you
until you were in the C-can the first time.
Yeah. And you had talked to us about how he did like a double take.
Yeah. That was when he was like, something's off here.
And him inviting you back in was also a strategy
to like confirm, because he wanted to give you the LTD screwdriver. Yeah.
Did he comment on how I did in receiving the LTD screwdriver?
No, he didn't, he didn't mention it. Okay. Cause I tried to play it off as like, oh, this is random.
It's a cool screwdriver. Yeah. Oh, it ratchets.
He said one of the biggest things that was actually the hardest part to identify you was the tattoos.
It wasn't even the beard or the sunglasses because like, he watches WAN Show.
He's, he might even be in chat right now. Yo, what's up, David?
What up, dude? He's great. But he, one of the things he said was the hardest part
was the neck tattoos because you just don't have those.
And they aren't something people like fake very often, I think, like obviously you can get like temporary ones
and like Henna and whatever. People often do that like on the arms. But like the neck is pretty rough to like do fake tattoos.
So he was like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's what, that's what made it not hard,
like difficult to find out. So interesting. Here's a question I have.
I've had this before scrapper wars, but it always makes me think of it. Why is there no criminals that are getting like
prosthetic makeups to rob banks? Because it costs money and they can't get a job
because they're probably have a record. Well, you rob one, use that money,
invest in your prosthetics or even this like, you know,
those like over the plus size suits, like the way they make you look heavier.
Cause like if in a video at a bank, you know, it's like that person is 300 pounds.
The suspect is, you know, 140. That doesn't make any sense.
Like, why aren't people doing this? Maybe it's harder. It maybe it's easier to detect when that stuff is happening.
I just don't think people rob banks today. Oh, they totally do. Oh, sorry.
I just don't think people rob banks today. They totally do. Look, my only frame of reference for reality is TV.
So. Yo, LTT bank heist.
A random stat that I was told when I used to go to UVic and I don't know if this is true or not,
but they said like in your orientation, when you're there on your first day,
they tell you to be really careful about your bike if you have a bike because apparently more bikes
are stolen at UVic every year than like the value
of all the bikes stolen at UVic every year is higher than all of the money stolen from banks
and all of Canada for the entire. I believe that. Whoa, that does shock me.
Yeah, bikes, bike theft is an epidemic in Western Canada.
Like it's, I'm sure the rest of Canada too, but. And Canadian banks quite often don't deal with cash.
Yeah. Like in, compared to the States, we deal with way more digital
and like through credit card and whatever. So I totally can see that.
Yeah, I can't imagine, I haven't thought about it too hard, maybe I should,
but I can't imagine really getting with a bank heist in Canada.
My, the last bike that I had was stolen
and it was stolen on my last day of school.
So I was just like, well, I guess,
I don't really need it anymore. So, okay. So sucks, you probably get like a hundred bucks
for it or whatever. Is that scrapper at worst 10? We have to build a computer with all the money we can steal.
Oh. This was part of the idea of,
oh man, I don't remember the name of the series. You probably do.
Thanks. The like blueberry and we harvested blueberries
and sold them. Oh shoot, I do know what it is. You guys did also the mowing.
Oh, mowing, yeah, yeah, yeah. The mow grass. Oh yeah.
We just get a summer job and see if getting a summer job could pay for a computer. So the, we had this grand idea one point in time
where Linus and I would have to actually go work for the money that we would spend in scrapper at worst,
but it was like, it was just like two weeks. Yeah, it would take too much time. So we split it, actually,
and that was supposed to be like the working for it part.
Mow grass, mow problems, was the name of the shirt. You're not even the name.
So stupid. That's good.
If I saw someone show up to my house with that shirt
asking to mow my yard, I'd be like, go away. I'd pay them immediately.
Yeah, I'd be like, five dollars, please leave. I'd be like, what's your rate? I'll pay you double.
I'm kidding. We're about nine more minutes till we're hitting the 130 mark.
Is there anything you guys really want to talk about in terms of like anything between episode one and three
and maybe even some little teasers for episode four?
It's, episode four is right in the middle
of its editing right now. It might be the best one.
And I'm just being like, this one's the best one. This one's my favorite.
