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Hi.

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Is that still my phone? Mine's on the ground under a sweater.

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Don't make me use my five power again. That was incredibly effective.

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All right, we're gonna have to start this pretty soon because...

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Yeah, let's sort of rip. How do I put this?

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I have a lot of backpacks to sell. Oh.

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All right, let's do this thing.

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Not as many as I did an hour ago, though. That's good.

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Okay, I'm doing it. Okay.

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What's your heart out, five?

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No, six. Nice. Okay, that's not too bad.

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I'm resuming the selected now. What's up, everyone? Welcome to the WAN Show.

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Hello. A bit of a downer week this week.

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Gordon Ma, legendary PC hardware journalist, has...

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Excuse me, Gordon Ma Ong... Has...

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Has... Has... Has...

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Has... Has... Has...

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Has... Has... Excuse me, Gordon Ma Ong...

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Has... Has passed away at 58.

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So, we'll be talking a little bit about that.

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His family's gotta go fund me because, you know...

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Late-stage healthcare in America can be real challenging.

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Yeah. So, that's a real downer.

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We'll also be talking about the honey controversy that broke this week.

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Turns out, honey has been doing some stuff that is not sweet.

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What else we got this week? I'm talking about Linus on Colin and Samir and...

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We're gonna talk about a favorite moment of 2024.

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Oh. Well, that sounds at least good.

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Yeah.

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Oh, the show is brought to you by JumpFoud, MSI, and...

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Oh, sorry, I got totally bamboozled by myself.

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Boot.dev. Boot.dev, right. And, of course, it's brought to you by our chair partner, Secret Lab, our skin partner,

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Dbrand, and our laptop partner, LG. So, why don't we jump right into Mr. Gordon.

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Unfortunately, I suck at professional networking, and while I did have the privilege of meeting

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Gordon on a number of occasions, we weren't particularly close, but it's a funny thing

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because, you know, just like anyone else that I kind of cut my teeth...

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Go away, phone. It's buzzing in the mic.

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Like anyone else that I kind of cut my tech teeth reading, you know, the Ryan Shroutz

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and the Anand Lel Shimpies of the world, you know, Gordon means more to me than I probably

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did to him. Right. Yeah.

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You know? Yeah, yeah. Like we did a video a little while ago building a maximum PC, dream PC, from when I was in

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high school, like that was Gordon's jam, right?

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I used to read those, yeah. So, I'm going to read the thing that our team prepared, just because that makes it a little

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bit easier. Gordon Maung, executive editor of PC World, passed away at 58, which, sorry, I'm already

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going off script, seriously 58, like 58 is the new 48, honestly, and it seems way too

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soon. Yeah. After a battle with pancreatic cancer, insert obligatory cancer, I don't care how early

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it is in the video. Apparently, beeping too early in the video is bad for the algorithm, but I think we can

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make an exception here. Yeah. A pioneering figure in tech journalism, Gordon had over 25 years of experience, particularly

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in covering computer hardware and chips. He was known for his investigative rigor, sharp wit, and strong personality, which resonated

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with both his colleagues and the tech community. Gordon's career began in journalism as a police reporter for the Contra Costa Times.

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In 1997, he would join Computer World and later Maximum PC, where he became famous for his

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passionate, often humorous commentary and deep technical expertise.

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He was the driving force behind Maximum PC's Dream Machine project and its consumer advocacy

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column, Watchdog. Later Gordon joined PC World, where he continued his in-depth coverage of PC hardware.

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He began his foray into video with Hardcore Hardware series and the Full Merid podcast.

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He was actually shockingly good on camera for one of the traditional written people.

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Yeah. I was not a given. It was not a given, like multi-talented guy.

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It's very few people that made that switch, but he seemed as natural on camera as he was

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on a written page, which is pretty incredible.

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Parky in the chat says, never heard of him. I guess I'm too zoomer.

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I promise you that you've read something, Gordon wrote.

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Or read something influenced by Gordon.

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I promise you. The reason for that is that so many of the formats, so many of the styles that were started

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while he was there have become just commonplace.

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It's kind of like saying, yeah, I've never, oh man, I'm trying to think of like a trend

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setting movie or show or something like that.

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It's like saying, yeah, I've never seen a bit from I Love Lucy. It's like you have.

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You just don't know it because all the characters were recast and the script was retooled slightly,

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but Lucille Ball was a trendsetter. Yeah.

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Anyway, Gordon's work and legacy in the tech journalism space marked by both his technical

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know-how and larger-than-life persona earned him widespread respect and admiration can

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confirm. Gordon was committed until the very end, publishing video hardware reviews as recently as November

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6th during the end of his treatment. Wow.

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I give you my personal line of Sebastian promise that I will not be working up until

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a couple of months before my passing.

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If I find out that I have a serious illness, I will peace so fast that you guys won't even

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remember I was ever here.

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That is an unbelievable level of commitment and actually super admirable because you have

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to know that anyone who stays at it is fighting hard.

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Having that confidence that things are going to be normal someday.

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Just pushing for his family, I'm sure. Yeah. If you'd like to hear more about Gordon, there's a page full of heartfelt tributes on PC World

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as well as lovely videos from Tech Tech Potato, aka Dr. Ian Cutress, who is one of the folks

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that I grew up reading a lot as well as Gamer's Nexus.

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There's a whole bunch of discussion topics here, but I think that the best thing to do

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right now, Dan, can you go ahead and get the GoFundMe linked in the chat?

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Let's just hurry up. I'm just looking at this for the first time.

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This is actually incredible, massive shout out to the community for stepping up here.

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Why don't we just finish it off, but there's no reason that you can't exceed a goal.

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So Dan, can I just give you the company card and can you do that off camera?

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Absolutely. Okay, thank you.

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It's the one that I am kind of pulling out here.

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No, that's this one.

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I don't know. You'll find it.

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Thanks, Dan.

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Whoa, AC3 production says Falcon Northwest donated 25,000.

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They did, yeah. Massive shout out, Kel. What an absolute...

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Early on, too. What an absolute chad.

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Kel's super cool. He's the kind of person who, as far as I can tell, doesn't really need to, doesn't really

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need to like, oh, sorry, yeah, yeah, go ahead and use that one.

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That's fine. Thanks, Dan. Kel's the kind of person that, as far as I can tell, doesn't really need to build gaming

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systems anymore if he doesn't really feel like it. I wish I'd gotten to know Gordon better.

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Like I said, I'm terrible at networking, and I have a tendency to just go to trade shows

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and stuff and just go completely head down in my work, and stuff like this that makes

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me kind of regret that.

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Yeah. Did you get a chance to meet him, at least?

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I met him twice. Yeah, okay.

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Just finish it off. They have a goal. Let's just make sure they hit it.

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Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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Well, on that note, why don't we move on to sort of the other heavy topic for this week,

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which is, of course, honey.

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So first of all, big shout out to Megaleg for the work that was done reporting on what

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honey and actually, well, parent company PayPal has been up to with respect to...

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This is truly a very professional podcast, video podcast, whatever this thing is.

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Thank you for that, Luke. Since when are you the comic relief?

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Your job is to laugh at the comic relief, or the laugh talk. I'm timely alarms.

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I think that's my only standard alarm for this week that I didn't pause for the week,

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because I was out. Nice. Right.

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That's my leave for Wanshoe alarm. And then Wanshoe was really, because I have a flight to catch.

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Brilliant. Yeah. So, massive shout out to Megaleg for the work that he put into digging into what exactly

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honey's been doing. So I've got a few things to kind of discuss.

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First of all, the only point from Megaleg's video that we were aware of three years ago

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when we halted our honey sponsorship was the affiliate code ripping.

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We heard about that from some tweets, like this one from Barnacles.

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We also saw it covered on our own forum.

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There we go. So that was not really news, that part of it.

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But obviously, as creators, we saw that and we were like, hey, that's not really cool,

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but we didn't really think that other than any creator, friends, that it was something

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that impacted the general consumer. So it wasn't something that really merited a full video or anything like that.

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Okay, thanks, Dan.

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Were you live for that? They heard you? Or no?

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Oh, okay. Dan said, yeah, he's done. And the goal is done.

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Please, I'm sure that the goal is really helpful, but I'm sure that any little bits could help.

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Yeah, I don't think GoFundMe looks like it's real time, so we'll have to wait a sec for

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that to come through. Okay, thanks, Dan.

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Okay, anyway, affiliate code ripping, bad, affects creators, doesn't affect the end user.

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We were not the only ones who knew about the scam, though.

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Here's a video from 2020. I actually didn't watch this one, but I don't know.

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The whole thing for me with this is that Megaleg did reach out to us for comment, and my general

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position on it was, yeah, we dropped these guys three years ago.

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This all came out like the affiliate ripping stuff, everything we knew about came out years

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ago. Very interested to see the video on all of the other stuff.

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I don't really know what exactly it has to do with us.

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I am a little confused still as to what exactly it has to do with us.

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Anyway, back when we dropped Honey, we had a call with their executive team.

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It was clear that they had no intention to revise their business model away from the

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affiliate code ripping, so we decided to end our sponsorship agreement with them.

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If we'd known about any of the more end user-centric issues discussed in Megaleg's video, such as

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purposely not giving users the best deal possible because of behind-the-scenes partnerships

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with companies, we probably would have raised more alarm bells, but we had no reason at

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that time to believe that Honey was anything other than what it claimed to be, which was

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a coupon finding service that took an affiliate cut.

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Many in the industry stopped working with Honey without an LTT video being made, so I think

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that one characterization of this whole situation that we knew and didn't tell anybody is bizarre.

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We were publicly informed by other people and then acted on it.

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Also we publicly posted on our forum that we dropped them and gave the reason for it.

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We've also never really been like, people have tried to draw parallels between this

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and Eufy, but Eufy's a tech company that had huge end user problems.

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That's something that we do, that is something that we have done always.

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Honey had major implications immediately right now for user privacy, whereas Honey, in some

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ways it's more insidious, but in other ways it's less immediately damaging than an unencrypted

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feed of every camera that our company has sold.

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There's bad and then there's really, really, really, really bad.

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And also in our realm.

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As for Karma, why we took a sponsorship from Karma, they assured us that they didn't do

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any link yoinking, which when we tested it seemed to be true.

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We only worked with them once. We did four sponsor spots on three videos and then didn't work with them anymore.

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As for the landing page that uses our likeness to promote Honey, we no longer have any direct

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contacts that are working there, but we're working to have the page removed. Hopefully we can.

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Speaking of Eufy, Anchor still uses our likeness and with these really large and in some cases

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overseas companies, it can be very difficult to get stuff like that fixed.

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Mike's Orange says, Linus, people think that because the video sort of implies that only

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you knew, so people are misinterpreting that. I mean, I don't think it sort of implies, I think, our prominent featuring in the video

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leads people there. I don't really understand that.

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I don't really get the emphasis on us, to be honest with you.

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I don't really know what people are expecting me to say about it other than, yeah, we heard

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about it in the news, same as apparently basically everyone else, given how many folks stopped

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working with them in the 2020, 2021 time frame, and yeah, cool.

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It's also arguable that LTT was by far the largest channel and thus had the platform

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to motivate wider change. It's arguable.

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It's very difficult to argue. I mean, given that Mr. Beast was the number one honey promoter, I think that if you were

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to make the argument that LTT is bigger than Mr. Beast, then not only would that be a difficult

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argument, you'd be kind of a f***ing idiot. So, I don't know, dude, cool.

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Should we move on? I don't really... I don't have a ton else to say on this, I think.

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Honestly, when I watched the video and I remembered us dropping honey, but didn't particularly

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remember the reasons. After some people brought up the old video that you had mentioned and a couple other

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things, I vaguely remembered that, but I wasn't really a part of video stuff at that time,

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so like... I don't know. The situation's bizarre, dude.

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I am a victim here. I was surprised by the... I don't know if people noticed that.

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As a creator for whom affiliate revenue from Amazon was in 2020, 7% of our business team's

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revenue.

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This had a significant impact on our business, and absolutely it would have impacted other

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creators too, and they are victims in this, but it doesn't change that anyone who relied

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on affiliate revenue and who had it skimmed by honey was victimized by honey.

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We were compensated, at least partially, by being...

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A lot of the... Yeah, a lot of the people that were sponsored by them were, which was like the internet

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at that point in time. But like, guys.

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And then the Karma Now thing looked bad, working with them one time.

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Something that set out to me quite a bit during the video was that it was assessed in its

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current state, because you obviously can't go back and assess it from the past.

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But that gets tough, because you don't know what you guys were saying.

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They assured that it didn't work that way. You tested it. Okay, cool.

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They can change it on you. They could have changed it on you immediately after the sponsor spots went up.

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Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. We don't know when it happened.

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I don't know. It was all years ago. Could have happened years later, like who knows.

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Yeah. And Voight says, for me, it felt like Honey was quietly dropped as a sponsor with no

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messy breakup. It could have been any reason.

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But as you said, back then you only knew about the affiliate ripping, which isn't too bad,

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especially for users. Yeah, exactly. It's really bad for creators.

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Yeah, it's really bad for creators. But it was also being plastered from the rooftops at that point in time.

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Yeah, like, I don't know. Maybe Megaleg is living up to his name.

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It's like at that point in time, it's also like not really our story to break.

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Like if other people are already reporting on it and it's getting around a lot.

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Yeah. I think it's blowing up so much right now because of the downsides for users.

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Yeah, I could see that. Yeah.

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Yeah. So cool. Moving on.

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Yeah. Positive things. Yeah.

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Yeah. Can we do that? Do you want to talk about the column in Samir?

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Maybe 2024? Why don't we talk about RTX 5090?

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Oh, okay. Because we don't know the price yet.

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So we can still kind of have fun. Nice.

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And we could pretend that anyone will be able to afford an RTX 5090.

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Do you guys want to play pretend for a little bit?

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Sure. Okay, I would like that though.

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Cool. I still have both. Kidneys.

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So I'm good. Nice. Nice.

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Not for long. Damn. Yay.

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New images have leaked of a populated RTX 5090 PCB and it looks full.

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Oh my goodness.

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Wow. That is dense with two S's.

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That is wild. So there's your allegedly, alleged 32 gigs of GDDR7 RAMs.

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There is all the VRMs and then there is all the rest of them.

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Look at this thing. Do you have a comparison of the 4090?

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Do you have both up? I don't. I don't have the 4090.

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There's a link to it in the dark. Oh, is there a link in the dark? Oh, incredible.

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Okay. And the 4090 was already a dense mama-jama because remember the whole like through

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PCB cooling thing. Yeah.

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Wow. So that's a 4090 credit to WCCF tech for posting that.

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I don't know if they're actually the original poster of it.

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Oh, here's the blank one. I don't know what it is, but there is something about a blank unpopulated PCB with just all

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the pads that just is like, yeah, right?

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Like damn. Like damn. Like damn, damn, you know, like, damn, the ham.

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We're losing it today. Yeah.

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So I slept about three hours last night just so you have some idea.

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Like I'm, dude, I'm, I'm barely, I'm barely functional today.

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So the, the, the rumors of the 5090 is that it has 21,760 CUDA cores compared to the 4090's

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16,384. Pretty big jump.

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The memory goes up to 32 gigs, which you would have needed like, you know, beyond 4090 in

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the past to have. Which almost certainly means it has a 512 bit memory bus, which is, yeah, that combined

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with going to DDR7 is like, what 16 modules memory power stages 29 versus 4090 is 23 PCB

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14 layers for the 4090's 12 and the MSRP probably too much for all of us.

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I don't know, dude. I don't know. Look at this.

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Look at this. 1599 US. I see only three question marks.

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That to me indicates, indicates, and they might have typoed.

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We definitely, yeah. They might have forgotten a decimal. So we could be looking at a single dollar.

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We could be looking at one, one dollar as low as one dollar, Luke.

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Very nice. As low as one dollar and zero cents.

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I think it could happen. I think it could happen.

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Discussion question is, what is your max limit on price? Assuming performance is good compared to last year.

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OK, so here's the thing. I think I've talked about this a fair bit, but it bears repeating because NVIDIA waits

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two to three years between releasing GPUs now. So some of you probably don't remember or weren't around for this.

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But when I saw the pricing of the 40 series.

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Yeah, I made a solemn oath. I swore that I would not upgrade to it.

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I have kept that promise. Yeah, my VR machine is still running a launch 3080.

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OK, OK. My personal rig is still running the 7900 XTX from the Radeon Challenge.

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And my like land machine in the land room is still running a

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it's a it's a 3080. Yeah, so it's an EVGA 3080.

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So is there a price point for this? No, I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet.

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I have an eGPU for my ROG Flow X 13.

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3080. My entire life 3000 series.

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Enjoy your is 3000 series and below for NVIDIA.

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Yeah. And then on the oh, yeah, technically, I have one more machine.

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I have a little remember those little as rock like mini desktops.

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I think so. Yeah. With that used in MXM module. Yes. OK.

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So I have one of those in my family room upstairs for just like playing

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casual games on the TV up up there. Sure.

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1080 still still going strong.

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1080 gang represent.

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So I have no 40 series in my life. So with that said, I'm coming at this from an alternate angle.

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I have a different perspective on the 50 series because I've seen a lot

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of people like flip the math out going, well, this isn't worth it as an upgrade.

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They're asking way too much money. But my upgrade is from a 3080 class card or a 7900, which is which is not

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on par with the 4090. It's more on par with like a 3090 TI.

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Yeah. Right. If we're being honest, if we're being honest, especially

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if you want to look at Raytrace games, then it can even fall down below that. And Raytracing is now mandatory in some titles.

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Yes. No, that's true. It's not Tomb Raider or not Tomb Raider.

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Well, Guy Tomb Raider. Yeah. Nostalgia Tomb Raider.

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Anywhere we go. Yeah.

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Donates to a museum Tomb Raider. Great looking game, by the way.

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Have you played? I have not. Great circle. Yeah. Oh, OK. Oh, my. It's so beautiful.

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Nice. It looks incredible. Worth the requirement. Well, that more complicated discussion.

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No more spicy takes. More complicated discussion. Yeah.

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So my upgrade is much greater.

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And my amenability to spending way too much money is much higher

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because I got three good years. Skipped a gen out of my 3080. OK.

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So they're still a limit.

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I'm afraid to say anything because I really want one.

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And if I say something. And you want a 4090. If I say if I say, guys, if it's over this price,

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then I'm going to skip this generation and still be on 3000.

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Then I'm going to be stuck on 3000 for another like five years, more years, five total years.

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Yeah. And then six and then 6090. Nice. Is going to arrive.

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And it's going to be like four thousand dollars.

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And I'm going to be like, and if it's over $3,800, I'm not buying.

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And I'm going to be running a 3080 forever.

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Oh, man, maybe, maybe at that point,

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NVIDIA or Intel will be so good that you'll be fine.

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That's a lot of years from now. Intel thousand series.

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Massive respect to what Intel has done with arc battle.

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Got a lot of work. Massive, massive respect.

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And and and they're catching up to NVIDIA

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in the ways that I think matter more for the future.

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That makes sense. So they're they're they're still when we look at die size to die size comparisons,

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they're behind on raster. When we look at performance per watt, dude, they're behind.

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But when we look at what Intel is doing on the software side,

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their driver team is doing the work on the tech side.

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Their performance, even though the support for it's not great yet.

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Good. Yeah. They're ray tracing performance. Good. They're very forward thinking.

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Yes. Yes. So so all that's great.

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But let's face it. They are not going to have a 50 90 competitor.

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They may not have a 60 90 competitor. They just got to release an SLI competitor.

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All right, enough. And then it just put like four of them in. Although let them virtualize them.

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We do need a reason for PCIe gen six. Like, yeah, let's do it.

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OK, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But I think for I think at mainstream price points,

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I hope Intel is going to just crush it.

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Just give us a give us a. We'll see how rough 50 60 coming out is.

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OK, whatever that happens. The the price I've seen rumored is two grand US.

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Yeah, that's the price that I've seen rumored.

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But that goes back far. Like I haven't seen I I intentionally don't really follow the rumors

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that closely in the lead up to a product launch, because realistically,

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I'm going to get briefed on it anyway. And that will be the real information anyway.

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Right now, isn't that like twenty eight hundred cat? Yeah, more.

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It's it's probably more like twenty nine hundred Canadian dollars.

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Yeah, two thousand years to get a cat.

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And I think what? Oh, yeah, twenty eight eighty four. What's median?

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What's median income these days? Like thirty eight thousand or something like that?

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Median income, Canadian. Oh, my goodness.

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Oh, wait, is this household? Median income, hold on.

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Median income was forty one thousand seven hundred in twenty twenty two.

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Yeah, so here's my source. Wowwood.ca I have no idea how I have no idea how accurate that is or anything.

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But like we are basically we are basically looking at like a tenth

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of your take home by the time you actually like get taxed on that and stuff.

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Yeah, the tariffs, guys, the tariffs wouldn't be from China.

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They'd be from Taiwan, which ones?

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People are like, oh, you have to factor in tariffs now. No, you we could end up I doubt it.

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But that would only be for the states anyway. For Canada, I doubt that we would be paying any kind of import tariffs

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on Chinese exported GPUs. They're going to start smuggling GPUs over the board.

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Yeah, the GPUs themselves are made in Taiwan, but a lot of the card assembly is done in China.

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So the finished GPU would probably be subject to any Chinese tariffs.

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But but that's all speculative until after January sometime.

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So for the sake of discussion.

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Yeah, two. Fauzo, USD.

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That's too much. I'm going to do it. What if it's twenty two hundred?

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Stop what? I'm not going to let you pin me down on this.

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I'm not going to know. I'm not going to commit to anything.

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I'm not going to commit to anything. Is there you don't have to vocalize it?

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Is there a limit? You don't have to tell anyone just in case you want to get out of it or whatever.

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Is there a point where you would be there? A soft limit right now?

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I don't want to open my wall because you're going to like for a context.

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He's not going to buy one. No, no, I will.

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I'll buy one. OK, look, if I'm going to say

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I accept this madness, I can't just I can't just use my influencer clout

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to be like to someone one. I don't I don't think that's right

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because I took a principled stand on forty series. I was like, this is too expensive.

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I won't even use it. If I'm going to break that, I think I have to pay for it.

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Going from sixteen hundred to two grand in one generation

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doesn't deserve a principled stand. Luke, what GPU do you run?

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I don't want to talk about it. What is it? I know what it is.

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It's pretty good. Yeah, what is it? It's pretty good. Well, if you want to see it,

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you should check out the the line of sectors video on Bulbasaur.

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See, I have no problem. I have no problem. I have no problem gifting, you know, a forty series to someone.

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That's that's no problem. I didn't need to get involved. I just wouldn't. Yeah, I just wouldn't buy one.

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I just I wouldn't I wouldn't buy a forty series. And so because I didn't want to hack and just request one then,

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I was like, I didn't use them. Yeah, he actually didn't.

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I mean, he did hint to someone. Oh, I thought you were bringing up the video. He was. It was.

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I just didn't know you were doing that. Let me bring it back. He did hint to someone that he kind of wanted an upgrade or something.

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I think. Or maybe. No, I'm actually excited. I think it was Jake's idea.

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Anyway, let me make let me make at risk of being called

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an advocate for the devil himself.

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Let me make an argument for my two thousand dollar GPU.

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OK, OK, I'm going to find something.

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Because to be fair, that's like really close

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to the current cost of my current car.

