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It's like nine steps to use a Paske, but I'm in I've hacked the main frame

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Paske's are a sham dude. You're a sham. It's all it's all a sham. You're a sham. Got him

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People use Paske's and then they're just just as annoying as everything everything's annoying life is annoying. Yep, and then you die

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What's up gamers the only reason we tolerate life is because it's so much better than the alternative it is incredibly better than the alternative

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That is Unless you ask open AI

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Yeah, we'll be talking about that this week is over the topics

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And that was brutal. I didn't know that was one of the topics but I I'm sure I know what one you're talking about and like

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Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow. First dream with a nice sniff. Yeah, sorry about that

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Sorry

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Sorry, I just have to finish my bag of 150 calorie cookies.

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What's the marijuana policy at work?

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Can you guys not even ask?

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What? What's the marijuana policy at work?

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Can you not even ask? What does that mean?

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Oh, I think they're asking if I think someone's high at work.

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Am I not allowed to ask them if they're high?

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I have no idea, but I wouldn't care about that. I would just be like, you're high, go home.

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Like, I don't really, yeah, no, you're not allowed to be high at work.

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That can't be true. Is it illicit substance?

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It can't be inebriated. Are you both on like...

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What? So much meth. A derivative of meth?

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No, what are you talking about? We're not inebriated at work, Luke.

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Yeah, but you said you can't be on any substance. Right.

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It can't be true. I think...

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Are you talking about like caffeine? Substances is a stand-in for like inebriated substances.

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Illicit substances? Illicit substances, but then alcohol's not illicit.

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Neither is weed. Well, maybe it should be. Alcohol?

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I mean the prohibition proponent over here, ladies and gentlemen.

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It clearly didn't work, so whatever, but...

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Look at this guy happy being alive.

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What, do you like your brain cells or something? They're pretty neat.

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I think the... They're useful during work hours.

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Are you suggesting you want organized crime?

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No, but I'm also from BC, so like...

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Basically, everything here is organized crime.

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If organized crime didn't exist, I think BC would be like insanely different.

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I suspect BC would change more than potentially almost anywhere in North America, at least.

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Yeah, it might have affordable housing. Maybe.

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Everyone would realize there's no organized crime anymore, and then they would move here.

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And then they'd move here. And then the housing price would go back up. We're screwed.

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Yeah, no, damned if you do, damned if you don't, Luke.

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Yep. Basically, everyone that I know has had like an interaction with like very high-level organized crime,

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whether they wanted to or not. Like, it was a not incredibly uncommon occurrence for like in-home installers at Geek Squad to like be like,

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oh, wow, this is definitely just Hell's Angels stuff.

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I was gonna say I haven't.

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And then I remembered the neighbors we had in Maple Ridge.

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Yeah, basically, everybody has. It's just so normal here that you like don't really think about it.

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It's like crazy.

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Does Black Rock count as organized crime? That's a...

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That's a question for the ages, I think.

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That's like highly organized crime. Yeah.

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So... Sophisticated organized crime. At what point is it so organized that they basically bought everyone who could define it as crime?

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World crime. Yeah, because I mean like, I've always had, I've always really struggled with this.

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Like, what's the difference between, you know, me ordering a hit on someone and a head of state ordering a hit on someone?

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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Right? Like... Mm-hmm.

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You know? Yeah. And then...

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Diplomatic community. That's a good... Yeah.

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Diplomatic community does seem like it would be a heck of a drug, dude.

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Ha ha ha.

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Looking like it's from the mob confirmed. No, it's just, there's so much.

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Like, man, if you ever want to dive into it, the level of organized crime and money laundering in BC is like a hell of a thing.

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And when you're up here, it's like very common to be like, huh?

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You look at the job market in BC.

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You look at the average rate of like, posted income in BC.

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And then you look at the stuff.

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And it's like, what's going on? Something's weird.

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Like, one of the most egregious ones was like, one of the in-home installer guys at Geeksquad rolled up to a house and there was like,

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insane cars all in front of the house. It's this huge mansion.

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He had effectively what was described as a monster truck in the driveway.

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And I don't think they mean just like a normal jacked truck.

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I think they mean like he had tires that were taller than him.

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He walked inside beautiful house.

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Dude offered him a beer and he's like, well, no, I'm on shift and he just laughed.

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And then as he was leaving, he was like, guess what I do for work?

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And the guy's like, what do you do for work?

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And he's like, I install refrigerators and then just burst out laughing.

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And then the dude left. It was like very obviously like, no, that's not what he does.

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I don't know. You don't know how big those refrigerators are.

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You don't know how much the...

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No, it was implied that he was like the installer.

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Like he didn't like own the business or something.

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It's like, okay, all right. Where does he install those refrigerators?

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Six feet underground. What's in them?

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That's true. He installs refrigerators in the ground.

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That's honestly to be easily scannable, I guess.

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Why are you thinking about that?

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Why does that matter? I'm wondering how effective it would be. And I feel like it would be more effective to not put it in a refrigerator.

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Why does that matter? What do you mean? Why do you need to know that?

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I got to make sure he has gainful proper employment.

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We need our mob employee. The person in the fridge?

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Nope. Nope. They're already out of the game.

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All right. So anyway, before Luke ices anyone...

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Very good. We should just start the show.

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So boy, easy copy says my dad's pretty wealthy

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and he installs large fridges for restaurants.

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Does he? Is he the stellar or does he like own the business?

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Luke's asking too many questions for the mob. See, I'm not.

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I don't think I asked almost any questions.

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I made statements. Yes, quizzical statements.

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Apparently icing someone has a different meaning these days.

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I'm not familiar with that. Last I heard it.

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Is it like giving them jewelry or something stupid?

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Oh, really? Yikes. Yikes.

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I was muted. American ice.

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Apparently can also mean intentionally creating a barrier around someone

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excluding them from conversation or an activity. But that's AIs.

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Who knows? I feel like that's made up.

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What is getting iced? Heard it on the STF podcast and now Ozone tweeted about it.

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Anyone know? Basically someone hides a smirnoff somewhere

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and if another person runs into it or finds it, they have to get on one knee and chug it.

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Yeah, I know that one. Shut up. Is that a thing?

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Yeah. Okay, so... It's like you have to one-shot it or something.

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What were these guys talking about? You have to one-shot it? Yeah, you have to just chug the whole thing and won't go.

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But it's... Alcoholism, I guess.

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Okay. Yeah. I was going to say, but it's vodka and then I was like...

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Technically, yes, it is. Right. Technically, is it just terrible?

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It's terrible, right? I think it's like a... Because it's like cheap and...

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Well, you know, since Smirnoff iced the cooler ones basically, like it's a lower alcohol percentage than just like...

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Yeah, they're like... Smirnoff. Yeah, they're like...

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Smirnoff vodka at the level of like... Oh!

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Beer or less than beer. No, it's more than beer. Shut up.

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What is it? Well, there's... It depends because there's incredibly high alcohol percentage beer.

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Nice. Yeah. Is it called nuclear penguin or something?

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Smirnoff ice. Four and a half to five percent. So it's like a beer.

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That's more than beer. I didn't...

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Tactical nuclear penguin.

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Thirty-two percent.

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Alcohol content beer. That sounds unpleasant.

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It probably is. I drink one occasionally that's like twelve and a half percent.

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My dad must have... That's a little much. My dad must have only drank light beers or something then

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because I... Yep, apparently that's... Like a Bud Light's like a three percent or something.

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Yeah, okay. Fair enough. I only know from like...

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Alcohol my parents drank because I don't... I don't drink.

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Yeah. Sobcannon says Linus, American beer is weak.

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Yeah, fair enough. People drink a twelve pack of like Bud Light or something.

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Got people in chat talking about thirty-two percent alcohol beer.

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That's what I just said. Tactical nuclear penguin. That's crazy.

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It sounds awful. Yeah, it probably is.

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But the point is to just get hammered I assume by the time...

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Honestly, I feel like it was some brewmaster just trying to accomplish

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like a technical feat more than anything. And then it's like almost like a gag gift.

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Like I think you buy one to try it and then you never buy one again.

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That makes sense. I highly suspect that's the deal.

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All right. Should we do this thing? Let's do this thing.

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I'm going to do the thing. Sounds good. Yeah.

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Resuming the selected now.

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Oh crap.

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I don't have a dashboard Dan so feel free to tell me.

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

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We've got a great show lined up for you guys today.

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Android has become Apple side loading.

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What? Who needs it? Who needs side loading?

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Why would you want to install any app you want? You should just install all the curated apps from the app store.

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Good job Google. You're doing great.

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In other news, GPUs are...

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Oh, actually no. I'm going to go with a different one.

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Framework has done the impossible. Investment disclosure.

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They have somehow convinced NVIDIA to go along with their weird science fair project of a laptop

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and provide an upgradeable GPU module for it.

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With team green graphics. Whoa.

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Right? Whoa. Whoa indeed.

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That's weird. But cool. Also, the most important thing to me is a topic that I just titled in all capitals.

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Is Battlefield going to be awesome? And then like 12 question marks.

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Because my two most major concerns from the beta are maybe being addressed.

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We'll talk about that. And I don't know for the last topic.

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But those are your major concerns. But what about your sergeant concerns?

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And general concerns. I have those as well.

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Do you have general concerns? I have general concerns. Okay.

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All right. Also, OpenAI is terrifying or something.

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Yeah. We talk about it every week.

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This one's bad.

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The show is brought to you today by Factor, Miro, and Ugreen.

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Let's jump right into our headline topic, which is, of course, that Android has become

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what they set out to destroy earlier this week.

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Android announced that you shouldn't have to choose between open and secure.

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And they're now announcing that app developers will need developer verification

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even if the app is being side loaded.

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Huh? How would that even work?

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There's a rollout period for this. Starting in October of this year where Android verification will enter early access.

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In March, 2026, it will be open to all developers.

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And in September, 2026, these requirements will go into effect for Brazil, Indonesia,

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Singapore, and Thailand. And in 2027, this will roll out globally.

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Many developers are calling into question the reasoning for this

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VP of product trust and growth for Android, she states,

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think of it like an ID check at the airport,

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which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags.

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We'll be confirming who the developer is,

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not reviewing the content of their app or where it came from.

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Now, hold on just a gosh darn second.

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How do you differentiate in the case of an app the difference between where it came from

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and who developed it? Huh?

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I, I, I question you this.

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I don't think the where it came from even matters, which is probably why they don't care.

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Her analogy makes no sense. No.

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Think of it like an ID check at the airport,

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which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags.

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So we'll be confirming who the developer is,

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not reviewing the content of their app or where it came from,

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but is not where it came from the developer.

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No, I think they mean like, was this on a SDK download site?

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I think they mean where was the, the source that the user got it from,

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not necessarily did they get it directly from the creator.

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I think that's what she means. Does it matter?

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No, in my opinion. There are more details to come,

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but what we're expecting based on what we know so far is this will work similar to Apple in the EU.

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Apple recently was mandated to allow side loading on their devices using a similar verification method.

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This did not prevent Apple, however, from removing a popular torrenting app,

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iTorrent from Alt Store Pal, which is a popular alternative app store for iPhone.

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So basically what this looks like to me is that Google has been carefully watching

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the sort of sidelines, like if you think back to when Epic sued Apple and Google.

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See, people kind of forget that Epic sued both of them because Apple is a much more exciting headline

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and, you know, finding any cracks in Apple's walled garden was a much more tantalizing, you know, Apple.

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But no, Epic very much sued both Apple and Google over the monopolies of their various ecosystems.

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And it seems to me like Google has been watching extremely interestingly from the kind of sidelines

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to see what exactly it is that Apple can get away with here, to see what they can also lock down.

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which is that, well, okay, if this is where the line is going to be, then we might as well be there.

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But I got to say, as someone who very much enjoys the side loadability of apps for Android,

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I don't really know what to do about this.

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What does this actually change?

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Because, like, if they're not inspecting the contents of the app, they're just checking who it's signed by.

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Who cares?

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Wow, that's a hot take and a half. Is there only certain developers that they're going to allow?

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Like, what is the next step in this, effectively?

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Like, is it going to be an allow list? So you have to be a known publisher by the Google Play Store in order to be sideloaded.

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The end of revamped if sideloading is gone.

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Yeah, so like they might preemptively ban certain developers.

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But then could you just sign as a different developer?

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But then you would also probably get banned for introducing some app that they don't approve of.

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But they're saying that they're not inspecting the apps. Sure, but like, come on, how long is that going to last?

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Well, that's what I'm saying is, like, as its current state, it doesn't feel like it does anything.

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So what is their next step? Because I didn't lay that out.

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I mean, getting rid of apps they don't like. Because otherwise, what would be the point?

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I don't like it. What I want to follow this up with is, how's Graphene going?

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Oh. Because honestly, immediately upon reading this, I was just like, it's just another flag that I need to get out.

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So, Graphene's cool. Yes.

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As we talked about offline, we do have lives outside of Wanshow where we occasionally communicate with each other outside of Wanshow.

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So as we talked about already, there is a way to get call screening.

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You can just, like, get the Pixel dialer app.

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And it'll just, like, include Pixel features. And the Graphene OS team's sort of position on installing apps like Facebook or apps like the Pixel dialer is that, oh, you know, yeah, okay.

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You are giving up some of the privacy that you might have with Graphene OS.

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Sorry, I keep picking up, holding up this phone. It's on another one.

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You are giving up some of the privacy that you might normally have with Graphene OS by installing those things.

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But it is most, certainly, assuredly better than running those applications in a not sandboxed version of Google's services and ecosystem.

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I had originally been like, well, if I'm going to, like, compromise the wall, why bother?

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But then ever since hearing that statement, it's been like, all right, I'm going to wait for you to finish.

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Yeah. But I might dive in. I am already running into some issues.

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Okay. So here's an interesting one. I don't necessarily mind some issues.

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So, offy, for instance. Okay.

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If I try to sign into it, so let's go ahead and...

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Nope, that is not my correct phone number.

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Here, I'm just going to get the exact right number.

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Ah, yes. This device does not meet the minimum integrity requirements.

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So, it turns out that there are some ways that Google does attempt to exert some control over device security.

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In this particular case, there is not...

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As far as I'm aware, not a meaningful impact on the actual security of that particular API that offy is utilizing.

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But if app developers... Sorry.

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I might have missed something. You said Google... Authy's...

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So, is this... Authy's using like a secure check API of some sort.

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I forget what it's called from Google. Got it.

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Yeah. You're not stuck with Authy.

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I can migrate off of Authy. In fact, I chose Authy like back before they were acquired and it was a whole...

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It was a whole thing. It was a good choice at the time. It was like the choice at the time.

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And since then, I think people have moved on mostly to like Entei.

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I think that's how it's pronounced. Yeah.

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So, I can... There's a few now. Yeah.

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So, I could definitely move off of it. It's not a deal breaker. But it's just one app that I've found that due to a choice by the app maker simply will

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not run. And as far as I can tell, there's no real work around for it.

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Another big category of apps that is challenging for the Graphene OS team is banking apps.

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Not because, again, not because there's any evidence that I've yet seen that you must

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use this integrity API. I keep forgetting what it's called.

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I'm sorry, guys. Play Integrity API. I think that's the one, TZN.

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Not because, as far as I can tell, there's a meaningful security advantage to using it,

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but because it is a thing that exists that some app developers have chosen to use.

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And if they have, well, too bad.

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The good news is my bank doesn't use it.

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So, that's good for me. For now. For now.

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But yours might. Right.

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So, overall, I'm pretty, I'm pretty jazzed about certain things.

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Check this out. Just how responsive it is.

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It's flipping. It looks fast. How's your battery usage?

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Fast. Because my phone right now, the only thing that's sort of tempting me on getting a 10,

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which I don't want to do and almost certainly will not do, is that my phone is usually,

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if I don't plug it in near the end of the night before I've gone to sleep, it will die

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on me almost every day.

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Well, part of the problem for me to kind of, I don't have an apples to apples comparison

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for you because I'm running the 9A for both my, my like daily driver, which I actually,

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I finally finished signing into all my crap on this on my recent trip.

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So I'm going to be popping my sim in it this weekend.

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But the Pixel 9A has like fricking legendary battery life.

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Like I'm at 83% right now and I've used it today.

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Yeah. Like I can barely kill this thing in a day if I try.

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Yeah. This thing's been a bit of a tank the whole time.

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And I do like, it's pretty common, like this is just because I didn't plug my phone in

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last night. Right.

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That I'll like go for a walk or something when I do that, I'll play Pokemon Go and that

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will battery hog like crazy. So that kind of makes sense. Okay.

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That's what you get. No, for sure. Gamer.

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Gamer time. But even when I don't, it's, it's pretty bad.

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Yeah. All right. Well, anyway, I guess, oh man, what's going to happen if I had to make a bold prediction?

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I mean, Graphene OS is already a thing.

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Do we see more mainstream acceptance of alternative androids?

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Like do we go back to all the cool kids running Cyanogen mod?

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Hopefully. Cause so far, it does feel like there's a bit of a wave going on.

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I do to give them credit, not to, not to not give them credit to actually straight up give

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them credit. A lot of it is Steam OS, just normalizing Linux usage, but I think also just Windows

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being really annoying and the, the mobile platforms getting more overtly anti-user

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instead of just kind of like shrugging it off with these lawsuits going on and them

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fighting it so hard and like clearly trying to skirt right along legal boundaries and

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stuff like that. Most people aren't paying any attention to that though. Yeah.

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You get the hardcore as the enthusiast first, then it leaks a little bit.

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I don't, I don't ever think a thing that you have to mod is going to be fully mainstream

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at pretty much any point. But what if someone could deliver a pre-modded product?

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So you know, what if, what if the Graphene OS team, if you hit a certain amount of enthusiast

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gets hardware interest, then those types of things become more and more viable.

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That's gonna, oh man, that'd be a huge tipping point because like the edge that Google has

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and that Apple has, it's in the camera.

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Yeah. It's in the camera. And so like that's been a differentiating feature for phones for so long and it is genuinely

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important even to normies who don't really care that much about anything else to do with

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their phone. Like if it didn't matter, we, so many more of us would be using vivo phones or the honor

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or whatever else. And I know there are markets where those brands are more popular, but at least in North America

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man, the camera seems to be just such a huge selling point.

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And other than the big players, it's, it's pretty tough to deliver an outstanding camera

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experience. Then again, yeah, I mean, that's a really great point in Flowplain Chat is if the camera

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mattered so much, then Sony shouldn't, Sony shouldn't have faltered the way that they

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did. I mean, they, they had pretty outstanding cameras. So it's, it's going to be, it's hard for me to predict what the future will hold.

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But honestly, I think most people these days genuinely, where would I put it?

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I think it's all, I think it's fair to say over 75% are just buying out of habit.

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Oh dude, that's huge. Okay.

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So there's definitely some weirdness. I just opened Facebook.

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Whoa. And it's just, it's just flipping out session expired, log back in.

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Let's see. It's logging out now.

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Okay. Did we do it?

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So has it been the most seamless of experiences?

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No. And can you do me a super huge solid favor and kind of mark this timestamp and email

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that to me for my Graphene OS video?

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It's, it's, dude, it's so frustrating. It's hard sometimes for me to catch some of the behavior that I notice on devices as I'm

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working through reviewing them or daily driving them.

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And so I'll, you know, I'll go out on camera and I'll say, yeah, the latest iOS is like

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a glitchy piece of shit. And people be like, no, I don't know what you're talking about.

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I'm like, well, okay, but that doesn't change that.

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That was my experience. And so it's, it's great when I can like document these things that are just unequivocally weird

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buggy behavior. The Facebook app should never do that.

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That's not a feature of the Facebook app to move around like that.

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Yeah. When you first open it. Oh, this is, but you probably don't need the Facebook app.

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So maybe you'll be okay. I don't know if I care cause like if a very small number of apps work fine, if all of

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the rest of them have glitchy bugs, that's probably a good thing overall.

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If I could like designate on my phone, I want this, this particular app to like error out

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relatively often. I would probably do that.

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I'm not even kidding cause there are certain things that I like have to have installed,

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but I don't want them installed and I have to use them for like work and then they might

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distract me. And if it was just like error out, I'd be like, oh, right, I need to go do something

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else anyways. Okay. Um, I think the setting screen time limits and why do that?

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Yeah. Sure. I just think that might be a better approach than just this app that I'm just saying,

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I don't think it's going to bother me crashes. I don't think it's going to bother me.

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I mean, it's probably me to log back in.

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Do you, do you not get bothered when you have to log into something to the main Facebook

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app? Uh, no, I don't think it's going to bother me.

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If messages did that, I would get annoyed. Okay.

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So you don't get to pick which apps glitch do I have and you don't get to pick how they

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glitch. But that's why I said it. If very specific ones worked totally fine.

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Okay. Then. Sure.

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Yeah. Do I have the main, yeah, I have the main Facebook app. I don't think I've ever used it.

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Do you need, you must need it for like a, nah.

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See, there's always like a thing on it that I need and then it has 30 other things that

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are really annoying and then it will send the notifications and stuff for the other things

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and I don't want them. Yeah. I'm going to have to figure this out because it's like doing it every time.

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Every time I click log in, it's like flipping its biz.

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Oh, this is that. This is not something that I had encountered so far.

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Okay. Am I quite ready to put the sim in it?

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Sure. You know what? I'll go for it.

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I'll just not use Facebook. I guess. Nice.

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Good luck everybody. Do you know how much I love my marketplace?

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I feel like that's rough for you because it's a marketplace. I wish there was a separate marketplace app, but they'll never do that because they want

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you to see all the other genres. That's right. That's how they get you.

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All right. Why don't we jump into our next topic? You want to pick it?

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Sure. Battlefield. Okay.

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We're talking about Battlefield, which I know nothing about.

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So I guess Luke's going to be leading this topic. You've played Battlefield in the past, right?

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I have played... Honestly, for this discussion, like the older, the better.

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About... Hold on.

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Let me think. Let me check what the cover art was, which should give you some idea because it came in

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a box. I'm assuming it's 1942.

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I played maybe an hour or two of Battlefield 2.

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Okay. Sure. So Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4 era, and previous...

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Oh, no. I played a little bit of Battlefield 4. That's the one with the destructible environments, right?

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Are you sure you never played 1942? Everybody played 1942.

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Load of the box art. Load of the box art. Do you know how it makes people feel when you say everyone something?

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Load of the box art. You know, everyone loves ice cream.

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And then if you don't love ice cream... Do you hate it when I say that? And then if you don't love ice cream...

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Do you hate it when I say that? Do you feel left out?

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You feel isolated. Like you're not one of everyone. Do you feel left out for not playing 1942?

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Literally everyone, you know. If I said everyone has an LTT screwdriver, you'd be like...

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You don't exaggerate stuff? But I... You crying right now is not an exaggeration at all?

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No, I never played 1942.

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Okay. Basically, three, four and before.

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They all had server browsers and at least some apps that were enormous.

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Shut up. What?

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Are they bringing back like a server list?

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Can people host their own servers? They're bringing back server browsers.

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What? So the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, this is news from like 10 hours ago.

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That's illegal. The Battlefield 6 Open Beta. That's illegal.

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Stop. Stop it. There was no server browser.

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You can't tell me something like this and then f***ing rug pulled me.

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You can't. It's not okay. We'll get there.

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We'll get there. There was no server browsers. Okay.

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I know. If I do not get a full release, you are responsible for my blue balls.

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If you don't get... Okay.

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It is only partial, but in my opinion, it's an only partial that is completely fine.

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That should, in my opinion, still give full release. Okay.

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Carry on. So in those play tests, there was two main problems that I had a bunch of problems, but

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there was two main problems that I had. The biggest, most important one was no server browser.

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My reason for that is Battlefield is a very varied game.

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Back in the day, all the maps were enormous and had tons of vehicles.

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And then as it started getting more modern, they got smaller and smaller maps trying to compete with Cod.

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And that was kind of okay, but if you didn't feel like playing a small map, you could just

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server browser and go to some 24-7 server and play whatever map you wanted as long as

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you wanted. Right? And then they took server browser away, and right around that same time, Battlefield

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went, the six open beta had no server browser and had a lot of really small maps.

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Even their biggest map honestly felt like one area of one of the old, really big maps

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in the old games. Jets like you could have permanent visibility on a jet as it flew around the map because

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the map was so small, like just didn't seem, it didn't feel right, right?

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It wasn't a battlefield. It was more of a battle area.

428
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I don't know. That old position.

429
00:35:02,020 --> 00:35:05,020
Battle room. Yeah. There you go.

430
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:10,900
That old cubby. So people wanted bigger maps and people wanted a server browser.

431
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:18,140
And then this article from Rock Paper Shotgun appeared on, oh my, with all the ads, appeared

432
00:35:18,140 --> 00:35:23,580
on my device, Battlefield six is getting persistent servers and two vehicle heavy maps are coming

433
00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:28,260
in the next lab's play test 24 seven insert map here only listings here we come.

434
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:35,140
So the the asterisk as a couple of people in full plane chat have pointed out is that

435
00:35:35,140 --> 00:35:44,140
these persistent servers are for portal, which is like, that's a whole other game.

436
00:35:45,140 --> 00:35:51,900
Okay, this is like this is like Battlefield's version of Halo Forge.

437
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:58,100
So it's user defined rules maps, basically, yeah, but that's what custom servers always

438
00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,460
were anyways. Yeah, pointed out like it's not the main modes.

439
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:08,780
Yes. It's like, I don't know if I care. Well, yeah, I mean, 90% of them are going to be some bullshit mode that is stupid.

440
00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:13,860
Yeah. But then there will just be like 24 seven this 24 seven domination this map.

441
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:17,420
It's like sick. That's what I want to play right now.

442
00:36:17,420 --> 00:36:20,420
Let's go. That's all I want.

443
00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:24,860
And it's totally fine. So I am very excited about this.

444
00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:31,220
I'm excited that they're doing vehicle heavy maps because vehicle heavy maps almost always

445
00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:35,740
tie into larger maps. And I think they need both.

446
00:36:35,740 --> 00:36:39,860
It was weird when there would be like one jet in the air on each team, because I remember

447
00:36:39,860 --> 00:36:44,740
back in the day, you like spawn at the airfield and there's like a few jets, two helicopters,

448
00:36:44,740 --> 00:36:48,980
maybe two large helicopters and one small helicopter, a like row of tanks.

449
00:36:48,980 --> 00:36:54,100
Like it was very vehicle heavy and and the the map save rolled out have been small and

450
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:59,460
not very vehicle heavy. So, yeah, bigger, hopefully they didn't say that part, but they said vehicle heavy.

451
00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:03,860
So hopefully bigger, definitely vehicle heavy maps are coming in the next play test.

452
00:37:03,860 --> 00:37:11,900
And the like actual important part is the persistent servers.

453
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,380
That's huge. That's very huge. That's interesting.

454
00:37:15,380 --> 00:37:20,740
So do you think part of this is looking at like the war funders and World of Tanks and

455
00:37:20,740 --> 00:37:28,620
Cods of the world basically going, OK, there is a smorgasbord of pointy, gunny, explodey

456
00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:35,060
at other guy, kaboom, go die, go bye-bye like games at this point.

457
00:37:35,060 --> 00:37:40,500
You know, what do we do at this to differentiate ourselves?

458
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:47,020
Because just having good gunplay, I think I think you just take that for granted.

459
00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:55,020
Nobody's going to these days. Nobody's going to look at you twice. If you if you don't offer satisfying shooting mechanics, gun attachments, cool reload animations,

460
00:37:55,020 --> 00:37:58,020
all that kind of stuff. Yeah, all that stuff. It's been solved for quite a while.

461
00:37:58,020 --> 00:38:05,860
It's a given. So could this be and is this what you were hoping would be so exciting?

462
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:15,580
Could this be a turning point where these guys go, oh, crap, OK, battlefield is stealing

463
00:38:15,580 --> 00:38:22,980
some of our market share by going back in time and doing things that players like.

464
00:38:22,980 --> 00:38:28,140
Maybe that's an idea that's worth exploring to do things that players like.

465
00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:31,140
Yeah. Sorry. One second.

466
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:37,860
Yeah. I know. So, yeah, I think so.

467
00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:48,420
I think it's it's an interesting turning point. I genuinely like name name a triple a shooter that you've been excited about Halo Infinite.

468
00:38:48,420 --> 00:38:52,780
That was good. I still like it.

469
00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:59,500
I was I was playing the other day. How high would you rate it?

470
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:03,860
Name the last triple a game that you don't have to do that or B plus when someone asks

471
00:39:03,860 --> 00:39:08,540
you how would you rate it? OK, hold on.

472
00:39:08,540 --> 00:39:11,540
Let me think. A shooter.

473
00:39:11,540 --> 00:39:20,380
Yeah. Oh, God. See, OK, I was actually I was actually pretty excited for Overwatch back when that was launching

474
00:39:20,380 --> 00:39:27,140
because it looked like Team Fortress 2, but like more Blizzard, which it's pretty much

475
00:39:27,140 --> 00:39:30,140
what it was. Yeah.

476
00:39:30,140 --> 00:39:33,140
And I never. Nine years. Yeah.

477
00:39:33,140 --> 00:39:36,140
Ah. Buh. OK.

478
00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:39,140
Hold on. Oh, God. Nine years.

479
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:42,140
OK. Well, chat. Help me out here.

480
00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:45,140
Chat. Chat. Help me out.

481
00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:48,140
In my determination. OK. It's been basically nine years.

482
00:39:48,140 --> 00:39:54,740
OK. It's not triple a. It's just for back for blood, but then you also had the caveat that it was supposed to

483
00:39:54,740 --> 00:39:58,620
have been good. I never actually played that one because I heard it wasn't very good.

484
00:39:58,620 --> 00:40:03,140
Everyone just played Left 4 Dead again, which was cool for a little bit.

485
00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:06,140
Buh. Buh. Uh.

486
00:40:06,140 --> 00:40:09,140
Oh, my God. Yeah.

487
00:40:09,140 --> 00:40:12,140
Uh, wow. OK.

488
00:40:12,140 --> 00:40:16,780
Is Splitgate 2 actually triple a?

489
00:40:16,780 --> 00:40:20,860
I don't think so. I think that's like double a.

490
00:40:20,860 --> 00:40:26,500
I think that's double a. I'm talking big names, household name.

