i just want to know what we're doing with it okay so my original plan which i
have not admitted before is i wanted to
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what i have to wear gloves yeah
is it real gold yeah oh
i didn't know is this like actually because it's
necessary yeah okay second that you touch it the finish
is ruined yeah that makes sense oh wow what's this protective gloves
protect my hand it's covered by the new limited edition gold foil LTT shirt okay
you made that right yeah i did i designed it oh
oh that's uh that's substantial oh why it's
so heavy it's solid gold oh my god
that is heavy this is heavy this is a
weapon oh my god the finish is actually really
nice oh my god i like that the back is like
sort of grippy that's smart you definitely don't want to rage quit a
game with this yeah how much do you think it weighs
that's a probably good five pounds
six pounds uh like 10 pounds okay i do
training and my 10 pound weight is a little bit heavier than this so maybe
like seven pounds eight pounds this is probably two kilogram like two three
pounds am i in the ballpark yeah three pounds three pounds best one yet yeah
you know in your brain a kilogram is heavy
but yet when you hold it like you know
gee it's got this weight to it get out of here you're not allowed to see it yet
brandon tried to see it is this actually gold yeah it's actually gold 18 karat
how much did this cost you tell me yeah uh you're i'm supposed
to guess yeah i guess i don't know what the gold price is
four thousand or about three thousand dollars four thousand dollars five
thousand dollars forty thousand sixty thousand or was it more well it costs at
least like 69.99 us
um i guess that's actually quite close what's the conversion on that
it actually is 69 000 u.s you're 200 off
wow this costs a thousand dollars
am i wrong or higher five thousand dollars
a bit more than that stop how much does this cost
eighty seven thousand dollars holy
why did we spend that much on this
for a youtube video for three youtube videos we're milking it oh okay good
yeah well at least we're milking it why does this exist
have your kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of bad decisions very funny
i have no idea what we're doing here i have
yes you haven't filmed this video the whole rest of this video oh how heavy is
it you ask about three pounds one ounce
tastes like it's about sixty nine thousand dollars u.s
oh you need the clothes
so what's the deal with the back is that like a design on purpose or is that due to the the casting both both okay yeah
basically we couldn't keep the original texture because it would just die in polishing oh okay so we had to create
one okay so i will say the joysticks are fine i'm not seeing any issues that
seems normal the buttons seem totally normal i do notice that the the right
trigger is definitely hard to push uh or the bumpers are hard to push but
the triggers are fine is that due to the controller
yeah they normally use plastic as the spring for those okay
all these shoulder buttons are
yeah they're a little rough the triggers are good though
you can you can feel it kind of wobble but at the same time like it is smooth
thanks to all the extra mass you know yeah i was concerned that the springs
wouldn't be stiff enough but they seem fine yeah i think actually uh because
the springs aren't too stiff it's easier to start
pulling the trigger it's like pretty easy to feather it
like the clack the clack of these oh i didn't even
i didn't even notice they made noise oh that's satisfying i really like that
who knew that like a gold xbox controller could be so cool
there's birds in this game oh where are they going can i follow you
where are you going where are you going what you doing
oh time to go why would you do that wasn't me
i'm out it wasn't me hi carter no don't go back there don't go back don't don't
go back there how's the rumble feel do you think muted it's like kind of like
um if you were a kid during the n64 days
and you had like a third party rumble pack i just feel like the whole thing is
like shaking but not very fast because just too heavy
it's subtle the rumble's subtle it's it's there it's
present i'm feeling it but these bumpers
are awful
it feels like the rumble motor is trying but there's there's way too much mass
for it to make any effect mass effect
i don't have any grenades i don't know how to change weapons
my hands are fatigued already no i'm not i'm not even like i'm not
even joking like it's it's like mostly in here
like just because you you have to squeeze it so tight
or not not squeeze it so it's just a completely
different muscle
movement you know do you think it's a good workout
um i mean it's better than absolutely nothing i don't know that i would pay
five to six figures for the privilege if you got this for free but were not
allowed to sell it and it was the only controller you could use again oh would
you take it you know what i like xbox controllers i
mean maybe i don't know if i would pay for
a controller quite this uh extravagance but if i'm not paying for it then does
that really matter also you know you can when you want to you can like do some
weight lifting kind of keep yourself active while you game okay but what
happens when the next generation of consoles comes out and then new controllers come out
am i still not allowed to get them you still keep using that i still have to use this yeah what if it's not backwards
compatible we can assume it's black or it's compatible okay you're playing on pc so
like oh yeah okay yeah i would take this it's pretty nifty
as the kids say so what do you think would win kick proof tv or that
controller if you raged out oh on sheer mass alone mass plus velocity
force this would destroy a tv even the kick proof tv i think this would like it
would be destroyed in the process but yeah should go yeah so where do you
think this does land on the stupid or cool spectrum oh
there's an adage if it's stupid but it works
is it really stupid and i mean it works
i mean the buttons just feel like regular xbox buttons because i guess you
didn't really do anything to the pcb right could have made the sticks gold i guess
the fact that i have to wear gamer gloves is pretty sick you know just to
use the control that's like put the gloves on you're in for you're in for a
treat other than that though pretty dumb
i'm sorry pretty stupid i mean it feels fine