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Yeah, I used to talk about, like, you know, the first car that I bought as a as a scale for computer parts.

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Now it has to be the one that I drove here today.

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Yeah, which is crazy.

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You can you can buy something that literally gets you from A to B

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instead of something that like digitally gets you from A to B.

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When I was growing up. A computer set up at Future Shop.

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OK, OK. Hold on.

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So you know where I'm going with this, but hold on.

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A computer set up from Future Shop would have probably cost you somewhere in the neighborhood

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of twenty five hundred to forty four hundred dollars.

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OK, right. That was in like nineteen ninety eight dollars.

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And they could have easily gone more like easily. You could spend five grand on on a computer

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on a on a personal computer as they called them back then.

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I would make the argument that like TVs.

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PCs, in spite of some of the utter craziness

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of the last few years, have actually beaten inflation.

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You can still get for like four thousand dollars.

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A computer tower and the fact that it can contain

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something as powerful as a forty ninety actually kind of impressive.

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Kind of cool. It is not that wild to spend three, four, five grand on a PC

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once every five to six years. It's pretty wild.

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And but but it's not it's not it's also not wild.

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Like it's it's a thing that when I grew up was normal. Every family.

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But when tech scales, you don't have to keep spending the same amount.

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No, you don't. But you also can. And you can get you can get a PC that is vastly more powerful

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than that nineteen ninety eight machine for five hundred bucks. Yeah. So you absolutely don't have to.

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But I also think cell phone. I also think that for something that is that is a purchase that you will use

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for an extended period of time and that you will get much, much, much, much,

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much use out of it is not entirely unreasonable.

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I don't know if you're going to get that much use out of it.

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Yeah, that's fair. I don't I don't really get to gain that much.

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It does. I feel like it's like, however, on your ally, however.

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Which of us is further into our play through of the Pixel remaster of Final

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Fantasy six, you or me? Wait, are you playing it?

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It's on sale. I picked it up. Oh, no, he's going to be.

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I said I was going to play this week that I had actually a very busy week.

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No time speaking of my ally.

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Oh, boy. Where are you at? Well, let's just see.

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Why don't we just see if you recognize where I am? Because part of the problem is that he quote unquote doesn't have any time

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to play games, but then you'll see him jump on a game on steam at like midnight.

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And it's like, oh, I wonder what he's doing. But then you know, it's not on his computer

424
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,000
that he would have spent all these thousands of dollars on. I could stream it.

425
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,120
Wrecked on the ally. Yeah, of course.

426
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:39,720
Is there a camera on the. What? No, no, no, no, not that kind of streaming. You're just going to like, oh, like I could.

427
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,600
Would you stream the pixel remaster? So I could get like 9000 FPS.

428
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,280
Who cares? Don't worry about it. OK, so here's what we're going to do.

429
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,720
Here's what we're going to play a little game called. Do I know where you are?

430
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:55,640
Do you recognize where I am? No. All right.

431
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,160
So you've had it for like a couple days. QED.

432
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,800
All right, well, you're going on a trip. Are you going to play it on your trip? Yep.

433
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:11,760
Turn it. Where are you at? Are you still at the Imperial Magitech facility?

434
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,720
No, I'm past that. You passed that. Yeah. Oh, OK. Are you at the sealed gate?

435
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,920
Past that, I believe. So you've had the banquet.

436
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,880
No, OK. So you're probably somewhere,

437
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,360
somewhere in that neighborhood. Yeah. OK. Well, I'm not going to spoil anything.

438
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,320
Not going to spoil anything.

439
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:39,400
I will say, though, that if I feel like treating myself to a nice gaming PC,

440
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,480
I think that unlike some people, I can complete a game in a year.

441
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:49,080
So I should be entitled to do that. I wanted to do it this holiday season.

442
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,520
I was so ready for you to tell me I don't game. I was so ready. Yeah.

443
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,720
I my brother spun up a family holiday Valheim server.

444
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,560
So we've been playing as my brother and my dad. That's pretty cool.

445
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,360
So that took the time that I thought I was going to spend playing Final Fantasy 6.

446
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,680
That's pretty cool, though. That seemed fair. I respect it. I respect it. I'm still going to try it.

447
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,920
Now that I know you're on the on the track, I'm still going to try to get it out.

448
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,320
All right. Get it finished pretty quick. All right, let's go. Let's go. I've I've spent a lot of time

449
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,680
like dinking around doing stuff I totally don't need to do. I will say this, though.

450
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,160
The Pixel remaster is easy. Oh, oh, dude.

451
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:31,080
That makes sense. It is so easy because I've I've heard you talk

452
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,800
and I've heard a lot of other people talk about like needing to grind a bunch and stuff

453
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,120
and and certain fights that you're like, oh, this is really hard. And then I wouldn't did it.

454
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:43,320
It was like, I don't think I did anything special. Dude, it's like it's like a joke.

455
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,600
OK, so they difficulty tuned it. Laughably easy. OK.

456
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:53,760
Well, it's not just like it's not just difficulty tuned. It's like certain things were broken in the original game.

457
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,680
The evade stat literally didn't work. OK.

458
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,480
So you like always got hit

459
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:07,040
but would miss a lot and it was real real frustrate also the ability to

460
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,480
to just turn off random encounters while you find your way through something.

461
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,360
Like I didn't do that. I to this day didn't realize

462
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,960
how small some of the dungeons were because when you're getting into so much

463
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,720
random encounter every three steps, they feel.

464
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:28,520
Huge. Yeah, they feel enormous like you could never navigate them.

465
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,680
That almost feels like some of the difficulty sometimes

466
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,760
is the like time between potential rest areas.

467
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,040
So being able to turn that off. Oh, dude, and the way the saving works,

468
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,640
it has like quicksave. Yeah. Oh, dude. The game didn't have quicksave.

469
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:48,600
You went back to the last like star. Those stars were like,

470
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,920
there'd be one more random encounter before I get there. Like it was a huge deal.

471
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:01,840
And like, dude, the map I've definitely been using the map marks the Chocobo stables.

472
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,320
Yeah, those were on the map. Well, aren't they in the player?

473
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:12,080
Oh, OK, I don't think so. Hold on. Hold on.

474
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,120
Final Fantasy III included map North America.

475
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:22,360
I don't think so, though. Like you definitely would have been able to get here.

476
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,640
Here's one. You definitely would have been able to get like a like a strategy guide or whatever.

477
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:33,080
Back in the day. Yeah. But no. Yeah.

478
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:38,880
So like so traversing ground was like tough.

479
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,520
Yeah, if you didn't like have a friend who knew where they were

480
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:46,800
or whatever, right? Like it was I didn't turn off random encounters.

481
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,440
I have never bought a Chocobo. Oh, you don't you don't have to buy them or rent it or whatever.

482
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,520
Oh, oh, OK. Yeah. OK, you definitely.

483
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,120
Oh, being a dude being able to walk diagonally.

484
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:04,960
I do. I do that. Huge. Yeah. Huge, because that's literally one step one and a half one step for two.

485
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,800
Yeah. Oh, what's what's another big one? Oh, yeah, the fact that you have sprint shoes always equipped.

486
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,120
You had to use a relic slot to be able to walk fast.

487
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,560
And you couldn't walk fast outside of towns. Oh, yeah.

488
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,320
So like hiking was tedious.

489
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,360
Like there's there's a lot that they've done to make.

490
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,600
Oh, the explanations for like what equipment does and what espers do and stuff has been.

491
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,720
I find some of that to still be weird has been upgraded.

492
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:35,400
But the interface for equipping espers is actually worse.

493
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:42,840
I did it once and couldn't find it again. The next time I went to play the OG interface is so much better.

494
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,320
Actually, for espers and seeing seeing all the spells they teach

495
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,280
and also the the level up stat boosts that they give you.

496
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:55,680
Now, part of why it's comically easy for me is that I'm obsessively going in

497
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,680
after every random encounter and like fine tuning which espers are on my guys

498
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,080
so that I make sure that I get the best like level up stats. Oh, I'm definitely not doing that.

499
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,920
Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that because it makes the game like comically easy.

500
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:12,680
It also doesn't feel necessary to be honest. Anyway, back to never lost.

501
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,320
Really? Yeah. Oh, I've still I've still managed to lose some. But it might just be because I'm like clowning around.

502
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:23,000
Maybe you'll you'll lose some stuff. I'm sure you'll definitely be very close a few times.

503
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,000
There was one of the like, I think it was more of a mini boss and a natural boss.

504
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,880
But I don't know if my scaling was weird for that fight or something. But I found it very hard.

505
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,680
I went down to one person at one point, but was able to bring people back up.

506
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,840
Are you are you are you leveling up all of your characters?

507
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,880
Or do you just have like one main party or four that you just are going with?

508
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,640
There's a couple people that I really try to always have there.

509
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:52,000
But other than that, I'm mostly trying to cycle a little bit. Oh, another big one is Sabin's blitzes.

510
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,120
Like you had to enter them without any indicator.

511
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:01,800
So you just like wouldn't find out until he went to execute the action

512
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,760
and it'd be like, yeah, you input it wrong. And so he does this thing, he'd go forward and his eyes would flash

513
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,680
like he's about to do it. And it would just say incorrect blitz input and he'd go back.

514
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,880
Also, Kyane, you know how you just like pick whatever

515
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,880
sword technique you want to use? Yes. He had a timer.

516
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:23,280
So you had to wait. And if you played like me with active turn battle,

517
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,840
so like everything's happening in real time while you're sitting in the menus,

518
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,600
if you're waiting for like Quadroslam for his fourth,

519
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,280
you're like waiting and getting like creamed.

520
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:41,000
Yeah. So there were there were some big, big difficulty differences.

521
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:46,960
Yeah, like Sabin's in my party all the time. Yeah, I think he's my my like main, I guess.

522
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:52,400
But most other people swap out a little bit. He was he was less reliable in the original version,

523
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,480
unless you were like really good at the inputs. I think I've only ever missed one because it displays it.

524
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,960
Yeah, it shows you. You can't screw it up. I was like, oh, yeah, I only missed one because I just like fat fingered a button

525
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,560
or something. I was like, oh, crap. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah, that's about it.

526
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,640
And sometimes you can get unlucky, like when the party split up

527
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:13,680
and you recruit shadow. Yeah, you know about that. Yeah, there's a there's a random.

528
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,920
There's an RMG and he can leave after the first item, leave after the first fight once.

529
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,960
Yeah, he's stuck with me for quite a while. And I was like, OK, that's cool.

530
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,120
I'm pretty neat and good game.

531
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:34,320
Well designed to be nice to be. Yeah, if that started after like at least a few fights or something.

532
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,960
Yeah, also, because I've played the game before, I know when to like unequip guys because they're going to like leave.

533
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:45,600
So I've gotten wrecked by that a couple of times. We're like a lot of really good things going to one person.

534
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:50,080
They piece for like a while. OK, yeah, it's pretty now when they come back,

535
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,880
those things aren't very good anymore. Yeah. And the cell rates is pretty rough.

536
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,920
I don't actually know what it is, but it's pretty rough. So 50 90. Right.

537
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:02,800
I'm going to buy one to play Fonofasty 6 on your ally to play whatever to play.

538
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,520
To play whatever I want to play to play. Anno released five years ago on your PC.

539
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:12,160
Dude, I just got a 4K to 40 Hertz, 27 inch.

540
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:17,280
It supports DP one point two point one.

541
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,040
Wait, I didn't get anything.

542
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:28,960
I'm not talking about anything. But if you did get something in the future, then there'd be a video about it for sure.

543
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:33,560
And you'd want to make sure that you had something powerful to run it, I guess. Yes, just in case.

544
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,400
Because of those potential resolution and frame rates, that would be really tough.

545
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,360
Just. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't say who it's from. Yeah, that's true, actually. Yeah.

546
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,480
Yeah, that helps quite a bit.

547
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:51,480
Cool. Anyway, apparently it's got a single 12 volt two by six power connector,

548
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:56,960
which replaces 12 volt high power. Shorter sensor pins, longer conductor terminals.

549
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,680
OK, or hear me out NVIDIA.

550
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,800
PCI-E8 pin. Just put a bunch of them on like we used to.

551
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,520
You know what? Forget it. Actually, it's a bad idea. All right. What are we supposed to be talking about?

552
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:13,600
Explain merch messages. Yes, a few of you have found them already, I assume.

553
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,800
Dan, how's the merch messages going over there? They're pretty good.

554
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,080
I'm keeping up just fine. Really? OK.

555
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,120
Well, we haven't really talked for anyone who doesn't know about it yet,

556
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,240
about the deal we have running on the all new computer backpack.

557
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,440
It's here. Let's go. Yeah. You've looked at it already, right?

558
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,720
I have one. Oh, you have one. How do you like it? It's very nice.

559
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,000
I immediately I traditionally walked around with the power connector

560
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:46,040
and laptop just like loose around work. And now it's my like my work backpack, which is nice.

561
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,960
Let's go. This is it, folks. The commuter bag.

562
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,200
It is selling like billio.

563
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,680
People are absolutely loving this thing. I've got a fully loaded one here.

564
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:03,200
We're going to switch to the Linus. OK, maybe you're going to have to adjust this at some point

565
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,160
because I just hit my mic.

566
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:11,960
Yeah, holding it on this side with the mic is very challenging. Anyway, it's got two water bottle holders.

567
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,800
They are the same size, both of them. No, it's OK.

568
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,920
We have two water bottle holders so you can use one for your umbrella, one for your water bottle,

569
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,520
whatever you like. We've got our pouch of holding.

570
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,800
Oh, my goodness, I'm dying. Are you sure you don't want me to hold it?

571
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,560
Yeah, I'd be fine. But I got some tennis elbow, so my ARM is in a lot of pain.

572
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,280
OK, yeah, yeah, if you just wanted to finish on doing the zipper,

573
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,320
that'd be great. There we go. So it comes all the way down.

574
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:44,680
Put your mouse in there, put your tech sack in there, put your notepad in there, your SSD in there, your pen,

575
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,240
your screwdriver, of course, with our classic zippered screwdriver pocket.

576
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:53,360
In case you drop a bit or something like that in the bottom, we want to make sure you guys are able to get that out.

577
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:58,440
We've got a sunglass holder in the top. Sunglass pouch right in there.

578
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:03,120
Get your get your sunglasses in there. And then, of course, it's tech forward,

579
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,760
zips all the way down so you can reach all your good stuff

580
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,560
with two spots for battery banks or even gigantic power bricks

581
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,720
and cables and then a tablet slot, as well as a laptop slot.

582
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:22,680
And there's another zippered pouch there. Oh, and the best part and the part that has got people losing their minds

583
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,040
is I saw a lot of pricing speculation with people saying like one fifty, one fifty.

584
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:31,440
That'd be like that'd be like sick. One fifty would be great, but I'm afraid to hope for it

585
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,800
because this is all the same quality materials as the original bag.

586
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,760
YKK zippers, reprieve fabric, made of recycled water bottles, all that good stuff.

587
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,880
But we did it one fifty and for a limited time only.

588
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,000
And I really do mean limited time only. It is thirty dollars off.

589
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,040
It is one twenty if you buy it through YouTube shopping.

590
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:59,720
Oh, I just want to give you guys a little update here.

591
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,320
To do to do to do. Hold on, I'm just going to refresh the thing.

592
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,720
So I already told people on the WAN Show before someone says I missed the YouTube deal.

593
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:14,840
Sad. No, you didn't. The YouTube deal is active. It's active now.

594
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:22,280
I told you guys before it's limited to seventeen hundred units so far.

595
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:27,520
And Luke can verify this because apparently I'm a I'm a big liar in a scumbag.

596
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:30,560
If you believe all of the recent scandals or whatever.

597
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:37,000
We're at twelve thousand six hundred and thirty five units.

598
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:44,320
So we still have what does that work out to forty four hundred units at the discounted price.

599
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:51,440
It is possible. It is possible that they will not make it through the weekend.

600
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:57,080
So if you guys want to pick one up, the discount is through YouTube shopping.

601
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,160
What? Those numbers make no sense. Seventeen thousand. We have seventeen thousand.

602
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,440
So I said seventeen hundred. My bad. Well, I mean, I'm a big liar, so that's probably it.

603
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:12,280
So we have we have forty four hundred more discounts.

604
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,720
You buy it through YouTube shopping, which Dan, is it set up on WAN Show today?

605
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:22,040
It should be pinned. I've seen some stuff that you might have to disable ad blocker for it to show up

606
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,800
if you are using one. That makes sense. One thing that I'm finding as well.

607
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,320
So you have to you have to click on the little product. OK, so I'll go to my laptop.

608
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:37,520
You have to click on this thing. And then when it goes to the store, it's not going to show the discount immediately.

609
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,680
So you have to add it to your cart. It shows the full price.

610
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,400
You have to add it to because it's YouTube's discount. Whatever you have to add it to your cart.

611
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:50,840
And then in your cart, you'll see it. Boom. Someone says WTF not on Floatplane.

612
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,720
That's because the money, the thirty dollars from YouTube is not from us.

613
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:01,640
Yeah. So when your payment goes through, YouTube kicks in thirty dollars.

614
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:10,680
We are getting one hundred and fifty dollars. But to promote YouTube shopping, Google is is sort of co launching this product

615
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:14,640
with us in extremely, extremely generous offer.

616
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:21,480
We would be charging one forty nine ninety nine. And we're going to keep selling this backpack for years at one forty nine ninety nine.

617
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:26,920
And based on the reactions that people had to the original price when we announced it,

618
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:33,080
that that's going to do great. And it's going to go gangbusters for us, for everyone who doesn't see this message right now.

619
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,040
But Google is pitching in thirty US dollars.

620
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:43,680
So you could see that. Oh, I will not talk in any more detail about anything.

621
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,280
Cool. Anyway, buy it through YouTube shopping one nineteen ninety nine.

622
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,920
I don't know. I don't know. I got like four messages from he just says stop talking.

623
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,240
So I'm good. It's technically one twenty point zero zero.

624
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:07,040
Got him. Linus is liar again. Yeah, confirmed, confirmed, unethical.

625
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:12,440
Are you hiding the rest of the zeros from us? Free the floats.

626
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,720
Anyhow, anyway, the point is we love YouTube shopping.

627
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,520
And we love our Google overlords. I don't think they love us right now.

628
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:23,880
I don't know. Maybe they won't notice.

629
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,200
OK, well, that's a merge message. Would you like me to read you one before you do the.

630
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,400
Oh, yeah, we should explain merge messages. So while you're checking out on the store, you can leave a merge message.

631
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,840
If you just put something in your cart, you'll get a little box. Hey, there you go.

632
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:43,400
And you can send a merge message. Producer Dan, who looks like this and is in the dark today.

633
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,840
OK, we couldn't afford power over Christmas.

634
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:53,960
Christmas was we had too many Christmas lights running. We couldn't afford any lights for Dan like dried up.

635
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,800
Anyway, it'll go to producer Dan will pop your message up here

636
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:03,040
or give you a response or curate it for me and Luke to respond to on the show.

637
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:10,800
Dan, do you want to show us how it works? Sure. Hi, LDL looking at where Luke is today.

638
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,080
What do you guys think about lying on your resume?

639
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,320
I'm looking for a new job and want to know what you guys think. Keep up the good work.

640
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:26,800
Well, being an unethical liar, I would say, lie as hard as you can as much as you can.

641
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:33,680
I wouldn't advise it by the time Luke, first of all, Luke.

642
00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:37,920
Faked it till he made it. Yeah, that part's pretty important.

643
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:42,960
He did manage to successfully perform the job functions as expected,

644
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,560
even though he did not have the experience that he claimed to have.

645
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:51,360
When he came into it, he figured it out. So you're going to have to be ready to do that.

646
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:55,360
And by the time he got busted or rather admitted it to me,

647
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,360
it was in an as friends conversation as friends.

648
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:04,960
And I was like, oh, you also, this is far from the worst you've done at this point.

649
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:06,960
So I'm going to...

650
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:18,880
That sounds about right. Sounds about right. It's not a good way to kick off a relationship, though.

651
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:24,320
And I wouldn't advise you to try it. Yeah, yeah.

652
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:31,040
Oh, man. Yeah. I've also, like, I've had a not insignificant amount.

653
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:35,200
I kind of wish I never said it on camera, not because I don't mind owning it,

654
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:41,120
but because people have, like, taken it as like, uh-huh-huh, I'll do this to him and it'll be funny.

655
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,560
Oh, that serves you right. And I've caught a bunch of people doing it,

656
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,320
and then I'm like, well, I can't, like, this isn't... That doesn't work.

657
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:54,240
Yeah, if you get... So it's one of those things where it's like, big bet, big reward, big downside.

658
00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:57,440
Yeah. Right? Bet big, you either win big or lose big.

659
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,200
Because if we don't catch you, maybe you get the job.

660
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,680
If we catch you, you will almost certainly be removed from any consideration.

661
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:10,800
Yeah, and a lot of the positions have, like, and technically the one that I did had a form of testing as well,

662
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,160
but a lot of the positions here have some form of testing,

663
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:20,320
or, like, a trial period or something like that. Yeah, my interview process for him was a three-hour vibe check, so...

664
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:21,680
And we filmed something.

665
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,440
In fairness, filming stuff back then was as simple as, like... Oh, yeah.

666
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,960
Can you make sure that the correct object is visible in the...

667
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,360
So just do this. Dude, with that said, though, you'd be surprised at how many people f*** that up.

668
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:41,600
They just couldn't. They just, like, couldn't. I'd be like, because, like, for you, it's obvious, right?

669
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,000
If I'm like, you know, Google's had an amazing year this year.

670
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:51,280
They've come out with this, and they've come out with that, and what I really want to show you is this.

671
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:58,160
And I look at... Okay, so to him, that's obvious. You wouldn't believe the number of people who just stayed on me.

672
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:03,120
Well, I was literally not even looking in the lens, and I'm, like, talking about this thing in my hands, and I'm, like...

673
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:07,200
This, this, for the love of God, this. Because we... There was no second take back then.

674
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:10,480
Yeah, yeah. Especially because a lot of it, legitimately,

675
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,040
was taking the thing out of the box, and in many cases, that was breaking seals.

676
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:20,720
So, like, there was no second take. Yeah. The little ZmbT says, Luke, Luke's problem was,

677
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,040
he just focused the camera on the road.

678
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,360
That's a good reference. Yeah, that's a quality reference.

679
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,360
Yeah. Oh, man.

680
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,920
Anyways, yeah, don't... Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that.

681
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:42,160
Yeah. Dear Duke... Oh, hold on, hold on.

682
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,400
By East One says, there is no second take because there's only one tape.

683
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:51,840
There were times we cheated. Oh, yeah. If something went catastrophically wrong,

684
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:55,360
we would turn the box around. Yeah. And break the seal on the other side.

685
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,880
For sure, yeah. It's just, you don't aim to do that.

686
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,440
Yeah. That's supposed to be, like, a really, really, like,

687
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,400
last solution-type situation. Do you want to show Lieutenant Beefy

688
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:13,120
where YouTube shop is really quick one more time? There's a few people that are having trouble finding it.

689
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,320
If you are having trouble finding it, so it's on the six months ago I teased you

690
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,360
with this LTT Store commuter backup video. Not a great still frame.

691
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,400
If you're having trouble seeing this little block right here,

692
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,000
it's probably something to do with ad blocking

693
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:34,240
or tracking blocking or something like that, some type of add-on you have,

694
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,840
or potentially your browser, but you're probably running Chrome, so it's probably fine.