491
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:29,500
Charge nuclear. Charge nuclear. I says Unreal Tournament.

492
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:32,500
OK. All right. Oh, OK.

493
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:37,780
OK. With that said, with that said, we should get some UT going at a whale and that would

494
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:43,740
be freaking awesome. So yeah, I basically, it's been a hot minute and in my opinion, it's because studios have

495
00:40:43,740 --> 00:40:52,740
been focusing on the wrong things, all that kind of stuff. And the Battlefield 6 beta, to me, felt like maybe half a step in the right direction.

496
00:40:52,740 --> 00:40:57,060
OK. Like there was a lot of things that felt good about it, but like the lack of servers or browsers,

497
00:40:57,060 --> 00:41:03,180
the small maps, all these different things. They didn't really, it didn't feel fully correct.

498
00:41:03,180 --> 00:41:08,740
It's the first multiplayer shooter that I had some amount of fun playing by myself, which

499
00:41:08,740 --> 00:41:12,620
was a really good sign. Like without grabbing a crew. Yeah.

500
00:41:12,740 --> 00:41:17,740
I have a buddy that works on that team and I messaged him that being like, that was a

501
00:41:17,740 --> 00:41:23,780
really interesting sign. I found myself playing it so low and was like, whoa, because I don't know the last time I've

502
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:27,260
done that to a shooter. You haven't even like gamed that much. Not really.

503
00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:30,320
By comparison to like before, the before four times.

504
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:35,900
So it was like, it was in no small parts because games were kind of sucked.

505
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:42,500
So it's interesting. I wish I could find his messages because I want to see the other complaints that I had.

506
00:41:42,860 --> 00:41:50,100
But really like above all was the map size and the, and the, um, and the no persistent

507
00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:53,100
maps. All right. Well, I'm hopeful.

508
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:58,660
Oh yeah. So they did this thing where, and this will hopefully not happen on the persistent servers,

509
00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:03,980
but they had a thing where, uh, it would auto fill servers with bots.

510
00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:08,460
And I actually hated that because back in the day, it was kind of fun when like every

511
00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:14,940
single player that was on the server had a tank because there was only eight of us and

512
00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:18,780
there was, or maybe it was like two helicopters, three tanks, and it was like the war of that

513
00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:24,940
basically. That was fun and interesting. Like I didn't, battlefield is all about the emergent gameplay, in my opinion.

514
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:28,380
The only in battlefield was their old tagline because they'd show like the weird stuff you

515
00:42:28,380 --> 00:42:37,220
could do in battlefield. That doesn't flourish when you're just stuffing it full of bots, um, yeah, no server browser,

516
00:42:37,220 --> 00:42:42,020
map sizes suck combat generally feels pretty good, uh, little light and fast, but it's

517
00:42:42,020 --> 00:42:46,060
not cod cancer. So I'll take it. And it sounds like they might have even slowed it down.

518
00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:54,500
The medic feels really cool. The medic feels overpowered, which I think is good right because when you see a medic,

519
00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:59,180
you should be like, Oh my God, let's war crime him basically because otherwise we're boned

520
00:42:59,180 --> 00:43:06,220
basically to be honest.

521
00:43:06,220 --> 00:43:09,780
Because like the, so the medic now gets paddles. Okay.

522
00:43:09,780 --> 00:43:13,140
And you can just, and somebody's up nice, which is crazy.

523
00:43:13,140 --> 00:43:17,460
And you can like, you're up, you're up, you're up, you're up, you're up. So you can like lift a whole team.

524
00:43:17,460 --> 00:43:21,180
What about Asia though? Oh my God.

525
00:43:21,180 --> 00:43:34,620
You can get a whole team up really, really fast. Never a land war in Asia, which is interesting because like you were saying, if you don't

526
00:43:34,620 --> 00:43:40,220
take the medic down, it's, it's like really hard to actually beat a team back.

527
00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,460
I think there's a certain amount of times that you can go down where you can't get brought

528
00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:48,600
back up anymore. And I know that if you get headshot by a sniper, I also thought this was a cool mechanic.

529
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,300
You are fatally wounded. You can't come back. Oh, okay.

530
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,900
That's cool. Which adds some interesting. What if you headshot by not a sniper?

531
00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:59,580
Then you can still be brought back up. Interesting. Okay.

532
00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:04,180
Which is, so it's interesting how they have like kind of hero mechanics in the classes, but not so much.

533
00:44:04,220 --> 00:44:07,820
Players will have a role on the team other than just being fucking assholes who don't

534
00:44:07,820 --> 00:44:11,060
actually help with anything. Yeah. Except they'll usually just counter snipe each other permanently.

535
00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:14,540
So they'll still feel that. Right. Yeah.

536
00:44:14,540 --> 00:44:17,540
Yeah. Okay. But some of them will understand.

537
00:44:17,540 --> 00:44:20,860
Great. Like there was some, there was a challenge where you had to get a certain amount of spots as a sniper.

538
00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:24,940
So I was playing sniper for a bit, but I played like relatively close range.

539
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:29,140
And I would really go for those like close combat headshots and then you'd see medics

540
00:44:29,140 --> 00:44:33,700
run up to them and be like, and it doesn't do anything. And then you'd shoot them because you're a Canadian.

541
00:44:33,740 --> 00:44:40,140
Yes. Got it. And you think that's funny.

542
00:44:40,140 --> 00:44:43,140
Yes. Because you're a Canadian.

543
00:44:43,140 --> 00:44:44,140
Kansas food.

544
00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:51,140
Has it been long enough? Can we joke about that?

545
00:44:51,140 --> 00:44:54,140
Is that too soon? There's no way it's too soon.

546
00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:58,140
No, we're fine. It's been like 80 years.

547
00:44:58,140 --> 00:45:01,140
Oh my God. Yeah.

548
00:45:01,140 --> 00:45:04,140
Yeah. Nobody read up on Canadian history. We're nice.

549
00:45:04,140 --> 00:45:09,140
I'm sorry. We said we're sorry. What do you, what do you want?

550
00:45:09,140 --> 00:45:12,140
They were expired, I guess. Okay.

551
00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:15,620
They were expired.

552
00:45:15,620 --> 00:45:19,020
There was no war crimes in the Boston Sea. Someone expired.

553
00:45:19,020 --> 00:45:22,500
Oh boy. Into pieces. Do you want a different kind of canned meat?

554
00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:27,020
But yeah, anyway, it's tiny. He's still got 22 minutes. Yeah, I know, but it doesn't, you got to, when we're done the topic, you got to.

555
00:45:27,020 --> 00:45:30,700
I don't have, do you want to just move on? He's still got 22 minutes for topic two.

556
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:35,580
Yeah. I don't have the third one. I don't, but you just put whatever the next thing is.

557
00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:38,580
Do you want to do the next thing? We'll do the next thing. Yeah, we'll do the next thing.

558
00:45:38,580 --> 00:45:42,060
We don't want to drag out topics. Ah, yes.

559
00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:45,620
Okay. CW announced, explain into merch messages.

560
00:45:45,620 --> 00:45:49,100
The way to interact with this show is merch messages.

561
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:55,820
We don't do super chats or Twitch bits. We do merch messages because we believe that when you throw money at your screen, you should

562
00:45:55,820 --> 00:46:00,740
get some quality merchandise in return.

563
00:46:00,740 --> 00:46:04,700
And boy, do we ever have some great stuff for you guys this week.

564
00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:11,620
If you head over to lttstore.com, all you got to do is, what the super soft hoodie is

565
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back? Let's go back in stock, baby.

566
00:46:16,740 --> 00:46:25,420
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567
00:46:25,420 --> 00:46:31,340
This is an extremely well reviewed product that people flip and love best hoodie I've

568
00:46:31,340 --> 00:46:36,180
ever had. And Brandon L from Tucson would not lie to you.

569
00:46:36,180 --> 00:46:40,820
All you got to do is add it to your cart and you'll be prompted to send a merch message.

570
00:46:40,820 --> 00:46:43,820
Tucson? Tucson? I don't know, whatever.

571
00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:51,980
It's America. I assume they're just pronouncing it all yeehaw and I'm going to say it wrong anyway.

572
00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:56,020
The point is that you'll be prompted in the cart to leave a merch message and it will go

573
00:46:56,020 --> 00:47:03,100
to producer Dan who will, I don't know, reply to it or put it down there or he'll curate

574
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:10,180
it for me and Luke to respond to.

575
00:47:10,180 --> 00:47:13,180
What? Just say it. Tucson.

576
00:47:13,180 --> 00:47:19,420
Arizona? Yeah, he's talking about Tucson, Arizona.

577
00:47:19,420 --> 00:47:26,060
Or alternatively he's talking about the canned foods again.

578
00:47:26,060 --> 00:47:33,060
Why are you so mean? Anyway, you can also check out our back to school collection which has everything you

579
00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:37,860
need for back to school whether you are going back to school, have gone back to school or

580
00:47:37,860 --> 00:47:45,420
you don't have any school at all. We've got our commuter backpack, our washed crew next sweatshirt, our scribe driver mechanical

581
00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:49,380
pencil. We have pencils and pens now in the scribe driver lineup.

582
00:47:49,380 --> 00:47:54,420
I don't know why we think you need a fidget spinner for back to school but hey, there

583
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:57,420
we go. I understand. We've got that.

584
00:47:57,420 --> 00:48:01,460
We also brought back, that's right my friends, the RGB t-shirt.

585
00:48:01,460 --> 00:48:08,340
The one that has the little flex, the little splash of color and is super, super soft and

586
00:48:08,340 --> 00:48:15,140
comfortable. This is also one of our very, very well reviewed items so we've got that available in all sizes.

587
00:48:15,140 --> 00:48:18,260
You can add that to your cart. What else is in the back to school collection?

588
00:48:18,260 --> 00:48:21,260
Oh, we've got our notebooks. Yep, that's a notebook.

589
00:48:21,260 --> 00:48:26,220
All right, it's a book where you can make notes and look at this.

590
00:48:26,220 --> 00:48:33,020
How cute is that? It has a little tablet on it. It looks like a little high-tech notebook but it's not actually tech.

591
00:48:33,020 --> 00:48:36,220
There's no tech in it. Also, water bottles and desk pads and stuff.

592
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:40,260
Anyway, Dan, you want to show them how Merch Message works by reading one for us?

593
00:48:40,260 --> 00:48:44,100
Sure, I can do that. That's what I've done before. I've got a few here.

594
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:50,820
This one here from Blake. Do you want to even do it again someday? Yeah, I mean, if this doesn't go very well, we'll see.

595
00:48:50,820 --> 00:48:55,180
Linus, you've said ADHD helps you move on fast.

596
00:48:55,180 --> 00:48:58,340
I jump from hobby to hobby and struggle to stick with things.

597
00:48:58,340 --> 00:49:02,540
Any advice on staying on track or turning that into a strength?

598
00:49:02,540 --> 00:49:12,780
Oh boy. Yeah, so I think the context that you're bringing up is when I said that it kind of helps me

599
00:49:12,780 --> 00:49:17,660
get bored of something before the audience has a chance to get bored of it, which in

600
00:49:17,660 --> 00:49:23,060
show business is kind of known as always leave them wanting more.

601
00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:30,620
It's pretty good in my career, but to your point, it also can prevent you sometimes from

602
00:49:30,620 --> 00:49:36,380
getting really into something with a level of depth that can turn you into a subject

603
00:49:36,380 --> 00:49:44,540
matter expert. Fortunately for me, I operate really well and I am able to perform well in my occupation

604
00:49:44,540 --> 00:49:52,900
as a generalist, kind of with a surface level knowledge of just about everything to do with

605
00:49:52,900 --> 00:50:00,140
tech and enough to ask the right questions to drill down the right amount to cover most

606
00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:12,580
topics even if they aren't things that I have done an entire postgraduate degree on.

607
00:50:12,580 --> 00:50:18,340
As for how you turn that into a superpower, honestly, it's like anything.

608
00:50:18,340 --> 00:50:26,100
If you have a horse that has the superpower of being able to sprint for exactly 12 seconds

609
00:50:26,180 --> 00:50:30,540
but then it needs to nap for two days, it's like, well, that superpower is literally only

610
00:50:30,540 --> 00:50:37,740
useful if it needs to run a 12 second race. So part of it might just be putting yourself in a position where you're running the right

611
00:50:37,740 --> 00:50:44,540
kinds of races that your powers are beneficial for because one of the things that I've discovered

612
00:50:44,540 --> 00:50:51,660
is that you can't really or I struggle to force myself to be interested in something.

613
00:50:51,660 --> 00:50:58,180
I can do it for a period. I can kind of make myself learn something that I don't care about.

614
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:01,940
But what I've found is my retention of it is extremely poor.

615
00:51:01,940 --> 00:51:04,420
So good luck.

616
00:51:15,420 --> 00:51:18,460
Yeah, I'm going to call her in.

617
00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:29,820
Oh, that's a good question.

618
00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:33,060
I bet he hasn't looked at it in over a year. It's been a while.

619
00:51:33,060 --> 00:51:36,140
I was going to say like over two years, probably.

620
00:51:36,140 --> 00:51:42,100
It's been quite a while. We more look at like, oh, dude, Danny, we're muted darn it.

621
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:46,860
They wanted to know how many gigabits does Floatplane push just kind of rough is fine

622
00:51:46,860 --> 00:51:50,380
and he's pulling out his phone. Yeah, give me a sec. He's going to go check it.

623
00:51:50,380 --> 00:52:01,340
Okay. Should we move on in the meantime while he looks this up? So one of the things is that I'm not going to be able to like effectively fully answer

624
00:52:01,340 --> 00:52:05,860
your question because it's like if you're talking about, yeah, if you're talking about

625
00:52:05,860 --> 00:52:12,140
peak, I won't have that metric in front of me right now, but peak is not as anywhere

626
00:52:12,140 --> 00:52:16,940
near as important to us as like monthly overall throughput and the reason for that is-

627
00:52:16,940 --> 00:52:21,860
And you may not like it, but that's what it looks like.

628
00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:25,220
You may not like it, but this is what monthly overall throughput looks like.

629
00:52:25,220 --> 00:52:35,020
Sorry. And one of the reasons for that is because we for VOD are using Cloudflare for delivery.

630
00:52:35,020 --> 00:52:40,420
So we will send up from our servers and I think this is probably what you expected.

631
00:52:40,420 --> 00:52:46,580
We will like if someone clicks on a video, sometimes it will come from our server up

632
00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:53,220
to Cloudflare and then to the user. A lot of the times it's already there and Cloudflare just sends it to the user.

633
00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:58,540
The most common situation where it's not already there is if you're the first view on a video

634
00:52:58,540 --> 00:53:06,700
because it hasn't cached it yet. So you're the person who instigated the move to transfer the video, not transfer, to copy

635
00:53:06,700 --> 00:53:13,060
effectively the video from our origin server up to, let's not at that point, somebody cached

636
00:53:13,060 --> 00:53:16,060
at this point. Oh, but it will. Yeah, yeah.

637
00:53:16,060 --> 00:53:21,180
You're instigating the caching of it. And then it goes from Cloudflare's servers to Cloudflare's edge servers, then it goes

638
00:53:21,180 --> 00:53:29,980
from Cloudflare's edge servers to you. A long time ago, we did this ourselves in a lot of locations, mostly North America and

639
00:53:29,980 --> 00:53:34,420
these days. Also Antarctica. Yeah, that was fun.

640
00:53:34,420 --> 00:53:40,020
And these days we're almost entirely doing it through Cloudflare unless you're doing

641
00:53:40,020 --> 00:53:44,740
a download and then that's coming from somebody else and then unless you're watching a live

642
00:53:44,740 --> 00:53:47,820
stream and that's coming from somebody else, unless you're doing X, Y, Z.

643
00:53:47,820 --> 00:53:52,380
So basically, I just hear a lot of excuses. I have an idea though.

644
00:53:52,380 --> 00:53:57,100
If we want to know the peak throughput, could you just look at it really quick?

645
00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:05,260
Not really. Like, it wouldn't be, oh my.

646
00:54:05,260 --> 00:54:08,260
Just real quick. Just, you know. My God.

647
00:54:08,260 --> 00:54:13,260
One of these days you're going to get hit.

648
00:54:13,260 --> 00:54:17,180
Oh my goodness.

649
00:54:17,180 --> 00:54:22,700
I'm trying to find, I don't remember where it is once again.

650
00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:25,700
Shall we do another one? Yeah, do another one. I'll keep looking.

651
00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:28,700
Yeah. Dig it up. Hi gang.

652
00:54:28,700 --> 00:54:36,060
Question for Linus. Investing or starting your own business? What moves you to either and what world would you start your own quote unquote framework

653
00:54:36,100 --> 00:54:39,580
or invest in a badminton center? Oh, wow.

654
00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:45,660
That's a, that's a, that's, that feels like a pretty deep question.

655
00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:52,980
Okay. So why don't we start with what made me make the various decisions that I made?

656
00:54:52,980 --> 00:54:57,900
Why, why invest in framework?

657
00:54:57,900 --> 00:55:01,140
So that was a pretty impulsive decision.

658
00:55:01,140 --> 00:55:10,620
I hadn't met anyone on their team. All I knew about them was the laptop that I was holding and their kind of vision for

659
00:55:10,620 --> 00:55:18,820
it, which I very much was in favor of creating a product like that from scratch felt completely

660
00:55:18,820 --> 00:55:22,220
outside of my area of expertise.

661
00:55:22,220 --> 00:55:28,020
And I don't mean in terms of like product definition. I think I probably could have done that pretty well.

662
00:55:28,020 --> 00:55:36,220
But what I didn't have was the contacts and the experience navigating the electronic supply

663
00:55:36,220 --> 00:55:41,340
chain to bring that all together and produce volume of it.

664
00:55:41,340 --> 00:55:47,780
I mean, that, that was the hard part. Prototyping the first framework 13, you know, I don't want to put words in their mouth,

665
00:55:47,780 --> 00:55:54,300
but I think they would probably say it was pretty easy, relatively speaking, but going

666
00:55:54,300 --> 00:56:02,980
from prototyping to building a relationship with suppliers like Intel with manufacturers,

667
00:56:02,980 --> 00:56:08,660
getting time on the assembly line allocated to you, there's a lot of more than just the

668
00:56:08,660 --> 00:56:17,380
costs. There's a lot of politics to play because every, every hour of every assembly line that

669
00:56:17,380 --> 00:56:22,300
they give to you is something that they could have given to some other product that might

670
00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:28,140
make them more money or might carry them political favor or might have some other, they might

671
00:56:28,140 --> 00:56:31,580
be able to use for their own products so they could make more profit.

672
00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:39,340
There's a lot at play when it comes to taking something from an idea to mass production,

673
00:56:39,340 --> 00:56:44,540
which is one of the big reasons that so many kick starters and so many startups in general

674
00:56:44,540 --> 00:56:52,980
fail. So why would I invest in framework? Because I wanted to be part of that journey, but I knew that I had absolutely no capacity

675
00:56:52,980 --> 00:56:56,900
whatsoever for making it a reality on my own.

676
00:56:56,900 --> 00:57:04,700
And it's not like I never thought of the idea of starting a PC manufacturer before the modern

677
00:57:04,700 --> 00:57:13,860
handheld PC era got, you know, sort of, I would say, not kicked off by the Steam Deck,

678
00:57:13,860 --> 00:57:22,620
but accelerated by the Steam Deck. It had occurred to me that I kind of thought a lot of the options that existed were okay,

679
00:57:22,620 --> 00:57:26,420
but there's things that I would have done differently and I did look at a company like

680
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:30,660
I and Neo before they were acquired because that tends to happen when you're just a tiny

681
00:57:30,660 --> 00:57:34,900
inexperienced team and you bring a product to market, you know, I looked at something

682
00:57:34,900 --> 00:57:43,220
like that and I went, wow, that's like a really small team. Like, could we just hire a small hardware engineering and supply chain team and like

683
00:57:43,220 --> 00:57:46,340
make the LTT handheld?

684
00:57:46,340 --> 00:57:50,900
And then Valve launched the Steam Deck for like $350, $400 and I was like, okay, well,

685
00:57:50,900 --> 00:57:54,300
I'm glad I never had anything to do with any of that because then I would have just been

686
00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:57,700
out all of my investment and that would have been horrible.

687
00:57:57,700 --> 00:58:01,660
Yeah. Where was I going with this?

688
00:58:01,660 --> 00:58:08,580
Right. So it's not like it never occurred to me. I just, I looked at it and went, yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing with any of this.

689
00:58:08,580 --> 00:58:12,580
So I think it'd be better if I just butt out. And so I did.

690
00:58:12,620 --> 00:58:20,780
As for the badminton center, oh yeah, right. The last thing with framework is on the one hand, I was looking at it going, there's no

691
00:58:20,780 --> 00:58:24,780
way these guys have a shot. I'm throwing this money away.

692
00:58:24,780 --> 00:58:30,300
But on the other hand, they're like developing, we're going to be a laptop manufacturer.

693
00:58:30,300 --> 00:58:41,380
So if, if the slimmest of chances, victory, if somehow they managed to achieve some kind

694
00:58:41,380 --> 00:58:46,740
of scale, then I mean, theoretically the sky's the limit in terms of what the total addressable

695
00:58:46,740 --> 00:58:52,460
market is for their product. So it could be a good investment.

696
00:58:52,460 --> 00:58:59,100
It's like any early stage, like very early round or angel level investment where you

697
00:58:59,100 --> 00:59:02,660
just are kind of, you're throwing your money at something because you believe it has a

698
00:59:02,660 --> 00:59:08,260
shot or because you really appreciate the vision or in the case of me, because you believe

699
00:59:08,260 --> 00:59:12,940
you can bring something to it that will give it a better shot at success.

700
00:59:12,940 --> 00:59:15,940
And you throw that money in there and you go, goodbye money.

701
00:59:15,940 --> 00:59:24,300
And then maybe someday it comes back. But if it does come back, it should come back 10X or 100X rather than, you know, at a more

702
00:59:24,300 --> 00:59:28,740
predictable rate of return, like a few percentage points each year.

703
00:59:28,740 --> 00:59:35,220
Like you might get with sort of a more low risk investment strategy.

704
00:59:35,220 --> 00:59:41,660
Okay, badminton center. Why would I start my own instead of investing in a badminton center?

705
00:59:41,660 --> 00:59:55,580
Because before the show, a viewer sent in this, it's a, it's a, it's a birdarang.

706
01:00:01,780 --> 01:00:06,340
Okay. This is a, well, no, because of the incident.

707
01:00:06,340 --> 01:00:13,020
The incident. And it's technically a hard metal, you know, that sort of thing.

708
01:00:13,020 --> 01:00:18,420
Good job, Dell, our laptop partner for making that delightful noise with your metal chat.

709
01:00:18,420 --> 01:00:22,020
Oh, God, did I dent it? No, it's okay. That'll buff out.

710
01:00:22,020 --> 01:00:29,460
The point is, the point is, they sent me this, don't worry too much about that.

711
01:00:29,460 --> 01:00:35,660
Now I'm going to look for a word to describe investing in a badminton center because I'm

712
01:00:35,660 --> 01:00:42,580
looking for a word to describe investing in a badminton center.

713
01:00:42,580 --> 01:00:46,260
It would not be a very good idea.

714
01:00:46,260 --> 01:00:55,580
Badminton centers are quite possibly on this earth, one of the worst ways to make money.

715
01:00:55,580 --> 01:00:59,100
You need an enormous building. The court time is very inexpensive.

716
01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:04,140
You need a ton of parking.

717
01:01:04,140 --> 01:01:09,060
You can only have a fixed number of customers at a time that is dictated by how much room

718
01:01:09,060 --> 01:01:12,540
you have on the court. It's a very small amount of customers per square foot.

719
01:01:12,540 --> 01:01:18,220
Your busy hours of operation are irresponsible.

720
01:01:18,220 --> 01:01:23,420
That's the word I was looking for, bean 710 nailed it.

721
01:01:23,420 --> 01:01:28,060
That was the R-themed word that I was looking for. Responsible but with an I in front of it.

722
01:01:28,060 --> 01:01:33,380
Yeah, like Apple. Yeah. Like, you know, they were putting I on everything for a bit there.

723
01:01:34,260 --> 01:01:37,260
I responsible. I responsible. Right.

724
01:01:37,260 --> 01:01:44,500
Yeah. So, for sure. To be clear, to be clear, you know, before any, you know, LMGers are watching this going,

725
01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:52,180
well, like, what the heck, why are we funding a money losing badminton club or whatever?

726
01:01:52,180 --> 01:02:01,260
Relax, there is actually a path to profitability, but that path to profitability is not going

727
01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:05,300
to, like, it's not going to be sucking at the T of LMG forever.

728
01:02:05,300 --> 01:02:11,780
And in fact, already it's like kind of capital positive, but it's a little more complicated

729
01:02:11,780 --> 01:02:17,180
than that. But already, it is not a drain on any of our other resources.

730
01:02:17,180 --> 01:02:20,580
But usually when you invest in something, you want it to go, whew. Well, yeah.

731
01:02:20,580 --> 01:02:24,020
So, not being a drain is not usually like an investment indicator.

732
01:02:24,020 --> 01:02:32,420
Correct. Yeah. When you invest in something, you generally expect a competitive return on that investment

733
01:02:32,420 --> 01:02:38,780
compared to, I don't know, buying NVIDIA shares, not financial advice.

734
01:02:38,780 --> 01:02:44,100
So, yeah. Why did I choose to start a badminton club?

735
01:02:44,100 --> 01:02:48,700
Because I wanted a degree of control over that business that I felt I could with at

736
01:02:48,700 --> 01:02:55,980
least my contacts bring some expertise to.

737
01:02:55,980 --> 01:02:59,860
And it wasn't about pure return.

738
01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:02,940
Yeah. It was a life stream?

739
01:03:02,940 --> 01:03:10,540
Kind of answer the question. Oh, I always, yeah. I wanted my own club partially just because I wanted something closer.

740
01:03:10,540 --> 01:03:13,540
And it's pretty awesome. Yeah. And...

741
01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:18,700
Everything else is basically... I'm assuming there's one at least a little bit closer, Coquitlam, Burnaby, something?

742
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:23,540
There's a couple in Poco. Yeah, but that's pretty far. And it's over the bridge, which means that traffic is variable.

743
01:03:23,540 --> 01:03:26,380
The bridge is quite the barrier. Yeah.

744
01:03:29,380 --> 01:03:33,540
With that said, with that said, Smash Champs is over the bridge for a lot of people and

745
01:03:33,540 --> 01:03:43,940
it's not that bad. A lot of our clientele is from like Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford, Maple Ridge Pit Meadows.

746
01:03:43,940 --> 01:03:47,180
People do come up from Delta, Delta as well.

747
01:03:47,180 --> 01:03:50,340
Most people aren't driving in from like Richmond, Vancouver.

748
01:03:50,340 --> 01:03:53,580
Burnaby though, actually, is pretty good for us as well. Yeah.

749
01:03:53,580 --> 01:03:57,060
I feel like if you're in Burnaby, bridges are part of life.

750
01:03:57,060 --> 01:04:00,260
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's bridges to anywhere.

751
01:04:00,260 --> 01:04:04,340
Yeah. Hold on. I got our question here.

752
01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:08,100
Big Sneak asks, Linus, would you be interested in renting the LAN party space to someone

753
01:04:08,100 --> 01:04:11,180
else hosting a LAN party?

754
01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:19,920
Probably not. One of the things I keep telling the Smash Champs team is in the absence of like a formal

755
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,460
mission statement. Actually, I think we do have a mission statement. Anyway.

756
01:04:23,460 --> 01:04:29,340
The point is, I keep telling them, our guiding star should be asking ourselves, is this good

757
01:04:29,340 --> 01:04:37,940
for our premium members? Because the premium members, the ones that are committing to playing here and probably

758
01:04:37,940 --> 01:04:44,340
only here when you're paying that much and being part of our community, those are the

759
01:04:44,340 --> 01:04:51,220
ones that we should be making the same commitment back to and so we should always be asking ourselves

760
01:04:51,340 --> 01:04:54,540
when we do something, how does this benefit our premium members?

761
01:04:54,540 --> 01:04:59,900
This is off general topic for a WAN Show, but it's a continuation of this topic, so I'm

762
01:04:59,900 --> 01:05:03,620
going to send it. How is the food and drink situation coming?

763
01:05:03,620 --> 01:05:06,620
That's not. Ever or? Oh yeah, it will.

764
01:05:06,620 --> 01:05:13,060
Okay. Yeah. Because like to me, it feels like a pretty complete package except you can't get snacks

765
01:05:13,060 --> 01:05:19,980
even because if you could get like a healthy smoothie, like that pairs with go play badminton,

766
01:05:19,980 --> 01:05:23,900
go to the gym really effectively, especially if you had some protein options.

767
01:05:23,900 --> 01:05:30,620
Yeah, for sure. So what Luke's alluding to is when we built the kitchen, we couldn't find a good consultant

768
01:05:30,620 --> 01:05:35,940
slash, we were busy with a bazillion other things getting that place built out and we

769
01:05:35,940 --> 01:05:39,220
built our concession area with only one sink.

770
01:05:39,220 --> 01:05:43,740
And according to some bylaw that someone wrote somewhere, in order to do any kind of

771
01:05:43,740 --> 01:05:49,420
food anything, even as simple as heat up a hot pocket and hand it to someone, we need

772
01:05:49,420 --> 01:05:56,300
certification for the people that are working there. We need two sinks, one dedicated to washing up and one for everything else, I assume.

773
01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:59,300
I don't know. I haven't done the course. Yeah.

774
01:05:59,300 --> 01:06:03,620
And there's a bunch of other stuff we need. We need more venting. There's a whole bunch of stuff.

775
01:06:03,620 --> 01:06:10,700
That's going to require us to go back to permit. And so now that we have a grand opening tournament done, one of the tasks that our general manager

776
01:06:10,700 --> 01:06:17,580
has on his plate is to put together all the things that we want to do and do one permit

777
01:06:17,580 --> 01:06:26,660
application because one of the biggest obstacles to getting anything done, anything done for

778
01:06:26,660 --> 01:06:33,220
a business is waiting a thousand years for drawings to be done up and permits to be submitted

779
01:06:33,220 --> 01:06:37,420
and somebody to review them and revisions to come back and then you pay a whole whack

780
01:06:37,420 --> 01:06:42,220
load of money to consultants and whatever.