there's really nothing wrong with it i mean it's better than like a you know
that second player mad cat controller that you get at a friend's house
i guess Linus when you brought me this project did you expect it to end like
this i didn't think it would be this good
honestly no offense alex but i just didn't think that it would be
this like perfect you know it's pretty legit i do have to say
like it looks fantastic but this is
a piece of art like no lie the resolution of the gold like i
shouldn't be that surprised the jewelers did this right but like seeing the
stippling in the triggers is really interesting and all like it it came out
incredibly good yeah yeah um oh we're we're losing one i
gotta say though for eighty seven thousand dollars the this
alex we need to laser weld it on should i
wrap it back up in this t-shirt yeah or am i supposed to be like look at this
t-shirt oh you can if you want you can pimp the merch
because like i saw these in the crater warehouse and
i was excited about them i love any of the foil shirts that we have and this
one is really cool because like people who actually are like super LTT fans are gonna be
like i remember when you did that really cool project and i bought the t-shirt for it yeah lcdstore.com
these might sell really quick i don't know the other foil shirts did so
i think this is the thing you need to have if you have if you're having a
party at home just to show up uh otherwise i don't think this will
improve anything for gaming but it's cool
show this to your wife she will kill you i mean it's not the stupidest thing i've
ever spent your money on uh did everyone else think this was a
really stupid thing to spend money on it was a pretty split actually
really yeah okay that's surprising wow
it actually looked fake when i first took it out how could anyone be so dumb as to cast
one of these in gold it must be fake i just want to know what we're doing
with it hold on it seems like what do you mean doing with it like look at it
it's cool it looks fake but
like actually can we melt it down what i'm well
you're done the videos now well hold on a second
the total that we paid for is a kilogram of gold so if we melt it all back down and sold
the gold then technically it doesn't cost anything right
yes and you would have gotten your videos used and you don't know what you're
doing with it anyway okay so my original plan which i have not admitted before is
i wanted to just keep it where i have my xbox elite controller you know in my
case on my desk so i thought it would be just as good to use and it would be a
little bit cool now as it turns out it's not as good to use which is bad but it's
like way cooler than i thought it would be why is it way cooler
can you at least take time to experience it properly i am well you still don't
like it so clearly you're not experiencing it properly i don't think time is going to change
that so where do you think this lands on the stupid to cool spectrum
um you know what i think it's super cool if
we get our money back
we've got three videos out of it it's pretty hard exactly so and we get to
milk it even more if we get to melt down the gold there's game stop and there's
this is way cooler than games yeah okay this is way cooler than gamestop yeah
but gamestop is setting the bar really really low that's being like this is a
better roi than burning fifty thousand dollars yeah exactly so my rating out of
10 is 10 if you melt it down
okay what's your rating if i keep it and
just play with it okay how about this we make a deal if you actually use this
at least once a month for the next year then you can keep it but if you don't
end up using it then you have to melt it down i shouldn't have to use it if i am
going out somewhere where it could get stolen where do you go out to game
what are you talking about
roasted i mean what would you guys prefer would you prefer we melt down the
gold and spent 100k on a wicked christmas party or whoa hold on a second
don't involve them
why not oh it's disconnected now the bluetooth
range is not um as good as before craftsmanship well that's not because of
that it's because metal blocks the antenna that's a tech tip so that's uh
you and alex's craftsmanship i wouldn't describe me or alex as a craftsman
wow
how do i get it to reconnect uh i don't i think we're done here okay
all right i think you should get rid of it seriously i shall consider your
viewpoint
all right oh
okay craftsmanship
this says sponsor dbrand but the prompter doesn't say anything about
dbrand let me take that from you what's this give me that all right Linus can
you do a segue to today's sponsor sure and this video is brought to you by
dbrand i guess right yeah it's dbrand they sent you a package to unbox Linus
yes
i am assuming this is the bag of money that i asked to be
included in the ShortCircuit unboxing we did
of their dark plates what is
wait is this a hundred [ __ ] pounds of
chocolate yes it got delivered to my house and my pregnant wife had to
receive it and then it's a hundred pounds
of golden chocolate loonies
can i shower in them
so here's the weird part that there's a weird part yeah the
robots said that this is payment for the last video and that they talked to you
already about this video no then we probably got bamboozled
Colton wow what's happening are you embezzling me is this chocolate cause i
got i got a little message from d brand yesterday
oh there's actually money in there this was like one of the most stressful
projects that i've done in a really long time it's so much money like if you
screw it up like casting's hard casting's really hard
and although i'm sure that like i knew that the jewelers after a couple of
tries could definitely get this down like it's a one-off prototype and they
don't normally do stuff this big so i was genuinely concerned that it might
just turn out like hot garbage or we would have to like
re-melt a bunch of gold buy a bunch more
and like do it two or three times in order to get the result that we want and
it would just take forever but i'm really impressed with how it turned out
it is freaking beautiful like after i saw the
casting of this piece right here and it was just
all pitted to hell up on the top i was like how are they
going to manage to make this nice and smooth but like henry absolutely killed
it i'm just going to take it for a walk now um
yeah i'll see you guys later how much do you think you get from that with the pawn
shop i don't know