695
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,840
Should be on this WAN Show as well. Oh, okay. I didn't know that.

696
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,760
That's cool. Should be pinned in this WAN Show. I sure hope so.

697
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:49,920
Let's see. Let's see.

698
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,840
There it is. Cool. Okay. So that's how you do it.

699
00:58:55,840 --> 00:59:00,640
And then that should bring you, yeah, right here. And then again, when you get to this page,

700
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,920
it's not going to actually show it lower. You have to add it to your cart,

701
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,960
and then in the cart, it will be discounted.

702
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,280
Cool beans. There you go. Okay.

703
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,640
One more? Yeah, yeah, sure. Hit me with the merge message.

704
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:18,160
Dear Duke and Dan, and vertically challenged superstar.

705
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,640
Sorry, one sec. Some people are finding that it's

706
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:29,680
geofence to a certain degree. So they have to VPN around to get it.

707
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,000
I wonder if that is a YouTube thing, yeah. I don't know.

708
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:37,600
Yeah, it could be limited. I don't know anything about that. It's a YouTube shopping promo.

709
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:42,160
So we do not have any control over what regions

710
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:48,560
YouTube shopping is able to operate in. And hey, it's still a great bag at 150.

711
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:53,600
Yeah, yeah, true. Our notes say here, you may need to disable your ad blocker or VPN

712
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,640
if you don't see the tagged product. So yeah, I think it is geofenced.

713
00:59:58,240 --> 00:59:59,680
Or enable your VPN.

714
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:07,280
Pregnant! No, do we have a private internet access link?

715
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,920
Coincidentally, Dan, if we have...

716
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,640
P.I.A. It's a service that we've talked about a lot

717
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:20,400
that I've used for many, many years now. Yeah. And you know, just sometimes you run into situations

718
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,080
where you need to access a thing as though the thing is from some other thing.

719
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,440
I have no idea if it'll work on this. I legitimately don't know.

720
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:33,760
Check if you're getting scammed on flight prices. Like I've run into times when even using a VPN

721
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,800
was not good enough. Like when I tried to buy a Valve Index, man,

722
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:40,480
they got that locked. They had that locked down.

723
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,520
I had to get someone from America

724
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,240
with an American credit card from an American bank

725
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,200
to buy that thing for me and send it up to me.

726
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:56,480
God bless America. Have you ever had the scenario

727
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:58,560
where you get cheaper flights worth? Yee-haw!

728
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,120
Southern Linus would actually be amazing.

729
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,240
These gosh darn 4090s.

730
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:16,000
I will take a stand. Anyways, have you had the flight prices thing work?

731
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,760
I have. Okay, cool. I've had people tell me that's debunked. It's debunked.

732
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:26,000
But I'm like, I don't know what to tell you. We literally did a video about it. I didn't know it was theoretically debunked or not.

733
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,520
I, there was recently, I thought it was working

734
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,680
and then we figured out that it was Canadian versus USD but they didn't show any differentiation.

735
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,520
Oh, interesting. Yeah.

736
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,880
Anyways. Southern Linus and the Luchs of Vaz.

737
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,520
Okay, credit to PK7 and Floatplane Chat. That's pretty good. 10 out of 10.

738
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,480
Nicely done. All right.

739
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,800
Dan, why don't you hit us with one more? I'm trying. Oh wait, have you not done it yet?

740
01:01:54,800 --> 01:02:00,000
No. Well, get on with it, man. What is the jankiest solution or fix ever suggested

741
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,800
for something that everyone said no to and looking back how bad it would have really been?

742
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:11,040
Oh man. Everyone said no to. And it was worse than expected.

743
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,240
Jankiest fix.

744
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:18,640
Most of the terrible janky fix solutions, I've just done them.

745
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:22,160
Yeah, and they mostly work. Yeah. Like I don't know if we've been,

746
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,160
I don't know if we've been burned that badly.

747
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:35,920
Like. Yeah, to be honest. Oh, the air fiber link between here and Creator Warehouse

748
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,640
went out sometimes. But I think what we determined was the problem

749
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,960
was that they were too close. No, they were too close to the roofs.

750
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,480
Oh, was it that? I thought they were too close to each other. Oh, I mean.

751
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:53,040
And they were designed for like a higher power might have changed, but I think there was some reflections

752
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:58,160
for them being like they're supposed to be in a post. We like glue them to the ground.

753
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,840
The swimming pool water cooling works though. Yeah, well it does now.

754
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:05,600
After that fitting like corroded away and it leaked all over everything.

755
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,720
I don't think that was like the concept. Yeah, it's also not that janky.

756
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,920
It's actually pretty good. Yeah. And it's like a thing.

757
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:17,680
Oh, the, oh, this one was funny. So the roof solar that's supposed to contribute

758
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,600
to heating the pool, that one doesn't work at all. Because they filled it.

759
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,840
And I forgot that they told me they filled it, but they didn't glide call it.

760
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,360
So last winter, everything blew up.

761
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:34,160
And it has to be like completely replunged. And I haven't gotten around to it.

762
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:37,680
Yeah. Yeah. So that one, that one was bad. Speaking of which, how's the bike going?

763
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,800
Your bike is my Final Fantasy 6. I made progress. Oh, okay.

764
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:50,000
I made progress actually this while I was off. I reset up everything.

765
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,040
I added a second intake fan. So I have better positive pressure.

766
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:56,000
So I was getting a little bit of dust on some of the previous parts. Yeah.

767
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:01,680
I remixed my primer, which had settled into water and mud,

768
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:06,640
and took probably about 10, 15 minutes. So with the like the drill powered paint mixer

769
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:14,320
to get to, to get going again, I redid my hangers

770
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:18,160
for the wheels because the ones I was using before made them kind of hard to maneuver.

771
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:24,000
So I made new ones out of like chopsticks and then aircraft wire and then like another chopstick

772
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,600
so that instead of coming down like this, it comes down like this now.

773
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,920
So it's a little bit easier to handle. More room. So no, I actually spent a few hours on it

774
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:36,000
over the last being off this week. Getting prepped. I'm getting it, I'm getting it going again.

775
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:41,360
I got a space heater for the booth so that it won't get too low. I got that set up and made sure everything's good to go.

776
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,400
So I'm actually, I'm actually good to get going again. Nice.

777
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:45,840
I got this.

778
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,520
Do a stream where Linus paints his bike and Luke plays 5, 5, 6, first to finish wins.

779
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,000
It's not a horrible idea. It's actually not a terrible idea.

780
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,920
I'd probably be pretty fun actually. I mean you guys just hang out in the shop together

781
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:09,360
and you know, Luke plays it on an ally or something. Yeah, there's, there's, there's a lot of multi-content

782
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:13,600
style streaming that's happening these days. And like even just multi-content content,

783
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:17,200
like you look at the shorts with like the, whatever racer thing going on

784
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,960
while they talk about something else. Subway surfers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's the problem though.

785
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,160
These are projects that neither Luke nor I individually

786
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:29,360
have managed to work on. Assuming that we are going to somehow align the stars

787
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:33,200
so we can be in the same place at the same time doing it at the same time.

788
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,640
I mean, yeah. Well, come on.

789
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,600
Pause. Come on, man. Get your mind out of the gutter.

790
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,040
Get your mind out of the gutter. It likes it there.

791
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:45,920
It's comfortable, it's familiar.

792
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:56,800
Oh man. I didn't actually watch the video. Did they cut out my, uh, did they cut out?

793
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,840
All right. No, you never, never. If they cut it out, then I'll leave it cut out.

794
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:01,600
Uh, okay. What are we supposed to be doing?

795
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:03,360
Cool.

796
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:12,880
Um. The, uh, the LTT commuter backpack announcement.

797
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,000
Is that different than what we did for the merge messages call-out?

798
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:21,680
I don't think so. Okay. They just have cute links. If you go to LMG.GG slash discount please,

799
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,440
then, um, it will take you to the store.

800
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:31,280
And then when you add it to the card, it'll automatically be applied. So if you're having trouble, LMG.GG slash discount please.

801
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:35,200
That brings you to the YouTube video. Oh, cool. All right, see you later.

802
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:42,640
Bad guy. And it's kind of however you want to spell it. Please, full word, PLZ, PLS, both of those words.

803
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:48,640
It's a bad guy. All three of those words. Um, all right, um, I had a lot of fun hanging out with Colin Smear.

804
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,320
Yeah. It was good. Yeah. The video went up. It's funny.

805
01:06:52,320 --> 01:07:00,880
They, um, I, I just, I, I, I felt like, I, I don't know.

806
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:05,280
I felt like they did a really good job. They just kind of, man, the dossier they had on me.

807
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:09,440
Yeah. I don't think that made it into the cut, but they had like,

808
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:15,120
they had like a book this thick on me. It included everything from like, like, like AI summaries

809
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:19,200
that were full of mistakes to like a printout of the Wikipedia,

810
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:27,360
which I think might also have some mistakes on it. But they also had, um, like past sort of times I've addressed

811
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:32,640
stuff or stories that I've told on like, when shows that they had all these like citations, like they had a whole, clearly

812
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:36,560
they have someone who, or either they do it or someone on

813
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:42,960
their team does it where they go through and they have like a whole, like, like background check process for guests on

814
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:47,920
their show, um, which makes me, it makes me all the more

815
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:52,240
surprised that they decided to host me given how controversial I am.

816
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:56,080
It was actually really interesting reading through, uh, both

817
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,240
that and, uh, assumptions.

818
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,880
Yeah. Reading through sort of like the audience questions.

819
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:07,440
And then in the case of Colin and Samir, the questions beforehand

820
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,480
compared to the comments on the video itself, like it's,

821
01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:14,800
I noticed that too. It is a stark difference.

822
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:22,320
It really is. What the like terminal, terminally online commenters want to

823
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:26,400
talk about versus what people who actually watch a video care

824
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:30,160
about no relation to each other whatsoever.

825
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:38,240
Um, anyway, it was, it was a lot of, it was a lot of fun. I was very surprised to see the final cut and that it was like

826
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,760
two hours long because we only sat down for a little over two

827
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:45,280
hours. Like I don't, I don't think they ultimately cut that much out of

828
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:49,360
it. I think, uh, Colton had asked to have a look at it, but I never

829
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,560
had a look at the, at the cut before they, before they uploaded

830
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,760
it. Um, I skipped through parts of it.

831
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:59,360
I haven't, it's obviously it's long. I don't think you need to watch it.

832
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:03,440
Like you, you literally watch, you live through, you survive

833
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:09,440
so I keep changing the language here to better reflect the situation, the WAN Show every week.

834
01:09:09,440 --> 01:09:15,040
So I, I don't think you need to, yeah. And you were, you were there for a lot of the stories that I

835
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,160
was telling. So there really isn't, I don't think I just wanted to see

836
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:21,360
like what the vibe was basically that that was all I was

837
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,960
really doing. And it, it seemed pretty good. I didn't sleep well the night before.

838
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,400
I'll tell you that much. You seemed fairly relaxed though.

839
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:35,440
I was trying to be. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's like, um, like I thought, I thought that was pretty good.

840
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:41,040
Like we, we, we wanted a chance to, to kind of talk to an

841
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:46,320
audience other than just our own audience. That's why we, that's why we went down and, uh, you know,

842
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:49,760
did it in their studio and why we went down and did assumptions as well.

843
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:53,920
Um, I think that, you know, for, for a while I've been a

844
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:58,960
bit of a shut-in. Like there's been some exceptions lately. We've done some, some fun collabs like with Mighty

845
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:05,040
Car mods, uh, but like I've never really done like the, the

846
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:10,320
interview circuit or anything like that. Like it was very, you know, generous of Ludwig to

847
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,760
invite me to the yard, but I've never really gone out and

848
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:17,360
been like, Hey, do you need a guest for your show before that I can remember?

849
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,640
Um, and, uh, it was fun.

850
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:27,840
Actually. Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. It was cool to see how many people in our audience caught

851
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:32,480
that the collab was coming when we shot our arc battle mage video in their studio.

852
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:37,840
Oh. Yeah. Cause like their audience obviously knew cause they posted

853
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:42,240
ahead of time. Hey, do you have any questions for Linus? Which by the way, as far as I can tell, they completely

854
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,760
ignored cause they, they had their own questions ready.

855
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:50,560
And I read through the questions that people asked on Twitter and stuff. I was like, I don't remember seeing any of this there.

856
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:55,200
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, uh, but yeah, I, I was cause I've watched some of

857
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:59,520
their content before just sort of like, I don't know, I think it's, they actually do some really interesting stuff.

858
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:03,360
Well, yeah, they're, they're like the creators. YouTube meta game.

859
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,480
About creators for creators channel. Yeah. Yeah.

860
01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:11,440
It's, it's, I've watched quite a bit of their stuff. Um, and something that I've, I've noticed is that people

861
01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:15,680
tend to be pretty relaxed and pretty open.

862
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:20,080
And I was like, okay, is Linus going to go like presenter style?

863
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:24,880
Like, will you have come off just filming something an hour before because that's normal and be like in

864
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,320
like presenter mode? And then no, like you were, you were kind of chilling,

865
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:32,960
having an open conversation. So I thought it was good. I think it was good that Colton and I went together

866
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,000
because we talked for like four hours on the flight down there.

867
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:43,200
So maybe I was just in like chill chatting about the business mode because realistically both of us are the

868
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,040
kind of people that just never turn off.

869
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,560
So we, we literally talked for like four hours on the

870
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:55,920
flight down there. They didn't shut up the whole time. I'm sorry to anyone who was on that flight from YBR to LA

871
01:11:56,480 --> 01:11:59,040
my apologies. Yeah.

872
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:04,320
Someone's saying I should go on Joe Rogan. I've had that suggested before.

873
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,680
A, I've never been invited. B, I don't know what we'd talk about.

874
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:13,840
I literally have no idea because I, I find, I am very

875
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:18,000
knowledgeable about a niche that as far as I can tell almost

876
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,520
no one cares about, which is like tech YouTube.

877
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:29,120
Because a lot of what I know is not even necessarily applicable to non, like non tech or non, at least

878
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:34,560
tangentially related like, like science or, you know,

879
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:39,040
education YouTube or like, like you could, like you could kind of find ones that are like kind of similar

880
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,720
where you're trying to present information and also make it entertaining or whatever else.

881
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:46,160
Yeah.

882
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:54,240
Next topic. Yeah. Scrappy DP says he doesn't know who you are.

883
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:58,720
A hundred percent. He has absolutely no idea who I am.

884
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:07,760
I don't think I've ever seen him operate a computer. So I think his, I think his producer at some point

885
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:15,360
or something talked about the screwdriver though. Redban is not his producer, but has worked with him in

886
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,080
the past and definitely knows who we are for sure.

887
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:27,200
Um, he, he's like the, what is the kill Tony?

888
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,360
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. That's the one I'm thinking about. Yep.

889
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,640
But I think he used to work with Joe Morgan in the,

890
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,000
in the way past or something. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay.

891
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:41,440
Red, red bands weren't like, he's had like, I think he's talked about the screwdriver.

892
01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:45,680
He's worn a, an LTX sweater on one of the kill Tonys in the

893
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,720
past. Um, cool. Yeah.

894
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:53,600
So he's definitely been around. Also, I think I don't remember.

895
01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:02,160
Oh, I guess this would be before you were doing YouTube stuff,

896
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:07,440
but I thought Joe Rogan was really into like Quake.

897
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:11,920
I've heard that. And doing land stuff back in the day.

898
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:15,920
I don't know. That would have had to be like a thousand years ago. A little bit a long time ago.

899
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:24,640
All right. Melody Bun, there is no risk of me going on Rogan.

900
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:28,560
They're begging me not to go on. I have not been invited.

901
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,840
He literally doesn't know who I am. It's fine. Just chill.

902
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,960
My goodness. Do you think a, like a gorilla could play badminton?

903
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:40,080
Sorry. What? You know, like a gorilla, like they're pretty strong at like fast.

904
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:44,080
What do you think? Are you, are you saying I should play Joe Rogan in badminton?

905
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:48,400
No, no, no, no. Like a, like a gorilla. Do you think that could play badminton? He's trying to be Joe Rogan.

906
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:52,240
I'm prepping you for your interview. I've never watched the Rogan experience.

907
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,600
Okay. I've, I've seen the occasional clip here and there.

908
01:14:55,600 --> 01:15:00,080
Like are those the kind of questions he asks? I don't know. I don't, I've seen clips like that.

909
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:04,800
There's like a meaning that all his interviews turn into him talking about like,

910
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:08,560
what if this was a giant scary animal and could you like take it on?

911
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:14,560
So it doesn't matter that you're a tech YouTuber because you won't be talking about that.

912
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:20,240
I see. It's like that. I think the whole thing is like, yeah, like could you fight a bear slash?

913
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,920
Have you done DMT before? That's the meme, I think. That's DMT.

914
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,120
I was going to, I was going to mention that if it didn't. Drug. Oh, okay.

915
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:32,720
What is it though? I don't know. Dime methyl tryptamine as a strong psychedelic drug.

916
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,120
I think the answer is you have not. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously.

917
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,400
But like, what's its, well, what's its colloquial name?

918
01:15:39,440 --> 01:15:43,040
DMT. Van versus Joe Rogan in a cage. That would end poorly.

919
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:46,960
Yeah. He might be old, but he's still a lot bigger than me.

920
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,720
He's going to do one of those spinny kicks and send us into orbit.

921
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,000
Dmitri and Fantasia.

922
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:01,520
Schedule one controlled substance in the United States, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

923
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:04,400
Okay. Okay. So it's just called DMT.

924
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:15,200
Okay. Well, I mean, now I know about that. So if I ever get into when I, yeah, when I start my hookers and blow arc,

925
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:18,320
then I'll, I'll have another. DMT and bears.

926
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,000
I would work in Vancouver. I'll tell you that.

927
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:33,600
Please tell me the bear thing was intentional.

928
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,240
I'm sorry. I'm going to shut up now.

929
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:46,640
Oh man. I mean, I feel like I'm overdue for a real scandal, you know?

930
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:50,960
Like I feel like, I feel like to put in con, to put things in context, I need to like,

931
01:16:51,520 --> 01:17:00,160
like run over some orphans or something, you know? Because then me not, me not talking about, you know, a sponsor that we haven't worked with in

932
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:07,760
three years will be just, people will be able to put it in the correct context, you know?

933
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:11,600
Yeah. Like come on, tell me, tell me, what, what, what scandal do you guys want?

934
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:17,760
You want like a good one? Not, yeah, don't, you know, don't run over orphans.

935
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,320
Give me something. You know. Speeding. Come on.

936
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:26,560
I mean, that, that was another, that was another funny one to me just because like,

937
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:32,720
the fact that every other car YouTuber does blur their speedo, does that make what they're doing?

938
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:37,120
Like any, the fact that they successfully blur their speedo, does that make it like better?

939
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:45,040
Like I'm not saying that it's a good thing to do, that you should just rip around on public roads.

940
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,800
Wasn't he in a school zone? He was, there was a, I didn't really.

941
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:53,360
There was a children at play sign of some sort, but I don't think there's any

942
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:57,760
concrete evidence that it was in effect. It may have been time delimited.

943
01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:58,480
Got it, okay.

944
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:07,440
Like dude, there was that, there was that scrapyard wars when I was literally texting

945
01:18:07,440 --> 01:18:11,840
while driving in scrapyard wars and I'm not saying that's good and you shouldn't do that.

946
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:17,600
It was a different time for real and that's not a good excuse.

947
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:29,840
Like distracted driving is terrible. I'm just saying that like it was, it was, it was interesting to watch how eager people were

948
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,720
to like nail Marquez to the cross for that one.

949
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:37,520
And I'm not saying what he did was right. And the timing sucked.

950
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:41,360
I think coming right on the heels of the, I think that's most of it to be honest.

951
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:45,920
Yeah, I don't know. I feel like a lot of what's gone on with us has been.

952
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:54,400
Blood in the water. A, has been a significant amount of residual anger that goes all the way back to ad block as piracy.

953
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:59,600
Yeah, probably. I think that was our first thing where people felt like personally attacked,

954
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:03,040
even though I never said don't do it. And there's a, there's a certain degree that you get to.

955
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:15,040
I've had this conversation with a few people. There's a certain degree that you get to when it is encouraged and cheered on by the community

956
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,360
to attack a person or a group of people.

957
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:20,800
So it ends up being like the safe route.

958
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,520
Like I think, I think I can think of one particular point in time where it was the

959
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:29,280
safe route to throw at us with everything you could.

960
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:33,280
Oh yeah, a hundred percent. So like it was anything else would have gotten you like destroyed.

961
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,960
Even if you said nothing. Even if you said nothing. You would have looked like you're evil or something.

962
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:40,800
So then like, and that, that residuals for a long time.

963
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:45,600
I think it, I don't think it goes away. Potentially every hour. I'm not, I'm not convinced it goes away.

964
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,360
Okay, so hold on a second. Hold on a second. We've got, we've got suggestions though.

965
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:52,640
We've got suggestions for a proper scandal. Nice.

966
01:19:54,480 --> 01:19:58,480
Okay, interesting. Linus is actually six foot five.

967
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:05,840
Lied the whole time. That's good. Nice. That's good. Dracus asks, how were the Diddy parties?

968
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:12,400
Dude, if you think I am anywhere near cool enough to be invited to a music industry party,

969
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:17,280
please. Again, Joe Rogan doesn't know who he is.

970
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:26,480
Remember when we talked recently? I'm not trying to say he's associated to Diddy just before people freak out.

971
01:20:27,440 --> 01:20:31,440
It's already starting. Oh no, that was not my point at all.

972
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:36,880
Remember when we were talking recently about like celebrities that I've met?

973
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:46,720
And I couldn't, I couldn't think of any. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like even Seth Curry, the, the like, the lesser Curry, still great.

974
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:52,160
Still great NBA player. I don't watch, I don't watch basketball, but still my understanding.

975
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:58,160
I looked at his stats. I creeped the stats and they were good. Still great, but like, I haven't met anybody.

976
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:01,920
I don't know anybody. I don't. Wait, the lesser Curry? Who's the greater Curry?

977
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:07,040
Steph. Yeah, they had two kids. They named them Steph and Seth.

978
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:12,240
Wow. Yeah. Good thinking. I don't watch, I don't watch, I thought they were the same person.

979
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,160
No, not even. Okay. Yeah, not even.

980
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:21,360
Oh yeah, I met Deadmau5. I mean, Joel's kind of niche, famous too though.

981
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:25,120
I think so. Like he's like, if you're into EDM. Now I think so.

982
01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:29,920
And you don't know who Deadmau5 is. You're like, like a cultural moron basically.

983
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:33,600
But if you're not into EDM and you don't know who Deadmau5 is, like yeah.

984
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:35,920
Like he had like one song on the radio.

985
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:37,760
Like, let's be real.

986
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:44,240
And I think in our age bracket and- Pretty much everybody knew I think.

987
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:47,440
Pretty much everybody knew. But outside of that, please. Yeah, that's probably true.

988
01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:50,640
Yeah, come on. Yeah. And Joel's super cool.

989
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:57,200
Nothing against him or anything. But when you talk like famous, famous, I mean, I did meet Paris Hilton.

990
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,840
Okay. I was in the same room. Did you meet her? Were you in the same room?

991
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:05,920
I complained about her. Did you meet her? Were you complaining about her in the same room?