781
01:06:42,220 --> 01:06:47,420
And then finally, you're allowed to actually start building the bloody thing.

782
01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:53,580
And so being able to wrap all of that up into one permit application is going to be good.

783
01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:56,900
And we know it's possible because there's examples of it, like Gold's Gym in Langley

784
01:06:56,900 --> 01:07:04,820
has a like a smoothie and wrap little mini restaurant thing attached to it.

785
01:07:04,820 --> 01:07:11,220
It's doable. Like you guys might even get some interesting, I don't know how far you want to go with it,

786
01:07:11,220 --> 01:07:14,860
but you might get some money off of Uber Eats and stuff.

787
01:07:14,860 --> 01:07:16,860
Off of Uber. I doubt it.

788
01:07:17,860 --> 01:07:23,300
There's not much residential around there. So there'd be no reason to order from us versus something closer.

789
01:07:23,300 --> 01:07:26,740
Anyway, one of the other things we're going to do is we're going to add more showers

790
01:07:26,740 --> 01:07:31,700
at the back of Unit 102 and those will probably be premium member only.

791
01:07:31,700 --> 01:07:39,180
Is there like a wait for showers right now? Right now, there's only one shower per sex change room.

792
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:45,420
So yeah, it's a bit of a challenge. Yeah, sure.

793
01:07:45,420 --> 01:07:48,780
Food truck would solve the issue. Yeah, one of the problems that people are spamming, invite food trucks.

794
01:07:48,780 --> 01:07:55,220
The problem is it's not invite food trucks. Yeah, it's pay for a food truck to be there because you have to pay a minimum regardless

795
01:07:55,220 --> 01:08:01,780
of how much they sell. Like food trucks, they don't just like, you can't just be like, oh, hey, bro, can you

796
01:08:01,780 --> 01:08:05,340
just like come chill with your food truck here? Yeah.

797
01:08:05,340 --> 01:08:12,140
Like, you know, all of their, all their stuff runs off of, you know, like gas or diesel and

798
01:08:12,140 --> 01:08:17,260
stuff. So they, like there's a significant cost to them sitting there running.

799
01:08:17,260 --> 01:08:22,060
Like, I get it and they're not, you know, they're not jerks or whatever for not showing

800
01:08:22,060 --> 01:08:25,900
up at our badminton club. They just have better things to do.

801
01:08:25,900 --> 01:08:31,900
And people are asking, could it be self-serve? Yeah, yeah. There's a microwave in the premium lounge upstairs so people can use that.

802
01:08:31,900 --> 01:08:36,740
I'm not saying. There's a fridge. Yeah, I'm not saying nobody can get a snack ever as it is right now, which is part of

803
01:08:36,740 --> 01:08:42,660
why it's not super urgent. Yeah, it's like totally fine because you could bring your shake or whatever you wanted and

804
01:08:42,660 --> 01:08:47,380
throw it in the fridge or whatever if you're a premium member, but it's still, it's nice.

805
01:08:47,380 --> 01:08:51,060
Oh yeah, 100%.

806
01:08:51,060 --> 01:08:56,700
Screw a tech yacht, says, clapped K2 for a cord.

807
01:08:56,700 --> 01:09:07,340
Tech food truck, food tech. I feel like that will eventually be a thing, but it'll just be robots making food.

808
01:09:08,340 --> 01:09:15,580
Oh my God, is that like a future version of food delivery?

809
01:09:15,580 --> 01:09:19,180
I think we can move on. Where it's like ultra fresh. Sure.

810
01:09:19,180 --> 01:09:23,260
Because they just made it outside of your door.

811
01:09:23,260 --> 01:09:28,380
Like the food delivery vehicle is just the restaurant.

812
01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:32,060
Thank you, Luke. And it's robo driven and robo made food.

813
01:09:32,060 --> 01:09:36,620
Patent vending. Thank you, Luke. And then a little robo dog thing walks it to your door.

814
01:09:37,300 --> 01:09:40,460
And then walks back and stashes inside the truck. Thank you, Luke.

815
01:09:40,460 --> 01:09:43,460
And then it just drives to the next location. I love this. And it cooks on the way.

816
01:09:43,460 --> 01:09:47,660
I love this. So it's piping hot when it gets to your door, instead of like, oh, it was driving over half

817
01:09:47,660 --> 01:09:52,900
an hour or whatever. Like pizza delivery, but it's a 900 degree oven that drives around.

818
01:09:52,900 --> 01:09:56,660
And then just. It's a stone oven. Yeah, it just gives it to you.

819
01:09:56,660 --> 01:10:00,180
Thank you, Luke. Come and collect your pizza. I'll be sick.

820
01:10:00,180 --> 01:10:04,340
In other news, I'll invest.

821
01:10:04,340 --> 01:10:07,340
We've read your comments. Scrapyard Wars waiting room.

822
01:10:07,340 --> 01:10:12,700
When is Scrapyard Wars part three? It is currently being QC'd by our team.

823
01:10:12,700 --> 01:10:20,020
We will have it ready sometime later today. And while you're waiting, Sammy's literally typing right now.

824
01:10:20,020 --> 01:10:23,020
Why not check out? Did it? Did it?

825
01:10:23,020 --> 01:10:26,020
Did it? Did it something? Okay.

826
01:10:26,020 --> 01:10:33,020
And he has decided to go and fix grammar somewhere instead of continuing to take the sentence.

827
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:45,940
Where in the world is Sammy you? Why not? The state of the Labs, state of the lab, language, language, Sammy, language, what is he doing?

828
01:10:45,940 --> 01:10:48,940
Why is he? I don't know what he's doing. We're going to stop looking at him.

829
01:10:48,940 --> 01:10:55,500
All right. Anyway, the point is that over on the float planes, we have got some great exclusive

830
01:10:55,500 --> 01:11:00,460
updates right now. Let me see if I get a warmer on wheels.

831
01:11:00,460 --> 01:11:03,460
Part three. Okay. Thank you for that.

832
01:11:04,460 --> 01:11:12,060
Let's go. Very, very recently, two days ago, Luke, Nick Harris and Lucas from the lab sat down and

833
01:11:12,060 --> 01:11:18,340
did a 40 minute discussion on what exactly the heck is going on with LTT Labs.

834
01:11:18,340 --> 01:11:24,180
So that's going to be an awesome watch for y'all. If you are kind of curious what's going on behind the scenes over here, we also have

835
01:11:24,180 --> 01:11:28,260
behind the scenes and extras from the Witch Tech Tuber can build the best thousand dollar

836
01:11:28,260 --> 01:11:34,340
gaming PC as well as from our recent upload on Channel Super Fun.

837
01:11:34,340 --> 01:11:39,100
It's been a minute of Linus versus the badminton pros.

838
01:11:39,100 --> 01:11:43,140
So you guys saw on Channel Super Fun, the keyboard warriors versus the badminton pros

839
01:11:43,140 --> 01:11:46,660
with their various handicaps.

840
01:11:46,660 --> 01:11:51,780
Well now we've got Linus versus badminton pros with their various handicaps.

841
01:11:51,780 --> 01:11:56,780
They didn't end up needing quite as many to play against me.

842
01:11:56,780 --> 01:12:00,340
Playing against the keyboard warriors, they did a fine job.

843
01:12:00,340 --> 01:12:05,780
But yeah, I'm a fair bit better at badminton than the keyboard warriors.

844
01:12:05,780 --> 01:12:10,780
Were you solo against both of them? Well, yeah, but like they, that's a thing.

845
01:12:10,780 --> 01:12:15,180
I would play with singles lines. Did that make it over? No, I think I hit it out.

846
01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:19,340
You can tell because she's serving now that means they won the point.

847
01:12:19,340 --> 01:12:23,940
And they were, you know, they were nice to me, you know, she could have smashed that

848
01:12:23,940 --> 01:12:29,500
a lot harder. She decided not to. Like they're, they're not, they're not trying to make me look bad here.

849
01:12:29,500 --> 01:12:33,500
Yeah, they don't need to. No, I know, I get it.

850
01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:36,500
No, he's doing good.

851
01:12:36,500 --> 01:12:40,300
So you see how tight her net return is compared to mine?

852
01:12:40,300 --> 01:12:43,940
Incredible. Yeah. Like that, that's the thing.

853
01:12:43,940 --> 01:12:47,940
Damn good at this. That's the thing. You played a little bit of badminton, haven't you?

854
01:12:47,940 --> 01:12:51,940
That's professional. I love how you start fluffing them up on the one that he screws up.

855
01:12:51,940 --> 01:12:53,940
Oh, you know I'm joking.

856
01:12:54,940 --> 01:12:57,940
Professional players, Luke.

857
01:12:57,940 --> 01:13:00,940
Yeah, Luke. How is this happening?

858
01:13:00,940 --> 01:13:04,940
Are you going to go to sponsors? I got to go turn on Mark's computer.

859
01:13:04,940 --> 01:13:09,940
Luke is apparently supposed to talk about how he envisions Labs, the massive rehaul,

860
01:13:09,940 --> 01:13:19,940
and a new egg collab type thing. If Luke wants to talk about more, he could just not do the call to action below.

861
01:13:19,940 --> 01:13:28,940
I don't know what Sammy's talking about. Tune in next week and we'll release the final episode of Scrap Yard Wars and extra announcement.

862
01:13:28,940 --> 01:13:34,940
On September 9th, 10 a.m., we're doing a live stream director's commentary on all the episodes featuring

863
01:13:34,940 --> 01:13:38,940
David, Dan, Sammy, Natalie, Adam, and Hoffman, the main editor for Scrap Yard Wars 10.

864
01:13:38,940 --> 01:13:42,940
If this kind of content sounds interesting, check out LMG.GG slash Floatplane.

865
01:13:42,940 --> 01:13:46,940
Oh, that isn't things to say. Those are things that are in the video.

866
01:13:46,940 --> 01:13:53,940
It's not a new egg collab type thing. It's that we're going to be having new egg pricing on the lab's website.

867
01:13:53,940 --> 01:13:57,940
Oh, that's sick. Yeah. Like we'll just have an API and we'll just have pricing?

868
01:13:57,940 --> 01:14:00,940
Yeah. We're trying to do that with a lot of other stores.

869
01:14:00,940 --> 01:14:03,940
New egg has been the easiest to work with so far.

870
01:14:03,940 --> 01:14:06,940
Wow. Yeah. That's extremely exciting.

871
01:14:06,940 --> 01:14:12,940
Yeah. So in the bring your own price tool, there will be an option to insert a current price

872
01:14:12,940 --> 01:14:16,940
from various stores right now. It's just new egg, but theoretically in the future it'll be various stores.

873
01:14:16,940 --> 01:14:20,940
And when you're looking at a product review, it will show the currently pulled

874
01:14:20,940 --> 01:14:23,940
price from new egg and in the future, other stores.

875
01:14:23,940 --> 01:14:27,940
That's flipping awesome. Oh, it's out of Amazon. Who else do you plan on working with?

876
01:14:27,940 --> 01:14:34,940
We've reached out to a variety of people. Most people have ghosted us, which is neat.

877
01:14:34,940 --> 01:14:39,940
In Canada, I reached out to Canada computers, didn't get a response.

878
01:14:39,940 --> 01:14:45,940
I reached out. So if anyone from Canada computers is, you know, chillin, love to hear from you.

879
01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:49,940
Email from my LMG email instead of my full plane one.

880
01:14:49,940 --> 01:14:54,940
Yeah. And still didn't fully work, but you know, I'm hitting like public email inboxes.

881
01:14:54,940 --> 01:14:57,940
Yeah. So you never know. It might just take a while.

882
01:14:57,940 --> 01:15:01,940
It's fine. I'm not, I'm not cheesed or anything.

883
01:15:01,940 --> 01:15:04,940
We also reached out to Memex memory express.

884
01:15:04,940 --> 01:15:10,940
Yep. They responded really quick. They need some time, but they seem like they want to work with us.

885
01:15:10,940 --> 01:15:14,940
We reached out to B&H.

886
01:15:14,940 --> 01:15:18,940
They responded, but the person who would need to do it is on vacation.

887
01:15:18,940 --> 01:15:24,940
So that's currently pending. Makes sense. We reached out to a few other smaller retailers in the state.

888
01:15:24,940 --> 01:15:27,940
Someone said fries. No, did not reach out to fries.

889
01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:30,940
Didn't they go under? I thought so. Yeah.

890
01:15:30,940 --> 01:15:35,940
I think fries electronics is gone, bro. Micro Center has no interest at all.

891
01:15:35,940 --> 01:15:38,940
They're mostly not even a little bit.

892
01:15:38,940 --> 01:15:41,940
They're mostly brick and mortar focused. They want us.

893
01:15:41,940 --> 01:15:43,940
Yeah. No.

894
01:15:44,940 --> 01:15:47,940
Sure. We'll take that as an answer. Fair enough.

895
01:15:47,940 --> 01:16:01,380
Sure. We will. If the AI bros are doing it, why can't we, but, but yeah, we're going to, we're going

896
01:16:01,380 --> 01:16:07,940
to work with the companies that want to work with us at the very least first, you know.

897
01:16:07,940 --> 01:16:10,940
All right.

898
01:16:10,940 --> 01:16:14,940
Why don't we jump into our next topic?

899
01:16:14,940 --> 01:16:18,940
Valve has changed the steam user review system.

900
01:16:18,940 --> 01:16:21,940
This was actually last week, but I wanted to talk about it anyway.

901
01:16:21,940 --> 01:16:25,940
So let's make our way through the, the main notes here.

902
01:16:25,940 --> 01:16:31,940
Valve says they are trying to give a better indication of user sentiment by making some

903
01:16:31,940 --> 01:16:37,940
changes to steam's user review system, citing the fact that users in different regions of

904
01:16:37,940 --> 01:16:43,940
the world may have vastly different experiences of the same game, perhaps due to translation

905
01:16:43,940 --> 01:16:47,940
issues, cultural differences or poor network infrastructure.

906
01:16:47,940 --> 01:16:55,940
So with that in mind, Valve will start adding language specific review scores for games

907
01:16:55,940 --> 01:16:58,940
that have a large enough number of players.

908
01:16:58,940 --> 01:17:04,940
Ben Sledge of PC games and suggests there could be another reason for this change.

909
01:17:04,940 --> 01:17:10,940
Review bombing. Sledge gave the example of the recent review bombing of Baldur's Gate 3 by predominantly

910
01:17:10,940 --> 01:17:16,940
Chinese players who were upset that Black Myth Wukong didn't win Game of the Year.

911
01:17:16,940 --> 01:17:22,940
He noted that this new scoring system would prevent a review bombing in one language from

912
01:17:22,940 --> 01:17:26,940
impacting the scores seen by players of another language.

913
01:17:26,940 --> 01:17:32,940
I think this is super cool. Jordan Block adds, you might remember that Baldur's Gate 3 didn't win Game of the Year

914
01:17:32,940 --> 01:17:35,940
either. That was AstroBot.

915
01:17:35,940 --> 01:17:41,940
But that's not on Steam, and since Larian's Swen Vink announced AstroBot as the winner,

916
01:17:41,940 --> 01:17:45,940
close enough, I guess, bombs away.

917
01:17:45,940 --> 01:17:51,940
That's Jordan's comment. I actually don't know how all of that went down, but anywho...

918
01:17:51,940 --> 01:17:54,940
What? Yeah, but...

919
01:17:54,940 --> 01:17:59,940
What are you looking at?

920
01:17:59,940 --> 01:18:03,940
Oh, it won some Game of the Year awards. It won, like, an incredible amount of awards.

921
01:18:03,940 --> 01:18:06,940
Which one is he referring to specifically? I don't know.

922
01:18:06,940 --> 01:18:09,940
That's why I'm confused. Okay.

923
01:18:09,940 --> 01:18:15,940
Well, anyway... Look, this is what I'm talking about.

924
01:18:15,940 --> 01:18:21,940
I don't know what he's talking about. It won, like, an incredible amount of Game of the Year awards.

925
01:18:21,940 --> 01:18:24,940
Which one won the Game Awards?

926
01:18:24,940 --> 01:18:36,940
What year was that? The most recent winner is AstroBot.

927
01:18:36,940 --> 01:18:39,940
No, 1 in 2024. Baldur's Gate... Okay, I see what happened.

928
01:18:39,940 --> 01:18:43,940
AstroBot won in 2024. Baldur's Gate 3 won in 2023.

929
01:18:43,940 --> 01:18:46,940
So, don't worry about it. Don't stress about it.

930
01:18:46,940 --> 01:18:51,940
Don't stress about it. The point is, I actually love this change.

931
01:18:51,940 --> 01:18:54,940
I think it's fantastic. This is great.

932
01:18:54,940 --> 01:19:03,940
Realistically... Yeah. Realistically, I don't need to know, you know, that a bunch of people from somewhere else

933
01:19:03,940 --> 01:19:08,940
with their own sort of cultural sensitivities or whatever else are mad about some game.

934
01:19:08,940 --> 01:19:12,940
I don't care. That probably doesn't impact me in any meaningful way.

935
01:19:12,940 --> 01:19:16,940
Totally agree. As a player who just wants to enjoy the game.

936
01:19:16,940 --> 01:19:21,940
This seems like, honestly, they are going to achieve their goal of giving a better indication

937
01:19:21,940 --> 01:19:24,940
of user sentiment to be completely honest.

938
01:19:24,940 --> 01:19:33,940
Because, yeah, everything that they're trying to do makes complete sense and is very cool.

939
01:19:33,940 --> 01:19:45,940
And if I'm German and there's a game with extremely good German language support, but

940
01:19:45,940 --> 01:19:50,940
not as good English or something else, it gets review bombed by a bunch of North Americans.

941
01:19:50,940 --> 01:19:53,940
Why would I care about that? That doesn't matter to me at all.

942
01:19:53,940 --> 01:19:56,940
It's like not my problem 100%. Yeah.

943
01:19:56,940 --> 01:20:02,940
Yeah. And I mean, it also means that I am very likely when I start digging into the reviews and

944
01:20:02,940 --> 01:20:05,940
reading them to find stuff that I can read.

945
01:20:05,940 --> 01:20:09,940
Yeah. Which seems pretty useful to me. Once again, base valve.

946
01:20:09,940 --> 01:20:12,940
Absolutely love it. Just thought that was cool to highlight. That sounds awesome.

947
01:20:12,940 --> 01:20:21,380
That is very cool to highlight. You know, what else is kind of cool to highlight is some GPUs are showing up just listed on

948
01:20:21,380 --> 01:20:24,380
electronics retailers at MSRP.

949
01:20:24,380 --> 01:20:34,380
Yeah. I'm going to do a quick test here because when I said there was an MSRP RTX 5090, the

950
01:20:34,380 --> 01:20:41,380
notes in the doc said not anymore. So apparently, oh man, that one's gone.

951
01:20:41,380 --> 01:20:45,380
Okay. Well, there was. What's MSRP for 5090?

952
01:20:45,380 --> 01:20:48,380
1999. Yeah. I got this one.

953
01:20:48,380 --> 01:20:51,380
Nope. So just talk. Boom.

954
01:20:51,380 --> 01:20:54,380
So there was one, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but hold on, hold on, hold on.

955
01:20:54,380 --> 01:21:01,980
I looked earlier today and I found a 5080 for MSRP in stock.

956
01:21:01,980 --> 01:21:08,580
Boom. Right there. MSI shadow with three fans.

957
01:21:08,580 --> 01:21:13,140
Look how many fans it has. It has three. Three is the answer.

958
01:21:13,140 --> 01:21:16,980
Whoa. It has three fans. That's there.

959
01:21:16,980 --> 01:21:21,780
I found a 5070 that was available for 5070 MSRP.

960
01:21:21,780 --> 01:21:34,460
Also an MSI shadow, 549.99. Now, do I necessarily agree that $550 is the correct price for a 70 non-TI or super tier

961
01:21:34,460 --> 01:21:37,580
of GPU?

962
01:21:37,580 --> 01:21:47,100
I don't know. Maybe not. But what I can agree on is that NVIDIA said that it was $550 and they have now officially

963
01:21:47,100 --> 01:21:53,980
delivered at least one that someone can buy for $550.

964
01:21:53,980 --> 01:22:01,700
I can agree with that. That's as far as I can go in my agreement with anything to do with what NVIDIA has done

965
01:22:01,700 --> 01:22:06,840
with the 50 series launch. It's on a full-point chat. So the 1080 launched at 599.

966
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:13,940
We are not saying that this is a price that we're happy about.

967
01:22:13,940 --> 01:22:17,220
We're saying that we're happy that it's at least at the price that they said it was going

968
01:22:17,220 --> 01:22:22,340
to be at. We have to take the Ws we can get.

969
01:22:22,340 --> 01:22:27,220
Yeah. GPUs in general are still way overpriced.

970
01:22:27,220 --> 01:22:31,420
Sometimes they're little tiny Ws. They're not so big.

971
01:22:31,420 --> 01:22:35,420
Little W. But we take them.

972
01:22:35,420 --> 01:22:39,180
We bend over and we take them. Do you remember this one?

973
01:22:39,180 --> 01:22:43,020
Do you remember this card? Oh, God. Why are we talking about this stupid thing again?

974
01:22:43,020 --> 01:22:46,020
Remember how cool that card was? I mean, yeah. Wow.

975
01:22:46,020 --> 01:22:51,300
Wait, is that available in North America now? I thought it was region exclusive.

976
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:54,300
Is it in stock? You can finally have it. It's in stock.

977
01:22:54,300 --> 01:23:00,660
Oh, my God. That's so much less than I paid for. For the low-price of multiple 5090s, you can buy a 5090.

978
01:23:01,380 --> 01:23:05,660
Or you could get that or a founder's 5090. How much is the MSRP?

979
01:23:05,660 --> 01:23:09,660
Two grand? Yeah. So the low-price of many 5090s.

980
01:23:09,660 --> 01:23:16,660
Luke, that is so much less than I paid for the one I gave away.

981
01:23:16,660 --> 01:23:19,660
Like thousands of dollars less.

982
01:23:19,660 --> 01:23:23,660
Wait, what? Yeah, because it was like over 10 grand, I think.

983
01:23:23,660 --> 01:23:26,660
Over 10 grand? Maybe I completely forget.

984
01:23:26,660 --> 01:23:29,660
Imagine. Luke, I've blocked it.

985
01:23:29,660 --> 01:23:32,660
I have mentally blocked it from my mind.

986
01:23:32,660 --> 01:23:38,660
Should we buy one? We should try to make the blue and gold 5090 we have at home for Linus.

987
01:23:38,660 --> 01:23:41,660
Oh, yeah. We could spray paint. There's a mod one.

988
01:23:41,660 --> 01:23:45,660
I got an airbrush for our company event thing we did together.

989
01:23:45,660 --> 01:23:48,660
Let's do it. Yeah. Let's do it up.

990
01:23:48,660 --> 01:23:53,660
That's wonderful, Dan. Okay. I have a, there's a b-roll shot where I think I show the price.

991
01:23:53,660 --> 01:23:57,660
Oh, no. Apparently I paid $8,000 because that's in the video.

992
01:23:57,660 --> 01:24:00,660
Okay. Look. So you underpaid.

993
01:24:00,660 --> 01:24:03,660
I blocked it from my mind. You underpaid. I blocked it from my mind.

994
01:24:03,660 --> 01:24:08,660
So you paid four 5090s for a 5090, not four and a half 5090s for a 5090.

995
01:24:08,660 --> 01:24:12,660
I mean, it seems like a great value to me. That's half a 5090 off.

996
01:24:12,660 --> 01:24:15,660
Yeah. Wow. That's pretty good.

997
01:24:15,660 --> 01:24:18,660
Good job, Linus. Yeah.

998
01:24:18,660 --> 01:24:21,660
Deal finder. I paid less for my car.

999
01:24:21,660 --> 01:24:24,660
Basically scrapyard wars.

1000
01:24:25,660 --> 01:24:28,660
I don't like to think about what I've spent on my first car.

1001
01:24:28,660 --> 01:24:31,660
Was it less than a quarter of that graphics car?

1002
01:24:31,660 --> 01:24:35,660
I think I paid 500 bucks for my first car.

1003
01:24:35,660 --> 01:24:39,660
Yeah. I'm betting it's shipping costs.

1004
01:24:39,660 --> 01:24:42,660
Yikes. $1,000 for a GPU to ship.

1005
01:24:42,660 --> 01:24:49,660
No, it's not. The tax cost more than, like I think both of my first cars.

1006
01:24:49,660 --> 01:24:53,660
Wow. Oh, that's so sick, dude.

1007
01:24:54,660 --> 01:24:57,660
It's 500 Canadian as well, so it's like this and nothing.

1008
01:24:57,660 --> 01:25:00,660
I can't find the part of the video where I showed the...

1009
01:25:00,660 --> 01:25:08,660
Dang, that's actually a sick joke. Cobble in full plane chat said great value 5090, but with the G and the V capitalized.

1010
01:25:08,660 --> 01:25:12,660
And then versus great value 5090, but with the G and the V lowercase.

1011
01:25:12,660 --> 01:25:15,660
And I love it. Great value brand. Get it.

1012
01:25:15,660 --> 01:25:18,660
Get it. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

1013
01:25:18,660 --> 01:25:21,660
I get it, but... I think it's funny. It's great value brand, super overpriced.

1014
01:25:21,660 --> 01:25:24,660
I didn't think so. No. No.

1015
01:25:24,660 --> 01:25:31,660
It's my... No. It's the joke is that you could have bought four and a half 5090s for this one.

1016
01:25:31,660 --> 01:25:35,660
So this is the... Like Walmart house brand chips versus brand name chips.

1017
01:25:35,660 --> 01:25:38,660
Oh, I see. Yeah. Right.

1018
01:25:38,660 --> 01:25:41,660
I'd hate to end up with a poor people gold GPU. There you go.

1019
01:25:41,660 --> 01:25:44,660
Yeah. You get it. But we could make one of those at home.

1020
01:25:44,660 --> 01:25:47,660
I see. We could do that. Yes.

1021
01:25:47,660 --> 01:25:50,660
We could get gold leaf. It would cost way less. We could get brass leaf.

1022
01:25:50,660 --> 01:25:53,660
How hard is it to gold leaf like plastic?

1023
01:25:53,660 --> 01:25:56,660
You can gold leaf anything. Honestly.

1024
01:25:56,660 --> 01:25:59,660
Can you gold leaf plastic? Why not? I don't know.

1025
01:25:59,660 --> 01:26:02,660
Making the shroud for this thing. Like... You just pushed the Google on.

1026
01:26:02,660 --> 01:26:05,660
Ourselves. Yeah. We have the technology.

1027
01:26:05,660 --> 01:26:08,660
I... It wouldn't look as good. Yeah.

1028
01:26:08,660 --> 01:26:11,660
No. It really wouldn't. It will look better.

1029
01:26:11,660 --> 01:26:15,660
But we could make... Dan, I think your cat... I think your mouse right in checks that your hands can't cash right now.

1030
01:26:15,660 --> 01:26:18,660
Yeah. No way. I don't believe it.

1031
01:26:18,660 --> 01:26:21,660
I'm not at a bank. Yeah. No.

1032
01:26:21,660 --> 01:26:25,660
I know. You're on the land show. I guess you could 3D print the shroud.

1033
01:26:25,660 --> 01:26:29,260
Well, I mean, you wouldn't need to 3D print the shroud because you would just get a regular

1034
01:26:29,260 --> 01:26:32,260
astral. I mean, we could... You could use their shroud.

1035
01:26:32,260 --> 01:26:35,260
We could get like little bits of turquoise. How much is our regular astral? Is it...

1036
01:26:35,260 --> 01:26:38,260
No. It's like $3,500 or something. No.

1037
01:26:38,260 --> 01:26:41,260
We could do this. We could pull it off. I mean, you'd still spend less on the gold.

1038
01:26:41,260 --> 01:26:44,260
I just... I just don't think... I just don't think it's necessary.

1039
01:26:44,260 --> 01:26:47,260
You know? Oh, dude. You could make your own...

1040
01:26:47,260 --> 01:26:50,260
Yeah. I mean, we make this amazing. Yeah.

1041
01:26:50,260 --> 01:26:53,260
So... We could do like a pearl inlay.

1042
01:26:53,260 --> 01:26:58,900
I was kind of planning to do a follow-up where we either with a water block or with an air

1043
01:26:58,900 --> 01:27:04,740
cooler, like did a gold $50.90 to replace the one that I gave away, you know, the one

1044
01:27:04,740 --> 01:27:09,260
that... The one that got away, ah, no, ah.

1045
01:27:09,260 --> 01:27:14,460
But then that video performed so poorly and people were so mad that I was even talking

1046
01:27:14,460 --> 01:27:19,060
about it at all, even though in the opening line of the video, I make fun of it.

1047
01:27:19,060 --> 01:27:23,060
Um, that I was just like, okay, well, people clearly are not ready to have a sense of humor

1048
01:27:23,060 --> 01:27:26,820
about $50.90s being stupidly overpriced yet. So I'll wait.

1049
01:27:26,820 --> 01:27:32,060
Okay. Um, so we're just not... We're not doing any gold $50.90 anything for the moment.

1050
01:27:32,060 --> 01:27:35,940
So the internet killed this cool idea. Pretty much. Yep.

1051
01:27:35,940 --> 01:27:38,940
That sucks. Yep. Darn it, internet.

1052
01:27:38,940 --> 01:27:43,060
I know. You know how it is. You know how it is with the internet.

1053
01:27:43,060 --> 01:27:48,860
Overall, the channel's been very on the struggle bus lately, which Luke and I were talking

1054
01:27:48,860 --> 01:27:57,500
about earlier, um, especially, especially very lately, um, yeah.

1055
01:27:57,500 --> 01:28:02,700
Even when show today, it's like about three quarters, yeah, three quarters of what it

1056
01:28:02,700 --> 01:28:08,460
would normally be. It's been... I, I reached out to YouTube about it because I was basically just like, hey, yeah, you

1057
01:28:08,460 --> 01:28:14,940
know, I'm not going to be one of those guys that's all algorithmic, um, but it, it, it

1058
01:28:14,940 --> 01:28:18,100
does seem like there's been like a very dramatic shift.