It makes sense that it would be though. It's with what's remaining.
It was the hardest one to cut down the mow. Like there's so much in there.
And we, I guess, we have entirely removed the part
where the teams are talking to each other while the judging is happening.
Oh really? So that's just going to be, I think, a full plane, right? Yeah, there'll be a lot of full plane exclusives
for this one, like three or four. Yeah, the full plane exclusives are extended cut
with you, with the everyone talking. Extended cut of the judging portion.
And then a week after will be the extras
because we have Colin's, we have two Colin videos coming out.
So, yeah. Colin videos. Is it Colin Week?
No, it's a mini Colin Week. It's like Meet the Teams Colin and then his AMD video.
Oh, OK. It's going to be weird having people hear him talk.
I actually talked in Scrapper Wars. That is another one of my top five moments of the whole.
Did it actually end up in the YouTube cut? Yeah. In part one, when Linus walks up and is like, hey, boy.
So it was put in because it was a great moment.
And then I called Linus.
I'm like, hey, can we finally have Colin speaking a video?
And he's like, it's not up to me, it's up to Colin. And I talked to Colin. He was kind of hesitant.
He was like, oh, my upgrade's coming up. I kind of want to save it for that.
But then, I can't remember if I showed him or not, or if just an hour later he messaged me.
He was like, no, put it in. Put it in. And I was like, good. Because we were going to do a separate one for YouTube
and Flow Plane. And YouTube, Flow Plane would have gotten Colin speaking. But it's top five moment of the series, for sure.
If you look at the retention on YouTube, you can actually see a bump when he talks.
Because for YouTube. People are clicking back and going, like, what? 100%.
For YouTube, that was the first time on the LTT channel that he has spoken.
So the fact that that was the first time, and his first words were, dad, there
is so many levels of this is perfect.
Yeah, that was a good. We couldn't have planned that one better. That was just a problem.
But they are brilliant.
We discussed earlier about how the other team viciously
cheated by going over their budget and breaking all of the rules that
exist for anything in reality. So I just wanted to say that, regardless of anything
in the game, as of that point, at least headcanon-wise,
we won. Yeah, nice. Very good job.
I allowed. I think the leniency I allowed was I allowed you guys
to switch to SSD. And then I was way more chill about tech shop stuff.
You also installed Windows and drivers on their computer.
It's because it was not super interesting to have them do.
I mean, I did, what was it, five BIOS updates?
I didn't do anything like that. I just basically hit OK.
I didn't download any software. I did the Steam games for them just so it was easier for Labs.
But it was more just like. Seems rigged.
You'll see. You'll be surprised. We'll see how it goes.
But either way, I would have been happy with either of those computers.
The first season, both computers were kind of eh,
but if you took like season one of Scrubber or something,
both computers were kind of eh, but if you took my GPU and you put it in line as a system,
you ended up with a computer that cost, I think it was like, the original budget was $300.
I think you ended up with a system that was like 350
or 380 or something, and it was actually really good. This season, just.
That's season one, man. That's season one. The spoilers are season one years ago.
Sorry to spoil it. But in this one, I don't know if they know all the parts yet
or anything, but both computers are like legitimately. Yeah, I good.
Yeah, I think I don't want to give spoilers. Yeah, if I was to use one as is,
there's one that I would specifically want. But if there was one that I could piece apart
and use parts of, it would be the other one. Yeah. And so like there's both really good things.
And like the setups as well, there's a setup that I prefer,
but both of those setups are solid enough. Yeah, if I went to someone's house
and like this is your setup for the weekend, I'd be like, sick. Nice.
This is great. And I think each one too, provided a potential future path to continue your computer.
Ours was very GPU focused, meaning you could spend a certain amount of money
to upgrade your platform. Whereas theirs was pretty much all around focus,
definitely a better, I think like a newer CPU than ours, right?
But they could have spent that money on a GPU or something, right?
So like there's definitely so much that could have gone either way.
I always, I'm like always surprised at the universal quality
that seems to come out of Scrappered Wars final computers,
which is, and the fact that that's true every single season,
I think is the biggest, hopefully drive for people
to actually do this themselves. One of the things that's hard about making videos about used parts
is that so much of it is just right place by time.