992
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:09,040
She uploaded that Christmas video of her naked.

993
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,840
So I would say that I would say that I've actually seen more of her

994
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:15,520
than most people in my life.

995
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:22,080
That is not, that is a, wow.

996
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:27,440
That is a very positively parasocial thing for everyone that enjoys OnlyFans, I think.

997
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,680
All the OnlyFans enjoyers are like-

998
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:36,000
Yeah, I know them. I've seen a lot of them. She's disrupting the market.

999
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,880
If Jerrogan did know who you were and invited you, would you go on?

1000
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:47,760
I think I would probably leave it to the management team.

1001
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,120
So I think it would be fine. I'd probably, well, then you'd feel free to cast your vote.

1002
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:55,440
But I don't think I'd weigh in on that. I think that's, I think that's something I'd let the team decide.

1003
01:22:55,520 --> 01:23:00,240
Because that way I get plausible deniability. I can just be like, yeah, the executive team sent me here.

1004
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:04,400
I just work here. Because I really, I honestly don't-

1005
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:09,760
That is fairly true. I don't really have an opinion. I've seen clips, like I said, I've come across the odd clip.

1006
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:16,240
I've never actually like sat through an entire podcast, but I've seen clips here and there that make it look like a very, very stupid thing.

1007
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:21,840
But I've also seen clips that seem to have intelligent people

1008
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:27,600
and some semblance of like a coherent intellectual conversation.

1009
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,360
So I don't really know what to make of it. Yeah.

1010
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,560
I don't know. I just think things like that, like,

1011
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:39,120
yeah, if you keep your head about you, like whatever. I don't know. It's just talking.

1012
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:44,960
Man, we discovered Linus pays people to play games for him.

1013
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,600
That could be, that could be something. Nah, there's- To play games for him?

1014
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,560
You guys got nothing. You guys got nothing.

1015
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:57,600
Badminton Center is a drug front? Oh, that's not bad. That's pretty good.

1016
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:03,120
Yeah. There's, there's, there's shipping bays on the back. Shuttlecock's more like mule penises.

1017
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:08,000
Like mules, like for drugs. Yeah. I don't know.

1018
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:14,880
Okay. All right. Yeah. And they're big, so lots of drugs, big mule penises, drugs.

1019
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:19,440
I don't know. Like aphrodisiacs or something. I don't know the lingo, okay.

1020
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:21,040
I think it's panda.

1021
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:29,360
Oh man. What else we got here? Shuttlecocks.

1022
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:36,480
You could have a cock fighting ring. Oh man. Even in the flow plane, it's amazing how many people like actually believe

1023
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:40,080
some of the stuff that is just like not true at all.

1024
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:44,480
Someone said someone committed suicide because of you. That's not true at all.

1025
01:24:44,480 --> 01:24:50,640
That is not true. That is absolutely false. I have personally verified, but that is absolutely false.

1026
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:58,160
Yeah. And it's just, it's, it's so bizarre the way that someone can say something about you online.

1027
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:02,240
And it becomes. And it becomes canon in some people's heads.

1028
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:08,400
And you can never reach a hundred percent of them. You can never reach a hundred percent of them again.

1029
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:14,320
Luke is actually allergic to chicken and rice. Oh, that would throw off my whole worldview.

1030
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:20,320
What does it mean?

1031
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:26,240
Maybe his allergy is that it engorges certain parts of his body.

1032
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,880
Oh no. Which would actually work out great.

1033
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:32,320
Given what he cooks his famous chicken for.

1034
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,080
For his 100% success chicken rate.

1035
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,800
That could be, that could be quite convenient. Winner winner chicken dinner indeed.

1036
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:48,160
I love that your mom watches the show.

1037
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:49,840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very good.

1038
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:57,520
Okay. Talking of Luke's private parts, do you want to do sponsors?

1039
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1059
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1060
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1076
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:01,280
What are we supposed to be doing, Dan?

1077
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:09,920
Sure. I like this one. 2024 was a year.

1078
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,840
Yes, it was. What were your favorite moments?

1079
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:19,840
We asked the writers, what were your favorite videos that you worked on this year?

1080
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:26,000
Oh, this is fun. Okay, Luke, do you mind clicking them so that I can like switch

1081
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,840
over to your laptop or something like that?

1082
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:33,520
First up is David with his console tier list.

1083
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:36,800
Perhaps the most high-effort tier list video ever made,

1084
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:40,640
says David, the Cleopatra of the tier list format.

1085
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,520
Can you tell the guy writes for a living?

1086
01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:47,600
David says, I loved making this video because it fell

1087
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:52,480
outside of our comfort zone. I especially liked the challenge of coming up with visuals

1088
01:29:52,480 --> 01:29:56,080
for the longer storytelling bits like the paper puppet show

1089
01:29:56,080 --> 01:30:00,320
during the Sony intro or the CRT-A role during the SEGA bit.

1090
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,360
Only video game donkey has a more popular console tier list.

1091
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:07,680
I am very proud of how this one turned out. Yeah, this one has been a slow burn.

1092
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:11,200
Out of the gate, it actually did not perform very well for us,

1093
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:14,640
but over time, it has it. Oh, it's it's cranking.

1094
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:21,200
Very clickable. Yeah, it's doing great. And you can ever green. You can see that like to view ratio, very solid,

1095
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:25,440
very solid. The team outdid themselves on this one.

1096
01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:28,960
It was an extremely high effort video and it's long,

1097
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:32,240
like putting together a high effort edit like this for a 10 minute video.

1098
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:36,000
That's that's a lot of work. Putting it together for a 30 minute video and it never,

1099
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:42,640
it never slows down. Like the the the the quality of this video is just outstanding.

1100
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:45,680
They did a really good job. I think it's pretty interesting that the highest replay spike

1101
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:49,680
is not the final tier list. I think it's because everyone just like

1102
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:52,720
Final tier list is a high spike, but not the highest.

1103
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:56,080
I think everyone just kind of knows like it's PlayStation.

1104
01:30:56,080 --> 01:31:00,320
Yeah. And there was some really like interesting stuff like this this bit.

1105
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,400
Even though a lot of people know the the history there.

1106
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:12,560
David did a great job of providing a really excellent and fast summary of it.

1107
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:16,160
Yeah, for sure. All right, next up we've got Adam.

1108
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:24,080
I built the world's biggest gaming TV. I can't believe Linus took this down to build a stupid badminton center.

1109
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:29,040
We were there till like 1 a.m. And it was worth every minute.

1110
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:37,840
You got that one up yet? Yeah. This was legitimately an unforgettable experience.

1111
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:46,720
Unforgettable. Dan was there.

1112
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:51,600
Dan wasn't even working. No one told me I would have been there.

1113
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:54,640
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Yeah, they called me like four hours late.

1114
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:57,840
I think I arrived at like 11 p.m. Scared. Absolutely worth it.

1115
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,960
It's hard to even get a sense of the scale of it.

1116
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,560
Like it's it's enormous. Bonkers.

1117
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:10,560
So cool though. And like even just watching Dan play Flight Sim on it.

1118
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:18,160
He played Flight Sim. Yeah, I mean I said at the time it felt more immersive to me than VR.

1119
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:22,800
Just because of like. Oh unlimited FOV.

1120
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,120
Yeah. Look, there I am.

1121
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:29,680
Oh yeah, you were driving the car. The car was bigger than a real car.

1122
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:34,880
Like you can see the couch. Yeah, wow.

1123
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:40,080
Like dude, so cool.

1124
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:45,040
That's nuts. Those walls are. Wow, I think that's the Flight Sim part.

1125
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:48,320
35 feet tall, I think. 32. 32.

1126
01:32:48,320 --> 01:32:55,520
Yeah. Yeah. And like the fact that we lucked out and it was actually slightly over 2000 inches.

1127
01:32:56,160 --> 01:32:59,760
Dance. So we got to meme on Frank's 2000 inch TV.

1128
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:06,000
Yeah. Like oh. Oh, I loved it. Man, this is this is amazing because.

1129
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,080
I didn't even remember either of those.

1130
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:15,600
Yeah. Our writing team and our editors work on a lot of videos.

1131
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:18,640
Yeah. I work on. Okay. How many writers we got?

1132
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:21,840
One, two, three, four, five, six.

1133
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:26,160
I'm going to also count myself seven because I do write videos from time to time.

1134
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:30,480
So I literally work on six to seven times as many videos as them.

1135
01:33:30,480 --> 01:33:34,080
So there are things that I just. And all the streams. Blank on.

1136
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:38,960
I didn't remember that either of those were this year. We do.

1137
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:43,200
Those were this year. Yeah. It feels like they were longer ago. Dude, we do cool stuff.

1138
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,640
Oh yeah. We like actually. Very awesome. Cool stuff. Crying out loud.

1139
01:33:47,440 --> 01:33:50,240
Ploof says his favorite. No way.

1140
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:54,400
No way is working on it. This one.

1141
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:57,520
Got it. Oh, wrong one.

1142
01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:02,480
I have two weeks to file a dispute for this scam TV.

1143
01:34:02,480 --> 01:34:08,800
Okay. It is the hardest that I think I have ever seen Ploof laugh in the years that we have

1144
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:14,560
been working together. So you got to skip forward. It's probably going to be a view spike forward, forward, way forward.

1145
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:18,080
Look for the big one at the end. This is probably it. That's got to be it.

1146
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:23,120
So there's a point here where he realizes.

1147
01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:29,520
Wait for it. That's inside the glass, by the way. Yeah.

1148
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:30,480
He realizes.

1149
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:35,360
That the only person he knows.

1150
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:41,040
Who's stupid enough to get ripped off by this thing is sitting right next to him.

1151
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:48,640
Have you ever seen a man so happy?

1152
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:59,680
Oh man. Oh dude. No acting could ever be that pure and that genuine.

1153
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:04,160
The the mirth, the mirth that this man felt.

1154
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:10,800
So he says, he says, just like Jake Tyvey, I enjoy wasting Linus's money.

1155
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:14,800
Also, apparently, once the refund was finally going to happen, support goes to us.

1156
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,720
Did we not get a refund?

1157
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:27,520
You know, we've had to dial back the like references to like wasting my money and

1158
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:32,720
stuff in videos because people get so hung up on it. They're like, oh Linus, flexing his money again.

1159
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:37,600
Or like, it's not even his money. It's the company's money. It's just like, like people get so mad about it.

1160
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:41,440
What they don't understand is, I don't write that into the videos.

1161
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:46,240
The team writes that into the videos. They think it's funny.

1162
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:54,560
I'm like, what do you want? And so I have to sit there and tell them, yeah, this thing that you enjoy and you think is like

1163
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:58,080
genuinely funny to me, because people will get upset on behalf of the team.

1164
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:01,440
They'll be like, yeah, Linus flexing his money in front of his team that can't afford this

1165
01:36:01,440 --> 01:36:04,880
crap in Chinese TV or whatever. But they're the ones who love it.

1166
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:08,320
Oh man.

1167
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:16,560
All right. What else we got? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Alex obviously was going to pick this one.

1168
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:19,680
The mighty car mods collab.

1169
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:23,760
Coincidentally, Ploof's least favorite video.

1170
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:27,760
Ploof says, not my least favorite, but I do wish y'all had like one extra day.

1171
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:32,320
Thanks customs for delaying the engine because it took a while for them to actually get it

1172
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:38,240
driving ready for it. Okay. It was sitting in 105 for like the next couple of weeks.

1173
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:41,600
Oh wow. This is such a great moment for the engine. That was pretty cool.

1174
01:36:41,600 --> 01:36:44,000
It's so awesome having them all in the engine bay there. I love it.

1175
01:36:45,440 --> 01:36:49,360
I have a response from Ploof here about the TV. Oh, oh, what do you say?

1176
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:55,440
Let's see. Let's see. Wow. Ploof with the game sense to message the producer rather than messaging me.

1177
01:36:55,440 --> 01:36:59,840
I think that's a first for WAN Show. No, I messaged Ploof. Oh, all right then.

1178
01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:03,120
That's my W. Nice.

1179
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:06,240
We can both take the L's. I don't know. We'll share. I like sharing L's.

1180
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:09,200
Two L's. Yeah, they make a W.

1181
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:14,640
Let's see. AliExpress is offering a partial refund, but not telling me the amount.

1182
01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:18,640
I said I either want to return it or get a full refund.

1183
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:25,520
They closed the case. Oh, okay.

1184
01:37:25,520 --> 01:37:28,800
Case closed then, I guess. Yeah, let's see.

1185
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:31,360
Visa, they reached out to Visa.

1186
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:38,640
Basically, both TVs are lumped in the same purchase and AliExpress,

1187
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:44,160
they've appealed five times. So. They've appealed the chargeback.

1188
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:48,080
You have, you've purchased two TVs.

1189
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:54,720
No way. I should be able to get my money back. What's the point of chargeback if I can order the wrong thing and they just get to be like,

1190
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:58,080
yeah, it's a Chinese inch. What's a Chinese inch?

1191
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:03,440
Wait, did they say that? Yeah. What? They said, yeah, our inches are different from your inches.

1192
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:07,680
Oh, no, I think the Visa is a separate thing. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

1193
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:13,360
All right. Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Ploof says if it makes you feel better, the video did get three to five million views.

1194
01:38:14,480 --> 01:38:18,560
What's three to five million? Ploof does have access to this dashboard.

1195
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:22,560
Did he say that or are you, are you saying that? That's what, that's what he said. Oh my God, this is real.

1196
01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:23,760
What's up?

1197
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:32,480
Okay, so yes, that's true. But the TV then should be bigger, not smaller.

1198
01:38:33,440 --> 01:38:38,240
Oh, right. Yeah. So we, we measured it every possible way.

1199
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:43,280
And also there's multiple Chinese inches and Andy talked us through it.

1200
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:46,720
So, so we, yeah, so we, we, we measured it.

1201
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:51,840
If it was centimeters, it's not right. If it was Chinese inches, it's not right.

1202
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:57,440
And if it was regular inches, it's not right. It's just completely invented.

1203
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:00,640
Like it's, it's nothing to do with anything on any measuring tape.

1204
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:07,280
Anyway, okay.

1205
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:14,720
All right. Let's keep going. Elijah, really?

1206
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:19,120
Huh. Add.

1207
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:25,120
Yeah. If only there was some way to, because you know that we're going to do the next thing,

1208
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:31,120
queue up the, okay, it doesn't matter. The point is his favorite was, why did you make me build this?

1209
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:35,360
This CEO PC build. This was his second time water cooling.

1210
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:40,880
He was apparently super nervous. PS, when are we selling the poster?

1211
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:42,720
The video hit a hundred thousand likes.

1212
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,760
Okay. So there's a poster at the end. If you go to Taryn's office.

1213
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,960
Yeah. Just anywhere in his office. So that poster.

1214
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:58,320
Um, I think, I think we are going forward with it.

1215
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:05,280
I don't think it's going to be that big. But yeah, you guys did, you did reach a hundred thousand likes.

1216
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:08,240
So there's no real avoiding that at this point.

1217
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:13,280
Pope. He was able to get rid of the chair, which is great.

1218
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:17,200
He still has to use, I think he still has the keyboard.

1219
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:21,840
He sells the computer. And the computer, which is loud and annoying.

1220
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:26,480
Yeah, that's not my problem. So that sounds like, that sounds like a CEO issue.

1221
01:40:26,480 --> 01:40:30,560
If it reduces the performance of your CEO. Poster soon, probably in January.

1222
01:40:30,560 --> 01:40:33,680
Really? This is from Nick Light. Yeah, I forgot.

1223
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:37,200
Like it's during the work day today. There will be an option to buy the big one.

1224
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:40,720
Yeah. That's why I reached out. No way. The, oh my gosh.

1225
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:46,720
Okay. I responded to this. I didn't realize that it was a segment for WAN Show.

1226
01:40:46,720 --> 01:40:50,880
I said, I love all my videos equally. That's like asking me to pick my favorite child.

1227
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,600
He actually put a screenshot of that from teams in there.

1228
01:40:55,840 --> 01:41:00,000
But I really enjoyed the 3D home theater video, even if no one else cared about it.

1229
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:05,360
It was pretty cool to put together like a true cinema grade passive 3D setup.

1230
01:41:05,360 --> 01:41:08,560
The number of people that provided advice to me

1231
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:12,800
on how I could have done it better or cheaper by using active shutter glasses or whatever.

1232
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:17,600
It's like, bro, I followed 3D pretty closely.

1233
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:21,040
I am aware of fucking shutter glasses.

1234
01:41:24,080 --> 01:41:29,120
I did it this way because I wanted passive 3D with glass optics.

1235
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:34,160
I have never seen anything as good as the 3D setup that was in my house.

1236
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:39,600
It was awesome. The only thing that I would like to do differently

1237
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:44,560
is I would like to get my hands on a higher quality DLP projector.

1238
01:41:44,640 --> 01:41:48,240
I also learned about another type of filter

1239
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:51,440
that could help me make non-DLP projectors,

1240
01:41:51,440 --> 01:41:54,720
like make the light polarizable or something as a whole.

1241
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:59,280
I forget what it's called. Anyway, I linked Elijah to some articles in case we were going to do a follow-up,

1242
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:05,040
but the video didn't get any views, so we probably won't. But I'd like to get my hands on some better DLP projectors

1243
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:08,160
with lens shifts so that I could perfectly align the images.

1244
01:42:08,160 --> 01:42:11,040
And then, oh man, oh, so cool.

1245
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:16,720
I would totally have that setup. Maybe as part of Whaleland or something.

1246
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:22,400
I also really enjoyed doing the Equinix tour. I always love getting access to places other people don't get to go.

1247
01:42:23,440 --> 01:42:25,520
It's one of my favorite perks of this job.

1248
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:30,080
So cool. And then the last one that came off the top of my head

1249
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:36,960
was the motherboard repair video. That was probably the most pure joy and exhilaration

1250
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:39,600
that I have felt filming a video in at least a couple of years.

1251
01:42:40,480 --> 01:42:43,520
Just stacking up those Ws.

1252
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:46,800
Although we have one coming... Oh, no, this one came out already.

1253
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:50,560
The one where the wife threw the guy's PC out the window.

1254
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:53,360
Yeah. The three-story balcony when he asked for a divorce.

1255
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,680
We got... have you watched it? I've gone through parts of it.

1256
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:01,840
Oh, okay. We got all but one component working.

1257
01:43:02,560 --> 01:43:06,160
Yes, I did know that. All but one. Wait, no, I think I did watch the whole thing.

1258
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:09,520
Yeah, that was super awesome. That was very surprised.

1259
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:13,040
I've also got another response here from Nick Light. I'm on vacation.

1260
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:15,440
You Linus, I'm not working.

1261
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:20,960
I'm on vacation. You Linus. There's a blank in there.

1262
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:24,480
No, he said you Linus. I'm not working. You Linus.

1263
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:28,400
What's you like? You Linus. You Linus.

1264
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:32,160
Oh, nice. You Linus.

1265
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:33,920
Nice. God, I hope my button works.

1266
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:36,080
Doesn't for us.

1267
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:42,800
Jordan said I'm on vacation, Adam. Please stop messaging me.

1268
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:48,560
Nice. And then Bell's favorite was you might feel a little pressure.

1269
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:53,120
The Ludwig Swipe Plus bidet ShortCircuit. That was actually a lot of fun.

1270
01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:56,560
What? Oh, sorry. Sorry. I just assumed you wouldn't bother clicking it.

1271
01:43:56,560 --> 01:44:00,560
Wow. That was the only one that's had an ad.

1272
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:03,600
Like this one didn't have an ad on it. That was awesome. How many views did this get?

1273
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:07,760
We should hire this guy. 850,000 views on a bidet.

1274
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:12,880
Yeah. Absolutely natural talent. I mean, I told him this when he came up here.

1275
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:17,360
I was like, if there's anything. Oh, I think I actually said this on the yard,

1276
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:24,880
but the guy is an S tier personality. Yeah. Like just you could probably put him in front of anything

1277
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:28,960
with anyone doing anything. They do pretty well.

1278
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:34,480
And he would just, he'd like figure out the vibe,

1279
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:41,280
settle in and just perform. Like the guy is just absolutely S tier.

1280
01:44:41,280 --> 01:44:41,920
Good what he does.

1281
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:49,360
Okay. Oh, Sammy. Sammy picked a favorite one.

1282
01:44:50,080 --> 01:44:52,400
I haven't watched this video.

1283
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:58,720
You haven't watched your own setup doctor.

1284
01:44:58,720 --> 01:45:02,240
That's weird. No way. I feel like I would watch mine.

1285
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:06,080
Yeah. He says he has a hard time watching himself. Oh, I'm the same.

1286
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:07,760
I haven't watched mine. What?

1287
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:12,000
Oh, what? Okay.

1288
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:16,960
I was working up the courage to, but. Well, anyway, all right.

1289
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:20,480
Yeah. He said that was his joke answer. And then his real answer was,

1290
01:45:20,480 --> 01:45:24,000
this is how we make an LTT video 2024. This was outstanding.

1291
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:26,480
And I didn't even know about it until I watched it.

1292
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:31,600
The team did such an outstanding job of this video

1293
01:45:31,600 --> 01:45:34,960
going through the entire process in like a.

1294
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:40,400
This is super cool. I don't know. I don't know how to describe why it's so much better

1295
01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:46,960
than the way that we've done it in the past. But I think this might be the best like dislike ratio

1296
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:50,000
on Floatplane. You just ruined it now. No, they won't float.

1297
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:53,200
Plane's not like that. I'm going to do it. What? Damn.

1298
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:55,360
No, Floatplane's not like that. They don't respect that.

1299
01:45:57,200 --> 01:46:01,200
Yeah. So yeah, he said it was a video idea he wanted to do for over a year.

1300
01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:09,600
And don't Sammy outstanding. Exclus- Are you kidding me right now?

1301
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:18,000
Hold on. I can block mods. You can. Yeah. You can. You can ban them.

1302
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:20,560
Do it. Ban them. Ban them from Floatplane.

1303
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:28,000
Okay. Adam added some other stuff.

1304
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:32,720
Some stats. 844 million views on the channel this year.

1305
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:36,720
172 million hours of watch time.

1306
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:41,840
234 LTT videos, 59 live streams, 34 shorts.

1307
01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:45,760
126 Floatplane exclusives including behind the scenes

1308
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:49,920
and exclusive live streams and themed weeks. And themed weeks are sick.

1309
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:54,720
640,000 new subscribers. Oh, we have some most viewed videos.

1310
01:46:54,720 --> 01:46:57,840
Can you guess the top three? Okay. Well, I know one of them. I have a theory for one of them,

1311
01:46:57,840 --> 01:47:00,400
which I'm very surprised wasn't mentioned at all.

1312
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:05,200
Oh, really? Up above. I know the top one is the...

1313
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:09,600
Hold on. I have a theory of what one it is. Should I write it down?

1314
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,840
Yeah, you can write it down. But I know it's one of two.

1315
01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:17,040
It's... Oh, shoot. Oh, it's one of three. Oh, shoot.

1316
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:20,640
I think the top viewed video on the channel for this year

1317
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:26,000
is actually the Samsung Folding Displays Short from CES.

1318
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:28,640
That isn't what I thought and that isn't what I wrote down. Interesting.

1319
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:34,640
Oh, we didn't count that apparently. So I think we might have gotten it wrong.