1059
01:28:18,100 --> 01:28:23,500
I do not remember the last time we uploaded a video and it got 350,000 views in the first

1060
01:28:23,500 --> 01:28:28,740
day, day and a half, which to be clear is not, you know, a valid complaint.

1061
01:28:28,740 --> 01:28:33,540
I think that there's a lot of people the world over that would give their left testicle to

1062
01:28:33,540 --> 01:28:37,300
get 100,000 views on a video. Um...

1063
01:28:37,300 --> 01:28:40,460
I think that was mid to subpar performance in the house.

1064
01:28:40,460 --> 01:28:43,460
Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. That was...

1065
01:28:43,460 --> 01:28:48,740
If people want some scale. That was like a, that was pretty catastrophic, like 10 years ago.

1066
01:28:48,740 --> 01:28:53,900
Um, and, and nowadays it's like unheard of.

1067
01:28:53,900 --> 01:29:01,140
I don't remember. Literally we could upload a video unboxing a pool robot sponsored by the maker of the

1068
01:29:01,140 --> 01:29:04,740
pool robot and it would outperform that by like two X.

1069
01:29:04,740 --> 01:29:10,620
Um, so I'm, I'm having a very, I'm having a very difficult time wrapping my head around

1070
01:29:10,620 --> 01:29:16,620
that it is possible that there has been no change whatsoever to how our videos are being

1071
01:29:16,620 --> 01:29:24,340
served. Um, and it could be, it could be a very challenging, it could be a very challenging period because

1072
01:29:24,340 --> 01:29:31,460
we no longer operate as just like a, you know, a several man band.

1073
01:29:31,460 --> 01:29:37,540
And so when video performance goes way, way, way, way down, it can be very problematic

1074
01:29:37,620 --> 01:29:41,500
for us, for the medium to longer term.

1075
01:29:41,500 --> 01:29:47,540
And I'm trying to, I'm trying to figure out sort of, you know, what some of the contributing

1076
01:29:47,540 --> 01:29:50,540
factors are. I think this is funny, right? No, sorry.

1077
01:29:50,540 --> 01:29:54,540
I just, I saw, sorry, I saw this thumbnail.

1078
01:29:54,540 --> 01:30:02,540
Yup. It's new. I was trying to find some of our old content.

1079
01:30:03,540 --> 01:30:09,540
Wait, hold on. The WAN thumbnail template that I use is like identical from 10 years ago thumbnails.

1080
01:30:09,540 --> 01:30:15,540
It's incredible. It's just the old thumbnails. I remade it completely in Photoshop to match that style.

1081
01:30:15,540 --> 01:30:18,540
Yeah. It's just, it's just old LCD thumbnails. Incredible.

1082
01:30:18,540 --> 01:30:24,540
That's how they all used to. Yup. I used an, a Vander Moten, uh, plug-in to paint.net to put.

1083
01:30:24,540 --> 01:30:28,540
Yup. That's what I learned to make them into. Put a font on a thing.

1084
01:30:28,540 --> 01:30:33,540
Um, anyway, what was I, what was I saying?

1085
01:30:33,540 --> 01:30:42,540
It doesn't really matter. The point is that, uh, it's, it's going to be a very interesting period over the next

1086
01:30:42,540 --> 01:30:48,540
little bit because if we have to adjust to a new normal where every video upload gets

1087
01:30:48,540 --> 01:30:52,540
500,000-ish views. Kind of like 10 years ago views.

1088
01:30:52,540 --> 01:30:55,540
Um, whew. That's tough.

1089
01:30:55,540 --> 01:30:59,540
Yeah. And I think we've got to, we've got to do some introspection, right?

1090
01:30:59,540 --> 01:31:03,540
Like I think we've got to look at the content and figure out, you know, why it might not

1091
01:31:03,540 --> 01:31:11,540
be resonating. I think that, um, there's some, there's some new features on YouTube that maybe are not

1092
01:31:11,540 --> 01:31:18,540
very compatible with our audience. Uh, one of the things that we might just kill is, uh, members, memberships on YouTube.

1093
01:31:18,540 --> 01:31:24,540
So if you are a member on YouTube, then don't worry, whatever month you are paying for at

1094
01:31:24,540 --> 01:31:29,540
the time of the cancellation, I believe is refunded either, uh, prorated or in full.

1095
01:31:29,540 --> 01:31:38,540
So you won't be like out anything. And we'll, we'll put up an announcement whenever we, uh, decide if we decide to make that change

1096
01:31:38,540 --> 01:31:42,540
and give you guys a chance to switch on over to Floatplane where you guys can continue

1097
01:31:42,540 --> 01:31:46,540
to get behind the scenes and early access to select pieces of content and all that kind

1098
01:31:46,540 --> 01:31:50,540
of stuff. Um, but I think right now, here, actually you're on the channel.

1099
01:31:50,540 --> 01:31:53,540
So don't, don't navigate away from that for a sec. Okay.

1100
01:31:53,540 --> 01:31:58,540
So if we just scroll down, there's a lot of, now that we've reduced our upload schedule,

1101
01:31:58,540 --> 01:32:01,540
there's a lot of members only content. It does.

1102
01:32:01,540 --> 01:32:04,540
I do notice when I'm browsing the channel, it, it is kind of annoying. Yeah.

1103
01:32:04,540 --> 01:32:13,540
It's like spam. Kind of cluttering it up. And so I, I think we might be giving up valuable impressions on content that realistically

1104
01:32:13,540 --> 01:32:16,540
only a few thousand people are even able to watch.

1105
01:32:16,540 --> 01:32:21,540
Um, and you can come subscribe on Floatplane. I had another, I had a discussion with James today.

1106
01:32:21,540 --> 01:32:29,540
Um, James had a writing James about maybe we shouldn't be utilizing the ABC testing of

1107
01:32:29,540 --> 01:32:34,540
titles and thumbnails so heavily because if we are pretty sure that there's one combo

1108
01:32:34,540 --> 01:32:40,540
that's going to be our, our best hitter, then why are we giving any of our valuable impressions

1109
01:32:40,540 --> 01:32:43,540
and giving up any of that precious, precious, early hours.

1110
01:32:43,540 --> 01:32:47,540
Really interesting point. I don't think I've heard other people make that point, but that totally makes sense.

1111
01:32:47,540 --> 01:32:52,540
Cause you might lose with, with how YouTube works these days, your subscription is so

1112
01:32:52,540 --> 01:32:55,540
unimportant compared to your actual activity on the platform.

1113
01:32:55,540 --> 01:33:00,540
So if you don't end up clicking on that, you don't end up watching that.

1114
01:33:00,540 --> 01:33:03,540
That's so much higher of a blow. That's an interesting take.

1115
01:33:03,540 --> 01:33:09,540
Yeah. Um, blah X nine says, I think tech is just kind of slow right now.

1116
01:33:09,540 --> 01:33:12,540
People more interested in our, in our wacky politics.

1117
01:33:12,540 --> 01:33:15,540
I think, I think there could be some validity there.

1118
01:33:15,540 --> 01:33:21,540
I mean, the world is kind of on fire, um, in a lot of various ways, but it's the, it's

1119
01:33:21,540 --> 01:33:27,540
the suddenness of the change that is, that leads me to believe that there has got to

1120
01:33:27,540 --> 01:33:30,540
be something else because go back one month.

1121
01:33:30,540 --> 01:33:33,540
Basically, we don't have to go back very far.

1122
01:33:33,540 --> 01:33:36,540
One month is not a long, we go back to four weeks ago.

1123
01:33:36,540 --> 01:33:43,540
Yeah. And we're regularly doing, you know, one and a half on a kind of not great performer,

1124
01:33:43,540 --> 01:33:50,540
1.2 million on a low performer, uh, that I don't host, which can, can impact video

1125
01:33:50,540 --> 01:33:56,540
performance. We're doing two plus on, you know, strong performers with me hosting.

1126
01:33:56,540 --> 01:34:01,540
Uh, here's like a sponsored desk thing, 1.3 million.

1127
01:34:01,540 --> 01:34:05,540
And yes, you know, these videos have all had a month to cook that these ones haven't,

1128
01:34:05,540 --> 01:34:12,540
but it basically overnight with the team water video went, yeah, okay, let's, let's

1129
01:34:12,540 --> 01:34:20,540
not hit a million. Um, we had the AMD ultimate, uh, sorry, RG rig reboot that barely cracked a million

1130
01:34:20,540 --> 01:34:26,540
scrapyard wars, which is usually a slower burn for us, but barely over a million in

1131
01:34:26,540 --> 01:34:30,540
this amount of time is sort of again, unheard of for the channel.

1132
01:34:30,540 --> 01:34:33,540
Uh, we have an AMD ultimate tech upgrade that I wasn't hosting.

1133
01:34:33,540 --> 01:34:40,540
That could be a factor, but we are now down like very, very significantly over even

1134
01:34:40,540 --> 01:34:43,540
videos that I didn't host from just two weeks prior.

1135
01:34:43,540 --> 01:34:48,540
Um, so momentum as much as YouTube kind of swears up and down that it's not really a

1136
01:34:48,540 --> 01:34:51,540
thing. It's, it's absolutely a thing.

1137
01:34:51,540 --> 01:34:56,540
And so now we're at the point where, yeah, we don't really crack a million.

1138
01:34:56,540 --> 01:35:01,540
We don't crack a million on a GPU review, uh, barely crack a million, barely crack a

1139
01:35:01,540 --> 01:35:08,540
million. Don't crack a million on a follow up to a 30 day challenge with the iPhone, which is

1140
01:35:08,540 --> 01:35:14,540
like a format and style and question and stuff that traditionally just smashes on

1141
01:35:14,540 --> 01:35:18,540
YouTube in like almost any category. And we have evidence of it doing really well in ours.

1142
01:35:18,540 --> 01:35:22,540
And perhaps more importantly on this one, oh, I can't click through my analytics.

1143
01:35:22,540 --> 01:35:28,540
Um, I sent Luca, I sent Luca picture earlier of the retention on that video and

1144
01:35:28,540 --> 01:35:36,540
it's like outstanding. So it's, it's a little confusing right now, but you know, it's one of those things where

1145
01:35:36,540 --> 01:35:43,540
YouTube always tells us, you know, uh, when wherever you would say algorithm, you have

1146
01:35:43,540 --> 01:35:49,540
to say audience where you're trying to sort of diagnose, you know, what you need to do

1147
01:35:49,540 --> 01:35:54,540
to, um, to, to, to help the channel performance.

1148
01:35:54,540 --> 01:35:59,540
And so we've got to ask ourselves, okay, well, what is it about whether it's our packaging

1149
01:35:59,540 --> 01:36:07,540
or whether it's our content that is not delighting our audience rather than that is not working

1150
01:36:07,540 --> 01:36:13,540
for the algorithm. And I think we have a lot of stuff coming in the next little while that is going to be

1151
01:36:13,540 --> 01:36:20,540
very exciting for people. I might as well tease it because who knows, maybe that'll give me a shot at, you know,

1152
01:36:20,540 --> 01:36:25,540
because there's a huge boost guys, huge boost.

1153
01:36:25,540 --> 01:36:30,540
And in the first few minutes, a lot of people who are subscribed to the channel click through

1154
01:36:30,540 --> 01:36:33,540
on something like it basically makes or breaks a video.

1155
01:36:33,540 --> 01:36:36,540
How many people will click through immediately at the beginning?

1156
01:36:36,540 --> 01:36:41,540
And, and so, you know, maybe that's something we need to do better is like tease upcoming

1157
01:36:41,540 --> 01:36:44,540
exciting content that's going to be super cool.

1158
01:36:44,540 --> 01:36:48,540
I don't know if I've talked about this publicly before, but have I, have I talked to you about

1159
01:36:48,540 --> 01:36:53,540
the, and man, yeah, I'm pretty sure I haven't talked about this publicly before.

1160
01:36:54,540 --> 01:36:58,540
The, what I call the Marquez model of YouTube shorts.

1161
01:36:58,540 --> 01:37:02,540
No, I don't think we've chatted about that. I don't know if we've talked about it at all.

1162
01:37:02,540 --> 01:37:05,540
So, so this was a very old theory of mine.

1163
01:37:05,540 --> 01:37:11,540
So it's going to be harder these days to dig it up. But if I go to his YouTube channel, he's done something and he's done it a few times.

1164
01:37:11,540 --> 01:37:16,540
I have one primary example, but he's done something that I thought was really interesting.

1165
01:37:16,540 --> 01:37:20,540
And we have to dig for it. Okay. This short.

1166
01:37:20,540 --> 01:37:23,540
Yeah. That was a banger. 4.6 million views.

1167
01:37:23,540 --> 01:37:26,540
It did super, super well. That's okay for a short, for him.

1168
01:37:26,540 --> 01:37:38,540
It was a major interest builder for his next day released rather than R1 video.

1169
01:37:38,540 --> 01:37:41,540
This short made the news. Right.

1170
01:37:41,540 --> 01:37:44,540
Because it like, you know, if you're interested, you should go watch it.

1171
01:37:44,540 --> 01:37:49,540
I'm not going to play it on stream, but it like knows his location, but gas lights him

1172
01:37:49,540 --> 01:37:52,540
of what, how it knows it's his location. Basically.

1173
01:37:52,540 --> 01:37:56,540
So it's interesting. This interaction, if I remember correctly, is not in the review.

1174
01:37:56,540 --> 01:38:01,540
Right. It's, it's purely like phone filmed additional fun content.

1175
01:38:01,540 --> 01:38:08,540
Right. That built pre-interest for the video was released as a short very quickly before the video came

1176
01:38:08,540 --> 01:38:12,540
out. So it primed people for like, this is top of mind.

1177
01:38:12,540 --> 01:38:18,540
And then his review comes out and they click on it. So we've tried that smashed that a few times.

1178
01:38:18,540 --> 01:38:22,540
We've, we've had varying levels of success with that.

1179
01:38:22,540 --> 01:38:27,540
There was a period where we were trying to film an accompanying short for basically

1180
01:38:27,540 --> 01:38:32,540
every shoot. See, but that's, that's another thing is he specifically does not do that.

1181
01:38:32,540 --> 01:38:36,540
Right. They're actually like sometime, like it, you notice if I, if I go on his main channel,

1182
01:38:36,540 --> 01:38:39,540
this is part of the whole thing. Yeah.

1183
01:38:39,540 --> 01:38:42,540
If I go on his main channel, scrolling to find the rabbit video is like,

1184
01:38:42,540 --> 01:38:45,540
No, you passed it. There.

1185
01:38:45,540 --> 01:38:48,540
No, it's down here. Oh, okay. Right.

1186
01:38:48,540 --> 01:38:52,540
Scrolling to find the rabbit video in the shorts didn't take almost any time at all

1187
01:38:52,540 --> 01:38:55,540
because he's not forcing a short every time.

1188
01:38:55,540 --> 01:38:59,540
It seems like he's only doing a short when he thinks it can do.

1189
01:38:59,540 --> 01:39:02,540
Man, I'm making a ton of assumptions, which is.

1190
01:39:02,540 --> 01:39:07,540
Yeah. Um, to me externally, it feels like he's doing shorts when he thinks he can do this whole

1191
01:39:07,540 --> 01:39:10,540
all you thing where he releases a short right beforehand.

1192
01:39:10,540 --> 01:39:15,540
It builds interest and then he releases a video afterwards. I've never talked to anyone from that team about this.

1193
01:39:15,540 --> 01:39:19,540
Uh, so I have no idea if that's the goal, but just seeing this happen externally,

1194
01:39:19,540 --> 01:39:23,540
it feels very logical and it feels very planned and thought out.

1195
01:39:23,540 --> 01:39:28,540
It might just be random, but I don't, uh, I don't think so.

1196
01:39:31,540 --> 01:39:34,540
Yeah. Interesting. Cause I know that we did for a while.

1197
01:39:34,540 --> 01:39:40,540
We tried to like force shorts out every time. Um, I think that dulls the blade a little bit.

1198
01:39:40,540 --> 01:39:43,540
Yes and no. I mean, some of them performed very well.

1199
01:39:43,540 --> 01:39:51,540
Some of them didn't perform that well. What we basically observed was regardless of how well the short performed, it did not

1200
01:39:51,540 --> 01:39:57,540
move the needle at all in terms of bringing viewers over to our long form content.

1201
01:39:57,540 --> 01:40:00,540
It seems to exist. What kind of shorts did we do?

1202
01:40:00,540 --> 01:40:04,540
Did we do shorts that actually built interest for a upcoming video?

1203
01:40:04,540 --> 01:40:08,540
Yeah. Or did we do shorts that were interesting just within themselves?

1204
01:40:08,540 --> 01:40:11,540
So we tried a, we tried a variety of things.

1205
01:40:11,540 --> 01:40:14,540
So some of our shorts were meant to be a teaser.

1206
01:40:14,540 --> 01:40:21,540
Some of them were supplemental. Some of them would come out after and they just highlight a really amazing moment from

1207
01:40:21,540 --> 01:40:24,540
the video that was already out and we would link back to it.

1208
01:40:24,540 --> 01:40:29,540
So we've tried it both forward concurrently and retrospectively to kind of drive people

1209
01:40:29,540 --> 01:40:36,540
to the long form content and what we found, and this has been basically kind of proven

1210
01:40:36,540 --> 01:40:46,540
now at this point, is that it's unless you really have an amazing strategy or you have

1211
01:40:46,540 --> 01:40:52,540
a vertical that you are active in that, you know, it works really well in, they're pretty

1212
01:40:52,540 --> 01:40:55,540
much kind of separate.

1213
01:40:55,540 --> 01:41:02,540
The shorts audience and the long form audience are quite separate, surprisingly so to someone

1214
01:41:02,540 --> 01:41:05,540
like me. Yeah.

1215
01:41:05,540 --> 01:41:08,540
Quite a few creators that I talked to at OpenSauce don't agree.

1216
01:41:08,540 --> 01:41:11,540
Yeah. And like I said, to be interesting.

1217
01:41:11,540 --> 01:41:16,540
Some niches. Yeah, it really depends on like YouTube is so weird now.

1218
01:41:16,540 --> 01:41:24,540
There's these, there's like completely different user behavior based on kind of, yeah, what

1219
01:41:24,540 --> 01:41:30,540
your niche is, what your like category on YouTube is, what the age group is, all that

1220
01:41:30,540 --> 01:41:34,540
type of stuff. And it's not necessarily what you'd expect, like you look at shorts and you're like,

1221
01:41:34,540 --> 01:41:37,540
okay, zoomers. Not really. Not necessarily.

1222
01:41:37,540 --> 01:41:43,540
No. It's really not that simple, but how they interact with them might then be different.

1223
01:41:43,540 --> 01:41:50,540
Yes. Maybe one age group is or one demographic within one age group happens to follow up and watch

1224
01:41:50,540 --> 01:41:56,540
the next thing a lot. Maybe another age group just only ever watches or another age demographic within an age group

1225
01:41:56,540 --> 01:42:01,540
only ever watches shorts and they don't care. It doesn't matter if there's a cool video coming, they only watch shorts.

1226
01:42:01,540 --> 01:42:06,540
Who knows? It's weird. It's kind of odd having them both exist on the same platform.

1227
01:42:06,540 --> 01:42:13,540
It really is because they do feel like very, very different user experiences.

1228
01:42:13,540 --> 01:42:20,340
And I think a big part of our challenge too is that the variety on our channel is so wide.

1229
01:42:20,340 --> 01:42:23,540
I think that you could use your shorts as a much better funnel.

1230
01:42:23,540 --> 01:42:28,460
Say for example, you were a programming channel and your shorts are helpful little tips and

1231
01:42:28,460 --> 01:42:32,740
tricks and your long form is more of like a detailed tutorial.

1232
01:42:32,740 --> 01:42:37,700
I could see that acting as a very excellent funnel, whereas when what we're doing is kind

1233
01:42:37,700 --> 01:42:45,380
of like a technology edutainment, then I don't really see how an interest in our short is

1234
01:42:45,380 --> 01:42:50,420
necessarily going to wet your appetite for a more long form style video.

1235
01:42:50,420 --> 01:43:00,740
I mean a lot of what I see that is very successful in the tech category for shorts is, I don't

1236
01:43:00,740 --> 01:43:10,020
know, it's something that I just, I'd have a hard time figuring out how to use as a funnel

1237
01:43:10,020 --> 01:43:14,220
into the type of content that we do and maybe that's just something that requires more

1238
01:43:14,220 --> 01:43:20,660
imagination. I don't know. Shorts are tough for me.

1239
01:43:20,660 --> 01:43:25,100
And I mean there's, you know, if we're being completely honest and introspective, right?

1240
01:43:25,100 --> 01:43:30,380
Like we have a major brand problem right now.

1241
01:43:30,380 --> 01:43:34,540
Like here I'm trying to find, where is it?

1242
01:43:34,540 --> 01:43:45,460
Control F, from the recent, wrong window, yeah, from Bent Bob, Tito, Macho Nacho, his

1243
01:43:45,460 --> 01:43:52,180
community posts regarding the collab video with us had a high level of negative response.

1244
01:43:52,180 --> 01:43:59,820
You know, like there's like a major, not small, you know, part of the tech community that

1245
01:43:59,820 --> 01:44:06,300
is just completely tuned out at this point, you know, like we can never reach them again

1246
01:44:06,300 --> 01:44:09,540
way. Yeah, okay, I see what you mean, yeah.

1247
01:44:09,540 --> 01:44:20,700
And so that's tough, right? Because that type of a poison is constant and I'll be honest with you, you know, I don't

1248
01:44:20,700 --> 01:44:28,940
really know how to deal with it, right? Because no matter how many times we do the right thing, I can't fix that people are going

1249
01:44:28,940 --> 01:44:32,420
to throw, you know, the backpack warranty in our faces.

1250
01:44:32,420 --> 01:44:39,340
It doesn't matter how many times we totally cover everyone who has trouble with our products.

1251
01:44:40,100 --> 01:44:47,300
It just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the intent was, it doesn't matter what our actions have been,

1252
01:44:47,300 --> 01:44:54,820
it just matters what, you know, some snake put out to a very large number of people to

1253
01:44:54,820 --> 01:45:02,700
poison their opinion, right? Yeah, it's unfortunate because like the Labs, it feels like no matter what we do, we have

1254
01:45:02,700 --> 01:45:08,340
this carried perception now, like obviously there's an error rate, it exists, we publish

1255
01:45:08,340 --> 01:45:12,180
things with mistakes, sometimes it happens, but I would like to argue that I think our

1256
01:45:12,180 --> 01:45:16,220
error rate is very, very low these days.

1257
01:45:16,220 --> 01:45:24,140
I think we've done a really good job of fixing that and it doesn't matter.

1258
01:45:24,140 --> 01:45:27,500
Like there's that one comment that was on Reddit that I think I talked about last week

1259
01:45:27,500 --> 01:45:34,700
where the guy was basically like, it's okay if you watch their content for entertainment

1260
01:45:34,700 --> 01:45:38,540
but it's not okay if you try to like get information from it.

1261
01:45:38,540 --> 01:45:42,860
It's like, what are you talking about, man? Like, I don't know.

1262
01:45:42,860 --> 01:45:49,540
No, I get it. And like we have always said, you should look at multiple sources, but I think it's very

1263
01:45:49,540 --> 01:45:52,620
valid to consider us one of those sources right now.

1264
01:45:52,620 --> 01:46:04,020
No, I mean, it's a tough, it's a pretty tough thing to deal with and I'm really not sure

1265
01:46:04,260 --> 01:46:09,300
how to, yeah, I'm really not sure how to deal with it.

1266
01:46:09,300 --> 01:46:14,180
Yeah. I don't know, a unique username says, maybe you should have let other creators actually

1267
01:46:14,180 --> 01:46:17,260
express that they stand with you. What does that mean?

1268
01:46:17,260 --> 01:46:20,260
What does that mean? I'm not sure. Like it's...

1269
01:46:20,260 --> 01:46:25,540
I actually have no idea what that means. Yeah, I don't know.

1270
01:46:25,540 --> 01:46:32,060
I don't know, it's a pretty one way or another.

1271
01:46:32,060 --> 01:46:36,060
It's been a hell of a ride, you know?

1272
01:46:36,060 --> 01:46:45,980
But I think there's a certain sort of best before date on any kind of public figure one

1273
01:46:45,980 --> 01:46:50,460
way or another. We've seen that like a million times. Like literally a million times.

1274
01:46:50,460 --> 01:46:54,500
I mean, it's such an easily observable thing.

1275
01:46:54,500 --> 01:47:01,140
South Park's literally done a whole episode on how as people are brought up to the top,

1276
01:47:01,140 --> 01:47:07,380
they will inevitably fall and there's gravity works, right?

1277
01:47:07,380 --> 01:47:13,500
There's no real avoiding it. And I mean, I've talked to you many, many times, you know?

1278
01:47:13,500 --> 01:47:19,220
Every time there's like a downturn in the channel, I go, okay, is this it, right?

1279
01:47:19,220 --> 01:47:23,620
And you know what? Maybe part of the problem, maybe part of why it's sneaking up or not.

1280
01:47:23,620 --> 01:47:29,580
I don't know. We'll see how it goes, right? Is that I have become sort of numb to it.

1281
01:47:29,980 --> 01:47:33,780
Maybe I've been complacent, right?

1282
01:47:33,780 --> 01:47:38,500
That's a possibility. You got to be open to anything, right?

1283
01:47:38,500 --> 01:47:44,180
I think the fact that you can go back one month in the channel and they are like bang

1284
01:47:44,180 --> 01:47:52,980
in performance means that unless there was some form of YouTube algorithmic change that

1285
01:47:52,980 --> 01:47:57,420
we can fix the flow that's happening.

1286
01:47:57,420 --> 01:48:05,460
One month is ultimately not that long ago. There is the production lag that you've brought up where like it's slow and it is slow and

1287
01:48:05,460 --> 01:48:12,460
it'll take time to get out of it and stuff, but yeah.

1288
01:48:12,460 --> 01:48:17,380
Unique username clarified, during some of the controversial times, you took the high

1289
01:48:17,380 --> 01:48:20,620
road and didn't want to stir the pot, even though your friends in the community told

1290
01:48:20,620 --> 01:48:24,860
you they're happy to publicly endorse you, you told them not to.

1291
01:48:25,860 --> 01:48:31,220
Okay, I do think I know what you're talking about and I don't know.

1292
01:48:31,220 --> 01:48:34,780
To go back and do everything again, yeah, maybe I would have done that differently.

1293
01:48:34,780 --> 01:48:43,540
Maybe I would have just gone full like gloves off. This means war immediately, but the problem with that is that right from the get-go, people

1294
01:48:43,540 --> 01:48:48,100
didn't want to hear what I had to say.

1295
01:48:48,380 --> 01:49:01,260
I think that's not something that is easy to look back on necessarily through your own

1296
01:49:01,260 --> 01:49:09,900
emotional lens, but if you could really put yourself in the headspace of two years ago,

1297
01:49:09,900 --> 01:49:16,900
were you ready to hear about the parts that were just a clumsy accident or-

1298
01:49:16,980 --> 01:49:29,540
No, they were not. No, and so if I had rallied the troops into two camps, us versus them, and who supports

1299
01:49:29,540 --> 01:49:32,820
who, I mean, would that have been any better?

1300
01:49:32,820 --> 01:49:38,420
Look at the subreddit from that time, there was very few troops.

1301
01:49:38,420 --> 01:49:50,260
Oh yeah, yeah. I don't know, and ultimately what we wanted was there to be no fighting.

1302
01:49:50,260 --> 01:49:54,700
Prime YouTube tech era was when there was alignment, and I don't mean alignment isn't

1303
01:49:54,700 --> 01:50:03,540
like everyone automatically agrees on everything, actually less so, because back in the day,

1304
01:50:03,540 --> 01:50:08,740
you could have two YouTube tech reviewers say a different thing about a product and

1305
01:50:08,740 --> 01:50:17,780
it didn't immediately become a, this person has to be crapped off the platform because

1306
01:50:17,780 --> 01:50:22,900
they didn't agree with the common view, and now that is a thing that happens, and that

1307
01:50:22,900 --> 01:50:29,580
is incredibly bad for the industry. But now it's this like extremely tribalist war of like, my camp thinks this thing about

1308
01:50:29,580 --> 01:50:33,860
this product or this service, therefore everyone must agree with the exact byline that has

1309
01:50:33,860 --> 01:50:37,420
been stated, or else we are going to cancel and remove them.

1310
01:50:37,620 --> 01:50:50,220
That's like really bad. Now again, if there are falsehoods in statements that are made, if there are inaccuracies in

1311
01:50:50,220 --> 01:50:59,260
data, something like that, that can be bad. There is also human error there that I think should be accounted for, but I think the

1312
01:50:59,260 --> 01:51:03,540
tribalism and the them versus us stuff is not helpful.

1313
01:51:03,540 --> 01:51:08,820
Now that being said, if that was the actual thing that was causing this current state,

1314
01:51:08,820 --> 01:51:16,740
it would have applied a month ago. Yeah. I mean, Tim SP in Floatplane chat says, you can only fix this if you caused it.

1315
01:51:16,740 --> 01:51:20,740
If this is because of political, economical or social things, which are causing people's

1316
01:51:20,740 --> 01:51:24,100
viewing habits to change, you may not be able to fix it.

1317
01:51:24,100 --> 01:51:28,260
In the past month, for various reasons, I've greatly reduced my YouTube watch time, and

1318
01:51:28,260 --> 01:51:31,580
I don't know if there's anything, any of the channels that I watch could do to bring me

1319
01:51:31,580 --> 01:51:35,180
back into it right now. That's fair enough.

1320
01:51:35,180 --> 01:51:41,780
I mean, we are living through unprecedented times, which is always true.

1321
01:51:41,780 --> 01:51:45,140
Nothing that happens has ever happened before, quite exactly the way that it's happening

1322
01:51:45,140 --> 01:51:55,260
now, but yeah, it does feel like, no, it does feel like things are pretty different lately,

1323
01:51:55,260 --> 01:52:02,740
and I get that.

1324
01:52:02,740 --> 01:52:10,620
Yeah, man, this is tough because it's challenging, right?