Who knows what's going to be there? I like Scrappered Wars because you don't have to like make it replicable.
It just, you have to do it. Did you guys see the guy on Reddit
who posted multiple parts of buying a computer
in like Scrappered Wars fashion? And then at the end, he had a computer.
I think his budget was a little bit more than ours. So he got kind of a better overall system than both of us.
But looking at it, I was like, that's the whole point of Scrappered Wars.
That's the whole point is to show you that you guys can do this.
A thousand dollars can still go a long way for a computer.
And you totally can get a kick ass system. Well, the bang for your buck really diminishes
before the thousand dollar point. Like it's like five, 600, $700 systems.
You're getting like 75, 80% as much as like the top edge system.
We live in a pretty like kind of terrible era,
in my opinion of electronics, where everyone feels they have to buy new.
And everyone feels that they have to have the best. It's always a war between whether it's AMD and NVIDIA
or Xbox and PlayStation. Like, dude, you can go get a used PS4 right now
and like get into gaming for like a hundred bucks. The smartest and shittiest thing NVIDIA ever did
was changing Titan to 90.
Because it used to be that like Titan was kind of weird outside. Like, I'm a crazy person.
I'm going to get a Titan. Whereas now it's like, I'm getting an 80, like a 4080.
I didn't get a 4080. I didn't even get the top end anymore. I never thought about this.
That is super true. Yeah. Because people used to relegate Titan to where it should be,
which is like production stuff, basically.
And only that. Yeah. And crazy gamer people that have way too much money.
Yeah. But now it's like, you don't have the top end gaming card anymore.
And it eats at you. 100%. I went through that spell when 30 series came out.
Because that was also when like GPU prices were doing their whole garbage, I managed to buy a 3070, a 3080,
a 3080 Ti, and a 3090 all within a year.
Because I felt that I was like, I need the best. I need to keep going.
And I knew that I was able to buy it at MSRP. And I was selling them for the price of the upgrade
of the next one. So in my opinion, it was great. Because I was like, oh, I'm not spending that much.
But I was playing into like just terrible consumerism practices.
And you compound that ends up actually being a lot. It was horrible.
And now I have a 3080 Ti. Because I just like gave my 3090 to Dan and went down.
You gave your 3090? Well, we did a trade. He had a 3080. I was like, damn, dude.
He had a 3080 Ti. You'd be better friends with you. He gave me that. I gave him the 3090.
And he gave me like a couple hundred bucks. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, it's one of the things I love about PC gaming
is when you first like boot a game and you're like trying to get, you kind of know what performance you're looking for
and you're dialing in the settings, going to get all good and like making sure
you're hitting, you know, 120 frames for FPS or whatever.
But then I hate that I am now hyper aware
of the graphical settings in that game. And I can't disconnect from that.
It's one of the reasons when I want to totally turn off my brain, I'll play console games.
Because it's just not a thing. It's just I take it as it is and that's it.
And I just don't really care as much. But that being said, I'm playing most of my games on PC.
I think going forward, actually participating in Scrapyard Wars has taught me
that I need to be more open to buying used electronics. And I definitely will be more aware of that going forward.
Like maybe I'll buy an Xbox used if I really want a console or something.
Like it's just even things like that or a Nintendo Switch. I don't have to go get it brand new.
Let's wait a couple months, man. Switch 2 is going to be coming out. I'm still not buying it.
So I have taken a stance on Nintendo.
I think that's a good point to end it off. We're hitting the 1.30 mark. Yeah, screw you, Nintendo.
That's the whole board. Buy used if you can.
Any final words? No more rants. But is there any final words for me to sign off?
I'm super excited for you guys to see Scrapyard Wars 4.
See episode 4. Go back and watch season 4. Go back and watch season 4 as well.
And let us know if you would be interested in a combined
marathon cut of season 9. We are considering that, but we're not sure
if people watch we want that. But just one video that would have the entire parts,
we would probably remove the intros and outros or whatever and put together.
But if you are interested in that, leave that on our socials and let us know.
Any final words, Luke?
Duke. Bye. All right.
Bye, everybody. Bye.