1320
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:39,680
I guess they're only counting VOD. But yeah, I know the top performing other than that

1321
01:47:40,560 --> 01:47:44,960
would have been the underwater scooter, but that's another short for the Taiwan PC.

1322
01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:49,200
Okay, I wrote down Taiwan PC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one far and away outperformed everything else this year.

1323
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,200
I'm going to sort by views here. I think...

1324
01:47:53,840 --> 01:47:57,040
Oh, I don't know. Over 10 million. Is that enough zeros?

1325
01:47:57,040 --> 01:48:05,600
I don't even know. Yeah. Yeah, so this short from January of 2024 got almost 13 million views.

1326
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:10,240
Woo. Yeah. This one got a lot, but it's from the previous year.

1327
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:15,360
And then the underwater scooter one, I think did like eight or nine million or something like that.

1328
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:18,960
So hold on. Let's have a look at what Adam's got. So can you guys stop through?

1329
01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:24,400
Yeah, I knew that one off the top of my head. As for the next one, man, I don't know.

1330
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:29,920
We actually played this game recently and I had no idea when we did the 16th anniversary stream.

1331
01:48:29,920 --> 01:48:34,240
I had no idea what like top performing videos were from the channel. I don't spend nearly as much time in the dashboard

1332
01:48:34,240 --> 01:48:35,280
now that it sucks so much.

1333
01:48:37,440 --> 01:48:42,000
Yeah. So you had the other three. I knew Taiwan PC was going to smash other than that.

1334
01:48:44,480 --> 01:48:48,960
Crap. I feel like the iPhone video is going to be up there somewhere.

1335
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:51,360
No. No, it's like good.

1336
01:48:52,320 --> 01:48:56,800
I think it's got like 3 million, 2.9 million or something like that. The next segment is commented.

1337
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:58,240
I bet you it's up there for that one.

1338
01:49:03,440 --> 01:49:08,080
Most views though. Because the giant TV was last year, right?

1339
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:11,040
Was it? I think the giant TV was last year.

1340
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:16,000
Oh, you don't mean like the projector set up at the BAMT Center?

1341
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:19,520
No. Because that one, I just saw that. That one had almost like four million views, I think.

1342
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,640
Okay, I give up. I don't know. Oh, wait, what?

1343
01:49:23,200 --> 01:49:28,880
Oh, that's such a hack. What? The second one totally is the TV hint wasn't published this year.

1344
01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:33,200
So I put it, oh, it's the ones that got the most views this year.

1345
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:35,680
Okay, I'm giving myself some credit for that one.

1346
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:39,920
Because I only excluded it because I thought it was ones that were published this year.

1347
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:43,280
Yeah, fair enough. Okay, I don't know what the third one is. I don't know what the third one is.

1348
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,040
No way. This?

1349
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:52,720
This one like bombed out of the gate. 5.3 million.

1350
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:59,840
5.3. Yeah, this one did not do well. Hold on, I'm not logged into the right account here, but let's go find it.

1351
01:50:02,160 --> 01:50:09,600
I'll show you guys. It was supposed to be like a sequel to a top performer.

1352
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:13,120
Because this is the EVGA classified. Oh, that timeline.

1353
01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:23,280
Wow. Yeah, so like, dude, this started at the low end of typical.

1354
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:29,600
And then just reached escape velocity and then just has not slowed down.

1355
01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:35,520
15,000 views today, like just casually racking them up.

1356
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:40,720
30,000 views last 48 hours for a video that old is crazy.

1357
01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:46,560
It doesn't happen that much anymore. It used to be how our entire channel growth was architected.

1358
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:51,360
That's what we talked about. Yeah, was just you make evergreen content and it just like gets views forever.

1359
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:56,320
But only a few of them, only a few of them break out like that.

1360
01:50:56,320 --> 01:50:58,880
Yeah. All right. What was our bonus fourth?

1361
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:04,400
They left this in my driveway. The Cleveland's Scorpion Gaming Chair.

1362
01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:08,240
Yeah. Yeah, there you go. That's such a great. I forgot those this year.

1363
01:51:08,240 --> 01:51:11,920
And the fact that that title is not clickbait.

1364
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:17,440
Like that's actually what happened. We ordered the thing and they just dumped it like in the driveway.

1365
01:51:17,440 --> 01:51:21,440
It was 11 months. We didn't even sign for it. Like they just left it there.

1366
01:51:21,440 --> 01:51:25,680
I'm like, really? That seems a little silly.

1367
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:28,960
Absolutely wild. Okay.

1368
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:32,880
Most commented video with 13,000 comments. That's got to be the iPhone video.

1369
01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:38,000
There's no way. Oh, no, it was the $5,000 PC in the Taiwanese tech mall.

1370
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:42,240
And then the next one was April Fool's that that checks out. Oh, none of them are the iPhone video.

1371
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:49,920
Is the last one the iPhone? The last one was the iPhone video. 10,800 comments on I really tried Apple iPhone 30 Day Challenge.

1372
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:52,320
I'm still using it, by the way, but only because I'm lazy.

1373
01:51:53,600 --> 01:51:59,200
And migrating WhatsApp off of iPhone. I've heard is even worse than migrating WhatsApp onto the iPhone.

1374
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:03,120
So I'm really not looking forward to that because I used to lose my chat history

1375
01:52:03,120 --> 01:52:06,640
all the time. And that's one of the reasons that I stuck with the Note 9 for so long.

1376
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:09,760
Honestly, I don't know why people keep using WhatsApp, to be honest.

1377
01:52:10,320 --> 01:52:14,400
I mean, I've never understood how it's survived.

1378
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:19,120
It's fine. But like the so is everything else.

1379
01:52:19,200 --> 01:52:22,800
Everything's fine. It's where my chat history is.

1380
01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:26,560
Are you keep losing it? No, no, I haven't lost it in like six years.

1381
01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:30,480
Oh, OK. Yeah, I used to lose my chat history all the time.

1382
01:52:30,480 --> 01:52:34,960
Like I didn't even I didn't even realize with because like text message,

1383
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:39,600
migration would be really sloppy unless you like went and did it at the store or with like the proper app or whatever.

1384
01:52:39,600 --> 01:52:43,600
So I'm not saying a lot of people don't still use it. Tons of people still use it.

1385
01:52:43,600 --> 01:52:48,960
I just don't understand. And then like losing my WeChat history was super inconvenient at one point.

1386
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:54,960
I don't know if you recall that. Yes. But I had a lot of people accuse me of impropriety because I didn't have

1387
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:59,200
WeChat receipts for something. And like I didn't even realize it didn't cloud backup.

1388
01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:02,480
I don't know. And like China not have the cloud. OK.

1389
01:53:02,480 --> 01:53:05,520
I thought they keep everything. Somebody has it.

1390
01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:07,360
Can you give it back to me, please?

1391
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:16,320
At least a copy. And then yeah, WhatsApp, the migration just like kind of like kind of sucks.

1392
01:53:16,320 --> 01:53:20,720
Like you can at least use it across multiple devices now. Which is a big upgrade.

1393
01:53:22,080 --> 01:53:25,840
This is what I mean. Yeah. I know. I know. I get it. I don't. I don't understand.

1394
01:53:25,840 --> 01:53:32,240
I get it. It's just it's been it's been pretty sticky because almost everyone I know uses either

1395
01:53:32,240 --> 01:53:39,600
that or Facebook Messenger. And Facebook Messenger is is like the predominant one for like organizing group events.

1396
01:53:40,320 --> 01:53:43,920
And then WhatsApp is the big one for like group chats.

1397
01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:48,320
Yeah. What? When is your heart out? Is it 17 minutes from now?

1398
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:51,840
No. Yeah. Oh, six. Yeah, we got time.

1399
01:53:51,840 --> 01:53:59,680
OK, sweet. As for our best like ratios at the power color factory tour at 99.08 percent.

1400
01:53:59,680 --> 01:54:03,600
No surprise. Honestly, no surprise. That was a cool video. That was a wicked video. That was an awesome video.

1401
01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:09,280
Oh, it's tied though. Tied with hello old friend media ripping explained.

1402
01:54:09,280 --> 01:54:12,320
That was a thick video. Yeah. Like it was dense.

1403
01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:15,520
Yeah. Um, very like information heavy.

1404
01:54:16,160 --> 01:54:18,640
How did that end up performing? That's what I'm checking. Yeah.

1405
01:54:21,200 --> 01:54:23,600
Hello, old friend. Here we are. Let me bring up the dashboard.

1406
01:54:24,320 --> 01:54:31,200
Yeah. This see this is this is more typical these days where even something that performs really well.

1407
01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:34,640
Flat lines. Flat lines. High, but.

1408
01:54:35,520 --> 01:54:40,240
Yeah. But it's because it got there. Started high. Yeah. August it had 1.54 million.

1409
01:54:40,240 --> 01:54:43,280
Like for contrast, what's it? And yeah, last 48, 22, 30.

1410
01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:49,600
Yeah. So basically dead. So this kind of like how to rip media or whatever and from it,

1411
01:54:49,600 --> 01:54:55,040
the only reason this shot up like this is because it had a really good title and thumbnail.

1412
01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:58,880
And then that's it. It's like they're not going to keep they're not going to keep serving this.

1413
01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:03,440
Bummer. YouTube's YouTube's just different now.

1414
01:55:04,320 --> 01:55:08,400
And you have to adapt to the meta or you die knowing that a lot of evergreen just dies

1415
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:11,600
and knowing that the audience is actually surprisingly cyclical.

1416
01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:18,640
Would you consider remaking old videos? Because I know that was a thing that you were hardline on no in the past.

1417
01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:22,640
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. At this point. Yeah. It seems like it makes sense now.

1418
01:55:22,640 --> 01:55:30,240
Especially because like there's new information that hadn't come out or we didn't know or has changed.

1419
01:55:30,240 --> 01:55:35,360
Yeah. Or you can just do a better job potentially. Yeah. Like a lot of them, especially from like the really early days.

1420
01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:39,600
How to water cool a PC. The last guide you'll ever need in 4K.

1421
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:44,560
Yeah. Sure. You know, or whatever. Yeah. Like we could, I think we could even go back to some of the old like

1422
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:56,560
NCIX tech tips. The green. Like there are videos that I literally haven't made because I'm like, oh no, we did that on NCIX.

1423
01:55:57,120 --> 01:56:00,080
Yeah, hold on. Nix. Here we go.

1424
01:56:00,880 --> 01:56:04,800
Ultimate water cooling guide. Yes. 13 years ago.

1425
01:56:05,760 --> 01:56:08,480
Buddy. Maybe do this for a while. I know, right?

1426
01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:16,720
This was pretty early Luke shot. Yeah. Luke tried to figure out water cooling, but turns out he lied on his resume.

1427
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:17,840
So he didn't want to do anything.

1428
01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:24,080
That was one of the fun moments when he left me to water cool two GPUs and just left the room.

1429
01:56:24,080 --> 01:56:31,680
But I've never water cooled it anything before. I've done no water cooling before and I had to take the years off two GPUs.

1430
01:56:31,680 --> 01:56:35,920
That was terrifying. Yeah. Well, he didn't do it.

1431
01:56:35,920 --> 01:56:40,400
I ended up having to do it. No, I didn't. No, I came back and I think you weren't done yet.

1432
01:56:40,400 --> 01:56:44,560
I think I had to at least help. Yeah, that's probably. I was like, you've been here for so long.

1433
01:56:44,560 --> 01:56:50,400
What's taking so long? That wasn't entirely true. We talked about this a few times because you didn't actually give me very much time.

1434
01:56:50,400 --> 01:56:55,840
There were other parts you didn't have enough time for. You definitely had enough time when I wanted those heatsink stripped off.

1435
01:56:55,840 --> 01:57:02,320
Okay, that's probably fair. The last one at 99.06% was the sensible tech upgrade.

1436
01:57:02,320 --> 01:57:06,000
That was Sebastian's. Dude, his place is so styling.

1437
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:12,080
That was a really good video. Yeah. Honestly, the tech upgrades in general are just pretty awesome.

1438
01:57:12,080 --> 01:57:15,920
All right, I love the tech upgrade series. 2.1 million, wow.

1439
01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:19,280
That's not even that old. Yeah, they're just reliable.

1440
01:57:19,280 --> 01:57:24,800
They're just reliable. Our team is so cool that all you have to really do is hang out with one for a bit

1441
01:57:24,800 --> 01:57:28,640
and then people love them and. His place is so interesting.

1442
01:57:28,640 --> 01:57:34,480
All his little projects are so interesting. Not even little. All his incredibly professional projects.

1443
01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:41,040
That's a lot of. And the team puts so much work into stuff these days, like those little extras,

1444
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:44,240
like the amount of work that went into just having an entire,

1445
01:57:44,240 --> 01:57:47,360
like a couple of master cartons of screwdrivers on the island there.

1446
01:57:48,640 --> 01:57:50,960
It's extra, I think is the term for it.

1447
01:57:53,520 --> 01:57:56,960
Discussion question, how'd you feel about 2024? What did you achieve?

1448
01:57:56,960 --> 01:57:59,440
Any surprises, disappointments? It was a tough year.

1449
01:58:00,080 --> 01:58:12,480
2024 was a really tough year. We were coming off of some allegations that after the investigation was completed,

1450
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:18,640
we released our statement that said the investigation found that the allegations

1451
01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:20,320
were unfounded and unfair.

1452
01:58:21,680 --> 01:58:28,560
So going through all of that, when the allegations were, according again to the

1453
01:58:28,560 --> 01:58:35,200
investigation, unfounded and unfair was extremely challenging for me personally

1454
01:58:35,200 --> 01:58:36,240
and for us as a company.

1455
01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:44,240
I think that. Wait on a lot of people pretty heavily. Yeah, for sure, for sure.

1456
01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:46,160
And there was a lot of stuff that.

1457
01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:55,760
There's a lot of stuff that people didn't see behind the scenes that made it really hard.

1458
01:58:55,760 --> 01:59:00,400
What we achieved, I think is we got our groove back.

1459
01:59:02,400 --> 01:59:05,520
We're back to kind of killing it. It's always cyclical.

1460
01:59:05,520 --> 01:59:11,040
Like I think we talked in that recent All Hands about how we're like back to before

1461
01:59:11,040 --> 01:59:16,000
viewership and it's a little down this month. But it do be like that though.

1462
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:19,040
I think there's going to be a lot of people upgrading when 50 series comes out.

1463
01:59:19,040 --> 01:59:24,640
I think there's going to be a lot of buzz around that. So there'll be some upswing there and then it'll be down again.

1464
01:59:24,640 --> 01:59:26,160
It'll be up and you know, whatever, right?

1465
01:59:31,040 --> 01:59:35,120
Yeah, just like six donor says, I'll admit I stopped watching for a while.

1466
01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:38,320
I couldn't stand having another person I like turn out to be a monster.

1467
01:59:38,320 --> 01:59:43,280
I was glad it wasn't true. Yeah, no, there was a there was a big.

1468
01:59:43,280 --> 01:59:58,240
Quite a bit of that. There was a big. Yeah, there was a big group of people that just stopped watching and there's a significant group

1469
01:59:58,800 --> 02:00:02,960
that, you know, if their comments are to be believed, have never come back.

1470
02:00:02,960 --> 02:00:06,960
And that's sad. That's really sad. And it's still sad for me.

1471
02:00:06,960 --> 02:00:11,840
I think it's true. Yeah, because there's also like that stuff went so far and wide.

1472
02:00:11,840 --> 02:00:14,720
Well, you'll never be able to reach all of those people again.

1473
02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:18,640
Yeah, yeah, really tough.

1474
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:25,280
As for as for what's welcome to the next quarter of a century.

1475
02:00:25,280 --> 02:00:33,120
Oh my goodness. Yeah. Did you know Star Wars 1977 was released closer to the year 2000 than any video we made this year?

1476
02:00:40,640 --> 02:00:44,320
I'm just going to close that topic. Why don't we move on?

1477
02:00:45,840 --> 02:00:53,040
Yes. Yes, let's do that. There's a fake Nintendo lawyer sending out DMCA takedowns.

1478
02:00:53,040 --> 02:00:59,280
A few months ago, YouTuber Dominic Domtendo-Newmire received DMCA takedowns on his Legend of Zelda

1479
02:00:59,280 --> 02:01:07,920
Echoes of Wisdom Let's Play videos. However, after some back and forth with the Tetsumi Masaki proton mail.com account.

1480
02:01:10,480 --> 02:01:14,480
Domtendo reached out to Nintendo itself who responded that the e-mailer was not using a

1481
02:01:14,480 --> 02:01:21,040
legitimate Nintendo e-mail address. Well, yeah. A few weeks later, the YouTuber received a follow up from that same e-mail with a short message.

1482
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:29,840
I hereby retract all of my preceding claims. Although the threatening e-mail would start to come from a spoofed anti-piracy3 at nintendo.co.jp

1483
02:01:30,400 --> 02:01:36,560
e-mail. Rumors of fake takedowns from Big Red last circled when Gary's mod removed all Nintendo-related

1484
02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:40,640
fan content after receiving DMCA's originating from suspicious looking e-mails.

1485
02:01:40,640 --> 02:01:48,160
The developer claims to have verified the source though. Nintendo and partners have also been accused of using AI tools to issue mass takedowns.

1486
02:01:49,040 --> 02:01:53,120
That was just a quick, a quick topic. I want to talk about this one.

1487
02:01:53,120 --> 02:01:58,720
This is called My Experience as a Winner. Turned into Disqualification by NVIDIA.

1488
02:01:58,720 --> 02:02:05,600
This was actually flagged for me before the show, like just a just a little while before

1489
02:02:05,600 --> 02:02:13,760
the show. It was posted six hours ago on the forum. But this poster in our community said they were officially declared a winner.

1490
02:02:13,760 --> 02:02:17,760
And their project was publicly listed on NVIDIA platforms. They were supposed to win.

1491
02:02:17,760 --> 02:02:20,880
Oh, winner, yeah, winner of what? I think it was, yeah, here we go.

1492
02:02:20,880 --> 02:02:25,040
And NVIDIA RTX 6000 added generation graphics card.

1493
02:02:25,040 --> 02:02:31,680
So like a really valuable GPU. And then after declaring them a winner and sending them through a bunch of hoops,

1494
02:02:32,240 --> 02:02:37,280
they apparently were disqualified for reasons that

1495
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:41,200
NVIDIA has not apparently been able to properly explain.

1496
02:02:41,200 --> 02:02:46,560
So they've just asked us to highlight this because I hope I'd like to assume,

1497
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:54,560
you know, incompetence where Malice has not yet been proven, where hopefully by

1498
02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:59,680
getting some visibility on this, we can at least get them a satisfactory answer.

1499
02:02:59,680 --> 02:03:05,280
So what they're asking for is if anyone from NVIDIA reads this, I respectfully ask for my

1500
02:03:05,280 --> 02:03:08,480
project to be reviewed by a team of qualified technical experts.

1501
02:03:08,480 --> 02:03:11,600
My only goal is to ensure fairness and transparency.

1502
02:03:11,600 --> 02:03:15,200
Thank you all for taking the time to read this. I appreciate any help that you can provide.

1503
02:03:15,200 --> 02:03:19,120
So they provided a link to their project, to their GitHub repo.

1504
02:03:19,120 --> 02:03:24,960
So that's on there. Just wanted to make sure that we kind of highlighted that.

1505
02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:28,320
We like to make sure that we're taking care of our community members.

1506
02:03:28,320 --> 02:03:32,880
And this seemed like seems like there's got to be something going on here.

1507
02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:35,040
They should at least get an explanation.

1508
02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:38,080
Oh, no.

1509
02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:45,200
Do you want to do the AI stuff?

1510
02:03:48,720 --> 02:03:56,240
Oh, no, I didn't even know this. By a vote of four to three, the Arizona State Board for charter schools approved an

1511
02:03:56,240 --> 02:04:02,480
application to open a fully online school, which will serve grades four to eight.

1512
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:06,880
That doesn't automatically sound all that bad.

1513
02:04:06,880 --> 02:04:12,480
Unbound Academy hopes to use AI to condense academic instruction into a two-hour window,

1514
02:04:12,480 --> 02:04:18,160
which now sounds really bad, to free up time for life skill workshops covering

1515
02:04:18,160 --> 02:04:23,520
financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking,

1516
02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:28,960
and creative problem solving, which sounds great, except in theory,

1517
02:04:29,760 --> 02:04:34,880
uh, quote, as students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science,

1518
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:41,440
the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues

1519
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:45,360
to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content.

1520
02:04:46,560 --> 02:04:49,360
That sounds ambitious. Wow. Good luck with that.

1521
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:58,480
Wow. That sounds like, um, that sounds like a, like a Stanley parables style, like video game level of

1522
02:04:59,360 --> 02:05:05,920
issue when it would be applied to the workplace. And this feels like, to me, some amount of desensitization before it gets applied to the

1523
02:05:05,920 --> 02:05:14,000
workplace, but we'll see. Unbound Academy has been trialing this two-hour learning method in Texas, seemingly in person,

1524
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:18,880
and has applications to open other schools in Arkansas and Utah.

1525
02:05:18,880 --> 02:05:23,920
Experts have questioned the effectiveness of personalized education programs and have called

1526
02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:29,920
it Orwellian, an Orwellian misnomer for replacing teachers with digital services and data mining

1527
02:05:29,920 --> 02:05:36,480
software. Yeah. Much of the criticism stems from the lack of clarity behind the term.

1528
02:05:36,480 --> 02:05:44,000
Yep. Personalized learning is perhaps like personalized ads, i.e. data collection, a form of double

1529
02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:47,040
speak, says Adam, and I strongly agree.

1530
02:05:47,920 --> 02:05:54,000
Discussion question. Do you think kids need that real connection with teachers in order to do well?

1531
02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:57,440
I'm going to stop you right there. Yeah. Not necessarily. Oh, I do.

1532
02:05:57,440 --> 02:06:00,640
But what they definitely need is a real connection with other students.

1533
02:06:01,360 --> 02:06:09,920
Oh, yeah. A hundred percent. And in theory, this is freeing up time for life skill workshops covering financial literacy,

1534
02:06:09,920 --> 02:06:13,440
public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem solving.

1535
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:21,040
In practice, homeschooling is an extremely poorly regulated area.

1536
02:06:23,840 --> 02:06:27,200
I strongly recommend watching the John Oliver segment on it.

1537
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:36,800
Oh, cool. Yeah. And I'm not saying that you have to agree with John Oliver on everything, but what I will say is that

1538
02:06:36,880 --> 02:06:45,120
as far as background research goes, they do a pretty darn good job.

1539
02:06:48,320 --> 02:06:50,640
This just feels like homeschooling with extra steps.

1540
02:06:51,920 --> 02:06:57,440
To me, it feels like if you're going to have a problem kid, it's just going to be exacerbated

1541
02:06:57,440 --> 02:07:03,840
so much, because without someone there being able to do something about it, I don't know,

1542
02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:07,200
what if they just frown at the AI camera for like five minutes?

1543
02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:07,760
What does it do?

1544
02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:17,040
Nothing? Nothing. Does it make the tasks easier because it detects kid is upset?

1545
02:07:20,080 --> 02:07:25,520
I don't know. Assuming that every single kid is just going to do this perfectly, it seems.

1546
02:07:26,320 --> 02:07:31,040
But I mean, assuming every kid is going to do traditional school perfectly, you know,

1547
02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:33,280
it's not right either. Isn't that the whole reason why the teachers are there?