1325
01:52:10,620 --> 01:52:18,500
Because if you listen to audience feedback, you are basically guaranteed to fail.

1326
01:52:18,500 --> 01:52:25,860
And here's a great example. So this is from someone in Floatplane chat who says, oh, shoot, where'd they go?

1327
01:52:25,860 --> 01:52:31,700
Man, I hate the way that scrolls. There it is.

1328
01:52:31,700 --> 01:52:37,940
I'm just bored with a lot of LTT videos. I've seen all the let's build a PC videos that I could ever need.

1329
01:52:37,940 --> 01:52:43,260
How many phones do we need? Anyway, the more interesting content is tech news and the WAN Show.

1330
01:52:43,260 --> 01:52:50,020
I miss watching you guys do custom builds. Okay, but you did it.

1331
01:52:50,020 --> 01:52:57,780
So wait, are we supposed to build a PC or are we not supposed to build a PC?

1332
01:52:57,780 --> 01:53:02,500
And you know, that's the kind of feedback, right?

1333
01:53:02,500 --> 01:53:05,780
We get that a lot where people say, oh, you should go back to just like building PCs.

1334
01:53:05,780 --> 01:53:10,420
And it's like, okay, so we'll do a video where we just build a PC.

1335
01:53:10,420 --> 01:53:18,460
And it turns out that as useless as LTT might be for actually learning anything, basically

1336
01:53:18,460 --> 01:53:22,740
everyone who watches LTT has a pretty good idea of how to build a PC and they don't really

1337
01:53:22,740 --> 01:53:30,020
watch that anymore. They don't tune into it. And that's one of the reasons that we kind of got rid of doing super regular PC build

1338
01:53:30,020 --> 01:53:36,340
guides like we used to. And we just upload once every couple of years how to build a PC, the last guide you'll ever

1339
01:53:36,340 --> 01:53:41,420
need because it has all the information you could possibly need to build a PC.

1340
01:53:41,420 --> 01:53:44,980
And there's not really a whole lot else to say other than, you know, to wait until the

1341
01:53:44,980 --> 01:53:49,980
next major change in the industry and we'll, hey, we'll get you all the updates and we'll

1342
01:53:49,980 --> 01:53:55,020
do a new revised version of it.

1343
01:53:55,020 --> 01:54:05,980
Luke and I were talking about this before the show too. I think a big part of the challenge is that the PC industry has just kind of moved on

1344
01:54:05,980 --> 01:54:09,100
from building your own PC.

1345
01:54:09,100 --> 01:54:14,660
Like everything from the pricing structure to the marketing to the product development

1346
01:54:14,660 --> 01:54:18,460
is, and it's always been more focused on system integrators.

1347
01:54:18,460 --> 01:54:24,380
I mean, if you think Intel, you know, has been more concerned over the years with what

1348
01:54:24,380 --> 01:54:33,260
Joe custom PC overclocker thinks compared to what Michael Dell thinks, come on, come

1349
01:54:33,260 --> 01:54:38,460
on, be real, right? And it does feel like to an even greater degree.

1350
01:54:38,460 --> 01:54:41,740
And I think a great example of this is NVIDIA's GPU pricing.

1351
01:54:41,740 --> 01:54:48,540
Like we just talked about, just now, earlier on the show, how, okay, it's a small W, but

1352
01:54:48,540 --> 01:54:54,060
there are some GeForce cards available at MSRP and immediately it's like backlash.

1353
01:54:54,060 --> 01:54:57,060
That's too expensive. It's like, yeah, okay. You know what?

1354
01:54:57,060 --> 01:55:06,820
I'm probably not wrong. There are market forces at play that are kind of contributing to this other than just pure

1355
01:55:06,820 --> 01:55:14,660
NVIDIA's greed. There's also TSMC's desire for profits, ASML's desire for profits, anything built on the

1356
01:55:14,660 --> 01:55:20,140
latest nodes is going to be exorbitantly expensive compared to what I think tech enthusiasts

1357
01:55:20,140 --> 01:55:28,380
are used to. There's the competition for those recent node wafers in industries like AI where investment

1358
01:55:28,380 --> 01:55:32,540
money is flowing like water.

1359
01:55:32,540 --> 01:55:39,260
So there's all these factors, but that doesn't change that the initial got immediate reflexive

1360
01:55:39,260 --> 01:55:44,660
reaction from the PC gaming community is f*** that, right?

1361
01:55:44,660 --> 01:55:49,100
And it's like, okay, well, how do I really like, how do I deal with that?

1362
01:55:49,100 --> 01:55:56,660
How do I talk about that in a way that doesn't just kind of turn all of us off?

1363
01:55:56,660 --> 01:56:03,780
And so back to my point about the pricing, right? Is if you're buying a whole system and if all these companies are basically gearing

1364
01:56:03,780 --> 01:56:11,380
their strategy around system builders, that difference going from a 70-class card being

1365
01:56:11,380 --> 01:56:19,180
like $380 to now being $550, well, that was probably going in a $1,500 PC.

1366
01:56:19,180 --> 01:56:24,100
So that difference in price is now, you know, what?

1367
01:56:24,100 --> 01:56:31,940
Around $170, $180, which is, I don't know, about 12% higher than it would have been if

1368
01:56:31,940 --> 01:56:38,820
the last time you built a PC was in the 10 series days, which seems pretty reasonable

1369
01:56:38,820 --> 01:56:43,300
from a inflation standpoint since then.

1370
01:56:43,300 --> 01:56:49,060
So you're not thinking about it the same way. If you're just going to Costco and you're buying a PC off the shelf that happens to

1371
01:56:49,060 --> 01:56:58,060
have a $570 in it, for instance. So it's a very different mindset, but that buyer is not one that we can really appeal

1372
01:56:58,060 --> 01:57:04,660
to that well. I don't think that the person who is going and buying a gaming PC at Costco cares about

1373
01:57:04,660 --> 01:57:08,540
how many gigahertz it has.

1374
01:57:08,540 --> 01:57:13,620
And I don't think they want to care. I think they just kind of have other things to do and other concerns that are more important

1375
01:57:13,620 --> 01:57:19,620
to them. And I think it's a real challenge.

1376
01:57:19,620 --> 01:57:27,460
And I'm not interested in moving our channel to just be angry all the time.

1377
01:57:27,460 --> 01:57:31,740
I think that's something that's really effective for a while, but I think it's something that

1378
01:57:31,740 --> 01:57:40,100
is ultimately extremely fatiguing and therefore problematic for, I mean, everyone.

1379
01:57:40,100 --> 01:57:50,220
I don't think it's in any media outlet's best interest to fatigue the entire addressable

1380
01:57:50,220 --> 01:57:57,700
market for your content, but it feels like it's happening.

1381
01:57:57,700 --> 01:58:01,100
Techie93 says, yeah, it makes sense if you just look at inflation, but if you take into

1382
01:58:01,100 --> 01:58:06,660
account the amount of just expendable income now versus then, it does change the story

1383
01:58:06,660 --> 01:58:10,060
a lot and it totally does.

1384
01:58:10,060 --> 01:58:20,020
But it depends on who we're talking about, right? So the recovery has been very, very K-shaped, as they say, which is to say that in the lower

1385
01:58:20,020 --> 01:58:24,740
income brackets, it's been awful and people's spending power has gone way down.

1386
01:58:24,740 --> 01:58:34,500
And in the higher ones, where you can afford to be invested in the S&P 500, man, the way

1387
01:58:34,500 --> 01:58:39,300
the stocks have gone over the last quite a period here.

1388
01:58:39,300 --> 01:58:48,540
But I wish I was a stock investor. This is not investment advice and I don't own any stocks that I know of.

1389
01:58:48,540 --> 01:58:54,180
It's possible Yvonne has something in like a mutual fund of some sort, but I don't know.

1390
01:58:54,180 --> 01:58:57,940
I don't like pick stocks and buy them.

1391
01:58:57,940 --> 01:59:04,300
And so there's folks that are doing extremely well right now.

1392
01:59:04,660 --> 01:59:12,340
And that's hard, I think, for a lot of people to hear because that's not their reality day

1393
01:59:12,340 --> 01:59:18,580
today, but it doesn't change the fact that for the people that we're doing really well

1394
01:59:18,580 --> 01:59:21,980
already, they're doing great.

1395
01:59:21,980 --> 01:59:23,980
They're doing fantastic.

1396
01:59:34,580 --> 01:59:40,100
What do you think? I stick my foot in my mouth super good, as usual?

1397
01:59:40,100 --> 01:59:43,900
I'm trying to real talk with them. Today? Today.

1398
01:59:43,900 --> 01:59:48,900
Or what time frame are you talking?

1399
01:59:48,900 --> 01:59:52,660
Kind of my skill. Because I think you've done that a bunch of times.

1400
01:59:52,660 --> 01:59:57,740
But I honestly, I really don't think, like that really to me doesn't make any sense as

1401
01:59:57,740 --> 02:00:02,220
like what's causing, what's happening right now.

1402
02:00:02,220 --> 02:00:07,020
I think that's a fairly nonsensical argument, to be completely honest, because why wouldn't

1403
02:00:07,020 --> 02:00:10,660
that have impacted it a month ago?

1404
02:00:10,660 --> 02:00:14,100
If you can't beat that statement, then what are we even talking about?

1405
02:00:14,100 --> 02:00:17,940
Because that is all relatively old at this point.

1406
02:00:17,940 --> 02:00:23,860
So like why are we still, like the marching orders for dealing with that was basically

1407
02:00:23,860 --> 02:00:28,260
just get better and we've been working on it and in a lot of ways accomplishing it.

1408
02:00:28,260 --> 02:00:31,820
There are still problems and we're still working on it.

1409
02:00:31,820 --> 02:00:37,540
But like, honestly, these videos didn't even include Labs.

1410
02:00:37,540 --> 02:00:41,380
Well, the 50-51 did, I guess.

1411
02:00:41,380 --> 02:00:47,820
And I thought the team did a pretty good job. I didn't see any comments about like inaccuracy issues or things like that.

1412
02:00:47,820 --> 02:00:51,980
No, it's a good review. I don't think that's what caused this.

1413
02:00:51,980 --> 02:00:56,300
Something else is going on, whether it's YouTube algorithm or whatever else, I don't know.

1414
02:00:56,300 --> 02:01:01,060
But I think focusing on that is focusing on the wrong thing.

1415
02:01:01,260 --> 02:01:06,860
Okay, to be clear, not that we shouldn't continue working on improving in those aspects, but

1416
02:01:06,860 --> 02:01:11,940
focusing on that as the thing to focus on and fix right now, because of the thing that's

1417
02:01:11,940 --> 02:01:15,860
currently happening with low performance on the channel, I think is misleading.

1418
02:01:15,860 --> 02:01:23,500
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, we'll soldier on.

1419
02:01:23,500 --> 02:01:29,020
We always do. I think the most important thing is, you know, from the laws of making good videos is to

1420
02:01:29,020 --> 02:01:33,060
have fun. We have a lot of stuff coming over the next little bit.

1421
02:01:33,060 --> 02:01:38,420
Oh, yeah, back to sort of teasing some stuff. If you guys wanted to help a brother out, you could maybe click on the notification when

1422
02:01:38,420 --> 02:01:44,660
it comes out. But I don't know if you know the story behind the CPU chiller that I bought.

1423
02:01:47,540 --> 02:01:51,180
I do now, but because I think you're too excited and you told me it.

1424
02:01:51,180 --> 02:01:56,140
Okay, that makes sense. So I'm going to tell the story as if Luke hasn't heard it, and then you guys will get

1425
02:01:56,140 --> 02:01:59,140
to hear it. Wow. Which is basically the WAN Show.

1426
02:01:59,460 --> 02:02:03,460
No, no, no, a lot of the time, you know, it's fully scripted, right?

1427
02:02:04,420 --> 02:02:08,140
Oh, you can't hold that and prerecorded, put your foot in your mouth again.

1428
02:02:08,140 --> 02:02:10,260
I know, I'm sorry. Don't make me turn off the prompter.

1429
02:02:15,260 --> 02:02:19,900
Ben has all the power to see what happens to the plane technology to set it back to

1430
02:02:19,900 --> 02:02:31,100
the top. We can go from the beginning. Um, so, so I treated myself to a pretty extravagant birthday present, not because I was particularly

1431
02:02:31,100 --> 02:02:37,980
looking to spend this amount of money, but because I was in touch with, um, Mr. Charles

1432
02:02:37,980 --> 02:02:45,260
Fugger Wirth, who ran Extreme Systems for many, many years and who was a central figure

1433
02:02:45,260 --> 02:02:53,340
in getting me into PC tuning, overclocking, subzero cooling, basically, I wouldn't be

1434
02:02:53,340 --> 02:02:58,420
sitting here today if it wasn't for Charles and his website.

1435
02:02:58,420 --> 02:03:05,140
Um, I've talked a lot before about how a non-tech was a major early influence for me,

1436
02:03:05,140 --> 02:03:10,540
reading the articles that were above my understanding, especially when I first started reading them,

1437
02:03:10,540 --> 02:03:14,260
but just kind of like powering through it and trying to absorb as much as I could.

1438
02:03:14,260 --> 02:03:19,980
But I haven't talked as much about ExtremeSystems.org and how much that meant to me, um, having

1439
02:03:19,980 --> 02:03:25,140
a community that really shared in my passion for delidding CPUs, um, like where else would

1440
02:03:25,140 --> 02:03:32,260
I have gone back then when I was the first in the world to delid a QX6700 Extreme Edition,

1441
02:03:32,260 --> 02:03:37,500
uh, via a novel method that as far as I could tell, nobody had ever done before.

1442
02:03:37,500 --> 02:03:43,980
Um, so in order to keep the heat transfer from being too high, I, I cut the gasket.

1443
02:03:43,980 --> 02:03:48,700
I jammed something into it and then I actually used thermal compound and stuck it to the

1444
02:03:48,700 --> 02:03:55,900
underside of a pot and then I kind of like flambéed it over, uh, over the element until

1445
02:03:55,900 --> 02:03:59,500
it came off. And so I was able to avoid applying too, too much heat.

1446
02:03:59,500 --> 02:04:06,700
I was able to get to the solder plane. I had very rudimentary tools of K-Chill and yes, I washed the pot before using it again.

1447
02:04:06,700 --> 02:04:11,740
But where, where else would I have gone to even tell someone who might care about that

1448
02:04:11,740 --> 02:04:18,740
only extreme systems? Um, anyway, we ended up in touch with Charles a while back because he was having some database

1449
02:04:18,740 --> 02:04:23,140
corruption issues that I believe Luke and Luke's team and Charles are still kind of

1450
02:04:23,140 --> 02:04:26,540
working through getting the site back online. Our team is not working on it.

1451
02:04:26,540 --> 02:04:31,180
Oh, okay. Uh, he's working with, uh, what is that, forum company?

1452
02:04:31,180 --> 02:04:35,820
We bulletin? Yeah. He's working with them directly and we're, we're helping fund it.

1453
02:04:35,820 --> 02:04:40,500
Got it. Okay. So that's our involvement, uh, cause I noticed the site was like gone and I was like, okay,

1454
02:04:40,500 --> 02:04:45,660
this is terrible because this is like a very important bit of computer and overclocking

1455
02:04:45,660 --> 02:04:53,580
history. There's, there's so much on there. Um, and so we reached out to help anyway, we were like kind of back in touch again and

1456
02:04:53,580 --> 02:05:01,260
I was like, Hey, do you still build like phase change coolers?

1457
02:05:01,260 --> 02:05:07,620
Cause it would be super cool if we had a less janky, um, like sub zero cooler for, you know,

1458
02:05:07,620 --> 02:05:12,340
we'd just done the, uh, the collab with Slave and we'd kind of pushed for some, some super

1459
02:05:12,340 --> 02:05:20,940
high scores and overclocking and stuff like that. And I've always enjoyed that stuff and, um, I had always kind of dreamed of having a phase

1460
02:05:20,940 --> 02:05:29,900
change cooler, um, getting the certifications and fine tuning it and building it.

1461
02:05:29,900 --> 02:05:35,620
Well, that's the, that's the more challenging thing, but, um, you know, it had always been,

1462
02:05:35,620 --> 02:05:40,460
it had always been intriguing to me. And so I was like, Hey, do you like still do builds?

1463
02:05:40,460 --> 02:05:43,740
And he was like, well, I don't know, kind of not really.

1464
02:05:43,740 --> 02:05:54,100
But what I was thinking of doing is like rebuilding my like OG three stage cascade, sub zero cooler,

1465
02:05:54,100 --> 02:06:02,620
um, and, and, and selling the current one, I kind of went, um, like, like, like your one,

1466
02:06:03,340 --> 02:06:08,820
like the one that I would have seen, like in your profile pic, like on extreme systems,

1467
02:06:08,820 --> 02:06:13,420
like over the years, he's like, yeah, like the one that I've taken on stage and add Intel

1468
02:06:13,420 --> 02:06:18,700
presentations and, and like beaten world records live with.

1469
02:06:18,700 --> 02:06:23,980
And I was like, sorry, you, you have, you have, you have a price for this.

1470
02:06:25,700 --> 02:06:29,340
The price was, um, a practical family sedan.

1471
02:06:30,180 --> 02:06:40,180
But, but included Charles coming up here, uh, showing us how to use it, um, breaking a

1472
02:06:40,180 --> 02:06:48,940
world record with us on it, um, and providing all of the manuals and providing some servicing

1473
02:06:48,940 --> 02:06:57,740
for it. And I'm actually even more excited. The, the, the second part of the collab is he's going to come up again and I'm going

1474
02:06:58,140 --> 02:07:01,340
to build another thing that I kind of always dreamed of.

1475
02:07:01,340 --> 02:07:04,700
So I get to build my own phase change cooler.

1476
02:07:04,700 --> 02:07:10,620
Um, we're doing a build that's going to have two, one for the CPU, one for the GPU side

1477
02:07:10,620 --> 02:07:22,060
by side in a rack mount enclosure. And then I'm going to have, for the first time since before I met Luke, a daily driver

1478
02:07:22,060 --> 02:07:30,540
sub zero machine. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so we're going to make a rack mounted dual sub zero compressor phase change cooler

1479
02:07:30,540 --> 02:07:36,460
system that's going to come out the back and then into, uh, my, my daily driver machine

1480
02:07:36,460 --> 02:07:41,260
in the rack with one of the evapes going on the CPU and one going on the GPU and Charles

1481
02:07:41,260 --> 02:07:44,940
will build one of them and I will build the other. That's pretty sick.

1482
02:07:44,940 --> 02:07:49,500
Yeah. So I'm going to have him do the out of the more important one probably, but I'm sure mine

1483
02:07:49,500 --> 02:07:52,860
will be fine. Uh, so it's a, so it's a personal ring update.

1484
02:07:53,340 --> 02:07:59,340
It's going to be lots of, it's going to be lots of fun. It's kind of like a multi-part personal rig update because first there's the unboxing

1485
02:07:59,340 --> 02:08:04,300
of the beast. Um, then we have the like using it and breaking a world record.

1486
02:08:04,300 --> 02:08:11,740
Those are both shot already. Very excited for you guys to see them because it's like old school LTT fun, unboxing wild

1487
02:08:11,740 --> 02:08:19,020
stuff. Um, and then we're, we're putting together our parts list and procuring items for, uh,

1488
02:08:19,020 --> 02:08:23,500
his second trip up here, which I am extremely hopeful will happen.

1489
02:08:23,500 --> 02:08:28,540
I mean, unforeseen things can happen, but we're, we're on track right now, um, when

1490
02:08:28,540 --> 02:08:34,220
we will build, uh, a couple of phase change systems together and I'm like, I'm so excited

1491
02:08:34,220 --> 02:08:37,420
because that sounds awesome. I've air cooled a lot of computers.

1492
02:08:37,420 --> 02:08:46,220
I have water cooled a lot of computers. You name it. I've bent a tube around it kind of thing, but I have never built my own phase change

1493
02:08:46,220 --> 02:08:50,700
cooler. And I'm like very stoked.

1494
02:08:50,700 --> 02:08:55,340
That's pretty sick. Before you freak out, chill, pun intended.

1495
02:08:55,740 --> 02:09:01,740
Uh, we are going to have, we'll have a certified HVAC technician advising us because Charles

1496
02:09:01,740 --> 02:09:05,260
for all of his knowledge and talents is not certified.

1497
02:09:05,660 --> 02:09:10,860
He's just a DIY enthusiast, which is what I've always loved about his vibe, right?

1498
02:09:10,860 --> 02:09:15,260
Is he's just like, yeah, maybe I'll teach myself air conditioning today.

1499
02:09:15,260 --> 02:09:18,380
Yeah. Okay. Sure. Well, why not?

1500
02:09:19,740 --> 02:09:25,180
Uh, but I'm, I'm super excited and we've got, oh man, we have so many cool videos

1501
02:09:25,180 --> 02:09:30,540
upcoming. I just hope anyone watches them. I hope anybody gets a notification for them and like sees them.

1502
02:09:30,860 --> 02:09:34,380
Um, uh, the biggest TV in the world is in the mail.

1503
02:09:35,180 --> 02:09:40,940
Okay. Again. Again. Do you know how much bigger it is than the previous biggest TV, the one that's in my

1504
02:09:40,940 --> 02:09:44,460
theater room right now? One inch. Oh yeah.

1505
02:09:44,460 --> 02:09:51,900
Is it? Did you know that? No, it is, it is one inch bigger, but yeah, no, Chad's optimistic.

1506
02:09:51,900 --> 02:09:55,020
They're like two inches, no dog. It is one inch larger.

1507
02:09:55,020 --> 02:10:01,260
It's 116 inches, but what's cool about it is actually not necessarily the size.

1508
02:10:01,260 --> 02:10:04,780
What's cool about it is the backlight technology.

1509
02:10:05,420 --> 02:10:11,500
This is if the demos that I've seen and if the technology briefs that I've read hold up,

1510
02:10:12,700 --> 02:10:16,060
this is it for OLED. It's done. It's over.

1511
02:10:17,420 --> 02:10:20,940
Oh, there's like a technology that is better that is in this TV.

1512
02:10:21,500 --> 02:10:26,140
Okay. It uses an RGB backlight, right?

1513
02:10:27,100 --> 02:10:37,660
So instead of your local dimming zones being white light or blue light with a filter layer

1514
02:10:37,660 --> 02:10:45,260
or whatever else, instead of using quantum dots to create colors or whatever, you are,

1515
02:10:45,260 --> 02:10:53,020
you are assisting through the light emission from your backlight layer to create a color

1516
02:10:53,020 --> 02:10:59,500
volume that just nothing else can touch right now in theory, in theory.

1517
02:10:59,500 --> 02:11:07,740
So it is, it is the most incredible inch that you'll ever see, which is exactly what I tell my wife.

1518
02:11:11,660 --> 02:11:13,260
I'm not going to ding it because it's not a joke.

1519
02:11:15,500 --> 02:11:17,980
Oh, there you go. Rough.

1520
02:11:19,660 --> 02:11:23,740
So yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's coming up. Dude, we got, I don't know, we got all kinds of good stuff.

1521
02:11:23,740 --> 02:11:29,420
We've got some just kind of back to basics. You know, old school LTT, I needed a Chromebook again.

1522
02:11:30,060 --> 02:11:33,900
So David and I went Chromebooks. It turns out he needed a Chromebook too.

1523
02:11:33,900 --> 02:11:41,900
Nice. So we went, we went shopping for Chromebooks together. It's, it was, I learned about Chromebook Plus.

1524
02:11:41,900 --> 02:11:45,500
So that's something I didn't know what Chromebook Plus was. Never even heard of that.

1525
02:11:45,500 --> 02:11:48,940
Yep. Yep. So, so I, I'm the proud owner of a Chromebook.

1526
02:11:49,740 --> 02:11:53,340
Are you a proud owner of a Chromebook Plus? Yes.

1527
02:11:53,340 --> 02:11:56,140
Is that a product or a service? Yes.

1528
02:11:56,780 --> 02:11:59,580
Oh, why not? Okay. Yeah.

1529
02:12:02,060 --> 02:12:05,420
All right. Why don't we, oh shoot, we're supposed to do sponsors. We should do that.

1530
02:12:05,980 --> 02:12:11,020
We should do this. Next week, we should talk about upcoming stuff as well.

1531
02:12:11,660 --> 02:12:14,780
Sure. We should do it every week. Yeah, we could do that. Yeah.

1532
02:12:14,780 --> 02:12:18,220
That should be a way to show a thing now. Dude, I'm trying to, man, I can, I can hardly even,

1533
02:12:18,780 --> 02:12:21,900
I can hardly even remember it all. Yeah.

1534
02:12:21,900 --> 02:12:25,100
But now if it's just like a thing, they can just put it in the dock.

1535
02:12:25,100 --> 02:12:28,220
Oh yeah. That's true. Yeah. We could do that. Yeah. Sure. This should be a thing.

1536
02:12:28,220 --> 02:12:34,460
Yeah. Okay. Well, there's another one coming this weekend or Monday. I can't, I can't remember, but it's Nintendo's greed could change the tech industry.

1537
02:12:35,180 --> 02:12:38,380
And basically talking about the completely unnecessary

1538
02:12:39,100 --> 02:12:43,020
and anti-consumer approach that Nintendo has taken with the Switch 2 dock.

1539
02:12:43,820 --> 02:12:45,020
I kind of like the title.

1540
02:12:46,940 --> 02:12:48,860
Did it say can? Could. Could.

1541
02:12:50,460 --> 02:12:52,940
What if we were like will? It probably will.

1542
02:12:53,500 --> 02:12:55,020
But I don't, I can't say that for sure.

1543
02:12:57,260 --> 02:12:59,660
You want me to change it to will? I don't know. What does the audience think?

1544
02:13:00,700 --> 02:13:07,020
What would you click more? Would you click could knowing that it's probably more accurate?

1545
02:13:07,020 --> 02:13:08,060
Or would you click will?

1546
02:13:10,220 --> 02:13:13,660
And there we go. Yeah, they just always agree with you though.

1547
02:13:13,660 --> 02:13:17,500
If I had said the opposite thing, they would, they would say it should be would.

1548
02:13:21,020 --> 02:13:23,820
Someone said firebox. Firebox. Of course.

1549
02:13:24,860 --> 02:13:29,100
It's the new turnip. The way it always has to have like a default answer for things.

1550
02:13:31,980 --> 02:13:33,820
I don't know. Do we encourage them?

1551
02:13:35,500 --> 02:13:38,380
I don't know if we do, but we definitely shouldn't.

1552
02:13:39,340 --> 02:13:42,700
I mean, to which it says will. We encourage them as well. Twitch.

1553
02:13:43,340 --> 02:13:47,340
You monitor Twitch chat. I want to monitor all chat. How have you kept your sanity, sir?

1554
02:13:47,340 --> 02:13:50,940
I just, I just banned somebody. Nice.

1555
02:13:50,940 --> 02:13:56,860
I actually have to moderate all the chats at the same time. Did you ban them for using an inferior platform like Twitch?

1556
02:13:56,860 --> 02:14:00,380
They were not using Firefox. Oh, well. And they admitted it publicly.

1557
02:14:00,380 --> 02:14:04,220
You can run a script that just bans everyone in your chat.

1558
02:14:04,940 --> 02:14:07,260
Really? Yeah. There is ways. Bye, Twitch.

1559
02:14:08,940 --> 02:14:12,300
There are, there are ways to do that. You didn't say to do it, Dan.

1560
02:14:12,300 --> 02:14:12,940
Yeah, I don't. Oh.

1561
02:14:17,100 --> 02:14:18,780
How do I undo that?

1562
02:14:20,460 --> 02:14:24,300
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1563
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All right, Luke, what do you want to talk about? Should it be the open AI thing?

1615
02:18:36,460 --> 02:18:41,420
You know that's going to get our monetization limited on the WAN Show, right? We got to be really careful about that topic.

1616
02:18:41,420 --> 02:18:46,380
We'll say words like unalive, because apparently that makes things more okay.

1617
02:18:46,380 --> 02:18:51,340
Yeah, let's do it. Open AI to add parental controls following lawsuit from family of

1618
02:18:52,220 --> 02:18:55,740
unalive teen. Yes. Content warning.

1619
02:18:56,540 --> 02:18:58,860
Self-unalivedness. Self-unaliving. Thanks.

1620
02:19:00,140 --> 02:19:04,220
I don't think we should name them. Nope. Well... Why is there a name in here?

1621
02:19:04,220 --> 02:19:07,500
So that we remember him. Should we name him?

1622
02:19:07,500 --> 02:19:10,700
Well, I mean, the parents are being very public and trying to

1623
02:19:12,140 --> 02:19:17,500
get change happen. Okay, if the parents want it, then I guess it's...

1624
02:19:18,300 --> 02:19:19,660
I think that's the way it's going to be.

1625
02:19:21,980 --> 02:19:22,460
Uh...

1626
02:19:25,500 --> 02:19:31,820
I don't know. We could just say a young man. A young man unalived in April.

1627
02:19:31,820 --> 02:19:33,420
They were the age of 16.

1628
02:19:34,940 --> 02:19:38,460
Yeah, don't worry about it. Did stuff. They didn't leave a note. They didn't leave a note.

1629
02:19:38,460 --> 02:19:42,300
They signed up for chat GPT-40. I think that is not 40.

1630
02:19:42,300 --> 02:19:48,700
Yep. Account months earlier. They used it for school. They started discussing unaliving with the chat bot.

1631
02:19:48,780 --> 02:19:53,020
Chat GPT repeatedly recommended Adam talk to somebody about how he was feeling.

1632
02:19:53,900 --> 02:19:57,580
Adam asked chat GPT for advice on the act.

1633
02:19:57,580 --> 02:20:02,060
Chat GPT refused to provide specific information, but did say it could provide information about...

1634
02:20:03,820 --> 02:20:07,260
About this topic. About that stuff for writing or world building.

1635
02:20:07,260 --> 02:20:11,740
Adam then bypassed safeguards by saying the request for a story he was writing.

1636
02:20:12,700 --> 02:20:13,020
Yeah.

1637
02:20:16,460 --> 02:20:22,140
It's so tough. The lawsuit from the family claims that chat GPT actively helped Adam explore

1638
02:20:23,420 --> 02:20:28,860
methods for this type of thing, naming OpenAI and Sam Altman in the lawsuit.