1548
02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:38,400
Yes. A big part of it. But I mean, not every teacher is great. I mean, I definitely agree.

1549
02:07:39,440 --> 02:07:42,880
One of my most frustrating experiences. Every person had at least one bad teacher.

1550
02:07:42,880 --> 02:07:49,360
Yeah. One of my most frustrating experiences being in school was knowing from having parents who were

1551
02:07:49,360 --> 02:07:54,640
teachers and from having my teachers who were teachers and seeing a little bit of the inside

1552
02:07:54,640 --> 02:08:01,040
baseball knowing that competency was not necessarily the most important attribute for

1553
02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:03,600
keeping your job and getting promotions and raises.

1554
02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:10,880
Seniority. Politics. And that's not how things should be done, right?

1555
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:15,840
Anyway, yeah, good luck, Arizona.

1556
02:08:19,280 --> 02:08:29,040
I am deeply worried about education.

1557
02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:33,760
Top Gear said, no, there will be a baseline and it will be monitored. It won't be so easy.

1558
02:08:33,760 --> 02:08:37,840
They graduate below level. Yeah, but you can't fail kids anymore.

1559
02:08:38,800 --> 02:08:43,600
That's a whole thing. So like actually it totally could be.

1560
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:52,640
I don't know. I don't have a great answer and I'm not in that field.

1561
02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:58,080
I don't have a kid, but education doesn't feel like it's going in a fantastic direction.

1562
02:08:58,080 --> 02:09:03,520
The node. It feels bad for the kids. The node child left behind paradigm feels like

1563
02:09:07,840 --> 02:09:17,760
it feels sort of like a good idea or a warm idea that in practice, I just don't really

1564
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:21,040
understand why we're still giving it any credence.

1565
02:09:21,040 --> 02:09:24,320
Conrad says, my mom is a teacher and says the upcoming generation is not okay.

1566
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:28,720
And I don't think it's their fault to be super clear at all.

1567
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:33,680
I think the current powers it be are setting them up for failure.

1568
02:09:35,680 --> 02:09:36,880
I don't think it's the kids.

1569
02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:43,920
Yeah, anyways.

1570
02:09:46,560 --> 02:09:50,880
Yeah. Inventor2boy5 says, yeah, that's what my sister's telling me too.

1571
02:09:50,880 --> 02:09:53,360
She's a teacher too. They are super uninterested in learning.

1572
02:09:55,200 --> 02:10:00,480
Yeah, I'm reminded of that famous misattributed quote

1573
02:10:06,080 --> 02:10:14,240
that is not actually from Peanuts and Linus didn't actually say this in the strip, but

1574
02:10:16,880 --> 02:10:20,480
so good. That's pretty good.

1575
02:10:22,240 --> 02:10:26,000
Yeah. It's stuck with me though. I mean, it feels like that, right?

1576
02:10:28,640 --> 02:10:31,520
Yeah, actual attribution, Asada Shakur.

1577
02:10:37,360 --> 02:10:40,720
AI outlines new for-profit corporate structure.

1578
02:10:40,720 --> 02:10:44,560
Nice. They've outlined a plan to change their corporate structure by transforming its

1579
02:10:44,560 --> 02:10:46,960
for-profit ARM into a public benefit corporation,

1580
02:10:47,600 --> 02:10:51,760
a company structured to balance the interests of society with shareholder value,

1581
02:10:51,760 --> 02:10:58,000
which should make securing investors easier. They recently completed a $6.6 billion funding round, $4 billion from Amazon alone,

1582
02:10:58,000 --> 02:11:00,880
and currently have a $157 billion valuation.

1583
02:11:01,600 --> 02:11:05,200
The proposed change comes after Elon Musk dropped a lawsuit claiming a for-profit

1584
02:11:05,200 --> 02:11:11,680
structure would be illegal. Musk and Sam Altman worked together nine years ago to launch open AI as a non-profit

1585
02:11:11,680 --> 02:11:14,720
with the mission statement to develop generative AI for the benefit of society.

1586
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:19,680
Musk left in 2018 after seeming frustrations over the company taking billions in funding from

1587
02:11:19,760 --> 02:11:25,760
Microsoft. Also, failing to gain a majority stake in the company for himself might have had something

1588
02:11:25,760 --> 02:11:29,360
to do with it. Yeah. Yeah, there's been the whole thing with the-

1589
02:11:29,360 --> 02:11:33,200
Might have suddenly made that okay. You know, everything. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

1590
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:36,480
Anywho, that's it for our topics. Oh, Dan left.

1591
02:11:37,120 --> 02:11:40,800
Cool. Well, we're going to switch to After Dark when Dan comes back. In the meantime-

1592
02:11:42,080 --> 02:11:44,720
I could breed some off if you want. Oh, what happened to the-

1593
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:53,680
Oh, I have another GoFundMe that unlike the one we talked about earlier is not a downer.

1594
02:11:53,680 --> 02:11:57,280
And, oh, hey, look at that. Passes cool. Let's go.

1595
02:11:57,280 --> 02:12:03,280
Wait, did we- Oh, okay, well, I mean, you know what, that's cool.

1596
02:12:03,280 --> 02:12:07,280
Some anonymous person yesterday donated $1,000.

1597
02:12:09,280 --> 02:12:18,240
Reboot Rewind has a GoFundMe. You guys can feel free to resurrect this iconic animated show from my childhood.

1598
02:12:18,240 --> 02:12:21,200
It was actually the first fully computer-animated TV show.

1599
02:12:22,000 --> 02:12:25,840
Here's some footage. Yep, pretty awesome. You guys can check that out.

1600
02:12:26,720 --> 02:12:27,040
There.

1601
02:12:31,040 --> 02:12:35,120
I did not end up stalling for very long. No, I don't want me to read some off.

1602
02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:39,360
Oh, yeah, we could do that or we could wait for Dan. They'll wait.

1603
02:12:40,000 --> 02:12:43,360
Okay. Oh, we don't actually have a lot of time to kill, though. That's what I'm-

1604
02:12:43,360 --> 02:12:47,760
Yeah, I kind of have to- I have to leave at some point. Okay. There aren't a ton of them either, though.

1605
02:12:47,760 --> 02:12:50,480
Oh, has Dan been filtering a lot of them? There's only 10.

1606
02:12:51,280 --> 02:12:58,720
Oh, okay. They, apparently, people just don't care about leaving merge messages.

1607
02:12:58,720 --> 02:13:03,280
Yeah, because there was- Bought a lot of backpacks. I think he also was maybe pretty aggressive with the curating,

1608
02:13:03,280 --> 02:13:04,880
because there was a decent amount of merge messages.

1609
02:13:06,560 --> 02:13:09,360
Okay, I'll let you guys know how many discount codes are left.

1610
02:13:10,000 --> 02:13:13,680
Uh, we are down to- Oh, mental math is hard.

1611
02:13:13,680 --> 02:13:19,200
We're down to about 3,500. So we have a couple videos that are queued to go up this weekend

1612
02:13:19,200 --> 02:13:22,560
that have call-outs for the commuter bag. It's after dark time, Dan.

1613
02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:26,000
And I'm a little worried that we might have to YouTube editor,

1614
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:28,880
like, cut out the part referring to the discount code.

1615
02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:32,980
We'll see how it goes. It burns so many of them. Yeah.

1616
02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:36,000
After dark code ready? Yeah. Let's do it.

1617
02:13:37,440 --> 02:13:40,480
I must have missed a topic change. No, you're good, Dan.

1618
02:13:41,120 --> 02:13:43,520
Don't even trip, dog. I'm tripping.

1619
02:13:46,960 --> 02:13:49,280
Look at that. Now it's dark. So good.

1620
02:13:50,000 --> 02:13:50,480
Dude, I-

1621
02:13:54,000 --> 02:13:59,840
I have been an absolute lump for the last two days.

1622
02:14:00,640 --> 02:14:03,120
I don't remember the last time I did less.

1623
02:14:04,800 --> 02:14:08,480
I didn't even respond to social messages. Like, Luke messaged me over the holiday.

1624
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:12,960
Actually, with some stuff that probably merited paying attention to.

1625
02:14:13,920 --> 02:14:18,320
I was a little surprised you didn't respond. I was like, okay, I mean, it's fine.

1626
02:14:19,360 --> 02:14:24,000
He's probably busy. So initially, I just had a lot of family stuff going on

1627
02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:28,400
up until the 25th, or until the 25th.

1628
02:14:28,400 --> 02:14:31,840
And I think I've updated you on, like,

1629
02:14:31,840 --> 02:14:35,200
my family being a little complicated right now. So that was a little-

1630
02:14:35,200 --> 02:14:37,840
I assumed there was stuff going on. That was a little complicated. I wasn't bothered by it.

1631
02:14:38,480 --> 02:14:42,160
And then, on the 25th and the 26th,

1632
02:14:42,160 --> 02:14:46,400
I went and played badminton with my in-laws and my son.

1633
02:14:47,440 --> 02:14:51,280
And other than that, did literally actually nothing.

1634
02:14:52,080 --> 02:14:56,000
And then yesterday, I went and played some badminton

1635
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,120
in the evening because I looked at my step counter

1636
02:14:59,120 --> 02:15:04,000
and I had, like, 400 steps. I did actually nothing.

1637
02:15:04,640 --> 02:15:07,840
So you probably saw me on Steam, like, all day yesterday.

1638
02:15:08,640 --> 02:15:13,120
Yesterday was my family's Christmas. Got it. So if you'd been on your computer,

1639
02:15:13,120 --> 02:15:16,480
you would have seen me on Steam doing absolutely nothing.

1640
02:15:17,040 --> 02:15:20,240
I am substantially ahead of you in Final Fantasy VI.

1641
02:15:21,440 --> 02:15:25,040
And I only played yesterday and a little bit in the evening

1642
02:15:25,040 --> 02:15:30,560
the day before. You know, it shouldn't be an always thing, but it's not a bad idea to slow down everyone's normal.

1643
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:33,600
I don't remember the last time that I've done it.

1644
02:15:33,600 --> 02:15:38,080
And you know what? It was kind of glorious. But at the end of the day yesterday, I was like,

1645
02:15:39,040 --> 02:15:43,920
really, brother? Okay. Tell me back on the horse. So I dragged my butt to Smash.

1646
02:15:43,920 --> 02:15:47,440
I played for a couple hours, and then I jumped on the Stairmaster for 10 minutes.

1647
02:15:47,440 --> 02:15:53,440
I found out my step rate, by the way. The speed that I'm doing is 133 steps per minute.

1648
02:15:53,440 --> 02:16:00,000
So it says 350 watts on the thing.

1649
02:16:00,000 --> 02:16:04,480
So I only did 10 minutes. No, but I think that's really good.

1650
02:16:04,480 --> 02:16:10,160
I only did 10 minutes of that yesterday. But what I've been doing before,

1651
02:16:10,160 --> 02:16:14,240
when I told you that I would cycle between the machines, is I've been trying to do half an hour.

1652
02:16:14,240 --> 02:16:17,760
And so I've been doing, for rowing,

1653
02:16:18,480 --> 02:16:22,400
two minutes for every 500 meters is about the pace that I target.

1654
02:16:22,400 --> 02:16:26,160
And then for the Stairmaster, I've been doing that.

1655
02:16:26,160 --> 02:16:33,040
So I've been doing 133 steps per minute. And then for the bike, I've been targeting about 140 watts.

1656
02:16:33,040 --> 02:16:36,800
So that's my half an hour continuous that I've been trying to do.

1657
02:16:36,800 --> 02:16:41,040
I've fallen off the wagon a little bit over the last couple of days, as I already told you.

1658
02:16:41,680 --> 02:16:46,480
But when those badminton players come out here for the collab,

1659
02:16:47,040 --> 02:16:50,800
I want to be at the point where I can comfortably do

1660
02:16:51,600 --> 02:16:56,720
half an hour of continuous crazy cardio.

1661
02:16:57,680 --> 02:17:02,960
We both read that at the same time.

1662
02:17:05,760 --> 02:17:09,280
I want to be able to do 15 minutes continuous on the Stairmaster at that speed.

1663
02:17:10,000 --> 02:17:15,440
And I didn't expect that from Rod. And then I want to bookend it with the bike and the rower.

1664
02:17:15,440 --> 02:17:19,280
Nice. So I'm thinking I'll go, oh man, what will I do?

1665
02:17:19,840 --> 02:17:24,000
Yeah, because the bike is really tough on the thighs too. I might have to find like a third cardio machine

1666
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:28,160
that's not just pure legs. Oh, isn't there an elliptical there?

1667
02:17:28,640 --> 02:17:31,680
Oh yeah, that's true. Elliptical is your most well-rounded whole body one

1668
02:17:31,680 --> 02:17:36,320
that you have. Okay, yeah, maybe I'll do elliptical then.

1669
02:17:36,320 --> 02:17:40,080
So I could do... But you've got to actually operate the handles.

1670
02:17:40,080 --> 02:17:44,560
Yeah, well I'm going to need to because my legs will be dead. So maybe I could do the elliptical last.

1671
02:17:44,560 --> 02:17:49,280
So I could row and then jump on the Stairmaster

1672
02:17:49,280 --> 02:17:52,240
and then do the elliptical for the last five minutes.

1673
02:17:52,320 --> 02:17:57,440
Pull it into your... Yeah, I know. I did try out for the rowing team.

1674
02:17:57,440 --> 02:18:01,120
Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's as far as I got.

1675
02:18:01,120 --> 02:18:03,840
They did invite me. They did invite me to be the coxswain.

1676
02:18:04,640 --> 02:18:08,160
Yeah, yeah, and loud.

1677
02:18:08,160 --> 02:18:10,800
Yeah, oh yeah. Piercing boys. Yeah, that makes sense.

1678
02:18:11,840 --> 02:18:17,360
All right, hit me, Dan. Hi. What big house upgrades or projects do you have in the works?

1679
02:18:17,360 --> 02:18:21,440
I struggle with permanent modifications. For example, throwing holes in the walls.

1680
02:18:21,440 --> 02:18:25,120
So I love watching home upgrades. Okay, okay.

1681
02:18:25,920 --> 02:18:31,040
I am going to do this. I want to build like an epic cat wall.

1682
02:18:32,240 --> 02:18:35,280
Like with all the like things and the things and the ropes

1683
02:18:35,280 --> 02:18:39,360
and the things that can climb and stuff. I want the entire upstairs hallway essentially.

1684
02:18:39,360 --> 02:18:43,120
Oh, sick. To be just like cat jungle. Jungle gym. Jungle gym, not jungle.

1685
02:18:43,120 --> 02:18:46,240
Nice. Yeah, and I would honestly, I would...

1686
02:18:46,240 --> 02:18:51,600
We can never close doors in our house. So I would honestly love to work out some kind of like tunnel

1687
02:18:51,600 --> 02:18:55,120
system so they can get in and out of rooms. The problem is that...

1688
02:18:55,120 --> 02:19:01,840
So that then you could close doors? Yeah. For my room, I do have sound isolation requirements.

1689
02:19:03,600 --> 02:19:07,440
You know, and so... That's good, really.

1690
02:19:07,440 --> 02:19:12,240
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what I was kind of thinking is maybe what we could do...

1691
02:19:12,240 --> 02:19:16,640
You could just get like a plug. Because the cats whine if we close our door.

1692
02:19:17,440 --> 02:19:21,760
But if we had just a hole, then there would always be sound leakage,

1693
02:19:21,760 --> 02:19:27,120
which is not better. So what I'm kind of thinking is maybe I could...

1694
02:19:31,200 --> 02:19:35,760
Maybe I could make like a cat thing and then they could go into like a tunnel

1695
02:19:36,400 --> 02:19:42,160
that takes them up through the attic to somewhere else on the cat thing so they could get in and out of our room all the time.

1696
02:19:42,160 --> 02:19:46,400
But we could just close our door. So or something like that so that there wouldn't be a clear path

1697
02:19:47,200 --> 02:19:50,640
You could make like a baffles basically that they have to like walk through.

1698
02:19:51,760 --> 02:19:55,520
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I think something like that would be cool.

1699
02:19:55,520 --> 02:19:58,880
Don't worry, they're not going to go up in the attic and close it.

1700
02:19:58,880 --> 02:20:02,800
Obviously. Come on, guys. Give me some credit here. Give me some credit here.

1701
02:20:05,600 --> 02:20:09,600
Other than that, like, I don't know, fixing the roof solar.

1702
02:20:09,600 --> 02:20:14,480
Oh, the light switches, oh man. Because we've actually had like two days off,

1703
02:20:14,560 --> 02:20:19,840
Yvonne's been learning to crochet. Because like her husband's busy playing video games, I guess.

1704
02:20:20,960 --> 02:20:23,040
Time to time to go full old lady.

1705
02:20:24,800 --> 02:20:28,000
And she's been like reaming me about our horrible light switches

1706
02:20:28,000 --> 02:20:31,280
because I need in a valley to hurry up and get me those millimeter wave switches.

1707
02:20:32,080 --> 02:20:35,520
Yeah, I think those are the big ones. They are pretty horrible. Yeah, they are pretty horrible.

1708
02:20:35,520 --> 02:20:37,040
Did you just turn off all the time?

1709
02:20:39,680 --> 02:20:45,440
Next up. Sure. Clap to K24 Accord says, I'm an insulator.

1710
02:20:45,440 --> 02:20:48,720
I always find it hilarious when parents soundproof their bedrooms.

1711
02:20:48,720 --> 02:20:50,240
It's a very common option.

1712
02:20:51,760 --> 02:20:54,960
Yeah, I mean, that's considerate. It's a good thing. It's considerate.

1713
02:20:54,960 --> 02:20:58,160
Yeah, why not? It's considerate. Healthy bedrooms.

1714
02:20:59,920 --> 02:21:04,080
No soundproofed. The kids don't have to hear all the fighting.

1715
02:21:04,080 --> 02:21:07,840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, there you go. My family friendly.

1716
02:21:07,840 --> 02:21:11,120
Well, maybe so much worse. Actually worse.

1717
02:21:11,120 --> 02:21:13,840
So much worse. Literally worse.

1718
02:21:15,600 --> 02:21:20,880
Linus, look at Dan. How do the three of you individually maintain the desire and effort levels

1719
02:21:20,880 --> 02:21:25,440
to keep working on your hobbies? How do you keep pushing yourselves to be better at your jobs?

1720
02:21:26,720 --> 02:21:28,560
Well, you guys pushed me to be better at my job.

1721
02:21:29,840 --> 02:21:33,360
So, so there's that. I mean, I think we also push ourselves a lot.

1722
02:21:35,520 --> 02:21:38,560
As for maintaining effort levels for my hobbies,

1723
02:21:40,160 --> 02:21:43,440
do I? Badminton. Badminton, I do. I do.

1724
02:21:43,440 --> 02:21:45,600
I'm highly motivated to be better at it.

1725
02:21:47,600 --> 02:21:50,960
It's the motivation for me is that it counts as exercise.

1726
02:21:50,960 --> 02:21:54,320
So I don't feel like I'm wasting time when I'm playing badminton,

1727
02:21:54,320 --> 02:21:58,560
unless I sign up for a session that's like tournaments feel like a waste of time.

1728
02:21:58,560 --> 02:22:03,680
Those are an indulgence. If I play a tournament, I know that I'm playing like 20% of the time

1729
02:22:03,680 --> 02:22:06,240
and I could have easily done a lot of other stuff in that time.

1730
02:22:07,280 --> 02:22:11,440
But no, that's the easy justification. You see tournaments as like a benchmark, though?

1731
02:22:11,440 --> 02:22:15,920
Absolutely. Check where you're at. Yeah. Oh, dude, we actually, my team, instead of coming eighth,

1732
02:22:15,920 --> 02:22:20,720
like last year, we came ninth this year. But I actually, I don't mind that result.

1733
02:22:20,720 --> 02:22:25,920
It doesn't actually feel like a downgrade, especially for me personally, because the only reason we're ninth

1734
02:22:25,920 --> 02:22:29,680
is because our first match at 9 a.m. on the first day

1735
02:22:29,680 --> 02:22:33,200
was the one that determined that we would have no shot at the top eight.

1736
02:22:33,200 --> 02:22:38,960
Oh. Because the way the seeding worked, we were seeded two within our group of four

1737
02:22:38,960 --> 02:22:43,840
for Round Robin and we played number three and it was close.

1738
02:22:44,400 --> 02:22:50,000
Their team won three games, ours won two, but two of the ones we lost went to Deuce,

1739
02:22:50,000 --> 02:22:54,160
which is, and one of the ones went to Deuce in the third set.

1740
02:22:54,800 --> 02:22:58,560
So basically, that means that's where you're tied at the end and you have to win by two.

1741
02:22:59,040 --> 02:23:02,640
Yeah. So it was really close.

1742
02:23:02,640 --> 02:23:05,760
And then once that was over, that very first match,

1743
02:23:06,400 --> 02:23:12,880
the next one was basically a walkover. We played the fourth seed and they tried hard and whatever,

1744
02:23:12,880 --> 02:23:19,440
but there was a different class of team. And then our last one in our Round Robin was a walkover for the other team.

1745
02:23:19,440 --> 02:23:21,920
They were the top seed and I think they went on to win.

1746
02:23:22,720 --> 02:23:29,920
So basically, the team that we lost barely to, they weren't even eighth.

1747
02:23:29,920 --> 02:23:35,440
They were higher than eighth. But because we lost two in our Round Robin stage,

1748
02:23:36,000 --> 02:23:40,240
the best we could do was that and then the following day, we won all the way through.

1749
02:23:40,240 --> 02:23:45,840
So we came in ninth. So I don't even feel that bad about it. And in that first one, I won my game.

1750
02:23:47,120 --> 02:23:53,920
I played Men's Doubles and I played against the person that I lost to in my final game

1751
02:23:53,920 --> 02:23:57,360
the previous year, which was what put us in eighth instead of seventh.

1752
02:23:57,360 --> 02:24:02,320
Then I won. Cool. Yeah, there's that. Personally, I felt like it was a pretty big upgrade.

1753
02:24:02,320 --> 02:24:08,000
I played really well. The only games I lost were the one that was against the team that won.

1754
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:14,400
And one of the kids that was on the other team literally plays at like a national level, like currently.

1755
02:24:14,400 --> 02:24:17,760
I'm like, okay, whatever. I got a few points. I feel good about that.

1756
02:24:18,320 --> 02:24:21,200
And then the other one I lost, I retired from.

1757
02:24:21,840 --> 02:24:24,960
My team had already won. So we were just playing for fun and I hurt my back.

1758
02:24:25,840 --> 02:24:30,240
And that was like in a lot of pain for a week or two.

1759
02:24:30,240 --> 02:24:34,000
Like that was when I was telling you I couldn't sneeze. Like sneezing was like incapacitating.

1760
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:37,840
I like pulled something. I also got tennis. So I shouldn't have played that last for fun game.

1761
02:24:37,840 --> 02:24:40,640
It was really close up until I was like, guys, I'm done.

1762
02:24:41,200 --> 02:24:45,120
Was your ankle like a little bit messed up still at that time? Yeah, I had to wear a brace.

1763
02:24:45,120 --> 02:24:48,560
But it didn't bother me during the tournament. Okay. But no, I was like.

1764
02:24:48,560 --> 02:24:50,720
Three different parts of your body. Very injured.

1765
02:24:52,480 --> 02:24:56,000
Not awesome. Yeah. And yeah. Oh man.

1766
02:24:56,000 --> 02:24:59,120
And to be clear, I'm not going to make any excuses. They won.

1767
02:24:59,120 --> 02:25:05,120
You know, when you retire from the match, they won. I'm just saying any match I completed or was not playing

1768
02:25:05,680 --> 02:25:09,280
someone who, you know, it literally is like almost semi-pro.

1769
02:25:09,280 --> 02:25:12,560
Right. I performed really well. So I was really happy with that.

1770
02:25:12,560 --> 02:25:18,960
Yeah, nice. Yeah. Pains of getting old, dude. I hear that a hundred percent, a hundred percent.

1771
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:23,200
Hey, DLO. We never got Luke's answer. Oh, we didn't. What was the question?

1772
02:25:23,200 --> 02:25:30,800
Staying motivated for your hobbies. Oh, progressive overload, incremental progression.

1773
02:25:30,800 --> 02:25:33,600
I am addicted to those two concepts.

1774
02:25:35,200 --> 02:25:38,000
That's pretty much it. Yeah. Getting old is going to be hard.

1775
02:25:38,560 --> 02:25:44,720
Oh yeah. I've had this like crisis moment many times where I'm like,

1776
02:25:44,720 --> 02:25:48,480
the thing that drives me on like everything is getting

1777
02:25:48,480 --> 02:25:54,000
marginally better all the time. And when that inverts, oh no.

1778
02:25:54,000 --> 02:25:57,520
I don't know what's going to happen to my brain. Well, you'll have a midlife crisis.

1779
02:25:57,520 --> 02:26:02,800
I'm not well set up for this. Like I have self-reflected.

1780
02:26:02,800 --> 02:26:06,320
That's why they call it midlife crisis. It's not midlife happy fun time.

1781
02:26:06,320 --> 02:26:10,480
Yeah, fair enough. I've been thinking like I'm going to have to.

1782
02:26:10,480 --> 02:26:11,360
You could buy a Porsche.

1783
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:23,280
I think I'm going to have to try to find like, like reduction of incremental decline as something to aim for.

1784
02:26:23,840 --> 02:26:29,120
And go like, okay, looking at the math of like averages of how people tend to decline at this age,

1785
02:26:29,120 --> 02:26:32,480
if I can beat that by this amount, that's my goal.

1786
02:26:32,480 --> 02:26:37,120
So yeah, maybe I'll be slower or lift lesser,

1787
02:26:37,120 --> 02:26:40,560
not be as good or score lower, whatever the metric is.

1788
02:26:40,560 --> 02:26:43,680
But if I can have that be by a lower amount

1789
02:26:43,680 --> 02:26:47,360
than would be expected. Yeah, just set a new benchmark. Yeah. I think that's going to be the goal.

1790
02:26:47,360 --> 02:26:50,720
Benchmark of like sucking less. Yeah, pretty much.

1791
02:26:51,520 --> 02:26:55,360
Let's go. I'm headed of aging since 2011.

1792
02:26:56,240 --> 02:26:59,840
Pretty much. This has been my like,

1793
02:26:59,840 --> 02:27:04,320
I've been planning for this strat for a long time though, because I'm genuinely very concerned about this.

1794
02:27:04,320 --> 02:27:07,200
You can be like that weird Brian Johnson guy. Oh, no.

1795
02:27:09,760 --> 02:27:12,960
Because you basically just described him. I guess, yeah. Got him.

1796
02:27:13,760 --> 02:27:15,840
You're going to take 14,000 pills every day.

1797
02:27:18,080 --> 02:27:22,080
Anyways. Yeah. Hey, DLO, I've seen more people losing access

1798
02:27:22,080 --> 02:27:27,520
to their steam accounts after being hacked. I'm terrified of losing all my games.

1799
02:27:27,520 --> 02:27:30,880
Well, it's the best way to protect yourself in the all digital future.

1800
02:27:30,880 --> 02:27:32,560
Don't click on anything. Yeah.

1801
02:27:34,160 --> 02:27:38,160
Evidence of ownership have good 2FA setup.

1802
02:27:38,720 --> 02:27:42,400
Yeah, if you can contact support and be like, this is clearly me.

1803
02:27:43,200 --> 02:27:46,480
Then you might have a better chance. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah.

1804
02:27:46,480 --> 02:27:50,320
So just take a picture of your driver's license and make that your Steam profile pic.

1805
02:27:50,320 --> 02:27:53,120
Sorry, I couldn't even get that out. Don't do that. Don't do that.

1806
02:27:54,080 --> 02:27:58,320
But it'd be funny. It would be kind of funny. But yeah, make sure you have 2FA setup.

1807
02:28:00,880 --> 02:28:04,800
I don't know if Steam has a log out on all other systems thing, does it?

1808
02:28:04,800 --> 02:28:09,680
Do you know? I think so. I think if you log out of Steam, it, I think, yeah, I'm pretty sure it does.

1809
02:28:09,680 --> 02:28:13,760
Then my other theory won't. Or no, if you change your password, it'll log out of every system.

1810
02:28:13,760 --> 02:28:18,800
Okay, yeah. Someone says SMS is not real 2FA. Yeah, I have the Steam app 2FA.

1811
02:28:18,800 --> 02:28:23,520
Yeah. That's been good for a long time. I mean, the Steam app kind of sucks, but.

1812
02:28:23,520 --> 02:28:26,560
No, but the fact that they have. Yes, but having it is good.

1813
02:28:26,560 --> 02:28:30,960
Yes, yeah. Hello again, parasocial friends.

1814
02:28:30,960 --> 02:28:35,920
I make training videos for the trucking industry, truck stops, to mechanics, et cetera.

1815
02:28:35,920 --> 02:28:41,680
Do you think a strict structure is needed for these or would a more YouTube style approach?

1816
02:28:41,680 --> 02:28:45,040
I guess be beneficial. I caught off. Depends.

1817
02:28:45,040 --> 02:28:49,600
If you're really good at it, then a conversational casual YouTube style approach

1818
02:28:49,600 --> 02:28:54,320
would be great. If you really need people to, like,

1819
02:28:54,960 --> 02:28:59,760
if this is like for certification, you know, like if this is something that needs to be covered

1820
02:28:59,760 --> 02:29:04,080
in a, in a dot all the Ts and cross all the Is kind of way.

1821
02:29:06,880 --> 02:29:10,720
You might be able to mix it in that case, but you're still going to have to get pretty strict structure.

1822
02:29:10,720 --> 02:29:15,040
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. You can, you can like have fun until you get to the,

1823
02:29:16,160 --> 02:29:20,240
the, the T crossing and I dotting section, and then you need to be pretty strict for a bit

1824
02:29:20,240 --> 02:29:23,520
to make it like very, very clear what the bounds are.

1825
02:29:23,520 --> 02:29:25,280
And then you can maybe get back to having fun.

1826
02:29:27,360 --> 02:29:30,640
Hey, LLD, what greater benefits would emerging

1827
02:29:30,640 --> 02:29:33,760
content creators get in Floatplane compared to Patreon?

1828
02:29:33,760 --> 02:29:36,240
Thanks for all y'all do. You could make less money.

1829
02:29:36,880 --> 02:29:40,080
Yeah. You might like that. That's. You won't know until you've tried it.

1830
02:29:41,920 --> 02:29:47,760
Floatplane is more of a focus on video. I haven't looked into what Patreon's done for a while on video,

1831
02:29:47,760 --> 02:29:51,040
but Floatplane really is majorly focused on video

1832
02:29:51,040 --> 02:29:54,320
to the point where it's probably not as good of a solution

1833
02:29:54,320 --> 02:29:58,240
if you're not a video creator. Yeah. And, and if you're an emerging content creator,

1834
02:29:58,240 --> 02:30:00,240
that's why specifically I'm talking to you,

1835
02:30:01,440 --> 02:30:05,120
it's not for you. You need to maximize the money that you can get

1836
02:30:05,120 --> 02:30:08,800
because you need it to eat and our revenue split

1837
02:30:08,800 --> 02:30:14,320
is not going to be conducive to that. Our platform is designed for extremely high quality video

1838
02:30:14,320 --> 02:30:18,800
and audio. And so if you are a large creator and say, for example,

1839
02:30:18,800 --> 02:30:24,400
you were looking to like white label a platform or something like that, our revenue split

1840
02:30:25,120 --> 02:30:28,160
is a lot more competitive.

1841
02:30:28,160 --> 02:30:31,360
Like if your alternate is hiring a development team

1842
02:30:31,360 --> 02:30:34,560
and building something. Yeah. We're going to look stellar.

1843
02:30:34,560 --> 02:30:38,720
Yeah. Whereas if your alternative is like uploading unlisted videos

1844
02:30:38,720 --> 02:30:42,080
on YouTube or Vimeo or something and then just like,

1845
02:30:42,080 --> 02:30:46,560
I think Patreon has a native one now. I think they have a native one now.

1846
02:30:46,560 --> 02:30:49,600
But the point is just like if your alternative is finding

1847
02:30:49,600 --> 02:30:54,560
something free and sending an unlisted link to the people who, to the several dozen people who follow you

1848
02:30:54,560 --> 02:30:58,960
at zero overhead, then you should do that. You know, it's horses for courses.

1849
02:30:58,960 --> 02:31:01,280
Yeah. There's solutions for everybody.

1850
02:31:02,160 --> 02:31:05,280
We like Floatplane. A few other people on the platform seemed really like Floatplane.

1851
02:31:05,280 --> 02:31:11,280
There's also a lot of benefits to Patreon. The split is generally better, but it also entirely depends.

1852
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:17,360
Like if you, if you, if you set your price to the right price

1853
02:31:17,360 --> 02:31:20,560
on Floatplane based on how we do our costing,

1854
02:31:20,560 --> 02:31:22,640
you can get a better split than there is on Patreon.

1855
02:31:24,560 --> 02:31:29,200
Most people won't do that, but it is possible because we just have, sorry.

1856
02:31:30,080 --> 02:31:33,520
No, I had something, something upside down stuck in my throat.

1857
02:31:33,520 --> 02:31:36,880
We have our costs are like fixed for creators.

1858
02:31:36,880 --> 02:31:40,720
So if you, if you balloon, like if you have a super fancy,

1859
02:31:40,720 --> 02:31:46,400
expensive Omega tier, but it doesn't take any extra from us

1860
02:31:47,600 --> 02:31:51,680
because we have a limit on our features, obviously, then we don't take more.

1861
02:31:51,680 --> 02:31:56,160
So you could theoretically take more, but then you're asking for a lot from your audience at that point.

1862
02:31:56,160 --> 02:31:59,840
So most people aren't going to do it. So yeah. Unless you have like fee picks on there or something.

1863
02:32:00,560 --> 02:32:04,800
True. We would, we would, I don't think we have anything

1864
02:32:04,800 --> 02:32:08,800
against fee picks technically. And we don't really discriminate.

1865
02:32:08,800 --> 02:32:12,480
It's not a serious conversation, Luke. We don't have to talk about that. I'm being real, man.

1866
02:32:12,480 --> 02:32:16,480
I'm being, you don't know. Maybe, maybe. He's trying to sell this Linus.

1867
02:32:16,480 --> 02:32:19,440
Maybe the, maybe the, what would you call the top credit?

1868
02:32:20,080 --> 02:32:26,400
The top foot is watching us. What would you call the top creator in the fee picks category?

1869
02:32:27,440 --> 02:32:30,880
I tell you, put your foot in your mouth, but the servers probably couldn't handle it.

1870
02:32:30,880 --> 02:32:35,920
The big toe says UCL Buffalo.

1871
02:32:35,920 --> 02:32:39,440
The big toe! UCL Buffalo in full frame chat.

1872
02:32:39,440 --> 02:32:43,920
Just won it. You don't know. Maybe the big toe is watching, man.

1873
02:32:43,920 --> 02:32:46,720
We got to, we got to make sure they know that they would be welcome here.

1874
02:32:47,520 --> 02:32:51,120
Because we don't, yeah, we don't really, as long as it's legal, we don't really discern against creators.

1875
02:32:54,640 --> 02:32:58,400
All right. Let's see. Hello, Dan, Lin and Luke.

1876
02:32:58,960 --> 02:33:01,280
What is the average amount of versions of product

1877
02:33:02,480 --> 02:33:07,520
go through for product revs and development?

1878
02:33:07,520 --> 02:33:12,320
Yeah, you just, you got it. I think the, I think the backpack

1879
02:33:12,320 --> 02:33:15,360
was about half a dozen each for the commuter and the original.

1880
02:33:16,080 --> 02:33:20,560
We've been told by our suppliers that we go through an obnoxious number of product revs

1881
02:33:20,560 --> 02:33:24,080
and it's actually caused some strain on our relationships sometimes

1882
02:33:24,080 --> 02:33:28,080
where we'll do half a dozen product revs and just be like, no, it's not good enough.

1883
02:33:28,080 --> 02:33:33,760
They don't like to hear that. If you don't go to mass production, essentially they subsidize their sample production

1884
02:33:35,520 --> 02:33:40,240
with the assumption that you're going to go to mass production. From my point of view, I'm like, that's stupid then.

1885
02:33:40,240 --> 02:33:44,320
Just tell me how much it costs to make a sample and I'll be happy to, but it's not that simple, right?

1886
02:33:44,320 --> 02:33:46,160
There's an opportunity cost on their side.

1887
02:33:47,840 --> 02:33:52,160
But yeah, I would say somewhere between four and seven

1888
02:33:52,800 --> 02:33:56,720
is a boat where we're at on revisions for products.

1889
02:33:56,720 --> 02:34:03,600
Some a lot more for something like the screwdriver.

1890
02:34:03,600 --> 02:34:06,880
We might go through that many revisions for every part, right?

1891
02:34:06,880 --> 02:34:11,600
That many revisions for the ratchet, that many revisions for the mold.

1892
02:34:12,800 --> 02:34:16,560
And so the overall number of revisions goes up exponentially,

1893
02:34:16,560 --> 02:34:22,400
the more parts there are in a product. But for socks, I think from like 10 or 12

1894
02:34:22,400 --> 02:34:25,760
or something like that, I think we're close though. I think we're close.

1895
02:34:27,040 --> 02:34:30,240
The blue samples that I've, do I have them on?

1896
02:34:31,040 --> 02:34:34,080
I don't. The blue samples I've been wearing recently are really good.

1897
02:34:36,960 --> 02:34:41,280
Hello, LDNL. What are your thoughts on containerization?

1898
02:34:41,280 --> 02:34:45,200
I talk about my interest in it at work. All my coworkers think it's dumb.

1899
02:34:45,840 --> 02:34:48,640
What are some other cool things you guys do with it? Who thinks it's dumb?

1900
02:34:49,680 --> 02:34:54,240
Where are your coworkers? Yeah, really. I don't know. Your coworkers that you talk to about this

1901
02:34:54,240 --> 02:34:57,520
know what it is and think it's dumb. I don't really understand.

1902
02:34:57,520 --> 02:34:59,840
I don't know anyone in the field that thinks it's dumb.

1903
02:35:01,600 --> 02:35:09,200
Genuinely, zero people. I've never met a single person. They want the whole system to crash when like monolithic only.

1904
02:35:09,200 --> 02:35:12,800
To the point where when I was reading this, I was like, wait, do they mean like physical containers?

1905
02:35:12,800 --> 02:35:17,760
Because I've never met a single person. Far be it for me to criticize someone

1906
02:35:17,760 --> 02:35:20,960
who sent a $120 merch message.

1907
02:35:20,960 --> 02:35:24,720
But are you just like baiting us? Like maybe.

1908
02:35:24,720 --> 02:35:28,320
Because I'm not sure if I believe you.

1909
02:35:28,320 --> 02:35:30,080
Show this to your coworkers. Yeah.

1910
02:35:31,440 --> 02:35:34,480
What are they talking about? Maybe they just don't know what it is properly.

1911
02:35:34,480 --> 02:35:40,480
Like maybe it's more of an education problem. Yeah, maybe they use a different term for it or something.

1912
02:35:43,760 --> 02:35:46,400
Maybe they think you said a bad word and then, Aner.

1913
02:35:46,960 --> 02:35:50,800
What's the matter? Okay, I like it. What's the matter? In full plain chat said,

1914
02:35:50,800 --> 02:35:55,840
Prime and Theo both complain about Kubernetes and Docker. Yeah, sure. But the solutions that they like are,

1915
02:35:56,640 --> 02:36:02,320
as far as my understanding goes, generally running on systems where the containerization is just detached from them.

1916
02:36:02,320 --> 02:36:06,800
It's still happening from the service provider. They just don't have to deal with it themselves.

1917
02:36:07,440 --> 02:36:10,800
Because they don't want to do infrastructure. So they just use other services to do it,

1918
02:36:10,800 --> 02:36:13,840
which is great and popular. And like, I mean.

1919
02:36:13,840 --> 02:36:17,840
Still containerization. We use Vercel for the Labs website.

1920
02:36:18,880 --> 02:36:22,560
Vercel is still doing containerization stuff, I'm sure. It's a concept.

1921
02:36:23,520 --> 02:36:28,720
That's what I'm like. Yeah, my co-workers think programming is dumb.

1922
02:36:30,320 --> 02:36:35,200
And like, yeah, it sucks sometimes. Like, I can totally understand why Prime and Theo might be like,

1923
02:36:35,200 --> 02:36:40,320
yeah, this sucks. You shouldn't waste your time doing this. As someone who's just trying to spin up a website,

1924
02:36:40,320 --> 02:36:43,280
you should use this service thing. Like, great.

1925
02:36:44,160 --> 02:36:48,960
Yeah, you probably shouldn't develop your own personal store in 2025.

1926
02:36:49,840 --> 02:36:52,800
Because like Shopify exists, and you should just use that.

1927
02:36:54,320 --> 02:36:56,480
That doesn't mean containerization is dumb.

1928
02:36:57,680 --> 02:37:00,720
That means that you might not want to be the person

1929
02:37:00,720 --> 02:37:03,280
who's interfacing with it, depending on what you're doing.

1930
02:37:04,480 --> 02:37:10,560
We use Kubernetes to great effect with Flowplane. That was not the right approach for the Labs website.

1931
02:37:14,400 --> 02:37:17,360
Cool. Oh, dude. Nick just messaged me.

1932
02:37:17,440 --> 02:37:22,000
We have removed the discount messaging for the commuter bag

1933
02:37:22,000 --> 02:37:25,760
from the Sunday and Monday releases. He doesn't think they're going to make it that long.

1934
02:37:27,760 --> 02:37:30,800
That's crazy. He says he thinks it's going to be gone tomorrow. All right, we'll see.

1935
02:37:31,760 --> 02:37:32,960
Obviously, I hope he's right.

1936
02:37:34,800 --> 02:37:40,800
All right, LLD. My work recently banned third and personal monitors citing

1937
02:37:40,800 --> 02:37:43,920
security concerns, but always allow personal monitors work

1938
02:37:43,920 --> 02:37:48,640
from home two days a week. What do you think? Same computer office and work from home.

1939
02:37:49,200 --> 02:37:52,560
Phones are allowed on site. Now, your coworkers are stupid.

1940
02:37:56,160 --> 02:37:59,440
I'm assuming this is an IT team currently fighting policy.

1941
02:38:00,240 --> 02:38:06,800
You can link them to this video, by the way. You can tell them that Linus says that you made them look stupid.

1942
02:38:08,080 --> 02:38:12,960
By laying out, they're horrible, horrible policy.

1943
02:38:12,960 --> 02:38:17,360
That actually makes me question whether they are competent enough to run any sort of business at all,

1944
02:38:18,640 --> 02:38:21,360
let alone one that uses technology.

1945
02:38:23,600 --> 02:38:25,680
Freaking dunked. Actual idiots.

1946
02:38:26,720 --> 02:38:28,800
That is not how any of that works.

1947
02:38:30,400 --> 02:38:34,320
Banned third and personal monitors. Yeah, so they can't have a third monitor.

1948
02:38:34,320 --> 02:38:39,600
And they can't bring monitors from home. And they can't bring a personal monitor. Okay, I can understand not wanting people to bring monitors from home.

1949
02:38:39,600 --> 02:38:44,800
But you're allowed to use your personal monitor at home. Yeah, but bringing a personal monitor into the workspace.

1950
02:38:44,800 --> 02:38:50,000
I can understand why that might be. It's a liability. It's not to bring a phone. It's a liability, but not a like...

1951
02:38:50,000 --> 02:38:53,040
If you're allowed to, like, look, security issue. You leave this at the office.

1952
02:38:53,040 --> 02:38:57,040
I don't let people bring their own lenses and tripods and monitors. This is what I'm saying.

1953
02:38:57,040 --> 02:39:00,400
But it's not even liability. It's just like, because that's stupid.

1954
02:39:00,400 --> 02:39:03,760
If you need something to do your job, then the workplace should provide it.

1955
02:39:03,760 --> 02:39:07,600
It's that simple, right? But so it's nothing to do with security concerns.

1956
02:39:07,600 --> 02:39:11,200
If you are allowed to have your own personal phone with you,

1957
02:39:11,840 --> 02:39:16,160
everything else is out the window. Because that is the easiest vector.

1958
02:39:16,720 --> 02:39:24,480
Picture. Like what? I'm going to bring a special secret magic monitor with a raspy embedded in it

1959
02:39:24,480 --> 02:39:29,680
so I can use an HDMI RF snooping on the cable signal,

1960
02:39:29,680 --> 02:39:33,520
beam it to my spy espionage office across the street.

1961
02:39:36,320 --> 02:39:41,680
Obviously. Yeah, because there's obviously workplaces where that shouldn't be allowed,

1962
02:39:41,680 --> 02:39:44,960
but they almost certainly also wouldn't allow you to bring phones in.

1963
02:39:44,960 --> 02:39:48,240
Yes. So like, yeah.

1964
02:39:48,240 --> 02:39:51,360
They said they use the same PC at home, so laptop.

1965
02:39:51,360 --> 02:39:55,520
Okay. But they're allowed a personal monitor.

1966
02:39:56,560 --> 02:39:58,480
So who cares? At home. Yeah. Yeah.

1967
02:40:00,560 --> 02:40:06,080
If you can have a phone, you can have essentially your own computer at work.

1968
02:40:06,080 --> 02:40:12,080
They just haven't figured it out yet. Is this like a have your cake and eat it too thing?

1969
02:40:14,400 --> 02:40:18,160
What? Like they don't want to buy people extra monitors,

1970
02:40:18,160 --> 02:40:22,160
but they also don't want to be like that workplace that you have to bring your own monitor to.

1971
02:40:22,160 --> 02:40:24,320
So they're just like, you're not allowed and also no.

1972
02:40:25,600 --> 02:40:30,000
Could be. Maybe. Yeah. This could be one of those things where they're just hiding behind security concerns.

1973
02:40:30,880 --> 02:40:34,720
So there's no real, I mean, okay, there is real security concerns.

1974
02:40:34,720 --> 02:40:40,080
They're just also ignoring all the other bigger, more obvious ones. Yeah. I think that I think that if they're, if they want to be honest,

1975
02:40:40,080 --> 02:40:44,640
they should just say no, because if other people see you with a third monitor,

1976
02:40:44,640 --> 02:40:49,440
they won't ask you if you brought it from home, and they're going to whine and complain until they get a third monitor.

1977
02:40:49,440 --> 02:40:53,200
And that's not in the budget. Everyone gets two monitors and I just don't feel like dealing with it.