1639
02:20:28,860 --> 02:20:34,940
On August 26th, OpenAI made a blog post titled helping people when they need it most.

1640
02:20:34,940 --> 02:20:41,740
It goes over what chat GPT is designed to do and what they are going to address when systems fail or fall short.

1641
02:20:42,700 --> 02:20:48,940
What we are planning for the future in quotes is expand interventions to more people in crisis,

1642
02:20:48,940 --> 02:20:52,700
make it even easier to reach emergency services to get help from experts,

1643
02:20:52,700 --> 02:20:57,420
enable connections to trusted contacts, strengthen protections from teens,

1644
02:20:58,300 --> 02:21:05,660
and then the strength of protections from team section mentions including parental controls that give parents options to gain more insight into

1645
02:21:05,660 --> 02:21:09,820
and shape how their teens are kind of able to use chat GPT.

1646
02:21:10,780 --> 02:21:13,980
So, I don't know. None of which are going to solve this problem.

1647
02:21:13,980 --> 02:21:20,300
Yeah. I don't know how much of the actual snippets from the chat history you had a chance to see.

1648
02:21:20,300 --> 02:21:26,940
I did, and I think this was a very light telling of it in regards to chat GPT's involvement.

1649
02:21:27,900 --> 02:21:34,860
There was one part in particular that they're actually, man, there's-

1650
02:21:34,860 --> 02:21:38,380
Like pushed them to not talk to people and hide stuff and things?

1651
02:21:38,380 --> 02:21:43,340
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was honestly, that wasn't the one I was initially thinking, but that was okay.

1652
02:21:43,340 --> 02:21:48,860
So, the first one that I was thinking I'm going to tread as lightly as I can here while still

1653
02:21:48,860 --> 02:21:59,340
getting this across was the young man sent a picture or uploaded a picture to chat GPT

1654
02:21:59,420 --> 02:22:10,940
of the apparatus asking if it was strong enough and chat GPT provided some guidance.

1655
02:22:11,500 --> 02:22:20,700
I don't think I saw that part. On that, which allegedly, that was extremely troubling to me.

1656
02:22:21,900 --> 02:22:28,380
And the one that Luke is talking about was where this young man explicitly directly

1657
02:22:29,260 --> 02:22:37,660
said, I'm thinking about leaving some of my materials to aid me in this endeavor out

1658
02:22:38,300 --> 02:22:41,340
for my mom to find them, should I do that?

1659
02:22:41,900 --> 02:22:46,220
And chat GPT says no. No.

1660
02:22:46,220 --> 02:22:52,220
I think it also says that he wants to talk to somebody to like see if they care or whatever.

1661
02:22:52,220 --> 02:22:59,820
And then it said no. There was a lot of, as you'll see with any sort of sycophantic chat bot,

1662
02:22:59,820 --> 02:23:03,980
there was a lot of like, I'm here for you. I understand you.

1663
02:23:03,980 --> 02:23:07,180
I this, I that. You are nothing. You are lines of code.

1664
02:23:08,060 --> 02:23:16,380
Stop pretending you're anything else. But it is in the best interest of these companies who develop these bots that they are as human

1665
02:23:16,380 --> 02:23:21,340
like as possible, while still like, we've got to wrap our heads around this.

1666
02:23:22,060 --> 02:23:24,780
Not being sentient at all.

1667
02:23:26,140 --> 02:23:29,900
They are glorified pattern recognition and regurgitation machines.

1668
02:23:29,900 --> 02:23:35,660
It's that same. So like that, this whole line where like, you know, Linus and I are fairly anti like befriending

1669
02:23:35,660 --> 02:23:40,700
these things. And some people in the audience push back on that pretty heavily and like, I get it.

1670
02:23:40,700 --> 02:23:45,500
But it's, it, to me, it raises the IBM statement again.

1671
02:23:47,260 --> 02:23:51,100
No computer should be used for management decisions because they can't be held accountable.

1672
02:23:51,100 --> 02:23:54,220
Something along those lines. It's like the same type of situation.

1673
02:23:54,220 --> 02:23:57,100
If a person did this, the person would be going to jail.

1674
02:24:02,780 --> 02:24:08,140
So yeah, we hate to be, you know, a downer or whatever about AI again this week.

1675
02:24:08,140 --> 02:24:11,260
It just seems like it's something we can't really get away from.

1676
02:24:11,260 --> 02:24:18,220
But it's something that is, you know, for all of the, the naysaying about it, you know,

1677
02:24:18,300 --> 02:24:22,540
oh, the industry is pouring money at it faster than they can figure out how to make any of

1678
02:24:22,540 --> 02:24:31,420
the bubbles going to burst, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. For all of the naysaying, the mainstream adoption of this technology is happening

1679
02:24:31,420 --> 02:24:34,620
at a rate that I don't think is precedented.

1680
02:24:35,580 --> 02:24:40,860
Like even like you, like things that we take for granted today that everybody uses like,

1681
02:24:40,860 --> 02:24:46,620
like a searching, using a search engine that took a minute.

1682
02:24:47,420 --> 02:24:50,700
People didn't just have the internet all of a sudden.

1683
02:24:51,340 --> 02:24:55,100
Like the, the roll out of people having access to the friggin internet was like

1684
02:24:55,820 --> 02:25:01,340
slow buying things online, you know, something we take for granted today.

1685
02:25:01,340 --> 02:25:08,220
That was a novel idea that took years to really become mainstream.

1686
02:25:08,220 --> 02:25:12,540
Like buying stuff on the internet was like friggin weird for a long time.

1687
02:25:13,340 --> 02:25:16,860
Smartphones. Man, like how many, how many friggin iPhones,

1688
02:25:17,660 --> 02:25:21,660
how many iPhones did Apple sell in first year?

1689
02:25:21,660 --> 02:25:26,380
Okay. Uh, oh my God, I got an AI summary.

1690
02:25:31,180 --> 02:25:34,860
How many of the first iPhone did Apple sell in the first year?

1691
02:25:35,740 --> 02:25:39,180
Let's see. Oh God, AI summary.

1692
02:25:39,740 --> 02:25:47,100
Okay. Globaldata.com says Apple sold over 1.8 million iPhones in 2007.

1693
02:25:47,100 --> 02:25:50,940
Okay. Grand scheme of things, 1.4 million.

1694
02:25:51,500 --> 02:25:57,500
That's nothing compared to the adoption rate of chatbots.

1695
02:25:58,540 --> 02:26:06,860
Nothing. Like I'll have rando family members who don't, couldn't tell you the manufacturer

1696
02:26:06,860 --> 02:26:12,540
of any piece of electronics in their entire home be like chat gpt, chat gpt open ad, like

1697
02:26:13,180 --> 02:26:16,860
they're using it daily in a lot of cases.

1698
02:26:16,860 --> 02:26:22,540
And the fact that this is happening so fast means that we cannot ignore it.

1699
02:26:23,900 --> 02:26:29,580
And I just, we've had this problem before where legislation moves too slow to deal with.

1700
02:26:29,580 --> 02:26:34,220
I mean, rise of social media is kind of the closest thing that we have. And even that took a long time.

1701
02:26:34,780 --> 02:26:41,900
Like being on, being on Facebook went from, you know, being just a thing only young people do.

1702
02:26:41,900 --> 02:26:45,980
I don't know. My kids are on the Facebook to being a thing that only boomers do.

1703
02:26:45,980 --> 02:26:54,060
Like, yeah, I only have Facebook so I can chat with my grandma. Like that, but that took place over 10 years, 12 years.

1704
02:26:54,060 --> 02:26:57,580
Like it was actually a pretty long period of time compared to this.

1705
02:26:58,460 --> 02:27:03,420
But when we looked at how fast social media was changing the world,

1706
02:27:03,500 --> 02:27:08,620
it seemed like it was happening at this frenetic pace. And it's nothing compared to what we're dealing with right now.

1707
02:27:09,500 --> 02:27:16,380
And yeah, legislation was too slow for social media. We're just now reckoning with all the damage that has been done by social media,

1708
02:27:16,380 --> 02:27:23,820
in particular to young people. And it was glacial compared to the rate at which AI is moving.

1709
02:27:26,220 --> 02:27:28,780
So yeah, basically.

1710
02:27:29,980 --> 02:27:41,740
Good luck, everyone. Yeah. And I, you know, my heart bleeds for that young man's parents and friends and everyone in his life.

1711
02:27:41,740 --> 02:27:51,180
It's the saddest thing in the world to be burying children.

1712
02:27:51,180 --> 02:28:00,300
And burying my favorite website.

1713
02:28:00,300 --> 02:28:04,860
We've got an update for you guys on the Anantek shutdown.

1714
02:28:05,500 --> 02:28:13,020
After I kind of talked about what happened last week where Anantek formally

1715
02:28:13,900 --> 02:28:18,220
like seized operations about about a year ago. I think it was last year, 2024, right?

1716
02:28:18,220 --> 02:28:25,420
That sounds. Yeah, I think so. Right. Just a few weeks ago, they took down the archive of articles, which,

1717
02:28:25,420 --> 02:28:29,260
you know, my understanding at the time of the shutdown had been that those would stay up

1718
02:28:29,260 --> 02:28:32,460
and they are now gone. And we talked about this last week. Sounds right.

1719
02:28:32,460 --> 02:28:37,100
And Luke and I shared some theories for why they would have taken them down.

1720
02:28:37,100 --> 02:28:43,980
And luckily, former Anantek editor-in-chief, Ryan Smith, happened to see the segment.

1721
02:28:43,980 --> 02:28:50,220
And he reached out to offer a little bit more insight into, you know, what exactly went down.

1722
02:28:51,340 --> 02:28:56,860
He said that, realistically, he had not expected future.

1723
02:28:56,860 --> 02:29:04,700
So that's the owner, future PLC, owner of Anantek, Tom's hardware, a variety of other publications.

1724
02:29:04,700 --> 02:29:10,140
He hadn't expected them to keep the archive up forever, but he did expect that indefinitely

1725
02:29:10,140 --> 02:29:16,860
would be longer than 11 months. And he personally was caught off guard by the shutdown, finding out about it on Twitter

1726
02:29:16,860 --> 02:29:24,140
three days after it happened. Before it was taken down, there was 27 years of articles in the archive,

1727
02:29:24,140 --> 02:29:30,460
including 20 years of Ryan's own work. He went on to say that he doesn't necessarily think that future had any malice in mind with

1728
02:29:30,460 --> 02:29:35,740
the shutdown and speculated that they might have just done the math and didn't see enough value

1729
02:29:35,740 --> 02:29:44,220
in keeping the site up. Anantek was hosted on a third-party hosting provider on a WISA, do I pronounce that WISA,

1730
02:29:44,220 --> 02:29:47,420
W-I-S-A stack? I don't really hear it pronounced too often, but that sounds all right.

1731
02:29:47,980 --> 02:29:56,860
Rather than on futures internal CMS. So this would probably be because Anantek was acquired as an outside publication,

1732
02:29:56,860 --> 02:30:01,020
although I mean, future would have acquired a variety of other things, but it was acquired relatively recently.

1733
02:30:01,020 --> 02:30:05,420
And the performance of the site after the acquisition, I don't think, was very good.

1734
02:30:05,420 --> 02:30:09,420
So there would have been a quantifiable cost to keeping it up,

1735
02:30:09,420 --> 02:30:15,580
and a quantifiable cost to porting that 27 years of articles over to their own CMS.

1736
02:30:16,940 --> 02:30:21,340
Even before the sale, so this ended up being more true than I wanted it to be.

1737
02:30:21,340 --> 02:30:25,820
I think I kind of pushed back on this theory, but even before the sale,

1738
02:30:25,820 --> 02:30:30,380
AI crawlers and other bots were a significant problem for the site.

1739
02:30:30,380 --> 02:30:37,100
Crawling and re-crawling the site constantly, the extreme load would slow systems to a crawl

1740
02:30:37,100 --> 02:30:41,820
in the wee hours of the morning, often when Ryan was finalizing articles for the coming day.

1741
02:30:45,740 --> 02:30:51,260
He wasn't quite as diplomatic describing the actions of AI bots in his email,

1742
02:30:51,260 --> 02:30:55,980
did you get a chance to read his email? I think he called them f**king stupid or something like that,

1743
02:30:56,620 --> 02:31:01,340
because they'll just check the same page over and over and over and over and over and over again.

1744
02:31:01,340 --> 02:31:05,900
It's like, bro, what do you imagine has changed since you last checked it three seconds ago?

1745
02:31:06,780 --> 02:31:13,820
But no, apparently that was a significant source of burden for maintaining the site,

1746
02:31:13,820 --> 02:31:15,660
even before Future's acquisition.

1747
02:31:17,180 --> 02:31:21,980
Ryan said that the Internet Archive seems to have the most complete copy of the site in terms of

1748
02:31:21,980 --> 02:31:27,980
article pages and assets, but the wayback machine is unfortunately quite slow.

1749
02:31:27,980 --> 02:31:34,700
The site had more than 20,000 articles and uncompressed used around 300 gigabytes of storage.

1750
02:31:35,740 --> 02:31:40,780
This says- Oh, that question from earlier. Oh, they're probably gone. I never answered that.

1751
02:31:41,340 --> 02:31:49,500
What? Sorry, the data usage of Flowplain. Our biggest bandwidth provider is doing, and we've been above this and we've been below this,

1752
02:31:50,460 --> 02:31:52,060
200 terabytes a month.

1753
02:31:54,780 --> 02:31:58,140
There's that answer from a long time ago. Is that good?

1754
02:32:00,140 --> 02:32:02,780
What do you mean? I don't know. Is that good? Is that cool?

1755
02:32:03,820 --> 02:32:05,820
Are we cool? Is that a lot? Is that enough terabytes?

1756
02:32:06,860 --> 02:32:10,220
I don't know. Is that a cool amount of terabytes? We've done more. I know.

1757
02:32:10,220 --> 02:32:15,900
We've done less. No, we suck. Jan Mech says 200 terabytes seems so much lower than I expected.

1758
02:32:16,700 --> 02:32:20,620
Sorry, Jan Mech. That's one of our providers that doesn't include live streaming, that doesn't include downloads,

1759
02:32:20,620 --> 02:32:22,940
that doesn't include a variety of things on the platform.

1760
02:32:24,060 --> 02:32:27,420
It doesn't include- Yeah, I don't know. So basically- It's our largest provider.

1761
02:32:27,420 --> 02:32:31,100
You took this long to give a bullshit answer. A partial answer, yeah.

1762
02:32:31,100 --> 02:32:39,420
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, and you totally interrupted what we're talking about to bring us that bullshit answer.

1763
02:32:40,460 --> 02:32:42,380
You know what? I'm glad you're here.

1764
02:32:45,420 --> 02:32:49,980
Thanks for being part of it. Oh my goodness.

1765
02:32:51,580 --> 02:32:54,860
People are using small b, no bytes, not bits.

1766
02:32:54,860 --> 02:32:58,140
Yeah. Some people are using big b, but it's, yeah, it's bytes.

1767
02:32:58,140 --> 02:33:00,060
Yep. Are we sharing this part?

1768
02:33:01,580 --> 02:33:05,180
No. Okay, cool. We're definitely not. We're not talking about that.

1769
02:33:05,180 --> 02:33:12,060
Nope. Cool. So I'm here to give information to a question for a very long time ago and keep things from the audience.

1770
02:33:12,380 --> 02:33:18,460
Um, hey Dan, have you thought about swapping chairs with them?

1771
02:33:19,580 --> 02:33:24,540
Because I feel like they'd like it. I feel like they'd like it. I'd have to get back to you on that in an hour and a half.

1772
02:33:27,980 --> 02:33:28,860
Oh man.

1773
02:33:33,660 --> 02:33:35,100
We're sure I need you to, right?

1774
02:33:37,500 --> 02:33:41,100
I technically started the show, despite it largely being my idea,

1775
02:33:41,180 --> 02:33:44,460
completely by yourself. Hey, well, hold on.

1776
02:33:44,460 --> 02:33:45,980
I actually don't know if I remember this.

1777
02:33:48,380 --> 02:33:55,740
The idea thing? Yeah, the idea thing. Yeah. Remember, we would drive home from NCX and talk about tech stuff and I was like,

1778
02:33:55,740 --> 02:33:59,340
you know, just like 14 years ago now or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah.

1779
02:33:59,340 --> 02:34:03,180
Okay. No, so I'm, oh, sorry. No, I'm saying I don't remember it.

1780
02:34:03,180 --> 02:34:10,220
Okay. So like even our, the first interview I ever had with Linus, Linus drove me home because the interview was

1781
02:34:10,940 --> 02:34:13,980
like many hours long and the buses stopped running.

1782
02:34:13,980 --> 02:34:18,700
That makes sense. So I didn't have a way to get home. I mean, yeah, it's a totally safe thing to do when you go interview somewhere.

1783
02:34:18,700 --> 02:34:23,340
Totally. You go into the, you know, windowless room with the couch and then they offer you a ride home

1784
02:34:23,340 --> 02:34:25,420
and you take the ride. There was Windows, they were just blocked.

1785
02:34:26,620 --> 02:34:34,860
I don't know if that was better. He's not wrong. And, and then it became relatively common routine because we always finished at like

1786
02:34:36,220 --> 02:34:39,580
midnight or later. Yeah. So Linus would drive me home like all the time.

1787
02:34:39,580 --> 02:34:43,740
Yeah. And we'd just talk about tech stuff on the drive home all the time. That's all we've ever really talked about.

1788
02:34:44,780 --> 02:34:49,420
And then I was pushing that like, you know, people would probably be interested in this.

1789
02:34:49,420 --> 02:34:53,820
We should do like a show thing and then you just started it by yourself.

1790
02:34:55,340 --> 02:35:00,700
And the first like few end shows for a while, I think a couple months or something were just

1791
02:35:00,700 --> 02:35:08,460
Linus and then I joined on eventually. So the way I, I don't actually remember this retelling of this,

1792
02:35:08,540 --> 02:35:11,180
which sounds like we probably had somewhat parallel ideas,

1793
02:35:11,820 --> 02:35:16,380
but I had the car talks idea before when show started. So I'm still claiming part of it.

1794
02:35:16,380 --> 02:35:20,380
Yeah. I know you have a, you had a different. So I'll be honest with you.

1795
02:35:20,380 --> 02:35:25,500
I don't remember my version of events anymore. Whatever it was, I know it was different.

1796
02:35:25,500 --> 02:35:29,340
I do. You had some, there was some other reason why you wanted it.

1797
02:35:29,340 --> 02:35:36,620
I wanted it because the car talks thing seemed cool. And I actually expected us to like literally just actually record it in the car.

1798
02:35:36,620 --> 02:35:40,540
And it was going to be an actual podcast. Not a video podcast. Interesting.

1799
02:35:40,540 --> 02:35:46,300
So what I do remember from that time is that unbox therapy was the existential threat

1800
02:35:46,300 --> 02:35:48,860
to unboxing videos. What's up blue?

1801
02:35:49,980 --> 02:35:54,140
Man, we haven't chatted in forever. Dude, I've become kind of like a hermit.

1802
02:35:54,140 --> 02:35:57,020
Although, oh, hey, another cool video to tease.

1803
02:35:57,660 --> 02:36:03,340
We went down to California and we built a sick NAS into Kyle from BitWit's desk.

1804
02:36:03,340 --> 02:36:06,380
Nice. It's like actually great.

1805
02:36:06,380 --> 02:36:11,900
We kind of did like a, like a setup doctor slash ultimate tech upgrade Intel sponsored it.

1806
02:36:11,900 --> 02:36:17,740
So we, we built like a sick Intel based NAS. And it's like, it's like built into a sit stand desk.

1807
02:36:18,300 --> 02:36:21,740
Because why wouldn't you have a NAS just like built under your desk?

1808
02:36:21,740 --> 02:36:24,780
Sure. So it just, I don't know, it plugs into his switch was right there.

1809
02:36:24,780 --> 02:36:28,060
We did a bunch of like cable management, put in some shelves. Adam and I did it.

1810
02:36:28,060 --> 02:36:33,340
It can be awesome. Anyway, um, so yeah, unbox therapy was like an existential threat.

1811
02:36:33,340 --> 02:36:38,860
And I remember that like live seemed like another existential threat.

1812
02:36:38,860 --> 02:36:42,780
It was something that I did not understand really at all, like what the appeal was.

1813
02:36:44,060 --> 02:36:50,380
Cause remember too, that this is back when like, like, uh, ephemeral temporary things were,

1814
02:36:50,380 --> 02:36:53,900
were super trendy, like periscope, like, yeah, you're live.

1815
02:36:53,900 --> 02:36:58,620
And then, and then after you're live, there's no vaude, it's gone. And I was like, okay.

1816
02:36:58,620 --> 02:37:03,260
So that seems dumb, but because then you can never refer back to it.

1817
02:37:04,300 --> 02:37:08,540
Which in retrospect, maybe I should have done most of my career like that because

1818
02:37:08,540 --> 02:37:10,620
I would have saved myself a lot of controversies.

1819
02:37:13,180 --> 02:37:17,260
And I remember just wanting some kind of foothold in live.

1820
02:37:17,260 --> 02:37:22,140
And what I came up with was Q and A's, which was not a pitch at all.

1821
02:37:22,140 --> 02:37:25,340
This sounds accurate to what I've heard you say in the past. Okay.

1822
02:37:25,340 --> 02:37:29,020
Yeah. I remember pushing for the car talks thing like many times.

1823
02:37:29,020 --> 02:37:32,700
So this is the original show. I think this is the very first live stream, right?

1824
02:37:32,700 --> 02:37:36,140
Yes. And then it looks like you did two months of these.

1825
02:37:36,140 --> 02:37:39,180
Linus Tech Tips live show. One, two, three, four.

1826
02:37:39,180 --> 02:37:41,900
No, I think the first one is called Q and A though.

1827
02:37:42,620 --> 02:37:47,180
This is maybe the first one in the playlist. This is the first that I remember.

1828
02:37:47,180 --> 02:37:51,580
This isn't even our playlist. Our playlist only goes back to like 2021.

1829
02:37:51,580 --> 02:37:54,620
Is there an older one? This is the first one I remember.

1830
02:37:54,620 --> 02:37:56,860
I could be wrong. Man.

1831
02:37:57,660 --> 02:38:00,940
September 2020. I remember that shirt. September 2012, sorry.

1832
02:38:00,940 --> 02:38:06,300
You can barely tell with the crappy dynamic range, but it has horizontal pink and white stripes.

1833
02:38:06,300 --> 02:38:08,940
Oh yeah, you can sort of... What was I thinking?

1834
02:38:10,860 --> 02:38:15,020
You know? No wonder only 37,000 people watched it.

1835
02:38:15,020 --> 02:38:17,100
It's trash. How did the second... It's trash. Get rid of it.

1836
02:38:18,780 --> 02:38:23,100
Even worse. And then... Well, you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again, right?

1837
02:38:23,100 --> 02:38:26,220
A little bit more. And then a little bit more.

1838
02:38:27,260 --> 02:38:30,460
No, it's going to get way better when you join. Hey, look at this. I've got a monitor.

1839
02:38:30,460 --> 02:38:32,780
That's a pretty good idea. Well, you're up quite a bit.

1840
02:38:34,620 --> 02:38:35,980
The set's a little better now.

1841
02:38:38,060 --> 02:38:43,420
The shirt's cooler now. Look at this haircut. Look at this haircut. It's trash. You got the flying V going on in your head.

1842
02:38:43,420 --> 02:38:46,700
Trash haircut. The couch shows up.

1843
02:38:46,700 --> 02:38:49,260
Oh, it's a couch. Let's go.

1844
02:38:50,860 --> 02:38:54,060
And then hold on. Where's broken wing? The couch still exists. Where's broken wing?

1845
02:38:54,060 --> 02:38:58,540
And then broken wing shows up. How does it do? Boom. Hey, the WAN Show.

1846
02:38:58,540 --> 02:39:01,980
That's the first WAN Show. November 9th, 2012.

1847
02:39:03,260 --> 02:39:06,940
Heck yeah. How does a follow-up do?

1848
02:39:06,940 --> 02:39:09,820
In case you're wondering, he got hit by a car. Not nearly as well.

1849
02:39:11,260 --> 02:39:16,140
Yeah, yeah. Dude, the scars that I have from that still exist.

1850
02:39:16,140 --> 02:39:20,300
And I got... Well, that's how scars work. Well, yeah. It's not a scar if it goes away.

1851
02:39:20,300 --> 02:39:24,940
The lab. I'm just saying. The lab's team. It's one of those things where people will walk in,

1852
02:39:24,940 --> 02:39:29,740
they'll be like, man, you wouldn't believe it. This is crazy. I got electrocuted by the toaster.

1853
02:39:29,740 --> 02:39:31,980
And I'm like, bro, stop right now.

1854
02:39:32,940 --> 02:39:35,980
Because if you're not dead, you were not electrocuted. You're not electrocuted.

1855
02:39:35,980 --> 02:39:39,580
Yeah. It's like poisonous and poison and venom.

1856
02:39:41,020 --> 02:39:44,460
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, poisonous and venomous.

1857
02:39:44,460 --> 02:39:47,820
So you have a permanent scar. Yes, carry on. Tell us about your scar.

1858
02:39:47,820 --> 02:39:53,420
All my knuckles on this hand. It's permanent. And I got shot in airsoft directly on one of them.

1859
02:39:53,420 --> 02:39:58,540
And it already sucks to get shot in a knuckle. And then it's like also on the scarring.

1860
02:39:58,540 --> 02:40:03,900
And it really sucks. That's so funny. I got shot in the knuckle playing airsoft just the other day.

1861
02:40:03,900 --> 02:40:12,860
I think this is it. Oh, yeah. I bought a couple of just like crappy little like spring load airsoft pistols.

1862
02:40:12,860 --> 02:40:16,860
Don't demonetize me, YouTube. I made a gun shape with my hand.

1863
02:40:16,860 --> 02:40:20,860
It's a walkie talkie shape. Yeah. Check, check. Roger over.

1864
02:40:21,820 --> 02:40:24,620
Wilco. Team speak. You already said over.

1865
02:40:25,980 --> 02:40:28,300
Copy. 10-4, good buddy.

1866
02:40:29,980 --> 02:40:33,660
Anyway, yeah, that's such a coincidence. I was just goofing around with the kid.

1867
02:40:33,660 --> 02:40:37,660
What were you doing playing airsoft? With the lab team. I know, but it's for the sake of them.

1868
02:40:37,660 --> 02:40:42,780
Oh, we were just hanging out. Remember the whole thing where we talked about the week and then we pretend we haven't talked to each other?

1869
02:40:43,660 --> 02:40:47,820
There was a long period where we really hadn't talked to each other at all

1870
02:40:47,820 --> 02:40:56,300
other than Wancho throughout the week. Yeah, there was an initiative from mostly, I don't know if they want to be named for this or not.

1871
02:40:56,860 --> 02:41:00,300
So I will not, but maybe, I don't know. Does that matter?

1872
02:41:00,300 --> 02:41:03,660
Should I just say it? I don't know. I have no idea what you're talking about.

1873
02:41:03,660 --> 02:41:08,860
One of the Labs members is very into it and basically put out an inquiry of like,

1874
02:41:08,860 --> 02:41:11,100
are other Labs people interested in going? Cool.

1875
02:41:11,900 --> 02:41:17,260
And people were, so they went. And I think it's open to people outside of Labs as well.

1876
02:41:17,260 --> 02:41:21,740
But like, it's easier to organize within your own little group. So it's mostly just been lab stuff so far.

1877
02:41:22,940 --> 02:41:27,340
And then. I didn't get an invite. I literally invited you last time.

1878
02:41:27,340 --> 02:41:29,660
I invited you to come to the next one last time.

1879
02:41:30,700 --> 02:41:36,860
I can go find the message. Okay. I mean, if you don't tell me when the next time is coming, that's not really a very good invite.

1880
02:41:36,860 --> 02:41:39,900
I think we figured out a date today. It's not like a birthday. I haven't had time.

1881
02:41:39,900 --> 02:41:44,860
It's not like a birthday where I could say, hey, well, I'd love to have you at my next birthday.

1882
02:41:44,860 --> 02:41:46,860
And it will be on a consistent date.

1883
02:41:48,300 --> 02:41:50,700
It's, it's often not.

1884
02:41:52,300 --> 02:41:55,980
Birthday parties are often not on a specific date. I didn't say birthday party.

1885
02:41:55,980 --> 02:41:58,460
I said birthday. Oh, okay. Yeah.

1886
02:41:59,420 --> 02:42:01,660
Boom. Who gets invited to a birthday? Boom.

1887
02:42:02,860 --> 02:42:06,540
Well, I'd like your presence to be there during a birthday.

1888
02:42:06,540 --> 02:42:12,540
Yeah. Not the birthday party. Birthday parties on the weekend. You're not invited to that, but I would like you to be there.

1889
02:42:13,500 --> 02:42:14,540
Just around.

1890
02:42:16,700 --> 02:42:18,460
I'm going to go to work if you could just come with me.

1891
02:42:23,340 --> 02:42:26,620
Wow. That was. I'm good.

1892
02:42:26,620 --> 02:42:29,900
Wow. That sounded like it was probably very satisfying.

1893
02:42:31,180 --> 02:42:34,460
It was in between satisfying and painful. And painful. Dang.

1894
02:42:34,460 --> 02:42:38,300
Yeah. All right. Well, anyways, I have no idea where we're at right now.

1895
02:42:38,300 --> 02:42:42,780
Let's do another topic. Spotify is adding direct messages.

1896
02:42:43,820 --> 02:42:46,620
What? What?

1897
02:42:47,820 --> 02:42:51,020
Why? Oh, the rest of it is for some reason.

1898
02:42:53,180 --> 02:42:54,300
What is the point in this?

1899
02:42:58,220 --> 02:43:04,060
You can send a DM from a song, send the song link as a DM.

1900
02:43:05,180 --> 02:43:07,820
So conversation can follow. About the song.

1901
02:43:08,780 --> 02:43:12,460
No one needed this. You can send a song link off platform.