1978
02:40:53,760 --> 02:41:02,080
That's the more honest answer, probably. Yeah. Almost always there is the reason why you can't have something nice

1979
02:41:02,080 --> 02:41:05,600
is because someone else fucked it up. Oh yeah. Almost always.

1980
02:41:06,080 --> 02:41:12,560
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always so frustrating. Or, or your workplace is a bunch of cheap butt heads.

1981
02:41:12,560 --> 02:41:16,160
It's super frustrating when you're on the like administration side of that

1982
02:41:16,160 --> 02:41:21,040
and you see it happening and you're like, man, I really wish this person would stop because if they don't stop,

1983
02:41:21,040 --> 02:41:26,720
I'm going to have to do something about this. Yeah. But this has worked fine for years and years and years,

1984
02:41:26,720 --> 02:41:31,120
because no one's pushed it past this limit. And then you like try to get them to stop and they just won't.

1985
02:41:31,120 --> 02:41:34,400
And then you have to kill it for everybody and it just sucks.

1986
02:41:34,400 --> 02:41:38,480
I remember having like tough conversations with you about stuff

1987
02:41:38,480 --> 02:41:43,040
that we like can't do anymore and you're like, well, that's stupid. Yeah. I'm like, trust me.

1988
02:41:43,760 --> 02:41:47,040
I know how stupid it is more than you ever will. Yeah.

1989
02:41:47,840 --> 02:41:51,600
Yeah. It's frustrating. There's nothing I can do about it. It's frustrating.

1990
02:41:51,600 --> 02:41:56,080
Because like there, you can, you can interact in good faith in a certain way.

1991
02:41:57,680 --> 02:42:01,440
But you have to be careful about it because other people might see it

1992
02:42:01,440 --> 02:42:05,760
and then interact with that thing in bad faith. And then it gets turned off for everybody.

1993
02:42:05,760 --> 02:42:11,920
And it's happened a bunch of times. I can, I know I cannot give you examples for reasons that I hope would be obvious.

1994
02:42:11,920 --> 02:42:18,720
Oh, here's a good one. Good comment from Chronified. I'd be willing to bet they're using monitoring software and it has a two-monitor limit.

1995
02:42:18,720 --> 02:42:21,760
So for the work from home setup, it's a laptop with only one display out.

1996
02:42:21,760 --> 02:42:24,800
That's a good hypothesis. I like it. I like it.

1997
02:42:26,160 --> 02:42:29,760
I mean, the fact that you have your phone still is like stupid or whatever.

1998
02:42:29,760 --> 02:42:34,480
So it says personal siting, but allows personal monitors work from home two days a week.

1999
02:42:35,680 --> 02:42:38,080
They might have a way of doing more than one display.

2000
02:42:42,640 --> 02:42:45,680
Okay. I don't know. That is interesting though.

2001
02:42:47,680 --> 02:42:51,280
Why are you so popular today? I don't know. He's so popular.

2002
02:42:53,280 --> 02:42:57,440
All right. Hey, Dan. Sure. I was just waiting for the interruption to stop.

2003
02:42:58,320 --> 02:43:09,760
I would like to game single co-op games from my PC to my living room TV.

2004
02:43:09,760 --> 02:43:12,960
There are around 60 feet apart. How would you guys solve this?

2005
02:43:14,000 --> 02:43:21,600
Optical HDMI cable and probably a USB over Ethernet adapter.

2006
02:43:21,600 --> 02:43:28,560
We showed USB two ones that are cheap, like 10, 15 bucks cheap that can easily do that distance.

2007
02:43:29,760 --> 02:43:39,760
That would be the highest fidelity way. The low fidelity, but probably easier way with less wiring would be to just use streaming.

2008
02:43:39,760 --> 02:43:43,600
So you have a thin client and just use like steam in home streaming or whatever.

2009
02:43:43,600 --> 02:43:51,920
They've rebranded it to steam link or whatever they call it now. What tech were you most sad to see flop or fall out of fashion?

2010
02:43:51,920 --> 02:43:56,480
I really wish phones with physical keyboards were still improved and made mainstream.

2011
02:43:57,280 --> 02:44:01,920
Hold on. Before we move on, UCR Buffalo says why not HDMI to Ethernet adapters too?

2012
02:44:01,920 --> 02:44:08,960
Because by the time you do that, you've added all of the cost and complexity of an optical cable, except you're paying for copper now.

2013
02:44:10,000 --> 02:44:14,880
Fiber is actually cheaper by the foot. It's just the media conversion that's expensive.

2014
02:44:14,880 --> 02:44:19,680
So if you're going to have media conversion, a lot of the time, unless you need to be able to service it in the field,

2015
02:44:19,680 --> 02:44:28,720
like if you're doing live events or something like that, there's no reason to use like HDMI over Ethernet instead of just HDMI over fiber.

2016
02:44:31,600 --> 02:44:36,480
Also, a lot of the HDMI over Ethernet stuff is not like 4K 120,

2017
02:44:36,480 --> 02:44:41,680
whereas you can get fiber optic HDMI cables that will allow you to do the full HDMI 2.1.

2018
02:44:42,480 --> 02:44:46,080
No, not any leg difference that I'm aware of.

2019
02:44:46,080 --> 02:44:49,840
It just doesn't make sense in the home.

2020
02:44:50,720 --> 02:44:54,000
Okay, sorry. What were you most sad to see flop or fall out of fashion?

2021
02:44:54,000 --> 02:44:57,200
I mean, 3D is on my mind. So I'm going to go with that.

2022
02:44:57,200 --> 02:45:00,800
I'm going to go with that because I've seen some glasses-free 3D that's really good.

2023
02:45:00,800 --> 02:45:04,640
Like we could have gotten there. We just, the content's not there anymore.

2024
02:45:04,640 --> 02:45:14,320
This person said physical keyboards on phones. I don't agree with that, but I do agree with physical key inputs practically everywhere else.

2025
02:45:15,360 --> 02:45:19,680
There are some good solutions, like I'm assuming the one in your car is right.

2026
02:45:19,680 --> 02:45:25,680
It's okay, but actually almost everything else is trash, especially public things.

2027
02:45:26,960 --> 02:45:30,400
Public things that are touchscreen just like- I don't like touching them.

2028
02:45:30,400 --> 02:45:34,720
No. And occasionally you get ones that have like good rejection,

2029
02:45:34,720 --> 02:45:39,120
and I can't use my knuckle on them because I don't want to touch them with my fingy tips.

2030
02:45:39,120 --> 02:45:42,560
Like I was a germaphobe before it got cool in 2020.

2031
02:45:42,560 --> 02:45:50,320
I don't like touching things. I don't like shaking hands. Like one year I stopped shaking hands at CES and immediately I stopped getting trade show illness.

2032
02:45:50,320 --> 02:45:57,520
Yeah, I do the same thing now. Okay, brilliant. I used to be able to press physical buttons with like your keys or something.

2033
02:45:58,320 --> 02:46:02,880
Yeah. And now you have to touch screen and tons of them are terrible.

2034
02:46:02,880 --> 02:46:08,560
So you have to do the input like a billion times and one of the nice things about physical keys

2035
02:46:08,560 --> 02:46:12,000
is that they almost always do actually work. Yeah.

2036
02:46:12,000 --> 02:46:18,080
And with touchscreen keys, it's often not a very good indicator of if it actually worked or not.

2037
02:46:18,720 --> 02:46:25,840
So you sit there, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch. Oh my god. Okay, that's going to defeat the purpose of using my knuckles in the first place for things.

2038
02:46:25,840 --> 02:46:27,600
You could spit on it. You could hawk to it.

2039
02:46:30,080 --> 02:46:33,440
Hawk touch it. There's a reference that makes me old, I guess, probably.

2040
02:46:33,440 --> 02:46:35,040
Yeah, that's not a fashion now. It's very slow.

2041
02:46:36,880 --> 02:46:41,600
Anyways, yeah, physical buttons on random things.

2042
02:46:41,600 --> 02:46:45,520
I think high-end touch screens having physical, having touch screen buttons is fine.

2043
02:46:45,520 --> 02:46:50,400
So phones is fine. There's probably some cars that are fine, but there's also some cars where it's terrible.

2044
02:46:51,680 --> 02:46:54,160
But in general, just like physical buttons would be better.

2045
02:46:56,080 --> 02:47:00,880
Yeah. Japan does this super well, by the way.

2046
02:47:01,840 --> 02:47:04,080
A lot of their stuff is still physical buttons, and it's very nice.

2047
02:47:05,040 --> 02:47:08,320
I still think their train ticket kiosks could be improved.

2048
02:47:08,880 --> 02:47:11,760
I agree. Regardless of button type.

2049
02:47:12,880 --> 02:47:19,440
But I like the buttons. I'm working my dream job at a big tech data center.

2050
02:47:19,440 --> 02:47:24,480
Nice. The work is fulfilling and amazing, but there are moral implications to working for a major

2051
02:47:24,480 --> 02:47:29,920
tech company. Oh, so he works for Amazon. Do you have advice for my moral conflict?

2052
02:47:30,560 --> 02:47:37,200
There's lots of other data centers you could work at. Also, it could be worse.

2053
02:47:37,200 --> 02:47:42,720
You could work for an evil company like Linus Media Group, who didn't tell anybody about any...

2054
02:47:46,000 --> 02:47:51,040
Dry your tears with money. That helps. Some amount of it's like, you got to survive yourself.

2055
02:47:51,360 --> 02:47:58,000
Slashes! And a lot of people will put their own, as I sort of am right now, will put their own...

2056
02:47:58,000 --> 02:48:01,120
Just making sure. Making sure we all are up to speed on that. On you.

2057
02:48:01,120 --> 02:48:04,800
So you have to decide where your line is. Your line is?

2058
02:48:05,840 --> 02:48:06,880
Oh my goodness.

2059
02:48:09,920 --> 02:48:13,600
Get it? Line is? Linus? Anyways. I get it. It's just not funny.

2060
02:48:13,600 --> 02:48:17,280
Yeah, fair enough. No, no, I missed it. I missed it. I didn't do it intentionally.

2061
02:48:17,280 --> 02:48:20,400
I was busy waiting for chat to actually...

2062
02:48:21,040 --> 02:48:24,240
For the people that didn't hear the segment earlier on the Honey stuff,

2063
02:48:24,240 --> 02:48:26,880
to be like, OMG, is that what you really said about it?

2064
02:48:27,920 --> 02:48:34,240
For those of you who weren't watching earlier, what we said was, hey, we don't really know what you're talking about.

2065
02:48:34,960 --> 02:48:38,720
We didn't know almost any of this stuff at the time.

2066
02:48:38,720 --> 02:48:42,400
And we dropped the sponsor years ago. If you're mad, that's great.

2067
02:48:42,400 --> 02:48:47,040
You should be mad. Be mad at Honey. Be mad at their parent company, PayPal.

2068
02:48:47,440 --> 02:48:53,280
Yeah. There seems to be a perception out there that what you invest in

2069
02:48:53,280 --> 02:48:58,960
and the job that you have should have zero reflection on you at all.

2070
02:48:58,960 --> 02:49:05,040
And I don't completely agree with that. I understand that sometimes you're in a life situation where you just don't have another option.

2071
02:49:05,040 --> 02:49:09,120
You don't have the luxury of just taking a stand.

2072
02:49:09,120 --> 02:49:12,800
Yeah, so that's one thing. And I am not shooting at that at all.

2073
02:49:12,800 --> 02:49:19,120
But I will say for myself, I've had extremely lucrative potential job offers that I have not wanted to take

2074
02:49:19,120 --> 02:49:22,480
because of where they were at. And I didn't take them.

2075
02:49:24,400 --> 02:49:30,480
So like, it's not impossible. And like, I heard from an awful, because I mean, you were here.

2076
02:49:31,600 --> 02:49:34,480
And we didn't make a video about Honey.

2077
02:49:36,560 --> 02:49:43,680
So like, I don't know, it's possible. I also know people that had very good solid jobs

2078
02:49:43,760 --> 02:49:47,440
and then took a job somewhere that they didn't like the company

2079
02:49:47,440 --> 02:49:52,080
and complain about it all the time. And I'm like, this is entirely your fault.

2080
02:49:52,080 --> 02:49:55,280
Are you just calling me out? Yeah.

2081
02:49:55,280 --> 02:49:58,960
The prime example is Dan. Have you been reading my blog?

2082
02:50:01,200 --> 02:50:05,440
But yeah, like, I don't know, you should care at least a little bit.

2083
02:50:05,440 --> 02:50:09,680
If it's your only option, it's your only option. I'm not trying to dig you for that. You got to put food on the table.

2084
02:50:09,680 --> 02:50:13,040
But if you have a range of options,

2085
02:50:13,600 --> 02:50:17,040
life isn't just about making more and more money 100% of the time,

2086
02:50:18,320 --> 02:50:21,520
in my opinion. Yes, it is. Which is why I never made a video about Honey.

2087
02:50:23,600 --> 02:50:26,960
Because yeah, because you had some form of financial gain there, right?

2088
02:50:26,960 --> 02:50:31,120
Yeah, for sure. For sure. It's not that Honey was stealing my money.

2089
02:50:31,120 --> 02:50:35,040
Loosing the ad sense on that video was very financially beneficial to you.

2090
02:50:35,040 --> 02:50:38,480
You mean the affiliate revenue? Yeah.

2091
02:50:38,480 --> 02:50:42,160
No, on the Honey exposure video. Oh yeah, for sure.

2092
02:50:42,160 --> 02:50:47,600
Yeah. Not making that money and also not exposing someone who was stealing from me.

2093
02:50:47,600 --> 02:50:51,040
Yeah. Yeah, that was definitely my motivation. It really lined your pockets.

2094
02:50:51,040 --> 02:50:55,600
You got it. Dude, the number of times that I see people be like,

2095
02:50:57,600 --> 02:51:03,040
how is it that Linus spent so much money on this,

2096
02:51:03,760 --> 02:51:06,560
but he couldn't afford $500 to test something?

2097
02:51:07,680 --> 02:51:11,520
They're so close. They're so close to the answer.

2098
02:51:12,160 --> 02:51:14,880
They just need a little nudge. Oh man.

2099
02:51:17,120 --> 02:51:22,080
They're almost there. It's almost like they're nothing to do with each other.

2100
02:51:24,160 --> 02:51:27,200
All right. Next up. Hello.

2101
02:51:27,200 --> 02:51:30,960
I love being an internet personality. I'm amazed if you haven't just lost it.

2102
02:51:33,440 --> 02:51:34,320
You don't know that he hasn't.

2103
02:51:37,680 --> 02:51:42,640
He hides. These are crazy eyes. He hides it well on camera at least.

2104
02:51:43,360 --> 02:51:45,760
Hello from the other. I beat him off camera.

2105
02:51:46,960 --> 02:51:49,520
Watch him cower. Where the hell's Dan?

2106
02:51:51,120 --> 02:51:54,880
This is me cowering. I don't know why it's pointing over there. Why is it so dark?

2107
02:51:54,880 --> 02:51:59,520
You've let me down for the last time, Dan. Pointing the camera in the wrong place.

2108
02:51:59,520 --> 02:52:03,440
Don't make me throw things at you again. Which I have actually done.

2109
02:52:03,440 --> 02:52:07,520
And Luke has. Yeah. Yeah, Luke actually almost hit him that one time.

2110
02:52:07,520 --> 02:52:10,080
Did I? I think so. Yeah. Oh, nice.

2111
02:52:10,880 --> 02:52:14,000
You threw an entire CPU cooler at me once. He probably had it coming. Me?

2112
02:52:14,000 --> 02:52:18,080
Yeah. I actually did when Luke threw something at it. That was actually extremely warranted.

2113
02:52:18,080 --> 02:52:22,160
So yeah. I think I apologized.

2114
02:52:22,160 --> 02:52:25,280
Is it victim blaming if the victim blames themself? I think so.

2115
02:52:25,280 --> 02:52:28,640
No, that was actually. Is it Stockholm syndrome or something? Not okay.

2116
02:52:29,200 --> 02:52:31,520
The other times have been unwarranted. But that one was like.

2117
02:52:33,040 --> 02:52:36,320
And to be fair, I threw like a small little coaster.

2118
02:52:36,320 --> 02:52:37,360
Yes, that's right.

2119
02:52:39,360 --> 02:52:44,560
Hello from the Netherlands to Linus. Do you have any motorcycle specific tech you love?

2120
02:52:44,560 --> 02:52:48,000
If I may, what bike do you ride? I have an SV650S.

2121
02:52:48,000 --> 02:52:51,120
It's a 2003. But what bike I ride?

2122
02:52:51,840 --> 02:52:55,760
Well, none because it's in pieces. It has been for two years.

2123
02:52:57,040 --> 02:53:00,240
I'm going to do it this time. I'm going to do it this time. Is it going to be rusty?

2124
02:53:00,240 --> 02:53:03,280
No, I'll be fine. Yeah, I took a long time off before and it's like

2125
02:53:03,280 --> 02:53:05,840
whatever you just, it's like. Riding a bike.

2126
02:53:08,480 --> 02:53:15,040
I don't really have any motorcycle specific tech. I use a pebble for track changing because it has.

2127
02:53:15,760 --> 02:53:18,400
Physical buttons. Sure does. And you've got gloves on. Okay.

2128
02:53:19,280 --> 02:53:24,160
Makes sense. Time and place for physical buttons. And on the motorbike is definitely one of them.

2129
02:53:24,160 --> 02:53:26,080
Yeah. Oh, no.

2130
02:53:28,480 --> 02:53:31,520
What? Did we both click archive at exactly the same time

2131
02:53:31,520 --> 02:53:34,160
and accidentally archive two cards? Nice.

2132
02:53:35,440 --> 02:53:39,040
Nice. So weird. My chat's not updating.

2133
02:53:39,920 --> 02:53:43,200
So I missed everything that chat had to say.

2134
02:53:44,400 --> 02:53:45,520
Oh, well, I'll live.

2135
02:53:48,800 --> 02:53:51,200
Just give me a sec here. Let me see if I can find it. No, I won't.

2136
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:55,600
Anonymous asks Linus, what was your favorite game server or community back

2137
02:53:55,600 --> 02:53:59,280
when you were younger? What's your favorite memory from there?

2138
02:54:00,080 --> 02:54:03,680
I mean, it's got to be the NCIX gaming server.

2139
02:54:03,680 --> 02:54:06,240
Shout out Deathhawk. You know who you are.

2140
02:54:08,000 --> 02:54:11,760
For me, I'm going to answer this anyways, even though I wasn't asked. Playing that Left 4 Dead.

2141
02:54:11,760 --> 02:54:15,040
Playing that TF2. Let's go. No life in it.

2142
02:54:15,040 --> 02:54:18,160
I think it was Halo 2. Oh, yeah.

2143
02:54:18,160 --> 02:54:21,760
I used to play a bunch with some dude named U Talk Corshia,

2144
02:54:21,760 --> 02:54:23,360
which I've never been able to find again.

2145
02:54:26,080 --> 02:54:30,960
Sorry. That's pretty good. But I used to be a part of a community on there.

2146
02:54:30,960 --> 02:54:35,040
It was mostly myself and U Talk Corshia, but there was some other people involved as well,

2147
02:54:35,040 --> 02:54:37,760
where we would just try to glitch everything. We'd try to glitch out of maps.

2148
02:54:39,200 --> 02:54:42,240
We figured out that the rocket-to-sword switch thing,

2149
02:54:42,240 --> 02:54:48,560
I think that was literally us. And there's a bunch of other cool things, too.

2150
02:54:48,560 --> 02:54:52,320
Whatever the name of the map was, it was really, really small. It was a covenant ship.

2151
02:54:52,320 --> 02:54:57,440
There was a floating platform. Linus map. There's a floating platform in the middle.

2152
02:54:58,640 --> 02:55:01,120
The platform's a penis. It's really small.

2153
02:55:02,640 --> 02:55:06,560
Have you just been spending too much time in this pool? I've been spending too little time sleeping.

2154
02:55:07,440 --> 02:55:13,360
I think that's it. And we spent way too much time, because we were kids,

2155
02:55:13,360 --> 02:55:17,200
but getting these containers to go all the way up the ramps

2156
02:55:17,200 --> 02:55:20,720
to where the floating platform was, and we had to time it perfectly, and we screwed it up a few times.

2157
02:55:20,720 --> 02:55:23,120
So you're saying you put a box on the penis?

2158
02:55:23,760 --> 02:55:26,800
Kind of. Nice. Yeah, two boxes. Two boxes.

2159
02:55:26,800 --> 02:55:30,640
Wow. Yeah. Same time. That was actually the whole...

2160
02:55:31,280 --> 02:55:34,880
That was a very important part of the equation. That's the physics of this.

2161
02:55:34,880 --> 02:55:38,640
It sounds painful. It's tough. It's difficult. Okay, I'm sorry. What was the thing?

2162
02:55:38,640 --> 02:55:43,280
What is it doing? We got the boxes all the way up the ramp, and then we had to get them onto the floating platform at the same time,

2163
02:55:43,280 --> 02:55:47,200
and that would slam the floating platform in the ground, which would horrifically glitch the whole map out,

2164
02:55:47,200 --> 02:55:51,600
and it was amazing. We were only able to do it once. We're probably the only people that did it, I'm assuming,

2165
02:55:51,600 --> 02:55:56,000
because it took forever, and it was really, really stupid. I forgot about that really fun gaming session you and I had,

2166
02:55:56,000 --> 02:55:58,800
taking the Warthog cases it wasn't supposed to go. That was a blast. See, that's...

2167
02:55:59,760 --> 02:56:02,880
Everything I love about... I almost just said flow plane.

2168
02:56:02,880 --> 02:56:06,160
Everything I love about Halo is just breaking Halo in horrific ways.

2169
02:56:06,160 --> 02:56:09,840
Nice. Yeah. Well, there's also the music.

2170
02:56:09,840 --> 02:56:12,320
That's music. Music is pretty good.

2171
02:56:13,520 --> 02:56:17,760
Oh, so good. Care for a diagram? I could do like a horrible paint drawing,

2172
02:56:17,760 --> 02:56:19,840
but I really don't think it's worth it. Yeah, you took the default. Yeah.

2173
02:56:21,920 --> 02:56:24,160
Did we find it? Yeah.

2174
02:56:25,920 --> 02:56:30,320
What? Cool. Well, thanks for tuning in to the WAN Show.

2175
02:56:30,320 --> 02:56:33,520
Find what? The message we were looking for.

2176
02:56:33,520 --> 02:56:37,600
That's the one. He read it. He beat me to it. Oh, what? That was there on my dashboard.

2177
02:56:37,600 --> 02:56:39,840
Yeah, it was there on my too. What?

2178
02:56:42,880 --> 02:56:47,280
All right, we'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel.

2179
02:56:48,320 --> 02:56:48,800
Bye.

2180
02:56:54,240 --> 02:56:55,840
So this is what gaslighting is.

2181
02:56:58,560 --> 02:57:02,000
Well, then. No, it's not. Damn it. You're wrong.

2182
02:57:02,560 --> 02:57:05,920
There's a leak. And if you're wrong, you deserved it.

2183
02:57:07,040 --> 02:57:10,240
Gaslighting's not real. Crazy.

2184
02:57:10,240 --> 02:57:11,200
It is. You made it up.

2185
02:57:13,680 --> 02:57:14,400
Oh, man.