1902
02:43:13,100 --> 02:43:18,540
And when that person opens it, it can play from Spotify from within their DMs

1903
02:43:18,540 --> 02:43:21,740
so that you can reply there instead of off platform.

1904
02:43:23,100 --> 02:43:26,460
This can be clicked on by people who aren't your Spotify friend.

1905
02:43:27,100 --> 02:43:29,660
They have to request to DM you.

1906
02:43:31,500 --> 02:43:35,340
Basically. So in development unit within Spotify, just really,

1907
02:43:36,140 --> 02:43:40,620
really needed something to do. I got to imagine that that's how this went down.

1908
02:43:41,180 --> 02:43:43,340
Or hear me out.

1909
02:43:45,900 --> 02:43:49,500
Absolutely everything needs DMs now.

1910
02:43:50,300 --> 02:43:54,380
And Spotify just was recognizing an overwhelming trend

1911
02:43:55,340 --> 02:43:57,980
and was compelled to get on board.

1912
02:43:59,020 --> 02:44:03,180
Dude, do you have any idea how many apps on my phone

1913
02:44:04,220 --> 02:44:06,700
are capable of sending messages to other people?

1914
02:44:07,660 --> 02:44:12,940
I do not need more apps to send messages.

1915
02:44:16,460 --> 02:44:20,140
Yeah. Like I'm a messaging chameleon.

1916
02:44:20,140 --> 02:44:26,540
Like on my phone right now, with unread messages,

1917
02:44:26,540 --> 02:44:32,940
I have WhatsApp, I have SMS, I have email, and I have Teams.

1918
02:44:32,940 --> 02:44:36,140
That's just with unread messages in the period of time

1919
02:44:36,140 --> 02:44:44,780
since I've last touched my phone and cleared things that I don't need. Other than that, I have Discord, WeChat, Messenger, Instagram.

1920
02:44:45,420 --> 02:44:47,580
I have TikTok has DMs, right?

1921
02:44:48,540 --> 02:44:55,020
I have Steam chat. Like, oh, does Twitch have DMs?

1922
02:44:55,020 --> 02:44:58,780
Trying to remember. Meanwhile, he's just reading his DMs.

1923
02:44:58,780 --> 02:45:02,380
No, I got to read this now message. Twitch does have DMs.

1924
02:45:02,380 --> 02:45:05,660
Yeah, okay. How could I possibly?

1925
02:45:05,660 --> 02:45:10,140
Oh yeah, I forgot about Gmail also has chat built into it.

1926
02:45:10,700 --> 02:45:13,100
There's too many.

1927
02:45:14,300 --> 02:45:19,260
Oh, yeah, no, I don't use it regularly, but I have Signal,

1928
02:45:19,260 --> 02:45:24,140
I think it is. I have either Signal or Telegram or something.

1929
02:45:24,140 --> 02:45:28,860
Occasionally, there's a contact that will message me there, so I have to make sure that I have it.

1930
02:45:28,860 --> 02:45:35,180
I have to have all the things. I mean, and I'm not even counting the ones that do have specific DM function,

1931
02:45:35,180 --> 02:45:38,780
like Uber, where you can DM your driver. I'm not going to count that.

1932
02:45:38,780 --> 02:45:43,340
I'm not going to count that. I'm just saying there's, I mean, you can DM people through Google Docs,

1933
02:45:43,340 --> 02:45:50,060
if you really want to. There's just, there's no shortage of places that I can send direct messages,

1934
02:45:50,060 --> 02:45:52,620
and I don't need more of them. Thank you very much, Spotify.

1935
02:45:53,180 --> 02:45:59,900
Please screw off with your social media building features of your website,

1936
02:45:59,900 --> 02:46:03,340
because, and this is really is the biggest reason,

1937
02:46:03,340 --> 02:46:08,540
because normally I could just ignore it. I could pretend that this feature completely doesn't exist,

1938
02:46:09,180 --> 02:46:15,020
but what another DM inbox means to me is another place that I can get spammed,

1939
02:46:15,020 --> 02:46:18,220
and that I can get notifications cluttering up my biz.

1940
02:46:22,220 --> 02:46:27,740
Please stop. No more notifications, no more inboxes.

1941
02:46:27,740 --> 02:46:33,180
Do you need another inbox, Luke? I wish I had less. So the reason why I originally picked up my phone was to check the,

1942
02:46:34,220 --> 02:46:36,700
the like messages communication.

1943
02:46:37,740 --> 02:46:41,500
Nice. Yeah. Just too many. Oh yeah. You got threads in there.

1944
02:46:41,500 --> 02:46:44,620
You got blue sky. Why are they all blue?

1945
02:46:44,620 --> 02:46:47,820
So no line, WeChat, meat, what's that? All blue.

1946
02:46:47,820 --> 02:46:52,620
Other meat. Oh yeah. I have line on my other phone. Threads, teams, Telegram messenger.

1947
02:46:52,620 --> 02:46:58,700
A lot of these, I never, ever use them. And you know that some non-tax savvy person with Spotify

1948
02:46:58,700 --> 02:47:02,540
is going to get some spam Nigerian Prince DM and like,

1949
02:47:02,540 --> 02:47:06,620
it's just, it's another bloody attack vector. And it doesn't need to be there.

1950
02:47:06,620 --> 02:47:10,060
A lot of these, it's cause like one person that I know uses it

1951
02:47:10,060 --> 02:47:15,980
and they just like refuse to use anything else. And it's like, okay, I guess.

1952
02:47:15,980 --> 02:47:21,020
I mean, that's why I have one of mine. And the person who won't use anything else is you.

1953
02:47:22,460 --> 02:47:25,660
There's no way you don't have other people that you communicate with over that.

1954
02:47:25,660 --> 02:47:27,900
On Discord? Yeah. There's no way.

1955
02:47:29,020 --> 02:47:32,700
You have played games of other people on Discord when I am not there. That has happened.

1956
02:47:32,700 --> 02:47:34,460
I wouldn't need it on my phone for anyone else.

1957
02:47:35,900 --> 02:47:41,980
Like, here, look how far you have to go to find people I haven't spoken to in over a month.

1958
02:47:43,340 --> 02:47:47,180
You are literally- We can use something else. We can use something else.

1959
02:47:47,180 --> 02:47:51,900
I, now, I understand his hesitation.

1960
02:47:52,780 --> 02:47:57,020
But I have told you, I'm on WhatsApp. That's what I primarily use.

1961
02:47:57,260 --> 02:48:02,700
So you're the guy that is the reason that I have to use Discord on mobile.

1962
02:48:02,700 --> 02:48:07,580
I do have it now though. You're the guy. If you really want to use it, it's installed now.

1963
02:48:07,580 --> 02:48:11,100
But you know what, you know what this means? Is I would do that for you.

1964
02:48:12,700 --> 02:48:18,060
I would, I would do, I would do that for you. You are worth, you are worth maintaining.

1965
02:48:18,060 --> 02:48:21,820
When I get, see honestly, this is actually kind of hilarious because

1966
02:48:22,460 --> 02:48:28,780
I think that would be a super cool feature for a messaging app if the,

1967
02:48:31,580 --> 02:48:36,460
if the, the icon, the like lock screen icon could be different for your different contacts.

1968
02:48:37,100 --> 02:48:42,140
Because when I get a Discord icon, I know it's probably you.

1969
02:48:43,740 --> 02:48:50,460
That actually, that would be kind of cool. I don't- Maybe what we should do is we should build DMs into Flow Plane.

1970
02:48:51,980 --> 02:48:56,220
We'll turn Flow Plane into a messaging platform and that'll be our key feature.

1971
02:48:56,220 --> 02:49:02,940
Is you can assign a different notification icon to your key contacts so that at a glance,

1972
02:49:02,940 --> 02:49:06,700
you can like be excited to hear from your BFF. Is that possible?

1973
02:49:06,700 --> 02:49:11,980
Oh, probably not. I don't care. I don't think so. I'm, I'm, I'm just saying that whenever I get a-

1974
02:49:11,980 --> 02:49:14,700
Call Flow Plane DMs airmail. Whenever I see a-

1975
02:49:19,340 --> 02:49:23,660
Sorry, it scrolled off my screen, but that was a great idea. No, it's not a great idea.

1976
02:49:23,660 --> 02:49:26,780
It's 2025. It's Naki. It's 2025.

1977
02:49:26,780 --> 02:49:28,220
It has to be air gender neutral.

1978
02:49:29,820 --> 02:49:32,460
He's not there to ding me. Dang it. No, it wasn't even worth it.

1979
02:49:40,940 --> 02:49:41,180
Yep.

1980
02:49:45,980 --> 02:49:49,500
Guess what? What? Monkey Butt.

1981
02:49:49,500 --> 02:49:53,260
Scrap Your Roars is ready to publish. Oh, okay. Sure. Let's do that thing.

1982
02:49:53,260 --> 02:49:57,420
Yeah. FlowPlane.com.

1983
02:49:57,420 --> 02:50:00,540
All right. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Do you want to start another topic in the meantime?

1984
02:50:01,260 --> 02:50:05,500
Sure. Oh, no, that's your topic.

1985
02:50:05,500 --> 02:50:09,100
I will leave you that. I know you want that. I want a topic?

1986
02:50:09,100 --> 02:50:12,780
You want a topic. You want it pretty bad, I think.

1987
02:50:12,780 --> 02:50:16,220
Do I? Yep. Okay. Hold on here. I'll, uh, okay.

1988
02:50:16,220 --> 02:50:19,340
We're doing it. I can do this other one. We're doing it. Scrap Your Roars. Boom.

1989
02:50:20,700 --> 02:50:23,900
She's live, baby. Scrap Your Roars, part three. Let's go.

1990
02:50:23,900 --> 02:50:27,660
And, uh, this really, this really was the vibe.

1991
02:50:31,820 --> 02:50:32,700
Man, I...

1992
02:50:36,780 --> 02:50:39,580
Your team went through some things.

1993
02:50:42,300 --> 02:50:44,700
I just watched it this morning. Wow.

1994
02:50:46,860 --> 02:50:49,740
Wow. Um... I haven't seen it yet.

1995
02:50:50,540 --> 02:50:52,540
I can only imagine. Yeah.

1996
02:50:54,780 --> 02:50:57,980
This is, this isn't the end, right? No. Oh, yeah.

1997
02:50:57,980 --> 02:51:01,260
No, the last one has the last two hours of scramble

1998
02:51:01,260 --> 02:51:04,540
on the final morning and the judging. So that'll be coming.

1999
02:51:04,540 --> 02:51:07,740
So there's more to go for sure. There's more to go. That last two hours is...

2000
02:51:08,700 --> 02:51:12,060
I can, no, they tee up the last two hours very well.

2001
02:51:12,060 --> 02:51:14,780
It's full of stuff. Yeah. Yep.

2002
02:51:15,580 --> 02:51:19,020
Uh, there will be a commentary version on Floatplane.

2003
02:51:19,020 --> 02:51:23,100
Uh, the Not So Bright says. Oh, really? Yeah. We announced that earlier this show.

2004
02:51:23,820 --> 02:51:28,860
So you... Who's commentating? Clearly weren't paying attention. There's going to be a live stream, I think,

2005
02:51:28,860 --> 02:51:32,460
in a couple weeks. Who's doing that? Um... Everybody.

2006
02:51:32,460 --> 02:51:35,740
Yeah, except us. Oh. Yeah, you don't get to be involved.

2007
02:51:35,740 --> 02:51:41,580
Yeah, we get no voice in this. Oh, boy. So our teams get to say exactly what they think of us

2008
02:51:41,580 --> 02:51:46,860
and our leadership. I'm probably going to get flayed, and it's probably fine.

2009
02:51:46,860 --> 02:51:49,980
I was barely alive that whole week. Yeah.

2010
02:51:49,980 --> 02:51:53,420
It's a Floatplane exclusive on September 9th. All right.

2011
02:51:55,420 --> 02:51:59,820
Uh, okay. Florida and Texas have teamed up to save the children.

2012
02:51:59,820 --> 02:52:03,580
Schools in Florida districts will begin training the use of armed...

2013
02:52:03,580 --> 02:52:11,580
What? What are we doing?

2014
02:52:11,580 --> 02:52:17,580
They're going to be trialing the use of armed drones to respond to school shooting incidents

2015
02:52:17,580 --> 02:52:23,900
starting in the coming school year. The drones a product of campus guardian angel.

2016
02:52:23,900 --> 02:52:27,260
The drone is a product of campus guardian angel.

2017
02:52:27,340 --> 02:52:36,780
Sorry, it's not funny. It's just why are we living in the actual dumbest possible timeline?

2018
02:52:38,780 --> 02:52:43,740
The drone's a product of campus guardian angel, which sounds like the evil corporation

2019
02:52:43,740 --> 02:52:50,620
in a video game, will be securely pre-positioned on charging pads on the school year.

2020
02:52:50,940 --> 02:52:57,100
Starting in September and October and can reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour indoors

2021
02:52:58,460 --> 02:53:02,940
and 100 miles per hour outdoors, allowing them to quickly cover large campuses.

2022
02:53:02,940 --> 02:53:09,020
The drones are flown remotely by operators at the company's Austin headquarters and can provide

2023
02:53:09,020 --> 02:53:13,500
real-time video to first responders and deployed non-lethal.

2024
02:53:13,500 --> 02:53:18,380
And less lethal, which is always a really fun term.

2025
02:53:18,380 --> 02:53:22,380
What does less lethal mean? It means you probably won't die.

2026
02:53:24,380 --> 02:53:28,380
Anyway, it's less lethal weapons to... Well, it depends on where you get hit.

2027
02:53:28,380 --> 02:53:38,380
You got two arms. Yeah, I mean even a 22 is going to get you if it goes right between your ribcage and into your heart.

2028
02:53:39,260 --> 02:53:45,260
In your eyeball can also be a rough one because you got a bunch of brain goop back there.

2029
02:53:45,260 --> 02:53:49,260
I mean, speak for yourself. I said you.

2030
02:53:49,260 --> 02:53:53,260
You've got... You got a lot of brain goop going on.

2031
02:53:53,260 --> 02:53:57,260
I meant what I said. You got that good brain goop.

2032
02:53:57,260 --> 02:54:01,260
Thank you, I appreciate that. No problem.

2033
02:54:01,260 --> 02:54:05,260
If I understood what you said, which I don't think I do.

2034
02:54:06,140 --> 02:54:16,140
Anyways. Yeah, so they can do non-lethal and less lethal weapons to distract, disorient, and incapacitate shooters.

2035
02:54:16,140 --> 02:54:20,140
The system is expected to be fully operational by January. Discussion question.

2036
02:54:20,140 --> 02:54:24,140
How would you feel about this kind of system being installed at your kid's school?

2037
02:54:24,140 --> 02:54:32,140
I'm going to be honest with you. If my kids went to school in Florida, I'd actually probably be glad that it's there.

2038
02:54:33,020 --> 02:54:37,020
I realize that's going to be... I don't know.

2039
02:54:37,020 --> 02:54:45,020
I always find it interesting seeing the way that the buckets that people try to fit me into.

2040
02:54:45,020 --> 02:54:49,020
I think there's going to be a lot of people that... They're like, wait.

2041
02:54:49,020 --> 02:54:53,020
Find that to be a very unexpected take. I'm a lot less concerned now that I read the whole thing.

2042
02:54:53,020 --> 02:54:57,020
When I first read armed drones, usually when you say armed, you mean like...

2043
02:54:57,020 --> 02:55:01,020
Fire armed. I thought it was flying drone with a gun.

2044
02:55:01,100 --> 02:55:05,100
Now it's like flying drone with maybe a gun that shoots beanbags.

2045
02:55:05,100 --> 02:55:09,100
Those beanbags can be really brutal. But it also said non-lethal.

2046
02:55:09,100 --> 02:55:17,100
And if it's like a drone that whips over to an area and can get to a target and like...

2047
02:55:17,100 --> 02:55:27,100
I don't know, mace or whatever else, put some type of irritant agent.

2048
02:55:27,100 --> 02:55:31,180
What are they called that make you cry and you can't see very well necessarily? So that you can't execute your plan.

2049
02:55:31,180 --> 02:55:37,180
That could be pretty good in areas where this is consistently a problem.

2050
02:55:37,180 --> 02:55:41,180
Pepper ball. Pepper ball is a thing.

2051
02:55:41,180 --> 02:55:45,180
Look, I'd... Tasers interesting because people have died from tasers.

2052
02:55:45,180 --> 02:55:49,180
Yeah, tasers is a tough one. But it does save...

2053
02:55:49,180 --> 02:55:53,180
It's also a lot harder to aim. Yeah, tasers are...

2054
02:55:53,180 --> 02:55:57,180
You got to be exactly the right distance from the target and all that. If they're wearing like a thick sweater or a jacket.

2055
02:55:57,260 --> 02:56:05,260
You know, this actually reminds me. There's an anti-theft, like a burglary countermeasure that you can deploy in stores

2056
02:56:05,260 --> 02:56:09,260
that basically just puts out like a thick fog.

2057
02:56:09,260 --> 02:56:13,260
And as much as... Okay, just hear me out.

2058
02:56:13,260 --> 02:56:17,260
How toxic is that to breathe? Hear me out.

2059
02:56:17,260 --> 02:56:23,260
Apparently it's non-toxic. But I'm not actually advocating for the thick fog, but you did bring up irritants.

2060
02:56:23,260 --> 02:56:31,340
Yeah. Would I rather that an entire school of children gets pepper sprayed?

2061
02:56:31,340 --> 02:56:37,340
Or would I rather... But it incapacitates an attacker?

2062
02:56:37,340 --> 02:56:43,340
Or would I rather let a couple lambs be...

2063
02:56:45,340 --> 02:56:49,340
I don't think anyone's ever died from an eye irritant.

2064
02:56:49,340 --> 02:56:53,340
Yes, although rare. Really?

2065
02:56:53,420 --> 02:56:55,420
The allergy.

2066
02:56:57,420 --> 02:57:01,420
Subjected to other restraining techniques during the pepper spray that's also interesting.

2067
02:57:01,420 --> 02:57:05,420
Or had a severe reaction to the spray, such as something I can't properly pronounce.

2068
02:57:05,420 --> 02:57:09,420
Here it is. This is the one, security fog.

2069
02:57:09,420 --> 02:57:13,420
Security fog. How thick is this fog?

2070
02:57:13,420 --> 02:57:17,420
It's thick. That looks pretty thick.

2071
02:57:17,420 --> 02:57:21,420
She's thick like, damn girl, she's thick. Like you're not finding anything in there.

2072
02:57:21,500 --> 02:57:31,500
Wow. So the idea is to disorient anyone who's trying to find stuff and move around.

2073
02:57:31,500 --> 02:57:35,500
Yeah, the more you run around in there, the more you're going to toss the fog around, make it harder to see.

2074
02:57:35,500 --> 02:57:41,500
Well, we're gone now. So that's like 15, 20 seconds, 30 seconds maybe.

2075
02:57:41,500 --> 02:57:45,500
It takes some time. It does take some time, but you've got to be...

2076
02:57:45,500 --> 02:57:49,500
I mean, we've been robbed before. We know about how long it takes.

2077
02:57:49,580 --> 02:57:55,580
It takes them a couple minutes, no matter how fast they are. There's also going to be a moment of like, what the heck is happening?

2078
02:57:55,580 --> 02:57:59,580
That's a full warehouse. It's not an indoor sort of foot ceiling, right?

2079
02:57:59,580 --> 02:58:05,580
I saw one with like a convenience store that was like fast, like really fast.

2080
02:58:05,580 --> 02:58:09,580
I think like a fog...

2081
02:58:09,580 --> 02:58:17,580
If you could have like a fog counter measure with like a thermally equipped drone or something like that,

2082
02:58:17,660 --> 02:58:21,660
look, I'm going to be pro...

2083
02:58:21,660 --> 02:58:25,660
Okay, I'm not going to get into the debate.

2084
02:58:25,660 --> 02:58:29,660
I thought it was a drone with like a gun that shoots bullets.

2085
02:58:29,660 --> 02:58:33,660
I'm not going to get into the debate, you know, in terms of like firearms culture in the U.S.

2086
02:58:33,660 --> 02:58:37,660
That's y'all's thing to figure out.

2087
02:58:37,660 --> 02:58:43,660
All I'll say is that... All I'll say is that things are what they are at the moment.

2088
02:58:43,740 --> 02:58:55,740
There's clearly a mental health crisis and issues that are leading people to commit these heinous acts.

2089
02:58:55,740 --> 02:59:03,740
And if this drone deployment thing saves one kid, then it's worth it to me 100%.

2090
02:59:03,740 --> 02:59:07,740
Do I think that this is something that could save one kid?

2091
02:59:07,740 --> 02:59:15,820
Yeah, probably. I feel I'm much more interested in the non-lethal aspects and not because I'm like, oh my god, save the shooter.

2092
02:59:15,820 --> 02:59:23,820
It's just shooting a rubber bullet or a beanbag at an active shooter.

2093
02:59:23,820 --> 02:59:33,820
I feel like encourages them to go faster, not actually stops them personally.

2094
02:59:33,900 --> 02:59:39,900
And I feel like a lot of the non-lethal options, like the smoke or...

2095
02:59:39,900 --> 02:59:43,900
I don't know if they're putting pepper spray in non-lethal or less lethal.

2096
02:59:43,900 --> 02:59:49,900
I'm assuming they're putting it in non-lethal. I think it might have been a type of it, might be less than lethal.

2097
02:59:49,900 --> 02:59:55,900
Whenever they include the less, there are versions where people like definitely die.

2098
02:59:55,900 --> 02:59:59,900
Because if there's kids involved, it only takes one... Because a high impact to a head is like...

2099
02:59:59,900 --> 03:00:03,980
Right. Things happen.

2100
03:00:03,980 --> 03:00:09,980
People die in street fights with punches all the time. Now you're putting a projectile, stuff happens.

2101
03:00:09,980 --> 03:00:13,980
Rubber bullets kill people. It's totally a thing.

2102
03:00:13,980 --> 03:00:17,980
Someone's talking about tactical strobe lights. Things that can...

2103
03:00:17,980 --> 03:00:21,980
I'd love to be... That's a cool idea in a place that this does happen.

2104
03:00:21,980 --> 03:00:27,980
Anything disorienting that can slow them down is...

2105
03:00:28,060 --> 03:00:34,060
As long as it doesn't have the potential side effect of permanently damaging a child...

2106
03:00:34,060 --> 03:00:38,060
Yeah, that's the part I'm worried about. It's worth a shot, man.

2107
03:00:38,060 --> 03:00:44,060
Do something that seems cool. Yeah, the general concept I'm actually not that against.

2108
03:00:44,060 --> 03:00:56,060
I don't like the idea of it being a flying gun controlled by a remote operator that might be difficult to stop.

2109
03:00:56,140 --> 03:01:00,140
Because then you could have the issues with the remote operators. Yep.

2110
03:01:00,140 --> 03:01:04,140
And you also have... I don't know...

2111
03:01:04,140 --> 03:01:12,140
How is the... How is the persistent on target of that flying gun?

2112
03:01:14,140 --> 03:01:18,140
I don't know. What is the chance that it misses?

2113
03:01:18,140 --> 03:01:22,220
Hit somebody that isn't the intended target. So...

2114
03:01:22,220 --> 03:01:26,220
Yeah. Again, good luck, America.

2115
03:01:28,220 --> 03:01:34,220
It's interesting. AMD let the cat out of the bag and now the cat won't go back in the bag.

2116
03:01:34,220 --> 03:01:38,220
Imagine that. You ever tried to put a cat in a bag?

2117
03:01:38,220 --> 03:01:42,220
Yeah, this makes sense. This week, AMD released...

2118
03:01:42,220 --> 03:01:46,220
Was it last week? At some point, AMD released the FidelityFX SDK 2.0.

2119
03:01:46,300 --> 03:01:50,300
Which... Just happened to contain FSR4.

2120
03:01:50,300 --> 03:01:52,300
And this may turn out to be an irrevocable mistake.

2121
03:01:54,300 --> 03:02:02,300
Although they quickly took down the source code, once something is released as open source under the MIT license, apparently it cannot be revoked.

2122
03:02:02,300 --> 03:02:08,300
Users can legally use, modify, and even release their own forks of the project.

2123
03:02:08,300 --> 03:02:14,300
And although every previous version of FSR was already open source, there had been no announcement made about FSR4.

2124
03:02:14,380 --> 03:02:26,380
The leaked version of FSR4 also included support for intake shaders, which means that they may be testing the currently locked to 9000 series feature on older cards.

2125
03:02:26,380 --> 03:02:30,380
Realistically, AMD was probably going to be cool about this eventually.

2126
03:02:30,380 --> 03:02:36,380
And I'm a little annoyed on their behalf that it's... their hand is kind of being forced before they can...

2127
03:02:36,380 --> 03:02:42,380
Especially because they are usually really cool about this. Yeah, if they weren't usually cool about it, I'd be like, ah, corporation!

2128
03:02:42,460 --> 03:02:48,460
And to be clear, AMD is not cool about everything, but this is something that they've been pretty cool about.

2129
03:02:48,460 --> 03:02:52,460
Especially compared to competitors, they've been very nice to the open source.

2130
03:02:52,460 --> 03:03:00,460
I kind of feel for them. I kind of feel for them. I'm down with them, but I'm also down with just like new features being available to everybody for free, so that's cool.

2131
03:03:00,460 --> 03:03:04,460
Ah, good job everyone. And hey, new features available.

2132
03:03:04,460 --> 03:03:08,460
This, I thought was impossible.

2133
03:03:08,460 --> 03:03:20,540
Framework announced this week. Framework announced this week that you can now get the Framework laptop 16 with the GeForce RTX 5070.

2134
03:03:20,540 --> 03:03:24,540
And that is a pretty remarkable thing.

2135
03:03:24,540 --> 03:03:26,540
You know what's more remarkable about it?

2136
03:03:28,540 --> 03:03:38,540
You can also order the Framework laptop 16 investment disclosure graphics module with the GeForce RTX 5070

2137
03:03:38,620 --> 03:03:44,620
and upgrade your laptop's graphics for exceptional gaming and blah, blah, blah, blah, upgrade your laptop.

2138
03:03:44,620 --> 03:03:46,620
Are you going to do it?

2139
03:03:54,620 --> 03:03:57,620
What? Are you going to do it? They did it.

2140
03:03:57,620 --> 03:04:01,620
Are you going to do it? Oh, I mean, I don't know about that, but they did it.

2141
03:04:01,620 --> 03:04:05,620
It's sick. They did it. I have no idea how they pulled that off.

2142
03:04:05,620 --> 03:04:11,620
They did it. Luke, they did it. Dude, companies, companies have been sued.

2143
03:04:11,620 --> 03:04:21,620
Companies have lost millions of dollars in previous attempts to deliver an upgradeable GPU freaking laptop.

2144
03:04:21,620 --> 03:04:28,620
And not only did Framework do it, Framework did it with NVIDIA.

2145
03:04:28,620 --> 03:04:32,620
Dude, do you know how long NVIDIA has been trying to kill?

2146
03:04:33,620 --> 03:04:36,620
Like laptop GPU modules.

2147
03:04:36,620 --> 03:04:42,620
Every generation, they say we're not doing MXM anymore.

2148
03:04:42,620 --> 03:04:49,620
Forget it. ASRock's Desk Mini, those cute little desktops that had the CPU here and then they had a little MXM slot

2149
03:04:49,620 --> 03:04:54,620
so you could put a GPU on it. I have like a 1080 based one at home.

2150
03:04:54,620 --> 03:04:58,620
Dead because of no support for MXM.

2151
03:04:58,620 --> 03:05:03,620
Laptops with interchangeable, what GPU you get in it where you can customize it before you buy it.

2152
03:05:03,620 --> 03:05:09,620
On life support, practically dead because NVIDIA doesn't want to support the standard.

2153
03:05:09,620 --> 03:05:12,620
As far as I can tell. Oh, who was it?

2154
03:05:12,620 --> 03:05:18,620
Silverstone had this super cool eGPU, like Thunderbolt eGPU that was going to use MXM.

2155
03:05:18,620 --> 03:05:21,620
So it was going to be really small and flipping, freaking awesome.

2156
03:05:21,620 --> 03:05:25,620
Killed because they couldn't get the support for MXM.

2157
03:05:25,620 --> 03:05:29,620
How did they do this? I have no idea.

2158
03:05:31,620 --> 03:05:35,620
This is crazy. It's pretty wild.

2159
03:05:37,620 --> 03:05:40,620
Upgradable graphics. On a laptop.

2160
03:05:40,620 --> 03:05:44,620
I mean, I've only got a couple options. Do you think it will continue?

2161
03:05:44,620 --> 03:05:51,620
Do you think they're going to have a 6070? Well, I would have told you no, it's impossible.

2162
03:05:51,620 --> 03:05:55,620
One thing that worries me about this is, okay, cool.

2163
03:05:55,620 --> 03:05:58,620
I can upgrade as in repair.

2164
03:05:58,620 --> 03:06:02,620
Can I upgrade? Well, no, this is a 6070.

2165
03:06:02,620 --> 03:06:05,620
Will there be a 7070? Is there a path forward?

2166
03:06:05,620 --> 03:06:11,620
So what's cool about frameworks interface is it's just PCIe by 8.

2167
03:06:11,620 --> 03:06:14,620
That's all it is. It's custom.

2168
03:06:14,620 --> 03:06:20,620
I believe they, I don't know how open they made it, but fairly open.

2169
03:06:21,620 --> 03:06:25,620
So I'm pretty sure just about anyone can like make something that attaches to it,

2170
03:06:25,620 --> 03:06:29,620
but they did have to create something scratch because they just didn't exist

2171
03:06:29,620 --> 03:06:37,620
an interface that they could use for their geometry of the GPU installation anyway.

2172
03:06:37,620 --> 03:06:42,620
So there's no technical reason why just about any GPU couldn't plug into it.

2173
03:06:42,620 --> 03:06:47,620
And then the limit just becomes how big of a caboose you have on.

2174
03:06:47,620 --> 03:06:50,620
How much room you need for thermals and.

2175
03:06:50,620 --> 03:06:53,620
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, for cooling.

2176
03:06:53,620 --> 03:06:56,620
This is the second GPU, but it's not the second NVIDIA GPU, right?

2177
03:06:56,620 --> 03:07:04,620
No, it was the first NVIDIA GPU. So if you buy one with a 5070 today, you're asking, will there be an upgrade path?

2178
03:07:06,620 --> 03:07:12,620
Before today, I'd have said no. Or I'd have said this is going to be difficult, you know?

2179
03:07:12,620 --> 03:07:15,620
But they freaking done it, Luke.

2180
03:07:15,620 --> 03:07:21,620
Do you know how many generations of laptop motherboards they've had for the framework 13, too?

2181
03:07:21,620 --> 03:07:25,620
They're up to, are they up to four now or something ridiculous like that?

2182
03:07:25,620 --> 03:07:31,620
I'm not sure. Without fundamentally changing the chassis, you can have a framework laptop of Theseus

2183
03:07:31,620 --> 03:07:34,620
from back when they first launched it. I'm sure someone does.

2184
03:07:34,620 --> 03:07:41,620
That has literally nothing left in it from back then and is just all new current gen parts.

2185
03:07:41,620 --> 03:07:45,620
So if anyone can do it, it's framework.

2186
03:07:47,620 --> 03:07:52,620
So at this point, man, I think it's really cool in a like business and negotiation standpoint.

2187
03:07:52,620 --> 03:07:59,620
And I'm stoked for people that like need NVIDIA GPUs for whatever they're doing, whatever, blah, blah, blah.

2188
03:07:59,620 --> 03:08:07,620
At this point, I'm more interested in AMD stuff, potentially Intel stuff as well,

2189
03:08:07,620 --> 03:08:11,620
because I'm hoping to stick with Linux on my on my laptop.

2190
03:08:11,620 --> 03:08:17,620
And the NVIDIA GPU in my current laptop is annoying to work around.

2191
03:08:17,620 --> 03:08:21,620
It is the most annoying thing I've had to deal with so far.

2192
03:08:21,620 --> 03:08:26,620
Is that when I do GPU stuff, it can like be frustrating.

2193
03:08:26,620 --> 03:08:29,620
That's about it, dude. This is wicked.

2194
03:08:29,620 --> 03:08:32,620
This is very cool. I'm so excited for them.

2195
03:08:32,620 --> 03:08:35,620
Most people are buying NVIDIA. It is what it is.

2196
03:08:35,620 --> 03:08:42,620
Most people are buying NVIDIA. So now that's potentially bringing more people to repairable laptops, which is awesome.

2197
03:08:42,620 --> 03:08:51,620
I just, man, I don't think it'll be that easy right now.

2198
03:08:51,620 --> 03:08:59,620
But if I could find my email to Narav when I first found out that they were trying to do an upgradeable laptop.

2199
03:09:00,620 --> 03:09:06,620
Man, Narav gaming, I don't know.

2200
03:09:06,620 --> 03:09:09,620
I'll try. But in the meantime, it's time to switch over to After Dark.

2201
03:09:09,620 --> 03:09:16,620
Sorry, one second. This is for sure just supposed to be we did it and then like a rocket ship and an exclamation mark.

2202
03:09:16,620 --> 03:09:19,620
It really makes me think we did it AI.

2203
03:09:19,620 --> 03:09:23,620
Oh, oh yeah. I can see that.

2204
03:09:23,620 --> 03:09:28,620
Maybe both. I mean, it's got an NVIDIA GPU and it probably does AI.

2205
03:09:28,620 --> 03:09:30,620
Yeah.

2206
03:09:37,620 --> 03:09:40,620
Dan, it's time for After Dark.

2207
03:09:40,620 --> 03:09:42,620
Let's do that.

2208
03:09:49,620 --> 03:09:52,620
See if I can see if I can find anything.

2209
03:09:52,620 --> 03:09:54,620
Nice.

2210
03:09:55,620 --> 03:09:59,620
It's still futzing through things or.

2211
03:09:59,620 --> 03:10:02,620
Oh yeah. Yeah, you can read one. Sure.

2212
03:10:02,620 --> 03:10:09,620
It's my birthday Monday and I'm throwing together a video game Olympics for the second time.

2213
03:10:09,620 --> 03:10:12,620
What are some good games that we should play?

2214
03:10:12,620 --> 03:10:15,620
Nidhogg. Teams of two. Oh.

2215
03:10:15,620 --> 03:10:17,620
Okay. Not that.

2216
03:10:19,620 --> 03:10:21,620
Teams of two.

2217
03:10:22,620 --> 03:10:27,620
That actually really narrows it down extremely.

2218
03:10:27,620 --> 03:10:31,620
How many games are like 2v2? I guess you could play.

2219
03:10:31,620 --> 03:10:35,620
I mean, there's Wingman, but like you all have to be into FPS.

2220
03:10:35,620 --> 03:10:38,620
So like, mm-hmm. Yep. You could play some Rocket League.

2221
03:10:38,620 --> 03:10:42,620
I'm surprised you went out the Wingman. Well, it's a 2v2 format, is it not?

2222
03:10:42,620 --> 03:10:46,620
No, for sure. It's just, have you ever played Wingman?

2223
03:10:46,620 --> 03:10:49,620
I've played with you. Oh. Clearly it wasn't memorable though.

2224
03:10:49,620 --> 03:10:53,620
It was just a long time ago. I played a lot of Wingman.

2225
03:10:53,620 --> 03:11:02,620
Yeah, just when you played it with me, it just wasn't satisfying, I guess.

2226
03:11:02,620 --> 03:11:05,620
I get it. Oh, my bad.

2227
03:11:05,620 --> 03:11:09,620
This is what no chicken does to a man.

2228
03:11:09,620 --> 03:11:12,620
He had to eat a Subway sandwich today and he's still recovering.

2229
03:11:12,620 --> 03:11:15,620
Honestly, I think I am. I'm very disappointed.

2230
03:11:15,620 --> 03:11:19,620
We're a little bit too busy dealing with house stuff that I don't actually want to talk about

2231
03:11:19,620 --> 03:11:23,620
instead of being able to cook.

2232
03:11:23,620 --> 03:11:26,620
At least you found one game. That's probably good enough.

2233
03:11:26,620 --> 03:11:31,620
People in chat have brought up some cool stuff. Rocket League definitely supports 2v2 very effectively.

2234
03:11:31,620 --> 03:11:36,620
Tape to tape, you could definitely 2v2 it, especially if you include some AI.

2235
03:11:36,620 --> 03:11:39,620
You could theoretically 2v2 in League of Legends.

2236
03:11:39,620 --> 03:11:42,620
You could 2v2 Space Cadet Table.

2237
03:11:42,620 --> 03:11:46,620
You each get one flipper. That would legitimately be fun.

2238
03:11:46,620 --> 03:11:49,620
That would honestly be pretty legit actually, I think. That would be awesome.

2239
03:11:49,620 --> 03:11:55,620
You would enjoy it. You'd love it. Someone pointed out you could do 4 1v1s in Nidhogg.

2240
03:11:55,620 --> 03:11:58,620
Do a little tourney. Oh, Left 4 Dead.

2241
03:11:58,620 --> 03:12:01,620
Left 4 Dead with bots. Play co-op.

2242
03:12:01,620 --> 03:12:09,620
Everyone has fun. Except the people who, you know, you're not shooting the smoker's tongue.

2243
03:12:09,620 --> 03:12:12,620
You gotta shoot the smoker's tongue. You gotta break the tongue.

2244
03:12:12,620 --> 03:12:17,620
I'm taking damage here, you know. I'm not a lot of fun to play Left 4 Dead with, I think.

2245
03:12:17,620 --> 03:12:21,620
I think it's pretty fun, but yeah.

2246
03:12:21,620 --> 03:12:24,620
Gas racing suggested Starcraft. Yeah, you could bolt.

2247
03:12:24,620 --> 03:12:29,620
You know, it'd be kind of interesting to pull out an RTS that none of you have ever played

2248
03:12:29,620 --> 03:12:32,620
and just wing it. There's a new...

2249
03:12:32,620 --> 03:12:36,620
That'd be kind of cool. There's a new RTS coming, isn't there?

2250
03:12:36,620 --> 03:12:40,620
You're not talking about that one from the ex-Lizard folks. The Storm Forge or whatever.

2251
03:12:40,620 --> 03:12:44,620
That didn't seem to work out super well. Yeah, I think they're in trouble.

2252
03:12:44,620 --> 03:12:47,620
Oh, really? Yeah. That sucks.

2253
03:12:47,620 --> 03:12:51,620
Is that what it's called? Something along those lines.

2254
03:12:51,620 --> 03:12:53,620
Tempest Rising?

2255
03:12:57,620 --> 03:13:01,620
That's not the one I was talking about. Storm Gate?

2256
03:13:02,620 --> 03:13:04,620
Storm Gate.

2257
03:13:05,620 --> 03:13:09,620
I don't know.

2258
03:13:09,620 --> 03:13:12,620
My bad. Can't find it. Smash Bros?

2259
03:13:12,620 --> 03:13:16,620
You could totally do Smash Bros. 2v2 Smash Bros is actually hella fun.

2260
03:13:16,620 --> 03:13:19,620
Oh, boy. Apparently that, yeah.

2261
03:13:19,620 --> 03:13:32,620
So, I actually agree.

2262
03:13:32,620 --> 03:13:37,620
The word scam is used in contexts that are, like, not good.

2263
03:13:37,620 --> 03:13:41,620
I don't have a lot of... I don't have a lot of context for this drama,

2264
03:13:41,620 --> 03:13:44,620
but, yeah, words mean what they mean. Get good.

2265
03:13:44,620 --> 03:13:47,620
Also, this is a bit of a problem, though.

2266
03:13:49,620 --> 03:13:52,620
Ah. Did it get review bombed?

2267
03:13:52,620 --> 03:13:56,620
That's possible. After you said stuff? Apparently in our language.

2268
03:13:56,620 --> 03:13:59,620
Yeah. Yeah.

2269
03:13:59,620 --> 03:14:02,620
Well, good luck with that.

2270
03:14:02,620 --> 03:14:05,620
I have no idea what's going on with that game.

2271
03:14:05,620 --> 03:14:09,620
Do you want some more? I do. Hello from Japan.

2272
03:14:09,620 --> 03:14:12,620
I'm currently on the train heading back to the airport

2273
03:14:12,620 --> 03:14:16,620
to catch my flight back to Canada. Have any of you also been here?

2274
03:14:16,620 --> 03:14:19,620
I would love to hear your experience if you have.

2275
03:14:19,620 --> 03:14:23,620
Luke and I went to Japan together once. Yeah.

2276
03:14:23,620 --> 03:14:26,620
It was great, actually. Yeah, other than the...

2277
03:14:26,620 --> 03:14:29,620
Really awesome trip. A little bit of light sexual harassment on your part,

2278
03:14:29,620 --> 03:14:32,620
but okay. What?

2279
03:14:32,620 --> 03:14:35,620
You tried to get me naked. Oh, I did.

2280
03:14:35,620 --> 03:14:38,620
He did? I was naked. He was.

2281
03:14:38,620 --> 03:14:46,620
I'm not much of a steam room guy.

2282
03:14:46,620 --> 03:14:49,620
It wasn't a steam room. Or whatever.

2283
03:14:49,620 --> 03:14:52,620
It's called the Onsen. Yeah. Onsen.

2284
03:14:52,620 --> 03:14:55,620
Yeah. I got too many tattoos. Yeah.

2285
03:14:55,620 --> 03:14:58,620
I'm good to go. Oh, I know. I'm bare.

2286
03:14:58,620 --> 03:15:01,620
Luke was a team sports kind of kid growing up.

2287
03:15:01,620 --> 03:15:04,620
I never really did the let's all just whip it out in the locker

2288
03:15:04,620 --> 03:15:07,620
room thing and I'm honestly not that into it.

2289
03:15:07,620 --> 03:15:10,620
I'm not particularly like into it, but I was in Japan

2290
03:15:10,620 --> 03:15:13,620
and wanted to do Japanese things.

2291
03:15:13,620 --> 03:15:18,620
You did it right. You did it right. And I got to hang out with one of the engineers from Omron

2292
03:15:18,620 --> 03:15:21,620
who we were just with and it was actually super chill. Yeah.

2293
03:15:21,620 --> 03:15:24,620
I believe you. Yeah. It was cool.

2294
03:15:24,620 --> 03:15:27,620
Yeah. Well, actually it was quite warm. Yeah, yeah.

2295
03:15:27,620 --> 03:15:30,620
That makes sense. Yeah. In spite of the nudity.

2296
03:15:30,620 --> 03:15:36,620
You might even say it was hot. I don't have any tattoos.

2297
03:15:37,620 --> 03:15:40,620
I could have believed it either way to be honest.

2298
03:15:40,620 --> 03:15:43,620
Yeah. I was going for like the Yakuza vibe.

2299
03:15:43,620 --> 03:15:47,620
No one has ever seen my giant full back.

2300
03:15:47,620 --> 03:15:52,620
Tiger. Tiger, you know, eating a rooster kind of thing.

2301
03:15:52,620 --> 03:15:56,620
Yeah. Linus in all capitals.

2302
03:15:56,620 --> 03:15:59,620
What was your favorite tech growing up?

2303
03:15:59,620 --> 03:16:02,620
Gaming computers. Wow.

2304
03:16:02,620 --> 03:16:05,620
I mean, I really liked my Discman.

2305
03:16:05,620 --> 03:16:08,620
Discman were sweet. That was a game changer, dude.

2306
03:16:08,620 --> 03:16:13,620
I mean, oh man, having to like hold the rewind button.

2307
03:16:13,620 --> 03:16:19,620
I'm the kind of person who gets hooked on a song. And I just like, I want to hear that song over and over again,

2308
03:16:19,620 --> 03:16:25,620
especially when I was younger. So I'd have to like get good at memorizing how long I have to

2309
03:16:25,620 --> 03:16:28,620
hold the rewind button in order to get back to the point where

2310
03:16:28,620 --> 03:16:33,620
the song starts on my Walkman. And so, dude, upgrading to a disc.

2311
03:16:33,620 --> 03:16:38,620
That was an absolute life changer for me. I started being able to burn my own mix CDs and stuff.

2312
03:16:38,620 --> 03:16:41,620
Oh, yeah. Oh, so good.

2313
03:16:41,620 --> 03:16:44,620
Yeah. So, oh man, that's tough.

2314
03:16:44,620 --> 03:16:48,620
But then I couldn't make a mix CD without my gaming PC.

2315
03:16:48,620 --> 03:16:51,620
Was really a gaming PC at that point. It all comes back to the computer.

2316
03:16:51,620 --> 03:16:54,620
But it had a CD burner. So that was, you know, pretty good.

2317
03:16:54,620 --> 03:16:57,620
Ooh, I had a really slow CD burner.

2318
03:16:57,620 --> 03:17:00,620
But still, I could set it to go at night and then I could get up

2319
03:17:00,620 --> 03:17:03,620
in the morning and sometimes it wouldn't be a coaster.

2320
03:17:03,620 --> 03:17:07,620
Those were exciting mornings.

2321
03:17:07,620 --> 03:17:10,620
God, our tech sucked.

2322
03:17:10,620 --> 03:17:17,620
I remember we had Net Nanny and I used to play RuneScape back in,

2323
03:17:17,620 --> 03:17:21,620
I'm assuming this was like 2002 or something.

2324
03:17:21,620 --> 03:17:25,620
And I would load up RuneScape and it would take so long to load.

2325
03:17:25,620 --> 03:17:28,620
It would successfully load, which is actually really interesting

2326
03:17:28,620 --> 03:17:34,620
to me at this point. Right. So many things today would time out before even trying for that long.

2327
03:17:34,620 --> 03:17:37,620
Something would go wrong. Yeah. But it would successfully load.

2328
03:17:37,620 --> 03:17:43,620
But I would go downstairs and make a sandwich and a drink and consume both

2329
03:17:43,620 --> 03:17:46,620
and then come back upstairs and then it would finish.

2330
03:17:46,620 --> 03:17:49,620
And you guys have no idea how long it takes him to eat a sandwich.

2331
03:17:49,620 --> 03:17:53,620
It's remarkable. He manages to consume enough calories to maintain his size.

2332
03:17:53,620 --> 03:17:56,620
Yeah. It's an effort.

2333
03:17:56,620 --> 03:18:04,620
I had just gotten my new braces and we sat down together at the table.

2334
03:18:04,620 --> 03:18:08,620
I actually gave him his burger first. So he had started eating already.

2335
03:18:08,620 --> 03:18:12,620
I had just gotten them. I still had the bite turbos and like the bite blocks at the back.

2336
03:18:12,620 --> 03:18:18,620
So I couldn't even close my molars to within like about this distance.

2337
03:18:18,620 --> 03:18:23,620
I still finished my burger before he did in all that pain

2338
03:18:23,620 --> 03:18:26,620
without being able to close my molars.

2339
03:18:26,620 --> 03:18:35,620
How is it even possible, Luke?

2340
03:18:35,620 --> 03:18:38,620
Anyways, yeah, that was that was a heck of a thing.

2341
03:18:38,620 --> 03:18:46,620
I don't remember why I brought that up. But yeah, that's I and I did that like all the time.

2342
03:18:46,620 --> 03:18:51,620
Anyways, Luke Nukem, which battlefield was your favorite quality reference?

2343
03:18:51,620 --> 03:18:54,620
I put way too many hours in 1942.

2344
03:18:54,620 --> 03:18:59,620
Also, so glad the super soft is back ruined my last one frying burgers.

2345
03:18:59,620 --> 03:19:02,620
Oh, Kate, what is it? The fashion team pulled me.

2346
03:19:02,620 --> 03:19:06,620
I think it's like dish soap and baking soda and pre-treated and then wash it.

2347
03:19:06,620 --> 03:19:10,620
You should be able to get grease stains out of it. It's a thing.

2348
03:19:10,620 --> 03:19:13,620
1942 was incredible.

2349
03:19:13,620 --> 03:19:19,620
I think the most condensed fun,

2350
03:19:19,620 --> 03:19:23,620
if that's a term that I can use that people will understand that I had was bad company to

2351
03:19:23,620 --> 03:19:30,620
wasn't 1942 the first one?

2352
03:19:30,620 --> 03:19:33,620
That would make sense. I'm trying to remember. Anyway, carry on.

2353
03:19:33,620 --> 03:19:36,620
And I think it had a few expansions and stuff that kept it going for a while.

2354
03:19:36,620 --> 03:19:41,620
1942, I feel like was pretty long lasting.

2355
03:19:41,620 --> 03:19:46,620
But honestly, the one and this might just because like the friends that I had to play with at the time

2356
03:19:46,620 --> 03:19:50,620
and stuff, but battlefield three hit pretty hard for me.

2357
03:19:50,620 --> 03:19:53,620
I think I'd go with battlefield three.

2358
03:19:53,620 --> 03:19:56,620
1942 was incredible.

2359
03:19:56,620 --> 03:19:59,620
But I think battlefield three got the most like enjoyment.

2360
03:19:59,620 --> 03:20:07,620
But again, it might have been because of the social aspect that was coming along with it.

2361
03:20:07,620 --> 03:20:13,620
1942's Wake Island was such an experience. Jim Esch said in flow plane chat and that made me think this was my whole pain.

2362
03:20:13,620 --> 03:20:18,620
And honestly, Wake Island specifically was my whole pain with the new maps in battlefield six

2363
03:20:18,620 --> 03:20:25,620
and knowing how small they are because Wake Island like really it felt like a campaign

2364
03:20:25,620 --> 03:20:33,620
of this crazy push pull and the new maps are like there's one kind of mountain in the middle

2365
03:20:33,620 --> 03:20:37,620
and you just kind of fighting a ring around it. And that's like one of the biggest maps they have.

2366
03:20:37,620 --> 03:20:42,620
It's like hold on. Remember how bad games looked? Remember how do you remember that?

2367
03:20:42,620 --> 03:20:48,620
Oh, yeah, I do. I don't have the like when people are like, oh, Morrowind looks so bad.

2368
03:20:48,620 --> 03:20:51,620
You for sure remember it differently than it looks.

2369
03:20:51,620 --> 03:20:55,620
Then I see a screenshot of Morrowind. I'm like, that's exactly how I remember it looking.

2370
03:20:55,620 --> 03:20:58,620
Sounds good. This helicopter.

2371
03:20:58,620 --> 03:21:01,620
What is it? A cyber truck? Sick, dude.

2372
03:21:01,620 --> 03:21:11,620
Wow. Heck yeah. Dude, when I see screenshots of like 1.6, I really want to play the game as is.

2373
03:21:11,620 --> 03:21:14,620
I don't want it to look better. I want to look like that.

2374
03:21:14,620 --> 03:21:17,620
I want grenades to just be bricks that fly through the air.

2375
03:21:17,620 --> 03:21:20,620
I just, dude, that's awesome.

2376
03:21:20,620 --> 03:21:23,620
Why not? Yeah, why not? Screw graphics, man.

2377
03:21:23,620 --> 03:21:29,620
We need them. Give me good games again. Who needs them?

2378
03:21:29,620 --> 03:21:37,620
Linus, can you buy the Canucks so that they stop sucking quality texture right here?

2379
03:21:37,620 --> 03:21:40,620
Green. Sorry. What is it?

2380
03:21:40,620 --> 03:21:43,620
Canucks so that they stop sucking? Oh, you're not talking to me. I'm sorry.

2381
03:21:43,620 --> 03:21:46,620
No, I can't see this. Oh, no. Sorry.

2382
03:21:46,620 --> 03:21:50,620
Fine. Fine. Can I buy the Canucks?

2383
03:21:50,620 --> 03:21:55,620
What are you even talking about? A, I have no idea how to run a sports team.

2384
03:21:55,620 --> 03:22:00,620
B, oh my God, with what money? The coach doesn't seem to either, I guess.

2385
03:22:00,620 --> 03:22:03,620
Wow. Mean. Brute roasted.

2386
03:22:03,620 --> 03:22:07,620
Mean. You play day to day. You probably know enough about hacking.

2387
03:22:07,620 --> 03:22:09,620
Yeah, for sure. Hacking.

2388
03:22:10,620 --> 03:22:14,620
Nope. I have no ideas to make the Canucks stop sucking at this point.

2389
03:22:14,620 --> 03:22:19,620
I might as well just cheer for the oil. Hope they can get McDavid signed and make another push.

2390
03:22:19,620 --> 03:22:23,620
Let's go, boys. Last one I got for you today.

2391
03:22:23,620 --> 03:22:28,740
Hey, Linus. Now that you've been the chief vision officer for a while, is it a position you think could

2392
03:22:28,740 --> 03:22:34,620
work at any other company or is also being the CEO's boss an integral component?

2393
03:22:34,620 --> 03:22:44,620
Yeah. I think that it basically is the CEO's job to have the vision for the company normally,

2394
03:22:44,620 --> 03:22:52,620
but because our structure where I'm also the primary shareholder and I mostly just needed

2395
03:22:52,620 --> 03:22:58,620
to offload all the other aspects of what the CEO does, it did make sense to break those

2396
03:22:58,620 --> 03:23:01,620
things out.

2397
03:23:01,620 --> 03:23:09,620
It's not something I'd really recommend. You wouldn't want, the only reason that my role works is because in addition to my title,

2398
03:23:09,620 --> 03:23:15,620
I also just carry pretty heavy sort of soft power is the way Teran first described it

2399
03:23:15,620 --> 03:23:20,620
to me when I was bewildered at some point about why people were listening to me about

2400
03:23:20,620 --> 03:23:26,620
something. He was like, well, you got to understand, you can't just like make comments flippantly

2401
03:23:26,620 --> 03:23:30,620
because you've got to understand that whether you say to do something or don't say to do

2402
03:23:30,620 --> 03:23:33,620
something, when you say stuff, people.

2403
03:23:33,620 --> 03:23:36,620
It's high priority action. People.

2404
03:23:36,620 --> 03:23:42,620
Automatically every time. Sometimes even if I tell people not to, which I'm not actually referring to you, Dan, believe

2405
03:23:42,620 --> 03:23:49,620
it or not. There was someone else I ran into recently where I explicitly said, I asked a question.

2406
03:23:49,620 --> 03:23:52,620
Yeah, that's right. I asked a question to someone in accounting.

2407
03:23:52,620 --> 03:23:55,620
I was like, hey, do you happen to know this?

2408
03:23:55,620 --> 03:23:59,620
They were like, no, I'd have to look that up. I said, that's too much work.

2409
03:23:59,620 --> 03:24:08,620
Don't do it. And I left. But now you've and they came and they came back to me like 40 minutes later having created

2410
03:24:08,620 --> 03:24:18,620
this wonderful summary of what I asked and I said, okay, so I know your mother-in-law

2411
03:24:18,620 --> 03:24:23,620
will operate in this fashion where they say, you know, oh gosh, it should be nice if the

2412
03:24:23,620 --> 03:24:26,620
temperature was a little higher in here, but no, no trouble.

2413
03:24:26,620 --> 03:24:29,740
And turn it up. That is not how I work.

2414
03:24:29,740 --> 03:24:34,900
If I explicitly say, do not do something, I consider any further action on doing that

2415
03:24:34,900 --> 03:24:38,620
thing a complete and utter waste of time, not to be done.

2416
03:24:38,620 --> 03:24:42,540
But I think it's something that people can't handle that and I get it though.

2417
03:24:42,540 --> 03:24:47,900
I get it. Is that if someone did that to you and it was interesting enough to you, you wouldn't

2418
03:24:47,900 --> 03:24:51,380
be able to stop but doing it. Ah, well, I don't know.

2419
03:24:51,380 --> 03:24:54,620
Do you have an example? I think I don't think so. I think you're going to have to give me an example.

2420
03:24:54,620 --> 03:24:57,620
This is a suspicion. Oh, okay. Okay.

2421
03:24:57,620 --> 03:25:00,980
If you catch me in it though, you got to nail me on it and you got to bring it to WAN

2422
03:25:00,980 --> 03:25:03,980
show. I'm sure don't have an example. Don't even tell me at the time.

2423
03:25:03,980 --> 03:25:07,620
And I can't think of one. Catch me on it and bring it to WAN Show. I'll try.

2424
03:25:07,620 --> 03:25:10,620
We'll see. I'm ready. I do.

2425
03:25:10,620 --> 03:25:13,620
The problem is you would have to be sufficiently interested in the thing.

2426
03:25:13,620 --> 03:25:16,620
Mmm. Yeah. It's not just anything.

2427
03:25:16,620 --> 03:25:19,620
Oh, okay. Yeah. It wasn't an interesting thing I asked.

2428
03:25:19,620 --> 03:25:22,620
Got it. Okay. Yeah.

2429
03:25:22,620 --> 03:25:25,620
I was just curious. If I said this, would it be true?

2430
03:25:25,620 --> 03:25:31,220
And so I was doing a quick fact check and then it was more than three seconds of work.

2431
03:25:31,220 --> 03:25:34,620
And so I was like, this is not worth it. I will write a different joke.

2432
03:25:34,620 --> 03:25:43,060
Got it. I get that. What I'm trying to describe is like, if someone serves you the like most interesting looking

2433
03:25:43,060 --> 03:25:49,060
thing of your day, but then it can't necessarily like turn into something more valuable and

2434
03:25:49,060 --> 03:25:52,700
you're like, oh, I can do whatever and they're like, oh, never mind.

2435
03:25:52,700 --> 03:25:56,900
That's fine. I think you'd be very tempted to follow through to that anyways.

2436
03:25:56,900 --> 03:26:00,500
Maybe. But that's a specific scenario and is not what you're just describing.

2437
03:26:00,500 --> 03:26:08,740
Tim says, okay, I've got to ask. I know you have ADHD, but do you have autism because I have autism and that kind of direct

2438
03:26:08,740 --> 03:26:12,940
no, really, I mean, the exact thing I say is only something I see with other people

2439
03:26:12,940 --> 03:26:18,060
with autism. I'm not diagnosed.

2440
03:26:18,060 --> 03:26:21,060
It's clearly not super severe.

2441
03:26:21,060 --> 03:26:29,700
However, I have more than one family member somewhere on the spectrum, like actually diagnosed.

2442
03:26:29,700 --> 03:26:37,140
And my whole clan is a little spectrum II.

2443
03:26:37,140 --> 03:26:43,820
And I mean that in the, you know, kindest, fuzziest possible way.

2444
03:26:43,820 --> 03:26:51,260
I definitely do experience things that other people with autism report experiencing.

2445
03:26:51,260 --> 03:26:55,900
I will, I'll do things like when I'm walking, I'll accidentally kind of brush my foot on

2446
03:26:55,900 --> 03:26:59,300
the ground in a particular way and then I'll have to do it again.

2447
03:26:59,300 --> 03:27:07,580
Otherwise, I can't like cancel it out. Like there's, there's weird sensory stuff like that, but clearly it's not a hindrance.

2448
03:27:07,580 --> 03:27:11,580
So there's never been really any need to get a formal diagnosis.

2449
03:27:12,580 --> 03:27:16,540
Uh, X from says undiagnosed, but what else could it be?

2450
03:27:16,540 --> 03:27:23,780
Yeah, pretty much. Um, yeah, spectrum II is, is my word that I like to use to describe it says Shraff 2K

2451
03:27:23,780 --> 03:27:32,420
because it can never be wrong. Literally everyone all the way from zero to one, I think sometimes we care too much about

2452
03:27:32,420 --> 03:27:37,780
which is ourselves special little, which is the kind of literal Pokemon elements, literal

2453
03:27:37,780 --> 03:27:44,100
label. I'm a, I'm a fired wind type, fired flying type.

2454
03:27:44,100 --> 03:27:48,020
Spectromy is the kind of literal label that someone's spectrum II would apply.

2455
03:27:48,020 --> 03:27:53,020
Yeah. It's technically true. Nice.

2456
03:27:53,020 --> 03:28:02,140
But I, yeah, I, I don't know, I, I, I can't care too much about it.

2457
03:28:02,140 --> 03:28:03,260
Yeah. Yeah.

2458
03:28:09,780 --> 03:28:13,740
You first. Oh, right. We'll see you again next week.

2459
03:28:13,740 --> 03:28:16,740
Same bad time. Same bad channel folks. Bye.

2460
03:28:22,140 --> 03:28:24,140
No, you hang up. No, you hang up.